The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!

The welcoming ceremony for Fang Yingtian was uneventful.

The group that harbored ill intentions toward Li Muyang hardly even looked at him, let alone spoke provocatively.

The only one who showed hostility in front of everyone was Nangong Ting, who merely threatened Li Muyang with a few words before leaving.

In front of Blood Lotus Sect Hierarch Fang Yingtian, this group's hostility was somewhat restrained.

As for these undercurrents, Li Muyang did not pay much attention—who would bother fighting with the dead?

Blending into the crowd, Li Muyang chanted a few times, "Through the blood, we are reborn, salvation to all."

Soon after, the grand welcoming ceremony came to a quick end.

Next was the banquet.

But no incidents occurred at the banquet either. As a banner leader, Li Muyang was fortunate to sit in the main hall, though he was seated at the very end.

Throughout the banquet, all the significant figures enjoyed lively conversations and gatherings.

Li Muyang, being among them, went unnoticed.

Previously favored by Blood Lotus Sect Hierarch Fang Yingtian, this night he did not speak to Li Muyang, treating him just like any other ordinary banner leader without any special favor.

After the banquet, the looks the other members of the Blood Lotus Sect gave Li Muyang were somewhat strange.

However, Shen Yan made a special effort to catch up to him after the banquet ended, publicly inviting Li Muyang to share her carriage.

Inside the carriage, Shen Yan sighed and said, "These days, various rumors about you have been rampant, and the Hierarch also has to consider the influence…"

Shen Yan wanted to speak well of her uncle the Hierarch to smooth over Fang Yingtian's indifference tonight.

But Li Muyang was unconcerned.

"It doesn't matter," Li Muyang shook his head, saying, "I didn't do those things for accolades or favor, just couldn't stand some of the scum within the sect committing evil."

Li Muyang spoke honestly.

At those words, Shen Yan lightly laughed, nodding, and continued to discuss matters of the Enforcement Hall and other sect affairs with him.

According to Shen Yan's account, this time when the Hierarch went on tour, he spread miracles and preached far and wide with miraculous effect.

Not only did hundreds of thousands of civilians within the territories controlled by the Blood Lotus Sect join the sect, but many ordinary folk from the Demon Sect's territories also secretly came over, wanting to join the Blood Lotus Sect that promised eternal life.

The development of the Blood Lotus Sect was flourishing, and its power was continually increasing.

Shen Yan said that after a period of time, the sect could expand further.

She didn't elaborate on where or how they would expand,

but her eyes were determined, full of optimism for the future.

After addressing those topics, Li Muyang returned to his small courtyard within the City Lord's mansion, typically asking the maids to prepare a medicinal bath and started soaking.

And while soaking, he entered the game.

"… Brother-in-law, your law body is so fierce!"

Shen Miao, wearing a plain white vestment robe, stood not far away, complaining to Li Muyang.

"After your soul leaves the body, this mantis becomes very fierce, and even if I come close to it, I will be attacked."

In the misty ghost town, several hundred-meter-long trenches appeared in the streets and houses around the Jade Mantis, clearly the work of the Jade Mantis.

When Li Muyang exited the game, the Jade Mantis entered a vigilant mode, automatically attacking any creature that came near it.

Shen Miao, this little girl, was clearly at a disadvantage.

Li Muyang controlled the Jade Mantis, saying, "Just keep your distance from it and let's continue on to slay the Azure Dragon."

Yan Xiaoru entered Tianjiao City, which was a signal.

It was very likely that Yan Xiaoru was about to act, and Li Muyang hoped he could rescue Shen Miao, the infant spirit, and nullify the cauldron's ability that allowed disciples to resurrect after death, all before Yan Xiaoru's actions began.

If he was able to do that, Yan Xiaoru might not even need to act at all.

The Blood Lotus Sect, through its miracle of endless disciple slaying and resurrection, had repelled the Refinement Demon Sect's attacks repeatedly.

Once this miracle vanished, with the Refinement Demon Sect's bulk, crushing the Blood Lotus Sect would be too simple.

In the mist-enshrouded ghost town, Li Muyang commanded the emerald knife mantis to take flight, carrying Shen Miao atop its head as they charged toward the Azure Dragon banner ahead.

The next second, familiar mountains amid clouds emerged in his view.

The Azure Dragon, bearing heavenly thunder, soared, casting several bolts of sky-thunder stirring about...

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"Flag Master, a big incident has erupted!"

Early in the morning, when Li Muyang leisurely strolled into the gates of the Enforcement Hall, two loyal subordinates approached him immediately.

Bu Hongsheng, visibly anxious, said, "Half an hour ago, many half-demon followers from Liehai Hall knelt before the Sect Hierarch's residence, crying out injustices and asking the Sect Hierarch to uphold justice for them."

"Those half-demons claim they were retaliated against by you, Flag Master."

After Bu Hongsheng finished speaking, Liu Fu added from the side, "After the news spread, disciples from various divisions and incense halls also joined the throng claiming injustices, each declaring they've been persecuted by the Enforcement Hall."

"Now, there are already a crowd kneeling outside the Sect Hierarch's residence with great momentum. Bu Hongsheng and I took a distant look and fear there are six or seven hundred people, almost all of whom we have penalized."

Liu Fu was much calmer, his expression and gaze as lifeless as ever.

Yet the scene he described was somewhat terrifying.

During the past, most of the criminals Li Muyang and his team punished held some minor positions of authority within the Blood Lotus Sect.

Even though there are only a few hundred people kneeling and crying out now, these people actually make up a high percentage among Blood Lotus Sect's middle and lower ranks of leaders.

Six or seven hundred leaders kneeling together crying out injustices, the momentum was so vast that even the Sect Hierarch would have to handle matters cautiously.

Liu Fu's gaze was grave, Bu Hongsheng's face filled with urgency.

However, upon hearing this news, Li Muyang burst out laughing.

"Six or seven hundred people..."

He laughed, shaking his head while his subordinates looked on in bewildered amazement.

"I've only been busy cleaning up the trash, never really counting the numbers. I didn't expect that there could be so many criminals I have dealt with."

"Such a large Blood Lotus Sect, those in charge of more than ten leaders and followers, indeed are only so few in number."

"And yet, the ones we have captured and punished are as many as six or seven hundred."

Most of these people were domineering, bullying men and women, and acting without restraint, thus caught by Li Muyang for severe punishment.

The new codes Fang Yingtian set were mostly to maintain ruling stability and promote fair social morals and were largely lax—barely triggering any doctrine unless one committed evil.

Although Li Muyang was ruthless and unrecognizing of kin when capturing these individuals, he had apparently dealt with so many...

Li Muyang, feeling overwhelmed by this number, mused deeply. Continue your journey on My Virtual Library Empire

"In the past, everyone cursed Cultivators for enslaving mortals by riding atop all beings, suppressing the masses, thus banding together to overthrow the cultivators' oppression."

"But once in power, everyone strives to become the oppressor, hurling the oppression they once suffered back onto the heads of the governed mortals."

Li Muyang chuckled, looked at the two loyal subordinates before him, and said, "These folks, how are they any different from the Cultivators who oppressed them back then!"

"What they hated was not the fact that Cultivators oppressed the masses but that they weren't the ones doing the oppressing."