Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 310: Chapter 7 Truth or Dare_2
 

As the resurgence of Spiritual Energy progressed, the voices of the powerful grew louder. Now, Yan Yu needs to borrow a blade to kill someone, but in the future, he won’t even need to borrow one—after killing, just a phone call to report would suffice—just like Empress Yuanzhen in the past lifetime, as long as you are willing to protect your home and country, whatever you do at home is up to you.

After all, if one can’t protect their home, everyone is doomed. The collapse of a country and the loss of homes are an even more terrifying hell. When faced with two evils, one must choose the lesser, it’s an inevitability.

Thinking this way made him feel anxious again. When would he be able to become the strongest in this world and take away the right to speak from all these cultivators?

I want to create a world where only what I say goes!

After dinner, everyone went to rest. Just as Yan Yu was planning to play with his phone, he suddenly received a call from Li Weiguo.@@novelbin@@

It’s never good news… Truth be told, old Li has been quite good to me, but every time he calls, it’s to get me to work, which isn’t great.

“Hello?”

“Yan Yu, Huofeng Team has emerged from the Mysterious Realm.”

“Oh, do you want me to send a congratulatory message?”

“No,” Li Weiguo said with some exasperation, “as the captain of the Zhenhai Team, do you think I would call you specially just to have you send a congratulatory message?”

“Definitely not, I just kind of hoped so,” Yan Yu replied, “after all, I’ve just returned from Pingjing and haven’t had the chance to rest yet.”

Li Weiguo patiently said:

“I know, so if it weren’t for something important, I wouldn’t come looking for you. The Zhendong Army has over a dozen teams, many of which haven’t taken on the Mysterious Realm yet and are currently lining up.”

“Oh, so the Huofeng Team hasn’t managed to conquer that Mysterious Realm?”

“Correct. For specifics, how about you find out once you get there? In Yu Yuan County of Nanjiang, the Pingxi Army will be there to meet you.”

“Okay, we’ll set off right away.”

Yan Yu ended the call, gathered all the girls, and left the house to rise into the sky on his sword.

Five streaks of sword light sped across the sky, instantly catching the attention of the citizens of Jinling. Many took out their phones to take photos and post on social media with captions like “Longcheng Flying General, taking off!” or “Yan Zhanlong, joining the battle!”, some even uploaded short videos with exciting background music, but these are digressions and not the main point for now.

“So what’s the situation?” In flight, Lin Ning asked curiously, “Is the Southern Border making another advance?”

“No,” Yan Yu said, “Xiao Zhou is just too useless. We fought tooth and nail in the Southern Border, buying time for her to conquer the Mysterious Realm, only for her to fail at taking it… Ling Yun, give them a call and ask about the situation.”

“Sure,” Chen Lingyun smiled, “but there’s no cell phone signal at high altitudes, should we descend to make the call?”

“Forget it,” Yan Yu waved his hand dismissively, “we’ll talk about it when we get there.”

If he couldn’t immediately mock Xiao Zhou, then he would have to rush there to mock her to her face!

Finally, in the dead of night, they arrived at Yu Yuan County in Nanjiang and met up with the cultivators of the Pingxi Army.

Then they saw the Huofeng Team cultivators, all injured and receiving treatment.

Among the five members, Zhou Hongyu was in the worst condition, her whole body tightly wrapped in bandages, revealing only her eyes, nose, mouth, and a section of her wrist for the IV drip.

The rest of them were also wrapped in medical bandages, their faces bearing numerous charred marks. It’s estimated that there was some formidable Fire Blazing Dao Method in the mysterious realm that forced the entire Huofeng Team to make a forced exit, leaving the Zhenhai Team to take over.

“Ow, Xiao Zhou, what happened to you?” Yan Yu asked with a concerned look, gently inquiring, “Getting new skin? Last time I saw you, you were a patient in an oxygen mask, and now you’ve become a mummy?”

Zhou Hongyu didn’t have the energy to speak and could only glare at him fiercely, her eyes cold and brimming with murderous intent.

“Stop joking, Captain Yan.” Zhang Huaide said from the next bed, “Captain Zhou has deep burns. Thankfully, we now have cultivator methods, or she really couldn’t have been saved.”

“Was it a fire-breathing dragon?” Yan Yu asked.

“It was like biogenetic teardrops, I guess,” Zhang Huaide sighed, “it’s a long story.”

“Then give us the short version of the long story,” Yan Yu said as he pulled up a stool to sit down and listen to Deputy Captain Zhang recount the situation in the mysterious realm.

The mysterious realm was called “Mirror Lake Divine Palace” because there was a mountain within the realm, and atop the mountain lay a lake. The reflection in the lake showed a magnificent palace, but in reality, not even a shadow of a building could be found, nor any enemy.

The Huofeng Team went in but couldn’t solve the mysteries of the realm, so they went back outside to report to the Pingxi Army.

The Pingxi Army brought in researchers to tackle the problem, and it wasn’t until this morning that they managed to make a breakthrough, finally solving the mystery of Mirror Lake and sending in the Huofeng Team and others.

Then, the entire team emerged in the afternoon, each member wounded and unable to continue the fight.

The worst off was Zhou Hongyu, who had severe burns all over and barely made it back alive—only thanks to the resurgence of Spiritual Energy and the great enhancement of medical technology through cultivation methods, injuries that were once certain death could now be survived.

According to the team members’ accounts, opposite Mirror Lake stood a palace in the middle of the lake, but there was no entrance to the buildings above the lake’s surface, nor any way to break in.

The entrance was below the lake, where there were five small altars. It required five people to stand on them all at once to be transported inside. Upon entering, they would pass through five rooms in sequence, each containing an enemy who not only looked exactly like a member of the team but also had a highly similar attack method and combat style—except they were enhanced.

It was like the final challenge in a Pokémon game, with the members of the Huofeng Team successively defeating the enhanced Meng Qingxi, enhanced Zhang Huaide, enhanced Tang Xiaolian, and enhanced Qin Meng, but they fell at the last hurdle to the enhanced Zhou Hongyu. Because the enhanced Zhou Hongyu was just too terrifying, spewing and exploding all kinds of Fire Blazing Dao Methods, even Zhou Hongyu herself couldn’t withstand it and was the first to be laid out on the ground.

“I see,” Yan Yu summed up, “from the weakest to the strongest, successively cloned. They look the same, the moves are the same, but the power is greater, right?”

“Not quite,” Zhang Huaide shook his head, “the moves are different. For example, that clone of Zhang Huaide had swordsmanship far superior to mine and used many sword techniques that I simply don’t know.”

“It’s like a future version of you,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

“You could… put it that way,” Zhang Huaide frowned, clearly thinking that this future theory was not accurate, “Also, the clones said some pretty strange things.”

“Strange things?” Lin Ning asked.

“They would fabricate some false dark histories that never existed for the originals, and then announce them in front of our entire team,” Tang Xiaolian added, “as a form of mental attack to try to affect our performance.”

“No,” Zhang Huaide shook his head, “I don’t think those were made-up lies…”

“They are made-up!” Qin Meng quickly interrupted, “All of it is fake! Not a single word of truth!”

“Indeed,” Meng Qingxi said seriously, “I swear, that impostor claiming to be me said things that are absolutely irrelevant to me!”

“Deputy Captain Zhang!” Tang Xiaolian said angrily, “As we’ve said! They’re nonexistent false dark histories!”

“Regardless of what the clones said,” seeing his teammates unanimously objecting and making a commotion, Zhang Huaide could only compromise halfway, without dwelling on the truthfulness, and continued speaking to Yan Yu and the others, “None of you should believe it, nor let it affect the concerned team members.”