His strike had missed, and for the first time, a look of shock surfaced on Summer Sunlight's face.
"How did he block it?" Summer Sunlight turned to look at Shi Feng behind him, still unable to comprehend what method Shi Feng had used to deflect his full-powered blow.
That previous strike had been a footwork technique he had created himself after entering the Divine Realm.
Forget about Shi Feng in his current, already-limiting state — even Shi Feng at his peak would have been unable to block it.
Summer Sunlight was stunned, and the spectating crowd was no less shocked.
The battle between Shi Feng and Summer Sunlight had already shattered everyone's understanding of combat in the Divine Realm, making it impossible to fathom — and that was before the scene they had just witnessed. Every face wore an expression of bewilderment.
Shi Feng's condition looked terrible. He had been suppressed by Summer Sunlight, clearly on his last legs — a candle flickering in the wind. Yet when faced with that profound strike, he had somehow been able to dismantle it.
"Is that Black Flame some kind of monster?"
"He's still not dead…?"
Wei Wo Du Kuang stared at the utterly weakened Shi Feng and drew a sharp breath of cold air before he could suppress the trembling in his body.
"It seems Summer Sunlight won't be able to take down Black Flame on his own. Everyone else, surround Black Flame immediately. As for the rest of Zero Wing, we can ignore them — but under no circumstances can we let Black Flame leave alive." You Lan narrowed her beautiful eyes. She had already anticipated that Summer Sunlight might fail to complete the mission, but that had only been a hypothesis. Now that it was actually happening, she still found it hard to accept. However, since it had come to this, the problem had to be solved — especially after seeing just how formidable Black Flame truly was. They absolutely could not let him go.
On You Lan's command, the dazed guild elites sprang into action and began closing in around Shi Feng. Even the members who had been intercepting Huo Wu and the others pulled back.
The very moment Yi Xiao Qing Cheng's forces began moving, Summer Sunlight charged at Shi Feng again.
One thrust… two thrusts… three thrusts… five thrusts… ten thrusts…
In the span of an instant, Summer Sunlight stabbed at ten different points. It was as though ten beams of radiance suddenly bloomed from his hand, thrusting straight at Shi Feng. Six of the ten points were in plain sight and four were concealed — all aimed at Shi Feng's vital spots. If he failed to block even one, his remaining sliver of health would plummet to zero in a heartbeat.
Clang clang clang…
Before the daggers could make contact with Shi Feng's body, a silver-gray flash of light appeared and shattered every single attack.
However, due to the gap in their Strength attributes, although Shi Feng had neutralized all of Summer Sunlight's strikes, the impact still knocked him back several steps. Fortunately, the difference wasn't too great, and it hadn't caused any real damage.
"You… how did you know… that sword technique?" When Summer Sunlight saw Shi Feng's response once more, a sword technique he had encountered in the past suddenly came to mind. Although what Shi Feng used was incomplete — bearing only a passing resemblance — it was already terrifying enough.
Summer Sunlight's question received no reply from Shi Feng, for at this moment Shi Feng's gaze was unfocused, and he hadn't even heard the question.
"Acting on instinct?" Summer Sunlight looked at Shi Feng, who could be toppled by a gust of wind, and felt a trace of speechlessness.
But Summer Sunlight couldn't be bothered with that. He had accepted a task and would see it through. Even if Shi Feng's mental stamina was on the verge of collapse, he still had to finish him off.
And even if he didn't strike, the Yi Xiao Qing Cheng members closing in would be able to do the job. After all, Shi Feng had already reached his absolute limit.
Just as Summer Sunlight prepared to charge in again, a massive black hole suddenly tore open in the clear blue sky. From within it stepped out a monster with the head of a wolf and the body of a man. The overwhelming aura it radiated made every person present feel a knot of dread tighten in their chests.
"How could he appear?" Huo Wu looked up and saw the monster hovering in midair. Her expression darkened immediately.
That wolf-headed, humanoid monster was Anubis's Gatekeeper.
Only now it was no longer level 30 — it was a level 35 Grand Lord. Its hit points had surged from ten million to fifteen million…
The crowd stared at Anubis's Gatekeeper, none of them understanding why a level 35 Grand Lord had suddenly appeared.
But the members of Shi Feng's party knew exactly why Anubis's Gatekeeper had shown up here.
The golden stone disc!