The Cloud Flying Boat is a levitating flying boat within the Refinement Demon Sect.
However, this flying boat was a size larger than the one Li Muyang had taken before. The Inner Sect truly stands above others— even their Flying Boats are bigger than those of the Outer Sect.
Besides Li Muyang and his siblings, as well as Guan Xiaoshun, there were over a hundred Outer Sect Disciples on the flying boat. They were all chosen from the Outer Sect to partake in this journey to the Demon Sword City, serving as the workforce.
The tasks of these Outer Sect Disciples on the Flying Boat were quite simple—stay alive and don’t cause trouble.
The menial tasks on the Flying Boat were handled by servants. With nothing to do, the Outer Sect Disciples basically had to wait until they reached Demon Sword City to be put to work.
Yan Xiaoru, as an Elder of the Demon Sect, was bound to have a show of force when inspecting the cities under her jurisdiction.
Li Muyang and his group of Outer Sect Disciples were the pomp and circumstance for Elder Yan.
—In simpler terms, they were there to follow the gang leader to a fight, contributing to the headcount and bolstering the display of power.
With nothing to occupy him, Li Muyang devoted a great deal of his time to gaming.
The new game “Immortal Sword Legend” had no time restrictions, and its map was much larger.
Indeed, it had the largest map of any game that Li Muyang had played thus far.
The city of South River City, where humans and demons coexisted, was undoubtedly bustling and prosperous.
Regrettably, with the fall of the Jade Fairy, it was obvious that the city’s stable prosperity wouldn’t last long.
While controlling Jiang Xiaoyu in his stealthy progress, trying to find a way to enter the broken bridge, Li Muyang inadvertently overheard conversations within the city, where demons plotted to devour neighbors or foes.
More than once.
With the death of the Jade Fairy, the demons in the city had already started to set their sights on the living people around them for their next meals.
Ironically, the city residents, completely unaware of their peril, were mixed with the demons, cheering and celebrating the dreadful death of the Jade Fairy, the dictator who had restrained them.
[Jiang Xiaoyu: “…This Luo Qunshan really is a lingering specter.”]
As the constable bearing the health bar with [Luo Qunshan] appeared again, Jiang Xiaoyu’s invisibility was seen through, and his infiltration failed.
Li Muyang shook his head but didn’t take it to heart.
After two days of exploration, he had figured out the infiltration process.
Although the Invisibility Talisman on Jiang Xiaoyu was of very poor quality, with careful operation and by avoiding Luo Qunshan’s range of activity, detection by Luo Qunshan could be avoided.
And even if Luo Qunshan did indeed discover him, as long as he promptly ran out of Luo Qunshan’s sensory range, the fellow would lose the target and not find the invisible Jiang Xiaoyu.
After repeated failures, Li Muyang had more or less figured out Luo Qunshan’s detection range—about ten meters or so.
If he could break out of this range within two seconds of being detected by Luo Qunshan, the system would not register it as a failure.
The only trouble was this guy moved unpredictably through the streets, wandering all about.
Meanwhile, the invisible Jiang Xiaoyu moved slowly and cautiously, not daring to run and often bumping into the patrolling Luo Qunshan.
But after two days of failure, Li Muyang slowly probed forward, gradually discerning Luo Qunshan’s patrol pattern.
Although he failed this time, Li Muyang had already seen the broken bridge ahead.
So, he was unconcerned, reloads the game and tries again.
As the game’s Jiang Xiaoyu used the Invisibility Talisman, he carefully felt his way forward, expertly avoiding a few constables blocking the street corner, and Li Muyang directed Jiang Xiaoyu to squeeze into the corner on the side of the street.
After staying in that corner for about two seconds, the constable with [Luo Qunshan]’s health bar appeared at the crossroads ahead.
Luo Qunshan looked around at the street corner, then moved on and disappeared around the corner.
Li Muyang silently counted to twenty in his heart before he continued to control Jiang Xiaoyu forward, crossing the crossroad where Luo Qunshan had just stood.
Proceeding in this way, with stops and starts, he carefully avoided Luo Qunshan’s range of activity.
Li Muyang, controlling Jiang Xiaoyu, this time hadn’t even been discovered by Luo Qunshan, and had stealthily made his way to the broken bridge.
[Jiang Xiaoyu: To strut in here so boldly and remain completely undetected, I’m truly a genius!]
The drunken Jiang Xiaoyu boasted pridefully to himself.
Li Muyang rolled his eyes upon seeing this dialogue entry.
He had Jiang Xiaoyu come to the top of the broken bridge and look around.
All he could see was the calm surface of the lake, undisturbed.
The arch-shaped broken bridge stood abruptly on the lake surface, with no connections in front— the end of the bridge was a dead end, looking somewhat peculiar.
[Jiang Xiaoyu: Legend has it that the broken bridge was where the Jade Fairy grieved, as her mortal husband drowned here before she achieved enlightenment, and she specifically returned to this place when she perished… Maybe she hid the Startling Swan Immortal Sword beneath the bridge?]
[Jiang Xiaoyu: But where is the Jade Fairy’s body? Why isn’t it here?]
[Jiang Xiaoyu: Although the Jade Fairy is dead, the Startling Swan Immortal Sword is sentient. Others wouldn’t dare touch her body, right? Could the sword have taken the Jade Fairy’s body away?]
Jiang Xiaoyu stood on the broken bridge, murmuring in confusion, still searching.
There were faint traces of blood on the bridge, but neither the Jade Fairy’s body nor the Startling Swan Immortal Sword were to be found.
At that moment, Li Muyang saw from a third-person perspective that several figures were approaching the broken bridge not far away.
Jiang Xiaoyu saw these people as well.
[Jiang Xiaoyu: Not good! That’s the leader of the city’s demons, I can’t let this bunch figure me out.]
No sooner had Jiang Xiaoyu spoken than Li Muyang made him hide underneath the broken bridge.
Soon, those figures arrived right above Jiang Xiaoyu, atop the broken bridge.
These individuals were dressed lavishly, but their faces bore an unmistakeable malevolence.
One of them even showed his demon form, with a human body but the head of a Flood Dragon.
This Flood Dragon was the first to speak.
[Bifeng Jun: Although the Jade Fairy is dead, her body’s whereabouts are unknown, and the Startling Swan Immortal Sword is nowhere to be found. Why call me here at such a time instead of searching?]
When Bifeng Jun spoke, one of the demons answered.
[Red Flame King: The Jade Fairy’s body vanished without a trace, and we suspect she fell into this lake. Among all the demons, only you, Bifeng Jun, are the master of water. That’s why we have asked you to explore below the water while we stand guard for you.]
Upon hearing this, the Flood Dragon immediately shook his head.
[Bifeng Jun: The waters of Drowning Soul Lake will corrode the demonic, if I go down I’m likely to shed a layer of skin… not going, not going.]
The old Flood Dragon adamantly refused, while the other demons kept persuading him in an attempt to convince him to dive into the water.
And then, more figures appeared from afar.
This time, they were indeed human.
Luo Qunshan was clearly among them.
But what caught Li Muyang’s attention was not Luo Qunshan, but the elderly woman leading the group of people.
[Granny Gu: The Jade Fairy is dead; you all should be managing your tribes, so why gather here?]
The hunched, gloomy old woman’s appearance left Li Muyang staring agape, and even Jiang Xiaoyu hiding under the bridge was startled.
[Jiang Xiaoyu: (Granny Gu? What is she doing here? Shouldn’t she be at Black Cloud Fort?)]
[Jiang Xiaoyu: (Granny Gu, who never leaves the fort, is in South River City… could it be that Black Cloud Fort is gone?!)]