Chapter 668: The Strange Yan Xiaoru
In the room of the Li residence, Li Muyang opened his eyes and glanced at the time.
He had continuously challenged the Extreme West God six times, and during his best attempt, he had only managed to injure one leg of the Extreme West God's beast-incarnate.
He wanted to keep challenging, but time was already running out.
The three-day deadline Yan Xiaoru set to come and kill him had arrived.
He had originally planned to beat the game before Yan Xiaoru arrived, hoping to find a solution from the game's clearing rewards.
But now it seemed that there was still some time left before clearing the game.
Li Muyang was forced to leave the room and went into the courtyard.
In the eastern sky, the sun rose, casting brilliant sunlight over Fuyun City.
However, Dan Taiming, who had said she would return before sunrise three days later, was nowhere to be seen at this moment.
It was unclear whether she had been delayed on the road, or if she had decided not to come back at all…
Li Muyang stepped out of the room and saw the worry in his senior brother Xiao Cheng's eyes and the hesitation of Aunty Su who was holding back her words.
"Son-in-law…"
Aunty Su started, "Let's wait a bit longer, perhaps Elder Dan Taiming is already on her way."
But Li Muyang shook his head and said, "There's no time left."
Li Muyang looked towards the courtyard of the Li residence.
In the yard stood quietly a white-robed female disciple of the Refinement Demon Sect.
This white-robed woman had a transparent figure and was surrounded by a sinister aura, clearly a spiritual ghost refined and controlled by Yan Xiaoru.
With the spiritual ghost arriving to urge him, there was no more time for Li Muyang to wait.
"…Master is waiting for you at Rocky Mountain, a hundred li to the west of the city."
After saying these words, the spiritual ghost disappeared without a trace, leaving first.
But Li Muyang couldn't delay either.
There's a saying, if you don't save face for yourself, others will save face for you.
This time Yan Xiaoru sent a spiritual ghost to hurry him, but if Li Muyang dallied in the city, the next visitor wouldn't be a spiritual ghost.
With a sigh, Li Muyang bid farewell to everyone and then directly left through the Li residence's main gate.
He headed towards the outskirts of the city.
Traveling unhindered, Li Muyang quickly arrived at Rocky Mountain, a hundred li to the west of Fuyun City.
Here, a stone forest spread across the land, with many quaint and oddly-shaped rocks sprawled on the ground and in the woods, presenting a somewhat bizarre sight.
Li Muyang landed in the midst of Rocky Mountain, turned around to survey the area, searching for Yan Xiaoru's trace.
Dan Taiming was one of his hopes, but he didn't just rely on Dan Taiming.
Even without using the Startling Swan Immortal Sword, Wu Ming, who had his limbs gathered and only his head missing, could still provide Li Muyang with defense if he descended into reality.
Li Muyang wanted to see just how deranged Yan Xiaoru had become.
He walked around Rocky Mountain, calling out for Yan Xiaoru.
However, contrary to Li Muyang's expectations, what he encountered was not Yan Xiaoru.
Gusts of gloomy wind swept through Rocky Mountain, and from within the stones emerged one transparent spiritual ghost after another.
These disciples and worshipers of the Refinement Demon Sect had once believed in Yan Xiaoru and had gathered in Yunxiao City at her call, hoping to revive the Refinement Demon Sect.
But Yan Xiaoru had slaughtered them and even refined them into spiritual ghosts to command…
Watching more and more spiritual ghosts appear in the woods, a vast army of spiritual ghosts, Li Muyang furrowed his brows.
"Where is Yan Xiaoru? Where is she? Call her out to see me!"
Li Muyang shouted coldly, sensing something awry.
These surging spiritual ghosts seemed not to intend to talk to Li Muyang but rather to kill him.
Although Li Muyang knew that Yan Xiaoru was out to kill him, sending a group of ghost minions to deal with him... wasn't that a bit dismissive?
Everyone knew that Li Muyang possessed a Purple Mansion Realm mantis beast and the remains of an Ancient True Immortal with the combat power of the Heavenly Eternal Realm.
The numerous ghost minions, though many, how could they possibly trouble Li Muyang?
Li Muyang loudly interrogated, constantly searching through the ghost minions, trying to find traces of Yan Xiaoru.
However, upon hearing Li Muyang's words, the ghost minions burst into loud laughter.
"Want to see the master? Li Muyang! You're dreaming too beautifully!"
"Foolish Li Muyang, he doesn't even know he has fallen into our trap! Hahahaha!!!"
"Our master has already infiltrated Fuyun City to capture your parents."
"Compared to killing you, taking your parents away is currently more useful to the master! Hahahahaha..."
The ghost minions laughed heartily, continuously surging forward.
Li Muyang's heart shuddered upon hearing their words.
Was Yan Xiaoru's real intention to lure him out of Fuyun City and then seize the opportunity to capture his parents?
What was this Yan Xiaoru really plotting?
As the ghost minions rushed in ever greater numbers, Li Muyang immediately opened his system bag and equipped Wu Ming's divine robe.
In an instant, blood-red divine light shone brilliantly.
A two-year-old child's corpse standing amidst the ghost minions suddenly transformed into a sacred figure seated in dignity, albeit with a head devoid of any flesh or blood.
After the incarnation of Wu Ming descended, the Barrier-breaking Divine Light swept through the ghost minions, with ghost minion after ghost minion screaming as they were obliterated and dispersed by Li Muyang.
The might of the Barrier-breaking Divine Light was simply not something these ghost minions could withstand.
Yet even so, the ghost minions kept streaming forward, laughing as they tried to hinder Li Muyang.
They clearly aimed to hold Li Muyang at this place, preventing him from returning to Fuyun City.
Li Muyang fought fiercely, wildly casting Barrier-breaking Divine Light, and finally carved a path through the swarm of ghost minions.
He did not entangle with these ghost minions, but instead rose into the sky and flew at top speed towards Fuyun City.
Before long, Li Muyang arrived outside Fuyun City.
He dispelled Wu Ming's incarnation and once again became the two-year-old child's corpse.
Li Muyang, flying into the city, headed straight for the Li residence.
However, outside the gates of the Li residence, chaos abounded.
Several cultivators dispatched from the Hidden Immortal Alliance to protect Mr. and Mrs. Li Damu were scattered across the streets, lying in disarray, all having sustained severe injuries and were nearly dying.
More cultivators from the Hidden Immortal Alliance were gathering, busy treating their desperately wounded peers.
The Silver Qing and Silver Ling sisters, who Li Muyang had met several times, were issuing orders in the crowd.
Upon Li Muyang's return, the two sisters leaped forward, speaking with extreme anxiety.
"It's terrible! Li Muyang, your parents have been abducted!"
"It was Yan Xiaoru after demonization! No one knows when she entered Fuyun City. She attacked suddenly, gravely injuring our people and flew off with your parents in tow."
"We didn't have a chance to stop her!"
It was clear that the Silver Qing and Silver Ling sisters knew that this two-year-old child was Li Muyang; they immediately reported the situation upon his arrival.
But Li Muyang looked at the disarray of the Li residence, at the critically injured Junior Brother Xiao Cheng, and at Aunt Su, his face twisting with extreme displeasure.
"Why would she abduct my parents?"
Yan Xiaoru's actions were utterly baffling.
To come after Li Muyang was already quite abstract, but still understandable, as there were emotional entanglements between them.
But Mr. and Mrs. Li Damu had nothing to do with her. She spared Li Muyang, her old lover, yet went to abduct Mr. and Mrs. Li Damu?
What special purpose could Mr. and Mrs. Li Damu serve for her?