The Game with Fairies-Chapter 220 - The Netherworld

Chapter 220: The Netherworld

【Entering the broken Netherworld】

In the pitch-black field of vision, such a system prompt suddenly popped up.

Li Muyang, who was already astonished by the disappearance of the mantis underground, was even more dumbfounded.

“The Netherworld?!”

Li Muyang’s eyebrows immediately furrowed.

He quickly reviewed all the memories of his original self, going back and forth several times, only to find that in this world’s beliefs and perceptions, there was no existence of an underworld or hell.

Although the deceased were mourned, it was merely a simple remembrance of the departed.

The souls of beings at the end of their lives would naturally dissipate between heaven and earth. This was something cultivators knew all too well.

This world had no Black and White Impermanence nor an underworld.

Yet now, the Emerald Blade Mantis had run off to the netherworld?

What kind of trick was Brother System playing?

Li Muyang remained silent, quietly waiting for things to unfold.

In the pitch-black field of vision, the Emerald Blade Mantis was completely engulfed by darkness.

But Li Muyang could still vaguely estimate the approximate location of the Emerald Blade Mantis based on the perspective of the darkness.

He opened the character card of the Emerald Blade Mantis and carefully reviewed the various attributes after this evolution.

Especially the newly awakened special talent, Li Muyang paid extra attention.

【Demonization: Demons that forsake the path of transformation, giving up the many conveniences of taking human form in exchange for more powerful physical strength. After demonization, the intelligence of demons is on par with beasts, unable to comprehend the profound methods of the Dao, difficult to understand the mysteries of the heavenly principles, destined to be creatures of fur and horns, born from eggs and moist transformation】

【However, demons that have forsaken the path to longevity will gain a more powerful source of strength, evolving through the most bloodthirsty and brutal means of predation, capable of reaching the top of the food chain and even the pinnacle of all beings. All creatures in the world, all things under heaven, and even the souls in the underworld, are within its hunting menu】

“Good, case closed…”

Li Muyang instantly understood the logic of the system.

Since there were no suitable hunting targets in the mountains and fields of the living world, and crossing the war zone to find demons far away was too distant and too dangerous, it made sense to let the demonized Emerald Blade Mantis hunt souls in the netherworld.

Very reasonable.

So this broken Netherworld… Did this world actually have an underworld?

Li Muyang became curious.

He could confirm that there was no underworld in Xiao Yecao’s era before the dark turmoil of ancient times.

Otherwise, Xiao Yecao’s journey, which included drinking with the Dragon Lord and playing games with the gods, would have taken Li Muyang to chat with the City God of the underworld long ago…

If the Netherworld truly existed in this world, then its destruction must have occurred even earlier than the mythical era of ancient times…

Li Muyang soaked in the wooden barrel for a long time before he saw the darkness in his field of vision disappear.

The Emerald Blade Mantis had finally crossed the endless darkness and arrived at the mysterious and broken Netherworld.

The moment it arrived in the Netherworld, Li Muyang did not act rashly but instead kept switching perspectives to observe the land before him.

The Netherworld, shrouded in a thin mist, was dimly lit, somewhere between night and day.

No stars could be seen in the sky, but there were fragments of blood-red stars.

On the ground, the land was desolate and ruined, without a trace of vegetation.

In the dark-toned world, tall shadows could be seen drifting through the misty wilderness in the distance.

Their forms were hunched, heads hanging low, bodies covered in tattered wounds.

They looked like wandering corpses of deities, aimlessly drifting in the mist, devoid of any divine presence.

Just by looking at this scene from afar, Li Muyang felt a chill explode from his spine and spread throughout his body.

He was no longer the naive country boy with limited experience.

During his journey with Xiao Yecao, he met an ancient Dragon Lord and laughed with true immortals and deities.

He could confirm that those terrifying figures wandering in the misty land were definitely beings above the status of deities.

But these beings were now just hollow and dull shells wandering in the mist, with no divinity to speak of.

“This Netherworld is really quite broken…”

Even the deities have died, leaving only their remnants.

Li Muyang carefully observed the distance between the Emerald Blade Mantis and the distant deity corpses, and then he controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to move slowly through the mist.

Being new to the area, he did not dare to be arrogant.

There were definitely more than just deity corpses lurking in this mist, danger was hidden.

《Endless Evolution》 was different from other games.

The game progressed in real-time with reality, with the chance to reload and restart only available in time-limited levels.

If the Emerald Blade Mantis died in the underworld, there would be no chance to reload and restart.

Fortunately, the hunting targets indicated by the system were generally safe and definitely within the capabilities of the Emerald Blade Mantis.

Li Muyang did not wander off on his own but followed the system’s arrow guidance, stealthily moving through the mist.

Soon, the Emerald Blade Mantis arrived at a depression.

In the dried-up riverbed, a rusty broken sword was quietly embedded.

The broken sword, forgotten for who knows how many years, was covered in dark red rust, eerily strange.

But as the Emerald Blade Mantis stepped into this area, the rust on the sword suddenly began to fall off, quickly accumulating into a dark red stream of blood in the riverbed.

A mournful and self-pitying cry echoed through the mist.

“A drifting soul I am…”

A sorrowful woman cried in the mist, shedding tears as she sang.

The next second, a flash of cold light.

A translucent courtesan girl appeared out of nowhere, crying as she slashed a sword at the Emerald Blade Mantis.

But Li Muyang, fully focused, sensed the danger in an instant and responded, immediately controlling the Emerald Blade Mantis to dodge and counterattack.

Blade and sword collided in the mist, and after three breaths, the ghost of the courtesan girl fell.

The giant mantis, five zhangs in length, crouched on top of her, bringing its massive mouthparts to the translucent ghost’s head and sucking forcefully…

【Evolution Point+7%】

“Hm?”

Li Muyang was slightly surprised to see this data, delighted.

Killing just one remnant soul yielded such a high Evolution Point?

The source of this c𝐨ntent is freёnovelkiss.com.

This broken and desolate Netherworld suddenly seemed appealing at this moment.

This wasn’t a broken Netherworld at all!

It was clearly an undeveloped treasure trove!!!

Watching the system arrow emerge again after killing the courtesan’s remnant soul, Li Muyang controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to stealthily move on.

This mantis, adept at stealth and ambush, was now almost one with the mist of the Netherworld.

From a distance, Li Muyang bypassed the eerie beast roars and two blood-red glows that set one’s heart racing in the mist.

Eventually, following the system’s arrow, he arrived at a pile of rocks.

“A-Lian, is that you?”

A half-transparent ghostly figure with only half a body left sat in a daze among the rocks, with the divine robe in disarray and stained with blood.

But the moment it saw the Emerald Blade Mantis, it stood up excitedly.

“A-Lian! I didn’t run away! I’ve been waiting for you!”

The translucent ghostly figure howled ferociously as it pounced towards the Emerald Blade Mantis.

The next second, the gleam of a blade shimmered through the mist, and the howling became abruptly shrill and desperate…