Wei Sandao revealed the mission information.
Li Muyang was somewhat surprised: “The ancient evil spirits of Black Cloud Village? What are those?”
But as soon as he asked, Wei Sandao’s eyes took on a strange expression.
“You are of the ancient evil lineage, a villager of Black Cloud Village, and you’re asking me?”
Wei Sandao glared at Li Muyang: “Are you making fun of me?”
Li Muyang scratched his head, looking innocent: “Steward Wei, you’ve misunderstood me, I really don’t know. Granny Gu didn’t tell me anything.”
“Other than giving me a bone to make soup and sending me to escort you, she didn’t say anything else.”
Li Muyang’s eyes were sincere.
Steward Wei glared at Li Muyang for a while before finally believing that Li Muyang truly didn’t know anything.
He snorted coldly: “You know nothing and you come here… Hmph! You people of Black Cloud Village used to feed on evil spirits in ancient times.”“But after consuming too many evil spirits, you gradually became influenced by them.”
“Many of your Black Cloud Village ancestors ate so many evil spirits that they themselves turned into evil creatures.”
“There are also some that your Black Cloud Village specifically kept and bred, all of them underneath Black Cloud Village.”
“The blood oath we made was in front of the ancestral temple of Black Cloud Village, in the presence of Granny Gu. If I leave, those underground evil creatures will come out to find me.”
After explaining, Wei Sandao looked at Li Muyang with suspicion.
“Are you reliable? How can you escort me out if you know nothing?”
After Wei Sandao finished speaking, the three of them walked out of the cave.
In the dark forest, the piercing sound of gongs and drums could be heard, and a cold wind howled, engulfing Li Muyang and the others in ghastly white ghostly shadows.
“…Dead again?”
Li Muyang scratched his head speechlessly, having just heard the story when those evil creatures emerged.
How exactly should he deal with these beings?
Li Muyang reloaded the game and entered again.
“Steward Wei, how should we deal with those evil creatures?”
This time, Li Muyang asked directly.
Wei Sandao was taken aback: “What are you talking about?”
“The ones underground, those evil creatures that come to kill us, how should we respond?”
Li Muyang was concise and didn’t care if Wei Sandao could understand.
Skipping the communication part, he went straight to the core of the problem.
Wei Sandao looked at Li Muyang silently, somewhat confused, but at least he understood the question.
But he just glared and shook his head: “You’re the villager, why are you asking me? Are you playing with me?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Sandao drew his sword and struck, and Li Muyang’s head flew into the air.
“This brute, killing a teammate without a second thought?”
Li Muyang, speechless, reloaded the game again, this time without asking Wei Sandao.
He simply took Wei Sandao out of the cave and looked towards the forest ahead.
Sure enough, in the dark forest, several wobbly, floating, eerie shadows appeared.
Li Muyang’s mind raced, attempting to use transparent tentacles to attack these shadows.
However, wherever the shadows went, Li Muyang’s blue tentacles stiffened as if frozen, unable to move.
The next second, he was once again overwhelmed by the evil creatures.
“If we can’t beat them, then run?”
Li Muyang reloaded the game, immediately ran out of the cave, and started running with Xiao Yecao.
While running, he directed Wei Sandao and Xiao Yecao.
“Over there! Over there!”
“Quick, hide! Wei Sandao, one’s catching up to you from the left rear! Jump!”
Only Li Muyang could see these eerie shadows.
He directed Wei Sandao and Xiao Yecao to dodge and run, sprinting through the forest.
The shadows, as if attracted, floated and chased in the darkness, constantly drifting towards the trio.
After dying three times in a row, Li Muyang finally led Xiao Yecao and Wei Sandao out of the mountain and into a valley between two mountains.
The persistent shadows stopped chasing them there.
They floated at the edge of the forest, constantly moving and shaking, but dared not pursue further.
Moonlight shone down into the valley, and the shadows only dared to roam within the forest, away from the moonlight.
Li Muyang immediately guessed.
“Are they afraid of the moonlight?”
But the next second, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly came from ahead.
The cold wind became more intense, and eerie mist drifted with the wind, causing the pursuing shadows to disappear.
At the same time, under the moonlight ahead of Li Muyang and the others, a tall vermilion sedan chair appeared.
Six evil creatures in blood-stained robes carried the swaying sedan chair.
Inside the sedan, a terrifying deity about a zhang tall could be vaguely seen.
【The Living God】
Above the head of this evil deity in the sedan was a skull-shaped health bar.
Li Muyang’s eyes widened.
“So it’s not the moonlight they fear, but something more ferocious coming out?”
The next second, a cloud covered the moon in the night sky, and the moonlight on Li Muyang and the others suddenly turned to frost.
The three of them froze on the spot, their breath cut off, their bodies stiff.
【You have ascended. Game over】
…….
“Great, another new way to die.”
Li Muyang rubbed his hands and sat up in the bamboo house.
He didn’t rush back into the game but started to ponder.
As soon as Wei Sandao took off, a ceaseless stream of evil creatures began to surge out from the mountain forests.
These creatures seemed to be getting stronger and fiercer.
Not to mention anyone else, but at the very least, that 【Living God】 with a skull health bar on its head was definitely not something Li Muyang could afford to provoke.
Li Muyang even suspected that Granny Gu would have to flee upon encountering this Living God.
Moreover, being killed by this Living God didn’t prompt a system message of death but rather 【Ascension】.
It seems that dying at the hands of different levels of evil creatures results in different ways of dying.
Li Muyang reloaded his save once again, this time running in a different direction.
However, after a certain distance, the pursuing evil creatures began to disappear, and that eerie Living God sitting in a vermilion palanquin once again blocked his path.
Clearly, no matter where Li Muyang ran, he would encounter this Living God.
Just as Li Muyang was preparing to meet his end, he noticed that the sky was overcast, with no moonlight falling upon them.
He wasn’t instantly killed, and the vermilion palanquin continued to float closer.
Amid the grating sound of gongs and drums, Li Muyang realized that his tentacles were actually being ignored by the creatures, as they simply walked right over them.
When Li Muyang had previously discovered that his tentacles couldn’t attack these creatures, he had given up.
But noticing this scene, a sudden idea struck him.
He immediately controlled the remaining tentacles to fly towards himself, wrapping him up inside and out.
The next second, moonlight fell upon Xiao Yecao and Wei Sandao.
The two instantly stiffened, freezing to death in the wilderness.
【Xiao Yecao has died. Game over】
“…So these tentacles aren’t for fighting, but for playing hide and seek?” Li Muyang was somewhat surprised.
He reloaded his save once more.
This time he wrapped himself, Xiao Yecao, and Wei Sandao with the tentacles.
Sure enough, once wrapped by the tentacles, the group of evil creatures immediately lost their target.
However, being wrapped by the tentacles, Li Muyang’s character interface displayed a debuff.
【Whispering State】 This debuff continuously drained health, but the three of them could safely traverse the mountain forest, avoiding all the evil creatures they encountered along the way, until the first ray of dawn fell upon them.
Wei Sandao stopped.
“Alright, it’s dawn now, those evil creatures won’t come out anymore.”
Wei Sandao immediately sat down, gasping for breath: “Damn, that’s tiring! What the hell did you do? Why do I feel like I’ve been drained?”
Li Muyang glanced at his health bar. His health bar had hardly changed, although the debuff from 【Whispering State】 continuously drained health, but when the tentacles wrapped around Xiao Yecao and Wei Sandao, they would constantly draw from their health bars, feeding it back to Li Muyang.
Therefore, Li Muyang wasn’t hurt at all, but Xiao Yecao and Wei Sandao were both pale as if they were about to be drained dry.
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