The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!

Chapter 273: The Hard Turtle

After coming out of the black prison, Li Muyang had not been reinstated to his official position.

Originally rising to the rank of Banner Master, Li Muyang once again became an unranked idler within the Refinement Demon Sect.

This was somewhat strange.@@@@

Based on Li Muyang’s guess, Shen Yan must have fished him out of the big prison to make use of his Martial God Domineering Body’s formidable combat power to severely deal with a group of thorns.

But Shen Yan had only given him a leisurely task—protecting the poisoned and comatose Ruan Mei.

Although Ruan Mei was important, this Auntie Ruan had taken care of Shen Yan after her father’s death, and was an elder who had personally watched Shen Yan grow up.

Yet, assigning Li Muyang with such strong combat abilities to protect Ruan Mei felt like using a cleaver to kill a chicken—a touch of overkill.

Aside from Li Muyang, the rest of the people assigned to protect Ruan Mei were the group of young disciples whom Li Muyang had promoted in the Enforcement Hall.

After Li Muyang was arrested and imprisoned, his subordinates from the Enforcement Hall were also imprisoned and subjected to examination.

After Shen Yan fished out people like Bu Hongsheng and Liu Fu, she continuously had them protect Ruan Mei.

Now, seeing Li Muyang released from prison, everyone was extremely excited.

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Only Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng no longer exhibited their former ambition and seemed somewhat dispirited, having gone through these events.

Clearly, their fervent loyalty to the Refinement Demon Sect, only to end up in prison and be demoted, had greatly sapped their enthusiasm.

However, Li Muyang couldn’t care less.

After his release, he was arranged to live in the room next to Ruan Mei.

In the room next door, Ruan Mei lay in a comatose and poisoned state, akin to a vegetative person. Two physicians skilled in the art of poison were helping the comatose Ruan Mei detoxify three times a day, carefully treating the attacked Helmsman with a slow and meticulous approach.

Li Muyang and others stood guard inside and outside the courtyard, ensuring Ruan Mei’s safety.

Therefore, Li Muyang’s main daily job was to sit in a wicker chair at the doorway of Ruan Mei’s room, preventing any unrelated persons from entering.

But every time he closed his eyes, Li Muyang would close his eyes and play games.

The situation within the Refinement Demon Sect had not spiraled out of control, even as casualties mounted on both sides; each faction was exercising restraint.

According to what Li Muyang had learned after his release, not only Ruan Mei and Shen Yan had been attacked, but several Banner Masters on the opposing side had also died.

The only step remaining before open conflict was for the Sect Hierarch of the Refinement Demon Sect and a few Helmsmen to personally take action.

"This darn turtle is so annoying!" the girl said in utter frustration, "Brother-in-law, this thing is too tough. Can we really beat it?"

The massive health bar of the Xuanwu divine beast drove Shen Miao to despair.

Yet Li Muyang remained utterly calm, "Just fail a few more times and get used to its attack frequency, and you’ll be fine."

In a previous life’s online games, he had brought down who knows how many of these high-health-point bosses.

It all just came down to a battle of reactions and stamina.

This little girl was just too impatient, totally unable to keep her composure.

In Li Muyang’s opinion, while the Xuanwu had a lot of health, that actually made it easier to handle.

Once he got used to the attack pattern of the Xuanwu and developed muscle memory, defeating the Xuanwu was just a matter of course.

Day after day, he sat outside Ruan Mei’s door, contentedly playing the game, completely indifferent to the outside world’s turmoil.

Although Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng would often update him about the current situation, like how yet another sub-branch had experienced deaths or how someone had boldly complained in the presence of the Sect Hierarch, claiming victim while playing the thief, and other such news.

But Li Muyang showed little interest in these side stories, his reactions lukewarm.

He even advised the two young men to care less about external affairs and better stay out of the fray.

Li Muyang had a vague sense that the power struggle within the Refinement Demon Sect was even more complicated than he imagined.

It seemed that Sect Hierarch Fang Yingtian’s intended purge was not limited to those dissenting thorns...

In such chaotic times, it was best for those without big backings or factional ties, like Liu Fu and Bu Hongsheng, to keep a low profile.

And as days passed by, Li Muyang remained comfortably in his yard, no longer venturing outside, indifferent to all external matters.

He seized each day to devote time to the game, working with Shen Miao to conquer the final divine beast, Xuanwu, continually familiarizing themselves with its attack patterns.

Finally, relying on their experiences from one failure after another, the two made a crucial breakthrough.

—They had depleted half of Xuanwu’s health bar and entered the Second Phase!

This was undeniably a mark of significant progress. At the moment when the divine Xuanwu began to roar and transform in the sea, swelling in size, Shen Miao, who had been tensely engaged in battle for over an hour, couldn’t help but jump for joy.

"We did it! We finally did it!"

Even though it was just entering the Second Phase, such progress was still heartening.

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