Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 800 Newcomers
Tang Xiaolian sent a message saying that she had finally succeeded in overcoming her tribulation.

Today, the technology for transcending tribulation is fully mature. As long as you're not someone with particularly poor aptitude or a severe lack of true essence, you can easily form your core with the resources provided by the Lu Kingdom—as for the grade of your core, that depends on your basic cultivation skills.

To give an analogy, it's like after the expansion of university enrollment, as long as your grades aren't bad, you can go to university, but the difficulty of getting into a 985/211 university remains unchanged.

After quickly recording the data, the young woman couldn't wait to pack her bags and fly towards Nanjing.

Yan Yu, Sister Hong Yu, I'm here!
After landing in the suburbs of Jinling City, Tang Xiaolian had been here before, but considering that she would be living here permanently, she couldn't help but circle the villa several times again.

The front yard is lined with many flowers and plants, all cultivated and designed by Yun Jin herself, making it as beautiful and lovely as a natural garden. The exterior of the building is also quite elegant and sophisticated. After all, it was a villa personally chosen by Chen Lingyun, and there is nothing to criticize about it.

It perfectly matches Tang Xiaolian's aesthetic.

She hurried to the door and knocked.

The door opened, and Xie Ruoxi poked her head out, asking somewhat nervously:
"Hello?"

"Hi Ruoxi." Compared to Ruoxi, a homebody, Tang Xiaolian was an extremely cheerful social butterfly. "I'm looking for Yan Yu. Is he home?"

"He's upstairs on the phone," Xie Ruoxi explained. "Ningning is preparing for her tribulation and needs his guidance."

Guidance? Do we even need guidance? With mountains of Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords and Little Xuan Light Rulers piled up there, even a pig with enough true essence could easily survive its tribulation.

Tang Xiaolian disagreed, thinking that Lin Ning must have stayed in Wudang Mountain for too long and developed severe separation anxiety, so she deliberately used the excuse of "I'm very nervous" to try to get Yan Yu's attention.

Hmph, I saw through that little trick at a glance!
She pulled her suitcase and followed Xie Ruoxi into the villa.

Su Yunjin was busy cooking in the kitchen. With Lin Ning away, she was the queen of the place, determined to cater to everyone's appetites. Recently, she had even started researching Hongyu's favorite spicy hot pot broth.

Zhao Yuanzhen and Chen Lingyun sat on the sofa watching TV. Thanks to Zhou Hongyu's arrival, even the enchantress who originally disliked Lingyun felt that since the two were from the same team, they couldn't let outsiders laugh at them—and their relationship began to improve.

Tang Xiaolian went up to the second floor with ease and found her room without any trouble.

The sign on the door read "Tang," which, although representing her surname, always made her feel like she was being mocked.

I entered and put down my luggage. The room had obviously been cleaned, and all that was left was to unpack my belongings and arrange them neatly in the room.

Clothes, skirts, shoes, underwear, then my favorite candies and snacks, and an insect culture jar. I'll just use the sheets and blankets already in the room; I'm too lazy to buy new ones. Towels, toothbrush, and toothpaste cup will have to be put in the bathroom outside…

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door. The knock was deep, strong, and rhythmic; it must be Sister Hongyu.

Sure enough, before she could even open the door, Zhou Hongyu walked right through the wall and said to Tang Xiaolian:
"You've finally arrived. These past few days, Zhao Yuanzhen and I have sparred many times, but neither of us has gained the upper hand."

Tang Xiaolian was speechless upon hearing this, and after a long while, she said:
"Sister Hongyu, didn't I tell you long ago? It's useless to argue with them and try to win! What you need to do is win Yan Yu's heart!"

"Hmph." Zhou Hongyu understood the reasoning, but she just couldn't stand Zhao Yuanzhen's attitude of "I knew Yan Yu first, so I'm the first wife." "Anyway, I don't like her."

Tang Xiaolian sighed and rubbed her forehead in exasperation. After a moment, she asked again:

"So you and she didn't really have a fight, did you?"

Please, please don't tell me you two have become mortal enemies! Even if you don't care about your relationship with Zhao Yuanzhen, you should still consider what the other girls in the original Zhenhai team will think of you, Sister Zhou!

“We are evenly matched, neither of us is superior,” Zhou Hongyu said proudly. “If we join forces, even Yan Yu will have to temporarily retreat.”

Tang Xiaolian was stunned for a long time before she suddenly realized that this was how the battle of wits was going on!
I was wondering how Yan Yu could stand by and watch you all turn against each other, and this is what happened... How despicable! He's taken too much advantage of you!

Although she was a member of Yan Yu's harem, Tang Xiaolian was clearly unaware of her own status. She was only annoyed that Yan Yu enjoyed the blessings of having multiple wives all day long, and she was also angrily thinking about how to punish the scumbag with Sister Hongyu. She fantasized in her mind for a long time, and then let out a long sigh.

Fun!

As for the actual execution, that's obviously impossible. The two of them combined couldn't possibly defeat him; they'd already tried and were clearly no match. They could only achieve a mental victory.

“Sister Hongyu,” Tang Xiaolian said in a low voice, “Next, tell me in detail what you have observed about everyone’s behavior and attitude towards you during these past few days while staying here.”

"Let me analyze this for you." Zhou Hongyu came to Tang Xiaolian precisely to use her brain to engage in palace intrigue, and upon hearing this, she immediately began to speak:
"First of all, I think Yun Jin is a good person..."

"As for Chen Lingyun, I also can't quite figure her out..."

"Zhao Yuanzhen and Xie Ruoxi are just two idiots..."

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Lin Ning has been feeling very anxious lately.

She was originally ranked tenth on the list of those undergoing tribulation. Although Yan Yu had used Mei Yingxue's connections to move her ranking up, she knew in her heart that in terms of cultivation aptitude, that was about all she was capable of.

The ability to transcend tribulations depends precisely on one's cultivation aptitude and the capacity of one's true essence.

Yan Yu tried to comfort her by using Chen Lingyun as an example. "Even she could easily overcome her tribulation and form a high-grade golden core, so what do you have to be afraid of?" But this reasoning did not convince Lin Ning.

Because sword immortals and ghost-wielding cultivators are different. Ghost-wielding cultivators can use ghosts as consumables to consume tribulation lightning, but can sword immortals do the same?

"Why not?" the Mirror Fairy complained in her mind. "Are your mountains of bamboo swords fake?"

"What if I don't have enough flying swords?" Lin Ning began to fall into the "scaring myself" phase typical of test-takers. "What if my tribulation is stronger than theirs? What if my tribulation type happens to be immune to flying sword damage?"

"The intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation is generally related to the cultivator's Golden Core grade," the Mirror Immortal said casually. "With such poor cultivation aptitude, even if you use crooked methods to reach the upper-grade Golden Core, it will still be the lowest grade, and the intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation won't be that strong."

The Mirror Fairy successfully persuaded Lin Ning to stop being caught up in the tension and anxiety before her tribulation and instead succumb to a stronger sense of inferiority, with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Um, I misspoke, ahahahaha!" Mirror Fairy awkwardly tried to smooth things over. "How about we watch the live broadcast of the Gonggong Project? I'm very interested in how you're going to deal with that Yamata no Orochi. Let me see, let me see."

Lin Ning opened the live stream in a sullen mood and saw Su Yunjin, Zhou Hongyu, Yang Linhui and Liu Longtao standing far above the Bohai Sea, bombarding the serpentine monster with Taoist magic from four different directions.

The power of a Golden Core cultivator's Daoist arts was enough to alter local celestial phenomena. Blizzards, floods, flames, and giant dragons took turns attacking, with shockwaves and turbulent currents scattering and churning, making it impossible for unmanned cameras to approach steadily; they could only hover at a distance to film.

It feels like modern weapons are fighting Godzilla.

Su Yunjin's Heavenly River Water was quickly defeated. It was still some distance away from the serpentine monster when it was pulled mercilessly into the sea by gravity and could not hit it at all.

Yang Linhui's blizzard and Zhou Hongyu's flames did manage to penetrate the gravity field and hit the giant serpent, but they were completely unable to penetrate its hard, earthen-yellow scales. The two used all their skills, but the only one that worked was the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, which was best at breaking through armor and attacking targets. It could only barely cut through the outermost layer of scales, and it was powerless to go any further inside.

As for Liu Longtao's Five Dragons Soaring Through the Sky, because it is in the form of a dragon, its speed is not fast enough. Every time it enters the arena, it is pulled apart by gravity and cannot play any role at all.

“This gravitational field is too troublesome.” Lin Ning quickly got into problem-solving mode and analyzed, “I guess I’ll have to find Ruoxi… No, Ruoxi’s lightning magic won’t work either. It’s powerful enough, but the lightning ball itself follows a parabolic trajectory, which means it will be affected by gravity…”

She was still deep in thought when she suddenly heard the fairy in the mirror say:

"Idiot, this kind of monster should be killed with sword energy."

"Sword Qi?"

"It's like a Golden Core Sword Immortal injecting a sufficient amount of true essence into a flying sword, unleashing a massive sword aura that can travel a great distance," said the Mirror Immortal. "Anyway, that's how you explain it."

“If the sword aura were effective, the captain would have been called long ago,” Lin Ning said. “He told me that the Yin-Yang Micro Dust Sword Formation can’t be deployed that far. Moreover, the sword aura is unlikely to be effective against a defense that even Daoist magic might not be able to penetrate.”

"Completely wrong," the Mirror Immortal said disdainfully. "When it comes to armor-piercing ability, the strongest is actually the Sword Immortal. Especially after you comprehend the true meaning of the sword, your sword aura will also change. For example, it will become more agile, sharper, and indestructible... Of course, this may be a bit too early for you, after all, you haven't undergone tribulation yet, have you?"

"I'm about to undergo my tribulation," Lin Ning said expressionlessly.

She became quite interested in the "true meaning of swordsmanship" that the fairy in the mirror had spoken of. If I could slay this giant serpent on my own, the captain would definitely look at me with new respect, wouldn't he?
Ningning recalled Yan Yu's words, "My wife must be the second strongest in the world," and secretly made up her mind.

Whether I am a cultivator or a sword immortal, I will keep up with the captain and not let him leave too far behind!

(End of this chapter)