Chapter 866: The Little Enchantress
In the midst of the fog, Li Muyang's entire body stiffened.
Standing within Zhiwei's tunneling light, he was unable to resist as he was swept along with her deeper into the Peaceful Realms.
Compared to Li Muyang's cautious progress within the Peaceful Realms, Zhiwei—an Immortal—was downright audacious.
She recklessly soared through the skies with him, ignoring all the ghostly entities in the Peaceful Realms. Even the wandering corpses of divine beings dared not attack a True Immortal.
The vast lands of the Peaceful Realms were traversed in no time under the feet of an Immortal.
Before long, Li Muyang had left the Peaceful Realms and entered an underground mist world.
A shock rippled through his heart as he realized Zhiwei had taken him back to the Mortal World.
To find their way out so quickly and arrive so accurately—indeed, the disparity between True Immortals and cultivators beneath them was vast and insurmountable!
However, upon entering the underground mist world, Zhiwei's tunneling light suddenly slowed.
Her brows furrowed slightly, sensing something amiss.
"There is an invisible force in the heavens and earth…"
The aura of a True Immortal rapidly receded, and the energy radiating from Zhiwei stabilized at the peak of the Taichu Realm.
She glanced at Li Muyang beside her and asked, "What has happened between heaven and earth? Why can it no longer accommodate True Immortals' descent?"
Cold, unyielding power controlled his body, rendering Li Muyang completely incapable of movement.
He felt like a mere spectator, silently observing his own body respond to Zhiwei's every query.
It recounted the calamity from a thousand years ago and the subsequent sealing of heaven and earth by the Immortals.
After hearing "Li Muyang's" explanation, Zhiwei's brows furrowed deeply.
A single-threaded, instinct-driven woman, Zhiwei was wholly incapable of processing or understanding such extensive information.
She fell into a dazed silence for a moment, and then her single-threaded mind seemed to choose to bypass the topic entirely. She spoke to herself instead.
"The heavens and earth cannot accommodate True Immortals… How strange…"
Clearly, everything Li Muyang had said fell on deaf ears.
If she couldn't understand it, she'd rather let it pass unheard.
The tunneling light continued forward in the mist. Though the mist could muddle direction, Zhiwei seemed to have a clear goal and was unaffected by the disorienting haze.
Despite her compressed realm, binding herself to the peak of Taichu Realm...
Zhiwei's tunneling light speed remained unimaginably fast.
An hour later, she brought Li Muyang out of the underground mist world and into a dim underground pit.
The sight of the familiar underground pit shocked Li Muyang.
—Wasn't this the exit hidden beneath Jiuyuan City?
Holy crap!
Zhiwei returned to Jiuyuan City this quickly?
Li Muyang stood stiffly within the tunneling light, powerless to resist as he followed Zhiwei's flight.
Soon enough, the two emerged from the underground pit and appeared within Jiuyuan City.
The tunneling light didn't stop, continuing its flight toward the distance.
That direction…
Li Muyang stared at the path of the tunneling light, and an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.
That direction seemed to lead to Demon Sword City!
Could it be that Zhiwei was heading for Demon Sword City?
Li Muyang's heart was struck with shock. He immediately activated the system interface.
With his body controlled by Zhiwei, communication was utterly impossible.
Li Muyang had to find a way to break free from these constraints.
Fortunately, the Resurrection Order provided by the system remained usable.
Li Muyang activated the Resurrection Order, and his vision was filled with a vast, pitch-black land scattered with dimly flickering stars.
The glowing stars in the darkness represented the corpses Li Muyang could possess for rebirth.
Li Muyang searched across the shadowy land and quickly located a suitable host body.
In the next moment, he opened his eyes and found himself lying within a suffocating coffin.
With a flick of his hand, he shattered the coffin and stood, soaring out of the tomb.
Maintaining a dual focus, he kept constant watch over his original body beside Zhiwei.
Yet Zhiwei seemed entirely unaware of his remote control, the tunneling light relentlessly speeding toward Demon Sword City.
Li Muyang rose high into the sky, pressing one hand into the void to activate a skill.
[Netherworld Colossus]!
The Green Saber Mantis remained in the Peaceful Realms, along with the Heart Moon Fox Yu Xiaoshuang.
And Li Muyang's summoning skill happened to be capable of calling forth the Green Saber Mantis.
Opening the system chat group, Li Muyang typed into the chat.
[Cang Su San: Heart Moon Fox, quickly get into that thing's mouth!]
[Cang Su San: Let it swallow you!]
This was the quickest method Li Muyang could think of to rescue Yu Xiaoshuang.
While ensuring the Green Saber Mantis could be summoned.
Moments later, Yu Xiaoshuang responded in the chat group.
[Heart Moon Fox: Understood!]
In the group list, Heart Moon Fox's avatar dimmed.
Meanwhile, other group members swiftly came online.
Wei Suyi, Jing Muan, Ghost Mansion Seven, Dou Sujiu… The four logged in one after another.
Yet they all logged in without saying a word.
Li Muyang stared at their silence, choosing to remain silent himself.
Shortly thereafter, those four abruptly logged off again.
Evidently, without a chat history review feature, they were unaware of what Li Muyang had said earlier.
Li Muyang continued to activate his skill, and soon, a colossal mantis emerged behind him.
The towering Green Saber Mantis, massive as a mountain, tore through the void and clawed its way out from behind Li Muyang.
The moment it stepped out of the void, the mantis opened its jaws and spat out a human figure.
Beneath the sunlight stood Yu Xiaoshuang, her head adorned by the Three Immortals Tower, staring shocked at the unfamiliar corpse before her.
"You…" Yu Xiaoshuang exclaimed, caught between astonishment and disbelief, "Senior?"
Bathed in sunlight, it was the corpse of a strikingly regal woman that had summoned her and the Green Saber Mantis.
Yu Xiaoshuang was utterly astounded.
Li Muyang, however, didn't have time to explain. Standing atop the Green Saber Mantis, he issued his command.
"Head to Demon Sword City!"
Time was critical; he had to reach the vicinity of Demon Sword City at once to uncover Zhiwei's intentions.
A Fairy who acted purely on instinct, Zhiwei was reckless and thoughtless, leaving Li Muyang deeply worried.
He wasn't concerned about Zhiwei being harmed—after all, she was a living True Immortal. Who could possibly hurt her?
What truly worried him was Zhiwei doing something unwise while in this instinct-driven state!
Having raised this girl from childhood, Li Muyang knew her personality inside out.
No matter how righteous and dignified she appeared after ascending to Immortality, deep down, she harbored a mischievous nature—a little demoness who operated beyond the boundaries of propriety.
Only under Li Muyang's stern discipline and guidance since youth had she avoided a path of wickedness.
Later, once she gained power and accolades followed her wherever she went, the weight of her reputation made her adopt an air of decorum.
But now, in a state of dimmed rationality and unclear consciousness, she acted entirely on instinct.
This version of Zhiwei was incredibly dangerous!
Concern flickered through Li Muyang's heart.
Then, suddenly, an unexpected turn of events occurred.
A figure appeared abruptly ahead of the flying Zhiwei.
Weak and battered, Chou Yuyan stood in her path, both desperate and elated.
"Master!"