Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 537 Get More Spiritual Crystals (Part Two)

He was intrigued and alarmed when he detected one almost immediately. "It can't be this easy!" heexclaimed to himself.

The aura was a powerful one, perhaps a kilometer deep inside the swamp.

Ready for anything, he sped over until he was close to the crystal, then dived straight down into thedarkness of the swamp.

Sure enough, he immediately felt several creatures nearby, closing in fast. Whoever or whateverthey were, they definitely weren't going to be friendly.

"Hurricane Teleportation Skill!" Darren announced

With his speed boosted exponentially, he was closing in fast on the spiritual crystal.

Soon he could see it. It was the size of his fist, and it glittered like fire. Without hesitating, hesnatched it up, put it into his Space Ring, and took flight again

With a sound like the roar of a fierce wind, he burst through the canopy of the swamp.

However, so did a handful of other figures, reaching for him with cold hands, incensed at hisattempt to escape.

Not far away, Anna was observing the scene with a satisfied smirk.

'You despicable scum. I wonder how you'll handle danger this time, * she thought disdainfully.Coming a little closer, she saw the figures that now surrounded Darren as he left the swamp. Theyall had metallic skin, and the aura they gave off was a powerful one indeed. They were the ruthlesscreatures she had mentioned earlier.

Sizing them up even as he fled, Darren frowned. “Each of them are as powerful as a top-level four-star grand warrior. It'd be pretty tough to defeat them all."

He quickly made up his mind to continue his speedy retreat, rather than confronting them head-on.After all, it was really the spiritual crystals that he was after.

"You shameless bastard!" Anna shouted yet again. "Are you going to keep playing the same oldtricks?! They won't be so easily fooled like me!"

Darren was amazed to hear this rebuke. Despite the hassle she'd put him through earlier, he hadn'texpected the young lady to still be so mad at him for beating her. She really was no better than alittle girl. He decided to ignore her as best as he could. Giving her attention would only make thingsworse.

Meanwhile, the small band of ruthless creatures at his heels had no intention of cutting him anyslack. Luckily, they weren't flying fast enough to overtake him.

Keeping himself in the lead, he used his spiritual sense to scan for other crystals in the vicinity.After a short while, his eye was drawn to a giant, towering tree that jutted up from the landscapelike a tower. He sensed his next prize there, directly underneath

Adjusting his course, he flew toward the tree and blasted the whole thing to smithereens with onepowerful palm attack.

Without dallying, he searched the blackened crater and found what he was looking for. This spiritualcrystal was as big around as a millstone.

At the same time, the ruthless creatures were right behind Darren. Desperate to stop him fromclaiming any more treasure, they charged him without hesitation.

But he spun around, unleashing a burst of his dark gold internal force, which headed off their attack.still unwilling to waste time fighting, he flew away yet again.

Even as he made off, a dozen more ruthless creatures showed themselves and joined their fellows inthe pursuit.

The next two hours passed in much the same way. Darren claimed six spiritual crystals, and for eachone that he took, another irate group of adversaries would appear on his tail.

When he finally looked behind himself, he counted more than forty of them.

These ruthless creatures were a lot more persistent than he would have expected, and they grewever more determined to surround him as their numbers increased.

Luckily, Darren had two useful skills, the Hurricane Teleportation Skill and Air-integrated True Rule.As long as he had them, these foes wouldn't be able to catch and force him into a fight, so he couldfocus on his task.

In the meantime, Anna was still following at a distance, not missing a moment of the spectacle.'Humph! You're still running away like a frightened rat! But no matter how hard you try, in the endyou won't escape.’

The cold sneer on the girl's face never went away, and she kept her hopes up that she wouldeventually see the man's downfall.

As for Darren, he continued to ignore her, focusing instead on the impressive collection of spiritualcrystals he had accumulated. Even more important, he could sense that there was a huge one stillout there, about ten miles away.

With an impressive whoosh, he headed toward it.

After grabbing that one, he would leave off the treasure hunting and turn his attention toslaughtering all the annoying creatures chasing him.

'Oh, wow. This is not how I thought things would go, * Anna realized as she watched them all go.“That shameless moron didn't kill the ruthless creatures guarding each spiritual crystal. Now he hasan army chasing him! Does he have any idea how he’s going to deal with them?"

Unable to contain her curiosity, the girl did her best to keep up.

When Darren finally sensed that he was close to the last spiritual crystal, he called upon his bladeintent and sword intent to bombard the ground. With a terrific noise the earth split open, revealingthe crystal. As soon as he saw it, he dived into the fissure he had opened and collected the prizewith his Space Ring.

"This spiritual crystal is the size of a bison!" he exclaimed in triumph. "I sure made a killing thistime." He estimated that the spiritual energy in all the crystals he had found would be enough forhim to break through to the three-star Grand Realm, or perhaps even the four-star Grand Realm!As he felt exalted over his success, however, the ruthless creatures were going berserk. Now therewere more than a hundred of them, hurtling down toward him as well as bursting out of theground, and as one they swarmed toward Darren, eager to obliterate him.