Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 264 - 62 Xie Ruoxi Refuses to Withdraw from the Team

Yan Yu and Su Yunjin left the Mysterious Realm and saw not only the stationed troops and Pingxi Army cultivators waiting outside, but also Zhang Huaide, Tang Xiaolian, and Qin Meng from the Huofeng Team had also come.

"Xiao Zhang, when did you get here?" Yan Yu asked in surprise.

"Not long ago," Zhang Huaide answered with a smile. "Originally, we wanted to see if you needed support, but it turned out you had already finished the fight. Really impressive."

"Oh, not at all." Yan Yu heard the implication in his words. It was nothing but the Pingxi Army thinking it wasn’t reliable for just the two of them to enter, so they specially had Zhang Huaide and the others rush over from Nanchuan to help out if anything went wrong within the Mysterious Realm.

As a result, the three of them just sat outside, watching Yan Yu and Su Yunjin perform their duo clearance, which left them continually mocking with difficulty keeping a straight face.

The Mysterious Realm Gatekeeper, the red-dressed girl, was strong like a plus super-enhanced version of Zhou Hongyu. Not only was her Fire Blazing Dao Method far superior, but she was also good at footwork positioning and Sword Control Technique. Still, she was ultimately suppressed and defeated by Yan Yu and Su Yunjin working together.

In the eyes of Zhang Huaide and the others, it seemed as though "Captain Zhou wasn’t here, but she had already lost miserably."

Of course, despite the mocking, they gained a new understanding of Yan Yu’s strength. Zhang Huaide even asked for a full video of this visit to the Mysterious Realm from the stationed cultivators, planning to take it home for a thorough study and in-depth analysis.

"Won’t you stay for a meal?" Zhang Huaide invited.

"No, thank you," Yan Yu declined. "We have some other things to do. As soon as the military duties are finished, we’re out of here."

"It must be because Captain Zhou didn’t come," Tang Xiaolian quietly suggested to her teammates through a voice transmission. "Captain Yan is not interested in us."

"Don’t talk nonsense," Qin Meng quickly interrupted. "Captain Yan is not that kind of person!"

"What kind of person?" Zhang Huaide suddenly asked.

"Ahem," Qin Meng coughed awkwardly, "Never mind, just consider it rambling."

"If you know it’s rambling, then don’t say it again next time," Zhang Huaide said lightly. "Although rumors stop with the wise, you know Captain Zhou’s temper. If we talk recklessly within the team and the media outside hear it and start spreading scandalous gossip, what do you think her reaction would be?"

If Zhou Hongyu heard that she and Yan Yu were rumored to have a scandal by the media outside... wouldn’t she just go straight to their door and blow up the paparazzi tabloid’s editorial office?

Thinking this, Qin Meng and Tang Xiaolian also realized their mistake and quickly said,

"We won’t say it anymore, we definitely won’t joke about that again in the future."

Yan Yu, having declined the Huofeng Team’s invitation to stay, handed over the supplies to the military cultivators for registration and then left Tianshan with Su Yunjin, using the Sword Control Technique to head north again to collect snowy water.

As Su Yunjin hovered in the air using the Cloud Ascension Technique and collected for almost half an hour, she suddenly heard Yan Yu say,

"I see you have mastered the whole process now. You won’t need me to accompany you after this, right?"

"Oh." Su Yunjin felt a sense of loss and sighed, "Does the captain have important matters to attend to?"

"On the one hand, I need to get back to managing the team. After all, if they don’t practice combat for too long, I’m afraid they’ll get rusty," Yan Yu patiently explained. "On the other hand, as you’ve seen, with Xiao Zhou still in the hospital, whenever any difficult Mysterious Realm appears within the Pingxi Army’s jurisdiction, the first thing they think of is asking for my help."

"If I continue to stay here, I actually can’t accompany you anyway and will only be at the beck and call of the Pingxi Army, and it would also delay your collection of the essence of Rootless Water."

Su Yunjin fell silent, although her heart was unwilling to let go, she had to admit that the captain was right.

"So I’m leaving?" Yan Yu saw her wavering expression and tentatively asked.

"Wait a moment," Su Yunjin said.

Yan Yu then waited for her to speak, but after waiting for about ten seconds without hearing Secretary Su say anything, just as he was about to ask, he suddenly felt a waft of fragrant wind rush into his arms.

Su Yunjin gently embraced him and whispered in his ear,

"Thank you for accompanying me, Captain."

In an instant, countless jumbled responses surfaced in Yan Yu’s mind, such as "you too," "maintain your composure," "it’s only right," "make an extra effort"... But when all the words came to his throat, he was left with only one sentence:

"Come back soon, we’ll be waiting for you in Jinling."

"Mmm," Su Yunjin nodded vigorously.

As the seasons changed to late autumn and early winter, the geographic location of the "first snow" would move further south, until the cold air got blocked by the mountain ranges of Tianshan—with peaks like Bogda Mountain being perennially snow-covered, they could not be considered Rootless Water.

By then, Su Yunjin would be able to come back.

Purifying the Essence of the Five Elements was such a hassle, not only did one need to find the right season and location but also it couldn’t be done in one go; multiple collections over time were necessary. The entire process was like grinding a mirror, which could easily take six months, a year, or two years—one simply couldn’t rush it.

After saying goodbye to Su Yunjin, Yan Yu took off on his sword, heading back.

Let’s not dwell on the journey of flight. When he returned to the Jinling Villa, he found only Xie Ruoxi at home; the other girls were not there.

"Where are the others?" Yan Yu asked.

"They went out on a mission." Xie Ruoxi replied.

"A mission... Oh, I remember now." Yan Yu recalled that Li Weiguo had mentioned a mission in Jiujiang Province, and Chen Lingyun had been tasked with leading the team there.

After sending a message to the girls on his phone to report his safety, Yan Yu put on a stern face like a beautiful waste board, assuming the posture of a team leader, he said harshly:

"In these few days we were absent, have you diligently practiced your daily breathing exercises? How about your Sword Control Technique? And have you refined your Divine Sense with the Soul Refining Technique?"

"Of course." Seeing his stern expression, Xie Ruoxi cowered as she spoke.

"Go to the basement and show me!" Yan Yu shouted loudly.

In the basement training ground, it only took a few exchanges before Xie Ruoxi was knocked to the ground by Yan Yu, rather shamelessly lying there and refusing to get up.

Seeing her pretending to be gravely injured and refusing to stand, Yan Yu couldn’t be bothered to expose her act; he simply moved a small stool next to her, trapping her waist perfectly with the leg of the stool, then sat on it and said:

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"If you don’t want to get up, just lie there."

Xie Ruoxi tried to force herself up, but unable to flip over the stool and Yan Yu pressing down on her, she started to grumble unhappily, though it was unclear what she was saying.

"It’s evident that you have indeed been practicing diligently, without slacking off," Yan Yu first offered some praise.

Xie Ruoxi’s face showed delight, and she instinctively began to complain:

"Of course! During this time when Ling Yun and the others weren’t around, I still practiced for an hour every day..."

"An hour is too little!" Yan Yu immediately contradicted her, saying, "That’s the problem with you right now! You practice, but the time is too short!"

"Too short?" Xie Ruoxi found it hard to believe.

"Nonsense, what else? Our Zhenhai Team practices combat for at least four hours in the afternoon, okay?"

"I only agreed to become a cultivator, I never said I wanted to join the team..." Xie Ruoxi muttered under her breath, but Yan Yu heard her loud and clear, and said deliberately:

"If you want to leave the team, it’s not impossible."

He paused deliberately at this point only to see Xie Ruoxi not showing the slightest bit of happiness, instead asking with a wary face:

"But what’s the price? I’m warning you now, if you threaten me with my mobile game account, I won’t stubbornly act out of spite! I, I, I... I won’t quit the team!"

Yan Yu: .........

How do you manage to speak with such a forceful tone when pleading for mercy?

"Rest assured, I won’t touch your account," Yan Yu said with a smile, "I’ll just make a call to your parents and brother and let them have a good talk with you. After all, quitting your job is a big deal; you have to inform your family, right?"

Xie Ruoxi immediately had a blank look in her eyes, as if she had been struck dumb.

Not to mention her brother, she, of course, knew her parents’ characters: one was obsessed with money, and the other wanted face, and the profession of a cultivator had both covered.

Having accidentally become a cultivator up to this point, she had not dared to tell her parents about it, because the outcome was entirely predictable: her parents would first be stunned by this great news, then they would immediately start blabbering about it to the entire village, to all the distant relatives outside the province, that the daughter of the Xie family had actually become a cultivator!

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They wouldn’t care at all about how much hardship their poor daughter had to endure to become a cultivator, how much suffering she experienced, how much blood she vomited, and how many tears she shed!

Nowadays, when her parents call, Xie Ruoxi just lies and says she is working in Jinling, "managing computers in an internet cafe, working day and night shifts, not even earning three thousand a month." Her parents are also sympathetic, sending her money every now and then, worried she might be short of cash, and telling her to learn skills like haircutting and the like...

All these presumptions are based on their one-sided belief that their daughter is living a tough life.

If this lie was busted by Yan Yu, her parents would definitely turn hostile. Then, there would be no more sympathy, only endless pressure and demands!

"Xi Xi, you need to work hard, strive for promotions and military ranks, you need to earn more money."

"Xi Xi, why aren’t you on TV? The neighbors have all asked about it; everyone wants to see you on television!"

"Xi Xi, your uncle came asking, saying his son is quite intelligent, just doesn’t study well, can he be brought to see if he has any talent for becoming a cultivator..."

As these thoughts overwhelmed her, Xie Ruoxi, dizzy and exasperated, somehow found the strength to suddenly twist her body, flipping Yan Yu to one side and yelled:

"Total nonsense! You’d better not spread (gang) lies! I... I never said I wanted to leave the team!"

Yan Yu, who almost fell over, bounced back up and slapped her forehead, pinning the freshly rebellious Xie Immortal Venerate back down under Five Elements Mount:

"Beast! What nonsense are you spouting!"