CHAPTER 204 A GREAT INCREASE IN TALENT

"Huh?" Darren suddenly sensed faint breathing from the badly injured Divine Bull King as his figure

descended. 'He is indeed still alive, ' Darren realized.

He began to approach the demonic monster with utmost caution. For Darren, it would be the best result

if he could kill the Divine Bull King via sneak attack with all his strength.

As the faint breathing came nearer, Darren transformed himself into his demon form with his blade and

sword intent on standby.

From less than one hundred feet from this breathing, Darren's blade and sword intent surged

simultaneously as his body shot at the bottom of the pit like an arrow.

Clang!

"Oh no, I can't break open his defense!"

To Darren's surprise, the blow which he had delivered with all his might didn't even break the Divine

Bull King's hard skin. Even though all its bones had been shattered, a dull numbness ran along

Darren's arm.

All of a sudden, the Divine Bull King opened his huge eyes. Red light flashed from his angry pupils.

Collapsed on the ground, the demonic monster made no movement, but his breath shot into the air and

came at Darren extremely quickly.

Boom!

In the next second, Darren was hit by the jet of the steam and thrown into the cavern wall; a deep hole

was formed on the cavern wall with a depth of hundreds of feet.

"Such a powerful force that the breath was enough to strike me back," Darren thought, startled.

Suffering great pain, he felt as if all his bones had fallen apart due to the violent impact. He was

dismayed that even if his body's hardiness was unable to withstand it.

No strong cultivator at the primary stage of the Wonder Realm could survive the blow of the breath

from the Divine Bull King!

After a brief adjustment of his breath, Darren made a move towards the Divine Bull King again.

'Nevertheless, it's impossible for the Divine Bull King to escape because of all his broken bones, '

Darren thought.

But as Darren got closer to the Divine Bull King, he found out he was mistaken. The king's physical

body was unexpectedly climbing up along the wall of the pit, slowly but surely.

Moreover, Darren could tell that he was wasting no time in recovering his strength, albeit with a very

slow speed.

'He's recovering from his injuries. I will be killed by a palm attack from the demonic monster if I try to

come to his side after an hour!' Darren mulled in his mind.

Hastiness stirred in his heart. A demonic monster king was a great treasure for Darren without any

doubt. The assimilation of the Divine Bull King's talent would be a huge leap for Darren's own talent,

and its blood would be the best material needed for the Demonic Blood Refining Skill.

Swoosh!

In the face of this great temptation, Darren dispatched demonic internal force, simultaneously

channeling his blade and sword intent towards at the Divine Bull King, hoping with all his heart to kill

him.

"Moo!"

The Divine Bull King stared at Darren intently, his eyes wide open, only a faint, guttural howl escaping

from his throat. Right when Darren had released his strike, the metal pillar in his chest suddenly flew

out and shot at Darren.

"Blood Dragon Phantom!"

Darren directly used the inheritance skill of the dragons and produced eight avatars in a split second.

Surging blade and sword intent gushed out of Darren's body and rushed to the demonic monster with a

rumbling sound, accompanied by violent and powerful demonic internal force.

Clang!

Three of Darren's avatars were smashed to pieces by the metal pillar in a second. Severely wounded,

this was all what the demonic monster could manage to do. After counterattacking, the metal pillar

grew dimmer. All its remaining strength had been exhausted.

Darren and his five avatars continued rushing to the Divine Bull King with all their strength, hitting

ferociously at his flesh where Scott's attack had caused cracks to form.

"Moo!"

Blood spurted out of his mouth like waterfall, light beginning to fade from his scarlet eyes.

Urged by his spiritual sense, Darren took out his Space Ring and collected the blood. Even so, his

avatars continued launching attacks at the Divine Bull King, cutting open his blood vessels and energy

meridians.

Bang!

In his struggle on the brink of death, he still managed to smash three of Darren's avatars with a wave of

his huge palm.

"It's time to die!" Darren had collected enough fresh blood. He had gotten what he wanted.

With tremendous blade and sword intent, Darren struck the Divine Bull King with the speed of an arrow,

his blade and sword stabbing through his eye sockets and brain.

Hiss.

Eventually, the Divine Bull King stopped struggling as his spiritual energy dispersed in the air. Finally, at

long last, he was dead.

"Assimilate!"

A golden ball of light flew to Darren as he uttered the word.

Buzz!

Once again, there was a humming sound inside Darren's brain. He closed his eyes, savoring the

familiar refreshing feeling of his talent upgrading.

"Talent at the top level of the seventh level of the Earth Degree!"

"Talent at eighth level of the Earth Degree!"

Darren felt as though his cultivation talent was still making new breakthrough!

"Talent at the top level of the eighth level of the Earth Degree! Ninth level talent of the Earth Degree!"

Darren's talent had reached the top level of the ninth level of the Earth Degree with a shocking speed!

"Only one step remaining to the Heaven Degree," Darren muttered, anticipation and excitement in his

voice.

'It's a pity. I really wonder what kind of feeling I will have when I reach the Heaven Degree talent, '

Darren pondered.

Even if his talent had reached the top level of the level nine of the Earth Degree, Darren had a very

different feeling. After putting the Divine Bull King's corpse and the metal pillar in his Space Ring,

Darren unceremoniously left the bottom of the pit and soared up to the ground.

The moment his feet touched the ground, Darren saw a bright and clear world. In the air, he saw

streams of soft blue air floating. 'That is spiritual energy visible to the naked eye, ' Darren thought.

If Darren had been able to assimilate the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth, he would have

surely tried to test his assimilation speed!

His talent at the ninth level of the Earth Degree would give him a great advantage when he was able to

mingle his blade and sword intent. By then he could assimilate more than the treasures containing

spiritual energy! His assimilation resources would include spiritual energy of the heaven and earth. He

believed that absorbing abundant spiritual energy would help boost his realm at an unprecedented

speed!

Moreover, the improvement in his talent meant he could shorten the time it took him to comprehend the

formulas of the supernatural blade skill to a few days. What's more, he was wholly confident that he

would be able to comprehend the third stage of the legendary martial skill the "Nine Changes of the

Demon" within a month!

These two kinds of skills would boost Darren's strength greatly even to the middle stage of the Wonder

Realm infinitely.

There was a considerable gap between the strength of the primary stage and middle stage of the

Wonder Realm, which meant a virtually unlimited range for the cultivator's progress. The closer

Darren's strength was to the middle stage of the Wonder Realm, the more invincible he would become

among the cultivators of the primary stage of the Wonder Realm!

By then, once he had completed refining his body, Darren would become invincible. He might even

have the capability to kill a strong cultivator at the top level of the middle stage of the Wonder Realm

with his strength which would be much closer to the middle stage of the Wonder Realm.

All of this would enhance his capability to challenge the top one hundred strong superior talents on the

Talent Roll!

After all, Darren was already an unprecedented cultivator based on the fact that his cultivation base

was only at the ninth stage of the Mysterious Realm. Once he managed to fuse his blade and sword

intent, who knew what kind of level his strength would reach after he entered the Wonder Realm! It was

really beyond imagination, and Darren was ecstatic at the thought.

After flying out of the pit, Darren was not hasty to begin comprehending the skill. After all, he could

choose to undergo that process at any time since his talent had been improved.

The only thing that he felt rather regretful about was that he failed to obtain the Heaven Degree talent

in one fell swoop.

'Sooner or later I will have the Heaven Degree Talent. It's just too bad... Somehow, I am afraid I won't

get it even if I assimilate the talent of another demonic monster king. I will do it later.' Darren put aside

these concerns for now. There would be many more opportunities waiting for him.

After composing himself, he flew to Elder Star. 'Bruce should be able to move around now, ' Darren

thought.

The moment he flew over he found Scott.

"Scott, have you killed the North Monster King?" Darren asked immediately.

Scott shook his head bitterly. "I got very close to killing him when some strange power blocked me. I

think there are some stronger creatures lurking in this demonic monster domain, we'd better leave as

soon as possible," Scott explained.

Then, Scott awakened the strong human cultivators and prepared to teleport them out of here.

"Scott, I need to collect some materials required for body refining. I need to stay here for another few

days," Darren reminded him.

Scott gave a nod. "Then take care, I will be here any time you are in danger," Scott said.

"Don't worry. I will be cautious," Darren reassured him with a smile.

Scott was now ready to teleport the rest of them out of the demonic monster domain. Under Darren's

persuasion, Bruce also had to agree to leave the domain.

Before they left, Darren gave his token of a supreme disciple to Bruce so he could stroll around in the

Lotus Holy Land at his will and live in the place Darren had occupied previously. Aside from this,

Darren needed Bruce to inform Elsa that he was safe and sound for fear of her concern.

"Darren, please come see me the instant you have gathered enough materials. I need to cultivate in

seclusion for several months or even a few years. My success or failure of entering the Grand Realm

will be wholly dependent on it." This belongs to - ©.

"I see. I promise I will come to see you as soon as possible."

Darren knew Scott was going to try to enter the Grand Realm with the help of the Dragon Saliva Fruit.

And so he made up his mind to spend a few days' time to improve his strength first and collect the

blood of the diabolic beasts immediately.

After these agreements were made and goodbyes were said, Scott gave Darren a teleportation jade

card before transporting the others out of the demonic monster domain.