After eating and drinking his fill, Bai Qiu entered a meditative state.
An hour later, he had returned to peak condition.
It was now close to 6 PM.
Originally, if there had been enough time, Bai Qiu had planned to take them out to level up a bit.
But now that everything was ready, he decided to head straight to Zone 2203 and settle everything once and for all.
Before that, however, he still needed to make a trip to the tailor shop.
When he arrived, Jeanne Sinia was just finishing the final adjustments.
After confirming everything was in order, she handed the concealment cloak to Bai Qiu.
Concealment Cloak (C+)
Effect: Does not occupy an equipment slot and can be worn over other gear.
Passive 1: Aura Concealment
After equipping, it effectively prevents detection. Players with detection skills below B- cannot perceive the wearer’s abilities.
Passive 2: Environmental Assimilation
If the wearer does not make large movements, they gradually blend into the surroundings, reducing their presence…
The cloak felt light and soft, with a gray-black color.
After putting it on, although wearing a cloak over full-body armor looked somewhat strange, it achieved exactly the effect Bai Qiu wanted.
With the cloak on, as long as he slightly controlled his aura, even walking through the streets—players… even Sanctuary supporters standing right beside him—would fail to notice him.
It could be said that although this equipment provided no attribute bonuses, its stealth capability was absolutely top-tier!
As for the aura concealment against detection, some players with powerful detection skills might still be able to glimpse his basic attributes—but Bai Qiu didn’t care.
After all, what made him truly powerful now wasn’t just his stats.
Unless someone knew him well, even if he used a staff, a bow, or other weapons, those unable to detect his class wouldn’t be able to determine it based on his weapon choice.
Because of that, it would be difficult for others to prepare against him or predict his Noble Phantasm.
Though at this stage, even if someone knew everything about him, almost no one could defeat him anyway.
After finishing everything, Bai Qiu headed straight to the teleportation device, preparing to travel to Zone 2203.
However, the system informed him that his teleportation privileges to Zone 2203 had been revoked—causing the malice in his heart to surge further.
But he quickly calmed down and changed the destination to Zone 2202.
With a flash of white light, he arrived in Zone 2202.
Standing atop the walls of the Sanctuary’s black tower, he gazed toward Zone 2203 dozens of kilometers away and muttered:
“Hmph… just a dying struggle.”
With that, he leapt down from the wall, landing almost silently, and swiftly rushed toward his destination.
The surrounding players only felt that the wind tonight had become more restless—nothing more…
…
Zone 2203.
Fei Wu paced back and forth within the safe zone, smoking one cigarette after another.
He had already learned that Bai Qiu had awakened.
Now, in Zone 2203, those who had once participated in the siege against Bai Qiu didn’t dare to leave the safe zone to farm monsters.
They couldn’t even sleep without nightmares.
From the very beginning, Fei Wu believed he had prepared everything.
He had even used the lives of countless players as leverage to plead with the Sage to revoke Bai Qiu’s teleportation access here.
He had also requested military assistance.
Now, a vanguard unit from Zone 2201 was stationed in Zone 2203—but in reality, they had simply brought people to clear all the dungeons belonging to this zone and were now demanding large fees…
He had also tried adding Bai Qiu as a friend, sending him countless messages—shifting blame, apologizing, begging—but Bai Qiu never responded.
All he knew was that Bai Qiu had become increasingly elusive, interacting less and less with players, and had stopped listing equipment and skills in the shop…
On the Sanctuary rankings, he had even taken first place in six different leaderboards!
That completely shattered Fei Wu’s last illusion.
He knew Bai Qiu had grown even stronger—and he also knew Bai Qiu would never let this go.
After all, no one would easily let something like this slide.
So now, his only hope rested on the military—hoping that these formal forces could make Bai Qiu back down…
Boom!
A loud explosion rang out, and the Sanctuary’s barrier trembled violently!
Fei Wu and the others, harboring ulterior motives, felt their hearts jolt as they hurriedly looked toward the source of the sound.
It was already night.
Outside the safe zone was pitch black.
Without enhanced vision, relying only on the faint glow of the barrier, they could barely see more than a dozen meters beyond it.
“Cough… help me…”
Just as Fei Wu approached the barrier to take a closer look, the scene before him sent a chill down his spine, causing him to collapse to the ground.
His entire body turned cold, while fine beads of sweat instantly formed—proof of his overwhelming terror.
Just outside the barrier, about a dozen meters away, a player covered in blood was desperately crawling toward the safe zone.
But behind him—there was nothing visible.
Only darkness.
And yet, from the waist down, his body had been cleanly severed.
Blood and organs spilled across the ground…
“Aaaah…!”
He screamed in terror as something unseen dragged him backward—pulling him into the darkness.
Then, both the bloodstains and the screams vanished.
Fei Wu was utterly terrified, scrambling backward away from the barrier.
What frightened him wasn’t what he saw.
It was precisely that he saw nothing—only that unfortunate player being dragged away by something invisible…
“Ahh…! No—help me!”
Several more players seemed to be caught by something and were being dragged toward the outside of the barrier!
They desperately clung to anything they could grab, trying to increase friction—but were still dragged away amid their screams…
The scene resembled something straight out of a horror movie.
Fei Wu tried to get as far away from the barrier as possible.
A cold wind blew past, making him shiver—
Then suddenly—
Boom!
A powerful force suddenly grabbed at his legs.
Fei Wu looked down in horror as he realized he too was being dragged toward the outside of the barrier.
In that instant, he lost control and wet himself.
“Crack… crack…”
He dug his fingers into the ground with all his strength.
Even as he carved ten deep grooves into the floor, his legs were still clamped by an invisible force—slowly dragging him toward the edge of the barrier…
Watching as the lower-level players around him were violently dragged out of the Sanctuary barrier one by one—some without even having the chance to scream—Fei Wu struggled even more in terror…
“Ahhh!! Help! I don’t want to die!” he shouted desperately as he struggled, his feet already nearing the edge of the barrier…
But to his surprise, the force gripping his ankles suddenly vanished.
Looking up, he saw that the Sage had arrived, cutting off the mysterious power from outside.
Only then did Fei Wu finally breathe a sigh of relief.
He collapsed onto the ground, panting like a dog, exhausted.
He felt his face burning, along with an indescribable, pungent stench.
Lowering his gaze, he realized his face was pressed against the ground—on the very spot where he had just “leaked.”
…
Bai Qiu looked at the stack of storage cards in his hand.
After briefly sorting through them, he listed all the useless items on the trading market at a price of ten Sanctum Coins each.
“Expand storage card.”
As his words fell, the storage card in his hand flickered…
[System Notification: 22 Relic Cards used. Storage capacity expanded by 220 slots.]
Although only dragging out and killing 22 people left Bai Qiu somewhat dissatisfied, there was nothing he could do—the Sage had intervened.
His mental power and Wind Control could no longer penetrate the Sanctuary barrier to pull people out for execution.
However, an unexpected bonus was that the storage cards of dead players could be used to upgrade his own.
Although the conversion rate was reduced tenfold, it was still quite worthwhile.
Recently, due to stockpiling large amounts of basic materials, his storage space had frequently run out.
This expansion alone increased it by 2.2 times.
If he had killed all the players who attacked him a few days ago, his storage capacity could have increased more than twentyfold!
Bai Qiu pressed a hand to his forehead, suppressing the malice rising within him.
His goal had never changed—he couldn’t allow himself to lose control over such things…
He walked toward the Sanctuary’s protective barrier, which had now shrunk into a more compact defensive form.
But instead of taking out Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear, he gathered mana along with the surrounding wind-element energy and threw a punch!
Boom!
The Sanctuary barrier trembled violently.
The players inside felt their hearts quake along with it.
Even the Sage couldn’t help but exclaim:
“How is this possible?! Even a Level 2 Sanctuary can be shaken like this?!”
The Sage of Zone 2203 frowned deeply and turned to look at Fei Wu, who was hiding behind him.
“What exactly did you do to provoke a truly transcendent adventurer to this extent?!” he demanded angrily, while also feeling puzzled.
These adventurers weren’t exactly weak—but compared to someone who had truly reached the transcendent realm, the gap was immeasurable.
In front of such a being, they were no different from ants!
What on earth had they done to anger someone like this?
The Sage couldn’t understand—and neither could the other supporters…
“J-just hold on a bit longer… other adventurers will arrive soon…” Fei Wu stammered, his body trembling.
From the very beginning, he had never intended to rely on the Sage to force Bai Qiu to retreat.
Seeing that Fei Wu still avoided the question and didn’t dare to tell the truth, the Sage grew even more furious.
He thought to himself that at this stage, there were probably only a handful of people on the entire planet who had truly reached the transcendent realm.
Could other adventurers really handle this?
They’d probably just be coming to throw their lives away…
But he didn’t say it out loud.
Fei Wu was already in a pitiful state—frightened out of his wits.
If he pushed him further, he might quite literally scare him to death.
The Sage stepped toward the edge of the Sanctuary barrier, gave Bai Qiu a respectful bow, and said:
“Honored transcendent adventurer, please tell me—why are you slaughtering your own kind in such a manner?”
Bai Qiu, hidden beneath his cloak, gave no reply.
He simply raised his iron-clad arm.
As overwhelming magic gathered together with the power of wind, he slammed down with a fierce punch!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fragments of light scattered from the Sanctuary barrier as it shook violently.
A barrier capable of withstanding prolonged monster tides would not be destroyed by just a few of Bai Qiu’s attacks.
— The end of the Chapter–
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