Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 114

Once Darren had dashed through the door with Elsa in his arms, he had escaped the forbidden area. Exhausted, he fainted and fell to the ground.

A couple of minutes later, he woke up.

He studied his surroundings alertly and caught sight of beautiful flowers and tender grass. In the distance, there were countless towering mountains covered with vegetation. Various diabolic beasts flew in the sky. It was peaceful, pleasant scenery.

Darren took a breath. Having stayed in the forbidden area filled with suffocating tension and darkness, he suddenly fell quite in love with this place, greedily inhaling its fresh air.

Looking down at Elsa in his arms, his mind finally set at ease at the sight of her sleeping with a serene expression.

'Oh, crap!' he thought to himself, his eyes widening as he realized something. 'The spiritual energy in the Holy Land is denser than in any other place. Even when I breathe, some spiritual energy enters my body! Because of this, I will enter the Mysterious Realm in advance!'

The thought made him uneasy. If he made a breakthrough, there was no way he could survive that!

'Even if I control myself and try not to take in spiritual energy, I will break into the Mysterious Realm in ten days. The only way I'll survive it is to suppress sword intent in the process of the breakthrough.'

That was the only way he could think of. But suppressing sword intent was no easy task.

"Come on, guys, go get it!"

A loud voice reached his ears.

Darren was instantly on alert and turned around. The only thing in sight was a beast dashing at him quickly.

'Oh? That's a diabolic beast, not just any beast!' Darren thought.

He got a clearer view as it came close to him. It turned out to be a diabolic boar. He began to sense its strength and found that it was considerable. 'It is supposed to be a level eight or nine diabolic beast. But it's covered in blood! It obviously got seriously injured, ' he assumed.

The boar growled loudly.

Its red eyes flashed as it ran desperately forward. But when it spotted one of the people who was trying to catch it, it changed the direction and came at Darren.

"I planned to leave you be, but now you leave me no choice!" Darren said.

With this, he slit the boar's neck with his blade in a flash.

He had decided to use blade more frequently before he could unleash blade intent which could be on par with the sword intent he mastered. He had made up his mind not to resort to sword intent unless he was in grave danger.

"Well done. That was really impressive!" A loud voice remarked from behind him.

Moments later, two young men who had witnessed Darren slaying the boar ran towards him. They stood in front of Darren with evident admiration in their eyes.

Darren checked the two strangers' power secretly and knew they were at the first stage of the Mysterious Realm. The two could be considered strong cultivators outside the Holy Land. But compared to the majority of the population of the Holy Land, they were weak.

"Thank you for helping us. As for this diabolic boar..." one of the men said with a hesitant expression, his eyes fixed on the dead diabolic beast.

"You can take it if you want. I just killed it to protect myself," Darren replied as if he read the young man's mind.

"Thank you very much. If it weren't for you, we couldn't have gotten it," the man responded with a smile before walking to the dead diabolic beast to deal with it.

"Hello, I'm Steven Lu. This is my friend, Stephan Wu," the young man said, reaching out his hand.

"I'm Darren Chu," Darren replied and shook hands with him.

But there was one thing he couldn't figure out. 'It is almost impossible for these young men to cause such a serious damage to the boar. How did they do that?' he wondered.

"Humph! Are you two idiots? Even without him, we could have slain that diabolic beast! Why did you thank him? Where is your pride?"

A teenager made his way to the three slowly.

"Mr. Han, I was thanking him for helping us. Without him, we couldn't have gotten the boar," Steven said, trying to break the tense atmosphere.

Henry Han snorted and gave Darren a sidelong glare.

"Don't get mad, Darren. This is Henry Han, and he is a respected rule cultivator, so he is a little aloof. Don't take it personally," Steven whispered to Darren, looking embarrassed.

As far as Darren observed, Steven was a kind, easygoing person who could be a trusted friend. For Steven's sake, he decided not to give Henry a hard time. Besides, he was never a mean guy who would let slightly aggressive remarks get to him easily.

He was interested in Henry. This teenager was the second rule cultivator he had met. 'Perhaps he took some credit for Steven and Stephan being able to hurt the diabolic beast, ' Darren thought.

"Buddy, it seems like your friend's fainted. What happened to her?" It was only now that Steven noticed the bewitching maiden lying on the ground beside Darren.

"She's fine. She will wake up soon," Darren replied, glancing at Elsa.