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

The shattered Peaceful Realms had become Li Muyang's secret alone, which he told no one.

However, this secret wasn't particularly valuable.

That broken world was too dangerous and desolate.

It was okay for the Jade Blade Mantis to go in and level up,

but for Li Muyang himself to enter, it wasn't possible.

The day after the Jade Blade Mantis entered the Peaceful Realms, Li Muyang left Tianjiao City to conduct a field survey outside the city, studying the land where the Jade Blade Mantis had entered the Peaceful Realms.

Li Muyang didn't know if it was the Jade Blade Mantis or the system's doing, but when he stood on the land where the Jade Blade Mantis had entered the Peaceful Realms, he really did faintly sense a cold and unfamiliar presence lurking underground.

The area where that land was located seemed to truly have a gateway to the underworld, only that it was now sealed.

Li Muyang noted down the location of this piece of land.

But that was all.

He had no interest in the ruined Peaceful Realms for the time being, nor any thoughts of entering the underworld.

After returning to the City Lord's mansion, Li Muyang continued to soak in the wooden tub while controlling the Jade Blade Mantis to stealthily navigate the foggy and gloomy netherworld, following the system's directive arrows to hunt one ghost after another in the underworld.

Watching the evolution points of the Jade Blade Mantis climb bit by bit, Li Muyang also discovered that the ghosts lingering in the underworld were all numb and listless.

Just like the huge divine corpses wandering the netherworld, they were left with empty shells and residual instincts, not even considered souls, lacking any autonomous consciousness.

Li Muyang carefully avoided the powerful remnants, while reaping the weak ones, as days passed by.

The intelligence he passed to the Refinement Demon Sect became more and more scant.

After all, the core intelligence had already been sent, but up to this point, the Refinement Demon Sect hadn't shown any reaction.

The Demon Sect hadn't acted as Li Muyang had guessed by sending a mighty one from the Purple Mansion to sever the connection between the Four Corners Cauldron and the earth's veins.

The only change was that the Refinement Demon Sect's offensive against the Blood Lotus Cult had become more intense.

Daily battle reports flew in like snowflakes, and the frequency of Tianjiao City's supply transports leaving the city had doubled compared to before.

At the same time, Li Muyang also saw that followers of the Blood Lotus Cult kept emerging from the area where the Four Corners Cauldron was located, putting on their respective sects' battle robes, and after assembling outside the city, they hurried to the front lines.

Those were all Blood Lotus Cult followers who had been resurrected through the Four Corners Cauldron.

As the Demon Sect's offensive grew stronger and the number of followers killed or injured in the war increased, the number of resurrections within Tianjiao City also grew accordingly.

This city, which was already busy and crowded, now became even more congested.

Many of the common people in Tianjiao City joined the Blood Lotus Cult, becoming faithful followers of the cult.

Miracles of resurrection continuously unfolded in the city, and those ordinary mortals who had lived under the Demon Sect's rule, upon witnessing such miracles, began to adopt the Blood Lotus Cult's teachings like mad.

The Blood Lotus Cult's doctrine of exterminating all cultivators to let the world be ruled by mortals held great attraction for these ordinary people.

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

In her leisure time, Shen Yan had once said to Li Muyang with a smile,

"Almost everyone in the city has joined the Blood Lotus Cult."

"The era when cultivators towered high above has passed."

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

At this moment, he suddenly understood why the Blood Lotus Cult had chosen to rise up on the territory of a major Demon Path faction such as the Refinement Demon Sect.

The mortals who had been oppressed by the Demon Sect had no resistance to the Blood Lotus Cult's doctrine of exterminating cultivators.

Once the Blood Lotus Cult withstood the Demon Sect's offensive, demonstrating their power and miracles, an endless stream of followers would join them.

When the Blood Lotus Sect had just started causing trouble, the combined followers from the seven sub-branches and the four grand incense halls barely amounted to less than two hundred thousand.

But now, inside Tianjiao City alone, there were already two hundred thousand new believers in the Blood Lotus Sect, and more people were watching and waiting, but it was only a matter of time before they too would join.

Similar scenes were also continuously being played out in the dozen or so cities surrounding Tianjiao City.

After successfully initiating their uprising, in just two short months, the Blood Lotus Sect had transformed this land into their true stronghold.

Feeling the burgeoning power of the Blood Lotus Sect's rapid development, Li Muyang heaved a long sigh and said,

"The Demon Sect's onslaught will only get fiercer…"

The power of the Blood Lotus Sect was growing exponentially and swelling swiftly.

New followers outside each city had begun military training en masse, preparing to join the battlefield.

This display of force was so grand that there was absolutely no attempt at concealment.

Even if Li Muyang didn't send back the intelligence, there would definitely be Demon Sect spies who would have discovered this phenomenon.

And as more and more ordinary people on this land joined the Blood Lotus Sect, the assaults from the Refinement Demon Sect grew as wild and fierce as Li Muyang had predicted.

There was an endless stream of dead at the front lines, and in Tianjiao City, there was an endless stream of soldiers who had died and were resurrected.

These soldiers originally needed about three days of rest to adapt to their new bodies before they could rejoin the battle.

But as the Refinement Demon Sect's attacks intensified, many resurrected soldiers were only rested for a day, or even just half a day, before they were hastily assembled and rushed to the front lines.

The supplies in Tianjiao City's warehouses were also swiftly depleting.

According to Shen Yan, the Blood Lotus Sect had used up nearly seventy percent of the supplies accumulated over twenty years for the uprising in just the past two months.

Yet the assault from the Refinement Demon Sect was still relentless, giving the Blood Lotus Sect no chance to catch their breath.

Busy with her duties, Shen Yan hardly had any time to chat with Li Muyang anymore.

But the young girl smiled happily under such circumstances.

"It's almost over…"

Sensing the ever-more ferocious assaults from the Refinement Demon Sect, Shen Yan made an optimistic judgement.

"As long as we withstand this final wave of attacks from the Demon Sect, our sect's great undertaking will be achieved," she said confidently.

Shen Yan was very optimistic.

Once the Blood Lotus Sect fully absorbed this land and converted all the common people into followers, the Refinement Demon Sect would no longer be able to invade.

But Li Muyang became more vigilant.

He quietly brought the dormant fierce tiger, Wushan Jun, who had long stopped descending the mountains to devour people, near Tianjiao City, ready to provide support at any moment.

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

Through the near-mad offensive of the Demon Sect, one could discern the unease of the high-ranking Demon Sect figures.

This frantic assault could be described as the desperate flailing of a cornered beast.

As the Blood Lotus Sect grew increasingly stronger in this mundane war, the high-ranking figures of the Demon Sect could activate their ultimate measures at any moment.

If just one Purple Mansion expert dared to take the risk and sever the connection between the Four Directions Cauldron and the earth's veins, eliminating the force that sealed away the martial power on this land,

then the current formation of the Blood Lotus Sect would be like a wisp of smoke under the concerted effort of the Demon Sect's experts and Elders.

The Four Directions Cauldron was the fatal weakness of the Blood Lotus Sect. Your journey continues on empire

Once this land no longer sealed away martial power, no matter how many ordinary people there were, they would be nothing but a slaughter count for the Purple Mansion's experts.