Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 318: Chapter 15: The Three Talents Formation’s Group Assault on the Matchless Immortal Venerate
 

Xie Ruoxi begged desperately, but Yan Yu remained unmoved.

Look at the handsome scholar in the distance, his control over various spells might still be slightly weak, but he was much stronger than the current Xie Ruoxi—this beautiful good-for-nothing is now just a fixed turret, standing and casting skills is okay, but once she has to move and fight (like when being harassed by a female immortal in green with a Green Bamboo Sword light), her accuracy drops drastically.

Observing the fighting qualities of this clone had extremely important guiding significance for Yan Yu to adjust Xie Ruoxi’s subsequent training path.

It wasn’t to listen to the beautiful good-for-nothing’s dark history, which he had plenty of in a previous life… As the number one cultivator in fact of the Annan military, aside from combat ability, Xie Ruoxi really did not match the level of the top cultivator in many aspects. Although the Annan military tried hard to suppress public opinion, they couldn’t cover up the various private chat groups that forwarded her scandals all day long.

Seeing that Yan Yu had a heart of stone, Xie Ruoxi could only turn in despair to launch a desperate charge at her clone, but then she heard Chen Lingyun transmit a message to her:

“Ruoxi, don’t panic. Follow my command.”

“Lingyun!” Xie Ruoxi was extremely moved, the vice-captain is still good to me!

Actually, she was mistaken here, because Chen Lingyun was very interested in her dark history and wanted her to be under her command so she could control the timing of defeating the clone—not leading it to defeat too soon.

Under Chen Lingyun’s command, Lin Ning and Zhao Yuanzhen were launching the first probing attack, trying to pinch the opponent from left and right.

The handsome scholar didn’t dodge; he formed two balls of lightning in his left and right hands, and hurled them at the two.

Although the lightning was not flashy, both had witnessed the might of Xie Ruoxi’s Thunder Method, and dared not take it head-on. Lin Ning quickly shifted sideways to evade, while Zhao Yuanzhen dodged and, at the same time, suddenly raised his hand and sent the White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin flying towards the opponent’s throat!

The handsome scholar still stood in his original spot, flicked his finger, and a silver sword light burst out instantly, blocking the White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin.

Well fought! Yan Yu’s eyes lit up.

The White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin had no sword light, and being small, fast, and concealable, it was difficult to block. But the opponent did not rashly use Sword Control to intercept, nor did he dodge (after all, the White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin could automatically track), but instead kept the sword in front of him.

The True Yuan Heavy Sword was indeed as thick as a door panel, and with her petite figure, she could be completely shielded by the sword. When facing Zhao Yuanzhen, who didn’t know to manually control the flight of the magic weapon, she could easily block without any need for technique.

“Ruoxi, do you see that?” he transmitted to Xie Ruoxi, pointing out, “In the future, if you encounter attacks that are difficult to block or dodge, just use the True Yuan Heavy Sword as a shield in front of you, got it?”

Xie Ruoxi was about to speak, only to hear the handsome scholar continue:

“My mom doesn’t understand the weight of this unrivaled Immortal Venerate, she actually wants me to help her wash dishes after meals, what a joke! I told her, wait for me to fully restore my cultivation, I will establish a sect on the Divine Land of Lu Country, recruiting thousands of disciples. Then, not to mention doing dishes, even if it’s a full house cleaning, people would queue up to do it for her!”

“Uh, uh, uh.” Xie Ruoxi’s mouth was half-open, and tears involuntarily fell down.

I want to die…

I really want to travel back to the past and strangle that braggart version of myself in front of my parents…

“Don’t pay attention to what she’s saying!” Yan Yu scolded the beautiful good-for-nothing, “Watch how she fights!”

Xie Ruoxi’s face was ashen, her body shaky, as if her soul might leave her body and ascend to heaven the next second — no, more like plunge into hell, as heaven doesn’t admit girls with a chuunibyou dark history.

“Don’t you want her to shut up quickly?” Seeing that she was unmoved, Yan Yu immediately switched to a different approach, “You can’t beat her now, so that’s why you need to learn, right? As long as you learn her moves, what’s left is just one-button attacking!”

These words did manage to bring a bit of Xie Ruoxi’s consciousness back: Right, I need to take her down quickly, otherwise my dark history will only grow!

“Lingyun, command.” Yan Yu snapped his fingers.

“Okay.” Chen Lingyun began adjusting the formation.

“Ningning, turn right 20 steps and stop, launch a long-range Sword Control attack, and be careful to dodge.”

“Understood.” Lin Ning quickly moved to his assigned position.

“Sister Zhao, advance five steps and use the Yin Wind Sword for the attack for now,” Chen Lingyun continued to direct.

“Okay,” Zhao Yuanzhen didn’t say much and quickly got into position.

“Yan Yu,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

“Going,” Although there were no specific commands, Yan Yu had an understanding with her and immediately spotted a gap in the formation between Lin Ning and Zhao Yuanzhen.

He quickly stepped forward to fill the gap, forming a classic Three Talents Formation.

Unlike the Five Elements Formation, the Three Talents Formation required three people to stand in an equilateral triangle with the target at the center. Without a designated “main assaulter” to bear the brunt of the attack, every person might endure strikes, making it ideal to form the array with three Sword Immortals for ensured mobility and offensive power.

Although the Zhenhai Team didn’t have three Sword Immortals, Sister Zhao’s Sword Control Technique was solid enough to set up this formation. Once the three of them took their positions, Sword Control attacks followed.

Whenever the handsome scholar threw a Thunder Method spell toward anyone, the target would immediately shift aside to dodge. If she chose to move clockwise, Chen Lingyun would direct the other two to also turn clockwise, and vice versa, always maintaining a roughly equilateral triangle formation. No matter whom the opponent attacked, there would always be two people who could sneak attack from her left rear and right rear, forcing her into a defensive position where the silver sword light couldn’t fly out, only able to defend with full effort.

The Huang Tingjian, Yin Wind Sword, and Green Bamboo Sword struck together, compressing the silver sword light into an increasingly smaller circle until the Flying Sword path was nearly impenetrable.

Xie Ruoxi’s spirits lifted as she asked,

“Are we going to win?”

“Not yet,” Chen Lingyun instructed her, “The smaller the sword circle, the stronger the defense, and this clone excels in abundant True Yuan. See, the Flying Swords struck by the silver light must fly back a certain distance before stabilizing, showing that despite her rudimentary skill level in swordsmanship, she still has an advantage in Swordsmanship Combat.”

“With the sword circle compressed to this extent, I suspect it’s futile to attack further; we can only wait until her True Yuan is depleted… But do clones run out of True Yuan? What if there’s a Mysterious Realm to sustain her, then we would end up draining ourselves instead.”

Xie Ruoxi fell silent for a moment, for the first time detesting why her natural aptitude for cultivation was so good and why her True Yuan had to be so strong.

“So what do we do?” she asked anxiously, “Lingyun, think of something!”

“I am thinking,” Chen Lingyun replied with a smile.

Though she said she was thinking, whether she was actually doing so was another matter. Xie Ruoxi was becoming increasingly frantic when she heard the handsome scholar say,

“Study? What study? It’s not needed. Even if I finish college, what difference will it make? My destiny is not to sit in an office as a mere cog in the wheel! With my astonishing brilliance and unparalleled beauty, it’s only a matter of time before I’m noticed by a tall, handsome, ascetic husband from one of the Aristocratic Families. Then he’ll force me to sign a marriage contract, confine me to a villa, shower me with endless pampering, and I’ll bear him twins until I regain my past life’s memories and the power of an Immortal Venerate. Then I’ll turn the tables and dominate that overbearing husband…”

Xie Ruoxi made an indistinct hehe sound in her throat as if she would foam at the mouth and faint any second, secretly transmitting a message to the clone, begging,@@novelbin@@

“Please stop talking… Don’t make me remember it, I beg you… I was young and foolish, it was just a fantasy for fun, please don’t expose it…”

But the handsome scholar showed no mercy, continuing to look around with a smug expression of self-satisfaction, saying,

“See! I really was chosen by Yan Zhanlong!”

Xie Ruoxi nearly choked on her blood, barely restraining the urge to draw her sword and end herself right then and there, when she heard Chen Lingyun say,

“Ruoxi, thunder.”

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh I’ll take you down with me! Xie Ruoxi roared in her heart, unleashing her full power and sending a thunder spell brimming with True Yuan flying toward the target.

The handsome scholar was busy defending against Yan Yu’s Sword Control attack from behind when the thunder spell’s trajectory fell squarely into her blind spot.

Cultivators did not rely solely on their eyesight, and so she suddenly surged to the left, narrowly evading the thunder spell.

Had it been Yan Yu standing there, he would have sidestepped with a simple move to avoid the attack, but the scholar’s control was not so skilled, dashing three to four steps to the left and significantly closing the distance to Zhao Yuanzhen— at that moment, the Heavenly Yuan Sword was still entangled with the Huang Tingjian on Yan Yu’s side!

Zhao Yuanzhen was quick on her feet, swiftly raising her hand and sending a shadow flying from her sleeve – it was the poised White Bone Heart-locking Hairpin, aimed straight at the handsome scholar’s heart!