Published: February 13, 2025
The appearance of the demon whale captured the attention of the entire battlefield.
Since Ye Zhongming left Earth, no life form had ever been as well-known and feared as this one.
Previously, Ye Zhongming's name was like that of a great demon king, looming over all powers. In the later stages, it even reached Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and the Land of the Extreme North, subtly becoming recognized as the number one person globally.
Ye Zhongming's true peak of fame came when Mo Ye killed Wang Hanran; at that time, Ye Zhongming was already no longer on Earth, yet he left behind the legend that his subordinates could kill nine-star evolvers.
Now, the demon whale had become humanity's nightmare.
Previously, this demon whale displayed formidable combat power, and even the top-tier life forms at Cloud Summit Villa couldn’t do much against it, suffering losses in the process.
In fact, no one had ever seen what this monster could do when it unleashed its full power.
Because no one could force it to do so.
Xia Bai wanted to test it out, so she made her move.
After Ye Zhongming left, Xia Bai became much quieter, which made her pursue power more purely and wholeheartedly.
She became the benchmark, and the red dress guard became unusually low-key; even when hunting ninth-level life forms for top-tier magic crystals, they rarely appeared.
Most of the time, they stayed within Cloud Summit Villa, and only on rare occasions did they go out; no one knew where they went or what they did.
But one thing everyone could feel was that the red dress guard had grown colder, so cold that no one dared to approach, so cold that people were deterred.
Thus, no one knew just how powerful the red dress guard had become now.
In the past, everyone estimated that if they didn’t care about casualties, they could take down three newly evolved ordinary nine-star evolvers together.
This was quite a terrifying thing.
Of course, some people didn’t believe it; after all, every nine-star evolver, even if newly evolved, had already stepped into another realm, closer to 'god'. They shouldn’t be beings that non-top-tier existences could easily kill.
Even within Cloud Summit, opinions varied. Some believed the red dress guard could be even stronger, able to take on four nine-star evolvers, especially now that Xia Bai had become a nine-star!
But others thought that when facing top-tier life forms, other levels, even eight-star evolvers, had no chance of collectively resisting. Including Xia Bai, at most, they could deal with two, and there would likely be significant casualties.
Today was the first time many people saw the demon whale, and it was also the first time many saw the red dress guard, which had disappeared from people's sight for nearly a year.
Now, many were shocked by the enormous black scythe phantom.
Could one imagine the feeling of a transport plane flying low, overshadowed by another gigantic scythe?
Everyone felt small and unmatched.
At the end of the scythe phantom was a human wearing a mask. Dressed in black armor, she had a pair of pitch-black wings on her back, and around her, dozens of black feathers slowly circled.
She hovered in mid-air, one hand hanging naturally, the other gripping the end of the black scythe.
The enormous and the tiny formed a stark contrast at this moment.
The scythe phantom swept across the sky, cutting through the body of the demon whale.
Many people gasped at that moment.
Because they saw the black scythe slice directly through the demon whale’s body.
Did it hit?!
But they quickly realized something was wrong; the demon whale's body flickered and shifted slightly to the side.
It dodged!
Many humans sighed in their hearts.
The first attack is often the most sudden and the most powerful; if the first blow was avoided, the battle situation could take a dramatic turn for the worse.
Everyone acknowledged Xia Bai's strength; no one in Cloud Summit could claim to defeat her in a one-on-one confrontation. However, compared to the demon whale, which had already killed numerous beings of its level, people habitually placed Xia Bai in the weaker position.