Although Li Muyang’s Divine Soul had entered the game, a Divine Soul in the Spirit Travel Realm could perceive the surrounding microcosm with an extremely powerful ability.

If those soldiers caught up, he would immediately notice the commotion.

However, the enemy hiding in the shadows who released the cold arrows did so without a sound, eluding Li Muyang’s perception, and several cold arrows took Nie Yubing’s life.

This was too strange.

The opponent couldn’t possibly be a being beyond the Spirit Travel Realm, for why would such an entity use mortal methods like shooting cold arrows to kill a little girl?

But if the murderer was not a being beyond the Spirit Travel Realm, how did they elude Li Muyang’s Divine Sense perception?

Li Muyang’s brow furrowed slightly as he loaded the game again.

This beginning did not seem simple at all.

Aside from the soldiers escorting her, Nie Yubing, this eight-year-old girl, was also threatened by cold arrows lurking in the shadows… But where did those cold arrows come from?

Loading the game again, Li Muyang did not alter the course of the game but followed the plot as usual.

He helped Nie Yubing in the prison cart get the key and then silently accompanied her to the outskirts of the soldiers’ camp.

However, as the two reached the gloomy dense forest, the moment the serious little girl was about to pay her respects to Li Muyang, he suddenly turned around and charged into the depths of the dark dense forest.

Seeing this sudden movement from the white-robed immortal, the little girl who was about to pay her respects was momentarily stunned.

She blinked subconsciously, still unclear about the situation.

The next second, three feathered arrows flew from the depths of the dense forest where Li Muyang had disappeared.

The arrows struck the young girl’s small body with deadly precision, pinning her against a tree trunk in the forest.

[Nie Yubing has died, game over]

When the game over CG popped up in his vision, Li Muyang opened his eyes inside the cabin.

This time, he finally saw clearly that the people stealthily attacking from the dark were a group of oddly behaving “things”.

These “things” looked no different from normal humans, dressed in the court’s official attire, quite magnificent.

But on their bodies, Li Muyang could vaguely see some beast-like features.

Yet these beast-like features were not prominent.

They looked like monsters, but they were different from monsters.

These half-human, half-monster things had no aura whatsoever.

There were six of them, hiding in the dense forest as if they were air itself.

Even though Li Muyang’s Divine Soul had reached a distance right in front of their eyes, aside from being visually detectable, Divine Sense still could not sense their presence.

They clearly existed in the world, yet had no aura at all.

Such strange things were a first encounter for Li Muyang.

Previously, he had encountered various monsters and bosses with evil, powerful, foul, or enticing auras, but he had never seen those without any aura whatsoever.

This was truly bizarre.

Even the souls of the dead had a ghostly and deathly aura.

But these six beings in the forest hurting people with hidden arrows had not the slightest aura.

And their attire was that of court officials… Strange indeed.

If they were people from the court, why would they specifically come to kill an eight-year-old girl who had been exiled?

Li Muyang loaded his saved game and returned to the game.

But this time, after waking up Nie Yubing, Li Muyang did not follow the previous storyline.

He skipped the familiar dialogues upon awakening Nie Yubing and directly said,

“Nie Yubing, some court officials are coming to kill you. They are now nearby, and you are close to death.”

Li Muyang uttered the little girl’s name right from the start.

The girl was momentarily taken aback, overjoyed, “Immortal! A true Immortal has come to rescue me!”

Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she looked at Li Muyang, “Immortal, are you from the Mysterious Sword Sect? I heard that you were blocked Outside Heiyuan Pass and couldn’t enter…”

This conversation unexpectedly unlocked new information.

The cultivators of the Mysterious Sword Sect were blocked Outside Heiyuan Pass?

Didn’t that mean that Glass Immortal Maiden and her group were still not in danger for the time being?

Was he the only one who had ventured deep into this perilous situation?

Li Muyang’s mind raced. He glanced at the surrounding Gloomy Forest, saying, “First answer my question.”

“Why, having been exiled by the imperial court, is someone from the court still trying to kill you? What unforgivable, heinous crime did you, a mere eight-year-old child, commit to suffer such calamity?”

Li Muyang furrowed his brows and inquired.

Although asking such a serious question to an eight-year-old child was somewhat absurd,

now, the only one who could answer his questions was the child before him.

The group of breathless monsters was powerful—at least more so than the little girl before him.

The chances of sneaking out quietly with the little girl were slim.

Now, he could only collect clues to the plot to find a way to break the situation.

Upon hearing Li Muyang’s question, the little girl’s head drooped in dejection.

“…It was my father.”

The eight-year-old girl moved her lips, murmuring in a low voice, “Father angered His Majesty in the court and was ordered to be executed by waist-cutting. Our family, men beheaded, women exiled to the frontier to be slaves forever…”

The young girl recounted the demise of her relatives, her voice unusually calm with a slight tremor.

Perhaps, in the nightmare of the past few days, this eight-year-old girl had already seen her relatives’ tragic deaths in her dreams too many times, that now when speaking of it, her expression seemed somewhat numb and tragic.

Li Muyang was slightly silent, his doubts growing.

“If you are merely the daughter of a convicted official, why would someone go through the trouble of coming to kill you?” Li Muyang asked.

The little girl also shook her head in confusion.

The two looked at each other, and just as the plot seemed to stall, a muffled sound of an arrow piercing a body suddenly came from the darkness.

Li Muyang swiftly turned around, only to see two arrows flying out of the darkness, accurately piercing the necks of the soldiers on night watch beside the campfire.

As the nightwatch soldiers fell, another arrow flew out from the darkness, accurately killing a soldier who was asleep.

The other soldiers were awakened by the noise, startled to their feet.

“We’re under a night attack!”

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“Guard the prisoner!”

The eight surviving soldiers snapped to attention, instantly drawing the knives from their waists and seeking cover while vigilantly watching the surrounding darkness.

These soldiers were well-trained, reacting immediately to the attack without panic.

Arrows flew again from the darkness, still soundlessly.

But this time, the eight soldiers were prepared.

Three arrows were shot, only bringing down one soldier.

The leader of the camp, a decurion, saw the death of his comrade, his eyes wide with fury.

“What madman dares to attack the emperor’s convoy?”

This was near the Capital City, only two days’ journey from the emperor’s feet.

Such an attack by bandits so close to the Capital was unthinkable.

Yet the six figures emerging from the darkness were dressed in lavish official robes.

The leader, with a pale face and a sinister smile, said,

“The Thousand Guards go about their duties, who dares to stop us?”

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