Jiang Mang and his friends were all ready to attack the fox territory. Jiang Mang was the last to enter the fox territory, as the other three would attract all the foxes. Hua Ye started the attack by summoning the strongest giant sea serpent out of his water qi that he could. This attack immediately drew the foxes' attention. A horde of foxes with varying strengths were now heading towards it. The fox horde was led by three foxes' at the peak saint rank, who were the strongest beside the fox king.
Jiang Mang trusted his friends to be capable of facing this fox horde. He, on the other hand, was heading towards the fox king's lair without playing music. He wouldn't enable his inner view as it wouldn't matter against the fox king, who specialized in speed and illusions. When had almost reached the lair, he heard an angry beast roar coming from inside. The fox king had finally made his appearance. When it stepped outside its lair and detected Jiang Mang, it used human language to say the following: "Human, I detect danger coming from you. I also feel my ancestor's blood inside of you. You brought fortune to me as I will finally reach the king realm when I refine my ancestor's blood after killing you. I will leave your corpse whole, as thank you gift."
Right after it finished its monologue, It attacked Jiang Mang with its claws. Jiang Mang responded by dodging the attack smoothly and counter-attacking with a move from his seven emotions fist, which was currently his strongest close combat move as his claw intent was still at small accomplishment. He used a joy fist, which hit the fox king back. This surprised the fox king, who finally became serious and started using illusions. It used illusions to copy itself to distract his opponent, but Jiang Mang wasn't affected and continued dealing with the fox king by using the sevens emotions fist from the thirteen movements of emotions and desires. The fox king hadn't landed a single successful attack, while it had been hit by the seven emotions fist, which had shaken its inner organs slightly.
Both Jiang Mang and the fox king had formed a stalemate. The fox king was the first to break it, by changing its tactics. It started using its six-tails to attack instead of its claws, which a fox only does when they don't have another resort. Jiang Mang was surprised and caught unprepared. He couldn't dodge the six tails and was grazed by one, which threw him in the air with some broken bones. He started circulating his life qi to restore his wounds while forming some poison daggers to counter the attack. The fox king evaded all the daggers, except one which hit its back, but wasn't able to penetrate its skin. It was shocked by Jiang Mang's physique when its tails had hit him. Jiang Mang's physique rivaled that of a saint beast.
This was because he cultivated charm body to perfection in the saint realm. His physique was equal to a high-rank saint beast who hadn't awakened their ancestral heritage. The two continued their fight, Jiang Mang sometimes hit by the tails, while the fox king was always under fire of poison daggers. After fifteen minutes, both parties were still equal, but both weakened. Jiang Mang had some internal wounds, which were slowly healing. The fox king had become poisoned by Jiang Mang's most potent poison. This poison was capable of infiltrating the target's bones and marrow. It then starts burning the bone sand marrow inflicting the target with inexplicable pain.
The fox king was becoming crazy from the pain. It started going into a frenzy after enduring for ten minutes. This frenzy increased its speed by twenty percent, which immediately put Jiang Mang at the disadvantage. Jiang Mang was under the pressure of repeated claw and tail attack. He always dodged the deadly claws, but couldn't repeatedly evade the tails. That further aggravated his internal injuries.
After enduring two minutes of enduring the frenzy, he finally gave up on injuring the fox king with his hidden weapons and close combat capabilities. He decided to start using his flute of life and try to put the fox king inside of an illusion. He should now be capable of doing this, due to the fox king's frenzy.
Jiang Mang started using Illusion paradise to trap and attack the fox king, while he dodged all of its attacks now that he didn't try to counter-attack. The fox king is successfully trapped inside Illusion paradise, but the paradise wasn't capable of injuring it and only kept it busy. Jiang Mang eventually created a poisonous miasma that entered the area of the illusion and the fox king. This miasma reinforced the illusion due to its hallucinatory effect, while slowly eroding all the spiritual energy in the surroundings.
After fifteen minutes, the fox king would become exhausted and could then be slain. Jiang Mang then checked up on his friends through his inner view and saw that they were calmly dealing with the fox horde and were capable of lasting for another hour. This result relieved him, which made him turn his attention back to the fox king. The fox king still had its last card of activating its bloodline, which was a risk as it would become extremely weak for a week after ten minutes.
The fox king was becoming weaker after it had been trapped inside the paradise for five minutes while being surrounded by poison. Jiang Mang stayed focused but was silently happy for everything going according to his plans. These feelings were, unfortunately, short-lived as he noticed a figure entering the range of his inner view.
This person was heading directly towards him and arrived in mere seconds ten meters away from him.
This person was Huang Mo, who had found a map towards this spirit spring. He looked at Jiang Mang n disdain while standing there as he was the holiest thing in the world. He spoke to Jiang Mang, the following words which held no tone for refusal: "You are quite strong, for being capable of exhausting this fox. I am willing to let you and your friends have an easy death if you kill yourselves. If you refuse, then I will cripple all of you and torture your bodies for standing in my way."
These cruel and vicious words shocked Jiang Mang, as he knew that the man meant them through his heart intent. He also recognized the man to be the top-ranked person Huang Mo. He also felt through Hunag Mo's aura that he was stronger than him if he didn't use partial transformation.