You Look Down on Me?

Li Muyang swept his gaze around the inn hall and spoke.

"Fairy, are we waiting for someone here?"

Glaze Fairy, dressed in green, appeared calm, but her eyes remained fixed on the inn's entrance.

Judging by her emotional state, this fairy had already grown impatient from waiting.

Knowing nothing about the game's plot, Li Muyang got straight to the point after sitting down and took the initiative to gather information.

Hearing Li Muyang's question, Glaze Fairy glanced at him. "The gates of Loushan City have been sealed. I'm waiting here for an old acquaintance. He'll come out from the city and lead the way for us."

Glaze Fairy gave a concise explanation of the situation.

After she finished speaking, the quest panel in the upper-right corner of Li Muyang's vision changed as well.

[Meet up with Glaze Fairy—Completed]

[New Quest—Please protect Glaze Fairy's safety and wait for the Guide to arrive]

The newly updated quest panel made Li Muyang let out a quiet breath.

It looked like the danger within this inn still remained.

Li Muyang swept his gaze across the inn hall again.

Including the innkeeper and waiter, there were eight people in total.

The other six were wandering martial artists carrying sabers and swords. They looked travel-worn, merely stopping at this Horse Post Pavilion for a brief rest.

Then did the danger come from these six people?

Could it be that someone did not want Glaze Fairy to enter Loushan City?

Li Muyang pondered silently as he watched them.

At that moment, the waiter approached with a broad smile, carrying a platter of food.

"Honored guests, here is your pork knuckle."

The waiter set a steaming, fragrant platter of pork knuckle on their table.

Glaze Fairy's brows furrowed slightly. "We didn't order pork knuckle."

Those words instantly put Li Muyang on alert.

Without showing it, he looked at the waiter before him, one hand quietly resting on the hilt of the saber at his waist.

But the waiter only smiled broadly. "It's a gift from the innkeeper for the two honored guests."

Li Muyang looked toward the counter and saw the innkeeper, dressed in a gray padded jacket and a dogskin cap, wearing a fawning smile.

So Li Muyang chose to remain silent.

Glaze Fairy merely glanced at the steaming pork knuckle. "Then thank the innkeeper for us."

Glaze Fairy did not waste words and calmly accepted the innkeeper's flattery.

Yet after accepting the platter of pork knuckle, she remained quietly seated, her gaze drifting toward the door from time to time. She had no intention of touching her chopsticks.

Li Muyang was even less likely to eat.

He knew perfectly well that some deadly peril lurked in this inn. Without his intervention, Glaze Fairy would die a miserable death within the next few minutes.

Who could think of eating at a time like this? Li Muyang kept a wary eye on the wandering martial artists in the inn.

Then, a burly man with a face full of beard at the entrance slapped the table and stood up.

"Innkeeper, why do they get pork knuckle while we get none?"

The bearded man, a saber strapped to his back, was furious.

Seeing a guest fly into a rage, the waiter hurried over.

"Honored guest..."

But the waiter had barely reached the burly man's side and had not even had time to explain when the bearded man suddenly swung his saber.

In an instant, a head shot into the air, then rolled with a gurgling clatter straight to Li Muyang and Glaze Fairy's feet.

As blood sprayed wildly, the waiter's headless body toppled stiffly to the floor.

Half his body stained with blood, the burly man glared viciously at the innkeeper. "You dare look down on me?"

The Horse Post Pavilion instantly sank into deathly silence.

The innkeeper in the dogskin cap stood rooted to the spot in dumbfounded shock. He had clearly been frightened senseless and never expected this wandering martial artist to start killing without a word.

Glaze Fairy beside Li Muyang abruptly rose to her feet, her eyes icy.

Seeing the burly man kill, Glaze Fairy said nothing and drew her sword at once.

Amid the ringing clang of steel, the ancient sword behind Glaze Fairy flew from its sheath. Its edge became a streak of cold light that swept forward, piercing the burly man's chest in an instant and blasting him backward, pinning him hard against the inn wall.

Yet something bizarre happened. The burly man whose heart had been pierced by the flying sword did not die.

Pinned to the wall, his hulking body instead broke into a savage grin.

"Glaze Fairy's sword momentum truly is astonishing!"

The burly man's body began to mutate as dense black scales and flesh swelled across him.

In the blink of an eye, he became a monster over two meters tall, covered in scales and resembling a wild beast. Yet its enormous head remained human, though its face too was covered in black scales.

Its thick claws gripped the flying sword pinned through its chest, preventing it from breaking free for the moment.

The other wandering martial artists in the inn transformed at the same time.

In the blink of an eye, demonic aura soared through the inn, and six bizarre half-human, half-demon creatures appeared before Li Muyang and Glaze Fairy.

Even Glaze Fairy's cold expression finally changed.

"Demonic cultivators?!"

She stared at the six demonic figures before her in disbelief. "You were behind the unrest in Loushan City?"

The six demonic cultivators sneered. "There is a road to heaven, yet you refuse to take it; hell has no gate, yet you insist on barging in."

"Glaze Fairy, today is the day you die!"

Other than the demonic cultivator whose chest was pierced by the flying sword, who remained where he was and gripped the sword tightly to keep it from escaping his control, the other five charged at Li Muyang and Glaze Fairy.

As demonic baleful aura surged skyward, Glaze Fairy grabbed Li Muyang by the shoulder.

"Go!"

Having lost her flying sword, Glaze Fairy had no intention of fighting them head-on. She meant to take Li Muyang and leave first.

But the moment her hand touched Li Muyang's shoulder, the ground beneath Glaze Fairy's feet suddenly exploded. A gaping bloody maw filled with razor-sharp fangs burst from underground and instantly clamped down on both her feet.

There was actually another demonic cultivator underground?

Li Muyang immediately activated Time Stop, and in an instant, everything between heaven and earth fell into a monotonous black-and-white world.

The hideous demonic cultivators, Glaze Fairy trapped by the bloody maw biting her feet and unable to move... Everyone's movements and expressions froze at the instant Li Muyang activated Time Stop.

These demonic cultivators moved too quickly. In almost an instant, they had attacked and completed their encirclement, not even giving Li Muyang time to react.

Fortunately, Li Muyang activated Time Stop in time, or Glaze Fairy would have died on the spot.

There was no time to think about anything else for now. After all, Time Stop only lasted seven seconds.

The moment time froze, Li Muyang drew the saber at his waist and slashed at the nearest demonic cultivator.

The sharp blade came down viciously toward the monster's head. It had survived having its heart pierced, but surely it could not remain alive after its head was chopped off?

Li Muyang's very first strike was his most ruthless killing move.

Yet when the blade, carrying tremendous force, struck the monster's neck, Li Muyang felt as though he had hacked into solid steel.

The immense recoil numbed the web between his thumb and forefinger.

Then the sturdy saber shattered on the spot beneath the violent reverberation.

Li Muyang was utterly dumbfounded.

"Damn! Its defense is this insane?"

An ordinary blade could not even break through these monsters' defenses?