The Game with Fairies - Chapter 368

Chapter 368: Winter is Coming

“Li Muyang, why do you look both happy and unhappy at the same time?”

In the underground world shrouded in mist, Dragon Maiden’s voice rang out curiously.

Li Muyang came back to his senses and sighed, “I encountered a formidable opponent and was soundly defeated by her.”

Li Muyang’s lament was complex in tone.

Dragon Maiden was surprised and curious, “Someone managed to defeat you? You’re so powerful, the person who defeated you must be very strong!”

Li Muyang shook his head, “Let’s not talk about her. Let’s continue with your matters.”

After stumbling back to his room and resting for a while, Li Muyang opened the game and entered 《Dragonkin Awakening》.

Due to the pursuit of the Qingyang Association’s demonic cultivators, his progress in the game had been stalled for many days.

Now that he had dealt with the real-world distractions, Li Muyang could return to the game and continue his conquest.

He decided to complete the current stage of the game and claim the rewards before returning to the Demon Refining Sect.

If he could clear this stage, the game rewards would be enough for him to break through to the Cave Profound realm.

Before Yan Xiaoru’s arrival, he had already spent several days in the small town, taking turns with Dragon Maiden to hunt and capture many Heart-Eating Worms.

The number of Heart-Eating Worms in the gourd was now close to a thousand.

Li Muyang took a deep breath and unapologetically took control of his body, swiftly moving through the misty world to find the strange creatures controlled by the Heart-Eating Worms.

Now, slaying Heart-Eating Worms had become second nature to Li Muyang.

As the blue flames of the Heart-Eating Worms surged towards him, Li Muyang bravely endured the flames and captured one blue bug after another.

Finally, when the number of Heart-Eating Worms in the gourd reached a thousand, Li Muyang immediately flew away, heading towards the exit of the misty world.

The underground misty world was vast and mysterious.

But the Moon-Biting Dragon had a strong sense of direction, always able to sense the location of the Water Palace of the Dragon Palace.

Thus, no matter how far he flew in the mist, Li Muyang could find the exit.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Muyang shot out of the deep underground pit as a beam of white light.

It was noon outside, but the sky was overcast, the land shrouded in dark clouds, with no sunlight in sight.

Li Muyang flew out of the underground pit and ascended into the sky.

He saw the desolate land below, swept by biting cold winds and chilling gusts.

Even though it was the height of summer, this land seemed to have fallen into the depths of winter.

The bitter cold had even frozen many plants to death in the mountain forests.

The maple trees that covered the hills were at a loss in such biting winds.

Many of the lush green maple leaves had fallen before they could even turn yellow, succumbing to the cold and the wind.

Dragon Maiden’s voice was full of surprise.

“Has winter arrived? Why is it so cold!”

Moreover, this low temperature outside must have persisted for many days.

The withering leaves and frozen plants in the forest were not the result of just a day or two of cooling.

A bad premonition suddenly surged in Li Muyang’s heart, and he quickly flew towards the direction of the Mother Buddha Temple.

The old monster inside the Mother Buddha Temple had already sustained serious injuries, having been hunted down by the nemesis White Second Master.

Now that the land where the Mother Buddha Temple was located had suddenly shown abnormalities, could it be that something had happened to the Mother Buddha Temple?

The distance of two hundred li was quickly covered.

Li Muyang transformed into a streak of white light and landed on Black Stone Mountain, standing in front of the eerie and sinister gate of the Mother Buddha Temple.

However, everything inside the Mother Buddha Temple was as usual, with no changes.

After landing outside the temple gate, a sinister woman dressed in black and carrying a black sword walked out of the temple.

She greedily surveyed Li Muyang for a moment before lowering her head and saying,

“You must be the Dragon Goddess… Mother is waiting for you inside.”

Following this strange sinister woman, Li Muyang walked through the familiar paths of the temple, passing through one Buddha hall after another, until he finally arrived outside the hall where the Mother Buddha resided.

The world was already dimly lit, and the hall with its windows tightly shut was even darker.

But as Li Muyang approached, a bronze lamp suddenly lit up in the pitch-black shadows.

In the dim light of the lamp, the Mother Buddha, who looked exactly like Chu Qingxue, sat there smiling, draped in a black kasaya.

“Muyang, you’ve returned.”

After many days, the Mother Buddha seemed even more kind and compassionate.

But Li Muyang keenly noticed that the aura of this sinister Mother Buddha was even weaker.

She visibly did not seem as powerful as before.

Seeing Li Muyang’s gaze, the Mother Buddha smiled and said, “Is Muyang worried about this old woman? There’s no need to worry, I’m fine.”

“After you left, White Second Master came to make a fuss again, but I drove it away.”

“It’s just that some calamities have befallen this land, and I’ve been affected a bit, but it’s nothing serious…”

The Mother Buddha spoke of her condition in a kind and generous manner, like a benevolent elder.

Li Muyang’s heart stirred, and he immediately continued the conversation.

“Senior, are you referring to this sudden change in weather? Why has it become so cold beyond the border?”

After Li Muyang finished asking, the Mother Buddha in the black kasaya smiled and shook her head, saying, “It’s not that it has become cold beyond the border, but that the entire Heavenly Origin Continent has become cold.”

She looked at Li Muyang and smiled, “A layer of the seal between heaven and earth has been broken, stirring the evil gods within the Ancient Grudge Well.”

“In the days you went into the underground fog world to capture Heart-Eating Worms, an evil god from the Ancient Grudge Well found a special way to return to the human world.”

“The sudden drop in temperature and the drastic change in weather are the doings of that evil god…”

The Mother Buddha’s story startled Li Muyang.

“An evil god from the Ancient Grudge Well has come to the human world?”

The evil gods in the Ancient Grudge Well were cunning and powerful.

Even when Li Muyang wielded a skill with a 50% instant death rate, along with the Time Stop cheat, he couldn’t fully clear the level.

And now an evil god from the Ancient Grudge Well had come to the human world?

Wouldn’t that lead to the destruction of all living beings?

Li Muyang was extremely alarmed.

The Mother Buddha, however, smiled and shook her head, saying, “It’s just the projections of one or two evil gods, not their true bodies descending, and they are also far from the northern lands, so there’s no need for us to worry.”

She looked at Li Muyang with a smile, “Compared to the evil gods from the Ancient Grudge Well, have you finally caught a thousand Heart-Eating Worms this time on your return, Mu Yang?”

As the Mother Buddha inquired, her kind yet eager gaze was fixed on the gourd in Li Muyang’s hand, as if she couldn’t wait to take the Heart-Eating Worms inside.

Faced with such an eager Mother Buddha, Li Muyang fell silent for a moment before speaking.

“I have indeed caught a thousand Heart-Eating Worms, as per senior’s previous promise. As long as I bring a thousand Heart-Eating Worms, senior will guide me on how to avoid being devoured by this land…”

Li Muyang picked up the gourd, but this time he didn’t throw it over.

Instead, he stood outside the Buddha hall and said seriously, “Now that I have a thousand Heart-Eating Worms, please enlighten me, senior.”

“After I receive the answer I seek, these thousand Heart-Eating Worms will belong to senior.”

Li Muyang’s tone was sincere as he stood outside the hall, waiting for the Mother Buddha to fulfill her promise.