In front of the grand stone statue of the City of Light, Shi Feng walked toward it one step at a time.
With each step he took, the mental pressure exerted by the statue grew stronger by a fraction, yet to Shi Feng it was as if he barely noticed it at all.
Eighty yards…
Seventy yards…
Sixty yards…
In the span of mere moments, Watercolor Rose watched as Shi Feng reached Ziyan Liuyun's side, stopping at a distance of fifty yards from the statue. Although Shi Feng's expression had turned somewhat somber and the pressure was clearly greater than before, everyone understood this was not his limit.
"Is he a monster? He caught up to Ziyan in one go!" Yi Luofei stared at the distant Shi Feng, who still hadn't stopped, her eyes filled with shock. "And this still isn't his limit? How much has he improved in this time?"
For players who hadn't tempered their minds, the gap might be hard to appreciate. But for those who had been constantly sharpening their spirits and resisting the mental onslaught, they understood all too well just how difficult this was.
While Shi Feng shattering the mental shockwave at eighty-five yards had been impressive, the spiritual pressure radiating from the statue weakened significantly with distance. The difference between eighty-five yards and fifty yards wasn't just a single tier — it was the gap between earth and sky.
She hadn't even thought Shi Feng could reach the fifty-yard range against the mental shockwave.
And Ziyan Liuyun's talent was plain for all to see — this was practically testing the limits of what Yi Luofei could believe.
She hadn't been at all surprised that Shi Feng couldn't match Ziyan Liuyun in mind-tempering before. After all, Ziyan had exceptional talent and was a magic-class player — she was innately better at spirit refinement than any melee physical class. This was obvious even from their recent training; magic classes outperformed physical classes by more than a small margin.
So it was only natural that Shi Feng couldn't compare to Ziyan Liuyun.
But now, the fact that he had actually surpassed her was truly astonishing.
She knew that during this period, Shi Feng hadn't been tempering his mind within the statue's hundred-yard range, so improving his mental refinement should have been far harder for him than for any of them — something they had already confirmed during their own breaks.
And yet, despite all of that, he had still overtaken Ziyan Liuyun. His talent was beyond words…
While Yi Luofei stood there in a daze, Shi Feng slowly closed the distance to thirty yards.
Facing yet another wave of mental shock from the statue, Shi Feng's steps abruptly halted. His face paled slightly, and he took a full step back.
"As expected, breaking past this distance is extremely difficult. The power of the mental shock increases dramatically — at thirty yards, the impact is several times what it was at fifty. No wonder so few people in my previous life managed to enter the thirty-yard range." Shi Feng processed the mental assault he had just endured. A single clash had consumed one-fifteenth of his mental energy — that was already beyond what he could sustain. He couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret.
The thirty-yard range had been called the Forbidden Domain in his previous life.
It was said that anyone who reached this domain would undergo a qualitative transformation in their mental refinement.
While it wouldn't grant any tangible boost to a player's combat power, it could elevate a player's magic perception to inhuman levels, greatly aiding the formation of one's own magical domain at Tier 4. Rumor even had it that it could provide considerable help in advancing to a Tier 5 Class.
And Shi Feng's failure finally allowed Watercolor Rose and the others to breathe a sigh of relief.
Because if he had been able to get even closer to the statue, they really would have had to question whether their own talent was simply terrible.