Lightning crackled and thunder rumbled across the plains. Even expert players who let their guard down for a moment would be blasted into ashes, but for the likes of Lunhui and his group, dodging the bolts was child's play—as if the lightning falling from the sky simply didn't exist.
The only real annoyance was the swarming magical beasts.
Thunder Demon Tiger. Magical beast. Lord-rank. Level 76. HP: 36 million.
Infernal Serpent. Magical beast. Grand Lord-rank. Level 77. HP: 63 million.
These beasts would already be troublesome under normal circumstances, but within the Thunder God Secret Land, players' tiers were suppressed, making them far harder to deal with. Over twenty of them charged forward in a pack—enough to effortlessly wipe out even a hundred-man elite squad. A ten-person team would barely be a snack for them.
"Everyone, get ready! Lao Huai, you and Wuxing pull some of them away. The rest, stick to the plan!" Lunhui watched the charging beasts with a calm expression, as though this was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Leave it to me!"
The elderly assassin named Huaifeng charged straight toward the horde.
Behind him, the young archer Wuxing Luanjian nocked an arrow and unleashed a rapid barrage. In an instant, thirty-six arrows struck the eighteen Thunder Demon Tigers, each one standing over three meters tall, with pinpoint accuracy—every single arrow hitting the beasts squarely in the eyes. Though the arrows dealt no damage, they inflicted a brief blinding effect on all eighteen tigers.
With the eighteen Thunder Demon Tigers blinded—standing frozen in confusion—Huaifeng reached the front of the pack without a word and tossed out a smoke bomb. The entire area instantly became shrouded in thick smoke, which not only cut down visibility but also drastically reduced perception.
Within the haze, Huaifeng had already locked onto the seven beasts that hadn't been blinded. His throwing knives transformed into streaks of blade light, each one striking true and dealing over six thousand points of damage per hit—output on par with an ordinary Tier 2 expert.
Two Infernal Serpents and five Thunder Demon Tigers roared in fury and burst straight out of the smoke, lunging directly at Huaifeng.
An ordinary Tier 2 expert facing two Grand Lords and five Lord-rank monsters simultaneously would most likely perish on the spot. But Huaifeng seemed to have seen the attack coming all along. He easily dodged three of the Thunder Demon Tigers' strikes, and for the Infernal Serpents whose attacks he couldn't avoid, he timed his Gale Step's brief window of invincibility perfectly, deflecting the blow before using the momentum to pull back over a dozen yards, shaking off all seven beasts with ease.
The two's extraordinary skill, their precise sense of timing and exploitation of every opening—even top-tier experts would have been impressed watching them. After all, the two of them weren't even Tier 2 classes. They were still at Tier 0.
Before long, Huaifeng had drawn the seven beasts away. Lunhui, Zhuohai, and Weiyang Qianhen immediately took aggro on the two Infernal Serpents—Lunhui handling one by himself, Zhuohai assisting from the side to finish it off, while Weiyang Qianhen soloed the other serpent.
The remaining five Thunder Demon Tigers were split up: the Shield Warrior Yiyun grabbed three of them, while the last two were handed off to Shi Feng and Jian Wuxin respectively. Meanwhile, Huaifeng and Wuxing Luanjian demonstrated flawless control over the monsters' aggro, quickly pulling the remaining eighteen Thunder Demon Tigers away, dissolving what should have been a brutal fight into nothing.
The weapons and equipment worn by everyone present were of the highest caliber in the Divine Realm. Even with their tiers suppressed, their base stats still exceeded those of Tier 1 players and approached the level of Tier 2 players at the same level. Holding a single level 76 Lord-rank beast in check posed no problem, but actually killing one depended entirely on each player's personal skill.
Tier suppression affected magic and skills as well—inside the Thunder God Secret Land, every player's magic and abilities were capped at Tier 0, contributing barely any extra damage. To deal real harm to the monsters, it all came down to how well each player could leverage their own strength and techniques.
Watching the team in action, it was clear that every single member combined their spells and combat arts with remarkable synergy, unleashing power far exceeding what ordinary magic could produce. Not a single point of damage was wasted—all of it landed cleanly on the beasts, causing their HP to steadily plummet. Their damage output was not significantly lower than that of normal Tier 2 experts.
"Who on earth are these people?" Shi Feng thought to himself as he watched the battle unfold, a flicker of surprise crossing his mind. Could it be the butterfly effect?
Five out of the nine people here already possessing Domain was terrifying enough. What was even more alarming was that all nine had reached the entry level of the Realm of Truth. Yet aside from Weiyang Qianhen, whose name had been legendary in his previous life, he had never heard of any of the other eight.
In his past life, even as the guild leader of a second-rate guild, he hadn't been short on information. Every expert who had achieved Domain was, without exception, one of the Divine Realm's pinnacle powerhouses—their lowest accomplishments reaching Tier 5 classes. But among the Tier 5 and Tier 6 experts he knew of, not a single one of these names appeared.
Still, surprise was surprise—Shi Feng's fight against the Thunder Demon Tigers didn't slow for a moment.
Inside the Thunder God Secret Land, tiers might be suppressed, but the equipment on a player's body was not. Even at Tier 0, Shi Feng's base stats were significantly higher than most Tier 2 experts', putting him on par with the very best players currently out there. And with his level at 79, he could beat a Thunder Demon Tiger into the ground without breaking a sweat.