Within a dense bank of mist so thick that an outstretched hand could not be seen.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Four figures raced silently beneath the shade of enormous trees that rose like sky-piercing pillars...
Small branches grew from these enormous trees, and more branches sprouted from those, eventually bearing little oval leaves...
These little oval leaves were releasing wisps of mist, which carried terrifying traces of illusion laws and also contained poison...
If someone succumbed to it, even half-step true immortal cultivation could not fully resist it. They would become lost in this mountain forest, unable to find a way out. Being poisoned was even more terrifying: their cultivation and lifespan would drain away at an extremely slow rate...
Logically, this loss should not have been too frightening, but the terrifying part was that once someone was poisoned, there was absolutely no way to recover what they lost...
That was what made it so deadly. After all, within the Reincarnation Battlefield, all manner of heavenly tribulations arrived much more quickly, especially lifespan heavenly tribulations and heart-demon heavenly tribulations...
Fairy Water Dew had suffered a heart-demon heavenly tribulation precisely because the Reincarnation Battlefield so easily brought forth heart demons...
Suddenly!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
The four racing figures abruptly stopped. As one, they pointed their fingers and released rings of silvery-white rune spirit light, which interwove with one another...
The four figures suddenly shuddered, transforming into trees like sky-piercing pillars amid the forest...
Just then.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
A bank of gray mist slowly swept over from the distance, seemingly without causing much of a stir...
Within that gray mist was the outline of an enormous monster. It slowly advanced with the bank of mist, gradually blending it into its own mist...
The monster's shadow gave off not the