Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 449 Get A Token

The man in the black robe felt so scared that he didn't use his power to hide his body and directly flew away as fast as he could. One could almost not see him fly because he sped away.

"The speed of commanding the Wind Rule is really fast! I must say!"

Darren's fist failed to land on the man because the man was faster than him. Darren had to find a way.

But the man wouldn't be faster than the Water Kylin.

"Run perhaps?"

the Water Kylin roared and smashed the man's line of retreat with his claws. The man was astonished and stopped mid-way.

"Who the hell are you? Why are you deliberately trying to pick on me? What's going on here?" The man asked after he felt that he couldn't escape. He thought that he might survive as long as he handed over enough treasures. He was trying to think of other ways too.

Darren flew over and directly landed in front of the man, scaring him further.

"That's something I'm supposed to be asking you. Who are you? What's your status in the Red Inferno Sect? Huh? Go on, speak up!” Darren's purpose was to rescue his sister from the Red Inferno Sect, so the man could be forced to tell them much useful information if he had a high status in the Red Inferno Sect. The important thing was to find out who he was.

"Why should I tell you? Give me one good reason why?" The man patted his wide sleeves and coldly looked at Darren. His fear had vanished.

"You are such a hard-ass! Don't you know what can happen to you? You should know how horrible Ethan's death was. If you want to follow him, you don't have to answer. It's that simple,” Darren said coldly and his words were filled with murderous intent, piercing through the man's heart.

The man began to tremble and realized that he fell for the trick. Ethan, his slave, was wounded by them and forced to lure him. It then wasn't a surprise why Ethan dared to scold him so recklessly. The man should have known better.

The man paused for several seconds. And then he begged, "Sir, don't kill me please! I beg you, please don't kill me sir!"

In the face of such a powerful legendary beast as the Water Kylin, it was futile for him to use any rule spell attack. So he gave in. He was no match for the Water Kylin.

Besides, once his rule spell attack was warded off, even the young martial artist in front of him could easily kill him. He feared for his life.

"Okay, you must answer questions honestly. If you don't, there'll be consequences.” Darren released his blade and sword intents to envelope the man. If the man dared to rebel against him, there would be numerous bone-deep gashes on the man's body. The man realized the danger he was in. The man sweated heavily and yielded completely.

"I'm just a reclusive cultivator who worked in the Red Inferno Sect for less than three months. I'm not very clear about the Red Inferno Sect, you must believe me sir!" the man said with a quivering voice.

"Ha-ha, really?” Darren smiled. Then his sword and blade intents gathered around the man’s body to cut dozens of wounds, ready to attack.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

The man winced in pain and knelt on the ground with a look of fear engulfing his face and eyes. "That was only a warning for now. If you are not at the core of the Red Inferno Sect, how can your young master send you to carry out tasks here? I need a plausible answer!" Darren had known from Ethan that the man in the black robe was collecting souls which were used to make a breakthrough by the young master of the Red Inferno Sect. That was why Darren used it to bait him, and it worked.

The man felt a wave of panic and anxiety when he heard Darren's words. With one hand he wiped the cold sweat off his face.

The elders of the Red Inferno Sect had planted something evil in his soul too. If he revealed the secret of their sect, they would definitely activate the evil skills to kill him. He was in a quandary. But it was obvious that he would also be killed by the young man or the beast in front of him if he didn't say anything. What was he to do?

"Sir, I'm a main disciple of the sect who performs tasks outside. I am known as the messenger in the outside world. I will tell you everything.” The man explained his identity first, and then continued, "I was assigned to collect 1, 000 powerful souls by a young master of the sect. That is the truth.”

The man in the black robe was so slick. He only said what Darren knew, nothing more. This wasn't going anywhere.

"You can't fool me no matter how hard you try. How can I enter the Red Inferno Sect? Tell me now!" Darren said while implementing his sword and blade intents. He wasn't going to leave anything to chance.

The position of the Red Inferno Sect was one of the core secrets, the man thought, once he told the young man, he would be killed by the elders of the sect even if there was no loss. He had to think of something.

"Sir, why do you want to go to the Red Inferno Sect? It's a dangerous place. I know my way around it. Whatever it is, I can do it for you if it's not a big deal. It's better this way sir.” The man started to change the subject, hoping it would work.

"You bastard..." Darren immediately saw that the man had deliberately spoken of something else. Darren was losing his patience. Darren used his sword intent to cut off one of the man's hands and said, "I've warned you! You didn't listen to me! The next time you lie to me like this, I will cut your head off."

"Ah!" The man turned deathly pale, and rolled on the ground, screeching in pain.

"You must own a true soul token which can sense the position of the palace and protect you from the Sect-protecting Rule Array. This is the truth. I promise. Ah!" The man felt the sword intent against his neck and endured the pain to answer. With only one hand left, the message was loud and clear.

"Give it to me! Now I said!" Darren thought that as a main disciple, the man must have the true soul token. He simply must.

"Yes, sir. I will sir." The man struggled to sit up and with great effort took out a black token from his spatial treasures.

Darren took the token and observed it closely for a little moment. The twinkling token, engraved with strange characters, wasn't similar to a fake one. It had to be genuine.

"Sir, please let me go! I beg you! The Red Inferno Sect took me away when I was young and forced me to cultivate evil skills. It wasn't my intention to kill people and take souls. That is the honest truth, please sir! Now if I go back to the Red Inferno Sect, I have to be killed. However, if you can let me go, I will live in seclusion and never commit evil again. I'm really tired! Sir, please! I had no choice! Please sir!"

The man made kowtows and said all that as tears ran down his cheeks, since he started sobbing. Darren released his Spirit Power to sense the token instead of replying to the man. That was it! A palace which constantly changed its position reflected in his mind clearly. This was the token he needed to find and enter the Red Inferno Sect!

"This token is genuine. But as a stranger, I will definitely be discovered when I enter the palace. That is the case,” Darren muttered to himself.

"Sir, I have given you the token. It's the genuine token. Please sir. Please let me go." The man kept begging while Darren was thinking.

"Fine! But first you must destroy your cultivation base, and then I will send you to the mountain thousands of miles away. Then you need to live there forever. Those are the terms!"

Although the man killed many people, this time he helped Darren and was genuinely repentant about his mistakes. That was what made Darren decide to spare his life.

The man put his head to the ground with boundless hatred in his eyes.

'I need to deprive all of my cultivation base and be imprisoned in the mountain? Those are the terms? It's like a lifetime in prison. What's the point of living like this? What's the point?’

the man thought desperately. “It's worse than killing me if that is the case.’

"Thank you ever so much sir, I am indebted to you sir.” Even though the man was so angry in the back of his mind, he still looked surprised and constantly kowtowed to Darren. He had to play this right, he thought.

"Do it now, right now,” Darren said coldly, without hesitation.

The man raised his head, which was heavy now, with a deep sigh. And then he gathered all of his rule power so that the runes on his hand started shining.

"Eh? What? Do you really need so much rule power to ruin your cultivation base? Is that really necessary?" Darren asked with his eyebrows knitted, and a cold look on his face.

"Yes, you're right. You're absolutely right. I've never suffered such humiliation. I'm taking you down with me to the bottom of hell! You little bastard! Ha-ha-ha..." the man yelled, with a hideous smile on his face.

"Shit! No!"

Darren had a bad feeling and he suddenly realized that the man was activating the most powerful skill by burning a soul to kill him. He knew he was in trouble then.

In a blink of an eye, the man's eyes gradually lost glow. A flaming arrow penetrated the space aiming at Darren. The speed of that arrow was so fast that even the Water Kylin couldn't resist it.