Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 275 - 73: Six Swords Descend on Nanjiang
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After dinner, everyone returned home.
Su Yunjin, who couldn’t stand dirt, grabbed the vacuum cleaner and mop and began cleaning inside and out as soon as she got home.
Once the cleaning was done, she placed the items in the storage room, then went to the kitchen to wash her hands, only to see Lin Ning drying a cleaned fruit knife, with sliced fruit laid out beside her.
Hmm, I should cut some for the team leader too.
"Wait a second, Ningning," Su Yunjin called out, "I need the fruit knife too."
"Here you go," Lin Ning said.
Su Yunjin opened the fridge, took out several oranges and a few fragrant pears, washed them under the tap, and was about to start slicing when she saw Lin Ning carrying the fruit plate to the living room, where she approached Yan Yu, who was sitting on the sofa, and said,
"You taught me sword techniques today, so I won’t let you teach me for nothing. I’m treating you to fruit."
"Mm, sensible," Yan Yu said deliberately, "but where are the toothpicks? Do you expect me to pick them up with my hands? Even if you’re returning a favor, you should complete the set."
"Here you go!" Lin Ning suddenly couldn’t contain her annoyance, grabbed a few toothpicks from the coffee table, and forcefully stuck them into the chopped fruit, as if an aggrieved palace maid were taking out her resentment with her needle.
In the kitchen, Su Yunjin watched as Lin Ning beat her to the punch with delivering fruit, fell silent for a moment, then quietly began to slice the oranges and fragrant pears.
When she had finished slicing and arranged them on a plate, upon reaching the living room, she saw that Yan Yu had already eaten most of the fruit.
Just then, Zhao Yuanzhen came down from the second floor, saw Yan Yu eating fruit, and immediately complained,
"You little thief! You’ve got fruit and you didn’t call me?"
She quickly sat down on the sofa, forcefully squeezed Yan Yu aside with her substantial rear, and started to gobble down the fruit from the plate.
Yan Yu raised an eyebrow, ready to scold, when Su Yunjin quickly stepped forward and handed him the neatly cut fragrant pears and oranges, saying with a smile,
"Team leader, for you."
"It’s Yunjin who’s sensible," Yan Yu took the fruit plate, set it on the coffee table, and said with satisfaction.
Zhao Yuanzhen took a closer look and saw that Lin Ning had cut cantaloupe and apples, while Su Yunjin had offered up fragrant pears and oranges, immediately finding it hard to decide.
Should I continue eating the plate from Lin Ning, or should I snatch the plate from Su Yunjin?
The Demonic Sect Enchantress, although she had adapted to modern society, scoffed at the so-called "moral constraints of civilized people" and quickly made her decision:
I want them all!
"Hand it over!" Taking advantage of Yan Yu’s distraction, she quickly reached out her hand lightning-fast, stabbed a toothpick into a piece of fragrant pear, and deftly popped it into her mouth.
"Childish," Yan Yu said disdainfully.
As Zhao Yuanzhen chewed with her mouth full, she muttered unintelligibly,
"Rebound!"
Yan Yu didn’t want to play such games with her and turned to talk to Su Yunjin,
"The temperature difference between day and night has been increasing lately, and dew can be collected. Don’t look for it on grass leaves; there will be impurities from the wood element. You can set up some plastic film."
"Mhm mhm," Su Yunjin said with a smile.
"Where is Xie Ruoxi?" Yan Yu turned to ask.
"She’s upstairs watching animated films," Chen Lingyun replied.
"Why does this little girl only think about staying at home all day and not actively participate in after-work team building activities?" Yan Yu put on the attitude of a nitpicking boss, had just started his complaint, and then received a phone call.
It was from Li Weiguo.
It was well known that a call from Old Li was always a matter of great importance, so Yan Yu quickly gestured to Lin Ning to turn off the TV before picking up the phone.
Sure enough, Li Weiguo didn’t beat around the bush, speaking just four words:
"The Witch King has moved."
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In the original timeline of his previous life, the first Witch King had been overthrown shortly after taking office, without making any notable achievements, by a coup carried out by his subordinate.
But this time, the flutter of butterfly wings had triggered a storm of fate. Perhaps it was because the Rikoku Cultivators had displayed extraordinarily frightening power during the battle in the Three Isles Treasure Ship Secret Realm, that the first Witch King, after ascending to power, quickly proclaimed a full-scale confrontation with the Rikoku Cultivators.
Everyone began their cultivation this year; why should there be such a huge disparity in strength? It must be because the treasures from the secret realms in Rikoku are far more incredible than ours! The resources of Rikoku’s secret realms must be seized to strengthen our own!
Of course, setting aside what the Witch King claimed, the Privy Council’s analytical report on the south suggested that with the rapid increase in the number of civilian Sorcerers, the intensity of their internal competition and mutual attrition had also reached a dangerously high level—comparable to the overwhelming floodwaters that threaten to break the levee, necessitating a release somewhere.
If they didn’t relieve the pressure by exerting it outward and transferring conflicts, then that bomb would explode internally, blasting the Witch King sitting at the top to smithereens (similar to the backstabbing subordinate in the previous life). Thus, he had to fight, whether he wanted to or not, as conditions didn’t allow for any other choices.
The Witch King’s domain was bordered to the north by Rikoku and adjacent to Tianzhu to the west, leaving only these two directions for external pressure release.
Hence, the Privy Council had already set the grand strategy: not only to strike actively but to secure an overwhelming victory!
The Sorcerers represented a loose, feudal-like alliance; the myriad small boundaries between forces hindered the flow of information. It wasn’t as if defeating the Witch King on your end would instantly spread the news for all to know overnight.
Therefore, it was necessary to deal a brutally crushing blow to the Witch King, one so fierce that it would capture global attention and compel international media to report extensively, effectively conveying the message to enough Sorcerers that "Rikoku cannot be opposed."
In a word: to strike hard!
"The target of the Witch King’s invasion has been confirmed; it’s the Mirror Lake Secret Realm that recently appeared in the Ailao Mountains," Li Weiguo said in conclusion. "Head immediately to Erhai and converge with the Pingxi Army’s garrison troops there, waiting for further orders from your superiors!"
"Understood," Yan Yu stood up.
The girls also hurriedly packed their gear, ready to depart, and Lin Ning went upstairs to inform Xie Ruoxi.
After spending about fifteen minutes packing up their living essentials, the group left the villa, and six streaks of sword light soared into the sky!
In the bustling downtown area of Jinling, passersby slowly began looking up, only to see six streaks of sword light in colors of green, blue, purple, yellow, black, and white, dazzling and resplendent, tearing through the night sky, commanding the stars, heading straight for the southwestern horizon!
As the Sword Light Formation sped across the Yangtze River, they collectively picked up speed again. Xie Ruoxi, leading the front with Sword Control, tore through the air to provide slipstream for the others. Yan Yu with the Huang Tingjian was stationed in the center, Lin Ning and Zhao Yuanzhen guarded the flanks, while Chen Lingyun and Su Yunjin took up the rear, enjoying the least air resistance.
"Listen up, everyone," Yan Yu communicated to the group. "If we’re assigned to fight in a secret realm, we’ll use the Dagger Strategy, just like the operation on Black Dragon Isle. However, if we’re to intercept Sorcerers and get involved in large-scale warfare with thousands or tens of thousands of Transcendents, it will be a different matter entirely."
"The Dagger Strategy emphasizes being swift, accurate, and ruthless, trading space for time to seize the target; large-scale warfare, on the other hand, is the opposite. Completing the task isn’t the priority—if you can’t accomplish it, someone else naturally will—but you only have one life—survival is the top priority, do you understand?"
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"Understood!" The girls, hearing his grave words, promptly responded.
"In large-scale warfare, no matter how powerful an individual’s strength may be, it can easily be offset by the overwhelming numbers from the other side," Yan Yu shared his war experience from the previous life. "I only have three requirements for everyone: one, stick together! Two, follow commands! Three, respond promptly!"
"No leaving the group without permission; no disobeying orders; no delays in execution—did everyone hear me?!"
"Heard you!" The girls responded once more.
"Right, there’s one more thing," Yan Yu thought carefully for a moment and suddenly added, "After arriving at Erhai, each of you find time to write a letter to your family, in case of death, and send it to me."
Everyone: .........
"Aren’t you being a bit too ominous!" Lin Ning, as expected, spoke up directly to complain.
"This is no joke!" Yan Yu said seriously. "When you’re on the brink of life and death, the most crucial thing is to conquer the fear of dying!"
"Simply put, when you go into battle, you must be prepared to die at any moment; that’s when your chances of survival are highest! Do you know why new soldiers who fear death the most tend to die easily? Because they aren’t prepared to face death; their minds are filled with too many distractions when they should be fighting for their lives."
"Writing a will isn’t about making peace with death but about ensuring that when you’re facing death head-on, you won’t be subconsciously distracted thinking, ’I still haven’t said certain things to my parents,’ and instead, you’ll be able to make the right choice immediately!"
