Chapter 723 Tracking (2/2)
”Why? What happened to her?” Elsa exclaimed. Worry clouded her beautiful, delicate face as she looked up at Darren with concern.
”It's a long story. Let me explain to you briefly.”
Under the phoenix tree, with the warm and soft wind gently blowing over their faces, Darren told Elsa briefly of what had happened to his sister before. Brief as the story was, it still cost Darren quite a long time to finish. By the time he finished speaking, the darkness had already enclosed the world, and there was no other sound around but the sound of their warm breath.
The night was warm and cozy. Elsa nestled herself in Darren's arms and enjoyed the very moment of being with him alone.
”It is fortunate that my sister had come through a hard time and had the chance of being treated in the Ancient Void Battlefield. Recovering is just a matter of time, so I won't worry about her much. Think abou
access to so many resources of our Space-time Palace. Shouldn't you be returning them if you are to discard us?” he roared, a raging fire in his eyes. The blue-skinned man was exceedingly enraged by now that it seemed that any moment soon, he would launch an attack towards either Darren or Elsa.
”I will return the resources you have used on Elsa. But if you come to harass us again, then I won't mind killing every single one of you!” Darren warned coldly. The frustration that he had was slowly reaching its limit.
”Ha-ha, who do you think you are? Do you know what you are talking about? Since Elsa joined us, she has occupied four years of our time and space turbulent flows of a hundred times' power. How can you expect to pay us? Do you have anything worth the price?
But frankly speaking, even if you offer to provide a time and space turbulent flow of your own, we won't accept it. Elsa's cultivation base must be returned, an eye for an eye, and the process is simple. I only need to gouge out half of her heart and remove 80 percent of her meridians.”
Laying the terms, the blue-skinned man grinned hideously. He knew by now that what he wanted to happen was understood by Darren. Judging by the expression on Darren's face, however, the blue-skinned man knew that he had won the argument. Darren was obviously angered and seemed to be overpowered by that anger.
”Oh, if that is the only way, then please just do it!” Darren voiced, in a tongue that sounded light but piercing.
The blue-skinned man was stunned. A sudden shiver went through his veins as if he was put naked outside in the chilly winter.
”I meant to send you to hell!”
Whoosh.
With one swift move, the blade and sword intents roared off and detached the blue-skinned man's head within a second.
Prior to the blue-skinned man's beheading, at the sight of the impending attack, Elsa didn't try to stop Darren because she had no special relationship with the people from the Space-time Palace. She only agreed to join them at that time because they had firmly persuaded her to do so.
During those hundreds of years in the time and space turbulent flow, she was left to herself in that dark space. Her longing for Darren grew as time went by for hundreds of years, and during which, all she had felt was loneliness and pain.
”Darren, I guess we can't stay in the Chu Clan any longer, or we'll get them into trouble. The Space-time Palace will come for revenge very soon,” looking up at Darren, Elsa said ruefully. She knew deep inside her that the next days that she would spend together with Darren would never be the same again. The Space-time Palace and the blue-skinned men were not the kind of people one would wish to be enemies with.
”Yes, we have to leave right now. Besides, I just found out that this blue-skinned man was not the only one who bothered me these days. I suspect that they are already on the way,” Darren pointed out with a frown.
The imminent danger gloomed his heart. A peaceful life had once again become a distant dream to them. Gone were their dreams of one quiet and normal life—shattered, crumbled to pieces, and drifted with the air.