What’s the saying about not being able to clear your name even if you jump into the Yellow River?
Li Muyang felt somewhat wronged, but upon reflection, not entirely so.
Although he hadn’t touched her with his own hands, the sensation of the tentacle’s touch was transmitted to his mind.
Tsk tsk… Is this the power of the Ancient Evil Lineage?
Controlling ethereal tentacles?
Li Muyang realized that from this moment on, the game ‘Deadly Weed’ might have a combat mode.
Xiao Yecao, whose thigh had been touched, blushed and glared at him for a long time.
But in the end, the girl just snorted and ran off in a huff without saying anything.
Watching the girl’s retreating back, Li Muyang smacked his lips, still savoring the sensation.
With a thought, the tentacles in the room began to move about.
At first, the control was a bit clumsy, but he quickly became proficient.
The tentacles in the room moved flexibly with Li Muyang’s thoughts, lifting and setting down various objects.
These tentacles could move through space, even floating in the air.
Li Muyang counted them. There were seventy-three tentacles in total.
Each tentacle, when exerting its full strength, could smash rocks and twist iron plates, with a force beyond imagination.
Although Jiang Xiaoyu was still a weakling without any cultivation, with these tentacles, his combat power was not to be underestimated.
After getting used to controlling the tentacles, Li Muyang went out to find Xiao Yecao.
Then he took Xiao Yecao to the ancestral temple to see Granny Gu.
Under the morning sunlight, the old lady sat on the steps, smoking a water pipe, looking kind and amiable.
However, the blue tentacles moving around Li Muyang withered, shrank, and finally vanished without a trace as soon as they came within two zhang of Granny Gu.
This mysterious Granny Gu was still so creepy…
She apparently could see those nonexistent tentacles, her gaze circled around Li Muyang before finally resting on him.
“Very good, Little Fish, the bloodline of the ancestors has awakened in you.”
Granny Gu’s smile was kind: “Now, you can do some real work for this granny.”
“Last night, when Wei Sandao killed Steward Wu, he used something to lure Steward Wu out. You go and get that thing for this granny.”
“Can you do that? Little Fish?”
Granny Gu’s smile was kind, and her tone was gentle, seemingly giving Li Muyang a choice.
Two dialogue boxes popped up in Li Muyang’s vision.
【The thing belonging to Wei Sandao? Alright, I’ll find an opportunity to bring it to you】
【Uh… stealing someone else’s stuff doesn’t seem right?】
Li Muyang skillfully saved the game, then chose the second option, refusing the old witch’s task.
The next moment, he felt a tide of darkness sweeping over him like a blanket covering the sky.
The transparent tentacles that were once under his control suddenly went berserk.
Dancing wildly, they surged forward and in the blink of an eye, strangled Li Muyang to death.
“Can this old witch control my tentacles?”
Li Muyang was somewhat surprised.
Although he had known that refusing Granny Gu would lead to death, he hadn’t expected such a novel way to die.
It seemed that in front of this old witch, Jiang Xiaoyu, who also wielded the power of the evil veins, had no chance to resist at all.
Even the power he had awakened was under Granny Gu’s control… What could he use to fight Granny Gu?
After reloading the game, Li Muyang chose to accept Granny Gu’s mission.
He took Xiao Yecao and turned to leave the ancestral temple, preparing to steal that item from Wei Sandao.
All he knew was that the item emitted a strange, bloody scent, and both Steward Wu and Wei Sandao cared greatly about it.
Moreover, neither Steward Wu nor Wei Sandao wanted others to know of the item’s existence.
Now that Granny Gu was also interested in it… Tsk… What exactly was it?
Li Muyang, with Xiao Yecao in tow, headed towards the back mountain of Black Cloud Village.
He was going to meet Wei Sandao.
On the deserted mountain path, Xiao Yecao, who had been silent the whole way, suddenly grabbed Li Muyang’s hand.
The young girl had been ignoring Li Muyang all day because he had touched her thigh in the morning.
But now, seeing that Li Muyang was going to find Wei Sandao, she couldn’t help but speak up.
“Elder Brother, are you really going to help Granny Gu steal something? Wei Sandao is even more vicious than Steward Wu. If he discovers us stealing his item, he will definitely not let you off.”
Worry filled Xiao Yecao’s eyes.
Li Muyang stopped in his tracks, spreading his hands helplessly: “If Granny Gu asks me to do it, I can’t just refuse, can I?”
If he refused, the witch would truly kill him!
Xiao Yecao bit her lip, clearly aware that Granny Gu’s orders were not to be refused.
But letting Li Muyang continue to steal Wei Sandao’s treasure was obviously fraught with danger.
“Elder Brother, let’s… let’s run away!”
Xiao Yecao suggested earnestly: “We can flee Black Cloud Village, go far away, find a place without demon cultivators, monsters, and start a new life without taking any more risks.”
Xiao Yecao once again proposed the idea of fleeing.
However, Li Muyang sighed and shook his head: “You can run for a moment, but not for a lifetime.”
In Li Muyang’s previous attempts to flee, every save file ended with the demon cultivators finding and killing him.
“Unless all these demon cultivators die and no one chases us, we could run to the ends of the earth and still be hunted down and killed.”
After saying this, a sudden thought struck Li Muyang: “All the demon cultivators dead…”
Looking at the path leading to the cave, then back at Black Cloud Village, Li Muyang stroked his chin.
“There might be something to this.”
Originally, Black Cloud Village and these foreign demon cultivators coexisted peacefully, but for some reason, Granny Gu suddenly wanted to kill Steward Wu.
Now she wanted to steal something from Wei Sandao.
Granny Gu’s obviously overstepping actions would inevitably provoke resistance from the demon cultivators.
So, if Li Muyang could stir the pot and let the foreign demon cultivators in the cave confront Granny Gu, then he could sit back and watch the fight unfold, killing two birds with one stone.
But before that, he needed to ensure his own safety.
His awakened power of the evil veins was strong but controlled by Granny Gu.
Li Muyang had to discover a new source of power to rely on, so that if he ever fought Granny Gu, he wouldn’t depend on the power of the evil veins.
Thinking this, Li Muyang turned to Xiao Yecao with a smile on his face.
“Little girl, haven’t you always wanted to cultivate? Now I’ll teach you the methods of cultivation.”
Li Muyang wasn’t sure about others, but Xiao Yecao was a character marked by the system as having the stature of an immortal.
What Xiao Yecao lacked now was just the method of cultivation.
Conveniently, Li Muyang had recently obtained the 《Netherworld Demon Technique》, a top-notch cultivation method.
Passing the 《Netherworld Demon Technique》 directly to Xiao Yecao, this system-designated girl with the stature of an immortal would surely not disappoint Li Muyang, right?
With a smile on his face, Li Muyang was in no hurry to find Wei Sandao in the cave anymore.
He led Xiao Yecao into the forest and found a secluded spot, then said to her.
“Now I will teach you the methods of cultivation!”
Maybe the reason Elder Yan got that Netherworld technique is because she got Xiao Yecao’s inheritance?
Then what is the actual origin of that technique?
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