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

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The noisy voices were incessant within the Buddha Hall.

The Buddha Mother, who looked exactly like Chu Qingxue, sat before the statue with her hands pressed together, shaking her head indifferently.

“This Ascendant is not easy to deal with.”

She looked in the direction where Li Muyang had left, her face expressionless.

“When you two sisters died at his hands, you encountered a kind of extremely terrifying thunder…”

As she spoke, the originally indifferent face of the Buddha Mother once again revealed a gentle smile. Although it was the face of a young girl, at that moment, she appeared as benevolent as an elderly woman.

“Let mother wait a little longer and see if there’s an opportunity.”

“But even if we can’t get the Ascendant, having him catch the Heart-Eating Insects for us is also quite a good thing… hehe…”

The Buddha Mother smiled and slowly closed her eyes.

As she closed her eyes, the oil lamp standing beside her gradually extinguished.

The entire Buddha Hall was completely plunged into darkness, without a single light.

And after the lights went out, the girl seated in the hall, too, was without any breath of life. Sitting stiffly there, she seemed to have become a lifeless corpse.

After a prolonged silence of death, suddenly, under the pitch-black Kasaya of the Buddha Mother, voices of women, elated and excited, were heard.

“Mother is asleep…”

“That’s great! Mother has fallen asleep again!”

“Go, go, go! Let’s go out and play quickly!”

Amid the clamorous joy, under the motionless Kasaya in front of the statue, suddenly came the subtle rustling sounds.

It seemed that in the darkness, countless tendrils were crawling on the floor.

Soon, those delicate rustling sounds crawled out of the dark hall, spreading out in all directions like a plague…

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The pale Flood Dragon flew swiftly through the night sky.

The Dragon Maid was very curious.

“Li Muyang, are we really just running errands for your mother-in-law? Are you not going to snatch the Glazed Fairy Sword?”

The Dragon Maid expressed her incomprehension at Li Muyang’s abrupt departure.

She didn’t believe that Li Muyang truly regarded that nefarious old woman as his mother-in-law.

Li Muyang’s departure was too decisive, unlike his usual style.

The Flood Dragon raced through the clouds in the night sky, and Li Muyang, bathed in the cold moonlight of the night sky, shook his head coldly.

“It’s not easy to snatch…”

Seeing that the Dragon Maid didn’t understand, he briefly explained the strength and cultivation of True Person Qing Ye.

True Person Qing Ye was definitely the pinnacle of combat power in this world.

But even True Person Qing Ye could only snatch the body of the Glazed Fairy Sword, with the scabbard remaining in the hands of the Buddha Hall…

After Li Muyang explained this, the Dragon Maid was immediately shocked.

“Ah? Is that sullen old woman that terrifying? Can thunder not overcome her?”

In the past, the nefarious enemies they encountered weren’t very strong; those slightly more powerful could be killed instantly by heavenly thunder.

But Li Muyang shook his head: “Although heavenly thunder is strong, it is not certain to be able to kill this Buddha Mother.”

Looking ahead at the mountain covered in maple leaves already coming into view, Li Muyang quickly descended from the clouds and transformed into human form before the mountain.

“First, let’s catch some Heart-Eating Insects to exchange for Seven Marrow Pills to extend my life.”

“After all, both the Bone Emperor and the Buddha Hall are there; there’s time to snatch them later.”

Li Muyang suspected that the evil entity in Buddha Hall did not confront him, an Ascendant, face-to-face, possibly out of fear of his heavenly thunder.

The Buddha Mother, who could see clearly what happened to Chu Qingxue thousands of miles away, surely could not have missed seeing her two emissaries die at the hands of Li Muyang.

The power of heavenly thunder was mysteriously potent, with each strike annihilating the enemy regardless of their strength or weakness.

But Li Muyang couldn’t be sure of the upper limits of this heavenly thunder’s power, or if it could kill a major boss like the Buddha Mother.

And perhaps, the Buddha Mother, also wary of Li Muyang’s heavenly thunder, had offered up the Bone Emperor, coaxing Li Muyang to do her bidding.

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This was both a test and a way to keep the peace, akin to paying protection money to a gang of thugs who had come knocking.

The existence of the Heavenly Thunder maintained a fragile peace between Li Muyang and the Buddha Mother Temple.

Considering that the other party had the Seven Marrow Pill, which could extend one’s life, Li Muyang decided not to upset this balance for the time being.

If a real fight broke out, it would be good if the Heavenly Thunder were effective… But what if it couldn’t harm the Buddha Mother?

In any case, the first priority was to catch the Heart-eating Insects in exchange for the Seven Marrow Pill to prolong life!

The benefits that could be held in hand were the only true substance.

Li Muyang searched the maple-covered mountain for a while and soon found the underground pit the Buddha Mother had mentioned.

Midway up the mountain lay a massive pit, with its walls being smooth vertical cliffs dropping into an abyss that seemed to lead straight to the netherworld, utterly dark and bottomless.

Li Muyang stood beside the pit, looking down into the dark hole, feeling a chilling cold wind continuously seeping out.

The Flood Dragon girl said with uncertain surprise, “What does this pit lead to? It feels terrifying, like the gaping maw of a monster. We won’t get eaten if we go in, right?”

Li Muyang kicked a huge rock into the pit.

The rock plunged into the darkness, quickly disappearing into the shadows of the hole.

However, there was no sound of the rock hitting the bottom even after a long time.

The Flood Dragon girl was utterly astonished, “Was the stone really eaten?”

But Li Muyang took a deep breath and leaped directly into the dark pit.

“Perhaps this pit is deeper than we imagine.”

For some reason, as he stood on the edge of this pit, inhaling the cold scent in the air, he felt a faint sense of familiarity and comfort.

It was as if… he had returned home?

Bizarre.

Why did such a strange pit give him a sense of familiar comfort?

Li Muyang plunged into the pit, his body continually falling.

His vision quickly turned pitch black, with nothing visible in his surroundings.

Yet, the Flood Dragon’s powerful vision still allowed sight in the darkness.

This vast underground chasm was incredibly deep. The moonlight overhead at first appeared as a round exit, but as he fell further and further, the light from above grew smaller and smaller.

In the end, the light from the pit’s entrance shrank to the size of a grain of rice, almost out of sight.

Finally, Li Muyang saw the grey mist mentioned by the Buddha Mother.

In this dark underground world, there floated a kind of grey fog.

This fog seemed to have a certain buoyancy; Li Muyang, being in it, felt as if he had entered water and could move up and down at will.

Here, that homely sense of familiarity and comfort was even stronger.

The air was filled with a familiar cold and evil aura.

This evil aura was strikingly similar to that of the flesh-bone specters and Granny Valley at Black Cloud Fort.

Li Muyang was quite surprised—was this place a branch of Black Cloud Fort?

But just then, the fog surged, and a violent and potent evil cold aura appeared in Li Muyang’s perception.

It seemed to be a colossal creature moving through the grey mist.

As it neared, Li Muyang thought he heard sharp, piercing screams.

It was as if countless resentful ghosts were wailing in agony.

When the fog finally dispersed, a giant shadow, ten zhang tall, emerged from the grey fog.

Its body was covered in many giant, blue-haired caterpillars, appearing extremely creepy.

Even more unsettling, however, was the appearance of the shadow.

It wore the old black and grey robes of Black Cloud Fort, its face pale and expressionless, with sunken eyes leaving behind black hollows.

A huge blood-red health bar appeared above its head.

[Mad Ancient Cultivator]

—This ten-zhang-tall giant shadow was actually recognized by Li Muyang!