The Game with Fairies

It’s cold. Li Muyang, in the darkness, was momentarily stunned before regaining consciousness.

Where am I?

The moment he opened his eyes, Li Muyang realized his surroundings had changed.

He was no longer in the cottage of the Demon Refining Sect’s Outer Sect but was sitting in a slowly moving carriage on a mountain path.

The coachman, wearing a bamboo hat, hummed a mountain song in a northwestern dialect as he urged the horses pulling the cart.

It was a vegetable delivery cart, the open cart was filled with vegetables and fruits, along with several large jars of wine.

Li Muyang was sitting amidst these vegetables, his body bobbing up and down with the motion of the carriage.

Have I… transmigrated again?

Or is this inside the game?

He was now dressed in a dark black constable’s uniform, with a long saber slung at his waist, fully outfitted as a constable.

In the upper right corner of his field of vision was a conspicuous mission bar.

【Please proceed to the Horse Relay Station outside Loushan City and meet with Fairy Liuli】

Alright, it really is inside the game.

This game’s realism is quite high.

Li Muyang curiously looked around, feeling the dry warm wind of the mountains at dusk and gazing at the barren hillsides.

Before long, the coachman drove the carriage over a pass and turned back to Li Muyang.

“Constable, the Horse Relay Station is just ahead.”

The dark-skinned coachman wore a warm smile as he spoke to Li Muyang.

Li Muyang then looked forward and indeed saw a two-story wooden building beside the mountain path, which seemed to be an inn for resting, with four horses tied in the stable outside and three carriages parked.

It looked somewhat deserted.

Li Muyang got off the carriage and walked towards the inn with his saber at his waist.

The mission bar mentioned meeting Fairy Liuli here, but where was Fairy Liuli?

Li Muyang walked up the wooden steps and pushed open the inn’s main door to enter.

However, the empty inn was eerily silent, devoid of people.

Instead, a faint smell of blood wafted through the air.

Li Muyang, who had been herding sheep for half a month, was all too familiar with this stench.

He immediately stopped at the doorway, his right hand on his saber, his eyes alertly scanning the empty inn, trying to locate the source of the blood smell, when suddenly a blood-red dialogue box popped up in his vision.

【Fairy Liuli has died, mission failed】

“Huh?”

The sudden pop-up dialogue box in front of him left Li Muyang completely speechless.

What’s going on? I haven’t even found the person yet, and Fairy Liuli is already dead?

Is the bloody smell here from Fairy Liuli? Did she die in this inn?

Li Muyang scanned the inn with a mix of shock and suspicion, trying to locate Fairy Liuli’s body.

But in the next second, he was sucked away by a tremendous force as if falling into a vortex.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in a cottage of the Demon Refining Sect, his clothes once again the stinky servant disciple of the Demon Refining Sect.

“Damn, this game fails way too randomly!”

Li Muyang sat up on the bed, somewhat speechless.

What happened to the beginner’s tutorial? How come I just got in, didn’t even get to see Fairy Liuli’s face, and she’s already dead?

Isn’t the beginner’s tutorial supposed to be simple?

With a thought, Li Muyang looked at the game interface again, still seeing the eerie Loushan City under the moonlight, with ghostly shadows wandering the streets.

Right in the center of this scene, there was an option.

【Do you want to continue the Beginner’s Tutorial?】

【Yes/No】

Li Muyang pondered for a moment and clicked Yes.

Once again, the world around him plunged into darkness.

As the surrounding darkness receded like a tide, Li Muyang once again felt that cold, trembling sensation.

He opened his eyes to find himself sitting in a carriage, surrounded by baskets of vegetables and fruits.

The coachman, wearing a bamboo hat, hummed a northwestern folk song that echoed through the mountains.

The start was exactly the same as before. Even the mission bar in his field of vision was the same.

【Please proceed to the Horse Relay Station outside Loushan City and meet with Fairy Liuli】

Having already experienced one failure, Li Muyang immediately stood up this time.

Without wasting words with the coachman, Li Muyang jumped straight off the carriage with his waist saber in hand and hurried towards the mountain pass ahead.

Behind him, the coachman’s voice rang out in surprise.

“What? Constable!”

The coachman was astonished by Li Muyang’s sudden leap from the carriage.

But Li Muyang ignored him, sprinting up the steep mountain path.

The carriage, rocking and swaying like a child’s toy car, was painfully slow. Fairy Liuli was dead when it reached the Horse Relay Station.

Li Muyang started running up the steep path.

This body’s cultivation level was higher than his own, but not by much. In order to reach the Horse Relay Station as quickly as possible, he activated Time Stop.

During Time Stop, the whole world lost its color, turning into a monochrome of black and white.

Li Muyang sprinted through the black-and-white world, and after four consecutive Time Stops, he finally climbed over the mountain pass and saw the Horse Relay Station by the roadside.

Having run all the way, Li Muyang was slightly out of breath. He stood by the roadside, took a deep breath to steady his breathing rhythm, and then, with his waist saber in hand, he walked towards the inn in front of him.

He didn’t activate Time Stop right away but remained alert as he approached the inn.

Based on the previous failure, Fairy Liuli should still be alive at this point.

Indeed, when Li Muyang pushed open the door of the inn, the lobby he saw was completely different from the last time.

It wasn’t empty. A few people were scattered around the lobby, sitting here and there. The innkeeper was wearing a fur hat behind the counter doing his accounts, and a smiling waiter came forward to greet him.

“Esteemed guest, are you here to rest for a moment or to stay the night?”

The young waiter’s smile was radiant, but Li Muyang’s gaze moved past the waiter, focusing on the northwest corner of the inn’s lobby.

A figure in a light green dress outlined a graceful figure, her skin as tender and white as a freshly peeled egg, free of any freckles or wrinkles. Her face was bare, without any makeup, yet it gave off an astonishing beauty as if she were a fairy from a painting.

She sat there quietly, her gaze indifferent as it swept over, exuding an aura of aloofness that seemed to warn strangers to keep their distance.

Fairy Liuli.

Li Muyang recognized the identity of this fairy at a glance.

Mainly because of the huge health bar floating above her head, which made her stand out from the crowd.

【Fairy Liuli – Chu Qingxue】

The fact that Fairy Liuli had a health bar eliminated any possibility of Li Muyang mistaking her for someone else.

Li Muyang walked past the waiter and approached the fairy who radiated an aura of inapproachability.

But before Li Muyang could speak, the cold-faced Fairy Liuli glanced at him dismissively.

“Are you the assistant sent by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?”

Doubt filled Fairy Liuli’s eyes, clearly unimpressed by Li Muyang’s capabilities.

However, before Li Muyang could reply, Fairy Liuli pointed to a seat and said.

“Sit down first.”

Despite seeming somewhat disdainful of Li Muyang’s strength, Fairy Liuli refrained from making any remarks.

Li Muyang took her up on the invitation to sit and discreetly surveyed his surroundings.

There was certainly some danger lurking in this inn.

If he hadn’t arrived in time, Fairy Liuli would have met a tragic death within the next few minutes.

Now that he had arrived early, would the killer still make a move against Fairy Liuli?

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