Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 521 - 17: Acquiring the New Sword

Chapter 521 -17: Acquiring the New Sword

The next morning.

Waking up from his slumber, Yan Yu immediately felt something was not right.

Upon closer inspection, sure enough, his right hand was clasped in Yun Jin’s embrace.

She lay on her side with her body curled up, limbs sticking out from the blanket, holding his right arm and sleeping soundly like a rabbit clutching a carrot. Her eyelids quivered slightly, as if she were dreaming.

His left hand was being held by Lin Ning, their fingers interlocked as if she was scared he would run away.

Yan Yu sighed inwardly, carefully pried open Lin Ning’s fingers, withdrew his arm from Yun Jin’s hold, and quietly got out of bed.

Holding hands, embracing, and wrapping limbs—these girls had worse sleeping postures than each other. On this front, indeed, they were no match for Chen Lingyun, who was a quiet and beautiful girl when asleep, not tossing and turning, nor snoring or grinding her teeth, not affecting anyone else’s sleep at all.

At that moment, the Demonic Sect Enchantress was soundly asleep, turned to her right, with her left leg resting on top of Xie Ruoxi.

Xie Ruoxi’s brows were furrowed, seemingly rather uncomfortable—Sister Zhao’s white thigh indeed had a not insignificant heft, something Yan Yu could attest to from experience.

Leaving the room and strolling around outside, he could see that the central construction site was still at work, having not ceased throughout the night.

Military Manor projects, of course, were against the clock and couldn’t be halted even for a moment.

Returning to the room, he saw that all the girls, except Zhao Yuanzhen, had already woken up.

Su Yunjin was cleaning; since there was no kitchen inside the room, Lin Ning had nothing to do for the moment, so she invited Xie Ruoxi to go out with her to bring back food from the cafeteria.

Chen Lingyun was playing with her smartphone, and without looking up, she said to Yan Yu,

“I just got notification that the base station has been installed.”

Yan Yu took out his phone to see, sure enough, there was a signal. Although it wasn’t full strength, he could now go online as usual.

Checking his messages, there was a pile of unread ones; the top two senders weren’t from the girls but from Lord Master and the Demonic brother.

[Liu Shao]: Damn, are you there?

[Win Over with Virtue]: What’s up, want to cry after losing?

[Liu Shao]: You’re finally alive. Did you watch the previous match?

[Win Over with Virtue]: I did. You guys didn’t lose unjustly.

[Liu Shao]: Old Yan, just one question for you, was the strategy of Li Minghu dueling the goalkeeper taught by you before the match?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Why, does losing to Li Minghu feel humiliating, and you’re looking for a reason to comfort yourself?

[Liu Shao]: I knew it was you scheming behind my back!

Ignoring Lord Master’s rant, Yan Yu opened Li Zhaojiang’s chat.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Why aren’t you talking? Seeing us beat Lord Master, are you so jealous that you’re lost for words, Old Yan?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Laughable, have I seldom beaten Lord Master?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: You haven’t won a single official match against him, though.

Yan Yu thought it seemed true; there had been one opportunity before, but later the Goryeo swordsman attacked, and the two teams immediately went from competing to joining forces. Thus, aside from the quad-institute exchange matches, he indeed never had a real fight with Lord Master.

As for competition within the same team, he had beaten Lord Master many times.

[Win Over with Virtue]: This victory of yours is also thanks to your sister’s strategy being on point.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Why can’t it be my own idea?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Your little brain, barely the size of a spoonful, couldn’t come up with such a cunning plan.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Haha, you’re completely wrong. The opposing Sword Immortal was restrained by my Yuan Magnetic Divine Light, so it was bound to become a drawn-out battle. I was the one who proposed this during the pre-match tactical meeting.

[Win Over with Virtue]: So stealing the BOSS was your sister’s idea.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Yeah, our original plan was indeed to win a war of attrition.

Yan Yu fell silent for a while, then continued typing.

[Win Over with Virtue]: So?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: At that time, she observed the battlefield situation and judged that the chances of winning a war of attrition were not high, so she decided to go for the BOSS alone, taking a risky gamble.

[Win Over with Virtue]: You guys were already weaker than the Dragon Soar Team, how could you possibly compete in an endurance battle?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Bullshit, we didn’t even know that Tao Xingyuan would be ambushed and eliminated before the match, okay? Lord Master seemed like a straightforward, big-browed guy, but he turned out to be plotting a sneak attack. Thankfully, my sister was a step ahead in skill.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: But it was indeed close. You watched the live stream, right? If my sister had been just half a minute slower at killing the goalkeeper, she would have been found by Guo Feiyun.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Hey, old Yan, why have you stopped talking again?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: You damn beggar, you’re not pestering my sister again, are you?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Talk, talk, talk!

Yan Yu didn’t have time to bother with him; he was chatting with Li Minghu at the moment.

[Win Over with Virtue]: Your swordsmanship has improved again, huh? You can even solo the Mysterious Realm Gatekeeper now.

[Yuegua Donghu]: It’s because the goalkeeper is too weak. If it were a bit stronger, I couldn’t have beaten it and can only say that I was really lucky this time.

[Win Over with Virtue]: Luck is a kind of strength as well.

[Yuegua Donghu]: You’ve also started training in the Mysterious Realm, right?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Yeah, our accommodation isn’t built yet, so they’ve got us living in shipping containers.

[Yuegua Donghu]: Same for us. The Mysterious Realm is newly conquered, so living spaces haven’t been built in time, we’ve temporarily got six container houses.

[Win Over with Virtue]: We only have one.

There was a long silence on the other end before the next message came.

[Yuegua Donghu]: No way? Why only one? Doesn’t that mean you all have to live together?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Yeah, it’s quite miserable.

[Yuegua Donghu]: That’s really miserable.

For some reason, Yan Yu felt like there was something else on the mind of the person echoing him on the other end.

[Win Over with Virtue]: They even held a ghost story meeting last night, so I didn’t sleep well.

[Yuegua Donghu]: Girls living together for the first time, of course, they’re not willing to go to sleep at night. Ghost stories, gossip, or singing together, it’s all very normal.

[Win Over with Virtue]: Did you have similar experiences when you lived in a dormitory before?

[Yuegua Donghu]: Scram, scram, scram, Old Yan, don’t come harassing my sister!

[Win Over with Virtue]: Haha, touchy.

Yan Yu put down his phone and saw Lin Ning and Xie Ruoxi return with breakfast—noodles, porridge, steamed buns, and deep-fried dough sticks.

These were simple pre-made dishes, and even Zhao Yuanzhen, with her fussy taste, couldn’t find anything wrong with them.

After breakfast, everyone went out to find a place to prepare for training.

The Military Manor had sent someone to deliver a sword; it was the Flying Sword selected for Lin Ning the previous day.

It was of a suitable length, and its body was dark, its surface faintly showing a red color that was hard to notice, like bloodstains.

“So this is my second Flying Sword?” Lin Ning checked it over, turning it in her hands with a frown, “Is this the Flying Sword used by my clone in the Mirror Lake Divine Palace?”

“Seems like it.” Su Yunjin said uncertainly.

“I don’t think so.” Xie Ruoxi objected, “This one seems a little finer.”

“You don’t have to match it exactly.” Yan Yu replied, “Start by refining it to recognize the master. If we find a more suitable one later, we can change it.”

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“Alright then.” Lin Ning stopped fussing over it, held the Flying Sword in her hands, and swung it a few times causally, “Since I already have ‘Green Bamboo’, let’s name this one ‘Red Flame’.”

“‘Red Flame’ is too common, how about ‘Vermillion Blaze’?”

“Huh?” Lin Ning was momentarily stunned and asked Yan Yu, “Was that your voice transmitting to me just now?”

“Not me.” Yan Yu was also mystified.

Lin Ning then looked at Su Yunjin, hesitantly saying:

“Then let’s call it ‘Vermillion Blaze’.”