CHAPTER 289 ENCOUNTERING DOUBLE-HEADED MEN

Darren headed south after determining the direction. Soon, he saw some primitive and dilapidated

buildings.

'What kind of people live in this world?' Darren wondered.

As he studied the buildings, he vaguely felt the remnants of a strong and distant atmosphere.

Instead of flying toward the buildings, Darren slowly descended into the dense jungle nearby. He didn't

want to run into some unknown horror, like the last time.

"Huh? There is an intruder!" Darren had just landed in the jungle when he heard a voice coming from

one of the derelict buildings.

He concealed his breath and hid quietly in the jungle. Soon, he saw several figures exiting one of the

broken-down houses.

Darren's eyes widened in astonishment. The people were muscular and large, and to his surprise, they

each had two heads!

"Chief, it seems as though the nobodies are coming," one of the double-headed men said to the

strongest among them.

"Well, set an ambush. We'll kill them when they approach the Primitive Stones."

"But, Chief, we are limited in our ability to fight. Can we defeat those so-called superior talents?"

another double-headed man asked with concern.

"Don't worry. I've already sent someone to check their strength. They are more repressed than we are.

And their current strength is only at the sixth or the seventh stage of the Spirit Realm. Our current

strength is about at the third or the fourth stage of the Mysterious Realm. Our chief's cultivation base is

equivalent to the seventh stage of the Mysterious Realm. It would be easy for us to kill them—just like

slaughtering animals," another man said confidently.

...

Still hidden in the jungle, Darren was able to eavesdrop on their conversation. He concluded that these

double-headed men had also come from the outside world and were probably a kind of mutant living in

the border region, just as Chad had mentioned.

Darren quietly released his spiritual sense to check their strength and found that each of them had

incredible power. They were much stronger than the superior talents he had come here with.

Fortunately, he had heard their plans and knew what they intended to do. Their purpose in coming here

first was to be prepared to ambush the human superior talents and kill them!

Now, they were ready for the arrival of the superior talents.

Killing these mutant men would be the prudent thing to do. However, Darren didn't want to act rashly as

he didn't know how many enemies there were. What was more, he could only exert strength equivalent

to the third stage of the Mysterious Realm at best. It was highly unfortunate that in this world, there

were too many restrictions on a human's power.

If that wasn't bad enough, the other superior talents suffered more repression than Darren. Their

strength could only reach the Spirit Realm if they used their best skills. He thought that the strength of

the most powerful superior talent might be still under Mysterious Realm.

Darren's domain and the Blood Dragon Phantom were top-level skills, and so they suffered less

suppression in this world. That was why he could exert combat capability equal to the third stage of the

Mysterious Realm.

Since it would be hard for Darren to deal with one border mutant, there was no possibility of him

handling all these double-headed men single-handedly.

"I have to stop the superior talents from reaching here." Darren didn't want the human superior talents

to be rounded up and killed like animals. Having decided on a course of action, he slowly receded from

the jungle to look for the other superior talents.

After getting out of the mutants' perception range, Darren flew back at a rapid speed. Dozens of

kilometers later, he detected the presence of the superior talents.

Whoosh!

Darren didn't think about the previous issues that had transpired between him and the group as he

landed before them.

"Eh? It's him!"

There were more than thirty people in front of Darren. It seemed that the three groups of superior

talents had merged.

"He has been possessed by an evil cultivator. Everyone, let's kill him together," barked a superior

talent, who was Chad's subordinate.

"Stop!" Seeing that the superior talents were about to attack, Darren roared. "Don't go any further. The

area ahead has been taken over by a kind of mutant race from the border. If you keep going straight,

you will fall into their ambush. They plan to kill you," he added.

"Don't listen to him! He must be lying to gain our trust. He's the one plotting to kill us!"

"I've told you what I know. Whether you believe it or not is up to you. Also, I am not an evil cultivator.

The real evil cultivator is still among you. Tom, it doesn't matter that they don't believe me. You have to

believe me," Darren implored as he turned to speak with his friend.

"Don't believe him, Tom. You've got a good relationship with Darren, but he is not Darren. He is the evil

cultivator. He's trying to fool you by taking advantage of your friendship," someone immediately

retorted.

"I know." Tom stared at Darren with hatred, as if he didn't believe him.

"Everybody, kill this evil cultivator."

The second someone shouted the command, all the superior talents began to charge at Darren. When

their strength burst out, Darren was astonished. He hadn't expected for the strength of these superior

talents to have improved quickly. Most of them seemed to be at the Mysterious Realm, and a few of the

top superior talents had reached the second or third stage of the Mysterious Realm.

"Their strength is improving so fast!" Darren was surprised and didn't want to fight them. Instead, he

chose to escape.

Since the strength of several superior talents of high cultivation base had increased, so had their

speed. They chased Darren fervently, including Tom.

Fortunately, Darren quickly pulled away from them as he raced through the woods. Gradually the other

superior talents gave up the chase. Tom was the only one following Darren now.

"Darren, stop," Tom shouted when he found that they had lost the others.

Darren was not far from him. Hearing Tom's voice, he stopped trying to escape. After a moment's

hesitation, Darren turned and flew toward him.

"Tom?"

"Darren, I know that you're not the so-called evil cultivator!"

Tom said as soon as Darren neared him. This revelation surprised Darren.

"Then why did you just agree with the others when they said that I was the evil cultivator?" Darren

asked, puzzled.

"Our group is in a very complicated situation. I didn't want to involve you. It's too dangerous. The real

impostor is still hiding among us. And I believe that there are at least two evil cultivators," Tom

explained with a frown.

"I see. Tom, which of the talents of our group could be the evil cultivator?" Darren asked.

"Honestly, I think Robb is behaving suspiciously. But I'm not sure. After all, even you made a mistake

when you thought that Lenny was the evil cultivator."

Darren nodded. The evil cultivator was so good at hiding that he had killed Lenny by mistake. However,

Darren did not feel guilty about Lenny's death because Lenny was a mean little man.

"Robb? Why do you suspect him?" Darren was a little confused. He thought of Robb as a man of high

integrity. What was more, he hadn't seen Robb behaving suspiciously.

"Just a few things that I have observed. I also have this feeling when I am close to him. It's hard to

explain, but I'll try. One day, Robb snuck away from the team while we were all practicing. I happened

to see a scarlet gleam in his eye. I don't know if it was my imagination," Tom stated.

"In that case, Tom, you mustn't go back to them. Let's look for the Primitive Stones together. And what I

told you is correct. Mutants from the border have occupied the area ahead. We must not go there until

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Tom shook his head at Darren's words and said, "I can't leave the group. Several of my best friends are

in the group. I need to be with them in case anything happens."

"Tom, don't be silly. When something happens to the group, it will not make a difference if you are with

them or not." Darren gave a wry smile.

"You're right, young man. He's well-intentioned but a silly guy. Such people easily lose their lives," a

playful voice said. Then a person walked out of the surrounding woods.

Darren and Tom were nervous. Neither of them had been aware that someone had been

eavesdropping on their conversation.