Watching "Yan Shi Yi" disappear from the character list, Yan Qing put down the game console, only to realize that he was covered in a thin layer of sweat.
He had actually sweated while playing a game.
He had been prepared to lose Calamity Karma. From the very beginning, he had known this was destined to be a Don Quixote-style charge. Let alone reality—even in the game, a miracle like "a mortal Herald killing a Foundation Establishment cultivator" was hard to come by. Even if a player could possess combat strength comparable to Foundation Establishment at the Third Rank, the problem was that Foundation Establishment cultivators were not idiots. They could run.
Unless the Foundation Establishment Herald could be trapped in something like "a room you can't leave unless you do XX," forcing both sides to fight to the death until a winner emerged, a mortal Herald simply had no way to stop a Foundation Establishment Herald who focused on escaping.
A mortal Herald might be able to match Foundation Establishment in attack and defense, but they could never restrain a Foundation Establishment cultivator's movements. Forget mortals and Foundation Establishment cultivators—even between two Foundation Establishment cultivators, trapping an enemy was no easy task.
Just look at Dragon Locking True Person and True Person Dongshou. Both possessed divine abilities specializing in control, but the former's control was fixed-point and easy to evade. Although the latter could establish a barrier sealing off its interior and exterior, he himself could not interfere with anything inside.
From the beginning, Yan Qing had known he had not the slightest chance of success. Just as everyone had thought, death was the predetermined ending. In fact, before leaving the Tombstone Mountain Secret Realm, Yan Qing had seriously considered whether he should stop there. Although he had talked