Chapter 594 - 594: Older Brother?
“Big brother, I’m scared of living in a world without you…”
In the later stages of “Lethal Wild Grass,” Jiang Xiaoyu, whose lifespan was drawing to a close, was spending a typical afternoon farming and resting under a tree at Black Cloud Fort. Alongside him, the young wild grass suddenly murmured as if in a dream.
Upon hearing these words, Li Muyang’s heart trembled, and he fell into silence, unsure how to comfort him.
Jiang Xiaoyu’s life was doomed not to exceed a hundred years.
But the young wild grass could live forever.
And the one left behind was the one who suffered the most.
At that time, he hadn’t yet realized that after completing the game, he would never see the young wild grass again.
Now, watching the young wild grass slowly approach through the mist, seeing her hollow, dim eyes, watching her broken, wandering corpse…
At this moment, the circumstances between him and the young wild grass were completely reversed.
The one who had passed away had become the young wild grass.
And the one left behind in the world had become him…
In the mist, the corpse of Granny Gu, nailed dead against the cliff face, was dried up and decayed. The red bell tied around her wrist clanged, the piercing sound growing more and more urgent.
And the approaching corpse of the young wild grass was drawing closer and closer in Li Muyang’s view.
But Li Muyang felt as if his heart was being torn apart, the pain so intense he couldn’t breathe. He could only stand there, rigid, unable to react.
It wasn’t until the young wild grass’s body floated to within thirty feet in front of him that the enormous jade mantis behind Li Muyang suddenly, like startled, slashed out a cold blade of light.
But a second later, the jade mantis was sent flying backward.
The huge body crashed heavily against the large cliff behind.
Li Muyang, left behind, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and snapped awake.
Because he saw what had startled the jade mantis.
Beside the young wild grass, a form of invisible black mist swirled.
This mist merged almost completely with the air, but once it neared a living being, it surged forward crazily.
The cold blade light of the jade mantis was comparable to a strike from an eternal realm cultivator, but where the blade light struck, it was shredded by the black mist.
At the same time, the black mist surged forward, trying to engulf Li Muyang in front.
The jade mantis had been flung away because, as a creature of low intelligence and muddled thoughts, it instinctively wanted to protect its master, Li Muyang.
The instant the black mist engulfed Li Muyang, it rushed forward and shattered the black mist.
And the jade mantis, now thrown against the cliff, was much weaker, its form appearing extremely disheveled.
The strange, flesh-corroding black mist spread continuously over its body.
Numerous small bite marks appeared on the huge body of the jade mantis.
The black mist was crazily gnawing at its flesh.
Realizing what was happening, Li Muyang immediately controlled the jade mantis to slash its blade light, chopping off all the flesh that had been touched by the black mist.
As the jade mantis chopped off its own chunks of flesh, those attached black mists were finally peeled away.
Meanwhile, Li Muyang activated the Remnant Cloud Movement Technique at extreme speed, retreating quickly.
The black mist seemed ready to surge forward again, forcing Li Muyang to activate the Remnant Cloud Jade Talisman to maximize his escaping light speed.
At this moment, Li Muyang, only a divine wanderer in terms of cultivation, moved at a speed comparable to a purple mansion cultivator.
In just an instant, he withdrew a hundred meters away, dodging the onrushing black mist.
The black mist that had engulfed his original position frantically searched through the air, but upon finding no living creatures, it retracted back into the air around the young wild grass’s body and once again hid away.
And the bewildered wandering young wild grass was completely unaware of this.
The black mist seemed to have nothing to do with her.
In the moment when Li Muyang activated the Remnant Cloud Jade Talisman, Lethal Wild Grass abruptly lifted her head as if sensing something and looked in this direction.
The Jade Talisman engraved with the words “Remnant Cloud” was obtained by Li Muyang from collecting statues of Fairy Qinghe, a gift left behind by Lethal Wild Grass for future generations.
At this moment, as Li Muyang activated the talisman, the corpse of Lethal Wild Grass seemed to respond in some way.
Her eyes, originally lifeless and dim, suddenly lifted her right hand.
The next second, the Qiankun Ring on Li Muyang’s finger vibrated thunderously, and lifelike statues of Fairy Qinghe flew out one after another from his Qiankun Ring.
These statues, collected by Li Muyang in the past, totaled nine.
Now, the nine statues of Fairy Qinghe detached from Li Muyang’s Qiankun Ring and actively flew towards the location of Lethal Wild Grass’s corpse.
Finally, the nine statues of Fairy Qinghe hovered next to the corpse of Lethal Wild Grass.
A hundred meters away, Li Muyang watched this scene with astonishment.
He had not expected the statues inside his Qiankun Ring to be summoned and fly out on their own.
The next second, a shocking scene unfolded.
The nine lifelike statues of Fairy Qinghe suddenly cracked.
Essences of Lethal Wild Grass from her life flew out from the broken statues as beams of divine light, each falling into her eyes.
With the entry of these divine lights, the originally dim and vacant eyes of Lethal Wild Grass seemed to come alive, gaining a trace of agility.
Her aimlessly wandering corpse turned its head stiffly and looked in Li Muyang’s direction.
From her pale, bloodless lips, a nearly inaudible murmur was heard.
“…Brother?”
The next second, the divine light in her eyes dimmed.
Her eyes once again turned vacant and lifeless.
The broken body also aimlessly wandered forward once more.
However, nearby Li Muyang was extremely agitated.
He pinched the flesh on his thigh forcefully, his eyes reddening with excitement.
“The statues! The statues were really useful!”
The statues left by Lethal Wild Grass, apart from leaving a gift for future generations like Li Muyang, also had such wonderful uses!
Could the essence contained in the statues, if returned to her corpse, revive Lethal Wild Grass’s body?
Was this the method of resurrection that Lethal Wild Grass found for herself?
The scattered Fairy Qinghe statues across the world would be the key to resurrection!
Li Muyang once again stepped back, creating distance between himself and the corpse of Lethal Wild Grass, fearing to be touched by that eerie black mist.
But although he stepped back, his gaze constantly fixed on Lethal Wild Grass.
He wanted to gaze upon her a bit longer, even wanting to follow her constantly.
But the aimlessly wandering corpse of Lethal Wild Grass quickly disappeared into the mist.
Her arrival was abrupt, and so was her departure.
Only the weakened and injured praying mantis behind her indicated the traces of her presence.
Li Muyang stood beneath the cliff, watching the figure of Lethal Wild Grass disappear into the mist, unable to follow her.
Although he longed to follow and gaze upon her longer.
But at this moment, he had more important things to do.
He needed to return to the human world as soon as possible, to find the scattered statues of Lethal Wild Grass!
To gather all the statues and attempt to resurrect Lethal Wild Grass’s corpse in The Peaceful Realms!