Chapter 8 The Barren Wasteland (Part Two) (2/2)
Darren, unexpectedly, sat cross-legged and began to meditate.
Spiritual energy gathered into Darren's body, nourishing his energy meridians and bones.
'What's happening? The spiritual energy I can absorb has increased tenfold since yesterday.' Darren was surprised. Although he was at level four of the Yellow Degree, the speed with which he could absorb spiritual energy was much faster.
Darren wondered during his meditation.
His keen senses gave him the answer after a while. Eighty percent of the intensive spiritual energy came from the bag behind him.
”I got it! I can absorb the spiritual energy from the cardiac cores!”
Darren opened the bag at once and held a few cardiac cores in his hands.
He restarted his meditation and the spiritual energy of the cardiac cores, like brooks, trickled into his body.
In the blink of an eye, Darren could feel an obvious upgrade in his talent.
”It's the fourth stage! And it's continuing to upgrade!”
After an hour, Darren had consumed dozens of cardiac cores. Only some residue was left from the cores.
”The fifth stage! The sixth stage!”
The powerful energy in his body shocked Darren. His punch could smash a mountain now.
”Finally, I've reached the sixth stage of the Primary Realm!”
Darren could not believe that he had achieved such a quantum leap in such a short interval. It would shock everyone if they knew Darren's talent had upgraded three times in succession.
At this very moment, he found that the fight had become more intense. Everyone had been injured from the fight, and Elsa Gongsun looked exhausted as well. But the Flame Tiger was still vigorous, and its attack was even fiercer.
Marvin, however, stood aside with a poker face. It seemed that he had no interest in joining the fight.
Fortunately, Marvin Zhou paid no attention to Darren, so he didn't see that Darren had absorbed the energy of all the cardiac cores.
”Lotus Sword Attack!”
Elsa Gongsun summoned her martial arts skill. The next second, thousands of swords, like raindrops, enveloped the Flame Tiger and stabbed it simultaneously.
The injured teammates summoned their martial arts skills as well and rushed toward the tiger.
The Flame Tiger whined painfully.
The flames around the tiger extinguished, revealing deep gashes all over its body.
Meanwhile, the injured teammates jumped backward. The cultivators at the fifth stage, like Kyle Zhang, could not stand the pain anymore and passed out. Jared could not even stand straight because of his serious injury. And blood was oozing from Elsa Gongsun's mouth.
”It's time!” Marvin smirked. Then he jumped into the air in a flash and flew toward the Flame Tiger.
”What?” Darren felt as though something was strange. ”How is he so powerful?”
Darren could tell that Marvin Zhou was higher than the sixth stage.
The Flame Tiger, who was now severely injured, died after one strike from Marvin Zhou's palm.