Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 399: Chapter 95: Lord Master Was Shocked
 

Su Yunjin’s True Yuan was almost exhausted, and her heart was filled with anxiety.

The number of cultivators from Lu Country was lower than that of the enemy, but their individual strength was higher, so the most suitable tactic was decapitation—avoid the majority of the enemy’s forces and directly assassinate their high-level officers.

Conversely, the most unfavorable situation was the current one: having to hold a position and repeatedly engage in head-on confrontations, which would eventually lead to being worn down by the enemy.

To draw an analogy, it was like the ancient, costly heavy cavalry, who should be used decisively at critical moments. Who would use heavy cavalry to defend a city?

Su Yunjin sighed and said to Lin Ning and Zhao Yuanzhen,

“I’m running out of True Yuan, cover for me for a while, I need to take some medicine.”

“Alright,” the two replied.

Su Yunjin hid behind the balustrade, took the Elixir Medicine, and quickly refined the medicinal power to restore her True Yuan.

Below, another Ninja Team started their charge. Zhao Yuanzhen quickly stood in her place, activated the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer, and smashed it down on the heads of these ninjas.

No sooner had the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer smashed down than a ninja reached to his waist, pulling out a… samurai sword?

“Not right!” Lin Ning exclaimed, “It’s a samurai! Disguised as a samurai!”

The Demonic Sect Enchantress, though not keen on strategizing, was quick to understand things related to combat.

The enemy had played a trick of “the real is fake, the fake is real,” allowing samurai to remove their armor and mix with the ninja troops, quietly charging with them!

Su Yunjin’s True Yuan was exhausted, and she was still refining the medicinal power, unable to cast Taoism Method. As a large number of enemies surged forward, the two could not stop them. They could only pull Su Yunjin along and retreat urgently to the rear.

As Liu Longtao in the center wanted to turn around to assist, his opponents also intensified their offensive, forcing Lord Master to fully engage in blocking them. Consequently, the overall defensive line became precarious as the left flank lost control.

“Pretty good,” Yan Yu communicated to Chen Lingyun, “It’s about time~”

“We still need to keep up the act, to avoid suspicion from the other side,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile, “You and Xie Ruoxi go and intercept.”

“Okay,” Yan Yu communicated to Xie Ruoxi, “Ruoxi, let’s support the left flank!”

Xie Ruoxi hurried over. Seeing a large group of enemy troops charging up the left flank and three teammates retreating, she was immediately shocked into pale terror.

But thinking that the team leader would be with her, she suddenly felt endless courage, as if the victory was already securely within grasp.

Seeing her spirited expression, Yan Yu just smiled silently.

He was the strongest in this world, not a destroyer of worlds. Being the strongest meant he was unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat, not that he could snap his fingers and instantly turn the enemies to dust. Moreover, Xie Ruoxi’s Thunder Method, though powerful, was also a singular attack method, so the two of them definitely couldn’t stop so many enemies.

But if they lowered their aim to “kill as many as possible,” that would be much easier to accomplish!

The two rushed to the vicinity of the left flank, meeting up with Lin Ning, Su Yunjin, and Zhao Yuanzhen, and saw an enormous number of Shikigami opening the way, samurais in the middle, ninjas, and Onmyoji flanking from the rear, all pushing forward toward the main gate like a sea of people.

“I’ll do it.” Su Yunjin finally recovered some True Yuan, once again casting the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Art, attempting to block the advance of the Onmyoji.

The tide divides the field!

An enormous amount of heavenly river water poured out from the void, drenching the Onmyoji.

Just then, the Shikigami suddenly split to either side, standing grim-faced in the center, Shenyuan Simie with talisman papers in his hands self-combusting, summoning a Shikigami.

That Shikigami, disheveled with only one eye showing, held a tattered cloth bag, opened the bag, and immediately unleashed an endless tornado, forcefully blowing the heavenly river water to both sides, unable to strike at the main formation of the Onmyoji.

In just a moment of spell exchange, Su Yunjin’s True Yuan was once again insufficient, forcing her to abruptly interrupt her spell.

The tornado instantly blew back, forcing everyone to stagger back, unable to open their eyes. Xie Ruoxi, in fright, ducked her head down, and suddenly, Yan Yu grabbed her right arm.

“Shenxiao!” he shouted rapidly.

Without a second thought, Xie Ruoxi swiftly circulated her True Yuan with her right hand, condensing the Shenxiao Thunder and grasping it in her hand.

Yan Yu grabbed her arm and flung it forward with all his might while shouting:

“Release!”

Xie Ruoxi, who fully trusted Yan Yu, immediately loosened the binds of the Thunder Method, and saw the thunder light shoot straight through the overwhelming hurricane, hitting the Shikigami in the chest precisely and shattering it on the spot.

Shenyuan Simie was instantly terrified, hastily retreated behind the Samurai, and the Shikigami surged forward again, thoroughly shielding the Onmyoji ranks.

The wild hurricane finally ceased, and only then could everyone barely open their eyes and hurry back near the main entrance of Departure Palace, only to see Chen Lingyun had already withdrawn everyone from the middle and right paths of the Dragon Soar Team to the door, where they tightened the defensive line and began to secretly discuss strategies internally through voice transmission.

“Enter Departure Palace, guard the main entrance,” Liu Longtao said rapidly, “The main entrance is small, we can defend it.”

The members of the Dragon Soar Team echoed one after another.

“No,” Chen Lingyun denied, “Do we want to be caught like turtles in a jar?”

“Then where to?” Ye Jun asked.

“Right path,” Chen Lingyun answered, “Attack and blockade the enemy.”

“Attack and blockade, can’t stop everyone,” Liu Longtao voiced his dissent, “Some will always break through.”

“It doesn’t matter if they break in,” Chen Lingyun said.

Liu Longtao formed a spell, launching a Red Dragon Patrols the Heavens to the left side, forcing the enemy back for a while, and said vehemently:

“We cannot lose any of Departure Palace’s treasures!”

“We won’t lose them,” Yan Yu finally seized the moment to respond, “Only the top ten can obtain the treasures.”

Everyone: ?

Then, except for Yan Yu and Chen Lingyun, the expressions on everyone’s faces immediately underwent complex changes.

Lord Master had the most violent fluctuations. He slowly opened his mouth wide, his eyes bulged like brass bells, and his face completed a rollercoaster of emotions, as if Fan Jin had just been humiliated by his father-in-law a second ago and then found out he had finally passed the imperial examinations… It was less a surprise and more intense shock and disbelief.

“No way,” Lord Master stumbled in his question, “Are you sure?”

“Of course,” Yan Yu said.

“Tuck that dumb expression away,” Chen Lingyun seemed very pleased with his silly look, “We are communicating via voice transmission, don’t let others notice and become suspicious.”

Only then did Liu Longtao snap back to reality, swiftly switching to an expressionless face, continuing to cast spells attacking the approaching Onmyoji, and inquiring without any change in his voice:

“Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?”

“Only a few people knew,” Chen Lingyun said leisurely, “If everyone knew, could you have performed the feeling of desperately struggling and resisting till the end?”

Lord Master was utterly speechless, even more convinced that this was this despicable woman’s deliberate act, reveling in the pleasure of manipulating everyone.

“Since only the top ten can obtain the treasures, which means even if they break into Departure Palace, they won’t get any treasures,” Ye Jun mused, “Then we can actually enter Departure Palace and teleport away now.”

“But that’s not enough,” Yan Yu said.

“Not enough?” Liu Longtao asked gravely, “So, what is our goal?”

“To break apart their alliance,” Chen Lingyun said smilingly, “Make them turn on each other and self-destruct.”