The Game with Fairies

“Brother, what have you been busy with lately? I see you running outside every day…”

Li Yuechan, who was herding black sheep towards the town, saw a familiar figure on the road ahead and quickly caught up.

Li Muyang, who was looking at a map in his hands, heard his sister’s voice and stopped by the roadside, waiting for her to come over.

Li Muyang looked puzzled when he saw Li Yuechan, who reeked of a fishy smell, shaking a bell to drive the sheep.

“Why are you herding sheep?”

Previously, Li Yuechan was assigned to sew animal skins.

Although boring, it was relatively leisurely.

But now, she had suddenly switched to herding sheep…

Herding sheep was not an easy job.

–He was an experienced shepherd.

Given the relationship between Li Muyang and steward Wang Pangzi, such dirty and tiring work should not have been assigned to Li Yuechan.

Yet, Li Yuechan cheerfully said, “I volunteered to herd sheep because I…”

Just as Li Yuechan was about to explain, a woman’s voice suddenly rang in her ear.

【Yuechan, don’t tell your brother the reason!】

Li Yuechan blinked and seamlessly continued, “…I think herding sheep is very leisurely, no one bothers me, and it’s better than sitting in the house sewing stinky animal skins all day. Plus, herding sheep pays more spiritual rice.”

Li Yuechan gave a very convincing reason.

Indeed, some people took up sheep herding for the generous compensation, though most would quit after a month.

Li Muyang glanced at his little sister but didn’t pursue the matter further.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old kid was in her rebellious phase, so advising her might have the opposite effect.

“Alright, if you don’t want to herd sheep anymore, just tell me. I’ll ask Steward Wang to find you another job.”

Li Muyang casually said, continuing forward with the geomancy map.

Li Yuechan, ringing her bell, followed Li Muyang like a shadow, curious, “Brother, you haven’t answered me. What have you been looking for lately? You’re always running to the market…”

Li Muyang, who usually stayed at home, had been going down to the market every day recently, which made Li Yuechan very curious.

–Could it be that her brother’s male instincts finally couldn’t be contained?

In Jiuyuan City, there were many young masters of his age indulging in the pleasures of brothels.

But when she secretly followed her brother once, she saw that he was only interested in the maps and miscellaneous books sold in the market, showing little interest in the brothels.

This made Li Yuechan even more curious.

If he wasn’t visiting those brothels, what was her brother doing going down the mountain every day?

Watching her sister’s eyes sparkle with curiosity, Li Muyang put away the geomancy map and shook his head.

“Nothing much, I’ve just become interested in the geography of this world recently, so I’m collecting maps from various places.”

Of course, that was a lie.

The real reason was that after the Dragon Deity Fairy’s incident, Li Muyang became curious if the previous two game instances also had real-world prototypes.

He was looking for information related to Fairy Liuli and Black Cloud Village.

From his subsequent understanding of the legend of the 【Dragon Deity Fairy】, ‘Luoyang City’ in the game ‘Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record’ was basically in the Sea of Mist.

A strange city shrouded in fog, unable to leave, with myriads of resentful ghosts about to break free from their seals, and recent unusual movements in the Sea of Mist as if some evil entity wanted to emerge, but then abruptly stopped, and the mirage of the Dragon Deity Fairy controlling ghosts appeared…

This was completely consistent with the content of ‘Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record’!

No wonder every time ‘Luoyang City’ was mentioned in the game, the Dragon Deity Fairy would get angry, saying he was talking nonsense… It turns out that place wasn’t Luoyang City at all.

Since the Dragon Deity Fairy really exists, what about Fairy Liuli and Xiao Yecao?

Could it be that they also have real-life counterparts?

Li Muyang had been searching everywhere these days, entering the Outer Sect’s market to buy maps and gather information.

Unfortunately, the results were meager.

The Heavenly Origin Dynasty, where Fairy Liuli was from, had no traces of demonic cultivators, and there was only someone named Master Qingye who had pacified the world of demons.

Xiao Yecao’s Black Cloud Village was mysterious and unpredictable, with a group of dead demonic cultivators and strange indigenous people.

The information from these two game instances was distinct, and if there were real-world counterparts, they should be easy to find, but Li Muyang came up empty-handed.

Either the system’s disguise was too perfect, or these two instances had other prototypes.

In any case, Li Muyang found nothing.

But he wasn’t in a hurry.

If he couldn’t find it, then so be it. It wasn’t a big problem.

Fairy Liuli was weak as a chicken, called a fairy, yet she was nearly killed by a few demonic cultivators.

If he hadn’t intervened in time, that pathetic fairy would have likely died in Loushan City.

If Fairy Liuli really exists in reality, she should also be thankful to Li Muyang.

Li Muyang wasn’t worried about Fairy Liuli causing him trouble.

As for Xiao Yecao, she was currently a complete noob with no cultivation whatsoever.

Although the game text hinted that she would become very powerful once she grew up, that would only happen after Li Muyang had nurtured her through the game.

For now, Li Muyang simply held off on completing the game.

Could this little girl, who was being raised like a cash cow by Black Cloud Village, really jump out and bite him?

Li Muyang leisurely chatted with his sister, and they eventually parted ways at the crossroads ahead.

Li Yuechan herded the sheep while Li Muyang, with his newly purchased map, returned to his small halfway-up-the-mountain cottage.

Buying maps and geography books wasn’t just for finding game instances, Li Muyang was also increasing his knowledge of this world.

The original owner of this body, the foolish son of a rural landlord from Jiuyuan City, had a very superficial understanding of the world.

Li Muyang had no choice but to cram and improve his geographical knowledge.

After all, he was now at the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm, getting closer and closer to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Once he broke through the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm, he would have to consider whether to continue staying in the Demon Refining Sect or to leave and find a temporary place to stay.

In such a situation, collecting information about this world became very important.

–Since he was considering running away, he had to know which areas were safe and which were dangerous, right?

As a cultivator under the Demonic Sect, Li Muyang didn’t want to be too close to the righteous factions.

What if the righteous factions attacked one day?

Back at his cottage halfway up the mountain, Li Muyang sat on the threshold and continued to look at the map.

At that moment, his mind stirred slightly.

The system, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly showed signs of activity.

【New Game template detected, load now?】

【Yes/No】

Li Muyang blinked at the system message, full of curiosity.

“The new game is coming this quickly?”

It had been less than half a month since he completed 《Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record》, and now a new game had arrived.

With curiosity, Li Muyang closed his eyes and entered the system interface.

【Game 《Legend of Sword and Fairy》 confirmed for loading】

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