In the crowd of the small plaza, as Elder Qi and the others collapsed to the ground one after another, quite a few onlookers began to take notice. The entire plaza quickly grew noisy, with passersby gathering around to discuss what had happened.
Shi Feng calmly emerged from the crowd, yet not a single person around him seemed to notice his existence. He was as unremarkable as the trees and scenery surrounding them — practically zero presence…
"A Mental Grandmaster?!"
Fang Shihan stared at Shi Feng walking out of the crowd and at Elder Qi and the others lying on the ground, her bright eyes filled with shock, as though the entire world had been turned upside down.
Eight Grandmaster-level experts, six Half-step Grandmasters who were also top-tier Body Refinement masters — with that kind of lineup, only a Mental Grandmaster could have dealt with them so effortlessly. There was simply no other possibility.
And what kind of person was a Mental Grandmaster?
They were genuine big shots in the Upper Zone. Every one of them lived in the Middle Zone, and countless major factions were eager to curry favor with them.
Moreover, all of these Mental Grandmasters had been over thirty years old before they finally managed to elevate their mental level to the Grandmaster stage. But how old was Shi Feng?
Based on the information she had obtained, Shi Feng had only entered the Upper Zone a few months ago. His mental level had been merely at the Superhuman Grade — still a considerable distance from becoming a Mental Grandmaster…
As Shi Feng walked up to Fang Shihan, she finally snapped back to her senses and studied the man before her closely, as though she were seeing him for the very first time.
"Your mental power… has it already broken through to the Grandmaster stage?" Fang Shihan fixed her gaze on Shi Feng and couldn't help but ask.
Although she had already suspected that Shi Feng was a Mental Grandmaster, the thought that he could be one at under twenty-five years old was something she simply couldn't bring herself to believe.
If word of this got out, it would undoubtedly send shockwaves through the entire Upper Zone. When that happened, the true higher-ups of the Green God Corporation might very well take a keen interest in Shi Feng.
And what kind of people were the higher-ups of the Green God Corporation? They were the ones even Mental Grandmasters wanted to befriend — the people who governed the various Upper Zones, the ones who truly stood at the pinnacle of the Upper Zone!
"I happened to break through to the Grandmaster stage not long ago," Shi Feng said.
He nodded without any intention of hiding it, then turned his head to glance at the fallen figures of Elder Qi and the others in the distance, inwardly struck by an indescribable wave of astonishment.
After his mental power had reached the Grandmaster level, he had indeed noticed a significant improvement in his physical capabilities and a sharpness of perception far beyond what he'd experienced before.
But only after actually trading blows with Elder Qi and the others had Shi Feng truly understood just how powerful and terrifying a Mental Grandmaster was.
Perhaps in terms of pure physical quality, a Mental Grandmaster wasn't necessarily much stronger than a Body Refinement Grandmaster. But the degree of self-mastery they possessed was no longer something that could be called human.
That mastery was not merely reflected in the control over individual muscles and the minute details of movement, but also in the vastly increased control they had over their own brains.
In the heat of combat, a Mental Grandmaster could even dilate their subjective sense of time by more than tenfold. Movements that appeared lightning-fast to everyone else looked like slow motion in their eyes. Their speed of thought was simply incomparable to that of an ordinary human.
Combined with their heightened perception of the surrounding environment, it was no wonder that avoiding the combined sight and detection of several Grandmaster-level experts would be entirely feasible for them. And as for the Divine Realm's Void Steps — there was no reason a Mental Grandmaster couldn't replicate something similar, even if only for a brief moment.
It was no surprise that every major faction in the Upper Zone held Mental Grandmasters in such dread.