"Hmm?"

I hesitated for just an instant. During this time, Strella had killed another dozens of Candle Dragon Qiu Beast Cavalry. If you looked at its Attack alone, it was without a doubt a Divine Rank boss in every sense of the word. And yet… Lin Yixin was right. This was going a bit too smoothly. Strella the Dark Magma was one of the Nine Purgatory Sovereigns, a boss you would expect to lose tens of thousands players against, even with the aid of powerful NPCs. Could we really defeat it at the cost of just a couple thousand players?

It was too late to change our minds, however. There was a saying called "a notched arrow must be set loose", and we didn’t have the time to puzzle out this conundrum.

Li Chengfeng asked me again, "So? Are we doing it?"

"Do it!"

I growled out and activated Heavenly River Transformation. This was the first time I used it after making contact with Strella. As a pair of bloody wings spread out behind me, and the Chill of the Nine Provinces glowed red with the power of undead energy, the golden blade that was Xuanyuan Slash burst into existence. At the same time, I changed...