The Game with Fairies

The other selectable character was this Luo Feng, tagged by the system as “The half-demon youth of Nanjiang.”

Judging from the tags, he seemed quite ordinary.

He had thought it was a traditional RPG protagonist, but it turned out to be a decisive and ruthless protagonist typical of Xianxia web novels…

Following Luo Feng’s suggestion, Jiang Xiaoyu led the two half-demons through the streets and once again found the Shape-shifter Master.

In the courtyard, the Shape-shifter Master sat like a schoolteacher under the porch. Seeing Jiang Xiaoyu appear with two half-demons, the Shape-shifter Master laughed heartily.

【Shape-shifter Master: Did Luo Feng send you to kill me? That’s quite an underestimation of this old man.】

The next second, the battle began.

The scene in Li Muyang’s view suddenly changed.

Darkness engulfed him like a tide, and that feeling of falling into the darkness emerged once again.

Li Muyang was slightly startled—was this taking him into an instance? Wasn’t this game in third-person?

Why had it suddenly turned into an immersive instance?

He had thought the game’s combat system would be like that of ‘Three Kingdoms: Demon Subduing Record’, an RPG turn-based system, but now he had to step into the fray himself…

As the darkness around him dispersed like a receding tide, Li Muyang found himself standing in the Shape-shifter Master’s courtyard, flanked by two half-demons.

Before him stood the Shape-shifter Master, who, resembling a middle-aged schoolteacher, now loomed twice as tall as a normal person. And there stood Li Muyang, his face filled with surprise.

At this moment, he was not in the appearance of Jiang Xiaoyu but in his own form.

He could even sense the Taiyi Dividing Light Talisman in his bosom and the magical treasure wheel within his dantian—this was none other than Li Muyang himself who had entered the game!

Li Muyang’s expression was one of astonishment, but the two half-demons beside him, as well as the Shape-shifter Master in front, all treated him as Jiang Xiaoyu even though Li Muyang’s appearance had changed significantly.

【Shape-shifter Master: You must first offer up your lives if you wish to take this old man’s head.】

As his voice fell, the Shape-shifter Master moved towards the trio. With one frighteningly long step, he was right in front of them.

The Shape-shifter Master’s long, dangling hands swung towards Li Muyang.

Then a cold wind rushed at his face.

The realistic details of the battle made Li Muyang instinctively dodge.

With a thought, demonic patterns faintly emerged on his body. In the next instant, Li Muyang appeared behind the Shape-shifter Master, his speed with the Remnant Clouds Movement Technique reaching its peak. Ř

However, while Li Muyang successfully dodged, the two half-demons were not so lucky.

They were grabbed by the enormous Shape-shifter Master, one in each hand, and then the tall Shape-shifter Master stuffed the half-demons into his mouth.

With a crunching sound, the two half-demons were silenced instantly, turning into a bloody paste in the Shape-shifter Master’s mouth.

At this moment, Li Muyang was dumbfounded, still shocked that his real self had entered the game.

His previous gaming experiences involved his consciousness entering the game to control a ‘character’, not his actual ‘self’!

But the Shape-shifter Master didn’t give Li Muyang time to think.

After chewing up the corpses of the half-demons, he turned around with a sinister smile and his massive arm came crashing down on Li Muyang.

Unable to dodge in time, Li Muyang was instantly smashed into a pulp.

【Victory or defeat is a common occurrence in warfare. Hero, please try again.】

A blood-red defeat message popped up in his view, and Li Muyang blinked in a daze, only to find himself still on the small platform at the end of the flying boat with the cold wind howling around him.

Although he had been smashed into a pulp in the game, he was unharmed in reality.

However, the ‘realness’ of being smashed into a pulp was more intense than in any of his previous gaming experiences.

“…So this game’s combat phase requires me to personally take part?” Li Muyang scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

Jiang Xiaoyu was a complete noob, and it was unrealistic to rely on him for the combat phase.

It made sense for the system to pull him in. However, the real Li Muyang was only at the Ninth Layer of the Qi Refining Realm, which, although stronger than Jiang Xiaoyu, was only marginally so.

To let the equally noobish Li Muyang enter the game…

Li Muyang recalled that his combat strength and speed seemed to have increased a lot in the game. Although powerful, his Remnant Clouds Movement Technique couldn’t achieve the same instantaneous teleportation-like speed as in the game.

Hmm…

With a thought, Li Muyang re-entered the game.

Jiang Xiaoyu, accompanied by the two half-demons, arrived at the Shape-shifter Master’s courtyard, and as the Shape-shifter Master rose with a laugh, the battle phase began. And once again, as the game entered the combat phase, Li Muyang was engulfed by darkness.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the Shape-shifter Master’s courtyard, with two half-demons beside him and the now monstrous and eerie Shape-shifter Master in front.

But Li Muyang was prepared this time.

With a thought, the treasure wheel from his dantian’s sea of qi materialized in his hand.

The wheel remained unchanged, still at the level of a common magical instrument.

Li Muyang tried to look inward to see his sea of qi and dantian, but at that moment, he realized that a game was still a game.

He couldn’t inspect his own sea of qi and dantian, and the sharp senses of a cultivator were also limited in the game.

The only certainty was that this game body was much stronger than his real one.

As the transformed Shape-shifter Master approached with a sinister smile, extending his arms towards the trio, Li Muyang no longer fled.

This time, he chose to confront. The wheel in his hand spun fiercely, and an invisible force aimed at the Shape-shifter Master, intending to immobilize his soul and render him motionless.

However, when the wheel’s soul-capturing power hit the Shape-shifter Master, it eerily had no effect.

Laughing sinisterly, the Shape-shifter Master continued his assault on Li Muyang, his huge and slender body seemingly devoid of a soul.

In a rush, Li Muyang retreated and dodged, cornered by the Shape-shifter Master. He continuously activated the Remnant Clouds Movement Technique, dodging around the courtyard with teleportation-like speed.

Despite his large size, the Shape-shifter Master was frighteningly agile and could cast strange and sinister magic, ultimately striking Li Muyang with his slender arms.

【Victory or defeat is a common occurrence in warfare. Hero, please try again】

As Li Muyang watched the defeat message in his field of vision, he took a long breath and his eyes lit up with excitement.

“I think I’ve got it…”

Although he died this time, Li Muyang had roughly figured out the combat system of the game.

After entering the game, his combat power would increase by many levels, basically on par with the Shape-shifter Master.

It was just that the Shape-shifter Master was too fast and had several spells that restricted movement, making it somewhat difficult for Li Muyang to cope.

But as long as their combat power was comparable, and he could keep up with the Shape-shifter Master’s speed and inflict damage, then one or two defeats didn’t really matter.

In a game, it’s quite common to die dozens of times while fighting a boss!

Li Muyang closed his eyes and re-entered the system.

Game With the Fairies, start!

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