Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 519 - 15 Ruoxi’s Ghost Story

Chapter 519 -15 Ruoxi’s Ghost Story

The second layer of the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm is the area with the highest Spiritual Energy concentration within the six provinces governed by the Zhendong Army.

Considering that the Spiritual Energy Resurgence had just happened, it naturally became a priority to take the opportunity to engage in Breathing and Energy Refining diligently to enhance one’s Cultivation as quickly as possible.

As long as one could level up faster than the competitors, subsequent battles would be like controlling a puppet, where even with numerous swordsmanship flaws, one could still overwhelmingly suppress the opponent, forcing them to exert much more effort in response.

Because rapid Breathing and Energy Refining is so crucial, there really shouldn’t have been such trouble caused by building this kind of house! Did you hear that, Old Li!

Luckily, near the cliff on the outer perimeter of the valley, there was a small but densely packed grove of trees.

After dinner, Yan Yu pretended to go for a post-dinner walk with Ningning, leading Zhao Yuanzhen into the woods where the three of them practiced Breathing Techniques together.

This was the only way to conceal activities from prying eyes!

Although it was meant to deceive others, misunderstandings were inevitable. When Yan Yu returned, he saw Yun Jin’s tender glances moving back and forth over him, Sister Zhao, and Ningning.

Even though she said nothing, it was as if she had said everything, leaving Yan Yu completely at a loss for words, feeling somewhat sweaty.

Yun Jin, it’s not that I don’t want to include you; it’s just that Ningning has just arrived and needs some time to adjust before we add more people!

Of course, since Su Yunjin hadn’t spoken up, Yan Yu couldn’t just spill the beans; he had to act as if nothing had happened and volunteered:

“Why aren’t the beddings spread out yet? Come on, I’ll help.”

The room wasn’t exactly small, but there were six people from the Zhenhai Team. It was definitely impossible to fit six beds, even the quilts were of those narrow types that you could roll off with just a turn.

Yan Yu quickly set up the floor beds. Six quilts, arranged in two rows with the pillows on the inside, so that no one would have to smell someone else’s feet while sleeping.

Even if a beautiful girl’s feet smelled nice, Yan Yu didn’t want to smell them nor did he plan to have his feet near anyone else.

“All set!” After finishing, he clapped his hands and laughed, “Choose your spots.”

“I want to be next to Ruoxi,” Zhao Yuanzhen immediately said.

“Then I want to be next to Ruoxi too,” Chen Lingyun said with a smile, winking at Yun Jin.

Su Yunjin responded with a grateful look. Since the first row’s sleeping order was Zhao, Xie, Chen, the natural order for the second row was Su, Yan, Lin… Of course, it would be best as Yan, Su, Lin, but since Yan Yu had already sat down cross-legged on the middle bedding, there was no need to make a fuss about moving aside unless she intended to specifically target Ningning.

Everyone chose their spots and then began to sit in meditation for their nightly Breathing Exercises.

Though they were all introducing qi into their bodies and refining it into True Yuan, their attitudes were markedly different.

Inside the woods, combining forces to circulate qi, they had already completed their daily tasks, so Zhao Yuanzhen was bored. On the surface, he pretended to be engaged in breathing and energy refining, but in reality, he was secretly taking naps.

Xie Ruoxi was also distracted, occasionally covertly lifting her eyelids to look around at her teammates and the captain sitting opposite her—after all, cultivating fast, taking small peeks didn’t matter.

Chen Lingyun kept her eyes closed, completely still. Knowing her talent was inferior and her True Yuan growth rate was insufficient, she had to double her efforts in breathing and energy refining to avoid falling too far behind.

Su Yunjin was also focused on Cultivating. Having secured the spot beside the team leader made her extremely happy and content. With a stable Dao Heart, she even felt that her speed at circulating the heavens had increased.

Lin Ning sat on the other side of Yan Yu, also diligently engaged in Breathing Exercises. Although the increase in True Yuan was minimal, being a Problem Solver, she enjoyed her futile efforts and persevered.

Surrounded by beautiful girls, Yan Yu felt not a hint of joy but tried introducing qi into his body. Discovering he couldn’t feel the slightest qi, he had to give up.

Alas, why can’t a wheel turn by itself without an engine?

Until late at night, everyone had gradually completed their daily tasks and bid each other goodnight before crawling into their quilts.

With the lights out, the room was dimly lit, the temperature was also very congenial—a perfect level of comfort where no air conditioning was needed, just the Spiritual Energy-rich night breeze blowing in through the window.

Gradually, Yan Yu felt sleepy, not because his body needed rest, but just the natural adjustment of his biological clock. If he got up to play on his phone, he could easily pull an all-nighter, becoming more awake as he played.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard Chen Lingyun say:

“This is our first time team building overnight, isn’t it?”

“What’s wrong?” Lin Ning asked.

“How about we have a ghost story session?” Chen Lingyun suggested with a smile.

“Sure.” “No, please no.” Two people immediately spoke up.

The one who said “sure” was Xie Ruoxi, a seasoned otaku girl who frequented the internet and wasn’t scared by any ghost stories. Instead, she had many thrilling tales to share with everyone.

The one who said “no” was Su Yunjin. Although the literature-loving girl adored novels, she actually read a little of everything except horror stories, which she absolutely avoided.

“Hey, Yun Jin, are you scared of ghosts?” Zhao Yuanzhen asked puzzled, “Our team has a Necromancer. No matter what ghosts come, they would be captured by her with the Soul Summoning Banner. What’s there to be afraid of?”

“I’m not scared of those kinds of ghosts,” Su Yunjin explained, “I’m scared of the completely unscientific, humanly unbeatable spooky stuff — the kind you usually find in ghost stories.”

“Yun Jin, it’s a rare opportunity. Who knows when we will all get together for a sleepover again,” Chen Lingyun said aloud while secretly sending her a message, saying a few sentences.

“Okay, okay then,” Su Yunjin eventually conceded.

“What about Ningning?” Chen Lingyun continued, “Ningning is probably not scared of ghosts, right? There are lots of ghost stories from the Minyue area too.”

“Of, of course not scared,” Lin Ning’s voice trembled slightly as she pretended to be brave.

“Since everyone agrees, you don’t mind, do you, Captain?” Chen Lingyun finally asked.

“Do as you please, I’m going to sleep now,” Yan Yu, neither scared of nor interested in ghost stories, promptly declared his non-participation.

“Alright, I’ll start with one,” Xie Ruoxi said enthusiastically, “I have a cousin from afar…”

“Don’t make it sound like it really happened!” Lin Ning quickly interjected in panic.

“Uh…” Xie Ruoxi paused silently, thinking isn’t it obvious this is made up? But to soothe Ningning, she changed her tone and said, “Fine, it has nothing to do with me. It’s about a girl whose sister suddenly disappeared one day. Despite a long search, the family couldn’t find her. After her parents gave up and despaired, every night she started having nightmares. She dreamt that at midnight, someone would crawl under her covers and try to strangle her…”

Meanwhile, Yan Yu, who was listening quietly, suddenly felt something creeping into the right side of his covers.

Yun Jin?

He instinctively thought it was Su Yunjin trying to scare him by playing along with the story and was about to scold her when his right arm was hugged.

The trembling literature-loving girl was secretly delighted for the chance to snuggle up to the captain, while simultaneously terrified of the ghost story Xie Ruoxi was telling, a mixture of pain and pleasure.

“Every time when she is about to be strangled to death, she would abruptly wake from the nightmare,” Xie Ruoxi vividly continued, “My uncle… ahem, I mean, the girl’s father took her to the hospital, but they found nothing wrong with her.”

Yan Yu’s left hand tightened suddenly as someone firmly grasped his hand, their fingers interlocking tightly.

That familiar touch, Ningning?

“Eventually, unable to endure the torment of the recurring nightmares, she decided to move out alone,” Xie Ruoxi concluded, “While packing and tidying up her room, she suddenly noticed that the floor under the bed was loose. She lifted it to find, to her horror, the wide-eyed corpse of her sister with bruises on her neck from being strangled to death…”

At this point, she suddenly flung off the covers making a noise, and deliberately screamed,

“Who’s crawling into my covers?!”

“Ah—” The scream came from Su Yunjin, who promptly dove completely under Yan Yu’s covers, clutching his right hand tightly.

Lin Ning pulled over his left arm and hugged it tightly as if it were a lifesaving straw. Although she didn’t scream like Yun Jin, her body incessantly quivered.

Caught between them, Yan Yu, face expressionless, stared at the ceiling and asked flatly,

“If she was just packing and tidying up, why would she check under the bed?”

“Good question, Captain!” Xie Ruoxi chuckled, “Actually, the hidden setting of this story is that the girl strangled her sister during an argument and hid the body under the floor of her own bed in a panic. Then, overwhelmed by fear and anxiety, she forgot about it. The nightmares were actually her brain’s effort to recover the memory… How about that? Scary, right?”

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“Truly terrifying,” Yan Yu remarked, realizing he couldn’t pull his arms back at all.