The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!

"Why... why have you been following me all along?"

In the secluded, uninhabited deep mountains and old forests, the tribal youth, who had walked a long distance yet was unable to shake off the two people behind him, finally stopped in his tracks.

He looked back at the two pursuers with resignation and said, "Go on your way! Stop following me."

"Whatever your reason for coming, don't keep following me. It's very dangerous to be around me!"

As Aguye spoke, he looked around nervously, as if on guard against something.

Seeing the tribal youth's alarm, Li Muyang burst into laughter.

"Little brother, the danger you're talking about... is it this thing?"

As Li Muyang spoke, he threw out a ghastly and fearsome severed head.

The head was terribly mangled, with disheveled hair and ugly colored patterns smeared on its face, looking extremely sinister.

The sight of this head caused the tribal youth to be greatly shocked.

"You... where did you get that?"

Aguye was scared.

A task prompt popped up in Li Muyang's vision.

[Main Task: Escort Aguye back to the stronghold—Completed.]

[New Task—Bring the Nine-Armed Bodhisattva's head back to Purple Immortal Stronghold.]

To kill this creature, Li Muyang had put in a great deal of effort, reloading the game over a dozen times.

It was only by relying on the double cheats of time stop + reload that he was able to finally drag out the extremely slippery Nine-Armed Bodhisattva and kill it.

Now, seeing the young man's shocked expression, Li Muyang laughed and said.

"We've been following you all the way, and that thing has been pestering us all the way, too. Fortunately, I was more skilled, and in the end, it was the one that died."

"Little brother, I see we have a destiny together. How about we travel the road ahead together?"

Li Muyang extended an olive branch with a laugh.

But the tribal youth was full of suspicion, "You... you want to come back to the stronghold with me? Are you here because of General Zhong's disappearance?"

The naive young tribal didn't know about the wickedness of the human heart and blurted out everything on his mind.

Li Muyang watched him with a grin and nodded, "Indeed, I have come because of General Zhong's disappearance. But little brother, how did you figure that out?"

The tribal youth seriously sized up the man and woman before him.

Under the sunlight, the woman looked ethereal and coldly aloof, like an immortal from the clouds. The man was handsome and extraordinary, carefree and unrestrained, with a smile as gentle as a nobleman's.

They seemed perfectly matched, like a couple of heavenly beings.

Such a scene made the crudely dressed tribal youth feel a pang of inferiority, and he quietly explained.

"Priest Grandfather said that there are some people from the Central Plains who you don't have to be afraid of when you see them; it's those who have the air of immortality about them and look like they could be immortals."

"Grandfather said that you all are esteemed disciples of Immortal Qingye and are the best of good people in the world, who wouldn't do bad things."

"So I guessed that you were here to find the missing old general."

The tribal youth was quite certain.

General Zhong of the Invincible Army, who had managed the southwest for many years, was greatly respected even by the mountain tribes.

Li Muyang was curious about what the youth had said—were all immortal-like cultivators disciples of Immortal Qingye?

Could it be that the Tianyuan Dynasty didn't have any cultivators?

Or maybe Immortal Qingye just had many disciples?

Glancing at the Glass Immortal Maiden beside him, Li Muyang laughed and said, "Hahaha... Little brother, you are half right. The immortal beside me indeed is a high disciple of Immortal Qingye, but I am not."

"However, I am indeed here to search for General Zhong. It appears you know some clues, shall we talk as we go?"

Li Muyang noticed the tribal youth's guilelessness and seized the opportunity to probe him.

But the tribal youth shook his head and said, "I don't know much, only that the old general visited Priest Grandfather in the stronghold before he disappeared."

"If you're interested, you can go ask Priest Grandfather."

As he spoke, Aguye glanced at the head that Li Muyang was holding, hesitating to speak.

"That... Celestial, may I have the head of this local god?"

"Although it has become evil, it once protected the lands and forests; I want to take its head back to the stronghold and burn it."

This was also Li Muyang's mission, so he willingly handed the head over to Aguye.

Then the three of them set off on the road again, and this time Aguye officially joined the team.

After Li Muyang handed the Nine-Armed Bodhisattva's head to him, the tribal youth no longer had reservations about Li Muyang and his companion, pouring out everything he knew.

Li Muyang laughed as he inquired further, almost completely finding out the general situation of Purple Immortal Stronghold.

This was a tribal village in the mountains, small in size but considered a sacred place by all the barbarians of the Lijiang County's Wuxi.

The village had been offering to the ancestral gods of the He Man tribes for generations.

The Nine-Armed Bodhisattva was once one of the local deities of these mountains, protecting the forests and lands around.

But not long ago, it became possessed by evil and began to harm human lives.

By chance, a young man got entangled with it and was forced to leave his tribe alone to seek help from the priest in the village.

Li Muyang was investigating the situation of the Wuxi barbarians and Purple Immortal Stronghold while confirming his suspicions through subtle hints from the youth.

—Cultivators in the Heavenly King dynasty are few and far between, all of them disciples of Master Qingye!

This dynasty doesn't have any Sects of Immortality?

Although the barbarian youth spoke humbly, Glass Immortal Maiden subtly expressed her modesty.

"... My teacher once said that in this world, there are many hidden masters who do not seek fame. They live secluded in mountains and valleys, indulging in the mortal world."

"Though they may not show themselves off, they are still prominent figures of the era."

"It's just that our lineage is more involved in the secular world, so we appear more conspicuous."

With her humble words, Glass Immortal Maiden tactfully refuted the barbarian youth's claim that all the world's cultivators were high disciples of Master Qingye.

Yet her words still indicated that cultivators in the Tianyuan dynasty were indeed scarce.

This was a stark contrast from the customs and society of the continent where Li Muyang lived.

Here, cultivation still followed the ancient traditional paths of immortality, relying on insight and opportunities, with high barriers to entry.

The advantage was that those who entered were all exceptional individuals.

Once they had an epiphany, they would break through rapidly, their advancements coming as naturally as eating and drinking.

For instance, Glass Immortal Maiden was previously flustered by a few Demon Cultivators at most in the Core Formation Realm when they met in Loushan City.

This time, she was already not much weaker than those in the Spirit Travel Realm, and it seemed she could break through at any moment.

Tsk... Such a speed of cultivation, even if one were cheating, would still be somewhat outrageous.

You're also a figure of Immortal stature, right?

Li Muyang marveled at Glass Immortal Maiden's incredible pace of cultivation and casually asked another question.

"Speaking of which... since there are so few cultivators, what about Demon Suppression Magi from the Imperial Astronomy Bureau?"

Li Muyang asked curiously, "Aren't those Demon Suppression Magi cultivators?"

Asking such a foundational question about common knowledge was bound to lead to trouble.

But Li Muyang, having a save point, had no concerns.

Sure enough, after he asked this question, the look that Glass Immortal Maiden gave him suddenly changed.

The health bar above the woman's head silently turned blood red.

However, the barbarian youth spoke without any reservations.

"Grandfather Priest said those Demon Suppression Magi are not cultivators. They are bloodline Magicians, who inherited an ancient evil lineage using some kind of ancient sorcery to gain power."

Li Muyang was slightly startled by the youth's words.

Bloodline Magicians, ancient sorcery, ancient evil lineage acquiring power...

That sounded eerily familiar!

After the fall of Black Cloud Fort, just what did it leave behind on this land!

Why does the Tianyuan dynasty seem entirely in a chaotic state of demons running wild, a broken and desolate image of impending chaos?

Compared to this, on the other side of the Misty Sea, the continent where Li Muyang came from, even though there were Demon Cultivators everywhere and even ruling over lands,

Compared to the Tianyuan dynasty, the civilians under the rule of the Refinement Demon Sect were living in peace and contentment.

"These Ancient Evil Gods of Black Cloud Fort... anyone involved with them really does seem to be cursed..."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Seeing the hostility and caution in Glass Immortal Maiden's eyes, Li Muyang smiled.

Load the save!

The information about the side quest had been sufficiently acquired; there was no need to die again and waste more time.

As Li Muyang loaded his save, he found himself back at the start, journeying together with the barbarian youth.

This time, Li Muyang spoke little and asked even fewer questions, maintaining an aloof demeanor.

The trio traveled through the mountains and soon arrived at the gate of a barbarian village.

The sacred place of the Wuxi barbarians, Purple Immortal Stronghold, reached!