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."
Darre
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.
"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.