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

Ping'an City.

On the moderately sized city gate tower hung the sign of Ping'an City.

Through the wide-open gates, few people were coming and going.

Little Wild Grass stepped into this city once again, her hand gripping Li Muyang's unconsciously.

By now, Little Wild Grass had fully grown into a young lady.

Though she wore simple clothes, they could not hide her natural beauty.

The most radiant and moving features of a young girl had already solidified upon her face, impervious to the ravages of time.

In her bright eyes seemed to swirl a nebula, dazzling and luminous.

Li Muyang had no idea what cultivation realm Little Wild Grass was at now, and the girl herself couldn't say for sure.

The method she used for cultivation had been altered beyond recognition by her, vastly different from the conventional cultivation methods of the mundane world.

There was no Core Formation, no Primordial Spirit, and no Purple Mansion.

In her body, there was only the misty Immortal Spirit Qi.

On the surface, the girl seemed to merge entirely with the world around her, posing no threat at all, completely lacking the imposing aura of gods or cultivation masters.

Yet not long ago, Little Wild Grass had effortlessly slain a Demigod, her display of power moving Li Muyang.

But now, this little girl stood outside the gates of her small hometown, her hand unconsciously tense and clutching Li Muyang's tightly.

"Brother..."

Little Wild Grass nervously glanced around and whispered, "Shall we not go in? It's been so many years, perhaps my parents are no longer there..."

However, Li Muyang faced Little Wild Grass's nervous, evasive, and restless gaze with a smile.

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He patted the girl's hand, laughing as he said, "There's an old saying, 'Since we're here...'"

Li Muyang, laughing heartily, almost forced her as he led the girl into the old city with mottled city walls.

Visiting Ping'an City had been Li Muyang's casual suggestion.

But the girl's skittish response to his idea only cemented Li Muyang's resolve to bring this little girl on this trip.

The path of cultivation fears the Heart Demon the most, and of late, the girl had been saying her cultivation was stagnating, that she had hit some kind of bottleneck.

Li Muyang speculated that she might not be able to let go of her childhood experiences.

Being abandoned by her mother at a young age must have left a deep shadow in the girl's heart.

Perhaps, he thought, taking her back to her hometown, revisiting the old places, and seeing her parents again might help untie her emotional knots.

Li Muyang laughed heartily, forcibly dragging the girl through the city gate.

Although Little Wild Grass could have crushed Li Muyang with a mere lift of her hand at that moment, in his grasp, she was as docile as a kitten.

However, once they were in the city, Li Muyang did not immediately take Little Wild Grass to find her parents.

He led her around the city, wandering leisurely and inquiring about interesting things, as if they were just there for an ordinary visit.

After strolling and exploring for a while, and listening to story-tellers in a teahouse, they checked into an inn as night fell.

On the second and third days that followed, Li Muyang did the same.

He simply took the young girl around town, without mentioning visiting her parents.

Eventually, the young girl couldn't hold back anymore.

She stealthily found out the current news of her parents and slipped away, hidden in the breeze.

The mother who, in a moment of anger at having lost favor in the family for not bearing a son and sold her own daughter to a trafficker, was now over thirty years old.

The woman, who did not look old, wore gaudy skirts, her face heavily made-up, laughing and jesting with the lady as they mockingly ridiculed the husband's newly taken concubine.

This lady was the same person who had always suppressed and bullied her back then.

But now, the two women seemed like close sisters, together mocking and ridiculing the young girl opposite them.

The girl from the brothel, though young, was sharp-tongued and unyielding.

Little Wild Grass stood quietly to the side, hidden within the breeze, witnessing this scene unfold, silently observing the mother from her memory transforming into a vulgar and sharp-tongued figure.

She watched for a long time, not leaving until the three women parted unhappily.

In the following days, Little Wild Grass often watched.

She saw her mother scolding the servants, ingratiating herself with the mistress, twisting her still beautiful body to flatter her long-neglected husband, stealthily deducting the maids' and servants' wages, spreading rumors to slander the newly taken concubine, and finally, meeting secretly with a strapping young manservant in the firewood room late at night...

Under the moonlight, the girl listened quietly to the faint gasps emanating from the pitch-dark firewood room, her expression complex.

Not until Li Muyang's voice rose behind her did the girl snap back to reality.

"...Isn't it bad to eavesdrop behind walls in the middle of the night?"

The girl's face turned red to her ears in an instant, she whirls around electrified, looking at Li Muyang in front of her, somewhat stuttering.

"Brother, when... when did you get here?"

In the moonlight, the man in a white robe spread his hands, a familiar smile on his handsome but slightly wrinkled face.

"I've been here the whole time, it's just that you didn't notice."

Li Muyang shrugged his shoulders and said, "My little fairy is always so focused when she comes that she doesn't even notice a little tail following her."

This teasing remark from Li Muyang brought a blush back to the calm face of the girl.

"Brother, you..." You've been following every time?

It seemed like the girl wanted to ask that question, but ultimately she was too embarrassed to ask.

With her cultivation level, she shouldn't have remained unaware of Li Muyang's tracking.

She thought she had been stealthy, yet every time her big brother had followed her...

Under the moonlight, the breathing in the dark woodshed grew rapid, as if it were nearing the final moment.

Li Muyang glanced over with a smile and said, "You've watched for so many days, aren't you going to reveal yourself and meet her?"

But the girl shook her head gently, "There's no need anymore.

"I thought I would miss her a lot, care about her, or perhaps she had her reasons back then."

"But when I actually saw her, it turned out everything was very simple."

"There were no reasons, nothing to say; she's just that kind of person."

"As her daughter, whom she gave birth to, naturally I'm just as cold-blooded and ruthless. Seeing her, I felt not an ounce of longing, but the more I saw her, the more I despised her, and even wished I could kill her."

With that, the girl glanced back at the dark woodshed and said, "Let's go, brother. This place is boring."

"Staying any longer is a waste of time."

The girl's eyes were cold and her expression disgusted.

Li Muyang smiled and reached out to her, saying, "Everything as the fairy wishes."

Under the moonlight, the two of them walked away hand in hand, disturbing no one, as if they had never been there at all.

Only the girl's curious murmuring voice faded into the darkness.

"By the way... Brother, you seem to have no interest in that sort of thing, which is strange..."

The girl seemed puzzled.

In the darkness, a man's resigned voice of defense rose.

"Who says that? I'm very interested, okay?"

"But you never... Even though last time with that dragon lady..."

"You dare to bring that up! You got drunk last time and almost got me captured by the Dragon King to take wedding vows. Daring to claim the Dragon King's daughter so casually? She could have swallowed me with one bite... I don't like fierce women..."

"Tsk... then what kind of woman do you like, brother?"

"I like the kind that I like!"

"Wow! That's not helpful at all! You're already thirty, an old man now, yet still so picky... only I would bother to stay by your side."

"Heh..."

The girl and man's soft laughter vanished into the night breeze.

Inside the mansion under the moonlight, there was chaos.

But it had nothing to do with them anymore.

They would leave Ping'an City and head to the next destination, continuing their journey.

To them, Ping'an City was nothing more than a brief episode in their travels.

Not worth mentioning.

Gazing at the moonlight, the girl whispered softly.

"... The only relative I have in this world is my big brother."

She had understood.

Apart from her big brother, there was no one else in the world who was her kin.