Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 723 Tracking

Along with the festive ambiance that hung in the air, the hall was seated full of Chu Clan elders."Darren, come and sit with Elsa in the high seat!" Reed ushered with a cordial smile.

"No, I cannot accept your offer. Everyone seated here is either my senior or my elder brother. Howcan I take the high seat when all these respectable people are present? They deserve that high seatrather than me. Besides, according to the rules, I think you should be the one to sit in that place,Uncle Reed,” Darren refused immediately. He insisted that Reed should take that seat of honor."Reed, stop making Darren uncomfortable. Let him sit wherever he likes," the guard of the MartialSkill Library uttered grimly to Reed and motioned Darren to sit.

Receiving the request, Reed bowed and didn't say anything. Thus, at length, everyone took theirseats, and the feast officially started.

"Where are the Chief Elder and the other two elders?" Darren asked, suddenly noticing theirabsence in the hall.

"Those old bones haven't been informed yet. They are living too far off in the mountain that themessages need to take a longer time to reach them,” the guard of the Martial Skill Library informed.As he was about the same age as the three important elders, he just called them casually and didnot bring up their names in a formal manner.

"Okay, then we'd better leave them alone and keep them from any unnecessary trouble,” Darrensaid with a nod.

"How is everything going during my absence?" after a short pause, Darren inquired again.

"It's quite peaceful. Our Chu Clan has now become the most powerful clan in the entire Doriath. Inthe last several years, our power has spread all over the country that even if we had claimed to takethe mastery, I dare say that no one would have stood up against us.” Moving his line of sight fromleft to right as if looking for something, the guard of the Martial Skill Library lingered for a while andthen continued, "But Reed preferred to stay quiet and stay low. From his point of view, our disciples’training and healthy growth are far more important than declaring the throne.”

Darren was delighted with what the guard of the Martial Skill Library had said. He realized that afterthat incident in the past, his uncle had become rational and sophisticated.

"My uncle is right in that respect. It matters little how much power one has when there is no healthyand harmonious life,” Darren consented and turned to Reed, his mouth curled in a content smile."Darren, I'm glad that you agree with me,” Reed smiled, feeling rejoiced by Darren's recognition.Soon after they had casually chatted for a while, the family banquet officially began. Time slippedaway swiftly as they enjoyed their talks and all the food and drinks that had been set for the feast.The evening drew on, and the celebration nearly came to an end. People began to rise from theirseats and headed for their own quarters. After everyone had gone, Darren and Elsa got up andreturned to the courtyard that had once been so familiar to Darren.

"Darren, is this where you grew up?"

Elsa asked, looking around the neatly cleaned courtyard and the great phoenix tree that shadowedover half of the yard.

"Yes. My sister and I grew up here," Darren related softly and went to put his hand on the tree. Afeeling of sadness overwhelmed his mind. He wondered how the time went by swiftly and howthose hard yet happy times had become remote and unfamiliar to him by now.

"You must have been so close to each other. Where did your sister go then?" Elsa asked as she camecloser to him.

"Her soul has been seriously injured and she is now receiving treatment in the Ancient VoidBattlefield. I assume it will be two or three years before she finally wakes up,” replied Darren,looking dejected and concerned.

"Why? What happened to her?” Elsa exclaimed. Worry clouded her beautiful, delicate face as shelooked up at Darren with concern.

"It's a long story. Let me explain to you briefly."

Under the phoenix tree, with the warm and soft wind gently blowing over their faces, Darren toldElsa briefly of what had happened to his sister before. Brief as the story was, it still cost Darren quitea long time to finish. By the time he finished speaking, the darkness had already enclosed the world,and there was no other sound around but the sound of their warm breath.

The night was warm and cozy. Elsa nestled herself in Darren's arms and enjoyed the very moment ofbeing with him alone.

"It is fortunate that my sister had come through a hard time and had the chance of being treated inthe Ancient Void Battlefield. Recovering is just a matter of time, so I won't worry about her much.Think about our current life, Elsa. I feel it's so good to kick off every day without nothing to worryabout,” murmured Darren, fondling softly through Elsa's silky hair with his fingers.

After having come a long way and been through countless stiff days these years, Darren suddenlyfelt completely relaxed being in the place where he was raised — his birthplace, his home, his nativeland. He almost fancied that he was dreaming, that this kind of tranquility was all that he yearnedfor ages.

"If you are so much into this life, how about we stay in the Chu Clan forever and live a life filled withpeace and tranquility?" Elsa murmured to Darren. Her eyes grew more prominent in anticipating hisresponse.

"Okay. We can ask Elder Thomas to come and live with us, and then we will never leave again,”Darren suggested.

"Elder Thomas? You know what you did to me last night. I am surprised you still called him ElderThomas," Elsa grumbled, pursing her lips sulkily.

"What have I done last night? Could you tell me?" Noting what Elsa was implying about, Darren'sheart burned hot with tenderness.

Seeing the confused expression on Darren's face, Elsa turned red to her ears as she hid her face inDarren's chest. After a while, she drew away and looked at Darren with love and shyness in her eyes."Why are you so annoying? You know exactly how you bullied me last night. Or are you pretendingto have forgotten your evil behavior, so you expect I won't punish you?" she countered.

With the sweet voice and Elsa's cute reaction, Darren felt the warmth and fragrance of her breath.Being against her rich and curvaceous body, he felt a stream of hot passion run through his limbsand gave him energy. "You are born to be bullied by me. Only I have the right to bully you like that.If you are questioning my authority, I can prove myself right now.”

After saying that, before Elsa could even retort again, Darren had already bent over and presseddown on her.

"You prurient, obscene man..." Elsa struggled to push Darren away until Darren covered her lips withhis, and her body had wholly been overtaken by the lust of passion in the heart.

Above them, the moon was as clean and beautiful as ever, and the glamour of it illumined theirbodies. Rolling and swaying, they were like two happy fish in the clear and limpid water.

Time slipped by, and it was ten days after when there came the other cozy and comfortable night."Elsa, can we go to our old place?" Darren asked Elsa, and his thought still lingered on the joyouslove that they shared.

"No. You are always thinking about prurient things. You have no sense of shame!" Elsa objected witha flushed face.

"All right then, let's go to another place if the old place bores you. How about climbing up to theroof?" With a sinister smile, while holding Elsa in his arms, Darren flew onto the roof.

"No! No! Others would hear our voices. How embarrassing it will be to make love here!" Elsa criedshyly, feeling somewhat abashed.

"Don't you bother about it at all. I have already separated all the other spiritual senses from us withthe help of my Spirit Power. No one could sense our presence here. You can scream as loud as youwish,” Darren said cunningly and squinted at her with relish.

"You are such a bad guy. You are indeed slier than a fox.” Elsa grinned and nestled in Darren's arms.Hiding her face under Darren's chin, she continued, "Can we at least have a day's break? You havetortured me every day since we came here."

"Ha-ha, leave out the break! I haven't been satisfied yet. So just do as you are told!" Darren held herdown. On the spur of the moment, he was overwhelmed by his passion that he went a bit out ofcontrol.

"What the hell?"

Just as he was about to kiss Elsa, a strange feeling came over his mind and diverted his attention."What's wrong?" clumsily fixing her hair, Elsa asked Darren.

"I have had this strange and ominous feeling for some time. It is like something dark and evil isprying us, and I felt that feeling again just now. Whatever it is, it is not far from us,” Darren said witha serious expression and yet did not look around to replace where the sudden hunches originated."You mean that someone is spying on us?" Elsa exclaimed, her face filled with bashfulness. Thinkingthat she might have been watched by others when having sex with Darren, her blood boiled withembarrassment.

Uncertain about what he had felt, Darren was silent for a moment. Then he released his Spirit Powerand spiritual sense and scoured the entire Doriath.

"Elsa, let's go on." Darren did not speak but sent a message to Elsa using his spiritual sense.

"What? What if someone is around and watching us?" Elsa asked in secret timidly, feeling somewhatout of place. Yet, on top of that, she couldn't wrap her head on the thought that Darren wished tocontinue making love with her despite being secretly watched by someone.

"Just pretend to be relaxed and lure him out,” Darren instructed. So at length, Elsa got tounderstand what Darren meant.

They hugged and kissed as planned. But while doing that, they concentrated their thoughts on thespiritual sense and scanned everything around.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, Darren and Elsa leaped into the sky and flew off to a mountain several hundredkilometers away in the blink of an eye.

Bang!

A man was thrown out of the deserted mountain when Darren blasted the mountain out bylaunching a potent blow.

"It's you?"

Elsa stared at the wavering figure in the air and cried. Horror-stricken, Elsa was held dazed andconfused.

Her face went grim as she recognized the blue-skinned man.

"Long time no see, Elsa." After replaceing his footing back and steadying himself, the blue-skinned manbowed to Elsa, showing his reverence towards Elsa through a kowtow.

"What are you doing here? If you want to take me back, it's impossible,” Elsa said coldly. Her eyesfixed grimly at the man as if piercing through his soul.

"Don't be angry with me. I have come to inform you on behalf of our elders. If you really intend toleave the Space-time Palace, then we won't be so selfish to snatch you out of your freedom.

But before you depart entirely from us, you need to give back all the knowledge that you learnedwhen you were in our palace. If I remember it correctly, you began with the cultivation base ofWonder Realm, and now you have been trained to be a seven-star grand warrior. Our elders haveexerted great efforts in the way. So, now that you want to leave us, please return what you havegained!" the blue-skinned man said sternly. A resolute expression was drawn on his face, signifyingthat he was determined to have Elsa pay back what she owed.

"Go to hell!"

Darren shouted and released his blade and sword intents. The words conveyed by the blue-skinnedman made his blood boil, and he was infuriated at the moment.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The blue-skinned man was at once scratched from his head down to his toe. Blood was dripping allover him, soaking his garments. It could be seen on his face that he was greatly wounded.

"You! How dare you! Darren, don't piss me off, or I will counter your attacks as well!" the manthundered furiously.

"Elsa, why do these blue-skinned people seem to know me?" giving no heed to the man's anger,Darren turned to Elsa and asked.

"I don't know for certain. Before I went to the Space-time Palace, they had already known a lotabout you, and I don't know why," Elsa replied.

"Lester, Darren and I have decided to stay in the ordinary land and stay out of trouble from now on.So don't push us! We won't be a threat to you!" Elsa assured, trying to avoid the conflict andconvince the blue-skinned man at the same time.

However, to add up to her torment, the blue-skinned man did not flinch. "Elsa, who do you think weare? You know we always do things by rules. You have access to so many resources of our Space-time Palace. Shouldn't you be returning them if you are to discard us?" he roared, a raging fire in hiseyes. The blue-skinned man was exceedingly enraged by now that it seemed that any momentsoon, he would launch an attack towards either Darren or Elsa.

"I will return the resources you have used on Elsa. But if you come to harass us again, then I won'tmind killing every single one of you!" Darren warned coldly. The frustration that he had was slowlyreaching its limit.

"Ha-ha, who do you think you are? Do you know what you are talking about? Since Elsa joined us,she has occupied four years of our time and space turbulent flows of a hundred times' power. Howcan you expect to pay us? Do you have anything worth the price?

But frankly speaking, even if you offer to provide a time and space turbulent flow of your own, wewon't accept it. Elsa's cultivation base must be returned, an eye for an eye, and the process issimple. I only need to gouge out half of her heart and remove 80 percent of her meridians.”

Laying the terms, the blue-skinned man grinned hideously. He knew by now that what he wanted tohappen was understood by Darren. Judging by the expression on Darren's face, however, the blue-skinned man knew that he had won the argument. Darren was obviously angered and seemed to beoverpowered by that anger.

"Oh, if that is the only way, then please just do it!" Darren voiced, in a tongue that sounded light butpiercing

The blue-skinned man was stunned. A sudden shiver went through his veins as if he was put nakedoutside in the chilly winter.

"I meant to send you to hell!"

Whoosh.

With one swift move, the blade and sword intents roared off and detached the blue-skinned man'shead within a second.

Prior to the blue-skinned man's beheading, at the sight of the impending attack, Elsa didn't try tostop Darren because she had no special relationship with the people from the Space-time Palace.She only agreed to join them at that time because they had firmly persuaded her to do so.

During those hundreds of years in the time and space turbulent flow, she was left to herself in thatdark space. Her longing for Darren grew as time went by for hundreds of years, and during which,all she had felt was loneliness and pain.

"Darren, I guess we can't stay in the Chu Clan any longer, or we'll get them into trouble. The Space-time Palace will come for revenge very soon," looking up at Darren, Elsa said ruefully. She knewdeep inside her that the next days that she would spend together with Darren would never be thesame again. The Space-time Palace and the blue-skinned men were not the kind of people onewould wish to be enemies with.

"Yes, we have to leave right now. Besides, I just found out that this blue-skinned man was not theonly one who bothered me these days. I suspect that they are already on the way,” Darren pointedout with a frown.

The imminent danger gloomed his heart. A peaceful life had once again become a distant dream tothem. Gone were their dreams of one quiet and normal life—shattered, crumbled to pieces, anddrifted with the air.