Chapter 331 The Last Wish to Return Home
“You are an Ascendant! As long as I eat you, I can become immortal!”
“Hahaha! As long as I eat you, I can become immortal!”
Upon seeing Li Muyang, the demonic woman in the cage became even more frenzied.
She frenetically slashed, banged, and crashed against the iron cage, trying to escape from her prison.
Such madness and bizarreness were exactly the same as another demonic woman from the Temple-Sealing Lord’s sect who had been slain by Li Muyang.
Li Muyang watched the demonic woman speechlessly and asked, “What exactly is your origin? Why are you misusing the name of Glass Immortal Maiden?”
Glass Immortal Maiden was a disciple of True Person of Green Leaves, but she was not the most famous.
If evil spirits from beyond the mountains were to impersonate a disciple of Mysterious Sword Sect, there were too many options, so why specifically choose a Chu Qingxue?
Li Muyang always felt there was something off about this.
However, no matter how he questioned, the demonic woman in the cage remained frenzied and disorganized in her speech, making it impossible to communicate. Stay tuned to My Virtual Library Empire
She thrashed about wildly in the cage for a while, seeming to have exhausted all her energy, and then suddenly collapsed motionlessly.
And when this demonic woman slept, there was no breath in her, as if she were dead.
Li Muyang looked at this bizarre demonic woman, hearing the curious voice of Biting Moon Drake beside his ear.
“…These people from the Temple-Sealing Lord’s sect are so strange. Are they all madwomen?”
“And Li Muyang, what is an Ascendant? Eating you can make one become immortal? Is your flesh that powerful?”
The Dragon Maiden seemed tempted and her words were filled with curiosity, “How much do you have to eat to become immortal? Besides flesh, can saliva, nails, hair, and even dandruff also make one immortal if eaten?”
In an instant, the Dragon Maiden thought of a whole list of “edible” options.
Li Muyang wore a deadpan expression, “She is going insane over your body, okay?”
“If eating could make one immortal, it would be by eating your flesh.”
“But you haven’t become immortal yourself, so how can eating your flesh make one immortal? Paradox!”
This Dragon Maiden was simply brainless and naively amusing.
Seeing that communicating with the demonic woman was futile, Li Muyang didn’t bother to waste words anymore.
He simply ordered the Crab General to slay her; such a bizarre creature was not something Li Muyang wanted to eat, fearing it might upset his stomach, as he suspected the demonic women from the Temple-Sealing Lord’s sect were not exactly clean.
However, he swallowed the white skeletal remains carried by this demonic woman himself.
But as this demonic woman was not strong, the small bunch of white skeletal remains she carried did not add much to his cultivation after he swallowed it.
Li Muyang watched as “Experience Points +10” kept flickering and shaking on his field of vision.
“I need to venture beyond the mountain pass. Guard the Dragon Palace in my absence, and if evil spirits appear in the Jade Water River region again, feel confident to capture them yourselves,” he ordered.
“If you encounter an evil creature you cannot defeat, do not engage it. Wait for me to return and handle it,” he added.
After briefing his shrimp soldiers and Crab General briefly, Li Muyang planned to set out beyond the mountain pass.
He was aiming for a quick pace.
He had hardly been in the Dragon Palace for a quarter of an hour, having just finished dealing with all the demonic beings and hadn’t even warmed his seat, when he was already planning to leave.
The shrimp soldiers and crab generals bowed and collectively sent Li Muyang off outside the Dragon Palace.
But as he reached the outside of the Dragon Palace and was prepared to depart, Li Muyang was surprised to see a familiar figure among the demonic troops.
A translucent weasel ghost, dazed and shadowing Li Muyang, intending to accompany him on his journey.
This weasel’s soul had always been languid and dazed, staying motionless inside the Dragon Palace.
But the abundant force of the water veins here seemed to nourish its soul.
Furthermore, the foundation stone of the Dragon Palace was the miraculous frontal bone of the Temple-Sealing Lord, and within the confines of the Dragon Palace, the weasel’s soul visibly solidified a great deal.
Although still stupefied and dazed, it was no longer as transparent as before.
Seeing the weasel’s soul follow him, Li Muyang was somewhat astonished.
It was then that a system prompt popped up before him.
[Side Quest: The Homecoming Wish]
[Quest Objective: Return a lost soul to its home, the leaves return to the root]
[Mission Reward: None]
The weasel spirit had unexpectedly triggered a system notification, starting a sub-quest.
However, this sub-quest had no rewards.
But looking at the weasel before him, dumb and stupefied, Li Muyang sighed.
“You want to go home, don’t you…”
This unfortunate weasel had been dragged out of its sanctuary by a wandering god, purely bad luck.
Later, it had tried inexplicably to protect Li Muyang and ended up killed by the wandering god, turning into a ghost.
Seeing its foolish and disoriented state, Li Muyang felt complex emotions.
He sighed and said, “Then I’ll take you back home.”
Li Muyang waved his sleeve and directly gathered the befuddled weasel spirit into his sleeve.
It didn’t matter that there was no reward; he might as well complete this task along the way.
He left the Dragon Palace and headed outside the pass.
In the northern part of the Tianyuan Continent, there was a peculiar land.
This place was known as the borderlands, even more remote and wild than the counties of the North Land.
Although the North Land counties lacked Demon Suppression Magi from the celestial surveillance, they were, at least, under the governance of the dynasty, each state and county had soldiers, officers, and civil administrators.
But the land beyond the pass was so neglected by the Tianyuan Dynasty that it was completely forgotten by the world.
Few creatures from the borderlands ever came over the pass, and few inside the pass ever wished to cross into the borderlands.
Two pieces of land, two worlds, existed so distinctively separate yet rarely intersected.
Following the Jade Water River downstream to its lower reaches, he arrived at the frontier.
There stood a fortress, majestic and towering among the mountains.
However, the pass was nearly abandoned, guarded only by some old and infirm soldiers idling around.
There was almost no communication between the inner and outer sides of the pass, and these frail soldiers had little to do, living in the broken old town beneath the pass.
After flying over the fortress on a cloud, Li Muyang set foot on the land beyond the pass.
He landed directly on the ground without ostentatious flying.
According to Chu Qingxue, the alien species beyond the pass were unlike any other creatures in the world, seemingly of another origin.
Compared to these alien species, the evil beings of the ancient well were closer to humans.
Now, on the land of the borderlands, many bizarre entities had taken root.
Even her master, the Glass Immortal Maiden, did not like or desire to visit this place.
Li Muyang, entering this place for the first time, naturally did not flaunt his presence.
He took the weasel’s spirit out of the border to first return the weasel’s ghost to its home, to the unfortunate weasel’s dwelling place.
But not long after landing, Li Muyang saw two thin, paper-like figures standing on either side of the road ahead, one on the left and one on the right.
—Or rather, they were made of paper.
The two paper figures stood respectfully by the roadside, their faces painted with bizarre blush.
Unlike the two fearful, timid paper figures he had seen before, these elaborately dressed ones had brilliant smiles, their bright red mouths gaping wide.
They bowed to Li Muyang, not the least bit afraid but rather smiling broadly.
“By the command of the Temple-Sealing Lord, we await the Jade Water Dragon Lord here.”
“Dragon Lady, are you coming out of the border to meet the Temple-Sealing Lord as arranged?”
The two paper figures smiled radiantly, but an eerie cold wind blew with their appearance.
The green grass on either side of the road visibly withered and yellowed.
Li Muyang’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“How did the Temple-Sealing Lord know I would come?”
Did this mysterious old monster possess some unknown divining ability?!