Starlight scattered across the battlefield like brilliant fireworks, and Bai Qingxue, clad in silvery-white sacred armor and wielding a radiant greatsword, stood bathed in the glow—like a Valkyrie descended upon the mortal world. Holy. Majestic. Beautiful.
Yet upon witnessing this picturesque scene, every person present felt nothing but revulsion and terror.
"How is this possible?"
Chen Xue of the Bloodbath Family stared blankly at Bai Qingxue, who stood amid the crowd, his eyes completely glazed over, his heart churning with disbelief.
Over a hundred experts from Star Ring and Black Water!
Every single one of them was an expert who had posed a genuine threat to him. Yet before Bai Qingxue, they had been no different from ants. With just five swings of her sword, she had nearly annihilated that awe-inspiring team of experts. Even the survivors had seen their remaining HP plummet below half…
"Is she really a player?"
"Spatial tears? Can players really be this powerful right now?"
It wasn't just Chen Xue who was stunned. The experts from every major faction present looked at Bai Qingxue with undisguised terror.
If Bai Qingxue had destroyed the Star Ring and Black Water experts with dazzling combat techniques, they would have simply been impressed. After all, monster-level experts with extraordinary skills could potentially pull off something like that. But what they had just witnessed was something else entirely.
From start to finish, Bai Qingxue had displayed no sophisticated combat technique whatsoever—only raw, overwhelming violence. Relying purely on extreme speed and crushing strength, she had stomped through over a hundred Void Realm experts as if stepping on ants. The sheer shock of that spectacle was ten times, a hundred times greater.
After all, in the auction arena, players were unable to use any burst skills or magic, nor could they use any consumable items.
The weapons and equipment on every expert present were top-grade by current standards. Even if some were slightly better, the differences were negligible—gaps that could easily be compensated for through superior combat skill.
But the power Bai Qingxue had displayed was no longer a question of being strong or not. It was an entirely different tier of power altogether.
The ability to tear open spatial rifts—that was the domain of Tier 4. And currently, even the most monstrous experts could only wield power at the peak of Tier 3 at best. The gap might not sound like much, but in reality, it was as vast as the difference between a High Grand Lord and a Legendary monster.
Even Shi Feng couldn't help but click his tongue at the sight.
He had to admit it—possessing two Legendary-grade item fragments, both Berserker equipment focused on strength, with one of them being a two-handed weapon, the stat bonuses became more terrifying as the level increased. In terms of raw strength alone, Bai Qingxue now surpassed him by a significant margin, and her Constitution was no lower than his.
The reason was that Bai Qingxue had previously completed a quest and, through a fortuitous encounter, obtained a vial of Bloodline essence. Though it wasn't a high-grade Bloodline, it was an Earth Bloodline that primarily boosted strength. This granted the current Bai Qingxue unparalleled physical power—not quite on the level of a true Legendary monster of the same tier, but not far off.
She could truly be called a humanoid tyrant dragon!
"Tier 4 power?"
Facing this level of strength, even Xin Mo, who was present, wore a grim expression, his face visibly darkened.
Against a player wielding Tier 4 power, he would have far preferred to face an expert like the Sword Demon. Under such overwhelming force, Tier 3 strength became utterly meaningless—any attack or defense would simply be steamrolled. One force could shatter ten thousand techniques, making direct confrontation utterly impossible.
And just as everyone was still reeling from the terrifying power Bai Qingxue had unleashed, Zhao Yueru—wearing a crimson mage robe behind her—finally completed her incantation.
"Go!" Zhao Yueru swept her staff forward.
Tier 2 Forbidden Spell—Blazing Thorns!
Instantly, over a hundred blossoming fire flowers materialized in the sky above the Star Ring and Black Water experts. Under Zhao Yueru's precise control, these fire blossoms transformed into hundreds of blazing thorns that rained down.
Each flame thorn carried the power of a High Grand Lord of the same tier, and their strikes were devastatingly precise. Dense as a web across the entire battlefield, they were impossible to fully evade—one could only endure them head-on.
Boom! Boom! Boom! ...
A chain of deafening explosions erupted as towering pillars of fire surged skyward, one after another.
When the flames finally subsided, only three top-tier experts from Star Ring and Black Water remained standing. Everyone else had been incinerated to ash.