The King of Black Fog

"All out?"

"All out." Another punch followed.

"What's this all about?" Li Changzhou caught her two fists, one in front and one behind, as if playing a game to push the other's body, "I'm in the Honey Pot World every day, maybe not as big as your castle, and I still have to do laundry and cook."

"You do your own laundry and cooking?!" Bi's eyes were wide with disbelief, "Why don't you let a maid do it for you?"

"I let my sister do it for me."

"What about your maids?"

"None."

In fact, what Li Changzhou meant was that his sister was his maid, but since Bi didn't catch on, he let it go.

"You're lying! Can't you be a bit more professional?" Bi said each word deliberately, her fists pushing forward vigorously, wanting to pin both of Li Changzhou's hands against his stomach.

Li Changzhou remained as unmoved as a mountain.

"So the real world really has someone who would say 'Why not eat minced meat' like Emperor Hui of Jin."

"Ha, ha." Bi gave up, out of breath, "How have you become so strong?"

"Because I—"

Bi hit him with telekinesis, almost landing the punch, when Li Changzhou's abdomen sensed danger and tensed instinctively.

The punch wasn't very powerful; it was roughly the same strength as a ten-year-old Li Qianxia playfully sticking out her tongue and saying: "You can't hit me, you can't hit me," and then him holding her down to demonstrate he could take care of her anytime—just to prove he could overpower her whenever he wanted.

"...Was that necessary?"

"I have to let you know who is the master and who is the servant!" Bi said triumphantly.

After some horsing around, Bi began to talk seriously about her experiences during this period.

Because of external opposition and her father's fear that her identity would be exposed, leading to assassination, she wasn't allowed to go out on her own.

If she couldn't raid for Black Cards, she wouldn't be able to level up, gain skills, or increase her attributes. Continuing like this, even with an A-level Instinct, she would be left behind by the main force sooner or later.

Fortunately, herbal medicine had been discovered.

As a princess, although her freedom was restricted, the resources she could enjoy were unimaginable to others; she quickly maxed out all four attributes.

After maxing out came the breakthrough of limits, and after that, she sneaked out, only to see her manservant (Li Changzhou) getting ganged up on, so as a master, she fulfilled her duty to protect her servant.

"What's your 'background'?" Li Changzhou asked curiously.

"You first." Bi crossed her arms and glared at him, unwilling to be the only one sharing.

"Do you know the Jade Emperor?"

"Humph—, I didn't expect your background to be so high up there."

"Alright, I've told you. Now it's your turn."

Bi tilted her head back, "Not telling you!"

"You're lying? That's not good."

"Whatever's not good is learned from you," Bi said proudly, her arms coming down from their crossed position as she threw a few punches in the air to express her feelings.

The Gothic-style black dress swayed with her movement.

"Once I cheat that stinky woman one more time, my revenge will be complete!" she clenched her fist, full of ambition.

Suddenly, her blue eyes looked over, her delicate little face filled with warning, "If you dare tell her in advance, next time I'll snap your neck directly, got it?"

"I fully support you, I'd love to see how Miss Yang gets fooled by you," Li Changzhou sincerely assured.

Bi hummed with satisfaction, taking out two lollipops from her sky-blue shoulder bag, one for each of them.

They unwrapped the lollipops and put them in their mouths at the same time; their synchronized actions looked like a scene intended for effect in a TV drama.

As they tasted the lollipops, Li Changzhou asked, "Did your Instinct get enhanced as well?"

"Mhm." With the lollipop in her mouth, Bi's voice was a bit muffled, "I can use it a bit even without lollipops, and next time I come across guys like you, I'll break your legs and pull out your tongues!"

To make her threat more formidable, she added a loud "Humph!"

It was different from the "Humph" of Turquoise Pool, but because of some similar behaviors, they seemed a bit like sisters—maybe it's a princess syndrome common among high-class women?

Also, Li Changzhou was practically starting to use "Humph," affected by the spread of this verbal tic.

"What about you? What's your Instinct?" Bi asked.

"Physical Enhancement, but with my 'background,' there hasn't been much change."

"How could there be no change? You just haven't noticed it." Bi affirmed with the simplicity of a child's thinking.

Li Changzhou fell into thought; though this was Bi's unreflective opinion, maybe it was true. Children's sometimes naive ideas can often be closest to the truth.

"So where do you think I'll get stronger?" He asked, willing to try.

"How should I know? Maybe it's an increase in sexual performance." Bi answered.

"You... even know about that?"

Bi showed a disdainful sneer, the kind a child flashes in a futile attempt to look formidable, like a seven- or eight-year-old girl secretly wearing her mother's high heels and deliberately wiggling her butt.

"Even if this ability has been enhanced, I wouldn't know, think of something else for me," she said.

If it were Turquoise Pool, she would definitely delve into a discussion about "how to know this ability has been enhanced."

But Bi was completely uninterested in the former.

She lifted her just-lowered face and said, "Hmph, now you know I'm smarter than you."

Li Changzhou could almost see her little nostrils.

"Yes, we could deceive you only because we are older than you and have more experience, but you were fooled only once and immediately learned from it. Now it's our turn to be deceived by you, Your Highness, please help me," he said.

Bi pulled the lollipop out of her mouth, contentedly smacked her lips twice to savor the thick sweetness, and then put the lollipop back in her mouth.

She pondered seriously, "As for the body, maybe hearing further and clearer, smelling more scents, seeing farther—"

"None of those," he said.

"Don't interrupt!" Bi glared at him discontentedly, "Or maybe it's awakening some special skill."

"Seems not either," he said.

"Then you just haven't figured it out! Have you tried fire-spitting? Turning into an ice block? Thinking about stopping time? Thinking about flying with your own body?" she asked.

"Uh, no," he said.

"Useless. Idiot. Trash. Scum!"

"...Don't swear," he said.

Although he was scolded, it did give Li Changzhou some ideas.

He used to think that "Physical Enhancement" was achieved through one breakthrough after another, a sort of growth-oriented instinct. So, not feeling enhanced after gaining an "origin" didn't seem to matter much.

Moreover, he believed this instinct was already strong enough to make him a "rule-breaking player," but thinking it over...

Was it so powerful that it didn't need to be further strengthened even at the limit?

All players had strengthened their abilities at this stage, and Li Changzhou didn't think his "Physical Enhancement" was so abnormal that it surpassed players worldwide.

So, maybe just as Bi said, it was because he never tried that he hadn't realized where the "Physical Enhancement" had improved?

Fire-spitting? Shooting out ice blocks?

...It didn't seem realistic.

No, maybe it was exactly this kind of thinking that had limited him before.

Superman can even shoot Heat Beams from his eyes, maybe he—

"Squeak—"

Li Changzhou hurriedly raised his eyes!

Just before the red light in his eyes could slice through all the passengers in the carriage, it drew a deep red line across the roof.

The solid steel plates parted easily like sand under the red light, revealing a sliver of sky.

Li Changzhou instinctively closed his eyes, fearing the next moment he might regret—would it pierce through his eyelids?!

No.

The red light dutifully vanished.

He felt a bit of warmth around his eyes, but nothing serious, like eggs wrapped in a warm towel.

He felt slightly weak; in such a short time, he lost 10 points of Blood Power. With his total of 54 points, he probably could only sustain for 5 seconds.

"You, you..." the passengers in the carriage stared at him in horror.

In such an atmosphere,

"Ah!!! You look so cool! That's amazing! That's so cool!" Bi hugged Li Changzhou, vigorously shaking him, "Patriot?"

"...I said not to curse, it's Superman," Li Changzhou laughed, "Thanks to you, otherwise I would've never thought of letting my eyes shoot out... lasers? Heat Beams?"

The two paid no attention to the stares of the 1880s passengers.

Bi stood up straight again, crossed her arms, and snorted proudly, showing off how significant her contribution was and how incredible she was.

"But I didn't expect you to be so awesome," she conceded modestly, seeming quite impressed with the ability to shoot Heat Beams from the eyes.

"It's okay, Heat Beams are common, many people can do it," Li Changzhou said.

"Not common at all! And you were smoking; is that what you people from Xia Country call becoming an Immortal?"

"Smoking?"

Li Changzhou looked down and saw the sunlight above casting a bright band of light on him, his body emitting white vapor as if a wet shirt was being dried.

He's on fire!

No, that's not right, he's going to be fire—that's more auspicious.