Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 388: Chapter 84 Enemy Attack
 

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When did I learn “The Arcane Secrets of the Nine Heavens Yin Demon”?

And it’s even the orthodox spell of the Demonic Sect, how come I don’t know about it myself?

Although Chen Lingyun found it hard to accept, the female voice from the Departure Palace was clearly not going to reason with her and soon fell silent.

She silently turned her head and saw Zhao Yuanzhen taking pleasure in her misfortune, while Yan Yu looked pensive.

“Let’s go,” Chen Lingyun quickly regained her composure and said with a smile.

“You’re just going to accept it like that?” Zhao Yuanzhen’s expression immediately turned to one of disbelief.

The Demonic Sect Enchantress, who tended to judge others by her own standard, would have gone on a wild rampage in the palace if the Departure Palace’s mechanisms dared to treat her this way, destroying everything until she flipped the incense tables and burnt the wall hangings to relieve her anger!

Chen Lingyun wasn’t exactly a magnanimous person. Could it be that she would just swallow her anger?

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

The trio left the main gate of the Departure Palace and saw Yang Linhui and Guo Feiyun arriving at the same place.

Since the Inferno Pass had been blocked by Yan Yu for a time, allowing the Rikoku Cultivators to take the lead, after Yan Yu passed through, they immediately queued for the next trial, so it was normal for them to be the first to reach the final destination, the Departure Palace.

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Ye Jun quickly used a sound transmission to summon the two over, urging them to go into the Departure Palace to claim the treasure and secure the sixth and seventh places… to be precise, considering Chen Lingyun’s disqualification for reasons that couldn’t be disclosed, it was actually the fifth and sixth places.

“Now, there are also our team’s Ai Lu, and your team’s Lin Ning, Su Yunjin, and Xie Ruoxi who haven’t arrived yet,” Liu Longtao transmitted to Yan Yu.

The implication was clear: our team has four members here, and your team has only three. At this moment, our Dragon Soar Team is in the lead!

Sorry, old Yan. I’m going to win!

Yan Yu, however, wasn’t even thinking about competing with him and instead asked back:

“Didn’t Xie Ruoxi enter the Mysterious Realm with you? How come you left her behind and came here alone?”

“Oh, you’re misunderstanding me,” Liu Longtao hurriedly defended, “there’s a trial in this Mysterious Realm that tests one’s mental state by pulling them into an illusionary realm it creates. You remember, right?”

“Xie Ruoxi and I entered that trial at the same time but were separated into our own memory illusions. After I passed that trial, I didn’t see her at the next transfer point, and I couldn’t wait any longer, guessing she must’ve gotten stuck at the previous one. That’s the only reason I had to come alone! If it weren’t for the fact that I spent quite a while waiting for her, that first place at the Departure Palace might not have been yours to take!”

“Heh,” Yan Yu expressed contempt for the latter part of his statement. Still…

Lord Master certainly wouldn’t stoop to lying about this sort of thing, so could it be that Xie Ruoxi was indeed trapped in the memory illusion?

Wait, that kind of illusion can cause someone to get stuck? You beautiful waste, can’t you pull yourself together?

And considering Xie Ruoxi’s waste of a performance inside Mirror Lake Divine Palace, Yan Yu didn’t feel like saying much more.

Guess it’s better to wait for Yun Jin and Ningning… Ah, here they come!

Upon the plaza, large swaths of white light shone up, on the left without surprise were Su Yunjin and Lin Ning, and on the right was…

An Onmyoji?

Lin Ning was the quickest to react, her hands moved with a Sword Technique, and the Green Bamboo Sword’s light struck towards the opposite side as she turned and pulled Su Yunjin to swiftly escape using the Shifting Technique.

Caught up in the moment, Su Yunjin unconsciously ran alongside her, taking a second to realize before hastily forming a spell with her free hand:

Star River Secret Art, Feichao Fenye!

In a split second, what was an empty plaza was suddenly overwhelmed by reverse-flowing rivers; endless streams of water surged in, instantly covering half the plaza and forcefully scattering the Onmyoji’s formation.

Lin Ning, having struck down one adversary with the Green Bamboo Sword, was about to apply Sword Technique on a second one when she suddenly heard Yan Yu’s sound transmission:

“Retreat.”

The two girls quickly turned and dashed, only to see an armored Samurai emerge fiercely from the river waters, cutting off their path ahead as he attacked with his long blade.

The vast amounts of water from Feichao Fenye continued to churn violently, yet the Samurai seemed to have used some secret technique, leveraging the weight of his body and armor, as each step he took sank deep into the ground, and he was not carried away by the currents.

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Fortunately, Yan Yu had given an early warning, and the Green Bamboo Sword was already retracted in front of him.

Lin Ning was about to form the sword technique with her hands and go up to block, but she just saw a burst of light from behind flying toward her, instantly enveloping the samurai and trapping him inside.

When the samurai forcefully shattered the light with his blade, he was faced with Lord Master’s Ying Long Sword, piercing through the air in a direct slash toward his chest and abdomen. In haste, he used his blade to block, and ultimately, the force of the sword sent him flying into the raging currents.

But Yan Yu saw clearly that the samurai had not sustained much damage, the advantage of Body Refinement Secret Art was fully displayed in this situation.

For the Flying Sword to break through defenses is troublesome, the best way is to use the Taoism Method… so why isn’t the pretty waste coming yet?

Su Yunjin and Lin Ning had already rushed up the steps, and Yan Yu quickly gestured with his hand for the two girls to enter the palace, urgently saying:

“Kneel on the meditation cushions to select the treasures, Yun Jin first, then Ningning, take them and come out immediately, quick quick quick quick quick!”

The two young ladies also knew the urgency of the situation, because from the corner of their eye they saw a mass of white light reappearing in the Departure Palace plaza behind them.

Clearly, it was not a coincidence that so many foreign Transcendents broke through the six gates at the same time, but these people knew that the Rikoku Cultivators would be blocking them at the Departure Palace Gate, so they deliberately lingered at the last gate, gathering a large force, intending to overpower the Rikoku Cultivator’s blockades and storm into the Departure Palace to claim the treasures!

Charging into the Departure Palace, right in the center were the meditation cushions, and without any hesitation, Su Yunjin knelt down and heard the female voice inside the palace say:

“Cultivator Su Yunjin, you have passed through the six trials, ranking as the seventh to clear them, your performance is passable.”

“The art you cultivate is the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Art, which requires the Golden Core Realm to unleash its full power. Hence, I shall reward you with the following: six Blood Coagulant Ruby Pills, which can directly complete your Marrow Cleansing; Taiwei Hook Chen Star Sand, mixed with the water from the celestial river it can increase its power; Hundred Li Water Vein Shifting Technique, which is a water escape method, allowing you to move freely in the celestial river water, unimpeded.”

Su Yunjin pondered for a moment. Behind her, Yan Yu was controlling his sword to block the enemy’s attack from below, when suddenly, he turned his head and sent a telepathic message:

“Star Sand.”

Su Yunjin immediately said:

“I choose the Taiwei Hook Chen Star Sand.”

She could figure it out too: the Blood Coagulant Ruby Pills were definitely not needed since the current concentration of Spiritual Energy on Earth did not yet support complete Marrow Cleansing—what use would they be?

The Taiwei Star Sand and the Water Vein Shifting Technique, one enhanced attack, the other aided survival, indeed made Su Yunjin hesitate. But since her team leader had spoken, she had no further doubts and made her choice straight away!

A small bag of Star Sand was placed in a cloth pouch and fell into her hands, and the method to use it automatically flowed into her sea of knowledge.

It was only when Su Yunjin regained her senses that she realized the Star Sand in her hands was not complete, it was actually a small portion given by an immortal to their disciple for protection.

The full quantity of the Taiwei Hook Chen Star Sand, when activated, could cover the sky and obstruct anything, shielding the user from elements like water and fire, and even cutting through swords. Thrown at a target, it could grind a Flying Sword’s magical artifacts to dust. Such high-grade treasures were absolutely impossible for the Departure Palace to award to someone who was “merely the seventh person to clear” the trials.

However, this small pouch of Star Sand, not to mention defending oneself, was hardly enough to even wrap around an enemy’s Flying Sword. At most, it could be used like diamond dust, mixed into the celestial river’s water to evolve a particular move into a “high-pressure water blade,” leveraging speed for cutting attacks.

Su Yunjin, having acquired the Star Sand, didn’t have time to refine it further. She tucked it into her pocket, got up, and went out the door to support Yan Yu outside.

Lin Ning was close behind and knelt on the meditation cushion; she then heard the female voice say:

“Cultivator Lin Ning, you have passed through the six trials, ranking as the eighth to clear them, your performance is passable.”

The eighth place… Lin Ning felt a bit bitter in her heart. It was all because she lingered too long in the Illusion Realm, which also affected Yun Jin’s ranking.

Perhaps because she was only ranked eighth, there was much less that the female voice had to say to her, only speaking indifferently:

“Choose one of the following three rewards: ‘East Sea Jade Coral Swordsmanship,’ Zhenze Sword Box, or Duan Yu Hook Sword.”

Lin Ning subconsciously wanted to choose the first option; after all, she neither needed a sword box nor a second Flying Sword… But still, she telepathically asked Yan Yu:

“What should I choose?”

“Ah?” Yan Yu replied.

“You help Yun Jin choose but won’t help me? I am furious! Quick, I don’t have time to waste with you! Swordsmanship, Sword Box, or Flying Sword, which do I choose?” Lin Ning immediately became extremely angry.

“Then choose the Sword Box.” Yan Yu said.