Chapter 372: The Curse of the Wandering God
The dark night sky spread across the land like a curtain relentlessly descending, aiming to entirely envelop the land filled with gusts of chill wind.
As the continent where Li Muyang was located welcomed the early sunrise and the daylight brightened, far in the north of the Tianyuan Continent beyond the frontier, night was falling, and the sun was setting.
Li Muyang was running through the wilderness and forest, followed by the shrill, mocking laughter of the Wandering Immortals.
This group of monsters, missing for a long time, had once again shown up at his door to chase and kill.
They roamed within the shadows, their strange figures occasionally appearing and disappearing among the forests, persistently pursuing their chase.
Li Muyang frowned slightly as he sniffed the familiar stench in the air.
His back felt that familiar, sticky coldness once again.
The two little girls had, once again, hidden in his shadow.
As Li Muyang ran through the woods, the two little girls shouted loudly.
"Dragon Goddess sister, run! Those guys are catching up!"
The Mother Buddha knew about Li Muyang and the Dragon Lady's situation, and these two little girls clearly did too.
And in the day and night that Li Muyang had been offline, their interaction with the Dragon Lady seemed quite pleasant, even referring to her affectionately as "sister."
Li Muyang shook his head indifferently, saying, "Now that I am back, can anyone tell me the situation? Everything was fine, so how did we provoke the Wandering Immortals?"
Previously, when he was within the borders, two Wandering Immortals, one tall and one short, had chased Li Muyang.
But after Li Muyang had killed them several times using the Blood Nightmare Technique, although he revoked the Blood Nightmare Technique, those two Wandering Immortals never appeared again.
Li Muyang had thought that these Wandering Immortals had decided not to bother him anymore.
But unexpectedly, upon logging in again, he was being chased by Wandering Immortals—and not just a few...
Having just logged on and entered into combat mode, Li Muyang was still puzzled.
Why would the Wandering Immortals be chasing him all of a sudden?
And why should he run?
Are these Wandering Immortals very strong?
As Li Muyang ran and dashed along, he occasionally looked back.
The Wandering Immortals in the wilderness appeared and disappeared, but did not seem powerful enough to be unbeatable.
At this moment, Moon Biter had leveled up to LV10, perhaps not brave enough to confront Mother Buddha, White Second Master, and the mighty beings behind the Wandering Immortals, but was he really supposed to flee from several Wandering Immortals?
Li Muyang looked puzzled.
The voices of the two little girls resounded in his ears.
"These Wandering Immortals suddenly popped out and want to kill you without saying a word."
"Li Muyang, you run fast, don't look back!"
"We are hiding in your shadow, don't endanger us!"
The tone of the two little girls was suddenly neither gentle nor cute after knowing that Li Muyang had logged in.
They anxiously urged Li Muyang to run quickly and not to linger.
Because of Li Muyang's frequent looking back and the stiffness from just logging in, the group of Wandering Immortals was almost upon them.
Seeing the Wandering Immortals drawing closer and closer, the two little girls were extremely anxious.
The voice of the Dragon Lady echoed in Li Muyang's ears.
"...your two little aunts said, you cannot kill the Wandering Immortals."
"They say that each time a Wandering Immortal is killed and resurrects, it will place the grudges and curses on the one who killed them."
"The more times you kill a Wandering Immortal, the stronger the grudge curse placed on you will be."
"Being multi-cursed, the killer will encounter strange, unlucky disasters. The more curses one has, the more misfortune one faces, and one might even die unexpectedly."
"Unless you find a way to completely annihilate the Wandering Immortals, making them unable to resurrect, you should run at the sight of them!"
After the Dragon Lady finished, she sounded quite helpless: "I dare not bet, so I dare not strike these Wandering Immortals, we can only evade."
"Fortunately, they are slow, they can't catch up to us."
As Li Muyang quickened his pace, the Wandering Immortals in the woods were once again left behind.
Just as the Dragon Lady said, the movement speed of the Wandering Immortals was slow.
If Li Muyang were to exert his full strength in a sprint, he could quickly shake them off.
But the information the dragon girl provided greatly astonished him.
"Do these wandering spirits actually have such an ability?"
To be cursed every time one is killed?
Hadn't he remotely curse-murdered those two wandering spirits numerous times using the Blood Nightmare Technique...
Li Muyang suddenly thought of how, upon returning to his hometown to visit his family, he was inexplicably targeted by the demon cultivators from the Green Sheep Society and had been forced to flee for several days.
Could it be because he killed the wandering spirits that he was cursed?
Li Muyang asked, "Doesn't your Buddha Mother Temple have a way to completely eliminate wandering spirits and prevent their revival?"
If the wandering spirits are this troublesome, indestructible by everyone and incurring a curse with every killing, then these spirits are essentially invincible.
The Buddha Mother Temple, a powerhouse strong enough to stand unshaken beyond the border, must surely have a method to deal with wandering spirits.
Sure enough, the two little girls spoke up.
"There is a way!"
"But we can't tell you!"
"If we told you, mother would definitely strangle us!"
"Li Muyang, you'd better just run away, these wandering spirits can't catch up to you!"
The two little girls urged Li Muyang back and forth.
They were afraid of the paper figures at Yangshou Mountain and also afraid of the group of wandering spirits before them.
The strengths of these two little girls were unclear, but they were truly timid.
Noticing this, Li Muyang's eyes narrowed slightly.
He deliberately slowed down his running and flying speed, allowing the group of wandering spirits to follow him from a distance, but not close enough to catch up immediately.
The distance between them varied, maintaining an ambiguous gap.
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"Li Muyang, what are you doing!"
"Hurry up and run, shake them off!"
"Wandering spirits are everywhere beyond the border; more will join the chase soon!"
"If you don't shake them off quickly, the number of spirits chasing you will be so large that you'll have nowhere to run!"
The two little girls urged earnestly.
Yet Li Muyang remained calm, "I need to conserve my strength."
Ignoring the urging of the little girls, he said calmly, "We are on the path to seek the remains of the Immortal. The situation ahead is unclear. What if we suddenly find the remains of the Immortal?"
"What would I do if I used up all my strength in running and then found the remains of the Immortal, without any energy left to handle it?"
"Don't worry, I know what I am doing; they won't be able to catch up like this."
Watching the number of wandering spirits chasing him in the wilderness, a few more suddenly appeared. Li Muyang's gaze grew colder.
These wandering spirits really are everywhere, just as the little girls had said.
But these two little girls, who were supposedly guiding him down the mountain, had been indulging in food, drinks, and leisure, and hadn't been providing any actual guidance at all.
In this situation, Li Muyang could only resort to tricks.
Indeed, as soon as he spoke, the two little girls immediately became frantic.
"You... "
"You're doing this on purpose!"
But just as the little girls were about to scold him, Li Muyang's pace suddenly slowed down even more.
He actually propped his hands on his knees, standing mid-slope catching his breath, "Whew... I'm exhausted, need to rest a bit."
During this brief pause, the group of wandering spirits immediately closed up to within a hundred yards.
The two little girls screamed in terror.