The Game with Fairies

What the heck…

He had been trying to clear the game 【Deadly Weed】, but the difficulty of the third stage far exceeded his expectations.

Black Cloud Village, which had been peaceful for several years during the second stage, suddenly became fraught with danger in the third stage.

‘Jiang Xiaoyu,’ the game character, frequently died hundreds of times in just a few days. The game’s plot had barely advanced and completely stuck at a bottleneck.

The frustration of constant failure swept over Li Muyang, and he almost doubted whether the game was unbeatable.

After all, it was a game without any guarantees, and it was normal for it to have bugs.

Li Muyang was ready to accept that the game might be impossible to clear.

But at that moment, a new system prompt suddenly appeared.

The system had detected a new game template?

So the system could load multiple games at the same time?

That made sense. After all, no game console could only download and play one game at a time——wasn’t it common knowledge that there were a bunch of discounted games gathering dust in the Steam store?

Since the plot in Black Cloud Village wasn’t advancing, and now that the system had detected a new game, Li Muyang chose to load it, wanting to see what this new game was all about.

As Li Muyang confirmed his choice, the system interface in his vision immediately returned to that vast landscape painting.

Within the painting-like expanse of heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, scattered stars, amidst which stood stunning fairy figures shrouded in mist.

A loading progress bar stretched across the middle of this landscape painting.

【Game template loading——Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record】

【Loading progress: 34%】

As the progress bar extended, the number continued to rise.

It quickly broke through 100%.

【Limited-time game——Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record loaded successfully!】

【Game《Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record》available for play】

With this prompt, the system interface in Li Muyang’s vision also displayed a game list similar to the Steam store.

In the game list in the upper left corner, it was now somewhat sparse.

《Beginner Tutorial——The Mystery of Loushan City》(Closed)

《Deadly Weed》(3/5)

《Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record》(New)

“Indeed, it’s a new game…”

The gloom Li Muyang felt due to the stalled plot in Black Cloud Village quickly dissipated with the appearance of the new game, and a smile spread across his face. Ṛ

Regardless, the addition of a game to the library was always a pleasant thing.

However, seeing the name of the game, Li Muyang scratched his head.

Three Kingdoms… is it the Three Kingdoms from Earth in my previous life?

Although in his previous life on Earth, the Three Kingdoms was a classic theme in games, with a plethora of different games released.

But in this other world, there shouldn’t be a Three Kingdoms, right?

So far, the game templates Li Muyang had encountered were all based on the world of cultivation.

Now the system suddenly popped up a new game template, still using the classic Three Kingdoms elements from Earth in his previous life…

Curious, Li Muyang confirmed his choice.

The next second, the landscape in his vision changed.

The original mountains and rivers quickly disappeared, and the painting that unfolded in Li Muyang’s vision was a mysterious city shrouded in mist.

A bloody moon hung high above the city, and on the tall and majestic city walls stood eerie figures, like ghosts.

In the boundless wilderness, bent-over refugees, generals riding tall horses, fierce soldiers, and running wild dogs… all painted a desolate scene of a dynasty’s twilight years.

The last line of bold and powerful black text slowly emerged in the painting.

【The heavens are crumbling, and the earth is decaying…】

【In the year 188 AD, the flames of the Yellow Turban Rebellion that swept across the land had already been extinguished, leaving only a few scattered embers on the land of the great Han dynasty】

【Inside Luoyang City, where song and dance flourished, Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, looked at the generals returning from quelling the rebellion with a satisfied smile on his face】

【However, beneath the surface of peace and prosperity, a strange undercurrent was quietly surging】

【There were rumors in the streets claiming that the Heavenly General Zhang Jue, who had died of illness, would resurrect in Luoyang City, bringing with him his two deceased brothers and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban ghosts to sweep through the provinces and flatten Luoyang…】

With the simple opening information concluded, Li Muyang blinked confusedly.

It really was the Three Kingdoms…

With references to Emperor Ling and Zhang Jue, what else could it be but the Three Kingdoms?

Li Muyang speculated about the content of the game, and the scene in his vision shifted to a quiet bamboo forest.

A gentle breeze swept through, and as bamboo leaves fluttered to the ground, an elderly man with white hair and a crane-like stature stood within the bamboo forest, laughing with ease.

“Zhang Jue, this man, has great ambition but limited talent. Mediocre in ability yet harboring aspirations for the world, he dared to undertake the futile act of trying to shake the Han dynasty with the equivalent of an egg striking a stone, only to die in vain.”

“All his efforts were merely paving the way for others, dressing them for their wedding day.”

“It’s a pity that your scroll of ‘Taiping Essential Arts’ was wasted on such a mediocrity… such a waste… such a pity…”

The crane-like elder exuded an elegant demeanor as if he were a celestial being among mortals.

In the next second, the perspective shifted to another person in the bamboo forest.

Dressed in green, he sat among the bamboo while holding a bamboo staff, his age indiscernible—seeming both young and ancient, giving off an extremely contradictory feeling.

Facing the chuckling elder, this person spoke with a calm tone.

“I am bound for Luoyang to appease the souls of the Yellow Turban rebels. Fellow Daoist, there’s no need to persuade me further. My mind is made up.”

As his voice faded, the elder in the bamboo forest sighed and said, “Nanhua, why must you do this? Zhang Jue is but a common man, a mundane figure. Why risk danger for him? The dragon vein of the Han dynasty is not yet severed, and within Luoyang City, the imperial dragon qi suppresses all. For us, who stand outside the affairs of the world, to step into a place dominated by the imperial dragon qi is fraught with peril.”

The elder sighed as he tried to persuade.

The mysterious figure known as “Nanhua” simply shook his head slowly and tapped his bamboo staff lightly, saying,

“I will abandon my physical body and choose a corpse in Luoyang City to be reborn in to avoid the imperial dragon qi.”

“Farewell, fellow Daoist Yuan Fang!”

In Li Muyang’s field of vision, the mysterious person raised his hand holding the bamboo staff and bid farewell to the elder in front of him.

In the next second, darkness enveloped everything, and Li Muyang saw a system prompt pop up.

【Game Scene–“Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record” has been entered】

As the system prompt disappeared, the darkness in Li Muyang’s field of vision receded.

However, when the darkness lifted, the scene in his view was no longer the bamboo forest but a cold, dirty alley.

Lying in the alley was a motionless young man, seemingly a corpse.

And Li Muyang’s perspective was that of an overhead, god-like third-person perspective.

With a thought, he saw a wisp of blue smoke drift from afar and settle into the young man’s body.

Immediately after, the young man’s body stood up.

【Immortal Nanhua: I shall temporarily borrow this young man’s corpse to walk among the living and settle the restless spirits in the city…】

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