Chapter 448 Chase


    Darren could feel the ring on his finger slightly quiver to block the Spirit Power that the man in the ck


    robe had released.


    The Water Kylin was a legendary ancient beast and was therefore adept at hiding its own aura, making


    it hard for the man in the ck robe to find as well, even with the use of his Spirit Power.


    After a while of observation, the man in the ck robe did not detect anything unusual. He released a


    me to burn Ethan and prepared to leave.


    "These more than seven hundred souls are quite powerful than I expected. I''m just going to have to


    collect the rest on my way back to the sect," the man in the ck robe muttered to himself.


    Unbeknownst to the man, Darren was close by and had overheard him. Thetter was delighted to find


    out where the man was nning to go. All he had to do was follow him so he could find out where the


    Red Inferno Sect was.


    After cleaning up the mess, the man in ck robe unhurriedly left. Darren followed closely behind him.


    "Damn it, why haven''t I encountered anyone along the way?" The man in the ck robe had been


    walking in the barren mountain for a long time and was bing disgruntled at theck of any suitable


    targets.


    "Oh, well. Looks like I have no choice but to take a detour and ughter a vige, then." The man


    released his Spirit Power to locate any nearby viges, turning around to walk towards another


    direction as he did so.


    Darren knitted his eyebrows together in apprehension. He knew something horrible would happen; the


    man in ck robe would not leave if he had not collected enough souls.


    The man in the ck robe soon found a vige and made his way towards it.


    "Hey, there''s a man in a ck robe over there."


    "He''s probably from somece far away. He must be tired. Zack, fetch a bowl of water for him in case


    he''s thirsty."


    The unsuspecting people working on the farm at the periphery of the vige were quick to hospitality,


    too trusting for their own good.


    A boy walked towards the man, carrying a bowl of water. "Hey mister, are you thirsty? Here, you can


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    have some water," he said.


    The man in the ck robe blinked at the boy, a bit stunned. He stared down at the boy and said, "How


    simple and naive you are. Unfortunately though, you''re very unlucky."


    "What are you talking about, mister? Who''s unlucky?" The boy grinned.


    "Nothing. Just pray that you''ll be luckier in your next life." He then bent his fingers to form a w and


    pierced the boy''s skull.


    "Ah, you!"


    The people on the farm stared at the scene in shock.


    "You devil! I will kill you!" A middle-aged man lifted his hoe and rushed towards the man in the ck


    robe, eyes seething with fury.


    Not a secondter, the spine-tingling sound of bone breaking was heard.


    With only one w, the man in the ck robe had crushed the poor man''s skull.


    "Ah, I''ve gotten two more souls now, but I need two hundred and forty more. Hmm, I think the number


    of people in this vige is just enough." The man in ck robe licked his lips.


    "Ahhh!"


    Several men charged at the man in the ck robe, spears in hand.


    They were martial artists who had been guarding the vige. The cultivation base of the strongest of


    them was at the seventh stage of the Primary Realm.


    However, just like the previous two people before them, their heads exploded before they evenid a


    scratch on the man in the ck robe. They were instantly killed.


    Darren was silently seething with rage as he watched people get killed one after another.


    "At this rate, the whole vige will get killed! Since I''m here, I can''t just stand by and turn a blind eye to


    all this!"


    He could not stand to see more innocent people die any longer.


    "Water Kylin, let''s stop him!" he said, rushing out without hesitation.


    He sted a dark gold internal force.


    The attack created several rifts in the space as it went flying towards the man in the ck robe.


    "What the hell?" The man in ck robe sensed the oing danger. "Enchanted barrier!" he hastily


    uttered out.


    Ayer of dark amber colored halo shrouded over him and a number of runes condensed together into


    a sword, countering Darren''s dark gold internal force.


    A violent rumbling broke through the man''s enchanted barrier, shattering it on the ce where he


    stood.


    However, once the havoc had substantially died down, the man was nowhere to be found.


    "Spatial Rule? " Darren widened in shock, taken aback by the fact that the man in the ck robe used


    the power of Spatial Rule to employ a Teleportation Skill.


    A figure suddenly appeared a short distance away from Darren. An incredibly powerful Shackle Rune


    enveloped him, preventing him from moving as the sword made out of runes fired towards him.


    "Ha! I''ve got to say, that was admittedly a good move. But you aren''t even a two-star grand warrior.


    Your sneak attack is too weak to cause even just a tiny scratch on me!" The man in ck robe


    sneered, taunting Darren.


    A strange shadow w suddenly came out of nowhere


    and roughly smashed the ck-robed man''s hand.


    "What? It''s a legendary beast!"


    The man in the ck robe stepped back as he started to get filled with panic.


    "What a powerful legendary beast." He had pinpointed the Water Kylin''s location, but he knew that he


    would not be able to shackle the beast, so he tried to flee instead.


    Countless ripples appeared in the space where the man in the ck robe was standing—he was trying


    to escape.


    "Water Kylin! Don''t let him get away!" Darren then immediately turned himself into a ray of light and


    flew towards the man in the ck robe.


    The Water Kylin obeyed Darren''smand at once and ran after the man in the ck robe, attacking


    with his huge w.


    However, though they had already created rifts in the man''s space, neither Darren''s nor the Water


    Kylin''s efforts to catch the man were sessful.


    "Damn it! He''s gone!" Darren hung in midair, frustrated with the unfavorable turn of events.


    The speed of the man in the ck robe had be impossibly fast once he used the Teleportation


    Skill, leaving them no chance to stop him.


    "Master, he can''t have gotten too far. We could still chase after him," the Water Kylin suggested.


    "But how?" Darren had started to feel helpless and confused.


    "Humph. Even Finley who has great knowledge about the space skills can only transport for less than a


    hundred miles using the Teleportation Skill. What more for that man? He does not fully grasp the


    Spatial Rule and I could tell that he is much weaker than Finley, so I assume he can only transport one


    mile at most, which means he''s still nearby," the Water Kylin stated.


    "Well, in that case, we may still have a chance!"


    Darren released both of his Spirit Power and spiritual sense to search for the man in the ck robe.


    The Water Kylin also unleashed his mighty divine sense to search in another direction.


    At that moment, the frightened people knelt down and kowtowed to Darren and the Water Kylin, looking


    at them as if they were gods.


    "Mighty gods, please save my son, Zack. I beg you."


    "Mighty gods, please save the guardian of our vige."


    The people incessantly pleaded at Darren and the Water Kylin.


    However, Darren was not able to help them for the time being because he was preupied with


    searching for the man in the ck robe. He had searched the area within a hundred miles from the


    vige, but to no avail.


    "Gee, that guy must be good at using the invisibility skill. I should probably use this ring to break his


    skill in order to find him."


    With that thought, Darren immediately directed his Spirit Power into the ring. Another function of the


    ring was to break the protective barrier of a rule cultivator.


    "I''ve found him!"


    Darren had only found a vague shadow shrouded by a rule power and had not yet confirmed if it really


    was the man in the ck robe, so he hastily flew towards that location to find out.


    Before leaving, Darren scattered thousands of superior spiritual herbs from the air aspensation for


    the vigers. He could not bring the dead back to life. It was the only thing he could do.


    The Water Kylin then flew away as well, following after Darren.


    In the blink of an eye, Darren had flown dozens of miles away and was nearing the figure.


    "It''s indeed him!" Darren confirmed that it was indeed the man in the ck robe once they reached


    closer.


    He then turned himself into a ray of light and flew towards the man at full speed.


    "Shit. That was close. That legendary beast is so powerful. I would have died if I hadn''t used the


    Teleportation Skill." The man in the ck robe was all smug, thinking that he had luckily escaped


    Darren and the Water Kylin.


    However, his expression turned ghastly in the next second—a powerful sword intent and de intent


    were flying towards him.


    "Damn it! How could they have detected me so soon! This is impossible!" the man in the ck robe


    eximed as he trembled in fear.