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

This city was accidentally discovered by Li Muyang when the evolving mantis creature reached level 7.

But at that time, the mantis was weak, and Li Muyang dared not get close, staying far away.

Now that the mantis had evolved to level 9, Li Muyang dared to approach quietly and observe the city shrouded in mist from a distance.

In the dilapidated underworld, was there really such a bustling city?

This scene appeared incredibly strange.

In the past, Li Muyang had seen several cities in this ruined wasteland of The Peaceful Realms.

But those cities were all damaged and abandoned, many of them even reduced to mere ruins, with hardly any remnants of souls.

The lingering souls in The Peaceful Realms mostly wandered in the wilderness or remained dormant in one place.

The liveliness of the city before him was something Li Muyang was seeing for the first time.

He instinctively sensed something was amiss, controlled the mantis to stealthily prowl and silently observe.

The mantis, now at level 9, awakened a talent for sensing danger.

On encountering a formidable enemy or venturing into a hazardous area, a danger value would appear beneath the mantis's health bar, warning Li Muyang.

A crisis value above 90 was red, and he had to immediately retreat.

The divine corpses wandering the wilderness were all of this level of danger.

Now, as Li Muyang drew closer to the ghost city, the mantis's crisis value slowly pulsated but eventually settled at 40, green.

This number represented a moderate risk.

Only slightly more dangerous than the enemies the mantis needed to hunt.

Seeing this crisis value, Li Muyang quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

He guided the mantis even closer and finally saw the wandering soul shadows atop the city walls.

The weak, transparent souls posed no threat at all, looking frail and ordinary.

They were just the souls of ordinary people.

However, their appearances left Li Muyang dumbfounded.

All the ghost shadows walking on the city walls were wearing red scarves and lotus Armor.

The appearances of these ghost shadows... were they identical to the disciples of the Blood Lotus Cult?

Li Muyang stealthily maneuvered the mantis to a collapsed section of the city wall.

From this collapsed wall, he could vaguely see inside.

From a distance, Li Muyang saw a massive, mountain-like shadow standing in the middle of the city.

The enormous shadow stood in the city center, shrouded by mist, its true form barely discernible.

But judging from its rough outline in the mist, it was clearly a cauldron.

The ghostly figures dressed as disciples of the Blood Lotus Cult, plus the giant cauldron in the city...

Seeing this scene through the perspective of the mantis, Li Muyang swallowed hard, suddenly forming a certain conjecture.

Could this place be the real reason the Four-way Cauldron could resurrect the dead?

Observing the scene inside the city, Li Muyang hesitated about whether to enter the city to take a closer look.

But just then, a flash of light suddenly appeared on the city wall ahead of the mantis.

Immediately afterward, a transparent red lotus quietly bloomed in the void.

From the center of the lotus, a girl dressed in a plain Vestment robe leaped out of thin air and landed on the collapsed city wall.

She looked up and down at the mantis in front of her with surprise, not showing any fear on her face despite the ten-zhang-long terrifying creature.

Instead, she was filled with awe.

"Li Muyang?"

The girl who appeared out of nowhere shouted Li Muyang's name at the giant creature in front of her.

At this moment, whether it was an illusion of Li Muyang or not, he felt as though he had made eye contact with the girl in the game.

Li Muyang also saw the girl's face clearly, and the massive mantis instinctively stepped back two paces as if it had seen a ghost.

——The girl in white who leaped from the ghost city looked exactly like Shen Yan!

The fog outside the city suddenly fell into a dead silence.

The giant emerald knife mantis froze in place, motionless.

Li Muyang watched the girl in white in front of him with uncertainty, his eyelids twitching.

The moment the girl leaped out of the void, the danger value beneath the mantis's health bar surged to 70.

Apart from the wandering spirits in the wilderness, the mysterious girl in front of him was the most formidable being the mantis had encountered since entering The Peaceful Realms.

Li Muyang fell silent for a moment, hesitating whether to flee.

But the girl in white playfully placed her hands on her hips and said to him, "Why are you so afraid of me? I'm not going to eat you."

The girl said with great curiosity, "I didn't expect to meet you inside this cauldron... Li Muyang, are you dead?"

"Why is your spirit different from the others, transforming into a giant mantis?"

"Are you a mantis demon?"

The girl looked puzzled.

Although she had the same face as Shen Yan, the girl seemed to be more naive and innocent.

She lacked Shen Yan's calculative composure entirely and instead appeared more like a child who hadn't grown up.

She continued talking to herself, then suddenly thought of something and frowned.

"No, that's not right! Even though you have sworn a blood oath, there's no soul shard of yours in the cauldron, and some strange force is blocking the effect of your blood oath."

"Even if you were dead, you shouldn't be able to enter the cauldron..."

The girl mumbled, puzzled, before she leaped off from the city wall towards the giant mantis. Discover stories at empire

"What on earth..."

Bang!

The girl, who jumped down from the city wall, hit an invisible barrier the moment she leaped past the city boundaries and was bounced back.

Rubbing her face as she stood up, the girl looked toward the giant mantis in shock and said,

"You're not inside the cauldron? You're outside the cauldron?"

The girl wore a look of utter disbelief.

Li Muyang, witnessing this scene through the emerald knife mantis, remained silent.

This ghost city... could it really be the cauldron?

And the girl in front of him...

Li Muyang hesitated for a moment, then controlled the emerald knife mantis to write a line in the dirt.

[Who are you?]

"Me? I'm Shen Miao, Shen Yan's younger sister," the girl in white introduced herself without hesitation.

"When I was just born, my father killed me and sacrificed my blood to the cauldron. Since then, I have always been here, growing up inside the cauldron."

The girl in white spoke nonchalantly about her past, then curiously sized up the giant mantis.

"By the way, all the spirits that entered the cauldron before were oblivious and ignorant, this is the first time I've seen someone as lucid as you."

"Hey! Li Muyang, how did you get in here? And why have you turned into a giant mantis?"

The girl looked at Li Muyang curiously, her bright eyes filled with eagerness, "What's it like outside the cauldron? Is it the human world?"

"If you're outside the cauldron, can you bring me some tasty food?"

"Like candied hawthorns, snacks, and things like that. I've seen my sister eating them from when I was little but have never tasted them myself; I don't even know what they taste like."

As the girl spoke, drool flowed ungracefully from her mouth.

She wiped the corner of her mouth, looking at Li Muyang with immense anticipation.

"If you're outside the cauldron, can you bring me some tasty food?"

"I really want to know what food from the outside tastes like!"