Flesh-Bone Green Robe

Ning Wan'er left with her mind in turmoil, lost in a sea of thoughts.

Li Muyang, however, couldn't care less about the girl's inner musings.

Although Ning Wan'er had taken the initiative to bring him medicine, which improved his opinion of this little "green tea" girl slightly, it still didn't amount to much.

After returning to his room, Li Muyang sighed as he looked at the girl lying unconscious on the bed, who was letting out soft, pained whimpers even in her stupor.

This is exactly why I hate socializing...

If Li Yuechan hadn't shown up, Li Muyang would still be playing games in peace, without all these headaches.

It had been several days since he last played, and Li Muyang felt a dull ache of frustration.

His cultivation progress had also stalled; the experience bar on his system interface remained frozen at <strong>[Li Muyang: Qi Refining Stage 6 (39%)]</strong>.

The main issue was that Li Muyang hadn't eaten any high-grade spirit rice for days, leaving him without a source of spiritual energy.

He walked to the bedside, looked at the girl's pained, unconscious profile, and shook his head.

He then walked over to the cabinet and took out the spirit rice stored in a large bowl.

Li Muyang poured the high-grade spirit rice into his alchemy cauldron and began to channel his energy, attempting to refine it.

High-grade spirit rice contained spiritual energy that could be used to concoct spirit liquid.

However, the efficiency was appallingly low—it was practically a waste.

The optimal choice would be to trade the high-grade spirit rice for gold, then use that gold to purchase spirit medicine.

Li Muyang had roughly checked the prices; the silver he could get for two jin of high-grade spirit rice would be more than enough to purge the remaining demonic energy from Li Yuechan's body.

—High-grade spirit rice was truly valuable.

But Cloud City was currently in a state of chaos. Inner sect disciples and personal disciples were flying about, and there was a mysterious figure wreaking havoc in the city.

Li Yuechan's unfortunate experience served as a warning to Li Muyang, making him—already a cautious man—even less inclined to take risks.

For an outer sect disciple of unknown origin to suddenly produce two jin of high-grade spirit rice in demonic territory... that was practically writing "I am a fat sheep" across his forehead.

Li Muyang had no intention of taking that risk.

In any case, the Endless Spirit Rice Jar produced two jin of spirit rice a day, and refining all of it would barely yield half a bowl of spirit liquid.

If he kept refining for a few more days, he would eventually be able to heal his "cheap" sister.

This Endless Spirit Rice Jar was Li Muyang's greatest source of confidence, so he wasn't particularly panicked.

As for whether Li Yuechan would suffer in the meantime...

Looking at his unconscious sister on the bed, Li Muyang shook his head; he could only say there was nothing he could do.

They weren't biological siblings, not even siblings in any real sense... after all, Li Muyang was just a wandering soul from another world. Theoretically, he and Li Yuechan had no connection whatsoever.

Doing what he had done so far was already an act of humanitarian concern on Li Muyang's part.

As for the girl suffering during these days of delayed treatment, she would just have to blame Qin Haie for that.

Speaking of Qin Haie...

Having finished refining the spirit rice, Li Muyang was preparing to rest when he suddenly remembered her and opened his system interface.

In the bottom left corner of his interface, there was a small, animated bubble.

<strong>[Evil Spirit: Flesh-Bone Green Robe (Waiting for target to fall asleep)]</strong>

Clicking on the bubble revealed a small, cute, chibi-style Flesh-Bone Green Robe running around in the darkness.

The actual Flesh-Bone Green Robe looked incredibly gruesome, yet in this chibi form, it was almost adorable.

This interface had appeared once last night, but Li Muyang had been too exhausted from a busy day to do more than glance at it before falling asleep.

Now that he was free, Li Muyang took one last look at his unconscious sister on the bed before immersing himself in the system interface.

He watched the Flesh-Bone Green Robe running around in the dark bubble with curiosity. He hadn't expected this system-gifted item to have status updates while cursing someone.

The other items given by the system, like the Endless Spirit Rice Jar and the three Taiyi Light-Splitting Talismans, had no such prompts; they seemed to detach from the system the moment they entered reality.

Yet, the Flesh-Bone Green Robe had its own little bubble within the system interface—this item was clearly something special.

A player's intuition told Li Muyang that this Flesh-Bone Green Robe might be even more powerful than he had imagined.

As he was studying it, the chibi Flesh-Bone Green Robe suddenly stopped running.

At the same time, the text in the bubble changed.

<strong>[Evil Spirit: Flesh-Bone Green Robe (About to enter the dreamscape)]</strong>

Accompanying the change in the bubble, a system option appeared.

<strong>[Do you wish to personally control the Flesh-Bone Green Robe?]</strong>

<strong>[Yes/No]</strong>

<strong>[(Selection countdown: 04:44)]</strong>

The sudden pop-up and the four-minute-and-forty-four-second countdown made Li Muyang blink in surprise.

This thing could be manually controlled? It wasn't an automatic attack?

He hadn't even noticed last night...

Watching the countdown continue to tick down, Li Muyang pondered for a moment and selected [Yes].

He was very curious about what this manual control meant... Was he going to control the Flesh-Bone Green Robe to kill people in their dreams?

Li Muyang widened his eyes in curiosity.

As he selected [Yes], Li Muyang's entire body was immediately submerged in darkness.

That sensation of entering a system dungeon appeared once again.

Only this time, the darkness lasted for a long while.

A full half-minute passed before the darkness surrounding Li Muyang receded like a tide.

In the gloomy graveyard, pale spirit banners hung everywhere.

Amidst the blowing of the cold, ghostly wind, Li Muyang stood tall among the graves, looking ahead.

The tombstones and mounds in the graveyard didn't even reach his knees; they were incredibly small.

Or perhaps...

Li Muyang lowered his head and saw his own eerily elongated lower body, as well as the opera costume of a dan performer he was wearing.

Under the dim light, the brightly colored green opera costume looked inexplicably terrifying.

He opened his mouth, but only a sharp, strange, "hissing" sneer emerged, sounding nothing like a living creature.

In the graveyard ahead, a face filled with terror trembled as it looked toward Li Muyang.

"No... don't..."

The personal disciple of Elder Qi of the Demon Refining Sect, a genius girl who had entered the Core Formation stage at a young age, was trembling all over in terror.

Seeing Li Muyang, she wailed loudly as if she were looking at a life-taking demon.

"Don't come over... My master is an elder of the Demon Refining Sect..."

"You cannot harm me, my master will not let you go!"

"Master! Help! Help me!"

The woman's shrill, miserable screams echoed through the room.

The few people guarding the bedside all wore grim expressions.

"It came as soon as she fell asleep... What a persistent evil spirit!"

The one who spoke was Ge Hongshan, an elder of the Law Enforcement Hall who had been invited by Elder Qi to assist.

He looked with a stern expression at the female disciple, who was unconscious on the bed, crying and begging for mercy, and said, "Elder Qi, do not be alarmed. With the four of us here today, we will surely make that evil spirit return in defeat!"

Ge Hongshan was full of confidence.

The four people in this room were all elders who held sway over various parts of the Demon Refining Sect, possessing high status and extraordinary cultivation.

With the four of them joining forces, ordinary methods of cursing like voodoo or witchcraft could be easily broken!