Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 848 The End of the World is Coming
The world situation is getting worse every day, and the worst seems yet to come.

The Serpent of Darkness is still enjoying a buffet in South America, while the Serpent of Light is crossing the Atlantic Ocean and is currently expected to land on the Iberian Peninsula.

Even before it reached Europe, it had already caused widespread panic. Countless celebrities fled Europe and sought refuge eastward, some going to the mainland, while others stayed in Western England, waiting for the mainland to issue visas.

These people understood the true nature of the Lu Kingdom's "Secret Realm Experiment Plan" and were not optimistic that Europe could finish it before the Giant Serpent of Light arrived—after all, time was too tight.

Those who lacked the funds to seek refuge abroad fled the big cities and went to the less populated countryside for refuge.

Nowadays, almost everyone knows that giant snakes prefer to attack the most densely populated areas, so no one dares to risk staying in big cities.

The first choice is naturally the villages and towns surrounding big cities, which are developed enough and have no shortage of resources, and have a relatively smaller population.

But with a large number of people migrating to these villages and towns, the notion of "fewer people" no longer seems to hold true.

Many people who were worried about this chose to continue migrating to less populated areas. Some, with more extreme views, even moved to the Alps or isolated islands in the North Sea to ensure they would never be targeted by the giant serpent of light.

Those once bustling and prosperous cities had already rapidly declined and desolate before the giant serpent even arrived, as if the end of the world had already come.

The situation is similar in Lu Kingdom, except that instead of migrating to sparsely populated towns, they are migrating to secret realms.

What was once a secret place kept strictly confidential from the public has now become a paradise to escape the apocalypse.

Excavators and bulldozers worked through the night, and workers worked in three shifts to build a large number of housing buildings in the secret realm.

But no matter how many extra hours the civil engineering team worked, it was still impossible to keep up with the speed at which people were migrating into the secret realm. Many people had to temporarily live in container houses while waiting for their assigned homes to be officially completed.

Most people were relatively calm. After all, they had worked hard to get the chance to enter the secret realm. The country provided all their food and lodging, and they even had the opportunity to awaken their cultivation aptitude. Even if the living conditions here weren't great, they could just treat it as a rural vacation and recuperation.

The higher concentration of spiritual energy in the secret realm compared to the outside world did indeed bring these mortals a subtle sense of tranquility and well-being, similar to city dwellers breathing fresh air in the mountains. However, to say that it could awaken their cultivation aptitude was simply a way to fool people.

Outside the secret realm, as the wave of refugees intensifies in Europe, some savvy individuals within the country have begun to realize the situation.

Fleeing to sparsely populated areas is less secure than seeking refuge in a secluded paradise. More or less is relative. If densely populated big cities are destroyed, then the next level towns will naturally become the most densely populated areas, and even the villages below that level will not escape.

As long as the giant snake continues to roam the earth, it will eventually devour all life it can consume. Perhaps only species like cockroaches, which reproduce at an extremely fast rate, can withstand the giant snake's repeated devouring and continue to multiply.

Following this line of thought, awakening cultivation aptitude is completely irrelevant. The difference between being able to enter the secret realm and not is life or death, the difference between surviving inside and being eaten outside!
Some rumors began to spread online. As major platforms began to tighten their censorship, these savvy individuals were increasingly convinced of their judgment.

As a result, more and more exaggerated rumors began to spread covertly through channels that were difficult to control.

The first to be alarmed were some civilian cultivators. This group quickly organized and coordinated, inquiring about whether anyone had access to secret realms that could be used as refuges for everyone.

Among the secret realms currently under Lu Kingdom's control, some addresses were provided by civilian cultivators. Although Lu Kingdom paid a high price for these addresses, it is clear that in the current situation, no one will adhere to any previous confidentiality agreements.

Soon, through mutual discussion, everyone was even more astonished to discover that all those fellow cultivators who had boasted of providing secret realms to the authorities were now unreachable.

Damn it! They must have already been recruited by the authorities and fled to the secret realm to hide from the giant snake!
Even if nine out of ten folk cultivators are law-abiding, the remaining one out of ten who cause trouble can still have extremely negative consequences.

Some officials were suddenly attacked and kidnapped, and many cities subsequently declared curfews. Martial artists and military cultivators came out in droves, and battles broke out in many places.

Under the terrifying threat of life and death, no one was willing to relinquish their chance of survival to a group of ordinary people who "only knew how to take time off to take exams."

They will inevitably use every means at their disposal and fight with all their might to survive.

The girls couldn't stay out of it either. Although they were worried about where Lin Ning had gone, they had no choice but to prioritize their duties and go to various places to quell the unrest.

If Yan Yu were here, he would certainly sigh that "it feels more and more like a past life." However, he is still in the dream world woven by the True Sun Sword, continuing to plot the great matter of betraying his master and destroying his ancestors with Mei Yingxue and Li Minghu.

The elders' ambiguous attitude is understandable. After all, the sect leader is the Sun Sword Master, who, although only at the Golden Core stage, is still difficult to deal with due to the power of his divine sword.

Don't you see those powerful figures of the demonic path outside sending their scattered troops to their deaths, while they themselves remain within the great formation? It's because they're afraid that when they attack Mount Shu, they might provoke the Sun Sword Master to unleash his divine sword and kill the few who charge ahead first.

The elders, of course, shared the concerns of the demonic sect members. Therefore, they decided to wait until the situation became even more critical, ideally until the entire sect was on the verge of collapse and about to be breached, before persuading the elders to take a desperate gamble.

If we don't seize the Sun True Sword, we're all doomed once the great formation breaks!

As the sect's defensive situation became increasingly precarious, the elders' tone indeed softened.

The casualty rate among the patrolling sword immortals has exceeded half; if this continues, there will be no one left to guard the mountain. Elder Tian Yue finally couldn't sit still any longer and found Yan Yu to ask:

"What you mentioned earlier... what did they all say?"

"Which one?" Yan Yu feigned ignorance.

"That plan, requesting the sect leader to fight," Elder Tian Yue said with a dark face. "Now that the sect is about to fall, it is only right that he, as the Sun Sword Master, should fight."

“Indeed,” Yan Yu sighed. “But the sect leader is unwilling to take action, and I am but a lowly person with little influence. How can I forcefully and repeatedly offer advice? Wouldn’t that be courting death?”

"Sigh!" Elder Tian Yue was speechless. Didn't you say before that you wanted to seize the Sun True Sword?
But he couldn't say it directly, so he could only say it indirectly:
"If you can't persuade them, you can ask other elders to do it."

"Sigh." Yan Yu deliberately sighed again, "The sect leader is, after all, the Sun Sword Master. Although he is only at the Golden Core stage, he is not someone that one or two Nascent Soul elders can persuade. Unless all four elders gather together, perhaps they will have the strength to convince him to change his mind."

"So what is their attitude?" Elder Tian Yue asked again.

“Elder Lu still has some concerns.” Yan Yu was not lying about this. “If you can give him some confidence, he might change his mind.”

This is actually a very dangerous situation. If Elder Lu is an inside man for the sect leader, and you go to persuade him, he might report it to the sect leader right afterward, and then you're completely finished.

But now the sect's defenses are already crumbling and are expected to be completely breached in the next few days. When the demonic forces swarm in, the outcome will be the same: death.

Elder Tian Yue gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, I'll go talk to him!"

When the two found Elder Lu Gan, they saw him worrying about the sect's depleted reserves.

Cultivators need spiritual medicines to heal their wounds, and this is where the shortage is greatest, practically exhausted; secondly, there's the wear and tear on flying swords, but the pressure is relatively less because a considerable number of sword immortals have sacrificed themselves, and their relics can be used…

Tian Yue called Lu Gan aside and bluntly stated this, only to see Lu Gan reveal a strange expression that seemed to say, "As expected, you were involved too."

“Some disciples have come to me before,” he said bluntly. “Brother Tian, ​​I won’t mince words with you. Even if the four of us were together, we might not be a match for the Sun Sword Master. Although the Sect Leader may not be clear on this point, once it comes down to a real fight, don’t expect him to hold back.”

“I know,” Elder Tian Yue sighed, “but isn’t there no other way? The sect’s defenses are about to break, yet he can still bide his time and sit still… I think he has already made up his mind to abandon the sect and run away with the divine sword, using us as bait to cover his retreat!”

"Sigh." Elder Lu Gan shook his head and remained silent.

"Say something if you're going to do it or not!" Elder Tian Yue said impatiently. "If you're going to betray me, you can leave now! I'd rather die by the divine sword than be captured by those demonic cult bastards and have my soul extracted and tortured day and night!"

"Alright!" Elder Lu Gan finally declared, "Count me in!"

"Excellent! I knew I hadn't misjudged you!" Elder Tian Yue was overjoyed and called Yan Yu over, saying, "Tell us your detailed plan, and we'll help you analyze it."

"Hmph." He sneered contemptuously, "Let's see how we can persuade the sect leader to change his mind!"

Seeing that his expression did not seem to be feigning, Yan Yu guessed that the true consciousness of the Sun True Sword was not present, so he explained the plan in detail to the two elders.

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Meanwhile, Lin Ning's life simulator has now progressed to its third cycle.

Childhood sweethearts, innocent and carefree, close proximity gives them an advantage, and their buffs are almost maxed out.

Then I realized I had no motivation to confess my feelings.

She eats the most when she's hungry, but loses her appetite when she's full. Now that Lin Ning is in the closest position to Yan Yu, she can chat with him all night long every day. They are the best confidantes who can talk about anything, so she doesn't have a strong motivation to "win him over immediately".

Besides, who expects a girl to confess her feelings to a boy first?! Can't you at least consider my feelings a little?
In her senior year, Lin Ning began preparing for graduate school entrance exams, with her target being the same university as Yan Yu.

Although Yan Yu plans to work directly after graduation, it doesn't prevent Lin Ning from continuing her studies.

She had even planned out her next steps: when she had classes, she would attend them; when she had experiments, she would do them; and when she could rest, she would cook meals in her rented apartment using an induction cooker and wait for Yan Yu when he got off work.

Of course, we can't live together, since we're not boyfriend and girlfriend yet. But if Yan Yu insists on renting a place near my school... then it's perfectly normal for me to cook in his place, right?
We're childhood sweethearts!
Lin Ning had finished planning her future life and intended to send it to Yan Yu to see what he thought—although as her childhood sweetheart, Yan Yu usually wouldn't reject her opinions and always indulged and spoiled her.

Before the message was even sent, a message suddenly popped up in the chat window:
"Ning, lend me five thousand."

"What?" Lin Ning immediately became suspicious. "Wait, are you Yan Yu? Send me a voice message."

Sure enough, the other party sent a voice message, but what they said made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave:
"My girlfriend is pregnant, I need to borrow some money for an abortion."

Lin Ning:………………

"When did you get a girlfriend?" Her fingers were trembling as she typed.

"today."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Lin Ning wanted to ask him this, but she couldn't send the message after editing it.

In what capacity did I question him?

Yan Yu had no intention of hiding anything from her, and soon sent more messages, explaining the situation in detail:
There was a girl who was a sports student at school who had been pursuing him passionately, even joining his club. One time, the club had a party, and everyone got drunk. The girl took him to a hotel, and then... they couldn't help themselves...

I found out this morning that she's pregnant.

Lin Ning remained silent for a long, long time on the other end, and finally sent a message:
"Don't believe everything others say and foolishly try to take responsibility. First, get checked to see if you've contracted any diseases, then get a paternity test. I've transferred the money to you."

"Oh, you're right!" Yan Yu replied quickly. "I'll pay you back next month. Let's go to the hospital now!"

Lin Ning stared at her phone screen and sat quietly for a long time.

For the next few days, she kept her phone with her at all times, looking at it while eating and placing it next to her pillow while sleeping, waiting for Yan Yu to reply to her messages.

The bad news finally arrived as expected.

She wasn't sick, and the child was his. The girl refused to have an abortion, saying that if Yan Yu didn't acknowledge the child, she would give birth and raise it herself.

"So what do you plan to do?" Lin Ning asked.

Her heart was filled with bitterness, but Yan Yu seemed oblivious to her emotions, simply replying:

"I don't know. If she refuses to have an abortion, I can't make the decision for her. I guess I can't keep this a secret any longer. I have to talk to my parents. I'll pay you back later."

Lin Ning stopped watching and threw her phone forcefully on the ground.

She understood Yan Yu's parents' personalities, and even more so Yan Yu's personality; she would never allow their daughter to become a single mother alone—it was morally unacceptable.

but……

What should I do then?
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(End of this chapter)