"This can't be!"
"What just happened?!"
"I must be dreaming!!!"
The sudden death of Chi Yu Ke froze every single member of the allied forces who had been preparing to attack Zero Wing. Among them were looks of shock, blank stares, and outright terror.
But one thing was certain!
The image of Chi Yu Ke collapsing lifelessly to the ground had been seared into the deepest recesses of their minds—something they would probably never forget for the rest of their lives.
"Is he even human, or some kind of ghost?"
Huo Tian, who had been watching from a distance, stood rooted to the spot, his gaze locked onto Chi Yu Ke's thoroughly dead body. The shock in his heart was beyond words—there was even a fleeting thought that this had to be an illusion.
But Huo Tian knew it wasn't an illusion. The terrifying, overwhelming aura Chi Yu Ke had exuded moments ago had completely vanished, and his life force and mana fluctuations had utterly dissipated.
It was simply that the scene before his eyes was too impossible to accept, so his brain had conjured the only explanation he could live with to deceive himself.
At that moment, it wasn't just Huo Tian—a Domain realm expert—feeling this way. Every Domain realm expert present, including Yan Tian Xing, was in exactly the same state.
A Peerless Expert!
This was the title given to beings who represented the absolute pinnacle of combat power in the Divine Realm. Yet here one lay on the ground like a dead dog, motionless. And the entire fight…
No—it couldn't even be called a fight. Not a single person present even understood how Chi Yu Ke had been struck.
"A monster! He can't possibly be human—he must be a monster from the Divine Realm that's taken human form!"
"Exactly! That has to be it. How could the gap between players possibly be this enormous?"
The allied force members watching from a distance stared at Shi Feng, and one by one they couldn't help but cry out in alarm, all semblance of their former composure completely shattered.
"That's right! Everyone, be on guard—he's definitely a monster in disguise, not a player at all!"
"A monster like this has appeared in the selection rounds? We need to contact the War God's Temple immediately to deal with him!"
As the panicked cries from the distant allied forces grew louder and louder, the members who had originally intended to deal with Zero Wing began to agree frantically, their minds racing to figure out how to contact the War God's Temple to bring Shi Feng to justice. It was as if only that could explain everything—only then could the world return to the way they understood it.
After all, even the NPCs in the Divine Realm these days had become so human-like that a monster taking on a player's form wasn't all that out of the ordinary.
"Monster?" Shi Feng looked at the allied force members who had clearly lost their minds and couldn't help but chuckle. "Sure, I suppose in your eyes I am a monster. But tell me—in the eyes of ordinary players, wouldn't you all be monsters too?"
The Divine Realm was ultimately a game. As long as players kept leveling up, kept acquiring better weapons and equipment, their base stats, physiques, reaction speeds, mana control, and so on would all continue to grow.
As all of those figures accumulated, a player's combat power would increase exponentially—so much so that even these so-called great experts couldn't comprehend it.
The Divine Realm simply didn't play by the rules!
If he hadn't advanced to Tier 4 yet, facing a Peerless Expert like Chi Yu Ke would have still required him to expend considerable effort. But after advancing to the Tier 4 Class, a Peerless Expert like Chi Yu Ke was nothing more than an ant.
That was right—the gap between a Tier 4 Class and a Tier 3 Class was simply that vast!
Peerless Experts might seem incomparably powerful to outsiders, utterly impossible to challenge. But in Shi Feng's eyes now, they were mere insects—something he could snuff out with a wave of his hand.
In fact, when he had killed Chi Yu Ke, Shi Feng had only used a single skill—the Wind Chasing Sword, which had grown to Tier 2…