"No!"
"Impossible!"
Mo Xinyu and the rest of the Warblood Adventure Team stared at the Sea God's Cage, shattered by a single sword strike, and at Cao Mu Yiqiu, who had vanished without a trace. They stood rooted to the spot, eyes wide with disbelief.
Hello everyone! Our public account gives out cash and coin red envelopes every day — just follow us to claim yours. This is the last giveaway of the year, so don't miss out! Public account: [Book Friends Camp] The Sea God's Cage was an ancient magic array so powerful that even an upper-tier Tier 4 legendary monster wouldn't be able to budge it in the slightest. Yet not only had it been cleaved apart by a single sword strike, but Cao Mu Yiqiu — a Tier 4 Archmage — had been instantly killed in the same blow, leaving not even ashes behind.
How could they possibly believe what they were seeing?
They were both Tier 4 Classes. How could the gap between them be this enormous?
What made it even more absurd was that Shi Feng had been suppressed by the Sea God's Cage. Even if Cao Mu Yiqiu truly wasn't a match, he should have at least been able to put up some kind of fight. But as things stood now, forget fighting — he hadn't even had the ability to flee.
Shen Ying and the others, still bound in place, were equally dumbstruck.
Having witnessed Shi Feng's sword that had cleaved across the sky like a river of stars, they finally understood what it truly meant to be a Tier 4 Class, why the Divine Realm treated the boundary between Tier 3 and Tier 4 as such a monumental watershed — and why even the NPCs regarded that threshold with a measure of wariness and awe.
A single sword strike had completely reshaped the terrain. If a real all-out battle broke out, they couldn't even begin to imagine what would become of this entire area.
A Level 122 Tier 3 Assassin couldn't help but turn to Mo Xinyu. "Vice Leader, what do we do now? The Sea God's Cage has been broken, and Vice Leader Cao Mu has been taken out. We're probably..."
"Alert everyone — retreat!" Mo Xinyu clenched her teeth and barked the order. "At the same time, contact the Team Leader and report the situation here in full. This Black Flame is no longer someone we can handle. We'll need the Team Leader to reach out to the Secret Hand Society!"
"Yes!"
The Tier 3 Assassin let out a breath of relief at that. If they tried to fight on, they would all die without question.
Immediately, the members of the Warblood Adventure Team began retreating toward Dragon Heart Island in a mad scramble. They didn't even bother with Shen Ying and the others, whom they had abandoned in their bindings. Everyone either pulled out Tier 3 Teleportation Scrolls or various life-saving scrolls.
They knew all too well how terrifying the speed of a Tier 4 Class could be. Despite the fact that the two sides were currently separated by more than three thousand yards, a Tier 4 Class at full burst could cover that distance in mere seconds.
"Black Flame! The Warblood Adventure Team will remember this debt! We'll be waiting for you on Dragon Heart Island!" Mo Xinyu cast a glance at Shi Feng and his group, who were already closing in fast, then activated her Tier 3 Teleportation Scroll and vanished from midair in an instant, leaving behind only Shen Ying and the others, still bound.
Less than two seconds after Mo Xinyu disappeared, Shi Feng and his three companions arrived before Shen Ying and his group.
"Those people were putting on such a tough act earlier, and now they're running faster than rabbits." Gu Jiuji watched the Warblood Team's Tier 3 experts disappearing one by one around them and let out a derisive snort.
Jing Wuming glanced toward Dragon Heart Island, more than five thousand yards away, where the Warblood Adventure Team members were filing into the island's territory one after another, and shook his head with a rueful laugh. "Can you blame them? They know full well that staying means death. After all, their only Tier 4 expert is gone — a bunch of Tier 3 Classes aren't going to accomplish anything."
The power Shi Feng had displayed was simply too staggering. It wasn't just the Warblood Adventure Team who was shaken — even he had been startled. During the earlier fight against the Golden Young Dragon, Shi Feng had been forced to interrupt his summoning, which had plunged him into a dual state of mental and attribute weakness from the very start. He had then been compelled to activate Burst Mode just to barely hold his own.
In that battle against the Golden Young Dragon, Shi Feng had never once fought at his true full strength.
Now, against Cao Mu Yiqiu — the vice leader of Warblood — Shi Feng had finally been able to fight in his normal state.
He just hadn't expected that the moment Shi Feng had advanced to Tier 4, he would already be this powerful, not even inferior to those upper-tier legendary monsters...
Even if someone now claimed that Shi Feng could go one-on-one against an upper-tier legendary monster, he wouldn't have the slightest doubt, because that sword strike had been far too terrifying — it definitely carried the might of Tier 5.
"Guild Leader Black Flame! I am Shen Ying, vice leader of the Sky Blade Adventure Team. We truly have you to thank for your assistance this time. Without you, we all would have been locked up by those Warblood people for fifteen days." Shen Ying, now freed from his bindings, hurried forward to express his gratitude upon seeing Shi Feng appear.
All he felt in his heart now was deep and profound awe!
Previously, his impression of Shi Feng had been that of a regional overlord who, compared to others, had simply been luckier — the first to advance to Tier 4, a dazzling star in the Seat Tournament, who had suddenly become the focal point of the entire Divine Realm.
In his view, once he himself advanced to Tier 4, he wouldn't be all that far behind Shi Feng. But now he could see that his thinking had been nothing short of laughable. The gap between them was that of a firefly and the full moon — they weren't even on the same level.
Even if he truly made it to Tier 4, in front of Shi Feng, it would probably still be a one-sword affair...
As for Fan Muran, standing off to the side, she gazed at Shi Feng's arrival with a complicated tangle of emotions.
Last time, it had been thanks to Shi Feng's help that the Sky Blade Adventure Team had narrowly escaped disaster. She had thought that in the time since, her own improvements had at least narrowed the gap between her and Shi Feng somewhat. But now it was clear that the gap had only grown wider.