Chapter 864 - 864: Seeing Zhi Wei Again
In the mist-filled depths of the Peaceful Realms, Li Muyang sat atop the head of the Green Saber Mantis, multitasking between leveling up through hunting in the game and staying alert.
His eyes scanned his surroundings cautiously, ready to fight or flee at any moment.
There were lurking dangers in the Peaceful Realms, and he had to remain vigilant.
Perhaps influenced by Li Muyang’s seriousness, the usually lively Yu Xiaoshuang had also quieted down.
She shrank her neck and sat behind Li Muyang, nervously glancing around, wary of every shadow.
The deathly still Peaceful Realms was occasionally broken by the appearance of divine corpses and roaming spectral shadows.
During their last journey, when they weren’t pressed for time, the Green Saber Mantis had hunted and attacked every ghost it encountered along the way.
This time, though, with Li Muyang in a hurry, the Green Saber Mantis avoided conflict, moving quietly and carrying the two of them forward as stealthily as possible.
The massive mantis swam through the fog, its silhouette in the distance chilling to behold.
In the game, Li Muyang controlled the clay figure of the Half-Evil Dragon, engaged in both hunting and escaping.
Gradually, he filled his second 100% progress bar of Flame Energy Value and acquired the shadow of the divine beast Pixiu.
After being relentlessly pursued by the Pixiu for several hours and crossing the territories of three divine beasts, Li Muyang finally managed to hide and shake it off.
Following his planned route, he continued hunting exotic beasts in the area, collecting more Flame Energy Value.
His stagnating level began to rise, albeit slowly.
Currently, the Half-Evil Dragon had reached level 72.
But there was still a long way to go before it maxed out its level.
Li Muyang was incredibly cautious, doing his utmost to avoid death.
Every death wasted two days—one for resurrection and another to get back on track.
Time was precious, and Li Muyang could not afford to be reckless.
In the Peaceful Realms, the Green Saber Mantis advanced silently, encountering no dangers.
The figure he had been wary of—Chou Yuyan—did not appear within his sight.
It seemed that lunatic had truly ventured deeper into the Peaceful Realms and had stopped bothering him.
Still, Li Muyang didn’t dare to let his guard down.
As days passed in the game, the Peaceful Realms remained a place without sun or moon. Meanwhile, the Half-Evil Dragon on Outer Realm Island grew stronger by the day.
When the Half-Evil Dragon leveled up to 81 and collected the seventh divine beast shadow, Li Muyang suddenly froze, a hint of joy flashing across his face.
—They had finally arrived!
The Green Saber Mantis moved silently forward until it reached the base of a massive cliff face.
On the cliff above, a corpse was pinned, motionless and eerie.
Granny Gu…
Seeing the grotesque and grim death of Granny Gu’s corpse on the cliff, a trace of gloom passed through Li Muyang’s eyes.
But he knew the danger of the Evil Vein Clan’s corpses and dared not step forward to recover the body.
He halted beneath the towering thousand-zhang cliff, its steep and imposing form cutting sharply into the sky, with icy winds howling across the land.
Adding to the scene was the eerie sight of the nailed-down corpse on the cliff face…
Yu Xiaoshuang involuntarily moved closer to Li Muyang, speaking in a soft, trembling voice, “S-Senior, are we… are we not leaving?”
It was clear she did not want to linger here.
Li Muyang shook his head and responded, “This is our destination.”
He retrieved the Little Wild Grass statue from the Qiankun Ring and arranged it before him, silently waiting for Little Wild Grass to arrive.
Little Wild Grass’s corpse was wandering somewhere nearby, but Li Muyang did not know how to track it. He could only stay here and wait.
It was at this location that he had seen Little Wild Grass last time as well.
Closing his eyes with ease, Li Muyang returned his focus to controlling the clay figure of the Half-Evil Dragon in the game, continuing the hunt.
Yu Xiaoshuang, however, couldn’t match his calm demeanor. Nervously, she stood up, keeping a vigilant watch on her surroundings. In fact, she was so on edge that she even summoned the Three Immortals Tower. If any spectral or sinister entity appeared, she was ready to suppress it with full force.
Yu Xiaoshuang’s caution was naturally directed toward Granny Gu’s corpse on the cliff.
In a sense, her vigilance was justified.
The corpse of an ancient Evil Vein, especially one belonging to a clan heir, was no trivial matter.
Though the corpse of Granny Gu lay utterly still at the moment, if disturbed, who knew what havoc it might unleash?
After warning Yu Xiaoshuang not to act rashly, Li Muyang once again entered his multitasking state.
Simultaneously, he silently calculated the time in his mind.
Since entering the Peaceful Realms, they had spent a total of thirty-three days on the journey.
The return trip would take another thirty-three days.
Altogether, the round trip would cost them two whole months…
Li Muyang sighed inwardly, hoping that this time everything would go smoothly.
The frigid wind howled across the cliff face.
The girl under the Three Immortals Tower kept a tense watch, observing how the gusts slicing across the wilderness became sharper and icier.
Her body shivered uncontrollably, and she hastily said, “S-Senior!”
Her fear wasn’t due to lack of courage; it was because the eerie and chilling aura blowing in from the wilderness was impossibly terrifying, far beyond her expectations.
In Tianyuan Continent, which had long enjoyed peace and the absence of devils, the girl had never seen such dreadful sights before!
A malevolent and chilling presence throbbed in the foggy depths, while the icy wind howled like blades slicing at her skin.
Within the mist, a faint and erratic shadow roamed, its presence equally ghostly and menacing.
Even the faint tendrils of aura emanating from that shadow struck the girl with overwhelming terror and awe.
Li Muyang, engrossed in the game, suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Ever-alert to his surroundings, he sensed the moment the sinister wind blew in and the shadow emerged from the fog.
“Zhi Wei!”
Li Muyang showed not the slightest fear. Instead, he raised his voice and called out, trying to summon the figure within the mist.
However, as soon as he spoke, the figure in the mist recoiled in alarm and moved away quickly.
Li Muyang froze in surprise—was Zhi Wei’s corpse running away at the sight of him?
The last time they had met, she had approached him on her own initiative.
Without hesitation, Li Muyang gave chase: “Quick! Follow me!”
He plunged into the mist, shouting back to Yu Xiaoshuang and the Green Saber Mantis to keep up with him.
Zhi Wei’s silhouette flickered briefly in the mist before retreating further into the distance.
In that instant, Li Muyang realized why Zhi Wei’s corpse was fleeing.
The last time she had encountered him, he had been incredibly weak—even with the Mo Immortal’s corpse summoned, his strength was only at the Heavenly Eternal Realm.
But Li Muyang was no longer the same.
Not only had his own strength reached the early stage of the Heavenly Constant Realm, but the Mo Immortal’s corpse he could summon had power comparable to the Taichu Realm.
What’s more, by his side was the Heavenly Eternal Realm Green Saber Mantis and the Purple Mansion Realm peak Yu Xiaoshuang, wielding the Three Immortals Tower.
Such power posed an undeniable threat to Zhi Wei’s corpse.
Even with a trace of lingering consciousness, her corpse had sensed the danger and fled immediately.
Previously, she had even evaded Chou Yuyan, her direct disciple, who had scoured the Peaceful Realms but found no trace of her master’s corpse…
Li Muyang charged through the mist at full speed, unwilling to lose Zhi Wei’s trail.
He feared that if he let her escape, he would suffer the same fate as Chou Yuyan, never to encounter Zhi Wei’s corpse again.