In the crowd of the small plaza, as Shi Feng drew closer and closer, Fang Shihan not far away couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
She had never expected that Shi Feng would actually dare to go through with it!
Among the more than half-step Grandmaster experts and the hidden killing intents, several of those murderous auras were enough to make even her wary.
With so many experts gathered together, even a Body Refinement Grandmaster with a physique far beyond ordinary humans would be in serious trouble.
"Madman!"
Fang Shihan gritted her teeth and hurried after him.
As the eldest daughter of the Fang family, even the various major powers in the upper district would give her some face and wouldn't dare go too far — otherwise, they would certainly have to face the Fang family's wrath.
But before Fang Shihan could get close, more than a dozen people in the crowd had also begun to casually drift toward Shi Feng, their movements so natural and blended into the crowd that they were practically invisible. The people beside them didn't even register their existence, each going about their own business.
"You want to die, kid? I'll oblige!" Elder Qi among the crowd watched as Shi Feng walked into their midst and couldn't help but grin. "Everyone, take him down!"
If Shi Feng had stayed somewhere sparsely populated, making their move would have been far more conspicuous. But in a crowded place, at their level, no one would notice their movements. By the time anyone realized what had happened, they would already be gone.
In an instant, the distance between the two sides within the crowd shrank rapidly.
Thirty meters… twenty meters… ten meters…
Just as the two sides were less than three meters apart, one Body Refinement Grandmaster, one Internal Force Grandmaster, and four half-step Grandmasters — six people in total — moved as if they were simply passersby walking past Shi Feng. The four half-step Grandmasters looked like a group of friends bustling through the crowd, giving no indication that they were deliberately approaching Shi Feng.
However, the moment the four closed to within a meter of Shi Feng, all six — the four half-step Grandmasters and the two true Grandmasters who had circled around him disguised as passersby — struck simultaneously.
Their speed was so fast that an ordinary person wouldn't even be able to see an afterimage.
Fists, palms, claws — without even disturbing the air, they hurtled toward Shi Feng's vital points in the span of a heartbeat. Though the six hailed from different factions, their coordination was as seamless as a single body.
This sight made Fang Shihan, who had been following closely behind, grimace.
Because against a coordinated strike from these six, she herself could barely block two or three of them at best — after that, the rest would land their blows without question.
Against a Body Refinement Grandmaster, it might have been somewhat manageable. But Shi Feng was merely an Internal Force Grandmaster — he was as good as dead…
Yet just as the six were about to connect, Shi Feng's entire body suddenly rippled. His form moved like flowing water, each part of his body seeming to possess a will of its own, slipping past the barrage of fists and palms with fractions of a centimeter to spare…
The six were stunned. Before they could mount a second coordinated assault, Shi Feng's footwork shifted — a simple brush and lean, a palm strike, an elbow, a punch, a kick. The four half-step Grandmasters and the two Grandmasters froze in place as if struck by a paralysis spell, standing perfectly still right where they were.
It wasn't until Shi Feng had walked three meters away that the six of them rolled their eyes and collapsed into the crowd…
"That… how… is that possible?!"
Fang Shihan stared at the scene, her beautiful eyes widening until they nearly fell from her face.
Six top-tier experts, two of them genuine Grandmaster-level fighters — one of them a Body Refinement Grandmaster at that — and they had been taken out by Shi Feng in an instant. She hadn't even been able to tell what had happened.
Against an Internal Force Grandmaster, it would have been one thing — using hidden force to strike someone down in a single blow was nothing unusual. But knocking out a Body Refinement Grandmaster in one hit? That was an entirely different matter. Otherwise, Body Refinement Grandmasters wouldn't have such a notorious reputation for being nearly impossible to deal with.
And it wasn't just Fang Shihan who was stunned. Elder Qi and the others who had gotten close to Shi Feng felt their hearts clench with alarm.