The Game with Fairies

Li Muyang waited vigilantly in the city, waiting for the Purple Mansion powerhouse of the Demon Refining Sect to come looking for him.

In his view, allowing the Blood Lotus Sect to take over and assimilate this land with a radius of fifteen hundred li was an unacceptable loss for the Demon Refining Sect.

It was also a stain on the reputation that sect leader Gong Yanghong, who cared greatly about face, could not tolerate.

Once the Demonic Sect made up their mind, he would fully cooperate.

Sever the connection between the Four Directions Cauldron and the earth’s veins, then find a way to retreat in one piece and return to the Hall of Enforcement.

However, he had waited for a long time and still had not seen the arrival of the great powers from the Purple Mansion of the Demonic Sect.

After ten days of fierce attacks, the Demonic Sect’s offensive began to weaken, just as Shen Yan had predicted, and then came the negotiations.

The Demonic Sect sent elders to negotiate with the leader of the Blood Lotus Sect at the front lines.

In the end, both sides made an oath: the Demon Refining Sect would disband its mortal armies and cease attacking the followers of the Blood Lotus Sect.

This grand war, which had resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of thousands, ended anticlimactically.

When the news reached Tianjiao City, Li Muyang even felt it was absurd and doubted the veracity of the message.

The always face-conscious leader of the Demonic Sect, Gong Yanghong, was actually negotiating peace with the Blood Lotus Sect?

This was tantamount to giving up the land surrounding Tianjiao City, conceding it to the Blood Lotus Sect.

After this battle, the Demon Refining Sect would likely become the laughingstock of both the righteous and demonic paths, and who knows how many would mock Gong Yanghong behind his back.

Could Gong Yanghong accept such a stain?

Li Muyang felt it was even more preposterous, but the Blood Lotus Sect’s army at the front lines began to withdraw.

The Helmsmen and Banner Masters who had been leading the defense at the front lines also returned to Tianjiao City one after another.

Tianjiao City, once the economic center under the Demonic Sect, was bustling once again.

The city was decorated with lights and banners, celebrating the victory of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Amidst the laughter, Shen Yan made a special visit to Li Muyang, sincerely apologizing to him.

“…This peace is only temporary. We currently do not have the strength to fight the Demonic Sect to the end. This brief peace is to accumulate strength for the future.”

In the eyes of the Blood Lotus Sect, Li Muyang, a disciple of the Demonic Sect who joined them bearing a deep grudge, was here for revenge.

But now the war had ended abruptly, and Li Muyang had not even had the chance to enter the battlefield before the Demonic Sect and the Blood Lotus Sect negotiated peace.

Shen Yan was concerned that Li Muyang might have thoughts about this and took the time to chat with him for an afternoon.

And indeed, Li Muyang was somewhat frustrated and speechless. But his frustration was with the Demon Refining Sect.

After all the effort and resources spent, they sent him to infiltrate as a spy, and he even unearthed the ultimate secrets of the Blood Lotus Sect, only for them to negotiate peace in the midst of battle?

What was all his effort for?

Now, Li Muyang was full of questions, only wanting to ask who he was, where he was, and what he was supposed to do.

The one-sided communication with the Demonic Sect even prevented him from receiving the latest orders, leaving him clueless about his next steps.

Caught in the celebratory sea of the Blood Lotus Sect, Li Muyang could only maintain a poker face, playing the role of a person burdened with deep hatred.

Damn Demon Refining Sect, they didn’t plan to keep him as a long-term spy, did they?

No, that was absolutely unacceptable!

Li Muyang began to think about his exit strategy, how to find an opportunity to leave Tianjiao City and return to the Demon Refining Sect.

However, Tianjiao City was currently a bustling ocean of activity.

With the war just ended, it was difficult for Li Muyang to convince Shen Yan to let him leave.

Li Muyang planned to lie low for a while longer and leave once everything settled down.

Over the past month, his daily baths had more than doubled his physique due to the Martial God Tyrant Body.

In the game, the Emerald Blade Mantis had evolved twice by continuously hunting remnants in the ghostly fog.

Now at tier 9, the Emerald Blade Mantis was about thirty zhang long with an imposing figure and a chilling blade light.

With an attack power of 3397, Li Muyang believed it could slay cultivators at the Cave Profound realm with a single strike.

The only drawback was that the evolutionary path of the Emerald Blade Mantis was still extremely specialized.

Although its attack power was strong, its health and defense were only on par with a tier 3 Lord of Mount Wu.

Li Muyang was curious to see to what extent the game would evolve the Emerald Blade Mantis.

He devoted more time to the game, even beginning to decline some of Shen Yan’s invitations to gatherings.

As the war ended, Tianjiao City became the political center of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Nearly all Helmsmen and Incense Masters returned to Tianjiao City, began to divide up mansions, and handled their respective affairs.

The grand residences once occupied by cultivators and noble families of the Demonic Sect were now inhabited by the Helmsmen of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Li Muyang occasionally heard of conflicts erupting in the streets, with the confidants of one Helmsman clashing with the subordinates of another.

Even with Shen Yan mediating, conflicts between the various branches within the city continued to erupt.

Li Muyang declined all invitations to banquets and barely met with Shen Yan.

He completely secluded himself in his courtyard, rarely venturing out.

This seemed like a sign of disillusionment and distress to outsiders over the recent peace agreement.

In reality, Li Muyang simply wanted to avoid trouble.

During the war, he had seriously offended two Incense Masters of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Nangong Ting and Liu Hucheng, the two Incense Masters of the Blood Lotus Sect, had been held hostage by Li Muyang for many days, and animosity had long since formed between them.

When descending from Pingyang Hill, Li Muyang held the two as hostages while retreating and fighting, even attempting to kill them.

They should have been waiting for resurrection if not for the Blood Lotus Sect leader’s use of two petals of the Ancient Blood Lotus to save them.

–The higher one’s cultivation, the longer the resurrection time required in the Four Directions Cauldron.

The two Incense Masters who had nearly died at Li Muyang’s hands were mortal enemies to him.

During the days when Li Muyang kept his doors closed, there were often idle people loitering outside his door.

Clearly, they were Li Muyang’s enemies. But Li Muyang was content to stay indoors and play his game, never venturing out to invite trouble.

He controlled the tier 9 Emerald Blade Mantis, stealthily moving through the ghostly fog.

However, this time, he was not hunting remnants but silently made his way to a shadowy hollow in the mountains.

Ahead, within the ghostly fog, a massive city could be vaguely seen.

Inside the broken walls, there seemed to be bustling activity and lively voices, as if many people were conversing.

Out of place in the desolate and silent netherworld, this noisy black city stood out starkly.

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