Finley's face darkened after he heard those words.
"Don't talk nonsense! I'm kind even if I'm just a soul, so I'm sure the real body of me must be a kind person. Why would I get swallowed?"
When Darren glanced at him, he saw slight traces of fear on his face.
"Ha-ha, I'm just kidding," Darren smiled.
"By the way, if I bring some enemies in, can you handle them?" Darren asked before he left.
"You'd better not do that. Since I'm severely injured, I will go to a secluded place to cultivate. Once I start my cultivation, it might be impossible to wake me. Then, it will be useless. Why don't you seal the Ancient Void Battlefield for the moment? When you find a holy body for me, I will wake up. After I leave this place, I will beat the crap out of all those who dared to provoke you."
"Okay, I will seal the Ancient Void Battlefield. You can go now."
After reassuring Finley, Darren withdrew his spiritual sense from the Ancient Void Battlefield.
The other people outside were busy trying to find crystals in the sand.
While someone like Darren, who wanted to pursue something big, might not consider the crystals to be valuable, it was a treasure for others.
In the outside world, one Holy Will Crystal could be exchanged for tens of thousands of magic herbs, because many masters at the seven-star level of the Grand Realm needed them.
Darren did not collect the crystals. He knew that if he could not leave, then the crystals he collected would be useless.
He sat on the ground with his legs crossed and took out the purple leaf. After absorbing its spiritual energy, he refined it into the demonic internal force and the aura of the dragon blood.
With the help of the pyramid in his elixir field, Darren was able to refine at high speed, and his strength grew continually.
After over ten days of cultivating, Darren felt that he could not make any further progress. He, thus, woke from his meditation.
"Darren, look!"
When Darren woke, he saw that several people had gathered around him. They held a pile of colorful crystals in their hands.
"Ah, you've found so many. I'm afraid you have about a thousand in total."
"Of course, he did. Darren, you can pick some for yourself first. Take away whatever you like, and the rest will be ours."
Everyone walked closer to Darren to show him the crystals.
"There is no need for that. You guys worked so hard to collect these. Why would you give them to me?" Darren refused with a polite shake of his head.
"Darren, what's wrong with you?"
"Did we do something wrong?"
"Are you angry?"
They glanced at each other, anxiety clear in their expressions.
"What the hell are you thinking? Why would I be angry for no reason?" Darren smiled helplessly.
"Ha-ha, that's good. Anyway, you have to choose some, or we will feel bad."
"That's right. If you had not been here, we would have died many times. Just think about the things you give us. So, we would rather throw these crystals away if you don't accept some."
Darren glanced at them. He knew that although they had fought with each other fiercely before, they had no choice. In fact, they were all well-natured people. They were not the kind of greedy people who didn't know how to appreciate others' kindness or return favors.
Under their insistence, Darren selected some crystals.
"Darren, you didn't choose mine! Shame on you. Well, I have a private collection for you. Please take it."
one of them said as he took out an egg-sized blue object from his spatial treasure.
"Wow! You hid such an impressive gem!"
"Beat him!"
All of them laughed before taking a step forward to beat the man.
"Stop it. I did not hide it for myself. I kept it safely for Darren. Ha-ha."
The man handed the blue stone to Darren, and Darren accepted it.
Darren didn't find anything special about it except for its beautiful appearance. At the behest of that man, he had to accept the offering.
Now that they had been here for over ten days, and Darren had woken from his cultivation, everyone decided that it was time to go further and look for something else.
They flew to the depths of the desert, but there was still no way out.
On the twentieth day, Darren and the others found a dead body. It was a human body.
"This is an elder of some force. They really came here."
Darren and the others were pleased to find the corpse, as it proved that the old men were also heading in the same direction.
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