Gray mist blanketed the sky, growing thicker and more pervasive by the moment.0

Deep in the forest, the underbrush stretched endlessly, and strange, blood-curdling screams and howls echoed from the depths of the unseen fog.0

Li Yuan stood silently, listening to the words of the former Sect Master. He made no move. The three beast kings before him were behaving…oddly. The combat powers hovering above their heads were spinning wildly, fluctuating without pattern.0

Li Yuan remembered that due to the limitations of their cultivation time and environment, these beast kings should have been capped at the third rank, second stage at most. Combat power for creatures at that level typically hovered between 200k~300k, with stronger ones perhaps reaching close to 400k, but never more than that.0

But now, things were unraveling.0

The towering ape, the silver giant wolf galloping through the haze, and the golden wasp the size of a boulder…all of their numbers were flashing and reshuffling like a shuffled deck of cards. One moment,...0