On the battlefield, Shi Feng's sword strike that killed Jingyang moved at absolute peak speed, far beyond anyone's ability to react. All anyone could see was Shi Feng suddenly vanish, then instantly reappear before Jingyang. Moments later, Jingyang materialized twenty yards away, collapsing to the ground dead.
The entire process lasted no more than a single blink of an eye. Even Xuehen, who stood right beside Jingyang, had no time to react. He could only watch helplessly as Shi Feng killed Jingyang right in front of him, then calmly sheathed Holy Sword Thunderbane and Dusk Edge as though nothing had happened.
All the experts from the various major factions watching the scene drew sharp breaths.
Terrifying!
Ruthless!
No words could adequately describe what they felt about Shi Feng.
The Blackwater Guild was a superpower every bit as formidable as Stellar Ring, yet Shi Feng had dispatched their leader Jingyang without the slightest hesitation.
They couldn't fathom what kind of heart Shi Feng possessed, to dare challenge two great superpowers in succession.
"Has Black Flame gone mad with rage?"
"Quite possibly. With Blackwater pressuring him, he's dead either way — might as well go down fighting. But his killing was far too decisive. He barely seems human."
"So foolish. Did he think defying Blackwater would make things better? Now that Blackwater has entered the battle, not only will the first battlefield be affected, but the other battlefields will have to contend with Blackwater as well."
At this moment, compared to the spectacle of Shi Feng's instant kill on Jingyang, everyone was more stunned by his decision.
Though Shi Feng's use of his clone skill had greatly boosted Zero Wing's team strength — even surpassing Stellar Ring — it was still slightly inferior to Stellar Ring and Blackwater combined. Moreover, the gap wasn't merely in top-tier experts; it was the additional peak expert that Blackwater brought.
"Black Flame, you're courting death!" Xuehen, serving as Blackwater's deputy leader, roared at Shi Feng in fury.
Jingyang's death was no real loss to Blackwater, but Jingyang represented them. Killing him outright was a slap to the face of the entire guild. What was worse, this operation was being personally directed by Vice Guild Master Xuanwu Chisha — how was he supposed to explain this?
In an instant, over a dozen Blackwater members charged straight at Shi Feng, with the guild's newly risen powerhouse Nanchen leading the way, his war saber swinging viciously toward Shi Feng.
Second-tier Forbidden Technique — Ghost Dance!
In a flash, Nanchen split into five, slashing at Shi Feng from five different directions. Each afterimage produced over a dozen blade shadows, each one lunging like a ravenous wolf targeting Shi Feng's vitals and defensive blind spots. In an instant, the sky was filled with blade shadows engulfing Shi Feng from every angle, leaving no room to dodge.
Xuehen followed close behind, leaping into the air above Shi Feng and unleashing his most powerful forbidden technique — Thunderous Fury.
This attack was not only an area-of-effect strike but possessed devastating power, capable of forcibly repelling a high-level Great Lord of the same tier. It ignored all invincibility effects and damage immunity. However, its weakness was equally glaring — it was easy to dodge, since it required a full 0.5 seconds of wind-up time. For a top-tier expert, that was more than enough to accomplish many things.
But when this Thunderous Fury was combined with Nanchen's Ghost Dance, even an expert who had mastered the Domain would fall on the spot.
"What an impressive two-stage combo!" Even the Sword Demon couldn't help but feel a measure of admiration upon witnessing the coordinated assault from Nanchen and Xuehen.
Facing their combined attack, even he felt a tremendous threat. Nanchen's Ghost Dance had sealed off the area almost perfectly — there was absolutely no opening to dodge. The only option was to take it head-on. But facing sixty to seventy simultaneous attacks, even he couldn't block them all. He would have no choice but to burn a life-saving skill to endure the onslaught, after which Xuehen would deliver the killing blow.
Yet against this ferocious combined assault, Shi Feng did not use a life-saving skill as everyone had expected. Instead, he swung Holy Sword Thunderbane at the blade shadows converging from every direction.
Phantom Sword Light!
Ten sword shadows shot outward in all directions, crashing into the sixty to seventy incoming blade shadows. Shi Feng then activated Sword Trajectory, his body enveloped as though in a swirling river of stars.
In an instant, the sixty to seventy blade shadows fell victim to a domino effect triggered by the sword shadows. Blade shadows collided with one another — nearly fifty of the original sixty to seventy were knocked off their trajectories, and the remaining twenty-plus were all deflected by Sword Trajectory.
The fact that Ghost Dance was so easily neutralized left Nanchen momentarily stunned. But Xuehen, already airborne, brought down his hammer of judgment — a Thunder Hammer the size of a small mountain, crashing toward Shi Feng at a speed rivaling lightning.