The words of the madwoman made Li Muyang furrow his brow.

He wanted to ask more, but the madwoman in the mist suddenly went crazy again.

She seemed to enjoy the look of curiosity that Li Muyang wore.

Without answering Li Muyang’s question, she let out a strange laugh of delight and suddenly disappeared into the mist.

As sudden as her arrival, her departure was equally abrupt.

This madwoman, not only could she freely enter and exit The Peaceful Realms, she could also sense Li Muyang’s approximate location?

And she was incredibly familiar with The Peaceful Realms!

She even knew that there were friends of Li Muyang nearby.

—But why the hell would I have friends in The Peaceful Realms?

Li Muyang furrowed his brow, instinctively feeling uneasy.

He stood up on top of the Emerald Dagger Mantis’s head, looking around and scanning the horizon.

The ruined Peaceful Realms were always desolate, filled with ruined wastelands, uniform throughout.

However, as Li Muyang observed, he quickly noticed that the area he was in was abnormal.

The ground the Emerald Dagger Mantis was currently passing through, although enveloped in mist and filled with a chilling aura, had no lingering spirits or evil ghosts.

The ever-present lingering spirits in The Peaceful Realms had completely vanished in this area.

The Emerald Dagger Mantis traveled for several dozen kilometers through the ruins without encountering any spirits.

Even scanning the horizon far and wide, no divine corpses could be seen.

Typically in any part of The Peaceful Realms, one could always see the enormous corpses of divine beings wandering through the mist when looking up…

The land now traveled by the Emerald Dagger Mantis was completely devoid of ghosts, and even divine corpses stayed away!

Li Muyang’s gaze grew solemn as he carefully observed.

Soon, he discovered traces of a great battle.

On the desolate and ruined land lay shocking trails of combat.

Long ago, there clearly had been a battle between immensely powerful beings.

The Emerald Dagger Mantis crossed a gorge that spanned several li wide, clearly the result of a battle between top-tier powers.

Ordinary cultivators, even those at the pinnacle of today’s cultivation world, the Heavenly Constant Realm, did not possess such combat power!

Li Muyang followed the traces of the battlefield and moved forward; the closer he got to the center of the battlefield, the more shocking the traces became.

In the air, Li Muyang faintly sniffed a familiar scent.

His expression became complex, vaguely guessing who it was.

When he finally reached the center of the battlefield, the scene he laid his eyes on confirmed his suspicion.

A withered corpse of an old crone, incompletely nailed to a smooth, sharp cliff.

Her death was incredibly tragic, hung and left to dry and wither in the wind, untouched by decay after countless centuries.

—Granny Gu!

The descendant of the sinister lineage from Black Cloud Fort during ancient times!

She had also died, and even in The Peaceful Realms?

Li Muyang looked at the corpse on the cliff, his thoughts exceedingly complex.

After a long while, all his emotions coalesced into a deep sigh.

Li Muyang raised his hand and bowed towards Granny Gu’s corpse, as a gesture of respect.

After arriving here, the Emerald Dagger Mantis stopped moving forward.

Because Li Muyang discovered that, when he arrived under the cliff where Granny Gu was nailed, there were no signs of dark deadly energy!

The omnipresent dark deadly energy of The Peaceful Realms had vanished here.

Standing here, Li Muyang was temporarily not affected by the deadly energy.

Although he could not feel nature’s spiritual energy here, at least for Li Muyang, this place served as a shelter where he could temporarily hide from the elements.

Looking up at the corpse above him, Li Muyang did not touch Granny Gu’s dead body.

This old witch had been dead for ten thousand years, and who knew if there were any traps left on her body.

Li Muyang did not want to be unlucky.

He directed the Emerald Dagger Mantis to continue searching for a path forward, while he himself sat cross-legged under Granny Gu’s corpse to rest.

In any case, no matter how far the Emerald Dagger Mantis traveled, he could summon it back using the Summoning Technique.

He planned to hide here, waiting for the Emerald Dagger Mantis to find a way out.

During the wait, Li Muyang once again opened the game to face the final boss challenge.

The thirteen demon spirits possessed strong Divine Skills, but Li Muyang believed he could clear the game!

He had to clear the game.

He re-entered the game, even more skilled and quickly defeated the ancient holy spirits and sealed the corpse of Temple Sealing Lord.

Subsequently, Li Muyang started to challenge the thirteen demon spirits.

This time, he persisted for half an hour until, following Nie Yubing’s savage death by a sneak attack from a demon spirit, Li Muyang was forcibly ejected from the system.

[Nie Yubing has died, game failed]

The familiar CG had just popped up when Li Muyang instantly closed it.

He entered the loading screen with heartbreaking speed.

Another challenge!

This time, Li Muyang persisted for thirty-two minutes.

Each time he tried again after failing, he nearly always improved.

In this endless cycle of failure and reloading, Li Muyang endured for twelve hours.

Finally, he saw the glimmer of defeating the thirteen demon spirits.

This time, not only did he last the longest, but he had nearly depleted the health bars of all thirteen demon spirits, leaving less than a fifth remaining.

With such health, they were not far from being completely defeated.

Li Muyang’s expression was exhilarated, ready to continue the battle.

But just then, a harsh, urgent ringing of bells rang out, awakening him in the game.

Li Muyang suddenly opened his eyes and looked up at the corpse above him.

The body of Granny Gu, nailed to the cliff, remained as it was, dying a gruesome death.

But now, a string of red bells on her dry, wrinkled wrist started ringing without any wind, as if by themselves.

The crisp, piercing sound of the bells colliding spread in the fog, causing Li Muyang’s scalp to tingle inexplicably.

He immediately activated his Summoning Technique and summoned the Praying Mantis—who had already walked deep into the mist—back to his side.

Accompanied by the mountainous Praying Mantis emerging from the ground and coming before Li Muyang.

The ringing of the red bells on the cliff grew even more urgent.

The piercing sound of the bells had now merged into one, as if urging death.

Li Muyang sensed something was amiss and dared not linger any longer.

He immediately controlled the Praying Mantis to walk out, wanting to leave that place.

The Peaceful Realms were unpredictably eerie—who knew what else was left inside.

However, after just taking two steps toward the outside, the Praying Mantis stopped moving.

Frozen too, was Li Muyang atop the Praying Mantis’s head.

Li Muyang’s eyes, intently staring ahead into the fog, suddenly contracted.

In that dark mist, a ghostly, disoriented figure floated toward him.

Despite the figure being incredibly thin and frail.

But the moment Li Muyang saw the figure emerge from the mist, his whole body went cold, and he uncontrollably shivered.

His body stiffened as he watched the figure float out from the mist.

When he finally saw the figure’s shape clearly, Li Muyang’s head exploded with a bang…

His mind went blank.

In that moment, he finally understood who the madwoman had been talking about as her friend.

The madwoman’s friend was not Granny Gu, nailed to the cliff.

It was instead the figure in front of him… Little Wild Grass!

The figure disorientedly floating through the mist was a body, not missing any parts.

Her gaze hollow and dim, her left collarbone to her shoulder was missing, taking with it her entire left arm.

Inside the broken wound, the pale spine was faintly visible.

The leg bones below her right knee had all disappeared, leaving only the empty, tattered skirt fluttering in the wind.

In the broken Peaceful Realms, Li Muyang’s hysterically mournful wails arose.

That piercing cry sounded like a sinister scream in the wind, traveling far and wide through the desolate fog.

Li Muyang had long known that Little Wild Grass had died, died ten thousand years ago.

But he never expected to actually see her body with his own eyes.

Even though it had been ten thousand years, her body was still wandering in the world, roaming in the desolate and broken Peaceful Realms!

“Ah! Ahhhhhhh!!!”

The agonizingly howling Li Muyang tightly clutched his own chest.

His heart felt as if it had been slashed into pieces with a sharp knife then chopped up.

Agonizingly twisted.

Extreme pain filled his entire body, his soul.

Originally having cleared “Lethal Wild Grass” and knowing about the death of Little Wild Grass, he had never felt such sadness. But now, seeing her mutilated body with his own eyes, his sorrow surged like a dam burst, almost shattering Li Muyang!

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