Cold Wind City, the guild headquarters of the Gaishi Family.
More than a dozen senior guild members stood inside the conference room, but the atmosphere was indescribably heavy — and it was all because of the middle-aged man seated on the guild master's throne.
The man wore a suit of azure-blue armor. He hadn't said a word, yet the oppressive aura he radiated turned the very air in the room icy cold.
A single glance from him was enough to make someone feel as though a wild beast had locked its gaze on them, sending chills down the spine.
This middle-aged man was none other than Lei Zhentian, guild master of the Gaishi Family.
Within the entirety of Cold Wind City, a single word from him could decide a player's fate.
But right now, Lei Zhentian was seething with an fury he couldn't contain.
"Can someone tell me? Where the hell did this person come from?" Lei Zhentian stared at the combat footage of Shi Feng, his brow deeply furrowed. "It's been this long, and still nobody knows?"
"Guild Master, we've been investigating with everything we have, but so far we haven't found a single piece of information about him." The senior members couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads.
After Di Yufeng had been taken out, he had sent a message through offline channels, demanding they investigate this person with everything they had.
But no matter how they combed through the combat footage and its clues, they came up completely empty — as though this person had simply materialized out of thin air in Cold Wind City.
"This person has already killed over a hundred of our Gaishi Family's top players, and we still don't even know his name? Useless! A bunch of useless trash!" Lei Zhentian roared. "Keep digging! And send everyone we've got out there — I want this man found! He dared to show no face to the Gaishi Family? Then he can forget about surviving in Cold Wind City!"
"Yes, sir!" The crowd nodded repeatedly and immediately began relaying orders to every guild member.
In an instant, every member of the Gaishi Family across Cold Wind City mobilized, each one brimming with cold, lethal intent — determined to hunt Shi Feng down and tear him apart.
At the same time, the Baishi Dynasty was discussing the very same matter.
"How interesting! Truly interesting! He wiped out over a hundred elites led by Di Yufeng — all by himself. Not even Jing Wuming could pull that off." The guild master of the Baishi Dynasty, Badao Changkong, watched the combat footage and couldn't help but laugh.
The Gaishi Family had humiliated themselves spectacularly in Cold Wind City this time. Failing to eliminate Gu Jiuji was one thing, but losing over a hundred top-tier players in the process? And the worst part was that it was done by a single player. This was a devastating blow to the Gaishi Family's reputation. In high-level PvP, being able to take on four or five opponents at once was already impressive. Even someone like Jing Wuming could handle roughly a dozen before hitting his limit.
But Shi Feng had fought over a hundred elites — and won decisively.
Those who knew what they were looking at in the combat footage could tell just how formidable Shi Feng was. But outsiders wouldn't see the video. From their perspective, the Gaishi Family's elites were nothing but paper tigers — fearsome in appearance alone.
"Guild Master, what do we do next?" An ice-cold female Elementalist wearing a white-cloud mage robe and possessing skin pale as snow spoke up beside him.
"Well, since the Gaishi Family wants this man dead, we naturally do the opposite of what they want." Badao Changkong grinned. "Xuanyu, go find this person. Tell him the Baishi Dynasty welcomes his enrollment."
"What if he refuses?" Xuanyu asked.
"Refuses?" Badao Changkong gave a faint snort. "That won't be up to him. It's the Gaishi Family we're talking about — no matter how strong he is on his own, he's nothing before them. The only way he gets any peace is by joining the Baishi Dynasty."
"Understood." Xuanyu bowed and left the conference room.
In that moment, the two great guilds of Cold Wind City both launched their search for Shi Feng, leaving the city's players stunned.
"What's going on?"
"That guy is insane — both guilds are offering huge bounties to find him. Even the elusive Jing Wuming never got that kind of treatment."