CHAPTER 434 WAITING AND RETURNING (PART TWO)

Seeing that Darren hunkered down for practice, Aaron immediately stood guard for him quietly by his

side, keeping a vigilant lookout for anyone who might come and disturb Darren.

One month quickly passed by, and Darren came to from his immersion in the cultivation. He had

acquired significant experience.

"I am at the middle stage of the Wonder Realm now," Darren mumbled to himself after gauging his

current strength. He was not quite satisfied with the progress that he had made. He still felt it to be a

little bit slow. He was a perfectionist after all.

It was quite understandable given the fact that he had taken in a lot of ancient spiritual energy that was

of higher quality than that of the current spiritual energy from the outside world. However he did not

make much progress, not even to the top level of the middle stage of the Wonder Realm, and that

frustrated him.

"Brother, what's wrong? You don't look happy," Aaron asked Darren. Aaron looked at Darren curiously

as he had no idea why he was frowning. He tried to think of potential reasons but came up with none.

"It's all right. Don't worry about me. Ha-ha!" Darren said lightly. Subsequently, Darren gave Aaron a

light smile, and Aaron also smiled with him halfheartedly.

Darren quickly estimated his current strength. Now that he had made it one level higher than his old

realm, his Augmented Attack Bloodline was significantly strengthened and his Blade and Sword

Domain had also improved exponentially. He estimated that he was able to kill a one-star grand warrior

with relative ease now, even should the grand warrior activate his domain skill.

Darren also knew that if the strength of that one-star grand warrior was as strong as Scott,

unfortunately he would still be unable to defeat him. However it was also rather rare that a one-star

grand warrior could be as powerful as Scott, so Darren remained quite confident of his current strength.

While Darren was improving himself in the underground world, Hailey, Timothy and Abelard were still

trapped inside the Ancient Void Battlefield.

Time was moving at a much faster pace in the Ancient Void Battlefield than that of the outside world.

Ten days in outside world were equal to three years in the Ancient Void Battlefield.

That was to say, they had been here for 20 years, give or take.

"I do not like this, when we have nothing to do but wait for my death. It's morbid." Timothy and Abelard

were sitting on a grassland by the brook as they stared far away, contemplating their future.

"Don't get too greedy. At least we still have 10 good years left. Let's not forget that Darren gave up his

life so that we can have this 30 years to live. We should be grateful. Let's always remember that,"

The Shadow Emperor had said that the Ancient Void Battlefield would be shattered in 30 years since it

had no master. Everything would be gone by then. What a future to look forward to. Now that the

Shadow Emperor only existed inside Finley in the form of his remaining consciousness, he could no

longer take control of the Ancient Void Battlefield. So there was nothing that he could do to prevent the

inevitable destruction of it—even if he wanted to. What were they to do?

Twenty years was long, but also short when they knew that they only had 10 more years left.

Frustration and despair gradually took hold of their hearts as they were waiting for the doom that was

looming on the horizon. Frowns developed on their faces and their facial muscles sagged down. They

still had a lot of things that they wanted to do and a lot of adventure that they wanted to experience, but

there simply was not enough time for them. So instead, they decided to roam around this land for the

rest of their lives. What a tough choice for them.

Twenty years were basically nothing to a martial artist as he or she would spend much more time

pursuing martial arts.

"Hi, beauty, are we really going to die here?"

On the other side of the Ancient Void Battlefield where many flowers were blossoming, Denise looked

at Hailey's back with her beautiful and blinking eyes. She asked softly and with a low voice as if she

was scared to hear the answer that she had already known.

"Yes, we are going to die in 10 years. Does that scare you?" Hailey answered her gently as if trying to

comfort her with her soft voice.

"No, I am not scared of death. If I die, I will finally stop feeling sad and I will get to see Darren. So death

is more like a relief to me.

More importantly, I am also very happy to know someone beautiful like you, Hailey, in the past 20

years. It has been a real pleasure! NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

I thank you Hailey for listening to me every day and for taking care of me like Darren did. I am really

happy."

Denise ran around in the planted flower shrubs as she had never been this happy in her entire life.

Right then, Hailey had a distant look in her eyes accompanied by a bitter smile. 'Do I really get to meet

him when I die?' she thought to herself.

While she was thinking about Darren, her expression was exactly like that of Denise when she first met

Darren, full of fortitude and expectation.

Rumbling!

All of a sudden, monstrous flashes of lightning tore through the once calm and blue sky, and danced

above around the Ancient Void Battlefield.

The entire Ancient Void Battlefield was shaking as if doom was imminent. The atmosphere was

charged and electric—very tense.

Finley looked up at the sky, with coldness in his eyes. However, in the next second, the coldness

dispersed and was replaced with waves of exuberance.

In a dark corner of the Ancient Void Battlefield, the Water Kylin immediately held up the once drooped

head and looked towards the sky with tears welling up in the eyes.

"Could it be......

could it be my master? Has he really returned or am I just dreaming?"