“Brother, what have you been busy with lately? I see you running around outside every day…”
Li Yuechan, who was herding a pair of sheep towards the town, saw a familiar figure ahead on the road; she hurriedly followed.
Li Muyang, who was looking at a map in his hands, heard his sister’s voice and stopped by the side of the road, waiting for her to catch up.
Watching Li Yuechan, reeking of the animals, jingling her bell and driving the flock, Li Muyang looked puzzled.
“How come you’re herding sheep?”
Previously, Li Yuechan had been assigned the menial task of sewing animal hides. Though boring, it was relatively leisurely work.
Now, suddenly, she was herding sheep…
Herding sheep was by no means a desirable job.
As Li Yuechan approached, Li Muyang caught that familiar stench of blood.
—He was, after all, an experienced shepherd.
Given the relationship between Li Muyang and steward Wang Fatty, such dirty and tiring work shouldn’t have been assigned to Li Yuechan.
Yet Li Yuechan cheerfully said, “I volunteered to herd sheep. I…”
Li Yuechan was about to explain when suddenly a woman’s voice rang in her ear.
[Yu Chan, do not tell your brother the reason.]
Li Yuechan blinked, seamlessly continuing, “…I think herding sheep is very leisurely. Nobody bothers me, and it’s much better than sitting at home sewing stinky hides. Besides, herding sheep pays more Spirit Rice.”
Li Yuechan gave a very persuasive reason.
Indeed, some were lured to the job by the attractive compensation for shepherding, although most would quit after a month.
Li Muyang glanced at his younger sister but did not pursue the matter further.
A sixteen or seventeen-year-old brat is right in the throes of a rebellious phase; persuading her now might just backfire.
“Fine, if you don’t want to herd sheep anymore, just let me know. I’ll talk to steward Wang to switch your assignment,” Li Muyang said casually, continuing forward with the Geographical Map in hand.
Li Yuechan, ringing her bell and trailing after Li Muyang like a shadow, curiously asked, “Brother, you haven’t answered my question. What have you been looking for recently? You run to the market every day…”
Li Muyang, who usually kept to himself, had been frequently descending to the market of late, which made Li Yuechan very curious.
—Could it be that my brother, as a man, could no longer restrain himself?
In Jiu Yuan City, scions and young lords of my brother’s age were often immersed in the pleasures of the brothels.
But when she secretly followed her brother once, she saw that he was only interested in the Geographical Maps and miscellaneous books sold in the market and showed little interest in the brothels there.
This made Li Yuechan even more curious.
If he wasn’t going to sleep with the chickens in those brothels, then what was he running down the mountain for every day?
Seeing her sister’s eyes sparkling with curiosity, Li Muyang put away the Geographical Map and shook his head, “Nothing much, I’ve just recently become interested in the geography of this world, so I’ve been collecting maps from various places.”
Of course, that was a lie.
The real reason was that after the incident with the Dragon God Fairy Ghoul Mastery Painting, Li Muyang began to wonder if the first two game instances also had their counterparts in reality.
He was currently looking for information related to the Glass Immortal Maiden and Black Cloud Fort.
From his subsequent understanding of the legend of the “Dragon God Fairy,” the “Luoyang City” in the game “Three Kingdoms: Skies Suppressing the Demons Chronicles” seemed to be located within the Misty Sea.
An eerie city shrouded in fog, unable to make contact with the outside world, with tens of thousands of resentful ghosts on the verge of breaking their seals. Recently, there was a sudden disturbance in the Misty Sea, as if some evil creature was attempting to emerge, but it abruptly stopped and the mirage of the Dragon God Fairy Ghoul Mastery appeared…
This coincided exactly with the content of “Three Kingdoms: Skies Suppressing the Demons Chronicles”!
It’s just that in the game, it was draped in the guise of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, amidst the chaos of the Three Kingdoms era.
No wonder in the game, whenever “Luoyang City” was mentioned, the Dragon God Fairy would get angry and say it was nonsense… it turned out that place was not Luoyang at all.
If the Dragon God Fairy actually existed, what about the Glass Immortal Maiden and Little Wild Grass?
Could it be they also had real counterparts in this world?
Li Muyang these days had been searching everywhere, entering the outer sect’s marketplace to buy a Geographical Map and to gather information.
Unfortunately, the harvest was meager.
The Glass Immortal Maiden was untraceable within the Tianyuan Dynasty, as a Real Person of the Green Leaf had swept away all demons.
The Black Cloud Fort where Little Wild Grass resided was mysterious and unpredictable, home to a group of dead Demon Cultivators and strange indigenous people.
The information about these two game instances was quite clear, and if there were corresponding places in reality, they should be easy to find.
But Li Muyang found nothing.
Either the system’s disguise was too perfect, or these two instances had other prototypes.
In any case, Li Muyang found nothing.
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But he was not in a hurry.
If he couldn’t find them, then it wasn’t a big deal.
The Glass Immortal Maiden was so weak that despite being called an immortal, she was nearly killed by a few Demon Cultivators. If he hadn’t acted in time, that weak Immortal Maiden would have probably died in Loushan City.
If there really was a Glass Immortal Maiden in reality, she would have to thank Li Muyang.
Li Muyang was not worried about the Glass Immortal Maiden causing him trouble.
As for Little Wild Grass, she was currently a complete weakling, without a shred of cultivation.
Although the game text suggested she would become very powerful once she grew up.
But that would have been after Li Muyang had cultivated her through the instance.
Now Li Muyang simply held back from clearing the instance, so how could this girl, being raised like a cash cow by the Black Cloud Fort, pop out and bite him?
Li Muyang, carefree and at ease, chatted with his sister, and finally parted at the crossroad ahead.
Li Yuechan hurried the flock of sheep to the pen, while Li Muyang returned to his cottage halfway up the mountainside with a new Geographical Map in hand.
In addition to searching for the game instances, purchasing Geographical Maps and geography books was also Li Muyang’s way of increasing his knowledge of this world.
The original body’s knowledge of the world, being that of a foolish son of a rural landlord in Jiuyuan City, was very shallow.
Li Muyang had no choice but to desperately cram geographic knowledge himself.
After all, he was now at the ninth level of Qi Condensation, getting closer and closer to Foundation Establishment.
Once he broke through the ninth level of Qi Condensation, he would have to consider whether to continue staying in the Refinement Demon Sect or to leave and find a place to stay temporarily.
Under such circumstances, it was important to collect information about this world.
——Since he wanted to run away, he had to understand which regions were safe and which were dangerous, right?
As a Cultivator under the Demon Sect’s rule, Li Muyang didn’t want to get too close to the powers of the Path of Immortality.
What if one day the forces of the Path of Immortality came attacking?
Li Muyang, back at his mountainside cottage, continued to look over the Geographical Map sitting on the threshold.
But at this moment, he felt a slight stir in his mind.
The long-silent system suddenly made a move.
[A new game template has been detected, would you like to load it?]
[Yes/No]
Li Muyang, seeing this system prompt, blinked with curiosity.
“This new game has come so quickly?”
It had been less than half a month since he completed “Three Kingdoms: Skies Suppressing the Demons Chronicles,” and a new game had already arrived.
Filled with curiosity, Li Muyang closed his eyes and entered the system interface.
[Game “Immortal Sword Legend” confirmed for loading!]