Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 497 - 291: The Magnetic Ring Beside the Tombstone_3

Chapter 497: Chapter 291: The Magnetic Ring Beside the Tombstone_3

This is a game system that continuously evolves.

Zhang Jingyang took out a piece of paper and handed it to Su Peng, saying, "Take a look, does this work?"

Su Peng didn’t even glance at it, casually saying, "You make the decision yourself. You’ve always been the one doing these things anyway."

Zhang Jingyang had anticipated this attitude from him and naturally took back his hand, putting the paper detailing the proposed competition format and information into his backpack. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

During the brief moment he handed out the paper, Lu Yu had already read its contents. Zhang Jingyang didn’t intentionally hide anything, since it wasn’t important anyway, and Lu Yu was his good brother.

"If we’re leaving right after the competition tomorrow, I’ll go handle a matter first," Lu Yu said to Su Peng and Zhang Jingyang.

He thought of Windmill Town, wondering if it had been affected by the recent magic disaster.

Windmill Town is several hundred miles from Beifeng City. It shouldn’t be affected, and Fire Rain Mountain and Kugu Ridge are also quite some distance from Windmill Town, so it’s unlikely to be easily devastated by the disaster.

"Hmm, I also need to spread this news," Zhang Jingyang said.

Su Peng leaned back in his chair, looking at the two of them lazily and said, "You guys go ahead. I’ll take a nap here; that battle just now drained my energy, and I’m a bit tired."

"Ha~" Su Peng yawned, weakly waving his hand at them, signaling them not to worry about him.

Lu Yu and Zhang Jingyang walked out of the small courtyard. At the entrance of the Divine Weapon Pavilion dormitory, they parted ways. Zhang Jingyang headed toward the City Lord’s Mansion, and Lu Yu toward the gates of Beifeng City.

"Lu Yu, Lu Yu."

Walking down the street, Lu Yu heard someone calling him. After two shouts, he confirmed that they were calling him.

He turned and saw a shiny bald head; it was Li Yan, the bald man he’d teamed up with in the demon cave. He had escaped back to Beifeng City from the demon cave and survived.

In fact, when Zhou Chisheng lifted the demon cave into the sky, all the Martial Cultivators inside had escaped, as the demons inside were all weakened and on the brink of death after being sucked into the demonic qi.

They easily broke through the hordes of demons and escaped the demon cave.

Even if they couldn’t see the demon cave rising, Zhou Chisheng made such a commotion that anyone would sense something was wrong, and their first instinct would be to flee.

Those without this instinct couldn’t possibly cultivate to the Qi Sea Realm and would’ve perished in battles long before; this is simply the most common instinctive awareness of potential danger.

"Is there something you need?" Lu Yu asked Li Yan.

"Nothing really, just wanted to say hello. Your strength is really impressive, and if it weren’t for your outburst, we would’ve died in the demon cave," Li Yan said with lingering fear.

For attacks like mental control, his resistance was weakest. Facing the control of the pale demon face, he stood no chance of resisting. If Lu Yu hadn’t acted, breaking the control of the pale demon face, he would’ve been controlled to death.

"I just wanted to personally thank you for saving my life," Li Yan said.

"No thanks necessary. I was saving myself at the time, too. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going; I have things to do," Lu Yu said.

Li Yan laughed heartily and waved, saying, "Since you’re busy, I won’t bother you. Next time, I’ll treat you to a meal to thank you for saving my life."

Even though Lu Yu said it was for self-preservation, Li Yan could distinguish gratitude from grievances. In his view, Lu Yu had indeed saved his life.

Lu Yu glanced at the citizens on the street queuing for water talismans, took off into the sky, and, after leaving Beifeng City, accelerated to his maximum speed, heading toward Windmill Town.

Along the way, there were ruins everywhere, and the forest looked as though it had been burned by a great fire, bare and desolate. The town was nearly devoid of intact buildings, having been flattened by the surging magic tide. The ground was littered with the scattered remains of demonic beings, awaiting further cleansing.

After flying five or six hundred miles, the scenery around him started to turn green again, indicating that this area was largely unaffected by the magic tide.

If it had been a simple magic tide outbreak, spreading in all directions, this area would definitely have been affected as well.

But this time, the magic tide was intentionally controlled, primarily targeting Beifeng City. Thus, places further out from Beifeng City didn’t suffer much impact.

However, after this battle ended, the scattered demonic beings still posed a significant problem. If not promptly dealt with, they could pose threats to the surrounding small villages and towns.

At this crucial time, the major families of Beifeng City were busy arguing over slots to enter Celestial Wind Academy, not dispatching troops to eradicate the scattered demons and monsters.

Lu Yu could only deal with the demons he encountered along the way; those further away were beyond his reach.

After flying for a period, he spotted Wind Rock Mountain, where the characteristic Wind Rock Demons had disappeared. They had been driven to attack the Han Mansion in a previous battle and were cleaned up afterward.

As the Han family left, they also eliminated the biggest threat near Windmill Town, so there was no worry of the Wind Rock Demons overrunning Windmill Town after the Han family left.

As Lu Yu flew over the original location of the Han Mansion, he was surprised to find that the ruins had been cleaned up, with a new residence established, though not as large as the original Han Mansion.

"Hu?" Lu Yu looked at the erected piece and muttered to himself, realizing a new family had come to Windmill Town.

Not paying attention to the new family, Lu Yu flew toward the back mountain, where the small tail’s tombstone stood.

The Hu family was unaware of Lu Yu flying overhead as they were busy dealing with the major forces in Windmill Town; they had just arrived and hadn’t established a firm footing yet.

After not visiting for half a year, the mountain top was overgrown, and Lu Yu took a while to find the original location, walking toward the tombstone.

With a burst of spiritual power, the knee-high grass surrounding him was pulverized and blown off the cliff by the wind, revealing the crude grave on the slope.

"Little Tail, I came to see you," Lu Yu softly said.

Taking a few steps forward to the side of the tombstone, he noticed something new next to it.

Lu Yu was surprised to see a magnetic bracelet placed before the tombstone, the same one he had given Little Tail. He wouldn’t mistake it, as the bracelet’s size was exactly the same as back then.

He picked up the magnetic bracelet, gently rubbed it, and said, "No doubt, this is the magnetic bracelet Little Tail once wore."

But why would it appear here? Who placed it here?

Lu Yu stood silently, staring at Little Tail’s tombstone, which bore only the three characters for "Little Tail," without indicating who had erected it. No one else could have placed such a polished magnetic bracelet before a tomb like this.

Moreover, besides him, no one knew that the magnetic bracelet belonged to Little Tail.

No, there was one other person... Little Tail herself.

Had she been here?

Lu Yu couldn’t help but think to himself, but then shook his head. The cliff back then was nearly a hundred meters high, and Little Tail couldn’t have survived the fall, being just an ordinary person who couldn’t even withstand demonic qi.

But he hadn’t found Little Tail’s body back then; maybe she really was still alive?

Lu Yu tightly held the magnetic bracelet, looked at Little Tail’s tombstone, thought for a moment, and decided not to remove the tombstone. Whether Little Tail was still alive or not, this would remain here.

He placed the magnetic bracelet back in its spot, glanced at Little Tail’s tombstone again, then turned, sitting cross-legged on a stone at the cliff’s edge.

He opened the attribute panel, used the celestial dao experience points he had earned, and increased his realm by one level.

In an instant, Lu Yu saw his own realm rise to the ninth level of the Qi Sea Realm, with various profound insights flooding his mind. The spiritual power surrounding him surged violently, forming a massive vortex of Spiritual Qi.

Lu Yu’s spiritual power ceiling increased rapidly, with both ice and fire spiritual power intensifying and solidifying swiftly.