Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 501 Pals Are In Trouble (Part One)

At the onset of Darren's confident statement, the two elders’ doubting eyes flashed with a shadowof half-heartedness. Yet, they chose to suppress the feeling within them and dared not verbalize it—they had a high reverence for Darren to do so.

However, no matter how hard they acted normal and tried to hide their apparent stand about theissue, Darren keenly detected the glints of doubt in their eyes. Knowing that they did not believe hiswords, Darren's desire to improve grew within him more intensely. In Horace's mind, there lingeredthe question, "How is it possible that Darren is going to improve his strength within just three yearsfrom the level of being able to kill a one-star grand warrior to the level of killing a four-star or evena five-star grand warrior?

As he thought about it, Horace had come to think about Finley. That, even Finley, a potential holyemperor, was unable to do that. It might also take him many years to be able to advance at thatstage.

"Horace, Rocky, I believe you will have to stay here to deal with some minor problems. I have toleave first," breaking the ice that froze them awkwardly, Darren said his farewell and did not say toomuch.

"Okay," the two grand-elders replied shortly with a nod.

With the grand-elders' consent, Darren lurched and soared into the sky like a bird freed fromcaptivity. As swift as he could, he flew out of the region away from the Red Inferno Sect.

There were vast stretches of mountains outside the Red Inferno Sect, luscious and paved withevergreen trees. Creatures of varied species were scattered across the plains, and Darren enjoyedseeing such life forms. As he neared his destination, Darren randomly landed on an isolated peak.Now that he was alone and had all the time in the world, all he needed was to concentrate. He wasdiverting all his attention on how to improve his cultivation base in the fastest way possible.

"How can I improve my strength quickly?” murmured Darren as he had some self-reflections amidstthe vast and peaceful land.

In all truths, even Darren himself was kind of unsure that he could take merely three years to reachthe level of being able to kill a five-star grand warrior.

Especially, after having witnessed the fervid battle between Eddy and the leader of the lawenforcers, Darren was humbled and felt that his strength was too weak. Unfortunately, to hisdisadvantage, the space passage had been sealed off. That would signify that he had to improve hisstrength as soon as possible, and the idea alone annoyed him—much more the pressure.

"Right now, my talent is still far from enough!" the confused young warrior talked to himself insoliloquy. At those moments of self-questionings, Darren recalled that Finley told him once, thatthere were higher levels of talents above the talent of the Heaven Degree. If he wanted to improvehis cultivation base sooner and faster, it would be essential to boost his talent.

However, the problem Darren had at hand was, he could not replace appropriate targets to absorbtheir talents. On the other hand, even though he could locate them, he was not strong enough tohunt them down, kill them, and assimilate what they had. Thus, he had to look for other alternativesas of the moment.

"Inside my Space Ring, there are tens of thousands of demonic cores from grand demonicmonsters. I can use them to improve my cultivation base as of now," whispered Darren as hethought of a temporary solution to his dilemma.

The moment his cultivation base had improved, Darren's bloodline force, the one that he hadobtained in the Raksa Sea, would be activated, which would enhance his strength consequently.After having decided on what to do, he dug a cave at will and put out a large number of demoniccores from his Space Ring. One by one, Darren began to assimilate the spiritual energy in them withall hopes of increasing his cultivation base. In his eagerness to have more and more, Darren, at thesame time, had fully used his talents to absorb the spiritual energy in nature.

By all these means, even though the progress of accelerating Darren's cultivation base was still slow,it was way much faster compared to other warriors’ cultivation at level-one Heaven Degree talent.Time passed rather quickly on that secluded peak while Darren was cultivating. It had been threemonths since that day he landed on that peaceful place with the conviction of having his cultivationbase improved.

"By the look and feel of it, I can say that I am already at the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm."After Darren had completed the inspection of his cultivation base, he was delighted.

Within just three months, he had arrived at the top level of the advanced stage of the WonderRealm. That was quite an achievement; thus, he assumed that it was just right and proper for him tobe proud of himself.

"Indeed, the talent degree is important to the improvement of cultivation base,” murmured Darrenwith an accomplished aura on his face.

On the contrary, the fact remained that though he had made quite an advancement, the level thathe had attained right now was quite farfetched from his target—in short, his cultivation level fell tooshort. If, by any luck, he reached the Grand Realm in three years time or sooner, he would be ableto kill a four-star grand warrior at the top level, or best an ordinary five-star grand warrior.

Once Darren succeeded at doing that, his bloodline level would improve significantly, and so wouldthe strength of his Blade and Sword Domain. The improvement of these bloodlines and skills that hehad would only mean one thing, and that was his combat power would progress tremendously andto an extraordinary extent.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Just as Darren had enough motivation to continue his cultivation, the contact bead in his Space Ringsounded an alert.

"Darren, are you all right?

I am afraid that Timothy and I will be unable to help you. I hope you can save your sistersuccessfully.”

Abelard's voice came out of the contact bead. He sounded like he was apprehensive for Darren,which made the latter confused as to what made him behave so.

"No worries, Abelard! I have resolved my affairs. What's wrong with you?" responded Darrenabruptly as he was eager to have his mind cleared off at the thought of what was troubling Abelardat the moment.

Yet, staring at his Space Ring, Darren grew annoyed as he remembered the last time that Abelardsent him a message through the contact bead. Darren responded immediately, but he, in return, didnot get any messages back again. Waiting in vain frustrated him a lot, and that made him curseAbelard, though he was miles away from him.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

This time, however, soon after Darren sent his response, Abelard replied.

"Alas, Timothy is in bad shape! He has been severely injured. We are now hiding inside a protectivedevice, but I am afraid it will not last long before we get caught. I think I have to say goodbye toyou for the last time in my life, buddy,” Abelard hollered in fear and desolation.