The King of Black Fog

A tree rooted on the mountain peak, blossoming with magnolia-like flowers, its branches, however, resembled those of a willow, stretching out strand by strand.

Bang!

The branches waved, slashing and whipping in the air like a number of divine whips, sweeping across all directions.

Amidst the branches, a snow-white little beast frequently spat out a white light, repelling the sneak attacks of the crowd.

A tree and a beast, astonishingly, stood their ground. Though it was difficult, they indeed blocked the siege while refining the newly acquired Immortal Position.

"Not good! The Immortal Position is about to be illuminated!"

Everyone glanced and saw that the runes inside the Treasure Bead had six strokes, with five already lit up, leaving only the last stroke.

"Kill!!" The assailants fell into a state of fury.

The True Qi roared, the Divine Power Techniques bloomed like fireworks, causing half of the Immortal Tree to explode instantly. The little beast fought desperately to protect the tree trunk from damage.

"Goutree, Feifei, hand over the Huoshan Mountain Master's Immortal Position!" Someone transformed into a Fierce Beast Body, becoming an Immortal Mastiff with a dragon's head.

The Immortal Dragon Mastiff leaped from another mountain top, the mountain collapsing under its feet, its claws capable of uprooting a hundred-meter small mountain, tearing towards the Immortal Tree.

"Boom!!" The Immortal Tree uprooted, fiercely fighting back.

The tree roots, lifting and setting down, seemed like a Heavenly Sword, slashing off the claws of the Immortal Dragon Mastiff with a swoosh.

Turning back to slash vertically, the sneaky Spiritual Turtle was so frightened that it quickly shrank.

The clash between the tree roots and the turtle shell penetrated downward, bursting out a powerful airwave from the bottom of the shell, turning countless boulders to dust, which then rose, making the sky gray and hazy.

"Woo!!" The little beast whimpered, emitting a white light.

The dust fog from the airwave was torn apart instantly, and the white light emitted by the little beast stopped a giant axe that could split mountains.

The tree root Heavenly Sword, which was split onto the turtle shell, suddenly spread like five fingers, wrapping around the turtle shell, turning into a flail.

The whistling wind sound roared, the tree roots binding the turtle shell, sweeping across all directions, causing the people to retreat quickly.

"Quick!" The Immortal Tree shouted.

The little beast seized the moment, pouring True Qi into the Treasure Bead...

"Where's the Treasure Bead?" It stared blankly at its empty hands.

The Immortal Tree wielding the turtle shell and the crowd preparing to fight all froze, pausing their actions.

A streak of light skimmed across the sky.

"Cheng Huang!" The Immortal Dragon Mastiff roared, causing the mountains to tremble.

"The Huoshan Mountain Master is mine!" Cheng Huang laughed triumphantly, treading on lightning.

"Huh?"

A familiar voice reached its ears.

Cheng Huang's vision blurred, revealing a person with skin like snow and a bright, radiant smile—it was that witch from before!

She appeared by its side, holding a head and showing a heartfelt smile as if reuniting with family.

"Little Huang, I knew you weren't someone who forgot gratitude, come to pick me up?"

Cheng Huang's body slightly sagged, aware that it had been ridden again.

"Who came...?"

"Little Huang, run faster, there's a divine position chasing from behind, go!"

Cheng Huang lowered its forelimbs, running on all fours.

"Big Sister!" It lamented while running, "You promised! As long as I brought you to the battlefield, you'd let me go!"

"Didn't we let you go?"

Cheng Huang stubbornly lifted its head, refusing to let tears of grievance fall.

"Also, Little Huang, don't you already have an Immortal Position, why are you still snatching?"

"None of your business!" Cheng Huang shouted with its neck craned.

Li Qianxia hooked her finger, and Cheng Huang's hidden Storage Beast Bag flew to her.

Checking it, she found that apart from the Baimin Mountain Master and Huoshan Mountain Master's Immortal Positions, there were also two others, one River Lord and one City Lord.

"Give it back to me?!" Cheng Huang turned its head, trying to bite.

"Be good, don't resist," Li Qianxia held Cheng Huang's head, facing it forward, "Resist, and you'll gain nothing; obediently listen, and it's all yours."

"It was mine to begin with!"

"Good children shouldn't lie, I clearly saw you snatching from others." Li Qianxia tossed the Huoshan Mountain Master's Treasure Bead, "Are you trying to break the record for having the most Immortal Positions?"

"..." Cheng Huang didn't want to speak.

Li Qianxia put down the Treasure Bead, glancing at Li Changzhou.

His body hadn't recovered, his head appeared shriveled, and his eyes were closed. If he weren't her own brother, she'd find it quite repulsive.

She wiped the bloodstains and messy hair off Li Changzhou's face with her hand.

Her hand and skin contact clearly felt the lack of moisture. If they weren't in the Mountain and River Map where one would revive after death, she'd suspect Li Changzhou was already dead.

"Big Sister," Unable to hold back, Cheng Huang spoke up when Li Qianxia remained silent, "I haven't illuminated a single Immortal Position, as long as I'm within a certain range, everyone knows where I am, it's dangerous for me to follow you. Also, I see this guy..."

She glanced at Li Changzhou's head: "…needs a quiet environment to heal."

"You go your way, continue whatever you want, just act like we're not here."

Li Qianxia thought it clear that with the Immortal Positions in hand, those divine positions wouldn't chase them.

After all, with the strength of villains and Kunpeng, why would they vie for Immortal Positions?

Holding the head steadily in her arms, her mind wandered off, recalling "School Days."

'How hateful, why isn't there a phone in the wilderness, what a pity for this dramatic scene!'

Li Changzhou completely abandoned perception of the outside world, sinking deep into inner vision.

This strengthening was different from the previous three times, and also different from the previous breakthroughs, now, he only had a head left.

During previous breakthroughs, [Divine Body] secreted a kind of mysterious substance, just a little of which gave his physical body an amazing feeling of advancement.

Now, without a body, not only was there no mysterious substance secretion, his only remaining head was also drained.

Even more frightening, his Dao Fruit and Origin were also being extracted mysteriously.