CHAPTER 648 A GREAT NUMBER OF MONSTERS

Darren tried his best to rush up back to the surface, then he used a hidden force to break and disperse

the ice crystals on his body.

"Why is it so cold in here?" Darren muttered.

"Yes, it is. It's really strange that we can't stand the cold with our current cultivation base." The others

all felt the same.

"Forget about your cultivation base. Mine has decreased a lot. Try to attack with your force," another

man responded loudly after recovering from the shock.

Splash!

They targeted the water with the force, but it only made the water splash.

"What's wrong? What happened? Why is my cultivation base this suppressed? I feel as if I'm gone

back to being a third-star grand warrior!"

Splash! Splash! Splash!

"Me too. After releasing all of my Holy Will, my fighting capacity is now at the level of a three-star grand

warrior," the others all shouted. They had no idea what was going on.

Only the leader of the group remained silent with a worried expression on his face.

'It seems that I was right. The stronger a person's power is, the more suppressed their strength is. So,

it's possible that the strongest young man's cultivation base has decreased to that of a primary level of

three-star Grand Realm, ' Darren thought to himself.

He checked his own cultivation base, surprised to find it was at the primary level of the four-star Grand

Realm.

'My fighting power is comparable to that of a seven-star grand warrior, close to the top level now,

because most of my skills are not mainly determined by my cultivation base.' Darren was secretly

delighted at this realization. After all, most of his fighting power came from the blade and sword intents

which were almost at the extreme level. His dark gold internal force was also still doing pretty well. Only

the Augmented Attack Bloodline and the force of control of the Ancient Void Battlefield were influenced

by his cultivation base.

'That's not right. Some of them are also swordsmen and their sword intent powers were also

suppressed. Following that logic, my sword intent should be suppressed as well.' Darren thought it

over. Just now, someone had released a sword intent to test its fighting power, and discovered that he

only had the strength of a three-star grand warrior.

'It seems that I can only count on the dark gold internal force, as well as the infused demonic internal

force and the aura of the dragon blood.'

To test out his theory, he sank back into the water and released a small force to test his fighting power.

As he'd expected, his dark gold internal force had not been suppressed at all. However, the blade and

sword intents, the demonic internal force and aura of the dragon blood were all slightly affected.

"Darren, what are you doing? Let's go up there and take a look."

Darren floated to the surface of the water where others were waiting for him.

"Okay, let's go."

They moved slowly in the icy water.

"Look, the head we'd seen before must have been that man's head!"

After walking for some time, they saw a man standing in the water.

The lower half of the man's body was hidden in the water, but his upper half that was above the water

level was as huge as a mountain.

"Is it really a statue? Look at his flesh, it's just like that of a real person."

"Go and have a look."

The group took off to study the giant.

The white clothes he invariably wore were fluttering with the wind, like a heavenly curtain obscuring

their eyes.

"Let me tear up his clothes and check out what's underneath."

Someone blasted a sword intent towards the giant's clothes.

Boom!

The fluttering clothes suddenly surged and an extremely powerful sword intent shot back all of a

sudden.

Everyone hurried to avoid the sword intent.

"My sword intent was magnified and then it bounced back. How did this happen?" the man shouted in

surprise. He could not believe what had happened just now.

Meanwhile, the cold water he was standing in started to tremble.

"Oh my god, he moved!" someone exclaimed.

"Don't panic. The water may be moving, but he's standing still," Darren explained after he'd used his

senses carefully.

Despite his words, everyone still retreated.

Smash.

Ripples spread in the cold water, and layers of continuous waves rose in the distance.

"Watch out!"

Darren called out with narrowed eyes. Then he swung his blade and sword intents as far as he could.

The blade and sword intents exploded in the distance, and the water's surface became as red as paint.

"Something is coming. Everyone, be careful."

Whoosh!

Countless dark figures shot at them from all directions.

As if that wasn't enough, they were surrounded by ferocious auras coming at them with speed.

They were very anxious and employed all their skills to target the dark figures.

The dark flying figures fell into the water one after the other. Blood soon stained the surface.

"Wow, that was scary. But they were just some beasts from the bottom of the water." Some of them let

down their guards once they realized that the beasts that had been flying towards them were mostly

fishes with tusks. They were not powerful and might haven't reached the Grand Realm yet.

"Don't be stupid. How do you know that something more powerful won't be coming out later on?" the

young man in the lead reminded the others.

"You're overthinking it. They were just some beasts that fed on humans..." The man let out a shout

before he finished his words.

Slam.

The waves spread in all directions all of a sudden, washing him away. They could do nothing but watch

him struggle, then sink into the water.

After a while, fresh red blood emerged from the bottom of the water.

"He's dead!"

The crowd could no longer feel his aura.

"Guys, step back. Let me check what kind of beast is messing up with us now," Darren said icily.

"No, Darren. Don't do that. If we stay together, we might not be attacked. If you went in search of it on

your own, I'm afraid you would be killed," Hobson stated, trying to stop Darren.

"Don't worry. I won't die so easily." Darren smiled as he sank into the water.

"Damn it! What is Darren doing? Why did he dive into the water by himself? It's so dangerous!" One of

them sighed and looked around cautiously.

Suddenly, that man was dragged into the water and a stream of blood came up to the surface of the

water.

The rest of them didn't even realize what had happened.

Darren had been observing at the bottom of the water for a while before he saw this scene. So he

rushed over quickly.

A dark figure far bigger than a human, was biting someone's leg and dragging him down to the bottom.

Bang!

A dark gold internal force was shot at the dark figure.

"Ah!"

Darren heard the dark figure let out a painful roar, and a stream of blood came at his face.

He ran in the figure's direction, grabbed the man who'd been dragged down and threw him back up to

the surface.

Once the man made it out of the water, the others caught him.

"Reuben, what happened just now? Do you know who attacked you?" Everyone asked Reuben Liu,

trying to find out what was in the water.

"No, I don't know. It's very strong, at least as powerful as a six-star grand warrior." Reuben Liu's face

was ghostly pale; he'd been on the verge of death.

"Then how did you escape?"

With their suppressed powers, something as powerful as a six-star grand warrior was much stronger

than any of them. So how had Reuben Liu escaped? They were all confused as to what had happened.

"I saw someone save me. A beam of dark gold light flashed. The thing was hit and sank deep in to the

water. Whoever saved me is really powerful." Reuben's mind went blank. At that moment, he felt that

figure was like a God from the heaven to protect him.

"It's Darren!"

"It must be him!"

They finally made sense of what had happened.

"How could Darren be so powerful?"

"It's lucky that we met him then. Otherwise, I'm afraid none of us would have survived this place."

"Don't be so excited too early. Let's pray for Darren to return safely. If not, we might still die."

The crowd retreated to the giant statue's foot.

It was very dark and cold.

Darren was moving quickly in the water. Because his spiritual sense was suppressed, he could only

detect a range of five meters away.

'Fortunately, I have a strong Spirit Power. Together with my spiritual sense, I'm able to sense things at a

range of thirty meters.' Darren unleashed his Spirit Power to increase his scope area.

After searching the top layer, Darren flew down to the middle and bottom layers. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

Sudden roars came through from the bottom of the water.

The next second, Darren was completely surrounded by the same dark giant figures.

Soon, a few of them came into Darren's scoping range.

"A monkey? A man? Or fish?"

Darren was slightly surprised when he saw what they really looked like.

Those things all had monkey-like heads and sharp teeth.

They had two claws on the upper bodies, and fins on the lower half of their bodies. In addition to all of

that, their bodies were covered in red fur.

'Are they the red-haired monsters I've seen before? But that was very unlikely, ' Darren thought as

more and more red-haired monsters rushed towards him.