Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 354: Chapter 50: Yan Yu’s Swordsmanship Performance Show
 

Due to the sudden opening of The Secret Realm of Lígōng in the East Sea, neither of the live streaming teams was able to react in time.

In Lu Country, officials hastily started the official live stream, then moved on to urgent promotion. Major TV stations quickly scheduled program inserts, and internet companies used pop-up notifications to alert users. News spread rapidly across the country as if it had grown wings.

The public also complained bitterly, as today was a workday!

Many people had already gone to work before realizing that the raid on The Secret Realm of Lígōng was scheduled for today. Without a chance to come up with an excuse to take leave, they could only secretly watch the live stream on their phones using data.

The Superhero Alliance also urgently started their live stream and aggressively promoted it to over fifty countries with which they had signed commercial agreements. Many viewers, just after clicking into the live stream, saw a bunch of staff members making preparations—the Transcendents hadn’t even started their incursion into the mysterious realm yet.

The reason for the rush to start the global broadcast was simple: Lu Country had already started live streaming. If they fell behind on the work here, viewers would turn to Lu Country’s live stream of the Secret Realm’s exploration. By then, they would completely lose the power to shape the narrative, so it was essential to draw the viewers in first.

The best example was Tianzhu, where the Yin Yang Bureau, with its conservative and traditional style, hadn’t considered commercialization at all (if they live streamed the whole process and lost, they would have to bow in apology). As a result, most citizens turned to foreign broadcasts… to the point that now many don’t even know about the Four Great Demon Kings of their own country, but are well-versed in the likes of the Longcheng Flying General and the Bái Mountain Sword Immortal.

Inside the mysterious realm, although the cultivators were scattered, the live streaming teams outside could see everything clearly through each person’s camera.

Su Yunjin and Lin Ning met each other; Chen Lingyun and Zhao Yuanzhen joined forces; Yan Yu and Ye Jun formed a team; Liu Longtao and Xie Ruoxi walked side by side; Yang Linhui and Guo Feiyun fought together. Only Ai Lu was unfortunately left alone.

The six teams were scattered across six different stages of the mysterious realm, currently expanding their exploration around the area.

The director switched to each team for about 10 seconds, introduced them in detail, and then cut to Longcheng Flying General to see his and Ye Jun’s performance.

Yan Yu and Ye Jun had not been using Sword Flight long when they saw two armies engaged in combat ahead in the sky.

One group dressed lavishly with complicated attire, mostly attacking from a distance, such as archery, flute playing, or throwing circular blades; the other group seemed more barbaric, with bare chests, animal skin around their waists, armed with swords and spears, leaping into the air with flames under their feet, attempting to engage the enemy in close combat.

“Gods and Asuras,” Ye Jun observed closely and said, “It somewhat resembles the mythological system of Tianzhu, but there are many differences in the details. It seems the master of Lígōng has applied some local artistic adaptations.”

“How do you even know about things from Tianzhu?” Yan Yu asked in surprise.

“I have some understanding,” Ye Jun replied, “My family has a book called ‘Comprehensive Analysis of Tianzhu Mythology.’ I used to flip through it when I was bored as a kid. It even has illustrations.”

“From the perspective of clearing the mysterious realm, the conflict between the two sides is a hint that we must make a choice: to side with the gods, with the Asuras, or with neither,” Yan Yu analyzed, “Since you have read about Tianzhu mythology, which side do you think is better to help?”

“Uh, I don’t really remember clearly,” Ye Jun replied thoughtfully, “I just vaguely recall that in many stories, the gods often end up in a sorry state but, with the protection of the Trimurti, they always manage to have the last laugh; the Asuras are formidable but usually meet unpleasant ends.”

Yan Yu continued to watch for a moment and indeed found that the side of the gods seemed to be losing. Once the ranged fighters were cornered by the melee, they were utterly restrained, with their formation thrown into complete disarray, and their ability to project power greatly hindered.

If they decided to support the Asuras in their bullying, the early stages would definitely be easier, but according to Ye Jun’s words, the difficulty was likely all waiting further in.

Our goal is to clear the stage as quickly as possible and be at the Departure Palace Gate to block others; we cannot waste too much time on this first stage.

“Then let’s help the gods,” Yan Yu declared with a grand gesture, “Let’s go up!”

He leaped forward, using the “Rainbow Through the Sun” sword move, aiming directly for the head of the leading Asura.

The opponent stretched out a palm as large as a fan to grab at the Huang Tingjian sword, but the sword’s light suddenly changed moves, instantly switching from “Rainbow Through the Sun” to “Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix,” suddenly conjuring more than twenty sword shadows!

In a villa in Pingjing, Cai Qianlong was sitting in front of the TV with his girlfriend, watching the live stream.

Seeing Yan Yu’s move “Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix,” he couldn’t help but let out an expletive:

“Damn! What kind of monster is this!”

“What’s wrong?” his girlfriend asked curiously.

“You’re not a cultivator, so it’s normal that you don’t understand,” Cai Qianlong said without explaining and pushed her away, “Go get me a bottle of beer from the fridge. Such fine swordsmanship should not be wasted without a drink.”

Reluctantly, the girlfriend got up and walked towards the kitchen, thinking to herself, if it weren’t for my father’s strict demand, why would I agree to be with someone as chauvinistic as you?

Cai Qianlong, however, did not notice his girlfriend’s mood. He was focused on the screen, not wanting to miss any detail of the swordsmanship.

Meanwhile, in the classrooms of the four major cultivator academies, members of the Sword Immortal profession teams watched the projection, exclaiming continuously.

Some started to explain to their non-Sword Immortal teammates: “Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix” is actually one of the sword techniques that can create multiple afterimages with Sword Qi, confusing the enemy’s judgment.

As for how many afterimages one can create depends on the version of the sword technique being studied, as well as the individual’s own level of swordsmanship.

An ordinary Sword Immortal, using the version of the sword technique taught in schools, can generally produce 2-3 afterimages. If one can produce four, then they can boast about it in front of their classmates for a whole day.

Five afterimages is about the limit that personal skill can achieve, enough to have an instructor come over to write a recommendation letter, and transfer you to a more powerful team.

Of course, being the captain of the Zhenhai Team and the famous Longcheng Flying General, he definitely used an advanced version of the sword technique, but conjuring over 20 afterimages was just too terrifying; so much so that upon seeing it, the Sword Immortals could hardly keep it together, exclaiming in shock, “Is this even human?”

More than twenty Sword Qi afterimages filled the sky and shot towards the target, completely covering them from head to toe; the leading Asura was indeed stunned and could only randomly choose one Sword Qi to block.

As a result, the Sword Qi afterimage dissipated in his hands, while the real Huang Tingjian Sword light pierced straight through his chest and swiftly moved on towards the second Asura.

This one was holding a long-handled weapon and instantly swung it around creating an impregnable defense, preventing Yan Yu from deploying the same trick.

Yan Yu didn’t pause for a moment, his sword light met the attack head-on with a clash of metal!

Eagle Strikes the Heavens!

The first strike collided directly with the opponent’s weapon, both being repelled by the force of the impact.

The Asura stumbled backwards slightly, while the Huang Tingjian sword light changed angles, dispelling the momentum and going for another uplift.

The second strike!

The Asura hadn’t expected the second attack to come so swiftly and hurriedly tried to press down the weapon that had been knocked back, but it was struck yet again by the sword light and almost slipped out of his grasp.

The Huang Tingjian sword light did not relent, slightly spinning and changing angles without any sign of a worn-out technique; the third horizontal slash was already upon him.

This time, even with the Asura’s great strength, he could not maintain his grip on the long handle of the weapon. It was knocked from his hands by the relentless waves of attack, spinning as it flew away.

And the fourth strike of the Huang Ting sword was closely following, mercilessly piercing the enemy whose guard was wide open, and then going straight for the third Asura.

Cai Qianlong watched the screen without blinking, even involuntarily holding his breath until Yan Yu finished the ferocious quadruple strike, then he slowly exhaled and turned to his girlfriend to explain,

“The move the Longcheng Flying General used is called ‘Eagle Strikes the Heavens,’ a powerful technique that can deliver multiple layers of attacks in a short duration. Cultivators who are not of the Sword Immortal profession, unless they have some defensive spell or magical treasure, cannot even block this move. They would be decapitated in an instant.”

“For an ordinary Sword Immortal, executing a double strike is actually quite simple. But a triple strike, well, only about 10% of Sword Immortals in the country can achieve that. As for the quadruple strike…hmpf, the technical skill involved is something 99% of Sword Immortals can’t even comprehend, let alone try to imitate and learn.”

“Then what’s the most number of strikes you can execute?” his girlfriend asked curiously.

“I’ve also executed a quadruple strike,” Cai Qianlong replied.

“Wow, so you’re on the same level as the Longcheng Flying General?” His girlfriend’s eyes shone with admiration, and any slight displeasure she had from being ordered around vanished instantly.

My Qianlong is actually so formidable!

Cai Qianlong smiled but said nothing, internally heaving a sigh.

“Having executed once” and “being able to use it reliably” are completely different matters.

Watching Yan Yu execute the four consecutive strikes as if flowing like clouds and water, it’s likely that even this quadruple strike wasn’t his limit. It’s just that his opponents couldn’t withstand even that much.

Of course, now was the time to boast, so there was no need to tell his wife this.

His thoughts quickly turned, and he suddenly bragged to his girlfriend,@@novelbin@@

“The Longcheng Flying General and I are old acquaintances. Back when I fought a fifty-fifty battle against the Dragon Cavalry Team’s captain, Liu Longtao, for nearly half an hour before losing due to the depletion of my True Yuan, he even called me to ask how I did it.”

“We had a great talk on the phone, and ended up considering each other as good friends… See? His number is still lying around in my contacts.”

“So you’re that amazing!” exclaimed his girlfriend, with stars nearly popping out of her eyes, “Then if you faced off against the Longcheng Flying General one-on-one, how many minutes could you last without being defeated?”

“Uh,” Cai Qianlong was momentarily at a loss for words, “within 10 minutes… no, I definitely wouldn’t lose in 15 minutes! If he performed poorly or made a careless mistake, I might even have a chance to counter-kill him!”