Options popped up in Li Muyang’s field of vision.

【Of course, we go back to the village. Don’t you want to return?】

【Granny said that after sending Wei Sandao away, we don’t have to go back... I want to leave Black Cloud Village and see the outside world. Would you like to come with me?】

【Note: This choice will have a significant impact on the subsequent storyline! Please choose carefully!】

The options that popped up in his field of vision invigorated Li Muyang.

Great! It’s finally here!

This option was clearly the ultimate choice for the third stage.

One choice was to return to Black Cloud Village, and the other was to take Xiao Yecao and leave Black Cloud Village for good, where the vast sea allows fish to leap and the sky is the limit for birds to fly.

It was obvious which one to choose, even without thinking too hard.

However, Li Muyang, being cautious, saved his progress before selecting the second option.

Under the morning light, Li Muyang looked at the young girl in front of him and smiled warmly.

“Before we leave the village this time, Granny Gu has allowed me not to return to Black Cloud Village after sending Wei Sandao away.”

“So I want to go out and see the world and wander with you.”

“Would you like to leave with me?”

Li Muyang looked at the girl with sincere eyes.

Under the warm morning sun, seeing Elder Brother’s gentle gaze, the girl was stunned.

Mist appeared in her eyes.

“Mhm!”

The girl sniffled hard, then nodded vigorously.

“I want to go with Elder Brother. Wherever Elder Brother goes, I’ll go! We will never be apart!”

The girl hugged Li Muyang tightly, pressing her face against his chest, and said with unwavering eyes, “Even if Elder Brother tells me to leave, I will never go!”

The girl’s excitement and joy were conveyed to Li Muyang through her gently trembling shoulders.

Seeing the happy little girl in front of him, Li Muyang also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

“Then let’s walk the road ahead together.”

【Xiao Yecao: 61】

【Xiao Yecao’s favorability has broken through 60 for the first time, nurturing progress has entered the fourth stage (out of five stages)】

【Third stage development reward available for collection】

【Please select your third stage reward (choose one of three)】

【Cultivation +2 (From early Foundation Establishment Realm to late Foundation Establishment Realm)】

【Jade Marrow Spiritual Elixir x8】

【Item Advancement Talisman x1】

The settlement rewards that popped up in his field of vision slightly surprised Li Muyang.

“The rewards are so generous this time?”

A group of cranes with a misty aura flew past him.

However, upon closer inspection, Li Muyang saw that the cranes all had dull eyes and stiff movements.

Far from being ethereal, they were simply puppets controlled by some sort of evil magic.

“... Is this an enhanced version of the ‘Golden Gaze Fiery Eyes’?”

Li Muyang suddenly understood.

He had not noticed anything odd about the group of cranes before, but now he realized that they were likely puppets refined by a high-ranking person from the Demonic Sect.

The cranes flying and roaming around the floating islands, with their dull and blood-red eyes coldly watching all living beings on the islands, were clearly a pair of ‘surveillance’ eyes.

Li Muyang was somewhat shocked, but he didn’t pay too much attention to it.

After using Spiritual Vision Eye for a while, he withdrew his gaze.

Although the cranes were eerie, this was the style that a demonic path should have.

Even if the Demon Refining Sect’s Inner Sect appeared ethereal and otherworldly, at the end of the day, it was still a demonic sect.

Li Muyang stretched lazily in the sunlight and didn’t bother with the group of ethereal cranes anymore.

He turned around and walked back into the bamboo house to continue playing his game.

However, after Li Muyang shifted his gaze away, the group of cranes he had been continuously observing with his Spirit Vision Eye flew a distance before they suddenly started to tremble awkwardly.

Eventually, the last row of cranes stiffened and fell down, disappearing into the sea of clouds below.

.......

In the Demon Refining Sect’s Artifact Refining Hall, Elder Ge Hongshan, who was reading a book, suddenly felt a jolt in his heart.

“My Corpse Cranes have been broken?!”

Ge Hongshan was somewhat stunned and quickly got up to run to his artifact refining room.

On one of the shelves in the refining room, there were rows of miniature white cranes, numbering in the hundreds, each only the size of a grasshopper.

At this moment, among this group of white cranes, a dozen or so had cracked open, mysteriously damaged, with dim demonic energy continuously leaking from the cracks.

Ge Hongshan hurriedly grabbed these cracked cranes and, frowning, began to sense and review the images transmitted by these cranes before they were damaged.

Then... Ge Hongshan was bewildered.

“How were these Corpse Cranes broken?”

It was just a routine patrol, and no one had attacked the group of Corpse Cranes, but shortly after they flew over the island above the Hall of Enforcement, they all cracked open.

It was as if they had cracked on their own.

This was simply bizarre!

No one attacked, and they self-destructed?

Was there a problem with my artifact refining?

Ge Hongshan’s eyes glazed over as he began to doubt his life.

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