Speedrun Player

In the pitch-black thatched hut, Li Muyang suddenly opened his eyes.

"Damn! Failed again!"

He had never expected his blade to shatter against the monster's neck.

The defenses of those six monsters were shockingly strong.

Before dying in the game, Li Muyang had activated [Sword Hidden in Belly]. The flying sword he spat from his mouth had managed to break through one monster's defenses and kill it.

But the remaining monsters had rushed him all at once, giving Li Muyang no chance to activate Time Stop a second time before hacking both him and the Glaze Fairy to the ground.

[Sword Hidden in Belly] had a 20-second cooldown and could only kill one monster at a time. He could not count on that skill to break the deadlock.

Li Muyang narrowed his eyes. "Looks like I'll have to borrow the Glaze Fairy's flying sword."

The trap laid by those six monsters had first provoked the Glaze Fairy into attacking, making her lose her flying sword, before they dared swarm her. Clearly, the monsters feared the Glaze Fairy's flying sword.

The Glaze Fairy's attack also showed that the ancient sword on her back possessed extraordinary power. At the very least, it could easily break through these monsters' defenses.

Having realized this, Li Muyang took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

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The scroll within his field of vision instantly went dark, and Li Muyang was once again swallowed by a tide of darkness.

When he opened his eyes, he had returned to that swaying, jolting carriage.

The driver's mountain song echoed through the hills as the rocking carriage traveled along the steep mountain road.

Li Muyang directly flipped out of the carriage and sprinted down the mountain path.

"Eh? Constable!"

The driver's startled cry was swiftly left behind. Li Muyang activated Time Stop to travel, racing all the way to the mountain pass and spotting the Horse Post Pavilion by the roadside ahead.

He took several deep breaths to steady himself before strapping on his saber and walking toward the inn.

As he pushed open the inn's doors, the smiling waiter came forward to greet him.

"This constable..."

But Li Muyang walked straight past him and headed for the Glaze Fairy.

The Glaze Fairy, dressed in green, sat in the inn's main hall. An ancient sword of archaic design rested on her back, old and worn-looking, without the slightest hint of sharpness.

Li Muyang walked straight up to the Glaze Fairy and said, "Fairy, may I borrow your immortal sword?"

"Ah?"

The Glaze Fairy had been about to speak when Li Muyang, dressed in constable's garb, approached. Yet he had caught her off guard by striking first and directly asking to borrow her sword.

The Glaze Fairy's eyes widened in surprise. Li Muyang's strange, overly familiar behavior had caught her completely unprepared.

Li Muyang glanced at the six wandering martial artists present and roughly calculated the distances.

"Very well. Thank you, Fairy."

Having calculated the distance, Li Muyang immediately thanked her without caring whether the fairy was willing or not.

The next second, Time Stop activated.

The world inside the inn instantly fell into black and white, and everything between heaven and earth lost its color.

The six wandering martial artists remained seated where they were, as though nothing had changed.

The Glaze Fairy, bearing her immortal sword, sat frozen with a blank expression. Her eyes were full of bewilderment, as though she were wondering why Li Muyang had thanked her.

Li Muyang directly reached out, drew the immortal sword from her back, and charged at the six wandering martial artists inside the inn.

Though this body's cultivation was mediocre, seven seconds of Time Stop was enough for him to run a lap around the inn.

After seven seconds, Time Stop ended.

Li Muyang stood at the inn's entrance with the immortal sword in hand. The six wandering martial artists scattered across the main hall had all been beheaded, blood spraying wildly.

The bloody sight of six people dying in an instant frightened the waiter into screaming as he hurriedly fled toward the back courtyard.

But the Glaze Fairy sitting in the inn suddenly narrowed her eyes and looked straight at Li Muyang by the entrance, as well as the immortal sword in his hand.

She rose to her feet, shocked and furious.

"You..."

Yet the moment the Glaze Fairy opened her mouth, the six headless corpses of the wandering martial artists underwent a strange transformation.

They kept swelling and warping until they became six headless monsters. The heads that had fallen beside them transformed as well.

The Glaze Fairy froze at the horrifying sight, the fury filling her chest instantly catching in her throat.

"This..."

She stared in astonishment at the six monster corpses before looking at Li Muyang in disbelief.

"How did you know they were demonic cultivators?"

She had stayed in this inn for so long without realizing those six were demonic cultivators, yet this constable had arrived and immediately struck with ruthless decisiveness. His gaze was like a torch, as if he had no fear of being wrong.

And his movement technique was so fast!

In the blink of an eye, he had taken her immortal sword and instantly slain six people...

The Glaze Fairy looked uncertainly at Li Muyang. Judging by his aura, this constable's cultivation was ordinary, merely at the Qi Refining realm, yet he possessed such a bizarre and terrifying movement technique?

She had not even seen clearly how he had attacked!

The Glaze Fairy was filled with uncertainty, unable to think of what to say for a moment.

But Li Muyang, holding the immortal sword, merely glanced at her before abruptly opening his mouth and spitting out a streak of cold light.

In an instant, a flash of blood burst from the earth beneath the Glaze Fairy's feet. A pained scream came from underground, followed by an endless stream of blood welling up beneath her.

At the sight, the Glaze Fairy's expression changed drastically, and none of her earlier aloofness remained.

She instantly retreated from where she had been standing, staring in shock at the blood-spurting earth.

There was actually a demon beneath the ground? And it had tunneled beneath her feet without her noticing?

At that moment, the Glaze Fairy felt a chill run down her spine.

For she could see clearly that none of the six monsters in this inn were harmless.

If they had been allowed to reveal their transformed forms and fight with all their strength, together with the demon that had been lying in ambush underground, she would likely have found it difficult to escape the killing trap unscathed...

The Glaze Fairy drew a deep breath, then looked solemnly at Li Muyang.

"I am Chu Qingxue of the Mystic Sword Sect. May I know how to address you?"

The Glaze Fairy spoke solemnly, showing Li Muyang ample respect.

Although the constable before her had a weak aura and seemingly ordinary cultivation, the thunderous methods and bizarre movement technique he had displayed had earned the Glaze Fairy's respect.

Who would have thought that even within the rotten, decaying imperial court, there could be such a capable person...

Hearing the fairy's question, Li Muyang came back to his senses as well.

Though he had been assigned the identity of a constable, it seemed he had not been given a name.

In other words... he had to choose his own ID?

Meeting the Glaze Fairy's gaze, Li Muyang smiled faintly. "You flatter me, Fairy. I am merely a minor constable of the Imperial Observatory. You may call me Wuming."

Unable to think of any suitable ID on the spot, Li Muyang casually chose an all-purpose one.

The instant he finished speaking, several messages suddenly popped up in the upper-right corner of Li Muyang's vision.

[Joined up with the Glaze Fairy—Completed]

[Protect the Glaze Fairy's safety—Completed]

[Current progress saved]

[New mission—Please accompany the Glaze Fairy into Loushan City]

Li Muyang had moved too quickly. The instant he entered and saw the Glaze Fairy, he had immediately acted, leaving her no time to react.

He had not even given the system time to react.

As a result, the quest log had only now updated with two entries at once.

Seeing that the mission had succeeded, Li Muyang finally let out a breath of relief.

Though he had failed once, he had only failed once. On his second attempt, he had returned and instantly wiped out all those demonic cultivators.

Now this was what you called a speedrun player. Leans back.