I am the Arcane Archer, and all my skills are self-created.

On the mountaintop.

Hua Zitong stared blankly as the Blood Wolf Battle Spirit on the mountainside turned into a white dot and disappeared.

That's... a 1-second kill?

She turned her head and looked at the man beside her, who was still in a bow-drawing posture with an indifferent expression, as if he were a monster.

"How did they manage to do that?"

She knew Li Wu was very strong, and she also knew that his newly mastered [Fusion Penetrating Arrow] was extremely powerful.

But she never imagined that this arrow would be so powerful.

Ultra-long range, high trajectory, ignores defense, one-hit kill!

"It's nothing."

Li Wu slowly lowered the Arcane Bow in his hand and replied in a calm tone:

"It's just shooting arrows into the sky."

He only just realized why this secret skill needed to be attached to the arrow.

This is the only drawback of the Secret Rune skill; only when attached to an arrow can the skill's casting range be maximized!

Shoot it into the sky...

Hua Zitong's lips twitched involuntarily.

That's easy for you to say!

What terrifying computing and predictive abilities does this require?

How is this guy's brain structured?

Looking at Li Wu's aloof profile, she felt for the first time how insignificant and ignorant she, the so-called "reborn person," was in front of him.

Her proud memories and strategies about the future paled in comparison to this man's boundless, almost supernatural creativity.

"They're still coming up, and it'll be difficult to behead them this time!" Hua Zitong took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock in her heart, and steered the conversation back on track.

"Since they're coming back up, don't blame me!"

A cold killing intent flashed in Li Wu's eyes.

"Since they're so eager to die, then I'll... send them on their way one last time."

As he spoke, he raised the Arcane Bow once more.

This time, the energy fluctuations emanating from him were completely different from before.

If, when he was condensing the [Fusion Penetrating Arrow], he was like a restrained yet sharp peerless divine weapon.

At this moment, he was like a terrifying volcano about to erupt, accumulating endless energy!

A terrifying energy, so immense that it made Hua Zitong's heart tremble, filled with an aura of destruction and annihilation, began to gather wildly on his bowstring!

The sky seemed to dim a little at that moment.

The surrounding air began to uncontrollably swirl back towards the bowstring, forming a small, visible vortex.

"This...this is..."

Hua Zitong's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a pinhead.

She remembered the ultimate skill that Li Wu had described to her in the grove—a combination of four secret runes!

【Burning Star Returns to Ruins Arrow】!

He actually wanted to use this move here?

Li Wu's entire mind was completely absorbed in controlling the power of those four secret runes.

【炽】 provides the most basic fire energy.

[Domain]: In the target region, a closed evolutionary space is defined.

【增】 (Enhance) causes the flames within the domain to multiply exponentially.

【凝】, on the verge of the domain spiraling out of control, exert the most powerful centripetal force, compressing all energy infinitely towards the center!

[Blazing] + [Increase] + [Domain] + [Condensate]!

Four profound and complex cryptic texts slowly arranged and combined in a perfect order within his spiritual sea.

A slowly rotating, dark red spatial singularity, with flowing molten golden light inside, gradually took shape on his bowstring.

It didn't look big, only the size of a fist, but the heavy, terrifying aura it exuded, as if it could crush the space itself, made Hua Zitong feel her soul tremble.

She had no doubt that once this tiny singularity erupted, the power it would unleash would far exceed her imagination.

Meanwhile, on the mountainside...

The Blood Wolf Guild members had arrived just a few dozen meters from the summit and were preparing to launch their attack.

The sky suddenly darkened.

An indescribable, overwhelming fear, stemming from the very instinct for survival, enveloped each and every one of them without warning.

They instinctively raised their heads.

Then, they witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

Above their heads, a dark red sphere, resembling a black hole, floated silently.

It was slowly rotating, swallowing up all the surrounding light.

Around it, space itself was visibly distorted.

"Th-what is that...?"

That was the only thought on everyone's mind.

The next second, the dark red sphere moved.

It plummeted toward their location at a speed that appeared slow but was actually incredibly fast.

The dark red sphere landed silently in the very center of their formation, before the horrified eyes of all the Blood Wolf Guild members.

There were no earth-shattering explosions.

There was no earth-shattering roar.

It's like a pebble thrown into a lake, which suddenly "spreads out" the moment it hits the ground.

A perfect, dark red, semi-transparent sphere with a diameter of over thirty meters instantly took shape, enveloping the nearly one hundred players in the most densely packed and core center of the formation!

"What the hell is that?!"

"I've been locked up!"

"Quick! Break this barrier!"

The players trapped inside the area panicked instantly.

They frantically attacked the seemingly thin, dark red light shield with their weapons.

Fireballs, ice arrows, flashes of blades, shadows of swords...

Countless attacks landed on the light shield, yet not even a ripple appeared.

Even a ripple couldn't be stirred.

This light shield seems to be a product of another dimension, indestructible!

Just as they were in a panic, something changed within the domain.

Bear!

Endless flames suddenly ignited within the domain, instantly engulfing all the trapped players!

-255!

-289!

-267!

……

A series of dense damage numbers jumped out frantically from above everyone's heads.

"ah--!"

Heart-wrenching screams rose and fell.

Those mages and archers with low health didn't even last a second before their health bars were instantly emptied, turning into streaks of white light and disappearing into the domain.

"Quickly! Priest! Heal! Heal me!"

"I can't take it! The damage is too high!"

The surviving warriors and knights struggled to stay afloat in the flames, frantically drinking health potions, but their health bars continued to drop at an alarming rate.

However, this is only the beginning.

The flames within the area began to change color after burning for several seconds.

From its initial dark red, it gradually turned into bright orange, then incandescent white, and finally, it even presented a chilling, deep blue!

The temperature inside the area was skyrocketing at an exponentially terrifying rate!

Those players who were still alive felt as if they had been thrown into a steel furnace, their armor burning red-hot and sizzling.

Their life points and mana were being frantically evaporated and extracted by this terrifying high temperature, and then transformed into new energy for the growth of their domain!

What made them even more desperate was that an irresistible, enormous pulling force came from the very center of the domain, pulling their bodies and causing them to slide uncontrollably in that direction.

At the center of the field, all the flames and all the energy were frantically converging and compressing towards a single point, a point that was getting brighter and smaller!

The oppressive aura emanating from that point of light made them feel as if their souls were being torn apart and crushed!

"No...no!"

"Let me out! I don't want to die!"

"I surrender! I surrender!"

Endless fear completely destroyed all their fighting spirit.

They cried out and begged for mercy, but it was all in vain.

Faced with the ultimate destruction of the [Burning Star Return to Ruins Arrow], a skill that can be described as divine, these mortals are nothing more than lowly ants waiting to be crushed.

On the mountaintop.

Hua Zitong stared blankly at the huge and magnificent dark red sphere on the mountainside in the distance, watching the players inside struggling in the flames like headless flies, and finally being swallowed up one by one. She felt a chill run from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

Although she had heard Li Wu describe the effects of this skill before, seeing it in person was still incredibly shocking.

She looked at Li Wu's face, which was pale from the great exertion, and her eyes were extremely complicated.

Where exactly is this man's limit?

What heights will his future reach that even she, a reborn person, cannot imagine?

Just as she was feeling excited, the evolution within the domain finally reached its final stage.

When the energy within the domain is compressed to an unimaginable critical point.

The collapse began.

No sound.

The whole world seemed to have been muted.

The huge, dark red sphere suddenly shrank inward.

Everything within the domain—the struggling players, the raging flames, the raging energy, even light and space itself—was completely swallowed up in that instant by the tiny singularity at the center of the domain, which was so bright it was impossible to look directly at it.

Immediately afterwards, the singularity that had devoured everything exploded because it could no longer maintain its stability!

boom--!!!!!!

A belated but terrifying roar, powerful enough to shatter the heavens, finally resounded throughout the entire Blackrock Mountains!

A massive, multicolored shockwave, composed of pure destructive energy, swept wildly outwards from the center of the explosion in all directions!

Wherever the shockwave passed, whether it was hard black rock or tenacious black shrubs, everything was completely vaporized and evaporated in an instant, leaving not a trace!

When the light fades, when the dust settles.

On what was originally a relatively flat mountainside, a huge sinkhole with a diameter of over fifty meters, a bottomless depth, and glass-like crystals on its edges has appeared.

Within a radius of 100 meters around the sinkhole, not a single player belonging to the Blood Wolf Guild could be seen standing.

All that's left is equipment scattered all over the ground!

One arrow, a hundred dead!