Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 795: Escaping into the Snake's Belly
During the time Yan Yu and Liu Longtao were trapped in the world inside the stomach, numerous eyewitness reports of serpentine monsters emerged as if springing up after rain.

Two cases in the Eastern Pacific, one in Oceania, three in East Asia, and one in Southeast Asia, plus the invisible giant serpent entrenched in Sakura Empire, have now brought the total number of serpentine giants discovered to eight.

Considering that the Yamata no Orochi has eight heads and eight tails, the best guess is that this monster splits into eight and wreaks havoc across the globe; as for the worst... let's not talk about it.

The serpentine behemoth, its scales a yellowish-brown, was heading straight for the land kingdom and was now entering the Bohai Sea from the Yellow Sea. Submarine probes revealed that any object approaching within a certain range of the giant serpent would be subjected to an inexplicable gravitational pull, causing it to sink instantly.

Because the serpentine monster is in a moving state, shipping routes in the Bohai Sea are seriously threatened; more troublesome is that if it is allowed to land in Tianjin, it will be tantamount to triggering a serious earthquake disaster in Tianjin.

Therefore, the Privy Council of the State of Lu quickly adjusted to the highest level of national emergency and began to formulate a plan to deal with the giant yellow serpent, codenamed "Plan Gonggong".

Gonggong angrily struck Buzhou Mountain with his head, and now this serpentine monster, the size of a mountain, is doomed to collapse completely, just like the pillar of Buzhou!

During the implementation phase of the Gonggong Plan, all top-tier cultivators were placed on standby, ready to be deployed at any time. The only exceptions were Su Yunjin and Li Minghu.

Their mission was to follow Chen Lingyun to rescue Yan Yu and Liu Longtao, and to free up the top two combatants of the Lu Kingdom as soon as possible. Otherwise, if these two were absent, and the remaining cultivators were unable to defeat the giant yellow serpent, the situation would become extremely dangerous.

Su Yunjin followed Chen Lingyun across the Yellow Sea, secretly sending a telepathic message along the way:
"Li Minghu...she hasn't reached the Core Formation stage yet, can she help us?"

"Yes," Chen Lingyun replied.

“But it shouldn’t be that she’s indispensable,” Su Yunjin said, frowning. “If we broaden the criteria to include sword immortals who don’t need to form their core, then Ningning seems to be a better fit.”

“Hmm,” Chen Lingyun replied, “Ningning is indeed an option, but Minghu is more suitable. This trip offers a chance to resolve her health issues once and for all.”

"Really?" Su Yunjin hesitated for a moment.

From a professional standpoint, Lin Ning's tactical coordination with her and Chen Lingyun would definitely be more seamless; emotionally, she would also be more willing to help Ning Ning secure this opportunity. However, if Li Minghu had a compelling reason to go, she would feel embarrassed to insist on going for Ning Ning.

“Think about it,” Chen Lingyun continued, “If Minghu’s health doesn’t recover, she’ll need to continue taking medication, and Yan Yu will have to go regularly to help Minghu with her health maintenance…”

“Since Minghu is in trouble, we can’t just not help.” Su Yunjin immediately said “I’m sorry, Ningning” in her heart, and then solemnly stated that she had no objection.

Li Minghu had no idea what the two were saying in their telepathic communication, but she didn't have time to care. She was just thinking about how she could help in any way.

Based on the information gathered so far, the flesh-and-blood giant serpent requires at least the strength of a Golden Core cultivator to deal with. Not to mention its astonishing speed—it can plow through the ground for thousands of miles at a time—even a cultivator who hasn't yet formed their Golden Core might not have enough time to escape.

Can I really help?

Forget it, there's no point in overthinking since we don't have enough information. Let's just follow Chen Lingyun's orders.

Finding the invisible giant serpent using surveillance equipment was impossible. After arriving at their destination, the three circled repeatedly in the air, waiting for Yan Yu and Liu Longtao to approach the flesh-and-blood serpent again in the inner world, thus revealing themselves in the real world.

After waiting for a moment, Li Minghu suddenly asked:
"If the flesh and blood serpent has the ability to regenerate infinitely, then Yan Yu and Liu Longtao, unaware that we are looking for them, should try their best to avoid being discovered by those wandering souls, right?"

“That’s right,” Chen Lingyun said.

"This is equivalent to the fact that their actions make it difficult for them to appear in the real world," Li Minghu concluded.

"Lingyun must have given them some instructions before she left, right?" Su Yunjin asked, "Like, to periodically reveal her location or something?"

"No," Chen Lingyun said calmly. "Before I left, I wasn't sure if I could leave that world. After being swallowed by the giant flesh and blood serpent, it took me quite a bit of effort to escape. I didn't have a chance to notify them along the way."

"So, is there any other way to detect the invisible giant snake's tracks?" Li Minghu asked thoughtfully. "For example, would it leave traces when it passes by?"

“If there were any traces, we would have discovered them long ago,” Su Yunjin replied. “Currently, we can probably only deduce the approximate direction of the invisible giant snake’s movement based on the specific locations where they appeared in the previous few times.”

"You've overlooked one point," Chen Lingyun said, raising an eyebrow, "What is the purpose of the invisible giant snake's wandering?"

Su Yunjin and Li Minghu looked at each other for a moment, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration and answered in unison:
"eat human!"

“We can find out where the invisible giant snake is just by looking at where residents are disappearing en masse.” Chen Lingyun took out her phone, glanced at it, and said, “Let’s go.”

Before long, the three arrived at the scene.

This place is still an abandoned town, deserted, but the faint sound of car horns can be heard in the distance, indicating that the invisible giant snake has not yet reached that area, so its main body should be nearby.

The three of them simultaneously activated their divine senses, scanning the surrounding area as thoroughly as possible. Chen Lingyun drew out the Prison Banner, releasing hundreds of ghostly shadows once more. After waiting a moment, she revealed a satisfied smile and pointed in a direction.

She was referring to the nearby stadium. The three of them flew to the edge of the stadium on their swords and immediately heard cries coming from the people hiding inside—at first, they sounded like desperate cries, but they quickly stopped, as if one by one, their mouths had been sealed shut.

Su Yunjin extended her divine sense forward. After forming her core, the range and accuracy of her divine sense had greatly improved. It penetrated through the skylight in the stadium's roof, but she only saw an empty venue. "They're here!" Li Minghu suddenly warned, "Be careful!"

Without saying a word, Su Yunjin immediately reached out and began to cast spells.

The Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Technique was unleashed, quickly forming a large water curtain around the three. However, the layers of water curtain in front of them were suddenly forcibly broken through, revealing a monstrous, serpentine shape.

Su Yunjin changed her Dao techniques and unleashed a move called "River Flows Downward." A terrifying torrent of water, powerful enough to breach a dam, poured out directly from the void, forcefully resisting the momentum of the invisible giant serpent.

But it only held out for a fleeting moment.

In an instant, the river surged backward. The three of them felt a blur before their eyes, and when they looked again, there was no trace of the invisible giant serpent or the waters of the celestial river.

“We should have entered the world inside the womb,” Li Minghu began the conversation.

"Why didn't you make a move just now?" Su Yunjin asked subconsciously.

“There’s no need to intervene,” Chen Lingyun replied. “We came here anyway.”

"I can't beat him," Li Minghu said frankly.

Su Yunjin sighed. She had only reacted instinctively out of shock, but now it seemed that her efforts had been in vain.

With the help of numerous ghostly investigations, the three quickly located Yan Yu and Liu Longtao.

Video game store.

I went through the wall and sure enough, I saw two people playing games with controllers.

"Wait a minute," Yan Yu said without turning his head. "I'm about to turn this game around."

"A comeback?" Liu Longtao, also staring at the screen, sneered, "Watch how I crush you..."

The screen suddenly went black because Chen Lingyun had unplugged the power cord from the host computer.

Both of them let out a scream of utter despair. Su Yunjin came to Yan Yu's side, saying with a wry smile:
"Captain! What time is it? Still playing games?"

"What does it matter?" Yan Yu laughed. "No matter how rampant this giant serpent is, it can't possibly reach the mainland of Lu Kingdom. It's the same whether we deal with it sooner or later..."

“That’s not the case,” Li Minghu suddenly said. “Another one has already been observed in the waters near the Bohai Sea.”

Yan Yu and Liu Longtao exchanged a glance, then quickly stood up and said:
"We need to get going right away!"

Perhaps their earlier screams had carried. The five of them had just stepped out of the arcade when they saw a large group of ghosts gathered outside, their expressions blank like zombies, chanting in unison:

"Found you! Found you! Found you!"

A moment later, the explosive sound of the magic resounded across the sky. Within the rising mushroom cloud, a gigantic serpent of flesh and blood rose from the ground, its neck compressed like a spring for a moment, before suddenly shooting its head downwards.

"Go in!" Chen Lingyun shouted, and she and the other four transformed into five sword lights, neither dodging nor avoiding, and directly entered the gaping maw of the giant flesh and blood serpent.

Her purple sword light flew ahead alone, with the crowd following closely behind. All they could see was boundless darkness above, below, left, right, front, and back, and the air was filled with a strange, fishy smell. It wasn't smelly at all; instead, it had a strange sweet fragrance. If you inhaled too much of it, you would feel dizzy and lightheaded.

The group finally landed on the ground, where they found the ground as hard as rock, while the surrounding cave walls resembled massive muscle bundles that twitched and writhed every few seconds, like the stomach cavity of a giant beast.

Above me was an unseen darkness, and I could faintly hear the sound of dripping water, sometimes near, sometimes far, drifting uncertainly.

"You must be careful," Chen Lingyun warned. "The water here is highly poisonous. You must not let it get on your body, or you will be in mortal danger."

"You're joking," Liu Longtao said bluntly. "What kind of force do we have here? Even if you sprayed bullets with machine guns, not a single bullet would even touch the hem of our clothes. Why would we worry about getting wet?"

"Of course we should worry," Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "After all, water flows."

As if to confirm her words, the next second the surrounding muscles suddenly spasmed and contracted, and then a flood of yellowish-green mucus surged and rushed out from the darkness behind.

The group quickly ascended on their swords, watching the toxic flood rush past their feet, carrying countless drowned corpses floating in the water. Pairs of resentful and hateful eyes stared at the cultivators in the air, as if they might jump up at any moment and drag them into the water.

(End of this chapter)