Li Wei immediately sensed the change the moment she stepped into the gray fog zone.
The Abyssal monsters had become faster, and their attacks had grown several notches sharper.
The vital energy consumed to maintain her defense had risen from forty or fifty points per second to fifty or sixty.
That increase, however, meant nothing to her.
The monsters had grown stronger, so their "Experience" had risen accordingly.
Take the third-order "Sea Urchin" for example. Its Experience Points had increased from roughly 100, with a deviation of about 90, to roughly 100, with a deviation of about 110.
The increase did not look like much for a single monster, but with their numbers, it became quite substantial.
What truly troubled her was the increasingly dense fog.
Visibility had dropped to less than five meters. During battle, she often could not even tell east from west, north from south.
Fortunately, Yun Heng was in the sky above her.
This "Grandpa Yun" would occasionally speak in her mind, helping her correct her direction so she would not lose her way amid the monster horde.
At that moment, throughout the entire Western Frontier, the only four people who could clearly "see" Li Wei slaughtering her way in all directions—along with one knight—were all finding it rather hard to keep their composure.
Even Yun Heng, despite having already overestimated Li Wei's strength as much as possible, still felt a toothache at this moment.
As he directed Li Wei forward, he desperately searched his memories for bits and pieces from decades ago.
When his own son had been at the third order, had he been this fierce?
After thinking for a long while, he sorrowfully realized that it seemed, perhaps, maybe, probably not.
Not only had he not been, but he had been far