The moment the plea for help escaped his mouth, Feng Guozhi instantly regretted it, wishing he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
Save me? How the fuck did I say that?
This was too humiliating. So many people were watching, and the camera on his chest was still broadcasting live!
Feng Guozhi slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of red soil.
Bai Feifei looked down at him. Quite conveniently, Feng Guozhi had rolled right to her feet.
He struggled to stand, but after thrashing around for a while, he still couldn't get up!
“Are you all right?” Bai Feifei offered a word of comfort, then glanced at the monster that was still expanding. “Just stay down. I'll handle this thing.”
With that, she averted her gaze.
“I-I'm fine!” Feng Guozhi quickly rolled over and pushed himself up, desperately trying to hide his pain.
Then, he realized that Bai Feifei still wasn't moving. She simply stood there, watching and waiting for the aberration to grow stronger.
Feng Guozhi froze.
The students from Yaoguang Academy were also dumbfounded.
You'll handle it? Then fucking handle it! What's the point of just standing there watching? Are you waiting for it to grow bigger?!
“T-Teacher Bai?” Feng Guozhi forced himself up from the ground.
“There's something wrong with this thing. It's getting stronger by the second. Time is of the essence. Let's attack together right now—”
“I am waiting for it to get stronger,” Bai Feifei said truthfully.
She was waiting for the Old-Timer to speak. After all, she hadn't gathered enough experience points yet.
Feng Guozhi: ?
“Fall back,” Bai Feifei said, no longer looking at him. “Take the students and retreat. The further, the better.”
Feng Guozhi wanted to say something more, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he coughed up another mouthful of blood.
Gritting his teeth, he finally turned around and waved to the students. “Retreat! Fall back, hurry!”
This aberration was far too powerful. Some of their Cognition Filters had already shattered, and their Sanity was beginning to plummet.
They didn't have Xu Mo's game panel, so they wouldn't even know if they suddenly went mad.
As if granted a divine reprieve, the students scrambled and fled backward in a panic.
Feng Guozhi also stumbled backward, casting one last look at Bai Feifei before he left.
This woman is insane!
“Don't push yourself! If you can't handle it, run!”
Finally, the monster's aura reached a critical threshold and surged violently!
It bypassed the limits of a Type 5 Aberration and reached the Scion Rank!
A wave of pure, oppressive mental pollution radiated outward. Even from dozens of meters away, several students from Yaoguang Academy instantly began to vomit.
Bai Feifei's Sanity finally began to slowly tick downward as well.
“Alright, do it!” Xu Mo's voice finally rang out.
“Normally, you'd be no match for it. But the Gaze of the Ancient One and your heart both have a suppressing effect on aberrations. Go! Be careful!”
Bai Feifei didn't reply, only nodding. She raised her left hand and twisted the skull bracelet on her wrist.
The light of the Gaze of the Ancient One radiated outward as an invisible pressure spread, enveloping the roaring monster directly ahead.
For a split second, the monster's movements hitched, and it turned its gaze toward Bai Feifei.
Even as a Scion Rank aberration, it still cowered slightly under this immense pressure.
Bai Feifei moved.
Like a flash of lightning, she charged straight at the monster, her sword held forward, its tip pointing directly at the weak point highlighted by the Killing Machine interface.
The monster instinctively raised its arm to block, but its movements were a beat too slow, as if its body were being dragged down by some unseen weight.
In the next instant, the longsword scraped against its outer hide, kicking up a shower of sparks!
This is bad. I know the weak point, but I can't pierce its defense!
Bai Feifei's expression turned grave. This was the first time she was facing an opponent of this caliber on her own.
At her core, the phantom heart began to throb, and a white halo spread from her chest, surging through her meridians and into her limbs.
The giant monster before her roared, bringing four arms crashing down simultaneously, sealing off all of Bai Feifei's escape routes with the weight of a falling mountain.
Instead of retreating, Bai Feifei pressed forward, charging straight into the attack!
Leaping into the air, she plunged her sword deep into the creature's body, finally breaking through its defense!
Seeing the raw flesh exposed beneath the stone-like skin, Bai Feifei felt a surge of joy.
The stone giant began to thrash violently. The craggy rocks covering its body vibrated furiously, revealing the dark red flesh beneath. Seven or eight flail-like arms swung wildly, whipping up gusts of wind and sending shockwaves through the air.
It wanted to shake Bai Feifei off.
Bai Feifei held on tight, clinging to its back like a gecko.
Supported by the suppression of the bracelet and the augmentation of her heart, Bai Feifei locked onto the weak points highlighted by the Killing Machine interface and launched a frantic assault!
Sometimes, she couldn't dodge the monster's counterattacks, leaving her with no choice but to take the blows head-on!
Unknowingly, she entered the Slaughter God Mode, locking her Sanity. Massive stones slammed into her slender frame with heavy, muffled thuds, but she gritted her bloody teeth and endured the pain without a sound, methodically dissecting the beast.
But with her going wild like this, the Old-Timer was the one who suffered.
Xu Mo: ?
What the fuck?!
It hurts so fucking bad!
Having played this game so many times, he had almost never experienced such excruciating pain. In his mind, Xu Mo grimaced in agony, barely holding back a scream.
But screaming would be too embarrassing, so he could only grit his teeth and bear it.
Holy shit! Is this woman always this fierce?
If I had known, I wouldn't have been so greedy for these experience points!
Watching Bai Feifei's bloodthirsty, berserk state, Feng Guozhi stood in the distance, utterly dumbfounded.
Looking at her now, she seemed... like she could actually do it?
Finally, after a grueling close-quarters battle, Bai Feifei suddenly let go.
She flipped backward off the monster, spinning twice in the air before landing unsteadily on the ground.
Through her Heart of the World, she could feel that the creature's heart had stopped beating.
The monster flailed its arms a few more times in a daze, then froze as its massive body cracked apart, crumbling into a pile of rubble.
The Scion-level aberration dissolved, turning into experience points that flowed into her body.
Bai Feifei tilted her head back, her pupils dilating slightly as she let out a long breath.
She felt as if every single bone in her body was aching. And this was with the Old-Timer sharing half of her pain; otherwise, she really didn't know if she could have held on.
Come to think of it, for some reason, the Old-Timer had gone completely silent halfway through the fight...
As the experience points integrated into her body, her level rose to 47. Her injuries vanished instantly, allowing her to finally catch her breath.
When she finally recovered, she realized the surroundings were incredibly quiet.
She drew her sword, flicked off the foul blood clinging to the blade, and glanced back.
The people from Yaoguang Academy stood in the distance, their expressions blank, as if they had yet to wake up from a dream.
...
Meanwhile, in the camp outside the red soil region.
Everyone stared at the screen, transfixed by the image of Bai Feifei pinning the monster to death with a single strike, unable to snap out of their daze for a long time.
They had seen it clearly. That thing had undoubtedly crossed the threshold into a Scion-level aberration!
Even if it had only just reached that level, this was still impossible.
She had actually killed it?
Did she already possess this kind of power?!
Just then, Xie Xuan, his face filled with admiration, suddenly spoke up. “What level Scavenger is this Teacher Bai?”
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