YM778.TV Chapter 149
He looks helplessly at the two followers and says, “Go away! Don’t follow me.”
“No matter why you’ve come, don’t keep following me. It’s very dangerous to be around me!”
Aguye says this with a hint of nervousness, looking around as if on guard.
Seeing the barbarian youth’s panicked state, Li Muyang laughs heartily.
“Little brother, the danger you’re talking about… is it this thing?”
Li Muyang says, tossing out a ferocious and terrifying human head.
The head is badly mutilated, with disheveled hair and ugly colored patterns smeared on the face, looking extremely creepy.
The barbarian youth is shocked to see the head.“Where… where did you get this?”
Aguye is frightened.
In Li Muyang’s field of vision, a mission prompt popped up.
【Main Quest: Escort Aguye back to the village–Completed】
【New Task–Deliver the head of the Nine-Armed Bodhisattva back to Purple Immortal Village】
To kill that thing, Li Muyang had put in a lot of effort, reloading his save more than a dozen times.
It was only by relying on the dual cheats of time stop and reloading that he was able to drag out the incredibly slippery Nine-Armed Bodhisattva and kill it.
Now, seeing the shocked expression on the young man’s face, Li Muyang laughed heartily and said,
“We’ve been following you all the way, and that thing has been pestering us all the way, but luckily I was one step ahead, and it’s the one that ended up dead.”
“Brother, I think we have a fate together, how about we travel together from here on out?”
Li Muyang extended an olive branch with a smile.
The barbarian youth, however, was hesitant, “You… you want to go back to the village with me? Are you here because of General Zhong’s disappearance?”
The young barbarian, naive to the wickedness of human hearts, spilled all the beans as soon as he opened his mouth.
Li Muyang looked at him with a chuckle and nodded, “Indeed, I am here because of General Zhong’s disappearance. But little brother, how did you figure that out?”
The barbarian youth scrutinized the man and woman before him.
Under the sunlight, the woman appeared ethereal and untainted, like a fairy from the clouds.
The man was handsome and extraordinary, carefree and unrestrained, with a smile as gentle as a gentleman.
They seemed perfectly matched, like a pair of celestial beings.
Such a scene made the roughly dressed barbarian youth feel ashamed, and he explained in a low voice,
“Grandfather, the priest, said that in this world, there are people from the Central Plains whom one need not fear upon meeting—those like you, with an immortal-like bearing and the aura of a sage.”
“Grandfather said that you all are esteemed disciples of Master Qingye, the finest of good people in the world, who would not do evil.”
“So I guessed that you were here to look for the missing old general.”
The barbarian youth was very certain.
The general of the Ever-Victorious Army, who had managed the southwest for many years, was also highly respected even by the mountain barbarians.
Li Muyang was curious about what the youth had said—were all the transcendental cultivators disciples of Master Qingye?
Could it be that the Heavenly Origin Dynasty had no other cultivators?
Or did Master Qingye have many disciples?
Glancing at Fairy Liuli beside him, Li Muyang laughed, “Hahaha… little brother is half right. This fairy here is indeed a high disciple of Master Qingye, but I am not.”
“However, I am indeed here to search for General Zhong, and it seems little brother knows some clues. Shall we talk as we go?”
Li Muyang saw the simplicity of the barbarian youth and took the opportunity to probe.
But the barbarian youth shook his head and said, “I don’t know much, only that the old general had come to the village to see the priest grandfather before he disappeared.”
“If you’re interested, you can go ask the priest grandfather.”
Saying this, Aguye glanced at the head Li Muyang was holding and hesitated.
“That… immortal, may I have the head of this earth deity?”
“Although it had turned evil, it once protected the land and forests, and I want to take its head back to the village to burn it.”
This was also Li Muyang’s task, so he readily handed the head over to Aguye.
Afterward, the three set off again, with Aguye officially joining the team.
Once Li Muyang handed over the head of the Nine-Armed Bodhisattva, the barbarian youth had no more reservations towards Li Muyang and the two, spilling everything he knew.
Li Muyang listened with a smile and almost completely figured out the general situation of Purple Immortal Village.
It was a mountain barbarian village, not large, but it was the holy land of the Lijiang County’s Five Streams Barbarian.
The village had been worshipping the earth deity and the ancestors of the barbarians for generations.
The Nine-Armed Bodhisattva was once one of the earth deities of these mountains, protecting a part of the forest.
But not long ago, it had turned evil and began to harm lives.
By chance, the youth had been entangled by it and was forced to leave his tribe alone to seek help from the priest.
Li Muyang probed the situation of the Five Streams Barbarian and Purple Immortal Village and confirmed his guess through the youth’s words.
–The Heavenly Origin Dynasty had very few cultivators, and they were all disciples of Master Qingye!
Did this dynasty not have any cultivation sects?
Although the barbarian youth spoke, Fairy Liuli next to him modestly expressed her humility.
“… My master once said that there are many hidden masters in the world who live in seclusion among the mountains and forests, indulging in the mortal world.”
“Even though they don’t show off, they are still the great figures of the age.”
“It’s just that our lineage practices cultivation in the world, so we are more noticeable.”
Fairy Liuli’s modest words subtly denied the barbarian youth’s claim that all cultivators in the world were high disciples of Master Qingye.
But her words still indicated that the Heavenly Origin Dynasty had very few cultivators.
This was completely different from the customs of Li Muyang’s own continent.
Here, cultivation still adhered to the ancient traditions of immortal cultivation, relying on insight and opportunity with a very high threshold.
The advantage was that those who entered cultivation were all outstanding individuals.
Once they had an epiphany, they would break through as easily as eating and drinking.
For example, Fairy Liuli, who was seen in Loushan City last time, was hard-pressed by a few demon cultivators at most of the Golden Core realm.
Now, she was not much weaker than the Divine Travel Realm and seemed ready to break through at any moment.
Tsk… such a cultivation speed, even if it was cheating, was a bit outrageous.
You must also be of an immortal’s stature, right?
Li Muyang marveled at Fairy Liuli’s rapid progress and casually asked another question.
“Speaking of which… since there are so few cultivators, what about the Demon-Suppressing Masters of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?”
Li Muyang curiously asked, “Aren’t those Demon-Suppressing Masters cultivators?”
Asking such a foundational question was bound to cause trouble.
But Li Muyang had his save and load, so he had no concerns.
Sure enough, as soon as he asked this question, Fairy Liuli’s look at him changed.
The health bar above her head silently turned blood red.
However, the barbarian youth, without any guard, said,
“The priest grandfather said that those Demon-Suppressing Masters are not cultivators. They are bloodline sorcerers, relying on some ancient evil art and inheriting an Ancient Evil Lineage to gain power.”
The barbarian youth’s words left Li Muyang quite astonished.
Bloodline sorcerers, evil arts, ancient evil lineage to gain power…
That sounded eerily familiar!
After the destruction of Black Cloud Village, what exactly had been left behind in this land?
Why did it seem like the Heavenly Origin Dynasty was a complete mess, with demons running amok and chaos about to ensue?
Compared to the continent on the other side of the Sea of Mist, the world where Li Muyang lives, even though demon cultivators are everywhere and even rule the land, the people living under the Demon Refining Sect are considered to be living in peace and contentment, especially when compared to the Heavenly Origin Dynasty.
“Those ancient evil gods from Black Cloud Village, whoever gets involved with them is truly unlucky…”
Seeing Fairy Liuli’s eyes filled with hostility and vigilance, Li Muyang smiled.
Load save file!
He had gathered almost enough information about this instance, so it was time to push forward without the need to die again and waste time.
As Li Muyang loaded the save file, he found himself back at the start, traveling with the barbarian youth.
This time, Li Muyang was terse and cautious, hardly asking anything, and remained aloof.
The three of them traveled through the mountains and soon arrived at the gate of a barbarian village.
The sacred land of the Five Streams Barbarian, Purple Immortal Village, had been reached!
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