Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 530 The True Appearance Of Mathew (Part One)

"It is none of your business to know who I am. What would it benefit you anyway? But, if youcontinue to kill the Sword Type Creatures like this, I will definitely teach you a lesson. You are such abastard, aren't you aware of that? You're wasting precious sword intents,”

the figure in the lake spoke. The figure was a female with a crystal clear voice, and she was scoldingDarren for the overkill of the Sword Type Creatures on the lake.

"Ha-ha, I was not wasting your sword intent. Besides, whatever I do with these Sword Type Creaturesis none of your business too,” with a teasing tone in his voice, Darren laughed as he jokinglyresponded to the figure's remarks.

"It is not my business? Then whose business is it then?" the female asked angrily with her brows aninch higher and in a tight crease. While she was doing that, the female figure crossed her arms onher chest and made a smirking gesture. Anger and annoyance were apparent on her face as it grewscarlet matching her eyes that darted a glum look towards Darren.

"Ah! I see," exclaimed Darren. As the thought rang a bell on his mind, Darren suddenly becameinterested, asking her, "As far as I know, there are three different types of sword intent, mainly ice,fire, and thunder, in this lake. Do they all belong to you? If that's true, then it seems to me that youare very powerful."

"Do I need to repeat myself? It is none of your business. Get out, or I will teach you a lesson youhaven't learned yet," said the female who was now furious.

"You are quite confident with your power. Hmmm, you really challenged me. That made me eagerto know how you will teach me a lesson.” After saying this, Darren attacked her with the blade andsword intent. Indeed, Darren had the element of surprise, and this time he believed that the femalefigure would be astounded with the attack.

Nevertheless, before Darren's blade and sword intent even touched her, the female figurecompletely vanished, leaving not a single trace of her behind.

"Gee! You are really good at hiding, aren't you?" said Darren as he was amazed.

"Dude, don't be so arrogant. As far as I know, you will enter the Starry Tower very soon. I will seeyou on the third floor. If I defeat you there, then it would be time for you to die. Humph!"

the female figure's cold voice came through again, yet she was still unseen. Darren looked sidewaysand grew vigilant for any unexpected attack.

"The third floor? Awesome!"

After such utterance by Darren, ice, fire, and thunder sword intents headed towards him all at once."So powerful!"

Darren's heart almost leaped out of his chest at the sight of the approaching intents. In defense, heunleashed his blade and sword intent to withstand her sword intent. Yet, to his dismay, his bladeand sword intent was broken in a split second. As such, he had to use his Teleportation Skill toescape.

"I can see that you replace it hard to withstand one percent of my strength. You are too weak. I don'tknow why the master picked you. However, I don't think you can successfully pass through the thirdfloor." After such a declaration by the female figure, she seemed to leave at once, since the lakegrew silent and not a single voice echoed from the bottom of the lake.

Left alone at the bottom of the lake, Darren stayed for a while. The female figure's words left a holein his heart. The truth indeed hurt, for Darren was stunned knowing there was some truth in thosewords. He couldn't allow himself to be disdained before he went on his way to the Starry Tower.Right now, however, Darren was so upset. He was tumultuous that he wanted to smash onsomething just to vent out perturbed state.

In his distraught state, Darren jumped out of the lake. After doing so, he jumped back into the lakeonce again, attempting to kill more Sword Type Creatures to piss the female figure off. However,after he was in the lake, he could not replace any more Sword Type Creatures—as if they were wipedout.

"Huh!? That lady is interesting. After I enter the Starry Tower, I will show you my real power. Waitand see.” Darren grinned at the thought that he would have an opportunity to prove himself. Such anotion motivated him at once and sparked the frozen heart that he had earlier to work out with hiscultivation.

However, Darren confirmed that the female figure was compelling. The ice, fire, and thunder swordintents of hers were much stronger than his. He estimated that her sword intent had reached thepremium stage, while his sword intent was only at the intermediate stage.

With a heavy heart, Darren left the lake and went to the first floor of the Starry Tower. There was avariety of spiritual herbs in the area. Thus, he started to assimilate some of them.

While assimilating the herbs to stabilize and enhance his strength, Darren also absorbed thespiritual energy at the same time, attempting to strengthen his cultivation base.

Time flew by, and ten days passed quickly. Day in and day out, the young warrior never ceased tocultivate his base with the primary motivation of that female figure in his mind.

"My cultivation base is improving too slowly. It's more than a thousand times slower than obtainingspiritual energy from the spiritual crystal of the Shaoyan Clan,” Darren proclaimed. At suchobservation of himself, Darren let out a deep sigh. The spiritual energy he had absorbed these dayscould not help him to elevate his cultivation base at all.

"It would be great if I had some more spiritual crystals. Once I reach the Grand Realm, I will be verypowerfull" Reminiscing the sensation of surging strength upon his veins, Darren missed the feelingwhen he assimilated spiritual energy from the spiritual crystal.

Nevertheless, more than glory, Grand Realm also meant crisis. To break through to a higher realm,he needed enough Primitive Stones, which contained the Heavenly Repression Rule to suppress theHeavenly Repression caused by the fusion of blade and sword intent.