The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!

After coming out of the black prison, Li Muyang had not been reinstated to his official position.

Originally rising to the rank of Banner Master, Li Muyang once again became an unranked idler within the Refinement Demon Sect.

This was somewhat strange.

Based on Li Muyang's guess, Shen Yan must have fished him out of the big prison to make use of his Martial God Domineering Body's formidable combat power to severely deal with a group of thorns.

But Shen Yan had only given him a leisurely task—protecting the poisoned and comatose Ruan Mei.

Although Ruan Mei was important, this Auntie Ruan had taken care of Shen Yan after her father's death, and was an elder who had personally watched Shen Yan grow up.

Yet, assigning Li Muyang with such strong combat abilities to protect Ruan Mei felt like using a cleaver to kill a chicken—a touch of overkill.

Aside from Li Muyang, the rest of the people assigned to protect Ruan Mei were the group of young disciples whom Li Muyang had promoted in the Enforcement Hall.

After Li Muyang was arrested and imprisoned, his subordinates from the Enforcement Hall were also imprisoned and subjected to examination.

After Shen Yan fished out people like Bu Hongsheng and Liu Fu, she continuously had them protect Ruan Mei.

Now, seeing Li Muyang released from prison, everyone was extremely excited.
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Only Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng no longer exhibited their former ambition and seemed somewhat dispirited, having gone through these events.

Clearly, their fervent loyalty to the Refinement Demon Sect, only to end up in prison and be demoted, had greatly sapped their enthusiasm.

However, Li Muyang couldn't care less.

After his release, he was arranged to live in the room next to Ruan Mei.

In the room next door, Ruan Mei lay in a comatose and poisoned state, akin to a vegetative person. Two physicians skilled in the art of poison were helping the comatose Ruan Mei detoxify three times a day, carefully treating the attacked Helmsman with a slow and meticulous approach.

Li Muyang and others stood guard inside and outside the courtyard, ensuring Ruan Mei's safety.

Therefore, Li Muyang's main daily job was to sit in a wicker chair at the doorway of Ruan Mei's room, preventing any unrelated persons from entering.

But every time he closed his eyes, Li Muyang would close his eyes and play games.

The situation within the Refinement Demon Sect had not spiraled out of control, even as casualties mounted on both sides; each faction was exercising restraint.

According to what Li Muyang had learned after his release, not only Ruan Mei and Shen Yan had been attacked, but several Banner Masters on the opposing side had also died.

The only step remaining before open conflict was for the Sect Hierarch of the Refinement Demon Sect and a few Helmsmen to personally take action.

But this final step had been indefinitely delayed by no one.

All these reasons were ultimately due to the existence of the Refinement Demon Sect's oath of blood.

The blood oath allowed these followers to resurrect after death, and also prevented them from deserting the faith; even when it reached the stage of life-and-death strife, they could not easily lead their followers away.

Thus, both sides continued in a standoff, each waiting for the other to buckle.

After Li Muyang clearly understood the state of affairs, he became even more engrossed in his game.

Now with the situation so tense, once Li Muyang completed the game and caused the Refinement Demon Sect's blood oath and the miracle of resurrection to fail, these people would definitely fight at full force.

Even if they didn't come to blows, those Helmsmen and Incense Masters unhappy with Fang Yingtian would take their followers and leave.

At that moment, the great enterprise of the Refinement Demon Sect would crumble apart, and the Refinement Demon Sect could pick them off one by one.

In the mist-enshrouded ghost city, the huge emerald saber mantis carried Shen Miao towards the last of the Black Turtle Banners.

The towering Black Turtle Banner stood in the north of the ghost city, and the moment Li Muyang stepped into the Black Turtle Banner's territory, he immediately entered the secret realm.

Atop the vast and rolling sea, a mountainous Black Turtle divine beast floated on the water like an island.

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Its colossal frame set off a violent upheaval in the vast ocean, and endless torrents and storms lashed toward the Jade Mantis.

Li Muyang controlled the Jade Mantis to swing its saber arms, continuously shattering the water streams flying toward him.

And the young girl, Shen Miao, perched atop the Jade Mantis's head, cast her cries as she hurled dark red blood arrows.

Each blood arrow that struck the massive Xuanwu divine beast chipped away a small segment of its health bar.

However, the Xuanwu, as big as a mountain, was not just massive in size but also had a terrifyingly long health bar.

The health bars of the three divine beasts they had previously taken down, when combined, didn't even equal the thickness of the Xuanwu's single bar.

As such, even though the Xuanwu's attacks weren't fierce, its enormous health bar posed a great trouble.

Li Muyang, controlling the Jade Mantis with Shen Miao on board, danced through the stormy currents, and even after striking the Xuanwu dozens of times, at most only five or six percent of the Xuanwu's health was reduced.

And if the Xuanwu's attacks hit them even once, the "Water" bar in their field of vision would increase by ten percent.

After being hit by the Xuanwu ten times, once their bodies were saturated with water vapor, they would be forcibly expelled from the secret realm and have to wait for the internal vapors to dissipate before they could continue the challenge.

One failure after another left Shen Miao somewhat despondent.

"This darn turtle is so annoying!" the girl said in utter frustration, "Brother-in-law, this thing is too tough. Can we really beat it?"

The massive health bar of the Xuanwu divine beast drove Shen Miao to despair.

Yet Li Muyang remained utterly calm, "Just fail a few more times and get used to its attack frequency, and you'll be fine."

In a previous life's online games, he had brought down who knows how many of these high-health-point bosses.

It all just came down to a battle of reactions and stamina.

This little girl was just too impatient, totally unable to keep her composure.

In Li Muyang's opinion, while the Xuanwu had a lot of health, that actually made it easier to handle.

Once he got used to the attack pattern of the Xuanwu and developed muscle memory, defeating the Xuanwu was just a matter of course.

Day after day, he sat outside Ruan Mei's door, contentedly playing the game, completely indifferent to the outside world's turmoil.

Although Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng would often update him about the current situation, like how yet another sub-branch had experienced deaths or how someone had boldly complained in the presence of the Sect Hierarch, claiming victim while playing the thief, and other such news.

But Li Muyang showed little interest in these side stories, his reactions lukewarm.

He even advised the two young men to care less about external affairs and better stay out of the fray.

Li Muyang had a vague sense that the power struggle within the Refinement Demon Sect was even more complicated than he imagined.

It seemed that Sect Hierarch Fang Yingtian's intended purge was not limited to those dissenting thorns...

In such chaotic times, it was best for those without big backings or factional ties, like Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng, to keep a low profile.

And as days passed by, Li Muyang remained comfortably in his yard, no longer venturing outside, indifferent to all external matters.

He seized each day to devote time to the game, working with Shen Miao to conquer the final divine beast, Xuanwu, continually familiarizing themselves with its attack patterns.

Finally, relying on their experiences from one failure after another, the two made a crucial breakthrough.

—They had depleted half of Xuanwu's health bar and entered the Second Phase!

This was undeniably a mark of significant progress. At the moment when the divine Xuanwu began to roar and transform in the sea, swelling in size, Shen Miao, who had been tensely engaged in battle for over an hour, couldn't help but jump for joy.

"We did it! We finally did it!"

Even though it was just entering the Second Phase, such progress was still heartening.

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