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.
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