Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 701: Premonition (Part 1)

The fifth expert overhead was slightly weaker, only at the late stage of the Legendary realm. This roar was filled with immense brutality and ferocity. Struck head-on, coupled with the spiritual energy impact, the expert instantly fainted and plummeted downwards.

The ferocious figure's upward momentum didn't diminish. It grabbed the falling fifth expert, opened its massive maw, and with a crunch, bit down on the expert's neck, tearing away a large chunk of flesh and bone. With a wrench of its hands, the expert's head and body were completely separated.

Whoosh, the freshly torn head flew out with a violent gust of wind, BANG, hitting the last expert squarely in the chest.

The last expert didn't even have time to get close, nor to launch his weapon as a hidden projectile. He was as if struck by a cannonball. With a boom, the smashed head turned into a cloud of blood and gore, and a head-sized hole appeared directly in the last expert's chest. His eyes instantly lost their light, and his body, like rotten wood, plunged headfirst into the water.

In the blink of an eye, with just a rise and a fall, all six experts on the raft were dead.

BOOM, the raft fell into the water, plunged several meters down, and then abruptly floated back up. At that moment, the figure landed, standing perfectly on the raft, still clutching the headless corpse in its hand.

CRUNCH, another bite, fiercely tearing into the corpse, ripping off a large piece with bone and flesh. The man-meat was chewed crunchingly in the mouth of this disheveled fellow. If anyone were nearby, they would surely hear the satisfied groans he emitted while chewing.

This appearance, this stance, it was clearly one of the super-fiends that had been unfrozen from the ice mountain. Without a shred of clothing, its powerful body was exposed, covered in sparse hair. Its hands and face were covered in blood, and even its chest was stained red with blood flowing from its mouth.

A timid person would definitely faint at this sight. This super-fiend, already extremely similar to humans, didn't care about anything else at the moment. Like a glutton, it devoured the corpse of the human expert, clearly having been starving for countless years.

In less than a moment, the half-corpse in its hand was completely devoured, leaving only the accompanying weapons, shattered protective suit, and some accessories and storage rings.

The super-fiend seemed to be unsatisfied. It took a large step forward, and its figure darted onto the water, grabbing another floating expert's corpse. With a nimble turn, its legs were in the water, but not even submerged to the thighs. It leaped up with the corpse, returning to the raft once more.

With a crack, the corpse was split open like a roasted chicken, and the super-fiend immediately began to chew again. While chewing, its blood-red eyes frantically scanned the surroundings. The raft beneath its feet, without anyone paddling, floated quietly on the water, gently rising and falling with the surface.

It wasn't just the experts entering on rafts who were attacked. Those experts from the Qiu family who were swimming out of the Cursed Land, having identified the direction early in the morning and swallowed some pills, wanted to struggle and continue swimming for a while. As a result, three hours later, a dozen experts stumbled into the territory of a super-fiend and were slaughtered cleanly.

The Qiu family experts' corpses didn't escape the fate of being devoured by the super-fiend either. If there was any difference, it was that there was no raft here. The super-fiend was standing in the water.

Like the first super-fiend, both super-fiends stood in the water, the water not even submerging their thighs, completely unlike the Legendary experts from the various families, who had to soak in the water.

It wasn't just one raft that encountered a super-fiend. Of the hundred or so rafts that the various families sent in, at least seventeen ran into super-fiends and were completely massacred. Of the experts swimming out, at least one-third were slaughtered by fiends. Among the remaining two-thirds, another one-third were drowned or frozen to death because of the ice and exhaustion.

Only one-third survived. The reason these people were able to survive was because they took turns resting, conserving their strength and spiritual energy. Most importantly, they stayed in place, waiting for rescue.

Because they didn't try to be brave, they had enough stamina and spiritual energy to ensure they wouldn't drown or freeze to death. Also, because they stayed in place and didn't move, they didn't accidentally wander into the super-fiends' attack range.

Even so, the experts from various parties paddling rafts searched hard for three days before finding these experts soaking in the water. At this point, they didn't care if they were from their own family or not. They would rescue them first, since these people were already on the verge of death. Maybe they could take the opportunity to ask something.

Even if they couldn't get any secrets from other families, the experts who saved them would definitely have to show some gratitude afterwards, right? These would all be bargaining chips for future negotiations and had to be held in their hands as much as possible.

It was easy to kill them now, but other families could do the same to their own experts. Therefore, before setting off, each family had already reached a consensus: in this situation, they could only work together to bring people back first, at least to find out what happened, right?

With the sun to identify directions, these experts could still enter without alarming the super-fiends if they were careful.

For three days, each party rescued many people, and at the same time, they consciously looked towards the central area of the basin. However, after arriving at the place, those people realized that it wouldn't be a short matter to wait for all the solid ice to melt. Some families even ran into each other, but everyone tacitly didn't attack each other, even exchanging a few greetings before leaving.

It was five days later when the experts from each family returned to their respective camps with the rescued people. Each family had people who didn't return, and each party was extremely patient, waiting another five days, but still no news.

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At this point, each party understood that those who hadn't returned probably wouldn't be coming back. The core of the Cursed Land was still the core of the Cursed Land. Even if the ice and snow had melted, even if the fiends inside had left, the degree of danger wouldn't decrease by half.

After some statistics, each party almost cried. Except for the Xia family and the Song family, the best family inside had half of their people come out, and the worst family only had thirteen rescued. Even those who came out were on the verge of death. This loss alone was enough to make each family's heart ache beyond compare.

What's more, the people who went in to rescue people, each family lost an average of a dozen. All of them were Legendary Peak and Legendary Late Stage experts! Those with lower cultivation levels weren't even qualified to enter!