“…This game mode is quite novel,” Li Muyang mused, tilting his head as he looked up at the sky, where monks from both the Divine Ark and the demonic paths were arguing with each other.

After waiting a good while, he reloaded and entered the game again.

This time, he moved forward more cautiously, following the old path to the scene of his death, where he had died three times before.

This time, thankfully, no decaying zombie bear rushed out to trample him.

It seemed that the zombie bear had wandered far away.

Three neat piles of skeletal remains lay on the ground, looking oddly comical.

Li Muyang was about to approach when suddenly, from the midst of the whirling sand, a pale, thin hand as gaunt as skin and bone, emerged.

This hand carefully reached out, picked up two bones from the ground, and then retracted back into the shadows.

Li Muyang was stunned for a moment at this sight.

Was there actually someone else around?

He hurried over, only to find a small hill not too far away, obscured due to the blustery wind and sand.

There, a thin figure wrapped in black cloth sat curled up below the hill.

Before the figure, a pot was supported, under which burned an odd, blue flame that gave off no heat.

Yet, the water in the pot was boiling.

The figure continued to throw the gathered bones into the pot to simmer.

Li Muyang appeared, but the figure didn’t cease the act of boiling the bones into soup.

Not until Li Muyang walked up to it did the figure finally lift its head.

As their gazes met, Li Muyang saw only darkness—for beneath the black robe, there was nothing but black mist, obscuring the figure’s face completely.

Li Muyang frowned, “Who are you?”

The figure was silent for a moment before reaching into its bosom, fumbling for a while, then handed something to Li Muyang.

“…Wu Ming, you’ve finally awakened.”

The figure said in a hoarse whisper, “We’ve all been waiting for you, go on ahead.”

“The Yellow Robed Immortal doesn’t have much time left, you must prevent the tragedy.”

The object the figure handed over was a small, ancient-looking token which Li Muyang took and discovered to be an Ark Token.

[You have received a system prop—Ark Token X1]

[Ark Token: This is a key to enter the Divine Ark. The key’s owner must have preserved it for a long time, as it shows some signs of weathering]

After handing over this item, the figure bowed its head and went back to picking bones off the ground to make the soup.

No matter how Li Muyang tried to converse with it afterward, it paid no further attention to him.

It seemed that its sole purpose for being there was to deliver the key to Li Muyang.

Since the NPC offered no further interaction, Li Muyang didn’t waste time and continued on with the Ark Token in hand.

This time, a vague arrow appeared in his field of vision, guiding him.

The Ark Token was showing Li Muyang the way in.

Through the fiercely howling wind and sand, carefully avoiding three vicious zombie beasts along the way, Li Muyang arrived at a secluded valley.

Outside this valley, the yellow sand filled the sky, and the wind and sand were wild.

But upon entering the valley, it was as if an invisible barrier separated the outside wind and sand.

Stepping into the valley, Li Muyang breathed in fresh air, saw lush lotus flowers, and a pool of dark, profound water.

As Li Muyang moved to go further, a translucent figure made of water suddenly emerged from the pool.

“Wu Ming, you’ve finally awoken.”

The figure made of water wore armor, wielded a long spear, and even sat upon a steed made of water, appearing as a majestic warrior from the battlefield.

With spear across its path, it stood in Li Muyang’s way, saying, “If you want to go on, let me see your skills first.”

“How much Divine Skills do you retain after your long slumber?”

Hearing the water warrior’s deep voice stirred something within Li Muyang.

Alright, Divine Skills, is it?

Finally, the tutorial instructor has come?

But when Li Muyang opened the [Divine Skills] interface, the skill tree was still blank, with no information whatsoever.

Li Muyang was still dazed when the formidable water warrior, spear in hand, was already charging toward him.

Streams of water formed a huge spear that pierced through the chest, instantly tossing Li Muyang into the air and turning him into a sky full of bone fragments…

“[You have died, game over]”

“…Could it be I need to unlock skills during battle?”

Li Muyang pondered and entered the game again.

This time, he didn’t appear amidst the sandstorms but was resurrected at the entrance to the secluded valley.

“Oh? The resurrection point has changed?”

Li Muyang took a step forward and stepped into the secluded valley.

The god of water formed by the streams stopped their spear without any surprise.

“Wu Ming!” the water god shouted loudly, charging forward.

Once again, Li Muyang was tossed into the air and shattered into a sky full of bone fragments…

After dying ten times in succession, each death was as effortlessly quick as the last.

By the time Li Muyang stepped into the secluded valley for the eleventh time, the pool was already floating with his bones.

The water god appeared once again, but this time it did not charge at Li Muyang; instead, it hung its head in dejection.

“Wu Ming, you have slept too long and have forgotten all the Divine Skills of destiny.”

“You cannot stop the Yellow Robed Immortal, nor can you prevent the tragedy from happening.”

“Everything has ended.”

The water god was helplessly defeated, deeply saddened.

Li Muyang said, “You can teach me how to remember the Divine Skills of destiny.”

His system interface did have a skill tree for “Destiny”, only it had not been unlocked yet.

All that was needed was a guide.

But the water god shook its head: “The Divine Skills of destiny are your own. If you have forgotten them, no one can help you.”

“Go back, Wu Ming, continue to sleep.”

“In our dreams, we shall walk towards obliteration…”

Overwhelmed with sorrow, the water god disappeared into the Lotus Pond.

Li Muyang was baffled, but since the god was no longer there, he continued forward.

At the end of the secluded valley stood a stone gate.

Outside the gate, there were two stone statues of ancient mystical creatures, Suan Ni.

As soon as Li Muyang approached the stone gate, the two creatures suddenly sprang to life, spewing a dismal green flame at the skeletal Li Muyang.

“[You have died, game over]”

“[Resurrect after 08:39]”

Li Muyang stared at the system prompt that appeared in his field of vision, taken aback.

He couldn’t immediately resurrect after this death?

Was it because he had been killed by the Suan Ni divine beasts?

Exiting the system, Li Muyang furrowed his brow in deep thought.

The presence of the system in this game was almost non-existent.

There were no mission directives, no NPCs to lead the way; everything relied on his own exploration and conjecture.

It was already known that he had to enter the stone gate, yet the two Suan Ni divine beasts outside the gate casually slaughtered Li Muyang.

Perhaps only by awakening the Divine Skills of “Destiny” could he combat those two Suan Ni divine beasts?

But how, then, were these Divine Skills of destiny to be awakened?

Li Muyang was deep in thought when suddenly something stirred in his heart.

He noticed something, and with a light flip of his palm, an ancient and simple token appeared in his hand.

—The Ark Token, a system item from the game, had appeared in his hand like this.

And once the Ark Token appeared in reality, an arrow appeared in Li Muyang’s vision, subtly pointing towards the Ark outside of this world above him.

Seeing this, Li Muyang was dumbfounded.

“…Can I take system items from the game into reality this time?”

And it even provided him guidance in reality?

Could it be that the same stone gate and the same Suan Ni divine beasts existed on the Ark above his head in the real world?

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