Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 314: Chapter 11 The Green-robed Fairy Lin Ning
 

The beauty in court attire was impaled through the skull by the White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin, and her figure shattered into layers in an instant, vanishing from sight.

The crowd continued to stay on guard momentarily, their Divine Sense scanning to confirm there were no irregularities around, leaving only the large copper mirror on the ground shattered into pieces.

Chen Lingyun stepped forward, squinting for a closer look, only to see each fragment reflecting an inverted image of herself, as if mockingly laughing at her in silence.

“Well done,” Yan Yu nodded and said, “there are still four doppelgangers to kill, let’s continue.”

“Before we move on, let’s adjust our status first,” Chen Lingyun said with a reemerging smile, speaking sweetly, “Deputy Captain Zhang said before that the doppelgangers in this Mysterious Realm will concoct all sorts of nonsensical tales to try to disturb our moral integrity.”

Her smile, although sweet, had a chilling undertone that made everyone nod in agreement without exception.

“So, let’s just forget what we heard,” Chen Lingyun continued with a smile, “even if you remember it after leaving, don’t talk about it carelessly.”

“Don’t worry,” Yan Yu kindly reassured her, “aside from Su Yunjin who is not here, I won’t tell the others. There’s no sense in sharing one’s own dark history with outsiders for their amusement—that would be either mindless or heartless.”

Chen Lingyun narrowed her eyes slightly and asked,

“Oh, whose dark history?”

“Isn’t it yours?” Yan Yu played dumb.

“Alright, alright,” Lin Ning interjected uneasily, “we’re all in the same boat here. We’ll have to face our own doppelgangers as well, so let’s just drop it and forget about it.”

“I agree,” Xie Ruoxi said nervously.

“Hmph, I certainly don’t have any dark history,” Zhao Yuanzhen stated coldly, “but regarding the issue of establishing a harem, could someone explain to me what exactly is going on?”

“Explain my foot!” Yan Yu slapped the back of her head, “You believe what a doppelganger says? If your doppelganger later says you kill without blinking and harm the innocent, should I demand an explanation from you too, or should I just chop off your dog head?”

Zhao Yuanzhen, having been hit for no reason, felt wronged and indignant subconsciously, but she quickly realized the truth. The doppelganger’s words were a mix of truth and lies—if she took them at face value without discernment, wouldn’t she be a fool?

It would be more fitting to wait for her own doppelganger to appear and see what it would claim, evaluate its credibility, and then compare and deduce the authenticity of the other doppelgangers’ statements.

The Demonic Sect Enchantress made up her mind to not blindly trust everything and to discern and confirm properly.

Lin Ning and Xie Ruoxi, however, weren’t as naive, thinking to themselves by looking at Ling Yun’s spine-chilling smile, it was very likely that more than eighty percent of what she said was true.

So she really struggled with the concept of “pure, unblemished emotions”, and she indeed harbored special feelings for Yan Yu, but she couldn’t be certain if those feelings amounted to “true love”?

And she also hoped Yan Yu would establish a harem for her sake?

Too much information thundered down like a bolt from the blue, weighing heavily on the two girls’ hearts, leaving them with no inclination to continue chitchatting.

Yan Yu, seeing everyone’s state, had no good solutions and simply waved his hand in a gesture to settle things quickly, leading the girls to the next room.

Entering from another entrance and traversing a long corridor, they arrived at the second room.

It was still a spacious hall with nothing inside, a life-size copper mirror standing at the center. From the mirror, a woman in green stepped out, her features delicate with a straight nose and cherry lips, brows arched like wilting willows, her hair bundled into a simple bun behind her, and two crossed Flying Swords on her back—one green and one dark red.

Lin Ning.

Although more mature and cold in demeanor, that face was undoubtedly identical to Lin Ning’s.

For a moment, Sister Lin didn’t know if she should feel indignant because she was the second weakest in the team or fear because it was her turn to have her dark history exposed.

“Heh heh,” the woman in green said after a moment of silence, a bitter smile on her face. She spoke softly, “All of you attack together. The sooner we finish, the sooner we’re free.”

“Okay!” Lin Ning’s mood instantly lifted. Great, my embarrassing past isn’t exposed!

As if afraid the other would change her mind, she quickly maneuvered her Green Bamboo Sword’s light beam, executing Sword Control to perform a flying slash aimed directly at the woman’s head!

Her opponent formed a sword technique with her hands, and a greenish sword flew out of its scabbard behind her, instantly clashing with Lin Ning’s sword light.

Amidst the intertwined sword lights, Lin Ning was sent flying backward once again, while the green sword light continued on relentlessly, chasing after Lin Ning before being intercepted by Yan Yu’s Huang Ting Sword.

“Ruoxi, Thunder Method,” Chen Lingyun began to command.

Xie Ruoxi, on the spot, unleashed the Thunder Method. A white light burst forth as swift as a galloping horse. The woman in green did not stand her ground to face the Thunder Method directly but stepped swiftly, turning into an afterimage and rapidly moving to the left to dodge it.

On Chen Lingyun’s end, the Divine Evil Prayer Beads were tossed out in an attempt to trap the opponent’s green sword light, but the sword light, as nimble as a fish, quickly dodged the beads and turned to attack Xie Ruoxi once again.

Xie Ruoxi was instantly flustered, no longer able to continue the assault with the Thunder Method and had to urgently raise her Immortal Sword to block it.

In the end, it was still a lack of combat experience. If you asked her to stay in place and act as an artillery piece, she could perform perfectly, but if you asked her to maintain her attack while simultaneously being distracted to defend herself, she would immediately find it difficult to manage both ends, struggling on both the left and the right.

“Sister Zhao, save Ruoxi,” Chen Lingyun continued to command.

The opponent was extremely skilled in swordsmanship, and facing her in swordsmanship combat would be completely futile, like an egg striking a stone and asking for trouble. Thus, they could only rely on Sister Zhao, who was more skilled in swordsmanship, to come to the rescue.

Zhao Yuanzhen spurred her Yin Wind Sword into action, blocking the oncoming green sword light, allowing Xie Ruoxi to finally escape the perilous situation.@@novelbin@@

Lin Ning finally steadied herself from the onslaught of the sword light and with her Divine Sense sweeping out again, she saw the green sword light pursuing Xie Ruoxi, intercepted by Sister Zhao, and the opponent continuing to control the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, dodging the five ghosts Chen Lingyun commanded to attack. She then urged her deep red sword light to fly out, engaging in combat with Yan Yu’s Huang Ting Sword—could this clone really multitask to control two swords to fight two battles simultaneously?!

But now that she had both swords deployed, if I go now to strike her, how would she defend?

Lin Ning, also the type whose actions were faster than her thoughts, had just made up her mind when she had already moved out with the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, attempting to pressure the woman in green up close.

In their chase and escape, the woman in green was not only controlling her swords with both hands but also fending off Zhao Yuanzhen and Yan Yu, and her footwork was equally dazzling. She widened the distance from Lin Ning, skillfully evading the surprise attacks of the five ghosts, and then effortlessly dodged Xie Ruoxi’s thunder light. In her maneuvering, there was not the slightest hint of clumsiness, as if she was facing five opponents without any difficulty.

Lin Ning’s heart raced with urgency, thinking how tough it was to deal with just this second clone. What about the three even stronger ones that followed? Wouldn’t that leave them with no chance of winning at all?

She quickly focused her mind, paying full attention to the opponent’s steps, and unknowingly began to imitate them.

Both were employing the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, but the level of proficiency was like night and day. Lin Ning pursued and learned, feeling as if she were having an epiphany, and many step-by-step procedures stuck rigidly in her mind suddenly became clear, the stages where she knew how to perform them without understanding why now all came together and made sense.

Just as she was feeling secretly pleased with herself, the woman in green began to speak slowly, her cool voice identical to hers.

Although the volume was not loud, everyone present could hear her clearly:

“I’ve always been serious and competitive by nature, and since childhood, I’ve liked to compare and compete with my peers. They played games for fun, but I played to win. My father said I didn’t behave like a girl. Sometimes I even wondered if I might be a girl who identifies as a male…”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” Lin Ning suddenly began emitting extremely high-decibel noises, attempting to completely drown out the woman in green’s words!