“What fools they are to beat up the god’s men just because their cultivation is superior. Do they have a death wish?” Immortals passing by hunched in on themselves when they saw Aoxue delivering a furious beating.

That gang had been demanding road tolls for about a year. Everyone visiting Levitating Island knew the rules. At first, a good number of immortals had leveraged their superior cultivation and refused to pay, but after their patron, the Monster God, had shown  up and killed a number of golden immortals, no one dared resist since.

The Monster God had gained control over the seven cities on the outskirts of the island and became a local overlord. All seven of the cities had checkpoints like this one, forcing anyone who wished to pass to hand over a certain number of immortal crystals.

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