Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 381: Chapter 77: Full of Energy
 

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With everyone stuck on a long-term hurdle, the director had run out of interesting perspectives to switch to, so they simply made Yan Yu’s perspective into a small window and fixed the main screen in the studio. They let the two commentators perform a double act to keep the atmosphere lively on site.

The number of bullet screen comments had also been plummeting; people were starting to relax a bit.

It’s almost been half an hour already…

What’s declining even faster than the number of comments is the number of viewers online. The production team watched with anxiety but were helpless and could only pray secretly that Longcheng Flying General would quickly exhibit his divine might for a stunning comeback. He needed to shatter that white sword light fiercely to save our precarious online viewership.

However, in the control room of the Privy Council, their thoughts were the complete opposite.

Since they had already roughly analyzed the mechanism for clearing this level, all they had to do was wait for Yan Yu’s True Yuan to be insufficient, forced into a desperate fight when about to be shattered by the white sword light. Then their long-standing problem would naturally be solved.

But how much longer would it take?

The expert group had calculated it, Yan Yu’s current tactical operation was actually very simple, just Sword Control then blocking, with none of the complex maneuvers of sword techniques. Considering the meager True Yuan consumption of the Sword Control Technique, it was roughly estimated that without consuming any Elixir Medicine, he could last about 16.25 hours.

The leaders read the report and were speechless. Sixteen hours… I might as well wait for him to run out of energy!

In everyone’s minds, they were silently praying: Yan Yu, General Yan, Lord Yan, stop wasting away there with a phantom NPC of the Mysterious Realm—rush to your last fight!

Inside the Mysterious Realm, all the Rikoku Cultivators gathered together, with the Dragon Soar Team also fully assembled, meeting with the girls of the Zhenghai Team to discuss.

The conclusion that even the control room could deduce from the live broadcast viewpoint had been analyzed by Chen Lingyun through Five Ghosts Scouting more than ten minutes ago.

“So you just need to remain unyielding until death,” Lin Ning said.

“How confident are you in this conclusion?” Liu Longtao asked with a chuckle.

“Is there a need to even ask?” Chen Lingyun said with a smile, “You can neither defeat it nor escape. In fact, your options are not many; you only really have ‘begging for mercy’ and ‘fighting at death’s door.’ Since it’s a test-type Mysterious Realm, the designer definitely hopes that the challenger would prefer death over submission. Of course, if Lord Master here wants to try begging for mercy, I’m also curious to see what will happen.”

“Expecting Old Yan to beg for mercy? That’s impossible,” Liu Longtao said, ignoring her latter words, and fell into silence, “If the condition for clearing the level is ‘fighting at death’s door,’ does that mean Old Yan has been able to drag this out because he hasn’t reached that point yet?”

Everyone fell silent, especially the Dragon Soar Team members, who had already idolized Yan Yu in their hearts. Liu Longtao was mostly among Sword Immortals, and they all knew just how unfathomable the swordsmanship level of that white sword light was—Yan Yu being able to withstand such attacks and not die was somewhat miraculous.

“With that said, let’s hurry and inform Leader Yan,” Ye Jun immediately suggested.

“Not so fast,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile, “When doing things, one should plan before taking action. Instead of rushing, we should first consider what we will do after Yan Yu clears the level.”

“What else can we do? Fight with her and then clear the level ourselves,” Liu Longtao had only said half of it when he instantly reacted.

Mei Yingxue would only attack a single person and wouldn’t actively kill anyone outside of her target. It was not too difficult to deduce this. Now, if we are attacked by Mei Yingxue in the Mysterious Realm, what will happen if the foreign Transcendents ambush us from the sides? Not all of us have the skill of Yan Yu to turn enemies against each other. Being attacked from both sides is more likely to result in misfortune than fortune.

Seeing the open mockery on Chen Lingyun’s face, Liu Longtao became somewhat irritated: It’s not that I’m too stupid to figure it out, just that I’ve been influenced by Xie Ruoxi’s intellect after working with her for a while!

“A short while ago, Yan Yu used others to kill off those foreign Transcendents. He made them hide,” Chen Lingyun said calmly, “Therefore, after Yan Yu clears the level and before the others notice his absence, we need to seize this time window and clear the level as quickly as possible, all together.”

“Of course, being stuck on this level is not without its benefits. At the least, it brought us together, allowing everyone to discuss the levels they’ve experienced and provide strategy reference for the others.”

Upon hearing her analysis, everyone understood the importance of sharing intelligence and began sharing their information in turn without delay.

After everyone had shared their information, they all simultaneously engaged in Sword Flight, leaving their hiding spots to search for Yan Yu.

“Found him!” Ye Jun quickly notified everyone.

As they all headed toward Ye Jun’s location, they could see Yan Yu in the distance, still playing the “try to hit me” game with the white sword light.

Sword Flight was not invulnerable. If you do not control the Flying Sword to perform a blocking maneuver, allowing the opponent’s attack to hit from a direction other than your block, the counter-shock could still damage the Sword Immortal within the sword light.

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In other words, Yan Yu was able to block Mei Yingxue’s attacks for nearly half an hour at almost 3 blocks per second, nearly 200 blocks per minute, accumulating over six thousand instances of swordsmanship blocks without a single mistake…

Guo Feiyun and Ai Lu, two sword immortals from the Dragon Soar Team, had already started calling Yan Yu “Yan God.” Liu Longtao had also approved of this nickname, as even Lord Master himself reckoned that if he were to face the challenge, he would probably last no more than five minutes.

“Old Yan,” he projected his voice from a distance, “still going strong?”

“Full of energy,” Yan Yu replied.

“Damn!” Liu Longtao exclaimed in shock, “Didn’t you used to have time to reply with just one word before? So, after fighting for so long, you’re telling me you’re getting stronger as it goes?”

“Haha, it’s not difficult,” Yan Yu said.

“I truly can’t compare to you in showing off, I willingly concede,” Liu Longtao admitted with genuine admiration, “How did you do it?”

“Figured out her attack patterns,” Yan Yu said.

“So you gave her a good fight for three hundred rounds and then completely understood her moves?” Liu Longtao mused, “If I had your ability, would I even need to ask?”

While he was casually chatting with Yan Yu, Chen Lingyun was also communicating with Yan Yu through voice transmission.

“How much longer can you hold on?” Chen Lingyun asked.

“A few hours,” Yan Yu answered.

“That enduring?” Chen Lingyun immediately laughed, “Can you win?”

“No,” said Yan Yu.

“Do you know the mechanism for passing the level?” Chen Lingyun asked.

“I’ve guessed it,” said Yan Yu.

“Oh, that’s great,” Chen Lingyun, sparing the effort to explain, succinctly said, “Go all out on your side, fight her to the death. After passing the level, we will take over immediately and try to get through this challenge collectively as quickly as possible.”

“I’ve communicated all the information on the six levels with everyone. When you pass the level, make sure to ask Ye Jun; I will have her go up second.”

“Okay,” Yan Yu knew this meant he was to take Ye Jun to snatch the first and second place in passing the Departure Palace, and therefore he readily agreed.

“Go for it,” Chen Lingyun said.

Without a word, the instant Yan Yu was knocked flying by Mei Yingxue again, he suddenly cancelled his Sword Flight state!

He stomped on the sword’s body using the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step to borrow force and shot forward rapidly to increase the distance, while at the same time, with a pinch of his sword technique, the Huang Tingjian flew back even faster. Mei Yingxue quickly pursued, only to see Yan Yu reinitiate Sword Flight and, merging with the sword light, he turned around, and leveraging the increased distance, he accelerated once more and charged straight at Mei Yingxue’s sword light!

Triple Cloud Strike!

As the sword lights from both sides collided fiercely, Yan Yu was the first to falter, being shaken by the terrifying impact and sent flying, but he used the momentum to make a large turn and crashed into Mei Yingxue’s sword light again. After a second clash, he was propelled even further, turning in an even bigger arc, speed and power both amassed to their limits, his True Yuan also being fully expended with no reservations, attacking Mei Yingxue with maximum force for a third time!

It was as if thunder roared and the earth shattered, the light from the Huang Tingjian had turned into white light and vanished, while Mei Yingxue finally couldn’t maintain her Sword Control state and was sent flying by the overwhelming force of Triple Cloud Strike combined with Sword-Human Unity.

Her face was covered in blood, her hair disheveled, and she was in a sorry state; her right hand hung limply, likely having broken bones inside, relying only on her uninjured left hand to rapidly perform sword techniques, calling back the white Flying Sword to her side. Just as she reentered the Sword Control state, a flower of light from the Xuan Guang Ruler floated towards her, catching her squarely and trapping her within it!

She was trapped for less than half a second when the white sword light used the Eagle Strike Sky Sword Style, violently slashing at the same spot multiple times to forcefully break through the light flower of the Xuan Guang Ruler, then turned the sword light and charged straight at Ye Jun.

“Ye Jun, face her,” Chen Lingyun transmitted rapidly, “Ningning, get ready, everyone else queue up in order! Liu Longtao, watch the perimeter, don’t let anyone take advantage by stirring trouble!”

“Understood!” the cultivators all responded in unison.