Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 489: Chapter 85: Bursting into Power at the Critical Moment, It’s Up to Me, Ning

Previously, whether facing the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Art, numerous Flying Swords, Black and White Impermanence, or the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer, the Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern always had a smile on his face, standing in his original spot and responding with ease.

But now, as he saw the golden lines sweeping towards him from behind, his expression finally changed slightly. He tossed the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer with his left hand, grabbed the Kasaya with force and spun it like a rocket, instantly pulling away from the ground and swiftly evading the sweep of the dense golden lines.

In the midst of Yan Yu’s rapid thoughts, Puppet Azhen immediately looked up and continued spitting out the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, pursuing the airborne Demon Monk to kill him.

The Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern, with his Kasaya spinning around, now up then down, exhibited extreme agility, and for a moment, he was difficult to hit. The two layers of Buddha’s Light around him, though unable to block the cutting power of the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, were more than enough to fend off the attacks from the surrounding Flying Swords.

Yan Yu’s expression remained unchanged as he focused intently on controlling the Puppet to pursue the Demon Monk, whilst Lin Ning was extremely anxious on the other side.

She initially started the battle in cooperation with Yan Yu, only to be caught by the demon’s spells. The team leader nonchalantly saying “Ningning, step down. Sister Zhao, take over” left her choked up afterwards, with a stifling anger in her chest that couldn’t be vented, and she was eager to immediately prove her strength and redeem herself in the team leader’s eyes.

Yet faced with such a Demon Monk, whose two layers of Buddha’s Light defended him impeccably and specifically countered all manners of Flying Sword strikes. Sister Zhao still had the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer to break through the defense, but her own Green Bamboo Sword had become purely ornamental! How could this be acceptable?

I, Lin Ning, from childhood to adulthood, whether in academic studies or cultivation, have never been satisfied with being second to anyone!

Just when the two layers of Buddha’s Light split and momentarily revealed a gap, Lin Ning’s reaction was incredibly swift. She pinched the Sword technique with her hands rapidly, and the Sword Light immediately wrapped around her body, making use of the even faster Sword Flying Slash technique, aiming straight for the gap between the two layers of Buddha’s Light.

But the movement of the Buddha’s Light was also incredibly quick as it split and closed again. In the blink of an eye, it was about to become whole, and the gap was rapidly shrinking.

Hurry up! Lin Ning’s Divine Sense locked onto the gap, and she inwardly roared, forcefully driving her True Yuan throughout her body. The green Sword Light grew more and more intense as well, and in the very last moment before the gap was about to close completely, she streaked through it like a meteor at top speed!

In a flash! Shattered through!

The Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern was greatly shocked. He had spent his main effort on dealing with Yan Yu, the great white shark, and he didn’t expect that the other more guardedly neglected areas would actually allow a small fish to suddenly emerge and break through his Buddha’s Light defense!

In haste, he struck the lantern with his hand and flung out the lamp flame, which transformed into countless ferocious lions and tigers, quickly blocking the path of the green Sword Light.

Yan Yu was also quite surprised. On closer inspection, he saw that at this moment, Lin Ning’s Sword Light was unusually bright and green, dazzling like a freshly washed emerald. It was several times larger than the typical Sword Flying Slash and moved as swiftly as lightning, without the slightest hint of clumsiness.

This was Sword-Human Unity, wow!

Sword-Human Unity, the ultimate move of the Sword Immortal, featured exaggerated levels in speed, agility, lethality, True Yuan consumption, and most importantly, difficulty in cultivation. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Yan Yu would never have believed that Lin Ning, who had not even reached Perfection in the Marrow Cleansing Stage, could master Sword-Human Unity.

Good Ningning! Worthy of being the girl who dares to aim for the position of my second wife! Just for this potential you’ve shown in the heat of battle, I acknowledge your qualification to pursue me!

You’re worthy!

“Focus on the main body!” He quickly transmitted a message to Lin Ning while rapidly turning his thoughts, continuing to control Puppet Azhen to pursue.

Lin Ning, without a word, directly unleashed the Phoenix Dance to the Nine Heavens move. The Sword Light sharply descended first, dodging the strikes of many Flame Beasts, then took advantage of the momentum to lift upwards in a slashing motion, aimed right at the Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern in the air.

The speed of Sword-Human Unity was too fast for the Demon Monk to adjust the Buddha’s Light in time to defend. He could only move swiftly downwards in an emergency. Even though the Kasaya’s flight speed was extremely fast, it barely evaded the green Sword Light—the Sword gleam brushed past his scalp, and had he not been bald, his head would have been bald in that area by now.

Lin Ning’s Sword Light swiftly returned, ready to strike again, when suddenly she saw Puppet Azhen’s Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire slash through, cutting the Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern in half at the waist.

Everyone relaxed a bit, when suddenly they heard Yan Yu’s voice transmitting:

“Continue.”

Continue what? Before everyone had time to understand, they saw the two halves of the Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern, at the waist where they were severed, suddenly ignite in flames, stubbornly reconnecting and fusing the separated upper and lower bodies together again.

“Seems like a Demon Monk, but actually a demon,” Yan Yu continued to transmit a reminder, “Continue.”

Human Cultivators have three fatal points: the Dantian below the stomach, the heart in the chest, and the Sea of Consciousness in the brain. If these are destroyed, death is instant and even gods struggle to save them. However, because demons lack a physical body, they do not have fatal points and can only be worn down by repeated injury.

When Yan Yu said that this Demon Monk was of the same level as “Mei Yingxue,” it was not just about his flexible and varied offensive and defensive spells. It also referred to his almost inhumanly high vitality.

As everyone’s hearts shook with shock, Lin Ning’s Sword Light once again shot out to kill, her fighting spirit still soaring.

If one round doesn’t kill him, then strike a few more times!

The Revered Master of the Wondrous Beacon Lantern, revived in his original place, quickly traced a finger along the lantern wall, pulling out another refined layer of Buddha’s Light that shook down in front of him like flowing silk to stop the Green Bamboo Sword Light.

As Lin Ning was about to engage, she suddenly heard Yan Yu’s transmission:

“Retreat, recover.”

Without a second thought, her sword light abruptly turned and quickly fell back to Chen Lingyun’s side, dissolving the Sword-Human Unity state, and then, without attracting attention, she took out an Elixir Medicine, seizing the time to restore her True Yuan.

Yan Yu was already aware that this would be a drawn-out battle, so he hadn’t initiated the powerful move of Sword-Human Unity right from the start, in order to ensure the endurance of his True Yuan as much as possible.

But now that Lin Ning had also mastered Sword-Human Unity, the original strategy could be changed to be more aggressive.

He stored Puppet Azhen in his sleeve, then leapt up, merging ferociously with the Green Bamboo Sword Light.

Sword-Human Unity!

While Lin Ning needed to exploit gaps in the Buddha’s Light to break through the defense, Yan Yu couldn’t be bothered to wait for it to divide and reveal flaws, and simply went straight into the attack.

First, he used White Rainbow Across the Sky, pressing in from the left at an angle!

The Demon Monk’s thoughts shifted slightly, and the Buddha’s Light immediately flew to the left to intercept, but Yan Yu unexpectedly changed tactics, switching to Phoenix Dance to the Nine Heavens, zigzagging right before he was about to collide with the Buddha’s Light, suddenly dropping down to urgently bypass it from below.

The second stream of Buddha’s Light rushed to sink down for a blockade, only to be met by another flash of white light—this time it was Zhao Yuanzhen, under Chen Lingyun’s command, who directly summoned the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer, piercing through the Buddha’s Light on the spot.

With its ability to auto-track, the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer was impossible to evade. The Demon Monk then used the Giant Spirit Palm Divine Skill again, grabbing the hammer, only to see a flash of sword light out of the corner of his eye—it was Yan Yu in Sword-Human Unity, following right after the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer.

A close-range surprise attack, Eagle Strikes the Sky!

The first strike from Huang Tingjian’s light was a horizontal slash, extremely close range. The esteemed lamp bearer couldn’t summon the Flame Beast in time and could only raise his left hand reluctantly, using his Giant Spirit Palm Divine Skill to barely hold out.

The clash between the sword light and the white jade palm produced a heavy sound like a bell. Yan Yu’s sword technique did not stop there; the second and third swords followed immediately, without a moment’s pause between them, forcefully penetrating the Spell Divine Skill and severing half of his left palm!

Blood spurted, yet the sword had not ceased. The fourth strike split open the monk’s neck, decapitating him. Then came the fifth sword, diagonally slashing the monk’s headless corpse open from left shoulder to right waist.

As the sword light neared its end, it suddenly turned again, forcefully executing the sixth strike, cutting off the monk’s right thigh bone. Running out of time to cut the left leg, Yan Yu had to quickly retract and land, pulling back to regain distance.

In front of the large projection screen, the members of the Dragon Soar Team who were watching the live broadcast all stood up in unison and couldn’t help but lean forward to take a closer look, their eyes filled with shock and horror—they had the most Sword Immortals in their team and knew too well what Yan Yu’s seemingly effortless consecutive moves meant.

“Eagle Strikes the Sky with six consecutive strikes?” Guo Feiyun said with a trembling voice, “That’s impossible!!! I mean… are these six consecutive strikes technically possible to execute?”

“The current national record seems to be five consecutive strikes, right?” Ai Lu also found it unbelievable, murmuring as he stared at the screen.

“That’s right,” Yang Linhui said calmly, checking his phone on the side and cutting in without hesitation, “Also, the five consecutive strikes were made by Yan God, and to this day, no one else has replicated it.”

“Six consecutive strikes are indeed powerful,” Liu Longtao said in a deep voice, “But the goalkeeper hasn’t died yet.”

Everybody fell silent. To them, Yan Yu being able to perform six strikes of Eagle Strikes the Sky was almost the pinnacle of swordsmanship, probably marking the upper limit of what Sword Immortals could achieve with pure technical skill under the current average level of cultivation.’

If the Demon Monk were to be cut to death by these six strikes, it would undoubtedly be the most anticipated conclusion everyone would have expected—I’ve played to the limit, how can you not die?

However, the monk in the live broadcast, although cut into four sections, was still not dead on the spot. The severed head, shoulders, body, and legs first ignited in flames; then quickly connected into one, finally transforming back into an intact monk’s body.

This was a situation no longer describable as “despair”. The members of the Dragon Soar Team considered whether they would be able to take down the monk’s “first health bar”, let alone stand up to this point; it was doubtful.

“Wait a second,” said Ye Jun, who had been silent until now, “The lamp flame! Isn’t his lantern flame considerably dimmer than it was at the start?”

Everyone hurriedly focused their eyes, only to realize that the flame inside the Demon Monk’s “Marvelous Height Lamp,” which they remembered should be about the size of a dragon’s eye, bright and vigorous, burning unceasingly, was now only about the size of a green bean.

Yan Yu dissolved the Sword-Human Unity upon landing and immediately executed the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, swiftly retreating to a distance. With a swipe of his hand, he took out an Elixir Medicine and popped it, hearing Chen Lingyun’s message:

“Yun Jin is low on True Yuan, half a minute.”

Above the Great Hero Treasure Hall, the myriad of lantern lights continued to bombard them, only resisted by Su Yunjin’s Flight Tide Partition. Without her Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Art’s assistance, allowing this barrage of lantern lights to continuously bombard them would instantly put the Zhenhai Team at risk of being wiped out.

“Enough,” said Yan Yu via transmission, “Let Ningning take over, Sister Zhao supports. What about Ruoxi?”

“Three Strike Massive Thunder,” Chen Lingyun replied.

“Too slow,” Yan Yu criticized verbally but was already rushing towards Xie Ruoxi swiftly, “I’ll take the helm.”

“Alright,” Chen Lingyun turned her head to pass instructions, simultaneously tossing out the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Divine Evil Prayer Beads.

The Prayer Beads spun for a moment, then shot into a stream of Buddha’s Light, firmly freezing it in place.

Lin Ning, having recovered some True Yuan, took a deep breath, once again enveloped in Green Bamboo Sword Light, entered Sword-Human Unity, and charged toward the Marvelous Height Lamp Bearer!