The King of Black Fog

"Go to hell!" Turquoise Pool laughed and scolded, splashing water on her face.

"Still dare to resist!" Li Qianxia laughed while pouncing forward.

"Stop it!" Turquoise Pool quickly lifted her long leg to block her, Li Qianxia hugged her leg, showing a lustful expression, ready to make a move.

"What are you two doing?"

Just like Li Qianxia at the time, Turquoise Pool instinctively shrunk into the water in fear, then realized it was Yang Qinglan.

Yang Qinglan had changed back into her ancient long dress - wearing it made it easier to calm down, perhaps because she was used to this attire during her historical cultivation.

"Qianxia is harassing me," Turquoise Pool laughed.

Yang Qinglan looked at Li Qianxia: "I always vaguely felt you liked to stick close to me, turns out you really like girls."

"I... both of you enough, one says I'm seducing my brother, the other says I'm seducing my sister-in-law! I, Li Qianxia, am a pure, flawless, jade-clear beautiful girl, stop using your filthy thoughts to slander me!"

Anger only lingered for a moment, the next Li Qianxia smiled: "Qinglan, come down too!"

Yang Qinglan came out to feel the vitality in the "Honey Jar World" and to catch some air, she didn't refuse the invitation.

As the only one who didn't mind being seen by Li Changzhou, she wore clothes, but very few, leaving only a layer of light gauze over her chest and waist.

In a way, this outfit was even more enticing.

As soon as she went in, the three immediately started frolicking.

Once they'd played enough, they left the waist-deep water, sat by the pool, and Yang Qinglan took out a little Jade Dew she exchanged for earlier, and the three drank and chatted.

Li Qianxia asked: "How's your cultivation going? I've expanded my mini world to a football-field-sized sandy area, but after thinking for two days and nights, I couldn't come up with a single blade of grass."

"I'm about the same as you," Turquoise Pool took a sip of Jade Liquid, her jade-like face blushed, stunningly beautiful, her white hair sticking wetly to her fragrant shoulders.

"I've made some progress," Yang Qinglan let her black hair down, resembling a black mandala in the water, "I've already evolved a small tree."

"Qinglan, you're amazing!" Li Qianxia admired.

Turquoise Pool squinted slightly, stimulated by Yang Qinglan.

Actually, Yang Qinglan's fast progress partly owed to Turquoise Pool, though her realm was lower, her combat power was stronger.

Even though she now comprehended the 'Heavenly Blade,' it's still shallow, she still didn't have the confidence to beat the opponent, especially since Turquoise Pool already possessed a complete "Favored Concubine" and could use Li Changzhou's skills.

"Qianxia, you could try evolving animals first, as you've experienced transformations multiple times, then learn some corresponding spells from your brother; Turquoise Pool, you might want to try 'commanding' the grains of sand, let them grow on their own, perhaps even future control over the Constant Sand World."

Yang Qinglan suggested, her insights from evolving a small tree were shared in detail.

The two also shared their processes of refining Constant Sand, broadening perspectives with each other.

The delicious Jadescent Nectar, for a while, no one touched.

They were in healthy competition, relied on each other as teammates.

Until the three emerged from the Eternal Spring, with new insights to continue their seclusion, Li Changzhou never appeared.

His goal was simple, to defeat the three of them single-handedly, but since Li Qianxia, Yang Qinglan, and Turquoise Pool were top-grade players and shared openly, he had to work even harder.

The four again experienced another accumulation of biological remnants, eventually condensed into an oil-like retreat.

In the Constant Sand Mini World, Li Changzhou sat cross-legged on a sandy area the length of a regular dining table.

Surrounded by nothingness, only him and the sand beneath, it felt serene and eerie, like sitting in the cosmos.

Inside his body, Five Organs Gears hovered like a great sun, bones stood like peaks, countless blood-colored Divine Chains grew like seaweed from White Bone Mountain, flourishing under the light of the Five Organs Gears.

[With organs as the engine, bones as support, qi-blood as the weapon, your physical body has completed the foundational build.] Guanyin said.

Li Changzhou felt an arm's command-like sensation, his entire body's strength seemed obedient to him, like arrows submit to the bow, bullets to the clip.

But this was an illusion.

His Bone Forging had just begun, the road was long, and thoughts of that pain meant the current power not only failed to bring joy but weighed on his mood.

Those with weaker will wouldn't want this power if it meant experiencing such agony.

[Go test your skills.] Guanyin now devoid of Dao Fruit, like a commoner, eager to try.

A vortex opened before him, Li Changzhou stood, taking a step inside.

He arrived at Si's solitary planet, she was wearing nothing, listening to music in her living room, pouring herself a drink at the bar.

"...Put some clothes on," Li Changzhou turned around.

Si, expressionless, continued drinking as her armor shrank from a bracelet, automatically covering her, turning her into a Valkyrie.

[I meant for you to test your skills, not in this way.] Guanyin teased.

If Li Qianxia were here, she'd understand, after all, who sensible wears proper clothes alone at home?

Of course, no sensible person suddenly enters someone else's home.

"All set."

"Sorry." Li Changzhou turned back.

"Let's talk when I retrieve my emotions, now I only know not to let you see, but if you do see, I feel nothing, even—"