Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 276 - 74 Reuniting with Li Minghu

In the wee hours, the Zhenhai Team arrived in the Erhai area.

The military manor here was already overcrowded. Not to mention the vast numbers of cultivators from the troops, even the teams summoned from both Annan and Pingxi amounted to dozens.

Local defense cultivators were flying around on their swords, arranging accommodations for the newly arrived comrades-in-arms.

Not long after Yan Yu and his team arrived, he received a text message from Li Minghu:

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"Have you arrived?"

"Yes."

"Send me your coordinates."

"I’ll have Ruoxi cast a lightning, watch for it."

Yan Yu turned his head and gave the order, and Xie Ruoxi raised her arm and released a divine thunderbolt, strikingly visible in the night sky.

"Saw it."

After a while, Li Minghu came over on his sword, leading the Zhenhai Team members to a nearby hotel, and distributed room cards to everyone.

All the team cultivators were staying in this hotel. Due to the excessive number of people, the standard arrangement was three standard rooms per team; usually, the team leader would occupy one room alone, while the remaining four shared the other two rooms.

However, when everyone started to distribute the room cards, an unexpected problem arose:

We have six people!

"Are there any other rooms available?" Yan Yu asked the front desk.

"Sorry, we’re fully booked," the front desk replied with difficulty.

The whole hotel was pre-booked by the Pingxi Army, with specific rooms allocated to each team. The leftover rooms had been arranged for other purposes, leaving no vacancies whatsoever.

"In that case," Su Yunjin said calmly, "then I’ll share a room with the captain."

"How can that be?" Lin Ning said incredulously, "Yun Jin, you and the captain aren’t in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, how can you share a room? Don’t you care about your reputation?"

I’ve already shared a room with the captain before… Su Yunjin looked at Lin Ning indifferently, really wanting to throw this trump card out and kill Ningning once and for all!

But she held back.

Lin Ning hasn’t yet decided if she likes the captain. If Su Yunjin rashly provoked her, and it ended up making Lin Ning more determined, wouldn’t she be creating her own rival in love?

Thus, Su Yunjin simply said:

"No matter who it is, someone has to share a room with the captain. Ningning, are you volunteering?"

As a literary girl, her insight into the human heart was naturally on point. Lin Ning indeed couldn’t say "I’ll do it" and could only stand by anxiously with a face full of "I disagree."

"Then I’ll do it," said Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly. She remembered that she still had to dual cultivate Qi Refinement with Yan Yu, "Anyway, someone has to, so I’ll do it."

"Then it’ll be Sister Zhao," Yan Yu decisively said. "Yun Jin, you stay with Ningning. Ling Yun can stay with Ruoxi."

Su Yunjin acknowledged with an "Okay," forcefully suppressing her displeasure, but inside, she was becoming agitated.

Why not choose me?

Captain, we’ve lived together before, so why did you pick Sister Zhao this time?

In what way is she better than me?

Looking at Zhao Yuanzhen’s figure, Su Yunjin slowly lost her words, her expression growing increasingly gloomy.

Could it be...

Lin Ning, on the other hand, breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Zhao Yuanzhen had to cultivate with Yan Yu every night, so she didn’t think in other directions, but rather said cheerfully to Su Yunjin:

"I’ve got the room card. Shall we go, Yun Jin?"

"Yeah," Su Yunjin replied, her eyelids drooping, utterly unwilling to acknowledge her best friend.

Yan Yu, over at his room with Zhao Yuanzhen, had already grown accustomed to cohabitation; they didn’t need any communication. The Demonic Sect Enchantress went to freshen up first, while Yan Yu changed into slippers and sat on the bed, beginning to play with his phone.

Thud, thud, thud! Someone was knocking on the door from outside.

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Yan Yu went over to take a look and found it to be the siblings from the Li Family.

He opened the door and welcomed the two into the room. Zhao Yuanzhen also heard the noise and peeked out from the bathroom. Seeing that it was Li Zhaojiang and Li Minghu entering, she turned back to continue washing her face.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" Li Zhaojiang exclaimed, "Comrade Yan, bringing family along to the battlefield? Do you still have the mindset to fight properly?"

"Don’t you also bring family?" retorted Yan Yu.

"Nonsense!" Li Zhaojiang first instinctively rebutted, then suddenly realized that the "family" Yan Yu referred to was not a "wife" but a "sister" and quickly defended, "My sister is also a cultivator, how can that be the same?"

"Isn’t Little Zhao a cultivator too?" Yan Yu countered.

"My sister is on the same team as me," Li Zhaojiang continued arguing.

"Aren’t we?" Yan Yu asked again.

Li Zhaojiang finally admitted defeat and Li Minghu, with a smile, spoke up,

"We’re intruding so early in the morning because there’s a serious matter we’d like to discuss."

"Hmm, go ahead," said Yan Yu, gesturing for the two to sit down.

"There are three top battle teams participating this time: Zhenhai, Huofeng, and us," Li Minghu slowly stated, "The Privy Council’s arrangement is that one team is responsible for seizing the Mysterious Realm in the mirror lake of Ailao Mountain, while the other two teams are tasked with intercepting the Witch King Army."

"The Pingxi Army wants Zhou Hongyu’s team to handle the Mysterious Realm. What’s your opinion on this, Team Yan?"

As everyone knows, whoever conquers the Mysterious Realm will have the right to dispose of its harvest. Not to mention the higher risk of intercepting the Witch King Army and comparatively fewer benefits. Naturally, no one would be pleased.

Yan Yu pondered briefly and chuckled,

"Who has what duty, isn’t that decided by the higher-ups? Even if the Pingxi Army wants to negotiate, they should be talking to the Zhendong Army, not to our Zhenhai Team."

"That’s true," Li Minghu replied with a slight smile, "but the response from the Zhendong Army is that they respect the Zhenhai Team’s opinion."

Yan Yu burst into laughter upon hearing this.

Lord Li really trusts me, knowing that I would definitely prioritize the greater good, so he deliberately said he respects my opinion, right?

"It doesn’t matter to our Qing’an Team whether we compete with Zhou Hongyu or not," Li Zhaojiang said indifferently, "The Mysterious Realm is originally within the jurisdiction of the Pingxi Army, so it’s reasonable for them to take it on. Now it’s up to you whether you want to compete with them."

"There’s nothing to compete for," Yan Yu said calmly, "Given Zhou Hongyu’s capabilities, it’s more appropriate for her to take on the Mysterious Realm. As for the battle... I fear that she might land back in the ICU just after being discharged."

"That’s also a good point," Li Minghu nodded.

The words just exchanged, if coming from the Zhendong Army, would be "orders from superiors", and if from the Pingxi Army or the Huofeng Team, might seem like a show of force. Therefore, engaging a third party, the Qing’an Team, to sound out opinions was best, to avoid Yan Yu developing unnecessary thoughts.

But in a certain sense, it also reflected the upper echelon’s increasing regard for Yan Yu, the "Longcheng Flying General", to such an extent that they even started considering his thoughts and carefully avoiding any misjudgments.

Li Minghu, with his acute sensitivity, also knew that the other way of saying "regard" was actually "wary".

It must be because of the recent monk rebellion incident in Jiujiang that the Privy Council started to pay attention to the loyalty issues of top cultivators.

He who wears a sword may defy the ban; the key isn’t the defiance but possession of the sword. Those two cultivators chose to rebel not only because they had their demands but because they had the martial power. Put simply, as long as individuals have the strength to oppose the collective, rebellion is merely a question of numbers and probability.

The rebels this time were just cultivators from the Zhendong Army. What about next time? If Yan Yu’s family were hurt, would he bear it and follow protocol, or would he likewise wreak havoc on the enemy’s family?

If it were me in trouble, would Zhaojiang also...

Li Minghu shuddered at the thought and suppressed his tumultuous emotions, continuing his discussion with Yan Yu:

"I’ve heard that even within the Witch King’s faction, there are two camps, the mainstream following the Witch King to Lu Country; the opposition believes it’s more suitable to seek opportunities in Tianzhu."

"The Annan Army has already started firing at the front lines this morning, attacking self-organized sorcerers from the other side. It’s said that about forty people were killed or wounded."

"It’s useless," Yan Yu shook his head, "Modern warfare’s approach cannot restrain Transcendents."

It’s not that modern weapons cannot kill Transcendents, but rather an issue of enemy detection and efficiency.

For example, a recent intelligence report indicated that Yin sorcerers can temporarily turn their bodies into Yin Ghosts, appearing as a transparent shadow to the naked eye, hard to discern, immune to physical harm, and invisible to cameras, allowing them to sneak into the border and kill unnoticed. If you cannot even locate them, how are you supposed to fight against that?

If given enough time, allowing science and technology to advance, there might be ways to find more effective methods, didn’t the previous generation also develop True Yuan storage devices, allowing ordinary soldiers to cast spells?

But now, with only a little over half a year since the Spiritual Energy Resurgence, they haven’t even fully figured out what kind of dark magic the enemy sorcerers possess. Without a clear understanding of the enemy, there’s no use talking about restraint.

"Indeed," Li Minghu sighed, "Now, the only ones who can effectively intercept Transcendents are Transcendents themselves."