“…Oh, could it be that I’ve actually fallen for real?”

Inside the quiet chamber of the Demon Refining Sect, Li Muyang opened his eyes, temporarily exiting the game.

He clutched his chest and took several deep breaths, then stood up and paced back and forth for a while.

Recalling the subtle feeling from the game just now, Li Muyang scratched his head in distress.

“I’ve been guarding against getting emotionally involved, but in the end, Xiao Yecao broke through my defenses?”

That scene in the game was truly breathtaking.

A fairy with a gentle smile under the shade of a tree on a peaceful afternoon, graceful yet playful, adorable yet radiant.

That scene, if captured, would definitely make an S-tier CG wallpaper.

Li Muyang was caught off guard by Xiao Yecao’s stunning beauty, his emotions stirred.

—Who could see such a breathtakingly beautiful girl and truly remain completely unmoved?

After walking around in the chamber for a while, Li Muyang sighed, closed his eyes, and re-entered the game.

Back in the game, Li Muyang regained that calm and composed perspective from above.

He interacted with Xiao Yecao calmly and earnestly, pushing the storyline forward.

The story in Black Cloud Village then fast-forwarded rapidly.

After Xiao Yecao resolved her emotional issues, she finally made up her mind on how to be with Li Muyang.

She decided not to change their relationship and determined to cling to the identity of “younger sister” by Li Muyang’s side until his lifespan ran out.

The Divine Marrow Pill given by the Temple Seal Lord extended the life of Li Muyang’s game character by several decades.

Thus, Li Muyang and Xiao Yecao settled down in Black Cloud Village, living a reclusive life of simple farming and weaving with brotherly affection and sisterly respect.

Fortunately, the monotonous daily storyline would often fast-forward, skipping over the trivial and mechanical everyday life.

Finally, after Li Muyang and Xiao Yecao had lived in seclusion in Black Cloud Village for three years, the game’s storyline finally changed.

A piercing dragon’s roar sounded from the north, distant but clearly reaching the Myriad Great Mountains in the south.

Both Xiao Yecao and Li Muyang in Black Cloud Village heard this sound.

Xiao Yecao frowned slightly, then her expression changed.

“The spine of the North Sea Dragon King… has really been refined into an immortal sword!”

The dragon’s roar that came from the north was actually the sword cry of the Dragon Spine Sword being born.

Li Muyang also recalled the words of the master of Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, that the land in the north was a sleeping living being, which would be awakened by the Dragon Spine Sword.

But after a moment of hesitation, Xiao Yecao sighed and shook her head.

“Forget it, it has nothing to do with us. Elder Brother, we won’t go.”

Xiao Yecao, who usually liked to join in the excitement, didn’t want to go north this time.

She was determined to live in seclusion in Black Cloud Village until “Jiang Xiaoyu” passed away, not wanting to deal with the troubles and mundane affairs of the world anymore.

After all, if doom was destined, some chose to fight to the end.

But Xiao Yecao wanted to quietly live out her life with Elder Brother—at least until Elder Brother passed away, she wouldn’t leave Black Cloud Village.

The daily plot continued to rapidly skip by.

But occasionally, some terrifying news would come from the outside world.

For example, the land in the north truly awoke, devouring the cultivators on that land.

Giant corpses of ancient deities, thousands of zhang tall, emerged from the deep sea, wandering along the coast as if searching for something.

The mysterious murderer who had slain immortals would occasionally appear, attacking immortals.

But during the third attack, the murderer was slain by the Ink Fairy of Desolate Mountain, and the two fairies of Desolate Mountain became famous for a time.

Half a year later, another mysterious murderer appeared, seriously injuring Ink Fairy and nearly decapitating her.

This mysterious murderer was slightly weaker in cultivation, but their divine abilities were extremely powerful, seemingly mastering some kind of law that made them hard to guard against.

The Buddha of Lingyun Temple was killed by the mysterious murderer, his head severed.

Three Laughs Immortal Lord of the Heavenly Scripture Pavilion encountered an attack by the murderer, injuring the assailant severely, but he himself suffered a soul injury, turning into a mad, restless walking corpse.

Another half year passed, and a third mysterious murderer appeared, but it didn’t kill visible immortals, only harvesting cultivators below the realm of true immortals…

The fourth, the fifth, the sixth… More and more murderers kept appearing in the world.

Their origins were mysterious, devoid of emotions, with bizarre methods and powerful divine abilities.

After appearing in the world, they would attack cultivators, elusive and hard to defend against.

Chaos began to emerge between heaven and earth.

The strengths of these murderers varied, and few could rival immortals.

But after they appeared in the world, they specifically killed cultivators of their own realm.

Many cultivators were seriously injured by them, and although they escaped with their lives, they gradually became demonized during the healing process, eventually losing their minds and becoming muddled walking corpses wandering the world.

Some powerful cultivators managed to slay the mysterious murderers that came to disturb them.

However, the mysterious murderers seemed endless.

No matter how many the immortals killed, these murderers kept appearing.

And there were eerie rumors that the murderers could resurrect after death.

Some had witnessed with their own eyes a mysterious murderer they had slain reappear half a year later…

Outside Black Cloud Village, the world was in chaos.

The immortals, once ethereal and detached, were now forced to intervene in the world to stop these rampaging mysterious murderers.

The entire world was in turmoil.

The chaos in the cultivation world had even spread to the mortal realm.

Many sneaky demons and evil spirits took advantage of the chaos to invade the human world, hunting mortals for their blood.

And some great demons brazenly occupied spiritual veins, recruiting troops and gathering groups of demons to wreak havoc on the human world.

Even the secluded Black Cloud Village was disturbed several times.

Those with ulterior motives discovered that this place was the ancestral land of a clan of evil lineage, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to take away all the villagers of Black Cloud Village and enslave the descendants of this evil lineage clan.

The most serious disturbance was when the Temple Seal Lord and other demonic cultivators in the back mountain were alarmed, and Granny Gu from the ancestral temple even stepped into the moonlit sky, calling out in ancient tones.

Terrifying shadows of ancient evil gods were projected outside Black Cloud Village, crushing the invaders with their eerie might…

There were still over a hundred years until the dark catastrophe, but this world was already in chaos.

Xiao Yecao, who had become an immortal, turned a deaf ear to the outside world, completely ignoring the turmoil.

Even when several true immortals she knew came to invite her to leave the mountain, Xiao Yecao still politely refused.

She had made up her mind to live in seclusion in Black Cloud Village until Li Muyang’s lifespan was exhausted.

Before Elder Brother passed away, she would not step half a foot out of Black Cloud Village even if the sky fell.

–That’s what Xiao Yecao thought, and that’s what she planned.

However, as the situation in the world became increasingly chaotic, and immortals fell or were seriously injured one after another.

Xiao Yecao, who was living in seclusion in Black Cloud Village, inevitably got involved in the strife.

The mysterious murderer who had slain the Dragon King of the North Sea and was later killed by Ink Fairy, on a stormy and windy evening, carrying the Dragon Spine Sword and accompanied by two equally powerful mysterious murderers, came to Black Cloud Village expressionlessly.

Their target was none other than Xiao Yecao!