The Game with Fairies-Chapter 304 - A strand of hair to form a good bond with all of you
Chapter 304: A strand of hair to form a good bond with all of you
The woman’s gaze pierced through the noisy, excited crowd, directly locking onto Li Muyang.
The moment their eyes met, Li Muyang felt a shiver in his heart.
In the woman’s eyes, he saw a trace of wild joy.
...Wild joy?
Joy at seeing me?
Li Muyang immediately sensed danger.
Could this woman also be a wandering spirit coming for me?
But her aura was clearly human, without the strong, pungent stench of decay that wandering immortals had.
With the situation unclear, Li Muyang didn’t act rashly but stood in the crowd, coldly observing the sinister woman on the platform.
And the sinister woman, after just one glance at him, made no other move.
She continued to smile and display affinity and miracles among the fervent shouts of the mortals.
Besides “reviving” the dead daughter of that woman, the sinister woman demonstrated several miracles among the villagers.
Curing diseases with talisman water, enlightening fools—everything was so routine, fitting perfectly with the mortals’ imagination of a celestial being.
The voice of Moon-Biting Dragon rang in Li Muyang’s ear.
“Li Muyang, isn’t this person your friend? Why does she seem not to recognize you?”
Moon-Biting Dragon was extremely curious.
Listening to the voice in his ear, Li Muyang fell silent for a moment, not answering her question but instead carefully inquired about her reason for being here.
Moon-Biting Dragon was confused but obediently recounted everything she had done during the day and night after Li Muyang had left.
After Li Muyang left yesterday morning, she continued to hunt the evil creatures mentioned in the desires of mortals.
She completely mimicked Li Muyang’s actions, not bothering with the weasel that followed her.
The weasel also followed her cautiously, not daring to say a word.
Everything was so simple until, on her way to hunt evil creatures, she heard that a fairy from the south had arrived nearby.
People said that the fairy possessed unfathomable powers, the renowned Fairy Liuli of the Mystic Sword Sect, Master Qingye’s disciple, who had come to the north to save the world and subdue demons.
Hearing of Fairy Liuli’s whereabouts, Moon-Biting Dragon immediately rushed over with joy and thus encountered this black-sword-carrying, miracle-showing sinister woman...
After hearing Moon-Biting Dragon’s story, Li Muyang fell into a silent contemplation.
On the platform, the sinister woman performed miracles before the people, each display of power making the surrounding mortals even more fervent, their cheers growing louder and more piercing.
But Li Muyang paid no attention to the frenzy of these mortals.
His eyes were fixed on the girl on the stage who had been “resurrected.”
The girl, who previously showed no signs of life, now stood upright beside her mother, her face beaming with a bright smile, indistinguishable from a living person. ƒrēenovelkiss.com
However, her aura was bizarre and peculiar.
Logically, even if she were a zombie, there should be a remnant soul or obsession within her to animate the corpse.
But this girl was completely hollow.
There was no trace of a soul’s aura on her.
She was neither a zombie nor a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse.
In Li Muyang’s perception, the girl’s body was utterly empty, filled only with “nothingness.”
Yet, from the inside out, she exuded a strange aura that made the living uncomfortable.
This was a kind of malevolent existence that Li Muyang had never encountered before.
Standing among the crowd, Li Muyang’s gaze was cold.
He quietly watched the performance of the sinister girl on the stage, confirming that she was not Chu Qingxue.
The Fairy Liuli turned out to be a fake...
A wave of disappointment washed over Li Muyang.
He had hoped to ask for help after meeting Chu Qingxue.
But considering the corrupt state of the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, as well as the rebellion of the Ancient Grudge Well and the Blood Demon Sect in the south, it seemed that Chu Qingxue truly had no time to wander in the north.
“Ah... I should have realized this earlier.”
Li Muyang sighed softly as he witnessed the sinister girl brainwash the entire town, earning the fervent worship of these mortals.
In the end, the sinister girl declined the mortals’ offerings of gold and silver with a smile.
“I only need a strand of your hair, that will suffice.”
The sinister girl, with a black sword on her back and holding talismans in her hand, said cheerfully to the mortals on the stage: “A strand of hair to form a good bond with all of you.”
To the mortals, such a request was far too simple.
She didn’t want gold or silver, just a strand of their hair.
The mortals became excited, raising their hands and tearing off their hair, with some zealots even pulling out a handful, eagerly handing it up to the “Fairy Liuli” on the stage.
The sinister girl on the stage accepted everything without refusal.
Whether the mortals gave her a single strand or a handful, she collected it all into a plain white sachet.
The sachet was the size of a palm, but it seemed to have endless space inside.
The hair of the entire town was stuffed into it, yet it remained unchanged.
At this moment, even the naive Moon-Biting Dragon sensed something was wrong.
“...Li Muyang, your friend doesn’t seem like a good person.”
A cautious voice whispered in his ear: “Have you been deceived?”
Li Muyang, however, coldly watched the sinister girl on the stage, saying, “She is not Chu Qingxue, just an imposter.”
“Ah? An imposter?”
“That’s right...”
Li Muyang watched indifferently as the sinister girl took away the hair of the crowd.
As those strands of hair were collected into the sachet, wisps of warm aura rose from the bodies of these mortals and entered the sachet in the hands of the sinister girl.
And these mortals were completely unaware of it.
Moon-Biting Dragon was startled: “Something has been taken from these mortals!”
Li Muyang’s gaze was cold as he observed the group of mortals who willingly gave up their hair.
“It’s their lifespan... These mortals have voluntarily given their lifespans to that woman.”
Some lost months, others a year or two... The vitality of these mortals visibly declined as their lifespans were plundered.
The act of submitting their hair was entirely a kind of malevolent ritual.
It allowed the sinister girl to plunder the mortals’ lifespans in broad daylight!
Although the lifespan lost by each individual was not much, the sheer number...
Li Muyang left the crowd and walked towards the outskirts of the town.
He no longer paid attention to the fanatical mortals but was looking for a suitable place to fight.
Sure enough, not long after he left, the sinister girl who had harvested the lifespans of the entire town’s people blocked his path with a smile.
After taking the townspeople’s lifespans, she quickly caught up with Li Muyang.
Now, as the two stood on a secluded and shadowy mountain path facing each other, Li Muyang raised an eyebrow.
“...fairy, are you looking for me?”
But he saw the sinister girl holding the plain white sachet in her left hand and gripping the strange black sword in her right.
Facing Li Muyang in the morning light, the sinister girl’s eyes were filled with frenzied greed.
“Ascender!”
“I didn’t expect to encounter an Ascender in the north!”
“Little girl, you must be the Yushui River Flood Dragon that has recently risen to power... right?”
“I didn’t expect you to be an Ascender... hahaha! Fortune really favors me!”
