The Game with Fairies

The main job of a Spiritual Planter was to take care of the spiritual fields they were responsible for, ensuring they were well-watered daily to maintain an abundance of spiritual energy.

After handing over the required amount of spiritual rice at harvest time, the rest of the spiritual rice belonged to the Spiritual Planter.

It was the most lucrative job in the Outer Sect, but also had the highest barrier to entry, as one must be proficient in the ‘Cloud and Rain Technique’.

Most of the Servant Disciples in the Outer Sect were of average talent, and for them, even practicing the most basic cultivation method was extremely difficult, let alone comprehending a spell.

For most Outer Sect disciples, the ‘Cloud and Rain Technique’ was as difficult as advanced mathematics, not something everyone could learn.

Li Muyang also envied Guan Xiaoshun’s job as a Spiritual Planter. Although he had the opportunity to practice the “Cloud and Rain Technique,” being a new member of the Outer Sect with low cultivation, he could only herd sheep and had no access to the technique yet.

After collecting his identity plaque and the bell instrument mask from the steward, Li Muyang drove the eerie black sheep towards Blood Mist Valley.

“Hun xi gui lai… Hun xi gui lai…”

The spooky soul-calling sound accompanied by the clear ringing of Li Muyang’s bell led the black sheep into Blood Mist Valley in an orderly fashion.

In the valley grew a kind of purple plant, the main food source for the black sheep.

Li Muyang’s job was simply to herd the sheep into the valley and then watch over them from the side.

It was an extremely leisurely job. The only downside was the nauseating stench that permeated the air, which even the crow mask provided by the sect could only partially block.

On any other day, Li Muyang would have found it unbearable.

But today, he was just too tired.

After driving the flock into the valley, Li Muyang, who hadn’t slept all night, immediately closed his eyes and fell asleep at the entrance of the valley.

He slept in a daze for an unknown amount of time until he woke up again to see the fierce midday sun directly overhead.

In the Blood Mist Valley, shrouded in a bloody haze, the group of eerie black sheep with long dark fur were wandering and foraging, everything so quiet.

Li Muyang looked at the sheep and then at the midday sun outside, sighing.

“Another half day gone by…”

Having grown accustomed to a life filled with reading, working, and always having something to do, Li Muyang now found himself in a different world, living the life of a shepherd boy with nothing to do each day, and he was somewhat struggling to adapt. ṟ

He always felt that spending his days doing menial tasks in the Outer Sect was a complete waste of life.

The demonic techniques taught in the Outer Sect were of the lowest, entry-level—so basic that one could see their limits at a glance.

Even if he diligently worked in the Outer Sect for decades, at best, he would end up as a steward, scraping together a little more profit.

Such a worthless life was definitely not what he wanted!

Li Muyang did not want to spend his entire life in the Demon Refining Sect, nor did he want to be a shepherd forever.

The world was so vast and interesting. Having crossed over, he didn’t necessarily have to become an immortal or an ancestor, but at the very least, he should enjoy his life and travel everywhere.

How could he be trapped in this small demonic sect?

Suddenly sitting up, Li Muyang took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

“The Game with Fairies, start!”

This system was now his only chance to change his fate, and Li Muyang was determined to seize it.

……

At dusk, the crisp sound of a bell echoed outside Blood Mist Valley.

Wearing a crow mask, Li Muyang shook the bell continuously, emitting a sinister soul-calling chant as he drove the black sheep towards the houses at the foot of the mountain.

On the flat plains at the base of the mountain, thatched cottages and wooden houses were neatly arranged, resembling a town.

Li Muyang skillfully herded the sheep into the pen, counted them with the steward, handed over his identity token and spiritual tools, and then returned to his own thatched cottage smelling of sheep.

After playing games in the valley all afternoon, he was now extremely hungry.

He felt that he got hungry even faster ever since he started playing the game.

Li Muyang quickly cooked a pot of rice, too lazy to scoop it into a bowl, he just sat on the threshold and started eating directly from the pot.

He swiftly finished a pot of spiritual rice, wiped his mouth, stood up, and washed the pot until it was spotlessly clean.

Glancing at the nearly empty rice bin, Li Muyang sighed. “I never thought I’d become a real glutton one day.”

Most people couldn’t even finish the monthly ration, and the leftover spiritual rice could be sent back home or sold for money.

Yet, Li Muyang had finished his in half a month.

The increasing appetite and the dwindling food supply forced Li Muyang to break through the beginner’s tutorial as soon as possible.

An A-level reward included five bottles of Jade Marrow Spiritual Elixir, and he dared not even think about what he could get for a perfect score.

He lay on the hard wooden bed and closed his eyes.

“Load game!”

The surrounding darkness receded like a tide, and Li Muyang suddenly said on a moving carriage.

“Fairy, lend me your immortal sword.”

He could kill most of the blood demons with his own waist saber. But for the huge creature that appeared at the beginning, only Fairy Liuli’s immortal sword could break through its defenses.

Li Muyang took Fairy Liuli’s immortal sword and then climbed onto the roof of the carriage, not even needing to stop time.

The moment the giant monster’s head emerged from the air, Li Muyang’s sword was perfectly timed to strike down on its head and split it in two.

The guide behind him let out a shocked cry, but Li Muyang immediately turned back into the carriage, slaying several blood demons that appeared one after another around the carriage.

The whole process was smooth and flowing like water. Each sword strikes precisely killed a monster as if they were deliberately running onto his blade.

The scene looked incredibly eerie, and both Fairy Liuli and the guide stared with wide eyes in astonishment.

This time, perhaps because he had just eaten well, Li Muyang was in great form and finally managed to protect the guide for 8 minutes 19 seconds before dying.

For the first time in so long, the guide’s survival time has exceeded eight minutes!

Li Muyang was instantly invigorated.

Although the guide was still killed by the monster’s gaping maw the next second, Li Muyang, who saw hope, was not at all discouraged.

He laughed heartily wgile spreading his arms wide, allowing the swarming monsters to engulf him.

Reload the game!

Thus, Li Muyang memorized almost every location and number of the blood demons by rote through repeated deaths and failures.

He stood on the roof of the carriage, presciently directing Fairy Liuli’s sword strikes every time.

The flying sword, which Fairy Liuli had cultivated with her life, was much more powerful in her hands than in Li Muyang’s.

When Li Muyang commanded her to strike with the sword, the killing efficiency against the blood demons was much higher.

Relying on this method of one person commanding and another executing the demon-slaying, Li Muyang finally stemmed the relentless tide of beasts.

The guide’s survival time kept extending from 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

Until the sky outside the Demon Refining Sect brightened and the rooster crowed again, Li Muyang finally saw the survival countdown in the upper right corner of his vision reach zero.

The guide beside him and Fairy Liuli were all safe and sound, neither dead nor injured.

On the street ahead, the residence of the Commander and fully armed soldiers came into view. Li Muyang, who had been on high alert all night, could finally take a deep breath.

He clenched his fists tightly, his eyes filled with excitement.

Perfect clearance!

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