Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 791 Ouroboros

Yan Yu is on the move!

If even Liu Longtao can't handle a certain enemy, then Lu Guo will have no choice but to ask him to resolve the issue.

Before setting off, Yan Yu went to the Privy Council to retrieve relevant satellite records and discovered that at the time of the incident, Liu Longtao was traveling eastward along the Tone River, flying at a very fast speed on his sword, and frequently turning back to bombard the area behind him with Taoist magic... a place where there was no one.

Clearly, the enemy is optically invisible.

Even if it's not visible in the surveillance footage, some data about this invisible enemy can be deduced from Liu Longtao's retaliatory tactics.

Speed: Extremely fast. It can keep up with the speed of flying on a sword and can fly and turn nimbly.

Size: Relatively large. This forced Master Jing to continuously use wide-range Taoist magic to bombard the area.

Attack method: Unknown. It's also stealthy, but judging from Liu Longtao's frequent and abrupt changes in direction, it's definitely not a move that can be easily ignored.

Liu Longtao eventually entered a nearby house, which then collapsed, and no one ever came out again—that was the place Yan Yu was going to investigate.

Yan Yu made no attempt to conceal his whereabouts, swaggering through the air on his sword. Below, numerous city streets appeared on the plains, but few pedestrians or cars passed by, giving the scene a lifeless and desolate appearance.

According to the information provided by Kyo, the Yamata no Orochi can create clones and disguise itself, making it far more powerful than any "Godzilla that's a hundred meters tall."

Godzilla simply standing there would automatically lock onto all the attack fire. Monsters disguised as humans blended into the crowd, and even the cultivators from the Lu Kingdom could only scan them one by one with their divine sense, and they had to prevent everyone from leaving the scene.

Upon arriving at their destination, they didn't see a single person, leading them to believe that the Yin-Yang Institute was probably finished.

Yan Yu landed in front of the house. Without even scanning with his divine sense, he could tell that something was wrong with the house—it looked as if something had sliced ​​it in half from top to bottom and then abducted the people inside.

After silently mourning for Master Jing for a moment, Yan Yu stepped into the room, when he suddenly heard someone beside him say:
"Who are you looking for?"

Yan Yu turned his head and found that the person standing in front of him was a middle-aged man, dressed in a suit and tie, with hair slicked back on. He originally had a very energetic look, but it was completely ruined by his dull eyes.

Ok?
He immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Normal people rely most on their eyes for perception, as the information they see accounts for more than 80% of the total information their brains acquire. However, cultivators rely on both their eyes and their divine sense for perception. Especially for someone like Yan Yu, whose divine sense is at a certain level, a casual sweep of divine sense at any time is as normal as eating, drinking, or breathing.

The strange thing about this person in front of me is that he doesn't exist at all in the field of vision with the naked eye; but when scanned with divine sense, he is clearly standing in front of me.

In the Land of the Rising Sun, many invisible ghosts are like this, so it's not particularly strange to single one out. The real problem is that Yan Yu has no idea when he approached him.

Even if you emerged from underground, there should at least be a process of emerging, right? How could I not have observed it at all?

Countless thoughts flashed through Yan Yu's mind like lightning, but then he heard someone beside him ask:

"Who are you looking for?"

The other person was also speaking Mandarin, but it was a woman's voice, slightly hoarse. Yan Yu couldn't see anyone in his peripheral vision, but his divine sense scan revealed that it was a middle-aged woman carrying a basket of groceries, wearing heavy makeup, and with dull, lifeless eyes.

It was as if it had appeared out of nowhere right next to me.

Yan Yu scanned his surroundings with his divine sense. In just five or six seconds, he was surrounded by a crowd that appeared one after another. Students, young adults, old men, children... ordinary people of all ages, professions, and genders stared intently at him, repeatedly uttering the same phrase:

"Who are you looking for?"

In response, they were met with countless extremely sharp sword energies.

Although these ghosts did not launch an attack, it was certainly not advisable to wait for them to create any formations or barriers before making a move. Yan Yu made a sword gesture, and the Yin-Yang Dust Sword Formation also appeared. In just a few breaths, it slayed all the thousands of ghosts around him.

The corpse was torn apart, flesh and blood flying everywhere, but the flesh quickly turned into foul blood, staining the surrounding ground crimson. Before Yan Yu could even catch his breath, more humanoid ghosts "spawned" around him, men and women, old and young. This time, they didn't waste any words and pounced straight at Yan Yu, baring their fangs and claws!
Yan Yu immediately took off on his sword, breaking away from the crowd. After flying several hundred meters, he suddenly turned around, with Huang Tingkunwu sword hanging horizontally in front of his chest.

Slash.

After a sword immortal forms their core, their total true essence increases by more than tenfold. If they fully unleash their sword control techniques, they can easily unleash sword energy, or "sword qi".

In the past, when Li Minghu faced the Witch King's allied forces, she killed the Witch King with one sword and annihilated the army by splitting the sea with another. Even though she ultimately perished, she still earned the title of Valkyrie. This shows how powerful and devastating the sword energy is when facing a large number of low-level enemies!
The sword energy slashed through the air, unstoppable in its path, causing countless humanoid ghosts to explode and die, their blood raining down and staining the surrounding streets crimson. Yan Yu no longer hesitated, turning around and flying away at full speed on his sword. More and more humanoid ghosts kept spawning around him, only to be left behind in the next second. Even though their speed was far beyond his reach, they still relentlessly pursued him.

In his previous life, the Yamata no Orochi had never heard of such a bizarre and inexplicable evil technique!

Yan Yu scanned the area behind him with his divine sense and saw a huge, dark red shadow suddenly rise from the town stained with blood.

Something is about to come out of the blood.

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At this time, the Privy Council of the Lu Kingdom was in an extremely urgent situation.

Because when Yan Yu was near the location where Liu Longtao last appeared, he also suddenly disappeared on the spot.

Slowing down the satellite footage reveals that Yan Yu's scalp disappeared first, followed by his head, then his upper and lower body, and finally even his feet were completely erased.

There was no fighting or debris at the scene. Rather than saying Yan Yu was dead, it was more like he had suddenly fallen into some kind of "invisibility" state.

Or, in the terminology of Onmyoji: Shenyin (神隐).

The disappearance of the Lu Kingdom's number one general quickly triggered great tension among the higher-ups. Some suggested sending a third wave of Golden Core cultivators to provide support, but this was quickly and unanimously rejected by vote.

The reason is simple: before understanding the predicament Yan Yu and Liu Longtao are in, we can't just send all the Golden Core cultivators to their doom like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.

Soichiro was interrogated again, but unfortunately, his knowledge was so limited that he knew nothing at all.

As the last person Jingye contacted, Chen Lingyun was also asked to attend the emergency meeting. After watching the slow-motion satellite footage and listening to the analyses and speculations of several experts, Chen Lingyun suddenly said:
“I don’t think either of them is right. If you were suddenly pulled into a secret realm, your whole body should be teleported in at the same time, and you shouldn’t disappear one by one from head to toe.”

"But we don't fully understand the teleportation mechanism of the secret realms yet," one of the experts at the meeting said. "Is the teleportation mechanism of the secret realms in Sakura Empire the same as ours? We have too little information, and we have to take that into account."

“Even so, it only proves the possibility of being ‘involved in the secret realm’,” Chen Lingyun said calmly. “If we’re going to guess, let’s guess the most likely one, such as…”

"Was it swallowed by the invisible Yamata no Orochi?"

The meeting fell silent. After a moment, Chen Tianming spoke, asking:
"You were possessed by a ghost, and you saw it with your own eyes?"

"No," Chen Lingyun shook her head and said, "My cultivation of the Eyes and Ears Divine Skill is not deep enough, so my monitoring range cannot reach that far."

Everyone fell silent. So you really are possessed by a ghost, right?
"The name 'Yamata' means eight heads and eight tails," Chen Lingyun said calmly. "A snake with its heads and tails represents a boundless universe, a small world. Yan Yu and Liu Longtao were swallowed by the Yamata no Orochi and mistakenly entered the world inside its belly. This is my conjecture."

“We can be bold in our conjectures,” Chen Tianming said, looking around at the others. “But we must be careful when seeking verification.”

"Then let's explore again." The group quickly reached a consensus.

“I’ll go,” Chen Lingyun volunteered. “I’ll bring a camera that can transmit data across secret realms and leave a ghost in the outside world.”

"If a signal can be transmitted from inside after I disappear, then it is undoubtedly a secret realm."

"If we lose all contact, then you don't need to waste any more effort searching. Just wait for us to break through from the inside."

(End of this chapter)