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

Chapter 514 Ruoxi's Ghost Story
The second level of the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy among the six provinces under the jurisdiction of the Zhendong Army.

Considering that it was not long after the upper limit of spiritual energy recovery was increased, seizing the time to practice breathing exercises and improve cultivation as quickly as possible has naturally become the top priority at the moment.

As long as you upgrade faster than your competitors, then the subsequent battles will be like the previous puppet. Even if your swordsmanship has many flaws, you can still defeat your opponent with one force, forcing the opponent to use several times the strength to respond.

Because breathing exercises are so important, we shouldn't be troubled by this kind of house! Did you hear that, Lao Li?

Fortunately, there is a small but dense forest near the cliff on the outskirts of the valley.

After dinner, Yan Yu pretended to take a walk with Ning Ning and took Zhao Yuanzhen into the woods, where the three of them practiced breathing exercises together.

The only solution now is to do this to conceal the truth!

Although it was a covert operation, it was bound to lead to misunderstandings. When Yan Yu returned, he saw Yun Jin's gentle gaze flickering between him, Sister Zhao, and Ning Ning.

Even though she didn't say anything, it seemed like she had said everything, so that Yan Yu was completely speechless and sweating profusely.

Yunjin, it's not that I don't want to play with you. It's just that Ningning just arrived, and she needs to get used to it before joining us!

Of course, since Su Yunjin didn't speak, Yan Yu couldn't "confess" and could only pretend that nothing had happened and took the initiative to say:
"Why isn't the bed made? Come on, let me help."

The room wasn't actually small, but the problem was that there were six of them on the Zhenhai team. Six beds definitely wouldn't fit, and even the quilts were so narrow they would roll out if they turned over.

Yan Yu quickly made the mats on the floor. Six quilts were arranged in two rows, with the pillows facing inwards, so that no one would smell the smell of others' feet while sleeping.

Even if the beautiful girl's feet smelled fragrant, Yan Yu didn't want to smell them, and he had no intention of pointing his feet at others.

"Alright!" After finishing, he clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Choose your own bed."

"I want to be with Ruoxi." Zhao Yuanzhen said immediately.

"Then I want to go with Ruoxi too." Chen Lingyun said with a smile and winked at Yun Jin.

Su Yunjin responded with a grateful look. Since the sleeping order in the first row was Zhao, Xie, and Chen, then the second row would naturally be Su, Yan, and Lin... Of course, it would be best to be Yan, Su, and Lin, but Yan Yu had already sat cross-legged on the quilt in the middle, so there was no need for her to force the captain to move to the side, otherwise it would be suspected that she was deliberately targeting Ningning.

After everyone chose their beds, they began to sit cross-legged, breathe in and out, and perform their daily routine.

Although everyone is drawing the Qi into the body and absorbing it as true essence, their attitudes and postures are different.

They worked together to move the Qi in the woods and had already finished today's lessons. Therefore, Zhao Yuan was very bored. On the surface, he pretended to be breathing and refining Qi, but in fact he was secretly taking a nap.

Xie Ruoxi was also absent-minded. From time to time, she would quietly open her eyelids and secretly look at the sisters around her, as well as the captain who was sitting opposite her - after all, the cultivation speed was very fast, so it didn't matter if she was absent for a while.

Chen Lingyun closed her eyes and remained motionless. She knew that her talent was inferior and her true essence growth rate was insufficient, so she could only redouble her efforts on breathing and refining Qi to avoid being left too far behind.

Su Yunjin was also diligently cultivating. Occupying the bed next to the captain made her feel extremely content and happy. With her Dao heart firmly planted, even her speed in moving the Qi around seemed to have increased.

Lin Ning sat on Yan Yu's other side, also diligently practicing Qigong. Although the increase in Zhen Yuan was minimal, the test-takers loved to do useless work, so they persisted.

Yan Yu was surrounded by beautiful girls, but he didn't feel any joy at all. He just tried to draw the energy into his body, but found that there was no energy at all, so he could only sigh and give up.

Alas, why can't the tires turn on their own without the engine?

Until late at night, everyone finished their daily lessons one after another, said good night to each other, and then crawled into bed.

The lights were off, the room was dim, and the room temperature was very pleasant. There was no need to turn on the air conditioner. Just the spiritual night breeze blowing in from the window was enough to make people feel extremely comfortable.

Yan Yu gradually began to feel sleepy. This wasn't a signal from his body that he needed sleep, but simply the natural adjustment of his biological clock. If he got up and played with his phone at this moment, he could easily stay up all night, and the more he played, the more energetic he became.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard Chen Lingyun say:
"Is this our first team-building sleepover?"

"What's wrong?" Lin Ning asked. "How about we have a ghost story conference?" Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

"Okay." "No." Two people immediately spoke up to express their opinions.

The one who said "yes" was Xie Ruoxi. As a heavy homebody who has been hanging out on the Internet for many years, she certainly wouldn't be scared by any ghost stories. Instead, she has many horror stories to share with everyone.

The one who said "no" was Su Yunjin. Although she was a literary girl who loved novels the most, she would actually read a little bit of books on all kinds of subjects, but she would never touch horror stories.

"Hey, Yunjin is afraid of ghosts?" Zhao Yuanzhen asked in confusion, "We have a ghost-calling monk in our team. No matter what ghost comes, she will capture it with her spirit-calling flag. What are you afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid of that kind of ghost," Su Yunjin said defensively. "I'm afraid of strange creatures that defy science and are beyond human control—the kind that's what you see in ghost stories."

"Yunjin, this is a rare opportunity. I don't know when we can get together for the night again." Chen Lingyun said, and secretly whispered a few words to her.

"Okay, alright." Su Yunjin gave in.

"Where's Ningning?" Chen Lingyun continued to ask, "Ningning shouldn't be afraid of ghosts, right? There are many ghost stories in Minyue."

"Of course I'm not afraid." Lin Ning's voice trembled slightly, obviously trying to show off.

"Since everyone agrees, captain, do you have any objection?" Chen Lingyun asked finally.

"It's up to you. I'm going to sleep." Yan Yu was neither afraid of ghost stories nor interested in them, so he directly stated that he would not participate.

"Okay, let me tell you one first." Xie Ruoxi said excitedly, "I have a distant cousin..."

"Don't talk like it really happened!" Lin Ning interrupted her hurriedly.

"Uh..." Xie Ruoxi was silent for a moment, thinking, wasn't this opening obvious as soon as she heard it? But to appease Ning Ning, she changed the subject and said, "Okay, it has nothing to do with me. It's about a girl whose sister suddenly disappeared one day, and her family couldn't find her after a long search. After her parents gave up hope, she started having nightmares every night. She dreamed that at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, someone crawled out from under the quilt and tried to strangle her to death..."

Yan Yu was listening quietly beside him, when he suddenly felt something crawling in from the right side of the quilt.

Yun brocade?

He subconsciously thought that Su Yunjin was deliberately imitating the story to scare him. Just as he was about to scold her, someone hugged his right arm.

The trembling literary girl was secretly delighted that she could take the opportunity to get close to the captain, but at the same time she was terrified of the ghost stories told by Xie Ruoxi. She was in both pain and happiness.

"Every time she was about to be strangled to death, she would suddenly wake up from a nightmare." Xie Ruoxi described it vividly, "My uncle... well, I mean, the girl's father took her to the hospital, but they couldn't find anything wrong with her."

Yan Yu's left hand also tightened. Someone grabbed his hand tightly, interlocking his fingers tightly, as if afraid that he would run away.

This familiar touch, Ningning?
"Finally, she couldn't stand the long-lasting nightmares anymore and decided to move out of this family alone," Xie Ruoxi said. "While packing her luggage and cleaning her room, she suddenly noticed something loose on the floorboards under the bed. She lifted it up and saw her sister's body lying there, her eyes wide open. There were bruises on her neck, the kind of thing one would expect from someone strangled to death..."

At this point, she suddenly lifted the quilt with force, making a noise, and deliberately screamed:
"Who's crawling into my bed?!"

"Ah--" Su Yunjin screamed and quickly got into Yan Yu's bed, holding his right arm tightly.

Lin Ning pulled her left arm over and hugged it tightly, as if it were a life-saving straw. Although she didn't scream like Yun Jin, her body was shaking non-stop.

Yan Yu, who was clamped on both sides, looked at the ceiling expressionlessly and asked calmly:

"When you're packing your luggage and cleaning your room, why are you checking under the bed?"

"Captain, that's a good question!" Xie Ruoxi chuckled. "Actually, the hidden premise of this story is that the heroine strangled her sister to death during an argument, and in desperation, hid the body under her bed. Then, due to excessive fear and anxiety, she lost her memory. The nightmare is actually her brain trying to recover her memory... How's that? Scary, right?"

"It's so scary." Yan Yu couldn't help but sigh when he found that he couldn't pull his arms back at all.

(End of this chapter)