Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 448

Darren could feel the ring on his finger slightly quiver to block the Spirit Power that the man in the black robe had released.

The Water Kylin was a legendary ancient beast and was therefore adept at hiding its own aura, making it hard for the man in the black robe to find as well, even with the use of his Spirit Power.

After a while of observation, the man in the black robe did not detect anything unusual. He released a flame to burn Ethan and prepared to leave.

"These more than seven hundred souls are quite powerful than I expected. I'm just going to have to collect the rest on my way back to the sect," the man in the black robe muttered to himself.

Unbeknownst to the man, Darren was close by and had overheard him. The latter was delighted to find out where the man was planning to go. All he had to do was follow him so he could find out where the Red Inferno Sect was.

After cleaning up the mess, the man in black robe unhurriedly left. Darren followed closely behind him.

"Damn it, why haven't I encountered anyone along the way?" The man in the black robe had been walking in the barren mountain for a long time and was becoming disgruntled at the lack of any suitable targets.

"Oh, well. Looks like I have no choice but to take a detour and slaughter a village, then." The man released his Spirit Power to locate any nearby villages, turning around to walk towards another direction as he did so.

Darren knitted his eyebrows together in apprehension. He knew something horrible would happen; the man in black robe would not leave if he had not collected enough souls.

The man in the black robe soon found a village and made his way towards it.

"Hey, there's a man in a black robe over there."

"He's probably from someplace far away. He must be tired. Zack, fetch a bowl of water for him in case he's thirsty."

The unsuspecting people working on the farm at the periphery of the village were quick to hospitality, too trusting for their own good.

A boy walked towards the man, carrying a bowl of water. "Hey mister, are you thirsty? Here, you can have some water," he said.

The man in the black robe blinked at the boy, a bit stunned. He stared down at the boy and said, "How simple and naive you are. Unfortunately though, you're very unlucky."

"What are you talking about, mister? Who's unlucky?" The boy grinned.

"Nothing. Just pray that you'll be luckier in your next life." He then bent his fingers to form a claw and pierced the boy's skull.

"Ah, you!"

The people on the farm stared at the scene in shock.

"You devil! I will kill you!" A middle-aged man lifted his hoe and rushed towards the man in the black robe, eyes seething with fury.

Not a second later, the spine-tingling sound of bone breaking was heard.

With only one claw, the man in the black robe had crushed the poor man's skull.

"Ah, I've gotten two more souls now, but I need two hundred and forty more. Hmm, I think the number of people in this village is just enough." The man in black robe licked his lips.

"Ahhh!"

Several men charged at the man in the black robe, spears in hand.

They were martial artists who had been guarding the village. The cultivation base of the strongest of them was at the seventh stage of the Primary Realm.

However, just like the previous two people before them, their heads exploded before they even laid a scratch on the man in the black robe. They were instantly killed.

Darren was silently seething with rage as he watched people get killed one after another.

"At this rate, the whole village will get killed! Since I'm here, I can't just stand by and turn a blind eye to all this!"

He could not stand to see more innocent people die any longer.

"Water Kylin, let's stop him!" he said, rushing out without hesitation.

He blasted a dark gold internal force.

The attack created several rifts in the space as it went flying towards the man in the black robe.

"What the hell?" The man in black robe sensed the oncoming danger. "Enchanted barrier!" he hastily uttered out.

A layer of dark amber colored halo shrouded over him and a number of runes condensed together into a sword, countering Darren's dark gold internal force.

A violent rumbling broke through the man's enchanted barrier, shattering it on the place where he stood.

However, once the havoc had substantially died down, the man was nowhere to be found.