Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 145

From the moment he touched it, Darren began to assimilate the spiritual energy stored in the cardiac cores.

As the demonic monster's cardiac core contained an enormous amount of spiritual energy, Darren's absorption speed was insufficient to assimilate all the spiritual energy quickly. Moreover, he had to leave a little spiritual energy in the core to retain its shape, or else it would crumble, and his plan would be exposed.

Once Darren had almost absorbed all the spiritual energy contained in the first cardiac core, he pretended to be greatly surprised and shouted, "It's impossible! This is a genuine cardiac core of a demonic monster!"

Jack sneered when he saw Darren's surprised expression. "Such an ignorant buffoon," Jack snorted.

With a feigned look of embarrassment, Darren gabbled, "I have to examine each core. How could you kill so many demonic monsters? I don't believe that you are so powerful. There must be some diabolic beasts' cardiac cores mixed with the monster cores!"

Darren's exclamation surprised Jack. Being weak was one thing, but being ignorant? Jack's opinion of Darren fell more. 'I just killed several demonic monsters. Does my strength frighten you?' he wondered.

"This is my strength. This is how strong I am. Does that frighten you?" Inflated with pride, Jack looked forward to seeing Darren's stunned expression when he completed checking all the cores.

Ignoring Jack's words, Darren threw the demonic monster's cardiac core from which he had assimilated almost all its spiritual energy back into Jack's bag. Darren smiled as he said, "Watch closely. I have returned the demonic monster's cardiac core!"

Darren picked up another cardiac core and pretended to observe it carefully. However, he was assimilating its spiritual energy as quickly as he could. Jack stood by Darren's side, unaware of what Darren was doing. For Jack, he wished Darren could waste all of his time checking the cores. By then he would win out directly because Darren would have no more time to get the cores. Then he would challenge Darren first and kill him with one blow!

One by one, Darren placed his hand on each cardiac core. Each time, he absorbed almost all the spiritual energy in each demonic monster's cardiac core. He was extremely careful not to assimilate all the spiritual energy in a cardiac core as he wanted the cores to retain their shape. Then, he tossed them back in Jack's bag.

Forty-five minutes passed before Darren had assimilated the spiritual energy from around fifty cardiac cores.

Now, he felt as though his elixir field was about to burst. There had been no time for him to transform the spiritual energy into demonic internal force and sword intent.

'I have assimilated spiritual energy from a majority of his cardiac cores. He has about a dozen left. This will reduce his credits greatly, ' Darren thought.

"Incredible! All the cardiac cores belong to demonic monsters. Well, there is no need for me to check anymore. You are right, Jack," Darren said, pretending to be very upset.

"Ha-ha-ha, now you know my strength, don't you? I will beat you to death in the upcoming fight!" Jack's contempt for Darren grew more. 'If Darren is really a powerful man, why would he be so stunned at how many demonic monster's cardiac cores I was able to collect? His strength is far inferior to mine!' Jack concluded.

Jack was quite confident that he would be the winner of the hunting competition. He was sure that he would win the next round in the competition as well.

"You have only one hour left. I suggest you cherish it because it will be the last hour of your life!" A murderous look shone in Jack's eyes as he spoke to Darren. After that, he turned and walked away. Darren smiled as Jack began to stroll around.

"Darren, what should we do?"

All the outer disciples of the Holy Land looked worried and depressed. They had lost confidence in their performance during the hunting competition.

"You need to wait for me here. I will get some demonic monster's cardiac cores. Remember what I said—do not run around." Darren looked calm—there was no sign of panic or confusion on his face.

Then he flew in the direction where Jack had come from. He was sure there would be many monsters in that area.

"Alas! Darren's spirit of persistence is worthy of praise. However, I don't believe we will be able to win the competition."

"Right, I never expected Jack would kill so many demonic monsters. He must be terribly powerful."

All the outer disciples of the Holy Land sighed as they gazed at Darren's receding figure.

Darren released his spiritual sense to explore the space around him. Simultaneously, he exercised his Shadow Lightness skill to move forward at high speed. With the improvement in his talent, Darren's scope of detection had expanded to the space within a ten-mile radius of his location.

After traveling for a few miles, Darren sensed something in a cavern. Filled with joy, he headed toward the den, like an arrow.

'There are so many level one demonic monsters living here. Jack must have acquired the cardiac cores here! I wonder how many I can hunt and kill in half an hour.'

Without hesitation, Darren rushed into the cavern.

Upon entering, Darren found many corpses of bats, each the size of a calf, piled one on top of the other like a small hill.

"Ha! Wonderful! This is home to at least hundreds of level one demonic monsters like the bats!"

Armed with the blade and sword in his hands, Darren rushed into the depth of the cave.

The demonic monster bats in the cavern sensed Darren's presence and flew out to attack him. In the blink of an eye, the once quiet cave turned into a chaotic mess as the bats and Darren began fighting.