Li Muyang was somewhat speechless, but regardless, an increase in affection was always a good thing.

    As the affection level reached 20%, new system messages popped up in Li Muyang’s vision.

    【Xiao Yecao’s affection has broken through 20% for the first time. Nurturing progress has entered the second stage (out of five stages)】

    【The First stage nurturing reward is available for collection】

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

    【Cultivation +1 (Qi Refining Realm Third Layer → Qi Refining Realm Fourth Layer)】

    【Remnant Clouds Movement Technique】

    【Mortal-grade Flying Sword X1】

    Seeing this series of system rewards, Li Muyang’s spirits lifted immediately.

    After so much trouble, he finally got the game completion reward.

    Li Muyang thought he had to defeat the assassin to get the reward, but raising the girl’s affection turned out to be enough.

    So the purpose of the game was clear.

    That is to max out Xiao Yecao’s affection to 100%.

    In the game, only affection is real. Everything else is a gimmick.

    And there are four more stages of rewards to collect.

    If each completion could increase his cultivation by +1, then after completing the entire nurturing game, Li Muyang’s cultivation could soar directly to the Qi Refining Realm Eight Layer!

    Not to mention, the rewards are still a choice of three, so besides cultivation, there are other options.

    From this perspective, a game that offers five rewards... the rewards for this nurturing game are quite generous, no wonder the difficulty is so high.

    After some thought, Li Muyang reluctantly gave up the cultivation +1 reward and chose the martial skill ‘Remnant Clouds Movement Technique’ instead.

    Although getting something for nothing felt great, he now had an endless supply of spiritual rice, so his cultivation could increase quickly. Cultivation growth was not urgent.

    What Li Muyang lacked now were cultivation techniques and spells for self-defense.

    The cultivation techniques for the Outer Sect disciples of the Demon Refining Sect are the most basic and common.

    The spells they have access to are mostly utility spells like the ‘Minor Cloud and Rain Technique’, which are specialized for menial tasks.

    There aren’t many serious spells available to them.

    Although a flying sword is good and can quickly enhance combat power, Li Muyang has already seen rewards of the low-grade spiritual weapon level, so he isn’t very interested in the ordinary flying sword reward. ?

    What if he encounters a spiritual weapon level reward next time?

    Wouldn’t that make the mundane flying sword a waste?

    Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Muyang chose the ‘Remnant Clouds Movement Technique.’

    “But now that the trafficker is gone and we have left the village. Now that we’re in this forest, that monster could attack us at any time.”

    After the little girl finished speaking, three dialogue boxes suddenly popped up in front of Li Muyang.

    【A monster that appears in dreams? Are you talking about a dream-eating demon?】

    【A lying brat through and through, do you think I would still believe you?】

    【...(Please input your chosen dialogue content)】

    Three dialogue boxes appeared before his eyes, and Li Muyang blinked.

    Finally... it’s triggered!

    He had failed so many times before, unable to pry the crucial information from the little girl’s lips.

    But now, he had unintentionally raised the little girl’s favorability to 20, and before Li Muyang could ask, the little girl actually took the initiative to talk about it.

    Looking at the content of the two dialogue boxes, Li Muyang hesitated for a moment.

    He always felt that the options provided by the system were too formulaic and of limited use.

    Following the system’s prompts to progress through the story has always led to dead ends.

    It was only when he started to go with the flow that he managed to clear a stage.

    With this in mind, Li Muyang saved his progress and then spoke up.

    “So you mean to say that we won’t be attacked by monsters if we go back to the village?”

    Li Muyang entered his own dialogue content, not using the system-provided response.

    The little girl hesitated for a moment before replying.

    “Maybe... that monster is really afraid of the trafficker, and there must be people in the village who are even stronger than the trafficker. If we go back to the village, it should be safer than being outside.”

    As soon as the little girl finished speaking without much confidence, Li Muyang immediately turned around with a bamboo basket on his back and started sprinting back in the direction they came from.

    This action shows that he completely believes the little girl’s words and follows her advice to return to the village.

    Such a sudden move stunned the little girl.

    “Ah? Elder Brother, you believe me just like that?”

    After being deceived so many times before and even exposing her lies, now he so easily believed her...

    The little girl in the basket was bewildered, wondering what on earth this Elder Brother was thinking.

    Xiao Yecao once again realized that she really couldn’t understand this strange Elder Brother at all.

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