Chapter 219 The Peaceful Realms
Chapter 219 The Peaceful Realms
[Entering the Ruined Peaceful Realms]
In the pitch-black field of vision, such a system prompt suddenly popped up.
The originally astonished Li Muyang, who was shocked by the disappearance of the mantis underground, became even more confused.
"The Peaceful Realms?!"
Li Muyang’s brows furrowed immediately.
He quickly browsed through all the memories of his original body, tossing and turning them over several times, only to find that in the beliefs and knowledge of this world, there was simply no existence of the underworld or hell.
Although the deceased were mourned, it was merely a simple remembrance of the dead.
The souls of beings at the end of their lives naturally dissipated between heaven and earth. Cultivators knew this all too well.
This world had no Black and White Impermanence, nor did it have the underworld courts.
Yet now the Jade Knife Mantis had run off to the netherworld?
What trick was Brother System pulling this time?
Without saying a word, Li Muyang waited quietly for the situation to develop.
In the pitch-black field of vision, the Jade Knife Mantis was completely swallowed by the darkness.
But Li Muyang could still vaguely estimate the Jade Knife Mantis’s rough location based on the dark perspective.
He opened the character card of the Jade Knife Mantis and carefully reviewed its stats after this evolution.
Especially the newly awakened special talent, which Li Muyang studied particularly seriously.
[Monster Transformation: Monsters that forsake the path of transformation, giving up the many conveniences of taking human form in exchange for more powerful physical strength.
Once transformed, the intelligence of these demons equates with that of beasts; they can’t comprehend the profound mysteries of the Dao and cannot understand the mysteries of the heavenly path, doomed to be shaggy horn-wearing, egg-laying creatures]
[However, the demons that forsake the path to longevity shall gain a more powerful source of strength, evolving through the bloodthirsty and brutal way of slaughter and consumption and may step on top of the food chain and even all beings. All creatures in the world, everything under the heavens, and even the spirits of the netherworld are within their hunting menu.]
"Good, the case is solved..."
Li Muyang suddenly understood the logic of the system.
Since there were no suitable hunting targets left in the mountains and wilderness of the mortal world, and crossing the battlefield to find demons in distant places was too far and too dangerous, then it was reasonable to let the monster-transformed Jade Knife Mantis hunt the souls in the netherworld instead.
Very logical.
But this ruined Peaceful Realms... does this world actually have an underworld?
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Li Muyang became curious.
In the dry riverbed, a rusty broken sword lay silently embedded.
Covered in dark red rust, the sword that had been discarded and forgotten for who knew how many years had a strange and ominous appearance.
But when the Jade Dagger Mantis stepped into this area, the rust on the broken sword suddenly began to fall off in sheets, quickly piling up on the riverbed into a dark red stream of blood.
Mournful and self-pitying sobs echoed through the mist.
"A drifting soul I once was..."
A sorrowful woman was weeping and singing tearfully in the midst of the fog.
In the next second, a flash of cold light passed by.
A translucent courtesan girl appeared out of nowhere, crying as she slashed a sword at the Jade Dagger Mantis.
But Li Muyang, fully focused and sensing danger in an instant, took immediate action to dodge and counterattack, controlling the Jade Dagger Mantis.
Blade light and sword shadow collided in the mist, and after three breaths, the courtesan girl’s ghost fell.
The five-meter-long giant mantis crouched on top of her, directing its massive mouthparts towards the translucent ghost’s head and forcefully sucking...
[Evolution Value +7%]
"Hm?" Li Muyang was slightly startled to see this number and was overjoyed.
To gain such a high Evolution Value from killing just one residual soul?
This dilapidated and desolate Peaceful Realms suddenly seemed more pleasing to the eye at this moment.
This wasn’t a broken Peaceful Realms at all! It was clearly an undeveloped treasure trove!
Watching the system arrows emerge again in the view after killing the courtesan’s residual soul, Li Muyang controlled the Jade Dagger Mantis to stealthily move on.
This mantis, adept at stealth and lying in wait, seemed to merge with the mist of the Peaceful Realms at this moment.
From afar, Li Muyang bypassed the eerie Beast Roars sounding through the mist and two blood-red glows that set one’s heart racing.
Eventually, following the system arrow’s guidance, he arrived in the middle of a pile of disorderly rocks.
"Are you A-Lian?"
A half-transparent ghostly official, with only half a body left and a distracted look, was sitting in the pile of rocks, wearing a disheveled and bloodstained heavenly robe.
But the moment it saw the Jade Dagger Mantis, it stood up excitedly.
"A-Lian! I did not flee! I have been waiting for you!"
The half-transparent official howled fiercely, lunging at the Jade Dagger Mantis.
In the next second, the light of the blade shone in the mist, and the howling became more rapid and piercing...
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