CHAPTER 219 A GIRL IN PURPLE
Darren puffed up his chest and put on a ferocious expression on his face. However, it was all for show;
he was just bluffing and had no real intention of fighting the woman. After all, it would be troublesome if
the fight attracted other strong cultivators towards them. 'Once this woman and I engaged in a fight,
other strong warriors in this Holy Land might discover me. If that happens, I'm going to have to give up
on rescuing Elder Thomas, ' he thought.
Meanwhile, the woman did not dare make a move against Darren as she sensed that he was powerful.
'If Holy Lord finds out that I am cheating on him, I'll be as good as dead, ' she considered.
"What do you want to know, young man?" The woman's voice suddenly became gentle and the fierce
look in her eyes had now vanished.
Darren immediately became suspicious of the woman's sudden change in attitude. Because he was
not sure what this woman's relation to the Holy Lord's son he had killed before, he decided it was best
if he was not too forward with his intentions of rescuing Elder Thomas. 'She looks pretty young, so I
don't think she's that man's mother. She may be a concubine of the Holy Lord of the Blade Holy Land,
perhaps?'
"Did you know that the Holy Lord's son was killed?" He raised his brows and looked intently at the
woman.
"Young man, everyone knows that that bastard is dead. Come on, I don't think you would go through all
that just to ask me that." The woman gave him a lopsided smirk and looked at him through half-lidded
eyes.
Judging by her response, Darren speculated that she was probably the mistress of the Holy Lord.
"You talk too much. I heard that you have captured an Elder who was involved in the death of the Holy
Lord's son. Do you know where he is?" Darren responded, ignoring her flirtatious advances.
The woman pouted. "Humph! Why so cold?" She approached Darren and slightly licked her lips while
maintaining eye contact. "Don't you think I'm pretty?"
A pleasant scent soon filled Darren's nose, and as he stared into her eyes, he suddenly found her
appealing.
Darren felt a sensation in his head.
At the same time, he felt like his face was burning and he could not move a single inch of his body. It
was like someone had cast a spell on him. He watched as the glamorous woman approached, his heart
beating out of control.
"Please don't tell others what you saw in this room. I can give you whatever you want, including
myself." The woman continued making advances at Darren, fluttering her eyes at him as she spoke.
Her voice was absolutely hypnotic. It seemed to carry some kind of magic, making it hard for people to
refuse her requests.
"Something is wrong," Darren murmured. He shook his head to snap himself out of the trance that the
woman seemed to have put him in.
He then immediately hit the woman across the face, making her stagger backwards and fall to the
ground.
With blood spilling from her mouth, she got up and burst into tears. She looked at Darren pathetically
and cried out in between sobs, "I was so nice to you, but you repay me by treating me like this."
Her shoulders trembled as she sobbed. She looked like an innocent maiden who had been bullied.
As Darren watched the woman's trembling features, an overwhelming feeling of sympathy flooded
inside of him. To his astonishment, he even had an urge to pull her into his arms to comfort her.
With a pitiful look on her face, she staggered towards Darren and a warm scent from her body wafted
through his nose.
"How could you be so ruthless to hurt me?" Her enchanting voice reached Darren's ears.
"She's perfect. She's the type of woman that every man dreams of," Darren muttered as he stared at
the woman and then immediately closed his eyes shut.
The next minute, he was waving his blade towards the woman.
The woman let out a shrill scream as the blade hit her, blood covering her body. "Please don't kill me,
sir! Please fall in love with me!" she begged.
"Nothing is perfect. You're not real. Go to hell!" Darren unleashed his tremendous Spirit Power.
He was about to give her one final blow, when suddenly, the woman who was covered in blood
vanished and what appeared before him was a stunning girl dressed in purple garments. She stared at
Darren, wide-eye in disbelief.
"You were able to break my skill of enticement! You have such amazing Spirit Power!" the girl in purple
exclaimed, her eyebrows were furrowed and her lips were downturned into a frown.
It was only then that Darren realized that he had been trapped in an illusion since he entered the room.
'That woman with the luscious curves doesn't exist.
What I heard and what I saw were mere illusions. They weren't real. But that dead young man was
definitely real.' He turned to look at the dead body then back to the girl. 'And this girl killed him.'
"The enticement skill you used was amazing. Looks like you have a strong Spirit Power too," Darren
said as he glanced at the girl in purple. He had awakened his level 18 Spirit Power, but because he did
not release it sooner, it took him so long to become aware that he was stuck in an illusion. He surmised
that the girl's Spirit Power was as powerful as his or possibly even more powerful than his.
"I'm Callie. May I have the honor to be friends with you?" The girl in purple smiled faintly as she made
her way towards Darren.
"Go away!" Darren shouted at her.
He immediately unleashed his blade intent and aimed it at Callie, making her step back to avoid being
hit.
"What are you doing, mister? We both possess a strong Spirit Power, so I'd like to make acquaintance
with you. You're so rude," Callie hissed.
"I advise you to stop attempting to fool me with your little tricks. I'm sure you have a third move to your
enticement skill. You already pissed me off when you made a move against me with that skill. So, no, I
wouldn't like to get acquainted with you. Got it?" Darren glowered at Callie.
He fell for the trick earlier because he was not using his Spirit Power. However, now that he found out
that the girl had a strong Spirit Power, he stayed in a state of alert. Just then, when Callie spoke to him,
he detected that she was using another spiritual secret skill to trick him. He immediately unleashed his
Spirit Power to counter the skill.
"You're really something," Callie remarked with a sneer. She was done pretending to be nice to him.
"Who the hell are you? Do you know the answer to the question I asked that woman?" Darren asked,
poised like he was ready to battle her at any time.
"Yes, I do." She grinned impishly and went on, "But I won't tell you."
"Go to hell!" Darren snapped. He did not have the patience to show mercy to someone who possessed
an incredibly strong Spirit Power and who might try taking his life again. Even though she looked
gorgeous, he would not hesitate to take her down.
SWOOSH!
Darren waved both the blade and the sword at the same time. A tremendous wave of blade and sword
intents shot towards Callie.
The naughty look on her face suddenly turned into a displeased one. "Seriously? You're going to kill
me?"
She then waved her hand and a small golden bell materialized in her hand.
Just as the blade intent and sword intent were about to hit her, the bell rang and an invisible wall
emerged in front of her. As the blade and sword intents collided with the wall, mysterious runes glowed
on the wall.
The collision between two forces caused the palace to tremble. However, Callie remained unscathed
as the blade and sword intents Darren had unleashed completely dissipated into thin air.
'What's going on?' Darren was taken aback by what he had just witnessed. 'I activated my Spirit Power,
but I still wasn't able to harm Callie. That golden bell contains a strong force of a rule cultivator.'
He had a feeling that he had seen the glowing runes somewhere else before. After thinking about it for
a while, he suddenly recalled that those runes were the exact same ones that he saw in the cave back
in the Barren Wasteland where the bronze coffin was.
'She must know some powerful rule cultivator, or she couldn't have had such a valuable treasure.'
Darren's scowl deepened. He was starting to get on edge.
"Aww, did you get angry? Come on, kill me if you can. I'm right here," Callie said, deliberately trying to
provoke him now. This belongs to - ©.
"Do you really think that I can't end you?" Darren coldly said.
He then started to transform. Layers of scales appeared on his skin, covering his entire body. He gave
off a violent, furious aura.
He was ready to use his most powerful skill to take Callie down.
"What? What's going on?" Callie's face suddenly dropped. The ferocious vibe Darren exuded left her
cowering in fear and panic.
However, within the next minute, she immediately calmed down and a sneer reappeared on her face.
"After I recall the restriction, someone else will come and take care of you. Humph! See ya!"
As Callie started casting her spell, the runes around the room glowed brightly and then faded away.
She lifted the defense restriction that she had put up around the chamber. It was what prevented
Darren from being exposed even if he exerted powerful blade and sword intent. Now that she had
withdrawn the restriction, people from the outside were now able to sense the aggressive power that
Darren had released.
"Who had the nerve to stir up trouble in the Blade Holy Land?"
A loud booming voice pierced through Darren's ears.
An invincible blade intent suddenly came dashing towards Darren.
'Crap! He's a blade cultivator at the advanced stage of Wonder Realm.' Darren clenched his jaw, not
quite pleased by the additional setback. He turned around and saw Callie slowly fading away. She gave
him a smile before vanishing completely.