With the inspiration provided by such outlook, Darren flew fast in the sky and used his spiritual sense to explore.
Many people who owned stalwart talents of martial artists, and myriads of variant beasts were scattered across the Medium Spiritual World. Knowing that fact, Darren naturally wanted to find opportunities to improve his talent.
After flying steadily for three days and nights, a deep valley separated from the world caught Darren's attention. The valley was dark and mysterious. With the aid of his spiritual sense, he faintly felt that there were many powerful creatures along the valley.
As a feast for a famished man, those powerful creatures were undoubtedly a treasure for Darren. He had seen an opportunity for him to assimilate their powers somehow and advanced his level.
Thus, wasting no time, Darren dashed into the deep valley. He didn't mind the darkness nor the eerie ambiance at all. His mind, as well as his heart, was focused on throwing himself on the pool of overflowing powers.
As a loud thud was heard when Darren landed on firm ground, a deep, raspy, and grotesque roar reverberated across the valley. Many of red eyes that appeared to be vile and malevolent looked at him occasionally.
"This place is a blessing in disguise. There are plenty of four-star and five-star variant beasts that just roam around, pristine and untapped," gawked Darren at the sight of sources of power for him.
What hyped him more was Darren found more than five thousand variant beasts in the deep valley, and none of them was weak. He thought he would make use of all of his time to assimilate as much as he could and would not allow a single beast to go astray.
Although the varieties of the beasts did not possess powerful talents, there were a lot of them. Accumulating all the minute talents each beast could offer would eventually add up to something massive, and Darren was with all hopes for that.
Soon enough, Darren made up his mind and started his hunting and assimilating tasks. He carefully chose one beast and taking careful steps not to startle and frighten it, Darren went straight to the beast.
One beast after the other, Darren's powerful blade and sword intents kept stirring violently in the valley. Wherever it passed, there was nothing but blood.
"Assimilate!"
Swooping from one point to another, Darren dashed forward as he assimilated the talents that popped out from each slaughtered beast.
Doing the process for several hours, all of the variant beasts he could find laid lifeless on the ground. On the spur of the moment, not a single beast could be found loitering around the valley.
"The seventh level of the Heaven Degree! Here I come!" Darren shouted, triumphantly.
In just a matter of several hours, Darren's talent had a qualitative change after he finished assimilating powers from more than a thousand of variant beasts.
Yet, he wasn't satisfied with all those powers that he had obtained. Darren was determined to absorb more and enhance his cultivation faster and better. Thus, Darren tried to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by his talent. It turned out to be effective that his absorbing speed was dozens of times faster than before.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured into Darren's body like a deep river—turbulent and overflowing.
Although the quality of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was far inferior to that of the spiritual crystals, it was still useful for Darren. In fact, he was so overwhelmed that there was so much of it for him to handle.
"Oh, this feels so great. Probably, after eight years of cultivation, I'm sure I can reach the five-star Grand Realm."
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