"How is that possible!"
"That's a legendary monster! How could a third-rank class break through its defense threshold?"
Silent Red Star and Wildfire Berserker stared fixedly at the Six-Eyed Giant Ape rolling on the ground in the distance, their eyes filled with disbelief.
That single strike had not only shattered a fourth-rank magic spell but also dealt no small amount of damage to the Six-Eyed Giant Ape. Although the actual HP lost was not much—less than five hundred thousand—for a legendary monster like the Six-Eyed Giant Ape with over two billion HP, it was completely negligible.
But the actual effect of Shi Feng's strike far exceeded five hundred thousand.
In the Divine Realm, there were two types of attacks: one that dealt damage to HP, and another that destroyed defense. When HP reached zero, death followed. But when defense was broken, it caused physical destruction to the body, reducing combat power and making the monster far easier to kill.
However, landing an attack that could destroy defense was extremely difficult. The stronger the monster, the higher its defense threshold, requiring even greater power. It was simply impossible for someone of the same rank to manage it, let alone break through from a lower rank. The only option was to accumulate physical damage bit by bit, but physical damage had a negligible effect on combat power, so Divine Realm players instinctively ignored this fighting style.
With the Six-Eyed Giant Ape's defense value, it was nearly impossible to break through without a peak fourth-rank strike, yet Shi Feng, a third-rank class, had actually done it.
How could they possibly believe it?
Meanwhile, Bao Sha and the others in the distance witnessed this scene, their jaws dropping open one by one.
"Is he even a player?"
Bao Sha stared fixedly at Shi Feng, who had landed on a treetop, the shock in his heart beyond words.
An attack that broke through the defense threshold—ordinary players might not understand what that meant. At most, they would think it simply reduced a monster's combat power. But for top-tier experts who frequently fought high-rank monsters, it represented something else entirely!
It meant the ability to solo a monster!
In the Divine Realm, monsters naturally had high defense and massive HP pools. Especially in terms of HP—even if a player could deal millions of points of damage, that amount was a drop in the bucket for high-rank monsters. It took a large group of players working together to bring them down.
So in the minds of Divine Realm players, even if a player possessed power that outweighed a monster's, solo killing that monster was out of the question. The higher the monster's rank, the more true this was. Once a monster reached the High Grand Lord tier, solo killing it simply didn't exist, let alone a legendary monster.
However, there was one way to accomplish such a thing.
And that was an attack that could break through the defense threshold!
An attack that broke through the defense threshold could cause massive destruction to a monster's body. The more destruction accumulated, the more the monster's combat power dropped. When the damage reached a certain level, it would trigger a weakened state, drastically reducing both defense and HP. If the weakened state reached a severe level, it would even cause passive HP drain, completely neutralizing the monster's combat recovery abilities.
Without their greatest asset—combat recovery—solo killing the monster was no longer an unattainable dream. Players could chip away at it bit by bit until it fell.
Now that Shi Feng had broken through the Six-Eyed Giant Ape's defense threshold, it meant he had the potential to solo it.
Solo killing a fourth-rank legendary monster—such a thing had never even been heard of in the Divine Realm…
At this moment, not only were Silent Red Star and Wildfire Berserker stunned—even Shi Feng himself, who had swung the Light and Shadow strike, was taken aback.
"How did the destructive power suddenly increase so much?" Shi Feng looked at the severed arm of the Six-Eyed Giant Ape, completely bewildered. "The HP damage I dealt was still far from peak fourth-rank level—only marginally stronger than that fourth-rank magic spell. But the actual destructive effect was identical to a peak fourth-rank strike. Could it be because of the ancient environment bonus here?"
Just as Shi Feng was pondering this, the One-Horned Giant Bear in the distance lunged forward. Its massive paw descended like a mountain, even forming a faint phantom image of an enormous peak.
Fourth-rank skill: Mountain Collapse!
Faced with an attack that covered a radius of forty to fifty yards, Shi Feng didn't overthink it. He swung the Abyssal in his hand.
Holy Annihilation Combat Technique: Light and Shadow!
However, this time, as Shi Feng used Light and Shadow, he devoted most of his mental energy to sensing the surrounding magic power, wanting to understand what exactly had caused Light and Shadow to display such overwhelming might.
In an instant, the Abyssal swept through the air, and a wall of pitch-black energy rose up. It not only sliced through the descending mountain phantom but also passed straight through it, landing squarely on the One-Horned Giant Bear's shoulder.