Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 133: Monks from the Enemy Country
Yan Yu walked out of the door in his slippers, shuffling leisurely towards the direction of the sound.

Not far ahead, he saw Liu Longtao standing in the middle of the road. The ground, centered at his feet, sagged in all directions, as if struck by a massive hammer.

Two corpses fell around him, their faces bleeding from all seven orifices, and they were already dead - the dead people's flying swords were all around them, similar in style to the previous daggers.

To be honest, if they had chosen a weaker target, such as Chen Lingyun, they might have had a chance of succeeding.

But unfortunately, these assassins chose the two strongest warriors on both teams who were least likely to be attacked...

"Okay, Old Liu, I'll let you handle it all by yourself." Yan Yu examined the bodies for a moment and asked casually, "No one was left alive?"

"Yeah, I wasn't paying attention." Liu Longtao calmed himself down and frowned as he said, "These two assassins suddenly rushed out and scared me, so I attacked a little too hard."

"It's okay. Ye Jun caught a live one." Yan Yu said with a chuckle, "Since you're okay too, I'll go back and have dinner."

"You still have the mind to eat dinner?" Liu Longtao was suddenly shocked. "Old Yan, why do you think foreign cultivators appeared here?!"

In a hurry, I even forgot to say "you".

"They're here to steal the secret realm of Changbai Mountain," Yan Yu said with a look of "what's so hard to guess?" "Back home, they call Changbai Mountain 'Baekdu Mountain' and 'the sacred mountain of the nation.' Now that the secret realm of Changbai Mountain has been opened and is under Lu's effective control, they can't defeat it, but they're unwilling to give up, so they can only launch a surprise attack."

"So you knew!" Liu Longtao was speechless and said anxiously, "I think so too: the reason they sent death squads to attack us is to delay our progress so that they can seize the Changbai Mountain Secret Realm first! The eastern quarter of Changbai Mountain is within the territory of Silla. If they send troops from the east slope to attack the secret realm blockade, or even send monks to rush into the secret realm to find the control center, then we will be really passive!"

"Indeed." Yan Yu nodded. "So, when you say 'they', are you referring to North Silla or South Goryeo? Do the higher-ups know about this?"

Liu Longtao was stunned.

Theoretically, no matter if it's Silla or Goryeo, if you dare to compete for the secret realm of the Lu Kingdom, you must die. But in practice, it's impossible to just rush in and kill everyone... First, you have to find out who the opponent is, and secondly, you need legal authorization from your superiors before you can take action.

Being forced to defend oneself in the face of an assassination attempt was one thing, but actively attacking foreign monks was another. Without authorization from a superior, no matter how justifiable the reasons, it would essentially be considered "a subordinate acting on his own," a serious taboo in official circles.

"Right?" Yan Yu laughed. "No matter how fast the higher-ups react, it will probably take at least twenty minutes. We can have dinner right now. Once the authorization comes down, it won't be too late to attack."

Liu Longtao really wanted to say, what if the Changbai Mountain secret realm is very small and the center is seized by the opponent in twenty minutes?
But he was also a member of the establishment after all, and the word loyalty was engraved in his heart. He also knew the importance of rules on the stage. He could only suppress his impatience and followed Yan Yu into the noodle shop next door.

"Boss, give me a bowl of tomato and egg noodles." Yan Yu looked at the menu on the wall and said, "What would you like, Lao Liu?"

"Let me have some wontons, thank you." Liu Longtao had no appetite and said absentmindedly.

The two sat down, and Yan Yu called Chen Lingyun again:

"How are you doing there?"

"Not bad," Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "I barely soaked in the hot springs before I was hurriedly called out and then taken to the Dingbei Army camp to prepare for battle. It couldn't be better."

"That's good." Yan Yu said with satisfaction, "You should eat more now, because you may have to go on an urgent mission later."

"We're already eating." Chen Lingyun chuckled, "Are you with Jing Ye? He was also assassinated, right?"

"He's fine," Yan Yu said. "Not a single hair has fallen out."

"Oh." Chen Lingyun sighed, sounding a little regretful.

"Can I say something to her?" Liu Longtao suddenly asked.

"Go ahead." Yan Yu put the phone on the table and pushed it over.

"Chen Lingyun." Liu Longtao asked seriously, "What's going on in Changbai Mountain?"

"Why are you asking me about your Dingbei Army's own defense deployment?" Chen Lingyun said with a joking smile.

Liu Longtao looked at Yan Yu, only to hear Yan Yu shout:
"Let's talk business. Who's kidding you? Speak properly!"

"Hmm," Chen Lingyun replied without getting annoyed. "I heard there was a surprise attack from the east. A dozen or so foreign monks fired the Elephant Mantra and broke in under machine gun fire."

"South or north?" Liu Longtao asked in a deep voice.

"The North said it was the South." Chen Lingyun gave a strange answer, "Yan Yu, do you believe it?"

"Believe it, why not?" Yan Yu said without hesitation, "Since they said so, it means they don't intend to get involved in the secret realm competition. Then we don't need to care about the true identity of these cultivators, we can just kill them all."

"Yeah, I think so too." Chen Lingyun pondered for a moment, "Liu Longtao, the rules of this secret realm confrontation need to be changed."

"Of course." Liu Longtao said lightly.

The original intention of the secret realm confrontation was to simulate the confrontation with the enemy monks... Now that the enemy monks have really appeared, there is certainly no reason to point the guns at the brother team.

"What about the distribution?" Yan Yu continued to ask.

"We'll wait for the Privy Council to come up with a plan later." Chen Lingyun replied, "Yan Yu, we're done eating, how are you?" "I've just started eating." Yan Yu watched the boss carrying noodles out from the kitchen.

"Send me your location." Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "We'll come find you."

Yan Yu sent the location, and then started eating noodles without caring about Liu Longtao's expression.

He had eaten half of the noodles in the bowl when someone suddenly tapped him from behind.

"Let's go." Chen Lingyun's voice was full of smiles. "The authorization has been issued. The helicopter is outside. We have to leave immediately."

"Are you urging the pilot to come here as fast as possible just to prevent me from finishing the noodles?" Yan Yu immediately asked suspiciously. After all, they came too quickly.

"That's right!" Lin Ning said angrily, "We were eating compressed biscuits in the camp, and you were secretly eating noodles here!"

It’s not that there was no self-heating rations in the barracks, but everyone thought that the war authorization would come down at any time, and they would have to set off immediately when it came down. Therefore, they had no time to cook and just filled their stomachs with compressed biscuits.

"You guys are blaming me for being stupid?" Yan Yu laughed nonchalantly, but soon his left arm was hugged by Lin Ning and his right arm was clamped by Zhao Yuanzhen. The two of them lifted him up from the left and right and dragged him towards the helicopter.

"Captain Liu." Ye Jun came to Liu Longtao's side, "Everyone is in the cabin."

"Okay." Liu Longtao wiped his mouth with a napkin and stood up.

"Wait, you haven't paid yet!" The boss chased out from the kitchen and saw the helicopter parked outside. He was suddenly shocked.

"No need for change." Ye Jun didn't have time to ask the price and scan the code to transfer the money. He just threw down a hundred-yuan bill and quickly left with Liu Longtao.

In the cabin, Yan Yu and Chen Lingyun were speechless after learning what had happened.

The entrance to the secret realm is located on the northeast side of Tianchi Lake at the top of Changbai Mountain, only a few hundred meters away from Silla.

After the entrance was revealed, the Dingbei Army immediately secured control of the area surrounding Tianchi Lake, preventing tourists from both countries from approaching. Subsequently, the Kingdom of Lu sent a formal notice to Silla, stating that the entrance to the secret realm appeared within their territory and constituted Lu's "natural land resources," and that troops would be stationed there to ensure its safety.

Silla, unaware of the Changbai Mountain Secret Realm's existence, began haggling with the Lu Kingdom. The specific details of the negotiations are unknown, but from the Lu Kingdom's perspective, Silla tacitly acknowledged the Lu Kingdom's control of the Changbai Mountain Secret Realm's entrance. However, due to domestic public opinion, Silla was hesitant to formally acknowledge the situation, thus stalling the matter.

As the Dingbei Army sealed off the area around Tianchi Lake, all the tourists from Lu State were evacuated. However, the tourists from the other side refused to leave, instead blocking the blockade, shouting and taking photos. If you force them to evacuate, they'll run away, and when you're done, they'll come back. Ultimately, the Dingbei Army had no choice but to acquiesce and tell them to stay outside the blockade. "As long as you don't trespass, we won't do anything about it."

Then, a strange monk suddenly attacked.

The monks, mingling with the tourists, suddenly broke through the blockade en masse and charged towards the secret realm's entrance. There were around thirty of them, all monks, with a clear division of labor. One group was responsible for entanglement of the Dingbei Army monks, while the other group rushed recklessly towards the entrance, all the while casting the Earth-Moving Elephant Mantra. Conventional firearms were effectively ineffective against them.

Fortunately, the Dingbei Army's on-site commander was smart and immediately borrowed the common practice of the Pingxi Army and Tianzhu in the border confrontation: forming a human wall.

Weren't you using the Earth Elephant spell the entire time? My bullets can't kill you, but you can't cut through my attack spells either. I'll have the ordinary soldiers form a human wall, using their bodies to keep you out, and then the military monks will call you out one by one.

If you dare to cut into the attack spell, there is no need for the monk to take action. The sharpshooter aiming from the outside will just shoot you to death.

Relying on this stupid method, the Dingbei Army was able to keep most of the foreign monks out, but there were still sixteen or seventeen who rushed into the secret realm - after all, the incident happened suddenly and there was no way to do better.

After listening to Chen Lingyun's story, Liu Longtao looked at Ye Jun.

Ye Jun nodded silently, indicating that the information she obtained was generally correct and no different from the explanation given to Ye Jun by the Dingbei Army.

Liu Longtao looked at the mountain below through the helicopter window with a gloomy face, and suddenly said:

"Old Yan, want to compete?"

"What are we competing for?" Yan Yu asked curiously, "The team competition has been cancelled."

"Who has killed more foreign monks since entering the secret realm?" Liu Longtao smiled coldly, revealing his white teeth.

"Forget it." Yan Yu shook his head and said, "I'm not interested in killing games. Defending the country and killing the enemy is a soldier's duty. How can I treat it as a game?"

Liu Longtao was immediately frustrated. However, the other party was talking about justice, and he was speechless for a moment, so he could only change his words:

"Then let's see who gets the secret realm core first, how about that?"

"After we kill those monks?" Yan Yu held his chin in his hand and thought, "Of course I can, but Old Liu..."

"how?"

"You've already lost to me once. If you lose again this time, you should be fine, right? You won't have any psychological trauma, right?"

Liu Longtao: ………………

"Don't worry." He smiled his standard, kind smile again, "Just let me see your strength."

(End of this chapter)