In the center of the Gray Fog, Jiang Yan stood beneath the skeleton tree.
Behind him, Li Yong was still evolving; a red line appeared in the middle of the white blade-like horn on his head.
A white bead appeared at the center of his chest, flickering with a faint white light.
Wei Gaocheng stood beside him, watching him evolve.
Swoosh! The Blood Master landed behind Jiang Yan and quickly said, "Chairman, the enemies are here, ten Level Fives!"
Jiang Yan's eyes flickered slightly: 'Did they really send this many at once? It seems things can't be too optimistic.'
From Redd's sudden death to the arrival of ten Level Five Powerhouses, everything was heading in the worst possible direction.
Although he had fantasized that the enemies would come one by one, like delivering food, allowing him to exploit information asymmetry for easy kills.
But the opposition clearly wasn't stupid and had called in so many people directly.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Yan looked up at the top of the skeleton tree; the soul crystals there had reached 29, totaling 30 when counting the one Li Yong used.
Jiang Yan sent a thought to the skeleton tree.
Clatter! The entire skeleton tree began to shake, and the soul crystals and Skull Heads started dropping one by one.
Jiang Yan turned to the Blood Master: "Catch these soul crystals. We are retreating."
"Yes!" The Blood Master extended his hand, expressionless.
A beam of red energy light appeared in his hand, rapidly expanding into a two-meter-wide funnel to catch the falling soul crystals.
After waiting for the Blood Master to finish collecting, black matter emerged from Jiang Yan's right hand. This matter wrapped and hardened, forming a metallic, sharp-tipped Outer Armor.
Bang! Jiang Yan suddenly exerted force with both feet, causing two depressions in the road beneath him. His entire body shot up rapidly, reaching ten meters in height in an instant.
He slammed his right hand hard onto the pale white trunk in front of him.
Boom! With a loud sound, a two-meter hole exploded open in the trunk, scattering white bone fragments.
A green, fist-sized bead appeared. This was the core of the skeleton tree, and the seat of its consciousness.
Jiang Yan grabbed the green bead and descended.
As the bead was removed, the skeleton tree, which had previously seemed somewhat eerie, completely turned into a dead object.
"Leave behind a one-meter-square section of the trunk, and turn the rest into ash." Jiang Yan stepped onto the Cloud Ray, which had flown down.
Wei Gaocheng climbed aboard, holding Li Yong with one hand and carrying Redd's corpse with the other.
The two-meter funnel behind the Blood Master was already full of soul crystals and white Skull Heads, floating behind him under his control.
He extended his left hand towards the skeleton tree, and a blinding red light suddenly ignited from his palm.
Bang! The red light covered the entire skeleton tree. The hundred-meter-tall giant tree instantly shattered into white powder before Jiang Yan and Wei Gaocheng's eyes, then was scattered by a powerful shockwave.
"That's truly terrifying!" Wei Gaocheng unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva upon seeing this.
He only knew that this red-haired man who looked like a Monster was very strong and served as Jiang Yan's Personal Guard, but he hadn't expected him to be this strong.
Jiang Yan's eyes flickered. The Blood Master's role was more like that of a Turret Mage, and with his innate Undying Attribute, he was practically cheating.
If only five Level Fives had come this time, he could have relied on the two Monsters, the Blood Master and the King of the Deep Sea, to fight them head-on.
At the original site of the skeleton tree, only a one-meter-long white cube remained on the ground. The Blood Master reached out, and red energy carried the cube onto the Cloud Ray's back.
"Let's go, it's time to head back." Jiang Yan nudged the Cloud Ray.
"Wooo!" The Cloud Ray let out a deep cry and quickly carried Jiang Yan and the others away.
Along the Coast, the King of the Deep Sea grabbed Lü Zhengxing and suddenly flung him upwards.
Whoosh! Lü Zhengxing's body shot straight up hundreds of meters like a rocket, just as he was losing momentum and about to fall.
Swoosh! A figure with bat wings flew past, grabbed Lü Zhengxing by the neck, and headed toward a cloud thousands of meters away.
Watching the departing cloud, the King of the Deep Sea immediately jumped into the sea and left.
In Roset City, following the death of the skeleton tree, the Gray Fog that had been confined to one area began to dissipate.
A group of Level Fives who had just entered the Gray Fog also noticed something was wrong.
Ming Wang reached out and touched the Gray Fog in front of him: "What's going on? The Gray Fog is dissipating?"
Long Zhengqing looked up. As the Gray Fog dissipated, rays of sunlight began to shine through.
His eyes flickered: "The Gray Fog dissipated as soon as we entered. How interesting."
Doyle's expression slightly changed: "If the Gray Fog dissipated, did the things inside retreat?"
If those things ran away, wouldn't calling so many people here have been a waste?
"Wouldn't we know if we just split up and checked? Jiang Ao, Zi Wen, let's go." Long Zhengqing moved his feet and quickly rushed forward.
Rumble! The ground on both the left and right sides began to shake and crack, and large amounts of dirt and stones gathered in the center.
Under the gaze of the crowd, the dirt condensed into a thirty-meter-long Earth Dragon.
Long Zhengqing leaped directly onto the dragon's head; Jiang Ao and Zi Wen followed him up.
Zi Wen turned around, flashed a cute smile at them, and waved: "Bye-bye~ We're heading off first!"
The Earth Dragon soared into the sky and headed toward the center.
Ming Wang's eyes narrowed: "We should also speed up, or there will be nothing left."
As he spoke, he flipped casually through a Book and landed on a page featuring a Red Carpet.
Buzz! The Book burst forward with a flash of light, and the carpet inside appeared before them, floating quietly.
"Let's go." Ming Wang led the two people behind him directly onto it.
Whoosh!
After the three stepped on, the carpet shot out fiercely, causing the trio to vanish instantly before Doyle and the others.
Doyle turned to the remaining three people: "Aren't you going?"
The Middle-Aged Man from the Zhenyuan Alliance shook his head: "Why go? We can't compete with them anyway. We'll just look around outside."
The Gray-Robed Old Monk pressed his palms together: "Amitabha, this Humble Monk came here solely to resolve the Gray Fog and save the residents of Roset City. It seems there is no need to act now."
Doyle ignored the old monk. If it weren't for the fact that their Dizang organization demanded eighty billion blue star coins for immediate payment, he might have believed the Bald Donkey's nonsense.
In the City Center, Long Zhengqing arrived at the previous location of the skeleton tree, where the Earth Dragon circled in the sky.
He frowned deeply while looking down. The area was empty, but he could sense a residual aura on the ground, though he couldn't find the target.