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

In the morning sunlight, the young driver gripped the reins and vividly recounted his experiences of encountering the Puppet Master several times before.

Although the mysterious figure in the carriage behind him remained silent as ever, appearing not to care and seemingly asleep.

Yet the young driver just lowered his voice and prattled on to himself.

He marveled at the power of the enigmatic Puppet Master whose Puppet danced with ease among two demons, untouched by their attacks, while every stroke of the Puppet hit the demons’ weak spots.

Such a fluid and graceful slaying of monsters filled the driver with excitement and he couldn’t help but express his admiration.

Even though the important figure behind him did not respond at all, the young man, accustomed to talking to himself on long journeys, chatted on without concern.

Eventually, he even started talking about his parents, his family, and how he inherited this shabby carriage from his unlucky dead father.

Time passed quickly with the driver’s babble.

At dusk, they reached a town where they took temporary lodgings.

Li Muyang, who unusually had not logged off for the day, sat calmly in the carriage and listened to the young man’s monologue outside.

Although he didn’t utter a word in response, he didn’t miss a word of what the driver said.

In the young driver’s chatter, there was a full account of the struggles of ordinary people in this world.

Forced to live in a world filled with Evil Spirits, a world that is terrifyingly dark, nobody can tell whether an accident or tomorrow will come first.

The stories recounted by mortals living at the bottom of society were much more vivid than the books in the Red Mountain Academic Palace.

Through the stories told by the driver, Li Muyang gained a deeper understanding of the social conditions of this world, and even learned of some recent upheavals that had occurred in this country.

Although the organization of states in the world down the Ancient Resentment Well is loose, there still exist states and government offices.

However, the national system here more closely resembles the medieval hierarchy of Western Europe on Earth in his previous life.

Noble families and royalties inherit titles generation after generation, tending to their own fiefs. These fiefs come together to pledge loyalty to the king.

The existence of the malevolent monsters has led the mortals of the Ancient Resentment Well to cluster together for self-protection, preventing the emergence of a highly organized and powerful superstate.

Their current destination, Li Muyang and company, was the neighboring Guo Country.

After spending a night in the town at the border pass, the next morning, the driver took Li Muyang to pay the fee and get the pass permit, and their drafty carriage slowly took to the road, joining the queue of carriages leaving the border.

In Guo Country, it is said that the people are savage in nature, eating their enemies’ flesh raw or roasting it with fire.

After passing through the gate, the driver Ding Liang became somewhat nervous, no longer as lively as before.

Even his daily soliloquy was spoken in a lower voice.

Fearing that a fierce and evil being from Guo Country would jump out from the roadside and gobble him up.

Li Muyang, on the other hand, sat in the carriage, looking at the paths in the wilderness, feeling increasingly familiar with the view.

This Guo Country turned out to be the same territory that he and Liu Li Fairy Chu Qingxue had stepped into before.

Back then, they were searching for the deranged, demonized General Zhong, encountered many ancient Evil Gods, and began to uncover the sinister truths within the Ancient Resentment Well.

Those past exploration experiences have now all become Li Muyang’s clear path, allowing him to navigate more smoothly through this dark and dangerous world.

After another two days’ journey, they reached their destination.

This place was a city, quite expansive in area, bustling with activity in its streets and markets.

The system map indicated there were six demons here.

“It seems that the more prosperous the place with more people, the more demons there are.”

Li Muyang had roughly figured out the patterns in which these nightmare ghosts appeared.

He and the driver found an inn to stay in, and afterwards Li Muyang began observing the movements of the nightmare ghosts in the city.

These six nightmare ghosts appeared as red dots on the map, wandering around the city without any awareness.

Perhaps it was because the city was too large, or there were too many people coming and going each day, the nightmare ghosts did not notice that a Puppet Master had arrived in the city.

Above the streets, there were no rumors about evil spirits harming people.

It seemed that these six nightmare ghosts had perfectly concealed themselves and had not caused widespread panic in the city.

However, after the driver Ding Liang went downstairs to finish his meal, he scurried back to share some news he had gathered with Li Muyang.

“Sir, it seems like there really is an evil spirit in this city!”

Ding Liang could not wait to share the intelligence he had gathered.

Recently, several disappearances had occurred in the city, and some people suspected it was the work of evil spirits.

But in this chaotic world, there were also many human traffickers.

The missing persons were either children or women, and no bodies left behind by the evil spirits after consuming their victims had been found.

Therefore, there was no overt panic in the city, just the victim’s family members crying and searching for their loved ones, with small-scale speculations on the streets about whether an evil spirit had entered the city.

Ding Liang had found out very clearly where the affected families lived.

He was eager to lead the way for Li Muyang and even held an iron sword that he somehow procured, saying he wanted to act as Li Muyang’s protector.

Seeing this hot-blooded young man filled with hatred towards evil spirits, Li Muyang was somewhat speechless.

“…You are certainly enthusiastic, but I have already located those evil spirits, so there’s no need for you to lead the way.”

“Just stay safely in the room and do not run about outside carelessly.”

While speaking, Li Muyang glanced at the shoddy iron sword in Ding Liang’s hand and asked, “Did you buy this?”

Ding Liang presented it like a precious treasure, nodding repeatedly: “Yes, yes, I bought it at the blacksmith’s shop outside, it cost me two silver coins. They said it’s mixed with fine steel, sharp enough to cut hair, extremely sharp!”

Li Muyang shook his head: “You don’t even know how to hold a sword properly yet you want to protect me?”

This guy…

Li Muyang directly tossed a small booklet to him, saying, “Practice according to what’s inside and see if you can master it.”

It was impossible to teach the Nether Demon Manual to this kid, but he could try the basic introductory cultivation technique of the Refinement Demon Sect.

Li Muyang was very curious whether ordinary people in this world, who lead dual existences as living beings by day and evil spirits by night, could practice the cultivation techniques of the mortal world.

It was a perfect opportunity to experiment with this young man. If successful, this passionately spirited boy could do some good deeds for the benefit of the common folk.

After leaving the booklet behind, Li Muyang went out, leaving the young man behind him with excited cheers of ecstasy.

Soon, night fell upon the city.

Li Muyang, under cover of the night, found a nightmare ghost with a fierce visage in the city.

This monster was squatting in the courtyard of a brothel, gnawing on the pale corpse of a woman.

The body being devoured by the monster did not turn into an evil entity upon rising, remaining in the state of a human corpse.

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