Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 814: The Strategy of Diverting Trouble to the East
After the giant serpent fell, the Bohai Sea returned to calm.

This shows that the revival of spiritual energy is not necessarily a bad thing; the truly bad things are often caused by people. For example, the Onmyoji Institute's creation of the Yamata no Orochi not only blew itself to pieces but also dragged the entire world down with it.

Of the eight giant serpents, six remain undefeated. Of the two serpents already killed, the Flesh Serpent actively devoured people, while the Gravity Serpent was forcibly bombarded by the Purple Cloud Array, which temporarily erased the gravity field, thus opening the entrance to the world within its belly.

Based on the known information, there are now two clear ways to defeat the giant serpent.

One method is to repeatedly damage it from a distance to reduce its "life value" while preventing it from absorbing external spiritual energy, until it can no longer heal itself.

The second method is to try to break through the giant serpent's surrounding magic and then directly enter its belly world to destroy the fragments of the soul left behind by the death of the god.

The former is a theoretically feasible solution, but its biggest flaw is that it has not been proven in practice; the latter is relatively more efficient, and the difficulty is obviously in the first step—how ​​to break through the spells surrounding the giant serpent.

After all, not just anyone can set up a national-level weapon like the Taiyi Zhou Tian Zi Yun Grand Array.

For now, the Lu Kingdom no longer needs to worry about the giant serpents. Although at least three giant serpents are rampaging in the surrounding area, none of them can threaten the Lu Kingdom's homeland, and the Golden Core cultivators can take a short rest.

On the contrary, other national powers, whether threatened by the giant serpent or not, have sent requests to the Chinese cabinet, hoping to share intelligence on how to deal with the Yamata no Orochi.

So Li Weiguo called Yan Yu again to ask for his opinion.

“There are two opinions among the Grand Secretaries now,” Old Li said bluntly. “One opinion is that we can take this opportunity to bargain, package up this intelligence, and sell it for a high price to maximize the practical benefits we can get.”

"Another view is that the Land Kingdom should use the threat of the Yamata no Orochi to bring other countries into the same camp, thereby establishing a new world order led by the Land Kingdom. If that's the case, then we can't be concerned about any gains or losses."

"Your father-in-law thinks..."

"Stop!" Yan Yu suddenly called out. "Uncle Li, please don't tell me yet. After all, we are related by marriage. If I find out, it might affect my judgment."

"Hey, you're right," Li Weiguo laughed. "So, tell me, what's your thought?"

“I definitely support reconstructing a new world order,” Yan Yu said without hesitation. “The reason is simple: the first emphasizes the acquisition of hard power, while the second focuses more on the development of soft power.”

"Currently, the Lu Kingdom has the world's best number and quality of Golden Core cultivators, giving it an absolute advantage in hard power. Given this, improving soft power is certainly even more valuable."

“Hmm.” Li Weiguo pondered for a moment, “That makes sense. If we can really reconstruct a new world order, then the international situation will be more stable, and you won’t be forced to travel so frequently.”

“I admit I have selfish motives,” Yan Yu readily admitted. “But a stable international situation will definitely benefit China.”

After chatting with Lao Li for a while, Yan Yu hung up the phone and lazily started watching TV again.

The news program on television is paying high tribute to the Golden Elixir Masters who participated in the Gonggong Project, calling them "heroes of the people."

To be honest, "Hero of the People" is a very high honor. For a period of time, it was not even awarded to living people, but only to heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country... Although there was no actual medal, the girls were all very excited when they heard it, as if they were standing on the award platform themselves.

Only Yan Yu remained calm, showing no sign of smugness.

Sigh, Ye Yun forcibly broke in from the outside using the Purple Cloud Formation, and Xie Ruoxi blasted the target to death from the inside using the Thunder God's Cone. What contribution did I, Yan Yu, make throughout the whole process?

If I had to give a reward, I could only say that I introduced Ye Yun to become a formation master, and I personally discovered Xie Ruoxi from among the common people. I only did these two small things. Thank you everyone.

Tang Xiaolian and Zhao Yuanzhen have recently returned from the Southern Territory, bringing back information about the high-temperature giant serpent: it continuously radiates extremely high heat to the surrounding area, causing ordinary superhumans to easily be poisoned by fire even if they get too close, let alone enter the world inside its belly.

The sorcerers' signature ghostly curses, black magic, and dark magic were utterly ineffective against the scorching giant serpent. In the end, they could only gather a large number of sorcerers and chant the Pagoda Earth Incantation together, causing countless rocks to sprout from the ground and forcibly lock the giant serpent in place.

These sorcerers and high-ranking monks worked in three shifts, chanting incantations and casting spells continuously for 24 hours. Each time the giant serpent broke free of its bonds, more bonds would immediately follow, preventing it from roaming freely—clearly borrowing from the methods used by the Lu Kingdom in dealing with the Bohai Giant Serpent in the early days, focusing on confinement rather than killing it.

Tang Xiaolian and Zhao Yuanzhen's attack methods could indeed penetrate the high temperatures and unleash their attacks on the giant snake, but this creature also exhibited extremely strong self-healing abilities. Therefore, the Witch King Hu Minghua repeatedly sought help from the Lu Kingdom, and recently even proposed that the Lu Kingdom help install nodes of the Purple Cloud Array in the Southern Territory.

This is quite a rare occurrence. It's important to understand that cultivation systems from different cultures are generally incompatible. For example, the array formations and restrictions of the Lu Kingdom are like a foreign language to the extraordinary beings of the Southern Territory; their sealing techniques are essentially a completely different system.

If the Purple Cloud Array were to be set up in the Southern Territory, most of these sorcerers would be unable to handle it, so the Lu Kingdom would have to send someone to oversee the array. The Purple Cloud Array can suppress the extraordinary individuals within it, meaning that if there is another rebellion in the Southern Territory, the person in charge of the array only needs to provide some guidance to easily suppress the sorcerers within its range—even the Bohai Giant Serpent couldn't withstand it, how could you possibly have the power to resist?
In this way, the southern territory can be completely brought under our control!
Therefore, the Privy Council of Lu readily agreed, and even allowed Ye Yun to suspend the array debugging work in Tianjin Prefecture and go to the Southern Territory to install a large array for the sorcerers, so that he could also collect a sum of money from them.

Ye Yun traveled all over the country, while the other girls returned to the Jinling villa and began their lively and leisurely daily life.

Yes, it was certainly a lively and bustling event.

"Yan Yu!" Tang Xiaolian rushed over in a hurry, "Sister Hongyu and Sister Yuanzhen are fighting again!"

"It's nothing," Yan Yu said lazily. "We became friends after a fight."

"But..." Tang Xiaolian hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.

"So what happened?" Yan Yu sat up and asked.

"It's like this." Tang Xiaolian had a wry smile on her face. "This morning, Sister Hongyu ordered takeout, but she wasn't on the first floor when we arrived. Sister Yuanzhen went to get it for her..."

"Then she ate the takeout." Yan Yu nodded.

"Hey! How did you guess?" Tang Xiaolian was taken aback.

"Nonsense, do you think I don't know what kind of temperament that vixen has?" Yan Yu asked with a sneer.
"They started fighting over this?"

"Hmm." Tang Xiaolian hesitated for a moment, "Actually, there's probably some lingering resentment from the past. You know, those two don't really get along, and yesterday they were arguing about who's more virile in bed..."

Yan Yu suddenly became restless. His combat strength limit was four people at once, but it was obvious that there were differences between people. Taking Lin Ning, whose combat strength was closest to the average, as the standard unit, Su Yunjin was 0.8 Ning, Chen Lingyun was 0.6 Ning, Xie Ruoxi was 0.4 Ning, while Zhao Yuanzhen was as high as 1.4 Ning.

Zhou Hongyu's skill level is not far from Zhao Yuanzhen's, at least at the level of 1.3 Ning. The two of them together are 2.7 Ning. What about Lin Ning herself and Su Yunjin? The four of them combined reach a total of 4.5 Ning, which is already a very dangerous number.

Once the total combat power reaches 5 Ning, Yan Yu will most likely be taken down by the last person. This key figure exists: Anna, the Lunar Eclipse Queen of the Northern Territory, whose combat power is at least 1.3 Ning. If she swaps with Yun Jin, the total combat power of the four-person team will be exactly 5 Ning.

In other words, if Anna comes to the Land of Lu and forms the War Maidens Four with Zhao Yuanzhen, Zhou Hongyu, and Lin Ning, then Yan Yu's invincible status will be broken.

Then everyone will just need to compare the results before and after: Hey Yan Yu, how come you could easily take on four opponents before, but now you can't even win against four? Is your body failing you?

So cute, I can't resist!
The thought of everyone showing Chen Lingyun's mocking face made Yan Yu feel his fists harden, wishing he could grab each of them, line them up, and give them all a Yan Family Burst attack, turning them into a pulp.

In short, it's fine for Zhao Yuanzhen and Zhou Hongyu to occasionally spar, but they absolutely cannot be allowed to use him as a bargaining chip or a gamble. Ideally, their relationship should be one of absolute competition, a zero-sum game where neither side can compete. This way, Yan Yu can mediate and subtly undermine the other, forcing them to curry favor with him if they want to defeat the other…

"Never mind!" Yan Yu said, standing up. "I'll go take a look!"

"I knew you wouldn't abandon me!" Tang Xiaolian was overjoyed and threw herself into Yan Yu's arms, giving him a kiss on the face.

Yan Yu casually rubbed her. She was fleshy, but not much.

Unfortunately, although the girl is very proactive, she only has less than 0.7 Ning's worth of strength, and is not someone I need to be wary of at all.

Foundation Establishment cultivators can practice combat in underground training grounds, but Golden Core cultivators can influence celestial phenomena with every move, so the battle must be fought outdoors. Considering the near-disruption they caused in the Southern Territory before, Zhao Yuanzhen and Zhou Hongyu were wiser this time.

The two flew over the South Pacific to fight, with not a single uninhabited island around them. Even if they fought until their brains were torn apart, no one would care.

When Yan Yu and Xiao Lian arrived, they saw the Red Lotus Bowl upside down in the middle of the sea, with something inside making a clanging and banging noise.

Yan Yu quickly transmitted his voice to the person inside the alms bowl:
"Why are you fighting again?"

"Yan Yu, don't worry about her. I'm going to teach her some manners today!" Zhao Yuanzhen shouted telepathically.

"Yan Yu, don't be afraid, I will definitely kill her this time!" Zhou Hongyu also transmitted back.

"Yan Yu, you have to think of something quickly!" Tang Xiaolian urged anxiously from the side. "Once they get really angry and go all out, it'll be difficult to handle!"

"Alright, stop fighting!" Yan Yu transmitted his voice again to the inside, "Tell me what's right and wrong, and I'll help you judge the matter!"

“No need!” Zhou Hongyu said.

"Open the alms bowl for me first!"

"Don't open it!" Zhao Yuanzhen said.

Yan Yu frowned. The two most unreasonable girls in the inner quarters were now showing signs of disobeying him, the head of the household.

Now I can say "I don't want you to tell me what to do," and next time I can say "I want you to tell me what to do." In short, it highlights the idea of ​​"I can do whatever I want."

Hakimi's breath can infect a whole nest! If we let them disobey and spread bad habits, then Yan Yu won't have to do his duty anymore; he can just stay home and be a wishing well fairy every day.

We can't let them keep fighting!
"Xiao Lian," Yan Yu turned and instructed, "lure Hong Yu out."

"Huh, me?" Tang Xiaolian pointed at herself incredulously.

“Yes, you’re close to her, so you told her to stop hitting him,” Yan Yu said.

Tang Xiaolian was speechless. If you have a good relationship with Zhao Yuanzhen, why don't you go and trick her out yourself?

Of course, her personality was completely different from Zhou Hongyu's; she wasn't the type to deliberately argue with, contradict, or even talk back to you. Therefore, she silently transmitted her thoughts to Zhou Hongyu:
"Sister Hongyu, stop hitting her, come out quickly!"

"I'll talk about it after I defeat her," Zhou Hongyu replied. "She's controlling the Red Lotus Bowl. I can't get out until I take her down."

"Why don't you admit defeat to Sister Yuanzhen?" Tang Xiaolian asked tentatively.

"Tang Xiaolian, whose side are you on?!"

I'm definitely on Yan Yu's side... Of course, I couldn't say that outright, so Tang Xiaolian advised:
"Sister Hongyu, what's the use of winning? Don't forget that what we want is Yan Yu's favor. Why not turn the tables and deliberately lose to the other party, so that Yan Yu will feel sorry for you? That's what you call losing the battlefield but winning the love game."

“I won’t do it,” Zhou Hongyu said stubbornly. “I’m willing to admit defeat to anyone, but to her? I can’t bring myself to do it.”

"What's the use of face?" Tang Xiaolian said earnestly. "The only ones who can win over men are Xuezi and Tuizi."

Zhou Hongyu fell silent. She understood the reasoning, but if saving face were something that could be so easily abandoned, there wouldn't be so much conflict in the world.

Seeing that she wouldn't listen, Tang Xiaolian turned to persuade Zhao Yuanzhen. Thinking it over carefully, she realized her relationship with Yuanzhen wasn't particularly close; she'd only cooked a few meals for her. Would Yuanzhen really give her face?
Glancing at Yan Yu's impatient expression out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly had an idea. She simultaneously transmitted her voice to the two of them:

"Even if you manage to determine a winner, what's the point? Does Yan Yu like the girl who's the best fighter? Why don't you go home and have a contest to see who can keep Yan Yu in bed for three days and unable to leave his room for five? That's who the real expert is!"

Secret Technique: The Strategy of Shifting the Blame Eastward!

(End of this chapter)