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

On the collapsing city wall, a girl in white was drooling, looking at Li Muyang with great anticipation.

The giant mantis in the ghostly fog, however, remained silent.

This girl, who had been sacrificed by her father's blood at birth and whose soul was trapped within the Artifact Spirit, grew up inside the Artifact. Could she have become the Artifact Spirit after all?

Yet, she was able to see what was happening outside, at least she could see everything happening around her twin sister Shen Yan.

She saw her sister, since childhood, eating various delicious foods and being loved by their parents, becoming the heiress that everyone in the Blood Lotus Sect revered.

Yet she grew up alone in this ghost city, having never tasted the flavors of human food... which was very pitiful.

But Li Muyang dared not show his pity easily.

This little girl could see through the jadeite mantis, and see the Li Muyang controlling it from behind, which was too perilous.

If she told the others in the Blood Lotus Sect about this, how would Li Muyang explain it?

Li Muyang, keeping silent, controlled the jadeite mantis to write words on the ground.

[Could you not ask the Sect Hierarch or your sister to bring you some food? If you wanted to eat, they wouldn't refuse, would they?]

Li Muyang cautiously wrote such probing words.

But upon reading this line, the girl on the city wall pouted and said unhappily,

"I can see what Sister and Sect Hierarch are doing, but I can't talk to them. They can't hear me either, otherwise I would've asked them to bring me something delicious a long time ago."

"Every time they throw those fierce and annoying Cultivators into the cauldron for me to eat... yuck! They have no taste at all! I won't eat them!"

The little girl naively spoke such horrifying words.

Li Muyang's scalp tingled as he listened.

Eating Cultivators... This little girl, could she really be the Artifact Spirit?

However, this little girl also said she refused to eat those Cultivators...

Li Muyang, observing the wandering souls of the Blood Lotus Sect followers in the city, discovered that although these souls continuously emitted noisy sounds, they were merely repetitive obsessive phrases, and they lacked a conscious awareness.

The souls in the city lacked conscious awareness, and the girl could not communicate with the outside world.

Did that not mean that she was stuck here alone, able to see everything in the outside world but isolated from it?

While this meant Li Muyang didn't have to worry about being exposed, he felt somewhat uneasy in his heart.

He sighed and controlled the jadeite mantis to write another line on the ground.

[This is one of my incarnations, also trapped here. The outside is not the human world; there are no desired pastries or snacks.]

Li Muyang succinctly shattered the girl's hopes.

However, upon seeing this line, the girl showed no signs of disillusioned disappointment. Instead, she said to the jadeite mantis,

"But your main body is still in Tianjiao City, right? An hour ago, my sister went to see you."

"Find some delicious food for me in the city, and sneak it into the Artifact."

"As long as you pour that delicious food into the Artifact, I can eat it."

The girl looked at Li Muyang with anticipation, eager to try.

"It's simple! Just pour the delicious food into the Artifact, and I can eat it without you having to do anything else!"

"That terrible thing inside the Artifact doesn't even bother to eat the Cultivators; I have to feed it every time. If you pour in the delicious food, it won't compete with me for it!"

The little girl's simple couple of sentences revealed yet another important piece of information.

Li Muyang sighed wordlessly as he looked at the innocent girl in front of him who, without any guard up, was divulging secrets one after another.

He felt somewhat embarrassed at how easily this information had come to him.

This was the first time he had encountered a situation where he didn't need to coax the information out; she was willingly offering it.

The Emerald Mantis wrote on the ground again,[The terrifying creature in the cauldron? What is that?]

"It's the Artifact Spirit of the Quadrilateral Cauldron," the girl pointed behind her to the enormous shadow of the cauldron in the city, saying, "That creature is resting and sleeping inside the cauldron, no matter how loud it gets, you can't wake it up."

"That's why my dad sent me in here, to take over the work of that terrifying creature who is deep in sleep."

"Whenever someone from the Blood Lotus Sect dies and their soul returns to the Quadrilateral Cauldron, it's me who helps remake their bodies and send them back."

"But doing these things requires a lot, a lot of Spiritual Power. So we have to feed the sleeping creature in the cauldron a lot of Cultivators, then when that creature is full, the cauldron will have the Spiritual Power to help the people of the Blood Lotus Sect come back to life."

The girl spoke these words unhappily.

"That creature is so annoying, always fierce-looking even in sleep, and it's ugly too."
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"Staying together day after day with such a terrible and sleepy creature is really boring."

At this point, the girl looked towards Emerald Mantis, invitingly saying with great anticipation, "Li Muyang, do you want to come in and see?"

"I can take you to see that terrible creature, it looks really ugly! It's just lying there in the cauldron, fast asleep!"

"No one has ever talked to me in this cauldron before; you're the first one!"

The girl was very happy.

That kind of joyful happiness made her seem almost about to fly, her whole being seemed to be glowing.

But this vibrant, cheerful joy, juxtaposed with her life growing up trapped inside the Quadrilateral Cauldron, made it all the more tragic.

Li Muyang felt somewhat moved and also a bit curious.

[It seems like you don't resent your father at all, nor do you resent the people of the Blood Lotus Sect]

This girl had grown up confined in the Quadrilateral Cauldron from childhood, alone and unable to communicate with the outside world, yet she could see everything that happened beyond it.

One would think she'd become a vengeful person twisted by hatred, desperate to destroy the Blood Lotus Sect.

But the girl's eyes were full of optimism and cheerfulness, with not a trace of resentment; instead, she diligently worked for the Blood Lotus Sect... it was quite illogical.

Seeing Li Muyang's confusion, the girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said,

"Actually, I also feel like I should hate, logically speaking, it would be fitting for me to hate them."

"But I just can't bring myself to hate them."

The girl said innocently to Li Muyang, "It might be something my father did to me when he blood sacrificed me."

"I grew up in this cauldron without any hatred, instead I'm always happy. Although it's boring and lonely in here, I just feel happy."

"So I think, since I'm happy every day, why think too much?"

"Since I'm happy, after all."

The girl said this, then grinned at Emerald Mantis, saying, "Speaking of which... Li Muyang, you've asked me so many questions. Are you concerned about me, feeling empathy for me?"

"You are really nice, much better than when you are with my sister."

"When you're with her, I can feel that you're being very perfunctory. Hehe..."

Because of this slight preferential treatment, the girl felt joyful and delighted.

At this moment, her eyes squinted with laughter, like a little fox that had just stolen a chicken.