After analyzing the situation, Fairy Liuli immediately looked at Li Muyang.

    “Lord Wuming, are there more Blood Demon Beasts blocking our way ahead?”

    During the time Fairy Liuli was speaking, Li Muyang continuously struck down and effortlessly slew the blood demons that emerged in the air one by one.

    By the time Fairy Liuli finished speaking, the carriage had not encountered any more attacks.

    It seemed as though the strange blood demons had been completely eradicated, allowing the carriage to travel unobstructed on the streets of Loushan City.

    However, Li Muyang shook his head after looking at the countdown timer in the upper right corner of his field of vision. “There should be more blood demons blocking the way...”

    【06:39】

    There were ten minutes left to survive, and now only six minutes and thirty-nine seconds remained.

    The blood demons that had just been repelled were merely the first wave of attacks.

    Li Muyang, holding the immortal sword, leaped onto the roof of the carriage to survey the road ahead.

    He could easily get through the first phase of the beast nest attacks with the help of save points and time stop.

    But the second phase of blood demon attacks, with their increased numbers and frequency, proved to be more challenging for Li Muyang.

    He had failed nineteen times, and his best record was surviving until the countdown reached 02:19.

    The blood demons that followed would only become more numerous, their swarming presence resembling a bullet hell game.

    The realistic simulation game had suddenly turned into a tower defense game at this moment.

    Li Muyang swung his immortal sword, trying to kill the monsters without using time stops, saving it for the most critical moments.

    After killing so many blood demons, he gradually mastered the pattern based on their appearances.

    Whenever a blood demon was about to emerge from the void, the scent of blood at that location would instantly become more intense.

    Relying on his keen sense of the changes in the scent of blood, Li Muyang could now accurately predict the position where the blood demons would appear.

    Sword lights flashed one after another as Li Muyang moved around the carriage, now standing on the roof to slay blood demons, now diving into the carriage, now rushing to the front of the carriage, and occasionally, a few blood demons would even emerge from underneath the carriage.

    His number of failures continued to rise.

    He was almost sick of hearing the guide’s exaggerated screams from inside the carriage.

    This guide was always overreacting and would die in the third wave of the beast tide that erupted at seven minutes.

    During the third round of attacks, the blood demons that emerged filled the entire field of vision.

    Even with Fairy Liuli’s help, Li Muyang struggled immensely and had no time to care for the guide.

    This high-difficulty challenge brought back the feeling Li Muyang had when he first played the Souls-like games series. (TLN: Probably referring to FromSoftware?)

    The difficulty, frustration, struggle, dying over and over, yet somehow it was addictively fun... so Souls-like!

    Finally, when the countdown timer in the upper right corner of his vision reached zero and the mission log updated once again, Li Muyang, sitting on the roof of the carriage, let out a long sigh of relief.

    He had finally cleared the level.

    “How can this tutorial be so difficult!” he exclaimed inwardly.

    On the hard wooden bed, Li Muyang let out a long sigh of relief, opened his eyes, and stretched lazily.

    The demonic cultivator of Loushan City had indeed been lurking right beside General Wu.

    Fairy Liuli drew her sword the moment she saw her, and although the demon managed to dodge, there was still Li Muyang.

    He activated the 【Hidden Sword in the Belly】 skill, and with a single flying sword, he easily pierced through the demonic cultivator.

    He happened to trigger the 50% instant death chance, killing the demon on the spot.

    【Beginner’s Tutorial—The Mystery of Loushan City Cleared】

    【Guide: Deceased】

    【Fairy Liuli: Lightly Injured】

    【Mastermind: Deceased】

    【Clearance Rating: B (Passable)】

    【With your keen reactions, formidable strength, and invincible talent, you have successfully slain the source of turmoil in Loushan City, saving countless lives and earning immeasurable merit. However, the death of the mastermind has shrouded the mystery of Loushan City’s unrest and the disappearance of Imperial Astronomical Bureau sorcerer Zhang Daniu in even more mystery, leaving no chance for further investigation. The outcome can only be described as passable.】

    【Would you like to claim your clearance reward?】

    【Current selectable rewards (choose one of three)】

    【Blood Demon Heart Refining Sutra (Incomplete)】

    【Mortal-grade flying sword】

    【200 jin of spiritual rice】

    【Host, please note that once you claim the reward, this tutorial level will be permanently concluded and cannot be entered again.】

    The rows of settlement information floating in his field of vision made Li Muyang blink in surprise.

    First, he was astonished by the three-choice reward... all of them were great items!

    A cultivation manual, a spiritual treasure, or two hundred jin of spiritual rice... any one of these three-choice rewards was exactly what Li Muyang, the bottom-feeder, currently needed.

    Without advanced cultivation manuals or any protective treasures in the Demon Refining Sect, he was doomed to be a laboring nobody, not to mention he didn’t even have enough spiritual rice to eat.

    If he had a cultivation manual to raise his cultivation level, he might have a chance to enter the Inner Sect.

    And the third option of two hundred jin of spiritual rice would be enough to feed him for half a year, perfectly addressing his urgent need.

    However, although the rewards were tempting, Li Muyang did not claim them.

    Because his score for completing the level was very low, only a B (Passable).

    Perhaps if the completion score was a bit higher, the rewards he could claim would be stronger?

    Thinking this, Li Muyang breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and lay back down on the wooden bed.

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