CHAPTER 1279 THE MYSTERIOUS STONE CHAMBER

Darren felt his heartbeat quicken as the blood red claw approached him. He was certain that he would

be blown up once it managed to touch any part of his body.

He let out a cry and raised his speed to the maximum.

In the blink of an eye, the blood red claw was about to touch his robe.

Darren dove forward and into the cave with all his strength.

However, his timing was off and the claw managed to clutch onto his leg.

"Humph!" Darren turned around and clasped his palm into a blade. Without a moment's hesitation, he

lopped off his own thigh.

"Howl!"

A terrifying roar burst out from outside the cave.

Darren rushed deeper into the cave in case that the claw decided to chase him.

But the claw stopped right in front of the cave and didn't come in. It dared not to march forward for

some reason that Darren didn't know.

"Oh."

Darren breathed a heavy sigh of relief. For now, at least, he was safe.

He then gathered his god's power to heal his severed leg.

Once his wound had fully recovered, he went back into the depths of the cave.

"I need to break through this!"

Darren continued to work on the stone wall. He focused all of his strength on his fist and gave it a

heavy blast.

Stones fell on the ground as the ground rumbled. With only a single punch, he managed to make a big

hole on the stone wall.

He kept punching until his fists were broken and bloody, and then he focused on healing his hands.

Once he'd healed them, he began another round of blasts.

He didn't notice how much time had passed when he finally cleared over one thousand feet into the

stone wall.

Since it was nothing but stone ahead, he had no choice but to press on.

Darren kept on without a stop until one day, the stone wall suddenly fell down.

Past the wall was a mysterious space.

"I've broken through six kilometers of stone!" he exclaimed.

He then looked at his hands, and he couldn't remember how many times they had been broken and

mended during the process.

Darren quickly kicked away the stones in front of him and stepped into the space. Deep in his heart, he

was expecting that this passage would lead him to the hell.

However, a few moments later, he was gravely disappointed.

This was not the exit of the cave. He only found himself inside a stone chamber.

Darren was a little irritated, but on a second thought, he decided it didn't matter too much to him. It

seemed that there was no danger and he didn't need to worry about time. As long as he was patient

and went on working on the stone wall, he knew he'd manage to find an exit.

He calmed down and analyzed his surroundings. The stone chamber wasn't that big, but there were

delicate carvings all over its walls.

It covered and contained everything under the sun, from various beast patterns, vivid pictures of

immortal herbs to vigorous and forceful ancient words.

At the center of the stone chamber lay a chair, and behind it stood two statues that looked as if they

were made of black iron. They were two warriors in armor.

Darren gazed at the statues. At a mere glance of them, he felt an awe deep in his soul.

"Wow, whose statutes are they? How powerful their auras are!"

Darren estimated that these warriors in armor were at least at the Superior God Realm.

He didn't waste any more time on the statues. He had to focus his mind back on escaping the cave.

Before continuing his search for the exit, Darren walked up to the two statues, cupped his hands and

said, "Please forgive my rudeness."

Then he reached out his hands to move the two statues away.

However, Darren, whose physical strength was now at the low-level of the Celestial God Realm, found

himself unable to move them. The statutes didn't budge an inch no matter how he tried.

"What are these two statutes made of?" he complained as he kept trying to pull them out of the way. It

was weird that the two statutes were even heavier than a star.

"No, I must've moved them the wrong way," he murmured. Darren didn't believe that the two statues

could be that heavy. After all, they were just as high as him.

"I guess there may be a passage behind them," he concluded. He checked the two statutes again and

again and finally believed that there was a passage behind.

Bang!

Without warning, Darren threw a punch at one of the statues.

"Ouch!"

He felt a sharp pain on his fist that shot up his arm. It was ten thousand times more painful to hit this

statue than to hit the stone wall.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

To his great surprise, the statue which he punched cracked open from the place he hit.

Immediately after, the statue fell over and broke into several pieces.

Then, a vigorous young man showed up in front of Darren.

Being surrounded by his powerful momentum, Darren was forced to take several steps backward.

"I'm sorry. I thought it was just a statue. I had no idea someone was inside of it," Darren immediately

apologized, cupping his hands to show respect.

"Who are you?" The man opened his eyes, and there was no emotion in his cold eyes.

"My name is Darren Chu. I didn't mean to offend you," Darren explained.

"Take this!" The man ignored Darren's words, grabbed his spear and lunged at Darren.

Boom!

From this swift movement, the entire chamber trembled and stones began falling down from the ceiling.

Darren was shocked because the spear was so powerful that it pierced through the space.

He dodged swiftly as he wouldn't dare take that blow head-on.

Darren, still overwhelmed by the aftermath of the blow, stood defensively on a corner of the stone

chamber.

"Sir, I really didn't mean to offend you," Darren apologized again.

However, the man still ignored him and closed his eyes.

"What? It's like he isn't alive or something."

Sensing the strange actions of the man, Darren decided to get a closer look.

"Who are you?"

the man asked again when Darren was about ten steps away from him, and he opened his eyes again.

"Oh, he is definitely not a living creature. Then what kind of creature could this be?" Darren murmured.

He took a few steps back and closed his eyes to think.

"I see. If I faced the attack, maybe he would step aside and let me pass," Darren guessed.

As he recalled, the spear attack the man launched was impressive, and he couldn't tell which level the

man was at. However, he was certain that it bore no god's power, and it was driven by pure physical

strength.

"Let me give it a try first."ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Darren had made up his mind. He moved forward carefully and prepared for the attack.

"Take this!"

Boom! The man lunged his spear toward Darren once again.

This time, Darren quickly leaned aside, and then quickly threw his hands to catch the spear that the

man had thrust out.

With a clang, the spear didn't move out of place, not even by an inch. It proved that the man's strength

was much stronger than that of Darren.

After taking the blow, Darren quickly fell back.

"This is not going to work. He is too powerful." Darren sighed and shook his head.

Having no other choice, he sat down cross legged.

Since it was not possible for him to break through, then he had to take this time to go on his cultivation.

He continued to absorb the god's power to enhance his physical strength.

But now there was a problem.

Now his physical strength had reached the limit, and there was no way to improve by absorbing the

god's power.

"What bad luck! I'm trapped once again!" he exclaimed. Darren furrowed his brows. If he was unable to

improve his physical strength, it was out of the question for him to face another spear attack. He had

nowhere to go.

"Damn it! How could that lifeless thing have to block my way?" Frustrated, Darren cursed and shouted.

"Lifeless? Lifeless!" He suddenly had a eureka moment. "That's right. Since he's not alive, then it

means that he is just a corpse with powerful physical strength. Then why don't I just assimilate his

power?"

As a matter of fact, the Evolution Force Darren assimilated from the creatures that had just died was

mainly their physical strength.

"Assimilate!" Darren silently drew out his Assimilating Force and drove it into the body of the lifeless

man.

Immediately, a ray of purple light gushed and poured towards Darren like a river in the air.

"Well done!" he shouted delightedly. As the Evolution Force kept pouring into his body. He felt his body

began changing dramatically.

The meridians throughout his body began to give a pale golden glow and his elixir field became

solidified.

When it was done, Darren felt his body full of strength. It was a refreshing feeling for him.

"Although my strength was only at the middle-level of the Celestial God Realm, my body has just

received a considerable benefit."

Darren was overwhelmed with joy.