Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 542 Reaching The Premium Stage (Part Two)

"Where on earth are the time turbulent flows?" Darren asked Anna again, shifting his gaze towards the lady who kept her silence after being ignored.

"You're really an idiot. After I've told you so much about the possible dangers of facing the devil, I can't believe you still choose to leave and take risks. Okay, then I will show you the location of the time turbulent flows, and you check it by yourself,” Anna said in a huff. Unable to wrap her head at how hard-headed Darren was, Anna just rolled her eyes at him while shaking her head in disbelief. After which, she threw upon him a sheepskin map bearing the location of the time turbulent flows. And then, Darren took the map, studied it for a few minutes and without saying a word, flew away. He didn't even bother to look back and express his gratitude to Anna, which made the latter even more annoyed.

After two days of flight, meeting the weird air, and changing weather, Darren landed on a cold and secluded area.

The space in that area where he landed was precarious. Horrible black cracks could be seen everywhere. Those cracks were called the space cracks and were scattered all over the place. Darren was familiar with such cracks. He knew very well that, once anyone was sucked into the space cracks, it would be hard for him to survive.

Among these space cracks, Darren also saw numerous colorful clouds, which seemed to be very distorted and were continually changing shapes. According to the mark on the map, such an area should be the place where the time turbulent flows were located.

However, the function of those time turbulent flows in the area was not merely to slow down time. Some of them could accelerate time, as well. It was possible that when a warrior spent more than two months inside the time turbulent flows, one year had passed in the outside world. Thus, Darren knew he should make careful choices before he jumped into any of the time turbulent flows.

With his keen eyes, Darren observed each flow. After quite a few hours, he finally chose a cloud of light, also the time turbulent flow he wanted to jump in. He ducked the space cracks around and then flew inside the light.

Pretty soon, Darren was overwhelmed by a kind of strange feeling. There seemed to be a clear trace of time and tide in the cloud of light, which was an indescribable feeling for him.

“This is a time flow that will slow down the time by three times, which means that after I have been practicing here for three years, only one year had passed in the outside world, Darren thought happily for he had chosen a right one.

On this third floor, the best time turbulent flow was the one that could slow down time by five times, but it was not bad for him to find such one that could slow down time thrice as slower. Though the excitement enveloped him, Darren forced himself to stop thinking about anything else and started with his cultivation. With that, he simply took out a picture he got from Anna, which described the method of cultivating premium sword intents. To be more specific, this picture illustrated six sword skills, which were similar to but more complicated than those skills portrayed on the Black Cliff of Sword Intent.

Holding the pictures on his hand, Darren oversaw them, tried to have more insights about them and learned from such ideas.

With his current talent at the Heaven Degree, he realized that having a complete understanding of such a sword intent method would not be dangerous for him, but it would not be easy as well. Swish!

With his new learnings waiting to be put into practice, Darren brandished his sword fast once.

"No, the trajectory of such a stroke looks similar to the one illustrated on the cliff, but their momentum are quite far different,” Darren commented at once, determined to execute the skill correctly.

Swish! Swish! Swish...

As sweats started to bubble upon his forehead, Darren kept brandishing his sword to perfect his sword skills. He was confident that only by practicing in that way could he truly have a complete understanding of the sword intent.

Darren did a million brandishing of the sword; thousands of buckets of sweats were shed; calloused hands and firmer muscles had been developed. The young warrior was so immersed in the cultivation of the sword skills that he completely forgot the time that was passing by so swiftly. Before he could realize it, almost a year had gone by.

On the last day before a year ended, Anna flew to the place where Darren was staying and waited for him to get out of one of the time turbulent flows.

“This brat has been cultivating here for a year. I guess he doesn't make much progress, and the next thing 1 know he will follow my suggestion and stay on the third floor." Anna's mind was racing as her eyes shifted from one time turbulent flow to another.

At the depths of her heart, she never believed that within such a short time, Darren's strength would be greatly improved.

"Hum?" she muttered in disbelief all of a sudden when she sensed a powerful aura.

After a short time of observation, she noticed that a time turbulent flow was starting to tremble violently and was actually exuding strong sword intents.

"What a strong sword intent! Did he make such huge progress? How could he?" Anna couldn't help but wonder. The lady's eyes even grew wide when she detected that the sword intent aura from the cloud of light was even stronger than hers

"This brat is really amazing. In a few years, he actually succeeded in the cultivation of the premium sword intent. What kind of talent was he bestowed?" Anna grumbled and wondered. Her mood was quite complicated at that very moment. Not in her wildest imagination, she thought that Darren could achieve such powerful intent in a short time. Even she couldn't have such an achievement within three years. With her talent at the second level of the Heaven Degree together with the coaching of her master, she still used eight years to reach the early stage of the premium sword intent. Therefore, she found it quite hard to accept such a confounding fact.

'Humph! It will be useless even though you made that achievement. You still can't beat the devil, * Anna comforted herself in her mind. Her pessimism grew at the fact that Darren had now outdone her skills. Suddenly, while she was amid her self-reverie, she felt another strong and eye-popping aura that burst out. Such strapping aura made her lose her balance and rattled her mind for a while. "What? The aura of the premium blade intent... It's impossible. I didn't give him the method to cultivate the premium blade intent!" Anna denied spontaneously. At the most straightforward thought of it, Anna was in dire dubiousness. She just imagined that Darren had somehow improved his cultivation base, but what she was sensing right now was more than she had expected. In her desperation and rejection of the truth that Darren had advanced his sword and blade intents massively, Anna was on the verge of losing her sanity in an outmost quandary. Yet, the fact remained that Darren succeeded. The young and determined warrior made it—he had advanced to the premium stage.