The stern interrogative tone of Granny Valley caused both Li Muyang and the Human Puppet Master to freeze in place simultaneously on the busy street.
The Human Puppet Master’s head subconsciously turned its gaze to look at Li Muyang beside it, a face of shock evident.
As for Li Muyang, the person concerned, he was utterly bewildered.
“Ah?”
Jiang Xiaoyu died centuries ago?
That Little Wild Grass wrapped in sinew and blue garments also died long ago?
What’s going on?
All the plots that occurred in the “Lethal Wild Grass” instance were all fake?!
Li Muyang looked at Granny Valley, full of suspicion and uncertainty, and said, “Granny Valley, are you joking?”
Granny Valley’s complexion was grim as she stared intently at him, her originally hunched figure now stood up straight.
In the face of the self-proclaimed Jiang Xiaoyu, the mysterious Granny Valley was unusually serious.
At this moment, where was the signs of her frailty and senility?
Her gaze was chilling, her eyes cold. The kind and amiable features of her face now appeared fierce and sinister.
[Granny Valley: Back then, it was I who personally sent your corpse into the ancestral temple.]
[Granny Valley: As per the customs of Black Cloud Fort, all the deceased must be buried within the ancestral temple, returning to the void.]
[Granny Valley: I remember clearly that you indeed died a complete death, it was due to demonic cultivation backfiring, and you perished prematurely as a result.]
[Granny Valley: However, I never imagined that you, this young boy, would be able to resurrect from the dark void and return to the human world…]
[Granny Valley: Boy, what did you experience in the void?]
Granny Valley’s expression was dark and ominous, looking incredibly disturbing.
Although she hadn’t done anything yet, her mere presence was enough to send shivers down the spine, making one’s hairs stand on end.
Seeing her in such a state, the Human Puppet Master immediately bellowed out.
[Human Puppet Master: Run! Boy, run for your life!]
[Human Puppet Master: No matter what your background is, that old witch has summoned the Evil God! She means serious business now!]
The Human Puppet Master shouted out anxiously.
Li Muyang instinctively wanted to flee.
However, Granny Valley, who straightened her back and was no longer hunched over, let out a ghastly and hoarse laugh.
The next second, an immense and indescribably horrifying shadow rose behind Granny Valley.
The moment that shadow descended, merely a shadow, the entire Southern River City began to shake violently.
Li Muyang, wielding the Immortal Sword, instinctively wanted to resist.
However, a cold and invisible force approached slowly. Touched by this icy power, Li Muyang watched helplessly as everything in his field of vision turned into colorful noodles, drifting towards the distance…
[Victory and defeat are common in war; please try again, hero.]
“…”
Seeing this defeat message in his view, Li Muyang took a moment to collect himself, staying silent for a while before he recovered.
“That was somewhat scary…”
Although there was no sensation of pain in death within the game,
The experience of all things in His field of view turning into colorful noodles and flying away during the terrifying descent of the Evil God’s shadow still left Li Muyang profoundly shaken.
This enigmatic Granny Valley possessed such terrifying methods?
When the shadow of the Evil God descended, everything along the entire street.
Including Li Muyang, the head of the Human Puppet Master, and even the streets, walls, the ground… everything was vanishing.
The only thing that did not vanish was the Startling Swan Immortal Sword.
The grand and inexplicably horrifying scene left Li Muyang shocked to the core.
Granny Valley was way too fierce, far stronger than the bunch of Demon Kings in the city by countless folds.
It seems one must not provoke her.
Once this old woman went mad, she was simply invincible.
Li Muyang took a long breath and reloaded his save.
This time, when faced with Granny Valley blocking the way, Li Muyang didn’t say a word, grabbed the Human Puppet Master’s head, turned around, and ran.
He had already gathered most of the intelligence he needed, and the clues Granny Valley gave him were completely unexpected.
In the life Granny Valley experienced, Little Wild Grass and Jiang Xiaoyu had never ended up together.
Jiang Xiaoyu died from dabbling in forbidden arts, and not long after Little Wild Grass entered the fort, she also died from the pursuit of the Bone-strewn Specter.
It was even possible the two had never met…
Li Muyang remembered the self-talk of Leng Aqi in “Deadly Grass” at the start of the game, after he had entered.
“…I actually didn’t die?”
Looking back now, that was an explosion of information!
Carrying the Human Puppet Master’s head, he dashed through the streets, with Granny Valley attempting to chase after him.
However, Li Muyang took out his Soul-Cleaving Throwing Knives and threw all 17 knives in one breath.
Granny Valley’s ability to summon the Evil God had frightened Li Muyang, and he didn’t dare hold back, throwing everything he had at her.
Yet, as the 17 throwing knives tore through the sky and were aimed at Granny Valley behind him, the old lady didn’t summon the Evil God; instead, she seemed somewhat flustered as she dodged and parried.
“Soul-Cleaving Throwing Knives? Are you instigated by Luo Feng?!”
Granny Valley was greatly startled.
And, in the gap when she was distracted by the flying knives, Li Muyang had already quickly disappeared around the street corner with the Human Puppet Master’s head and the Immortal Sword.
After a long sprint, Granny Valley was nowhere in sight behind him.
Li Muyang muttered to himself.
Granny Valley’s strength was inconsistent… Could it be that summoning the Evil God actually had a great cost and couldn’t be done casually?
But now that he had escaped from her pursuit, everything was negotiable.
Standing in the shadows and catching his breath, Li Muyang, who had returned to the combat zone, wasn’t in a hurry to move on.
Instead, he turned to look around.
Then, he raised the Immortal Sword and pointed its blade at the cobblestone ground at his feet.
The blade of the Immortal Sword easily slashed across the stone slabs, and a series of scratches eventually etched out a line of deep stone-carved text.
[“All things are born to nurture mankind, yet still, mankind resents the heavens for their lack of compassion.”]
The Human Puppet Master’s head saw the line of carved text and was stunned.
[Human Puppet Master: ?]
[Human Puppet Master: What are you doing? Why are you suddenly carving words into the ground?]
Li Muyang smirked and said, “Conducting an experiment.”
Having said that, Li Muyang chose to save the game, then exited.
The words spoken by Granny Valley had given him a hypothesis, which he was about to verify.
In the real world, within Demon Sword City, Li Muyang opened his eyes and identified his direction before getting up and leaving.
Within the game, Southern River City was in chaos, a river of blood, with demons and the Human Race killing each other, corpses strewn everywhere and smoke filling the air.
Yet, the Demon Sword City in reality was eerily quiet and deserted, with hardly any people even in the bustling areas.
Li Muyang followed the paths from the game, passing through the empty streets, and finally arrived at the part of the street where he had carved the words in the game.
However, the stones of the street that he had engraved with the Immortal Sword now appeared no different from the other stones in his view.
It was completely blank, covered only in dust, with no sign of Li Muyang’s carvings.
“Neither ‘Deadly Grass’ nor ‘Tales of the Immortal Sword’ can interfere with reality?”
Looking at the smooth, blank stone, Li Muyang slowly shook his head, “Both games are replicas based on past events, whereas ‘Three Kingdoms: Skies Suppressing the Demons Chronicles’ are about the things happening now, so the system has two different types of games?”
One that can interfere with reality and one that has no effect on it…
In the game, Li Muyang had rescued Little Wild Grass and had been entrusted by Granny Valley.
But Granny Valley in “Tales of the Immortal Sword” only remembered that Jiang Xiaoyu died early.