The sky above the City Lord's Mansion fell empty the moment Shi Feng vanished, all attacks striking nothing but air. The crowd on the street simply stood there, watching in silence, as if Shi Feng had never appeared in the first place.
"He's gone?"
"He must have teleported away!"
"That's incredible! Way too strong!"
"So this is what the Sword King, Black Flame, is like?"
The onlookers stared at the slowly sealing spatial rift, jaws practically on the floor.
The shock Shi Feng had delivered was simply too great.
He had come alone to the Heaven Burial Guild's stronghold — Ancient Rock City. Not only had he destroyed two of the city's defensive magic arrays in succession, but he had also walked away completely unscathed right under the noses of the city's numerous NPCs and Heaven Burial members, who had surrounded him on all sides. And Heaven Burial? There wasn't a single thing they could do about it. They could only watch it all happen right before their eyes…
After all, even the super guilds currently couldn't lay a finger on Ancient Rock City. Yet now, Zero Wing's Black Flame had single-handedly turned the entire place upside down.
Such means were nothing short of terrifying!
"Damn it! He actually got away!" War Saint Duan Liushui watched the disappearing Shi Feng and ground his teeth.
With everyone watching, Shi Feng had escaped unharmed. If word got out, Heaven Burial's reputation would take a massive hit.
"Black Flame!" Wu Xia's face darkened as well.
She had thought Zero Wing was out of tricks, yet they pulled a move like this. Compared to Heaven Burial's supposed achievement of killing over ten thousand of Zero Wing's members, that kill count now seemed utterly insignificant.
With both of Ancient Rock City's defensive magic arrays destroyed, the various superpowers that learned the news would only grow more frenzied.
And back at the guild headquarters, Yi Xiao Du Zang was absolutely livid. He had smashed his desk to splinters, his eyes burning a blood-red.
"Black Flame! I will never let you get away with this!" Yi Xiao Du Zang roared word by word in the guild leader's office, his voice so thunderous it seemed every member of the guild headquarters could hear it.
The losses this time were enormous!
If it were just the two defensive magic arrays, that alone wouldn't matter. The real problem was the various major factions that Heaven Burial would have to face afterward. Without the defensive arrays to hold them off, those factions could charge straight into Ancient Rock City with ease.
Ancient Rock City had been painstakingly built up to its current state and was only just beginning to get on track. If the major factions swarmed in, everything would be devastated. Even if they managed to hold the city, it wouldn't be able to function again for a long time.
"Guild Leader, what do we do next?" Wu Xia messaged him privately.
"Pull back! Notify Lei Shao and the others — tell them to get back to Ancient Rock City immediately and fortify our defenses. Don't let any of the major factions get within a hundred meters of the City Lord's Mansion!" Yi Xiao Du Zang forced himself to calm down and issued his orders right away.
Though he desperately wanted to chase Shi Feng down and even attack Zero Wing, fending off the approaching armies of the major factions was the top priority right now.
"Just you wait, Zero Wing. I'll settle this score sooner or later!" After issuing his orders, Yi Xiao Du Zang stared at the video feed of Shi Feng on the screen, his fists clenched tight.
Shi Feng's operation had indeed caused considerable trouble for Heaven Burial and bought Zero Wing a fair amount of time, but it still couldn't change the overwhelming advantage that Heaven Burial held.