Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 794 Personal Verification
Chen Lingyun waved the prison banner, and for a moment the entire room was filled with a chilling wind and howling demonic sounds.

A large number of ghosts escaped from the banner, then disappeared amidst snickers, scattering in all directions through the doors and windows until they vanished.

Yan Yu followed Chen Lingyun out of the room and flew low over the town on his sword.

Forward, forward, left, forward, right... Her flight path was completely irregular, but whether she deviated to the left or to the right, she would eventually return to the same direction.

Considering that she didn't encounter any ghosts along the way, it means that the ghosts that spread out in all directions did indeed provide Chen Lingyun with a reconnaissance ability comparable to seeing through an entire map.

“I understand now.” Yan Yu suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, “Every time you were clearly not at the scene, you knew everything about what happened afterwards. So this is how you’ve been monitoring us.”

"No, not at all." Chen Lingyun smiled radiantly.

"Do you think I'd believe your nonsense?" Yan Yu sneered.

"If you didn't believe me, why did you ask me?" Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "You're quite cute when you pretend to be extremely confident while secretly observing my expression."

Yan Yu: ………………

No, I have to hold back! She's deliberately provoking me like this to get me to play duo matchmaking with her here! I can't fall for this woman's trick!

He instantly saw through Chen Lingyun's trick and felt like he had won again, haha.

The two flew on their swords for about ten minutes. Chen Lingyun's changes of direction became more and more frequent, which meant that there were more and more invisible ghosts around, and the probability of being discovered was also increasing rapidly.

Suddenly, a gigantic, fleshy serpent rose from the ground, its body as massive and majestic as a mountain. Yan Yu instinctively tried to pull Chen Lingyun away, but the serpent didn't even glance at him, turning and chasing after him in another direction.

He turned around in confusion, only to see Chen Lingyun blink and smile:

"A feint attack in the east while striking in the west."

I must say, while your strategy is indeed quite impressive, the smile you wear when you flaunt it is undeniably arrogant.

With the departure of the giant flesh serpent, no more souls remained in the vicinity.

Chen Lingyun led Yan Yu through a series of twists and turns, finally stopping in front of a building.

"Is Master Jing hiding in here?" Yan Yu asked, looking at the public toilet in front of him, puzzled.

“Oh right,” Chen Lingyun said, “it’s in the women’s restroom.”

She quietly walked to the entrance of the women's restroom, then suddenly raised her voice and, mimicking the stiff, lifelike accents of the departed spirits, said:
"Found you! Found you! Found you!"

In a split second, the sword light burst through the wall and fled! Seeing that Master Jing was about to fly into the sky and escape, Yan Yu quickly sent a telepathic message:
"Wait, that was Chen Lingyun calling!"

The sword light spun in the air before slowly landing on the ground, revealing Liu Longtao's extremely ugly expression. After a long while, he said:
"Why are you two so late? Did you go out and have some fun before coming to find me?"

"Hehe, you almost guessed right. Luckily, I have excellent strategic composure." Yan Yu said righteously.
"What are you saying? You're trying to lure me away from the mountain, how could I possibly waste the precious time you've gained and let myself be held back by those sentimental matters? Old Liu, Old Liu, I'm not trying to criticize you, but you should have changed your petty and judgmental nature a long time ago."

"Hehe." Seeing Yan Yu's righteous indignation and apparent lack of deception, Liu Longtao felt somewhat embarrassed. He then looked at Chen Lingyun with a forced smile, wanting to make a sarcastic remark, but quickly realized he was no match for this woman's verbal skills, so he could only awkwardly change the subject:

"Let's leave quickly. Otherwise, if those monsters return and find us again, it will be terrible."

The three of them went into the park management office next door, where Yan Yu told Liu Longtao in detail about Chen Lingyun's reasoning, analysis, and guesses.

"Just because the way we entered here was by being swallowed by an invisible giant snake; so the way we leave here is by being swallowed by a giant flesh snake?" Liu Longtao finally found an opportunity to mock Chen Lingyun, and sneered mercilessly, "If I hit you on the head with a hammer and made you lose your memory, then according to your logic, the way to restore your memory is to hit you on the head again, right?"

“If you enter through a door, you will naturally exit through a door. The giant snake has been proven to be that door,” Chen Lingyun said calmly. “As for the metaphor of swinging a hammer and club, it’s too primitive and foolish. Even if I explain it, you might not understand.”

"Ha! You can't explain it because your logic is flawed!" Liu Longtao said smugly. "I knew this kind of analogy was complete nonsense..."

"Wait a moment," Yan Yu interrupted him. "Ling Yun also said that she would personally verify this guess."

“...But even if a reasoning or guess sounds like utter nonsense, we can’t rashly reject it before we verify it.” Liu Longtao said seriously, “Well, practice makes perfect, and I wholeheartedly support you in verifying it.”

"Actually, he just wants to see you fail," Yan Yu said to Chen Lingyun.

"I know," Chen Lingyun smiled slightly, "and you want to see it too, right?"

“I don’t necessarily have to see it,” Yan Yu said frankly. “If you succeed, we can leave this godforsaken place. If you fail, seeing you in such a sorry state because of your miscalculation isn’t such a bad outcome.”

“Then you probably won’t see the latter,” Chen Lingyun said calmly, “because I’m confident.”

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The so-called personal verification is, of course, an extremely dangerous matter. If the flesh-and-blood serpent does not have a portal to leave this world, then being swallowed by it will most likely result in becoming soulless, humanoid parrots.

Yan Yu and Liu Longtao were not worried about this, because they knew that Chen Lingyun would never gamble her life on something she wasn't sure of.

The three of them flew around on their swords outside, and without making any deliberate attempts to avoid them, they were quickly discovered by the wandering ghosts nearby.

Liu Longtao unleashed his full power, slaughtering the hordes of the dead until they coalesced into a giant serpent of flesh and blood, rising from the ground.

The two looked at Chen Lingyun at the same time, and heard Yan Yu say:
"Be careful, don't take any risks."

"Don't worry," Chen Lingyun said confidently.

She raised the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner in her hand and slammed it hard on the ground. A ghostly shadow flew out from it and quickly pounced on the giant snake's head.

The latter opened its gaping maw and swallowed it whole in an instant.

Chen Lingyun frowned slightly, and after a long while, she said:

"No, that's not how it works."

She slammed the prison banner to the ground again, and this time more than a dozen ghostly figures flew out, only to be swallowed whole by the giant snake once more.

The two: ………………

So you weren't planning to try it yourself?

"Old Yan," Liu Longtao asked telepathically, "about how many ghosts are inside her magic weapon?"

Yan Yu said expressionlessly:

"Anyway, we won't use it all."

This woman originally planned to collect millions of ghosts to work as laborers in order to rebuild the underworld. If all the ghosts in her banner were released, they might be able to exhaust all the dead spirits in this world.

The flesh-and-blood serpent accepted all these vengeful spirits without hesitation. If it could transform the souls it devoured into enslaved ghosts, then Chen Lingyun's actions were tantamount to feeding it, a case of one willing to feed and the other willing to eat.

As each vengeful spirit was digested by the giant flesh-and-blood serpent, Chen Lingyun quietly probed the spatial structure within its body, and suddenly smiled slightly:
"found it."

"How so?" Yan Yu asked.

Chen Lingyun did not answer, but instead flew up on her sword and into the giant snake's mouth.

Yan Yu and Liu Longtao looked at each other in bewilderment.

The next second, they saw the giant fleshy serpent open its mouth and pounce on the two of them—startling them so much that they hurriedly flew away on their swords, almost falling off their flying swords.

"Old Yan, is your wife any good?!" Liu Longtao cried out in despair.

“How should I know!” Yan Yu shouted back.

In the real world, Chen Lingyun staggered out of the void, instantly merging with the sword light and quickly escaping hundreds of meters away.

The invisible giant serpent missed its target behind her. Chen Lingyun's sword light rapidly rose to a height of several thousand meters before disappearing on its own.

“I’ve found out.” High in the sky, she dialed Mei Yingxue’s number and said, “The creature ravaging Cherry Blossom is an invisible giant serpent that devours any mortals it encounters and sends them into its belly world, where it digests and assimilates them into a part of that world.”

"To bring Yan Yu and Liu Longtao out, you'll need two more people in my party."

“Go ahead,” Mei Yingxue said.

“Su Yunjin, Li Minghu,” Chen Lingyun said.

“Li Minghu hasn’t reached the Core Formation stage yet,” Mei Yingxue reminded her.

"It's precisely because she hasn't formed her core that she can be ordered around at will, right?" Chen Lingyun said calmly. "If I wanted two Golden Core cultivators, I'm afraid you might not be willing to give them to me."

"You know?" Mei Yingxue paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, there are reports of serpentine monster sightings all over the world, so we can't send too many people abroad to provide support right now. We need to keep them in the country just in case."

"Hand them over to me," Chen Lingyun said. "I will bring them out as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)