CHAPTER 939 THE BLOOD RIVER CREATURES

The waves roared as they surged along the blood river. Darren and the others realized they'd be

whisked away if they tried to cross it directly, and they were forced to flee downstream instead.

"Get them!"

The group of warriors chasing them divided into three groups. Each group held a Blood Suppressing

Bead, and rushed towards them into the blood river.

"Darren, they're running at us with great speed. I'm worried we won't be able to escape," said Chaz,

nervously.

"Don't worry. We're going to be fine," Darren replied confidently.

"Assimilate!" Keeping his pace up, Darren activated his assimilating skill.

All of a sudden, several booming noises came from the direction of the river.

A huge ray of blinding light came shining from the blood river.

Darren was delighted to witness what was left of the holy emperor's power.

Suddenly, piercing howls began to emerge from the river, one after the other.

Terrifying blood red figures began to rush out like a swarm of bees.

"What in the world? Why are there still living creatures in the blood river?"

Darren was shocked. As the mysterious creatures emerged, what was left of the holy emperor's power

in the blood river no longer gathered towards him. The creatures were absorbing it.

As they gorged on the holy emperor's power, their aura became stronger and their bloodlust

heightened.

"What's going on?" Darren ceased. It seemed he'd just be helping the strange creatures if he continued

to gather the holy emperor's power. The creatures would all assimilate it just by their strength in

numbers, leaving Darren with none of it.

On the bright side, the group of warriors that were chasing them were now surrounded by the

mysterious creatures. None of them seemed to be near Darren and his friends.

"There are too many of these powerful creatures. What should we do?"

The group of warriors were extremely surprised. These blood red creatures had fangs and were similar

to fish. They all had the strength comparable to the peak of four-tribulation junior holy warriors. The

number of them was probably hundreds of thousands or even more!

With so many mysterious creatures, how could they contend against them?

Luckily Darren had stopped his assimilating power. Otherwise, if these creatures could absorb more

holy emperor's power, they would be as powerful as five-tribulation junior holy warriors!

The sound of quick scampering rang through.

The army of mysterious creatures swarmed towards the crowd.

As the creatures passed through the crowd, it seemed like instantly some warriors turned into bones—

as if their flesh had been completely devoured.

"Run away!"

The rest of them ran in a complete frenzy. One wrong move could cost them their lives.

Panicked shouts began to fill the air.

Any warrior that lagged behind was ripped into shreds as their bones sank into the blood river.

"Oh my God! Escape is impossible! There are too many of them!"

Those who wanted to escape began to get desperate. As they tried to run away, a swarm of the

mysterious creatures jumped at them from all directions with their fangs bared. There was no escaping

from them.

"We've got no other choice. Kill them! Kill them all!" one of the warriors shouted.

Since escape was impossible, every warrior displayed their most powerful means of attack. Colors of

light shone one after the other as ten-thousand-foot waves rose from the river with every swoop of a

powerful attack. Many creatures were being annihilated with every attack.

They soon began to notice that their efforts bore no fruit. No matter how many they killed, it seemed

like the swarm wasn't slowing down. The creatures ended up killing a few more warriors from this

attempt.

On Darren's side everything was still. None of the creatures were getting close to them.

Darren noticed that every time one of the mysterious creatures died, a faint holy emperor's power

pervaded.

"Assimilate." At this point, Darren decided to activate his assimilating power again.

A faint holy emperor's power gathered and rushed into Darren at quick speed. He could feel it as it

flowed into his mind.

After the holy emperor's power entered his mind, it began to condense under the effect of Darren's

Fake God Character—the strange stone.

"Don't back down! Keep killing them!" Among that group of warriors were several five-tribulation junior

holy warriors. For the sake of their survival, they were bringing out their strongest attacks against the

creatures. Every attack could kill about a thousand of the mysterious creatures.

An hour later, there were more than one hundred thousand mysterious creatures killed in the blood

river. Darren subsequently assimilated the remnants of the holy emperor's power from the slain

mysterious creatures.

At this moment, Darren had already condensed three drops of the holy emperor's power in his mind.

The three drops of liquid were attached to the Fake God Character, in three different colors.

Meanwhile, the group of warriors holding off the creatures was almost completely wiped out. Only five

warriors remained, struggling to hold on.

"Damn it! They're coming at us now!"

At this time, Darren found that the mysterious creatures were rushing crazily towards their side. Their ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

number had grown to about a million.

'Humph! Face my liquid of holy emperor's power!' Darren thought.

Darren calmed himself down. He then swallowed a gray liquid droplet.

A hum began to ring through the air.

An invisible force began to emanate from Darren, and so did the blood river. Darren's aura continued to

rise.

"It's… Darren?

Darren's aura..." Anthony was awestruck by what he was seeing.

"Darren is so strong!" Laura too, was shocked to see Darren's strength.

"You guys, step back!" Darren had given the Blood Suppressing Bead to Chaz, but he was able to

stand above the blood river and walked towards the creatures step by step.

"Yeah!" Darren shouted, full of strength. He was pumped up.

The next moment, he raised his hand and a tremendous force rushed out.

With an immense booming noise, blood waves rose a hundred thousand feet in the air. All the

mysterious creatures hiding in the blood river disappeared in an instant.

"Assimilate!"

Darren activated the assimilating power, and the holy emperor's power surged into his brain. The

power transformed into liquid drops which attached to the strange stone within Darren.

At inhumane speed, he gave a thousand hits in the blink of an eye. If there were more creatures left to

kill, he could have hit them one hundred thousand times, even.

After this, no more mysterious creatures could be seen in the blood river. Darren absorbed enough

power and condensed this into eight drops of the holy emperor's power.

'How strange! After condensing eight drops, why can't I increase it?'

Darren had actually gathered enough holy emperor's power to form a hundred drops, but after eight

drops, the power disappeared as a result of the strange stone's ability. It did not form any more liquid.

'Wait a minute! The strange stone in my head has created another crystalline plane face!'

Only then did Darren find that the thirteenth crystalline plane face had begun to form.

'It seems that the holy emperor's power that I assimilated from the creatures has bonded with the

strange stone.' Darren had solved his eight drops mystery.

After some time, Darren's aura began to simmer down and he returned to his original state.

"The effect of the holy's emperor power this time is similar to before, but it lasted for a longer time,"

Darren murmured.

After a long time, the blood river finally calmed down. Darren tried to reactivate his assimilating power,

but there was no more holy emperor's power to assimilate. He was forced to give up on it, for now.

Darren and the others flew to the five remaining survivors, and found that the bearded man who

cheated Anthony was still alive.

"You wanted to kill me just now, right?" Darren said coldly. He shot them a terrible glare.

The remaining five people, with wide eyes, were utterly speechless. The fear in their eyes was even

stronger than when they were under siege by the mysterious creatures earlier. A few of them had

already begun to break out in a cold sweat just by making eye contact with Darren.

They never thought that the weak kid from earlier that day would suddenly become so fearless and

powerful.

Even the Tiger Cat wore an unbelievably fearful expression on his face.