Chapter 746: Breaking Through Like Flowing Water

The instant Shi Feng killed Chi Yu, it wasn't just the retreating elite members of the Star River Alliance who witnessed it.

Even the members of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion who had been on the verge of leaving saw every last detail.

With lightning-like speed, in the mere instant of passing each other, a streak of cyan light flashed—and the battle was over. The crowd hadn't the slightest idea what had just happened, as though it were all nothing but an illusion.

To think that he could kill Chi Yu instantly without a single scratch and slip away silently while facing thousands of elite players and Chi Yu's second-tier magic scroll—it was almost impossible to believe.

This was yet another level above the sword speed he'd displayed when killing Xiao of the Seven Deadly Sins.

With otherworldly speed like that, who could possibly hope to compete?

"This Black Flame… was he actually holding back when he fought Xiao?" Yuan Tiexin watched from afar, his heart shaken to its core.

As for the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's trainees, not one of them could speak a word. A chill ran through their entire bodies.

Ordinary elite members might not have grasped the crucial details, but for experts like them, everything was crystal clear.

What truly sent shivers down their spines was Black Flame's sword speed.

They had seen Black Flame brush past, but they hadn't seen him draw his sword—yet Chi Yu was already dead.

They were standing too far away to feel it with perfect clarity, but someone like Chi Yu had faced Black Flame's attack head-on, so his experience would have been far more visceral.

Moreover, ever since the Divine Realm had appeared, whether ordinary players or experts, everyone's primal instincts had improved significantly.

When faced with the brink of life and death, these instincts would trigger instinctive evasive reactions—let alone for expert players.

Chi Yu was an expert listed on the Divine Realm experts ranking published by the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. His strength was extraordinary—he hadn't yet reached half-step Perfection, but his seasoned combat experience and base stats were both remarkably high. His reaction speed in the face of danger was absolutely first-rate. Even Leng Qiu, hailed as a genius, might have fallen short in that regard.

Yet even such a quick-reflexed expert hadn't reacted at all when Black Flame struck. It was as if his primal instincts had ceased to exist—he didn't even realize he'd been cut down until he was dead. This was precisely why everyone felt their blood run cold.

Though Black Flame had already displayed astonishing sword speed when facing Xiao's Nine Spear Kills back then.

Back then, they simply hadn't been able to see the sword in his hand. Now it was even more terrifying—they didn't even know when Black Flame had made his move. The only thing they could see was that cyan streak of light fading at breakneck speed.

But Shi Feng himself, who had already put considerable distance between himself and the army of elites, wasn't entirely satisfied with his performance.

"Recreating that feeling in a swing really is difficult." After killing Chi Yu, Shi Feng couldn't help but recall the technique he'd used against Xiao.

The attacking principle behind Six Spear Changes was similar to his Void Step—through a special method of attack, it overpowered the brain's ability to process the massive influx of information, causing it to actively ignore the incoming data. Only when the spear's shadow truly threatened one's life would the brain lift the suppression, but by then the spear was already at one's throat.

Even with his attribute advantage, he could only barely retreat and parry two or three strikes. Blocking them all was simply impossible.

He could only apply this technique to body movement. But Xiao had been even more impressive—he could apply it to attacks. One had to remember that body movement speed was far slower than attack speed, making the difficulty of execution incomparably greater.

Moreover, with this technique, the faster the speed, the greater the difficulty, because one had to perform a series of complex actions within that impossibly brief window of time.

It was precisely because of this overly complex flood of information that the brain refused to actively process it, thereby ignoring it entirely.

Understanding this principle all too well, he had been forced to close his eyes, severing visual input entirely, and instead rely on his other senses, his accumulated combat experience, and his razor-sharp instincts to evade Six Spear Changes.

For him, with his overwhelming attribute advantage, this was entirely feasible.