The Game with Fairies

The shattered realm of the netherworld became Li Muyang’s private secret, one he didn’t share with anyone.

However, this secret wasn’t particularly valuable for others.

That broken world was too dangerous and desolate.

It was fine for the Emerald Blade Mantis to go in for leveling up, but not for Li Muyang himself.

The day after the Emerald Blade Mantis entered the netherworld, Li Muyang left Tianjiao City to conduct a field inspection outside the city, studying the piece of land where the Emerald Blade Mantis had entered the netherworld.

Whether it was due to the Emerald Blade Mantis or the system, when Li Muyang stood on that piece of land, he could faintly sense a cold and alien presence lurking underground, as if there was indeed an entrance to the netherworld there, but it was sealed at the moment.

Li Muyang took note of the location of this land. But that was all.

He had no interest in the broken netherworld for the time being, nor did he have any intention of entering it.

After returning to the city lord’s mansion, Li Muyang continued to soak in his wooden tub while controlling the Emerald Blade Mantis to stealthily move through the underworld’s ghostly fog.

Following the system’s guiding arrows, he hunted down the ghosts in the netherworld one by one.

Watching the Evolution Points of the Emerald Blade Mantis slowly climb, Li Muyang also noticed that the ghosts lingering in the netherworld were all dull and numb.

They were like the huge divine corpses wandering the underworld, reduced to empty shells and residual instincts, not even souls, devoid of any self-awareness.

Li Muyang carefully avoided the powerful remnants and harvested the weaker ones as days passed.

The intelligence he sent to the Demon Refining Sect became increasingly sparse.

After all, the core intelligence had already been sent, but so far, the Demon Refining Sect had made no move.

The Demonic Sect had not dispatched a Purple Mansion powerhouse to sever the connection between the Four Directions Cauldron and the ley lines as Li Muyang had speculated.

The only change was that the Demon Refining Sect’s offensive against the Blood Lotus Sect became even fiercer.

Reports of battles flew in like snowflakes, and the frequency of transporting materials out of Tianjiao City doubled compared to before.

At the same time, Li Muyang also saw followers of the Blood Lotus Sect emerging from the area where the Four Directions Cauldron was located, donning their respective sect’s battle robes, and after assembling outside the city, they rushed to the frontline.

All of them were Blood Lotus Sect followers who had been resurrected through the Four Directions Cauldron.

As the Demonic Sect’s offensive intensified, the number of followers who died and were resurrected in the war increased, and the number of resurrected followers in Tianjiao City also increased. This already busy and crowded city became even more congested.

Many citizens within Tianjiao City joined the Blood Lotus Sect, becoming faithful followers. The miracle of resurrection was continuously performed in the city, and the ordinary mortals who had lived under the rule of the Demonic Sect saw such miracles and began to believe in the righteousness of the Blood Lotus Sect like mad.

The doctrine of the Blood Lotus Sect, which aimed to kill all cultivators and let the world be ruled by mortals, was hugely attractive to these mortals.

After all, under the rule of the Demonic Sect, human lives had a clear price, and the status of mortals was only slightly higher than that of dogs.

In her free time, Shen Yan once said to Li Muyang with a smile, “Almost all the citizens of this city have joined the Blood Lotus Sect.”

“The era when cultivators were high above has passed.”

Looking at Shen Yan’s smile and the fervent citizens behind her, Li Muyang fell silent.

At this moment, he suddenly understood why the Blood Lotus Sect chose to rise up on the territory of a major demonic sect like the Demon Refining Sect.

The mortals who had been oppressed by the Demonic Sect had no resistance to the doctrine of the Blood Lotus Sect, which aimed to kill all cultivators.

Once the Blood Lotus Sect withstood the offensive of the Demon Refining Sect and demonstrated their strength and miracles, an endless stream of followers would join them.

When the Blood Lotus Sect first started their uprising, the total number of followers from the seven branches and four incense halls was less than two hundred thousand.

But now, just within Tianjiao City, there were two hundred thousand new followers of the Blood Lotus Sect, with many more watching and waiting, and it was only a matter of time before they all joined.

Similar scenes were unfolding in the dozen or so cities surrounding Tianjiao City.

After the successful uprising, the Blood Lotus Sect turned this land into their true stronghold in just two months.

Feeling the burgeoning power of the Blood Lotus Sect, Li Muyang let out a long sigh and said, “The Demonic Sect’s offensive will become even more fierce…”

The strength of the Blood Lotus Sect was growing exponentially, swelling continuously.

The new followers outside each city began military training, preparing to join the battlefield.

Such a grand display was not hidden at all.

Even if Li Muyang did not send back intelligence, Demonic Sect spies would surely discover this phenomenon.

As more and more mortals on this land joined the Blood Lotus Sect, the offensive of the Demon Refining Sect became as fierce as Li Muyang had anticipated.

The frontline continuously saw deaths, and Tianjiao City saw an unending stream of soldiers resurrected from the dead.

These soldiers were supposed to rest for about three days to adapt to their new bodies before rejoining the battlefield.

However, as the Demonic Sect’s offensive grew more intense, many resurrected soldiers were only given a day or even half a day of rest before being hastily assembled and sent to the frontline.

The supply warehouses within Tianjiao City were rapidly depleting.

According to Shen Yan, the Blood Lotus Sect had accumulated supplies for twenty years for the uprising, and in just the past two months, nearly seventy percent had been consumed.

Yet the Demonic Sect’s offensive remained fierce, giving the Blood Lotus Sect no room to breathe.

Shen Yan, who became busy, had almost no time to chat with Li Muyang. But the girl was very happy in such a situation.

“It’s almost over…”

Feeling the increasingly fierce offensive of the Demonic Sect, Shen Yan made an optimistic judgment.

“As long as we withstand this last wave of attacks from the Demonic Sect, our sect’s great cause will be accomplished.”

Shen Yan was very optimistic. Once the Blood Lotus Sect fully assimilated this land and converted all the mortals into followers, the Demon Refining Sect would no longer be able to invade.

However, Li Muyang became vigilant.

He quietly moved the Lord of Mount Wu, a tiger that had been dormant for a long time and no longer descended the mountain to eat people close to Tianjiao City, ready to respond at any moment.

At the same time, Li Muyang was also observing the military deployment within Tianjiao City, silently calculating escape routes.

Under the almost insane offensive of the Demonic Sect, it was clear that the bigwigs of the Demonic Sect were uneasy.

Such a frantic offensive could be described as a desperate last resort.

As the Blood Lotus Sect grew stronger in this war of mortals, the bigwigs of the Demonic Sect were ready to use their ultimate means at any moment.

If a Purple Mansion powerhouse was willing to take the risk and sever the connection between the Four Directions Cauldron and the ley lines, eliminating the power that sealed cultivation on this land, then the current formation of the Blood Lotus Sect would be nothing but a wisp of smoke under the joint slaughter of the Demonic Sect’s powerhouses and elders.

The Four Directions Cauldron was the fatal weakness of the Blood Lotus Sect.

Once the land no longer sealed cultivation, no matter how many mortals there were, they would just be numbers for the Purple Mansion powerhouses to slaughter.