Hearing Wei Wo Du Kuang's question, You Lan was about to explain when the system suddenly issued another notification chime.
You Lan opened it and her delicate brows furrowed deeply.
"Eastern Sword, that idiot. I told him to investigate the secret behind Zero Wing Guild obtaining large quantities of high-end Level 25 equipment, and instead he openly kills Zero Wing members and provokes Black Flame!" After reading the report, You Lan was genuinely furious.
You Lan had investigated Black Flame, and the more she dug, the more chilling it became.
Black Flame's appearance had been silent and sudden, rising like a comet. Every time he revealed his capabilities, it left everyone stunned.
Back in White River City, he had killed so many players and come and gone as he pleased — that level of strength alone was enough to make anyone wary. After all, someone that powerful ambushing people in the wild — if the targets lacked the ability to defend themselves, it would be a straight-up tragedy.
If it were just an ordinary expert, it would be manageable. Once out of the city, they could form groups, and those experts wouldn't dare act rashly. But Black Flame was different. His strength was too great — even in groups, they'd be wiped out without a trace, and there was absolutely nothing they could do.
If there was truly a solution, it would be forming massive groups of several hundred. But it wasn't practical to assemble hundreds of people every single time they left the city.
Doing so would cripple the guild's development and turn them into a joke across the Divine Realm.
Then again, if one person ran around ambushing people, dashing from place to place, their own growth would grind to a halt. And such ambushes wouldn't bear fruit in a day or two — it would take a very long time of sustained hit-and-run attacks to cause meaningful damage to Yi Xiao Qing Cheng. Not leveling up or improving equipment for that long wouldn't be good for Black Flame himself either.
The Divine Realm was teeming with experts. If you stopped improving, others would surpass you before long.
Zero Wing owed most of its current power to Black Flame's formidable strength. If Black Flame faltered, the blow to Zero Wing would be devastating.
That was exactly why You Lan had kept Yi Xiao Qing Cheng's members from crossing the line, maintaining the delicate balance — she feared that Black Flame, in a rage, would throw caution to the wind and resort to such underhanded tactics.
And now look at this.
Eastern Sword had shattered the balance that had held for so long!
If she could, You Lan would have wanted to kill Eastern Sword with her own hands right then and there.
The moment You Lan received the news, Shi Feng was already charging toward the members of Yi Xiao Qing Cheng, with Shui Se Qiang Wei and the others assisting from the flanks.
The members of Yi Xiao Qing Cheng had already been cowed by Shi Feng's Void Step. Afterward, they had reported to the Main God System that Shi Feng was exploiting system loopholes to kill players, hoping the system would give them justice.
Let Shi Feng receive the punishment he deserved!
But the reply came back: no violation found. All of Shi Feng's actions fell within the system's rules.
This stunned the Yi Xiao Qing Cheng members even further.
A phantom-like instant kill of Eastern Sword… wasn't even an exploit…
In that moment, every last one of them fell into despair. Their previous confidence, up against Shi Feng's merciless slaughter, had been nothing but a joke. The only thing they could do was run.
As for fighting Shi Feng — that was simply out of the question.
An enemy you couldn't even see, appearing only to deliver an instant kill — how was anyone supposed to fight that?