Deep in the dense forest, as Qianli Wuya crashed to the ground with a thunderous thud, every member of the Divine Miracle guild felt a chill run through their bodies. Meanwhile, the Star River Alliance members watching from the VIP observation room had their jaws hanging open, unable to utter a single word for a long while.
"How did she become so strong?" Purple Pupils' beautiful eyes widened, her heart filled with disbelief.
She had charged solo into the heart of the Divine Miracle guild's forces. First, she cut down a peak third-tier Archmage with a single sword strike, then launched an offensive against two Domain-realm experts — and on top of that, casually dispatched the Infernal Knight Qianli Wuya as if he were nothing.
Especially that final confrontation with Qianli Wuya. Those three Black Moons should have been his skills, yet they had been turned back against him as though Bai Qingxue herself had cast them. It was utterly inconceivable.
"Has the gap between us really grown this wide?" Xinghe Wangxi stared fixedly at Bai Qingxue on the holographic screen, at a loss for words.
They were both supposed to be top-ranked experts in the Star Moon Kingdom, yet the difference in their strength was now as vast as heaven and earth. They no longer belonged in the same world.
"Guild Master, after this tournament, I plan to leave the Star Moon Kingdom for a while and see what's out there," Liu Qianqian said, equally shaken by Bai Qingxue's display, her gaze carrying a deep sense of unwillingness.
The gap between them used to be nowhere near this large. They had both been renowned experts on the Wind and Cloud rankings, yet now she probably couldn't last a single sword exchange against Bai Qingxue. The thought was suffocating.
"Fine." Xinghe Wangxi raised no objections. Instead, she turned to Purple Pupils. "Why don't you go see the wider world too? There's not much going on at the guild right now. I can handle everything on my own."
"Thank you, Guild Master." Purple Pupils bit her silver teeth lightly and nodded. "I won't let you down."
Though they typically ventured around the Star Moon Kingdom and its surroundings, compared to Zero Wing — a guild that had gone to war across every front — their scope was embarrassingly narrow. Zero Wing had already taken the stage on the entire Divine Realm continent, while they were still lingering around neighboring kingdoms. It was almost laughable.
While the Star River Alliance members in the VIP observation room were swallowed up by their shock, the Divine Miracle guild members in the dense forest stood frozen in place as if struck by a paralyzing spell, none of them daring to move a muscle. They stared as though they had just laid eyes on some ferocious monster.
One move!
A single move had eliminated Vice Guild Leader Qianli Wuya. Such terrifying strength was practically on par with peerless masters.
The two elders who had managed to dodge Bai Qingxue's attack — Elder Peng and Elder Yu — stood rooted to the spot, gazing at her with a mixture of wariness and confusion.
"Impossible! How could a young girl like you possibly reach this realm?" Elder Peng stared at the Bai Qingxue before him, his crazed eyes filled with denial.
"To think someone this young has already reached this level… Have we truly grown old?" Elder Yu gazed at Bai Qingxue as well, his expression turning somewhat dazed.
Earlier, when they had witnessed Bai Qingxue cut down the peak Archmage, they hadn't felt all that alarmed.
But after seeing Qianli Wuya obliterated in a single strike, the full picture became devastatingly clear.
The Bai Qingxue standing before them was no mere peak expert on the verge of mastering the Domain realm — she had surpassed it entirely. She was no longer merely human.
Looking at one so young yet so powerful, the two elders felt as though their entire lives had been wasted.
They had exhausted every last shred of their wits just trying to take the next step within the Domain realm, and here Bai Qingxue had already transcended it. How could they not feel utter despair?
In those old, established super-guilds, anyone who managed to reach the second stage of the Domain realm was typically over sixty years of age. As for those who had transcended the Domain realm entirely — those were genuine old monsters by every measure, the kind who served as bedrock pillars within the five great super-guilds.
But while Elder Peng and Elder Yu stood there in a daze, the other third-tier experts of the Divine Miracle guild wasted no time. Snapping out of their shock one by one, they charged toward Bai Qingxue.
"Kill her! She dared to kill Vice Guild Leader Wuya — we absolutely cannot let her leave alive!"
"That's right! This is a special instance space. Even a peerless master can't withstand our relentless assault!"
Over a hundred Guardian Knights and Shield Warriors on the field immediately activated their defensive skills and closed in. Not far away, the mage squads began casting their combination spells, intending to bury Bai Qingxue under a sea of bodies and grind her to death through sheer attrition.
"Elder Peng! We need to leave — now! Or it'll be too late!"