The Game with Fairies

In the inn’s room, Li Muyang kept entering the game, only to be ejected over and over.

The number of failures had almost numbed him.

Now, the speed at which he exited and re-entered the game was astonishingly fast.

But the Red Ridge Mountain is still far away.

In the dark land, countless evil gods roamed.

As Li Muyang moved forward, he would encounter a strange evil god.

These evil gods weren’t deliberately blocking Li Muyang. They were just wandering in the darkness and happened to run into him.

Li Muyang gained a deeper understanding of the dangers of this dark land.

The frequency of the evil gods’ appearances was outrageous.

No wonder the system recommended using Wuming’s character card. Who else would have the ability to instantly kill evil gods?

Li Muyang continued to move forward in the darkness, his flying sword tearing through the dark and slaying evil gods.

However, the problem was that each evil god could also easily kill Li Muyang.

But Li Muyang’s flying sword had a 50% chance of failing to insta-kill.

And it was a 50% chance each time he used the flying sword, with no guaranteed success.

If he was unlucky, he might fail to trigger it several times in a row.

If the instant death didn’t trigger, Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli would be instantly killed by the evil god.

And even if instant death did trigger, sometimes the evil god’s abilities were so terrifying that they could take Li Muyang down with them before dying.

There were even evil gods that the instant death flying sword couldn’t affect, such as those with multiple lives or the ability to resurrect after death.

Li Muyang could only avoid them.

This cycle of dying, reloading, dying, and reloading went on for an entire day.

He struggled through the darkness, relying on saving the game to finally “kill” twenty-seven evil gods.

It was a remarkable feat.

However, there was still a long way to go to reach the Red Ridge Mountains.

When Li Muyang had slain more than thirty evil gods, a cold wind suddenly swept across the dark land.

Then the dark sky violently split open, and a blood-red light spread across the land.

Everyone standing on this land looked up to see the darkness above split in two, revealing a huge blood-red eyeball writhing and watching Li Muyang.

Under the gaze of the magnified pupil, Li Muyang instinctively felt a chill.

【You died. Game Over】

“…That strange eyeball is here too?”

Li Muyang muttered to himself.

In the third stage of 《Deadly Weed》, a huge blood-red eyeball opened in the night sky above the Myriad Great Mountains.

Anyone flying would be instantly killed by that eyeball.

But in the Ancient Grudge Well, Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli were not flying, yet they were still instantly killed by the eyeball.

Li Muyang tried to reload the save again and found that when the number of evil gods he killed reached around thirty, the dark sky would split open, and the strange eyeball would descend.

After being killed several times in a row, Li Muyang realized something.

“Did I choose the wrong route?”

Continuing in this forceful manner was simply not viable.

Perhaps this dark land was destined to be insurmountable?

After all, any wandering evil god was enough to kill Li Muyang.

If it weren’t for the overpowered skill of the instant death flying sword, Li Muyang wouldn’t have been able to get past the first evil god.

Now, although he had killed more than twenty evil gods with the cheat skill, once the number of evil gods killed exceeded thirty, the huge eyeball in the sky would immediately turn its gaze upon him.

That giant eyeball could not be targeted or attacked, and Li Muyang’s instant death flying sword was ineffective against it.

Pondering, Li Muyang re-entered the game but did not continue to kill evil gods.

Instead, he took Fairy Liuli and ran back the way they came.

By this time, they had already moved far from the initial small village, and on the way back, they would encounter even more evil gods.

However, Li Muyang remembered that there was a small town nearby, which he had glimpsed lights from when passing by earlier.

Li Muyang led Fairy Liuli straight into the town, only to find it eerily silent, with every household deep in sleep.

Despite the strange evil gods wandering the wilderness, these townspeople seemed to be sleeping without any awareness.

The cats and dogs within the fences, the pigs in the pens, the cows in the barns… all these domestic animals were also quiet, making no sound.

No evil god approached the town either.

Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli stood in the town for a long time, occasionally seeing a red health bar flash by in the wilderness outside the town.

“…It seems we should have listened to the old village chief before, to rest at night and travel by day.”

Li Muyang whispered to Fairy Liuli, sharing his discovery.

The old village chief’s advice to stay overnight and not to travel at night was like a guiding light!

As long as one doesn’t leave the town at night, there’s no danger at all.

Fairy Liuli also realized that the town was a safe zone, and the evil gods roaming the wilderness didn’t come near these townsfolk.

There was a hint of confusion in her eyes.

“But why don’t the evil gods approach these villages and towns? Could these villagers have some kind of miraculous power?”

This was a question that both of them couldn’t figure out.

Why are there so many evil deities wandering in the wilderness, but they specifically avoid places where the living congregate?

Are the living beings in this Ancient Grudge Well truly alive?

Li Muyang, testing the waters, cast Dharma-Annihilation Wheel on a sleeping couple.

A flash of blue light disappeared into the darkness, but this time the Dharma-Annihilation Wheel failed to instantly kill the couple.

As the Wheel approached, the couple who had been sleeping peacefully on the bed suddenly leaped up, their bodies transforming into two grotesque and ferocious evil beings.

They roared and shrieked, launching an attack on Li Muyang. The health bars above their heads changed from the pale yellow of neutral creatures to a threatening blood red.

With a single sword strike, Fairy Liuli’s Sword Qi, several meters wide, turned both evil beings and the house into ash.

In the darkness, the two exchanged glances, both seeing the surprise in each other’s eyes.

“Is this entire town filled with evil beings?”

Fairy Liuli was somewhat shocked, yet it felt somewhat expected.

After all, what else could the creatures living in the same world as the evil gods be if not evil beings?

Li Muyang was shocked by something else—during the day, he had tested the villagers and the Dharma-Annihilation Wheel had easily killed them without any transformation.

But why did these villagers turn into evil beings when attacked at night?

Or was it that the previous village had normal people, and this town was entirely evil beings?

While Li Muyang was still pondering, the quiet town suddenly became restless.

The commotion from their fight with the evil beings seemed to have awakened the entire town’s populace.

One after another, terrifying figures leaped out from the darkness; all the townsfolk who had been sleeping quietly were now roaring as they pounced toward Li Muyang and Fairy Liuli.

Under the faint blue glow of the Dharma-Annihilation Wheel, a sea of blood-red health bars surged over, quickly drowning out all the light in the darkness.

【You died. Game Over】