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

Chapter 578 We all have a bright future

"What's wrong with Ningning?" Zhao Yuanzhen asked curiously, "She looks like she's drunk, and she keeps smiling foolishly from time to time."

"Who knows." Xie Ruoxi shrugged, "In the past, when I got the card I wanted, I would be happy almost the whole day like this."

"What's the point of drawing cards?" Zhao Yuanzhen said disdainfully, "It's just picture data on the phone."

"You don't understand the joy of having a complete illustrated collection." Xie Ruoxi laughed, then sighed, "Now that I'm rich, I can spend whatever I need to get it. I'm determined to get it, but I don't have the joy I had studying for a doctorate anymore."

"Haha." Zhao Yuanzhen was a little bored. She was not fond of studying and had no interest in studying for a doctorate.

Su Yunjin walked down the stairs and asked Xie Ruoxi:
"Ruoxi, are you ready?"

"Yeah." Xie Ruoxi nodded.

"Captain, let's go." Su Yunjin looked at Yan Yu with a flower-like smile.

The weather outside the secret realm was growing increasingly hot, and many military headquarters had reduced their outdoor training schedules and increased their indoor learning activities. Inviting Su Yunjin and Xie Ruoxi was a morale-boosting move, allowing the military headquarters to witness the immense power of a Transformation-level cultivator, thereby encouraging the vast majority of Zhendong Army cultivators to diligently cultivate and strive to advance.

The two of them were to conduct a tour of the six provinces under the Zhendong Army's jurisdiction, performing rituals for approximately eight days, which would be considered official business. As for why the rest of the team wasn't invited, it was naturally because they hadn't yet advanced and still needed to prioritize their breathing exercises.

Of course, while the above had a good plan, they didn't realize that Xie Ruoxi, Zhao Yuanzhen, and Su Yunjin were the three engines of the Zhenhai team's breathing and leveling. Now that two of these three engines were gone, the Demon Sect's demon woman had to support Lin Daiyu and the useless woman, naturally unable to provide more training support for Yan.

It can be expected that once the two leave, the practice will slow down drastically!
Yan Yu was also helpless about this, but the news of Qiansi Dafa couldn't be leaked, and he had no reason to ask Li Weiguo for anything. After all, it was only a week, so he might as well just get through it.

He lay on the sofa bored, watching Lin Ning busy preparing food in the kitchen, with a mysterious smile on her face from time to time. He couldn't help but frown in confusion.

What happened to Lin Daiyu? Did she take some silly drugs?

Still thinking about the slowdown in his practice, Yan Yu had already forgotten what he said to Lin Daiyu in the morning - but that was indeed the case. From Lin Ning's perspective, it was an absolute big move, but to Yan Yu it was just an ordinary sentence, so it was normal that he didn't remember it.

Yan Yu turned his gaze back to his phone and sent a message to Zhou Hongyu.

【Conquer others with virtue】: Hongyu, what are you doing?

After about ten seconds, Zhou Hongyu finally replied.

【Spicy】: Hot pot.

[Winning People Over with Virtue]: How can you eat spicy food all day without worrying about your anus exploding?
The other party seemed speechless, and replied after more than half a minute:

[Spicy and spicy]: We Sichuan people eat spicy food just like you eat candy, we have been eating it since we were young.

[Conquer People with Virtue]: Why do people in Southeast Wu have to eat candy? You are a Hell Knight!
[Zhao La]: I won’t talk to you anymore.

Yan Yu frowned tightly, thinking that Hongyu was busy eating and drinking all day, so it would be difficult for me to trick her over here to temporarily replace Ruoxi and Yunjin's engine position.

He wanted to try it again, so he opened Tang Xiaolian's chat window.

【Win people over with virtue】: Xiaolian, are you eating?
[Miao Girl Tang Lingling]: Oh, look who's this? I thought you, Captain Yan, didn't need me anymore after you hooked up with Captain Zhou.

【Conquer others with virtue】: What are you talking about! You are not Captain Zhou's appendage!
[Miao girl Tang Lingling]: Then what am I to Team Yan?

[Win people over with virtue]: be nosy.

[Miao girl Tang Lingling]: Isn't that still a tool? /Angry

[Winning People Over with Virtue]: What are your recent schedules?
[Miao Girl Tang Lingling]: There aren't any plans. None of us have reached the Huafu stage yet, so we definitely need to level up. Captain Zhou's Thunderbolts are mostly gone, and after what happened earlier, the Pingxi Army isn't too sure about letting her out. So she spends every day in the secret realm with us, honing our skills. In her free time, we eat, drink, and just go about our daily lives.

When Yan Yu saw this, he knew that there was no chance of tricking Zhou Hongyu to come over, because the Pingxi Army was now paying close attention to her as their trump card. It was estimated that she would have to report and be reviewed before leaving the province, and she could no longer just come over.

[Miao girl Tang Lingling]: Speaking of Captain Yan, Captain Zhou has become much gentler recently. Do you have any pigs?

[Winning People with Virtue]: Girls change eighteen times as they grow up, you know? This means that female college students will change eighteen times during their studies. One second they are still a good student, and the next second they may become a star-chasing girl, a fashion guru, or a fake anchor. It's a normal thing.

[Miao girl Tang Lingling]: Is it true that something didn’t happen between you and her abroad before?
[Conquer People with Virtue]: Please don't say anything careless, okay? If this gets out, do you know how much trouble it will cause me?
[Miao Girl Tang Lingling]: Hehe. I'm not kidding. Everyone has seen Captain Zhou's changes, and they must be suspicious of you.

【Conquer others with virtue】: I have a clear conscience!
[Miao Girl Tang Lingling]: I didn't say you had a guilty conscience, you're just confessing! Tell me, what did you do with her that you have a "clear conscience" about?

[Conquer people with virtue]: You little annoying guy, I won’t talk to you anymore.

Yan Yu closed the chat window directly, sighed, and searched in his mind for someone else who could serve as an engine alternative. Suddenly, he received another message.

[Rizhao Zhujiang]: Haha! I've reached the Huafu level! Yanyu, are you convinced?

【Conquer people with virtue】: Haha.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: I heard that I've been promoted, and someone is really upset. Is it because I can't eat well and can't train well that I'm really fragile?
【Conquer people with virtue】: Speak in a human way.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: I advise you to relax and not to have trouble eating or sleeping just because you are stuck at the Marrow Cleansing Stage. This matter ultimately depends on your cultivation aptitude. If your aptitude is too poor, there is no other way.

[Conquer others with virtue]: I told you, your sister and I have made an appointment to enter the Huafu stage together.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: I asked my sister, and she said she never made a date with you.

【Conquer people with virtue】: Are you really going to ask?

When Li Zhaojiang on the opposite side saw these words, he was first shocked, then silent, and then he wanted to vomit blood. The joy he had originally felt at the upgrade was also wiped out.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: Damn Lao Yan, you better find a girl to date as soon as possible, otherwise I won’t be able to threaten you!
[Conquer people with virtue]: That’s not good, your sister will be unhappy.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: My sister is on a special mission now and has no time to take care of you!

[Conquer People with Virtue]: So what exactly is the mission?
[Rizhao Pearl River]: Good question! Do you think I would leak the information?
[Conquer people with virtue]: Can you reveal some information that is allowed to be disclosed to me without leaking any secrets?

[Rizhao Zhujiang]: I can only tell you that it has nothing to do with combat, I can't tell you anything more. [Conquering People with Virtue]: Are you helping the government train special forces? Haha.

When Li Zhaojiang saw the message, his hands suddenly shook for no reason and he almost dropped his phone.

How did Lao Yan know that? Damn, I really didn’t say anything!

Should I delete them as friends right away? Otherwise, if the higher-ups find out, they'll think I told them... Wait a minute! Chen Lingyun from their team, whose father is the governor of Jianghai, has connections everywhere, so it's normal for him to get this information. Anyway, I just need to keep a secret.

[Rizhao Pearl River]: What’s the weather like in Jinling today?
[Conquering People with Virtue]: Your change of subject is too abrupt. Besides, we're all cultivating in a secret realm, right? Aside from the day and night cycle, aren't the secret caves completely isolated from the outside world and self-contained?

[Rizhao Pearl River]: Ah, so that's how it is! No wonder it never rains in my secret place, it's warm like spring all year round!

Seeing that he was avoiding the topic, Yan Yu guessed that he must have been right.

Li Minghu must be responsible for training the first batch of ordinary warriors!
Although the mortal warrior project in the previous life was not officially launched until after Li Zhaojiang's rebellion, Yan Yu was certain that it had been in progress for a long time.

The logic behind this is easy to understand: due to their differences from mortals, monks will eventually become an independent, emerging class. Currently, the Lu Kingdom uses its warband monks to suppress the military monks, and the military monks to suppress the civilian monks. This is essentially a practice of dividing and ruling within the monk community, and it still cannot change the fact that the monk class can crush the mortal class in terms of military strength.

If they cannot be controlled, they will inevitably rebel. This is an objective law that cannot be changed by human will. Therefore, there must be a non-monk group that can restrain the monks themselves - that is, the ordinary warriors in the previous life.

Due to their limited True Essence, ordinary warriors could only choose the Sword Immortal profession, which consumed the least energy, and therefore could only seek instructors among Sword Immortal cultivators. In this regard, even Liu Longtao and Yan Yu were no match for Li Minghu. After all, this girl had the attribute label of "suffering from a chronic illness, incurable by medicine" and might die any day, so using it would definitely be the most reassuring.

Ugh.

Yan Yu actually wanted to be the instructor of this ordinary warrior, but he was not supposed to know about the existence of ordinary warriors now, so he had to give up.

However, I have never heard of the Valkyrie training the first batch of mortal warriors in my previous life. This is a bit strange. Perhaps it is because of some unpredictable butterfly effect?
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"That won't work," Li Minghu said seriously. "The most important thing for a Sword Immortal is mobility. A Sword Immortal without mobility is nothing more than a target."

The base leader replied:
"We will report your feedback. There are still some technical flaws, so please design a training plan based on the current situation. We will notify you if there are any adjustments."

Li Minghu sighed and couldn't help coughing again.

This secret plan now—there was no public project name, so she didn't know what to call it—was to allow mortals to use the cultivators' true essence and attack methods through some technological means.

The problem is that the machine that stores the monk's true essence is too huge. It is said that the actual weight is almost close to one ton. It is then connected to the subject's arm vein with a tube.

Providing true energy in this way means that the subject has no way to leave the device for fast movement. What kind of sword immortal is this?

To be honest, it would be more cost-effective to install a machine gun turret here than to forcibly recruit a mortal who can wield a sword.

Not only is the mobility almost zero, the external true energy provided is also extremely limited. Many subjects even reported that the mobilization of true energy is very unstable, sometimes working and sometimes not... In short, there are so many problems that Li Minghu can only make a trick out of nothing and design some sword-controlling techniques for these mortals that do not require flexible movement and do not have high requirements for true energy consumption and drive.

Her report went straight to the upper echelons of the Privy Council, and the decision makers were helpless about it.

The shortcomings are obvious to everyone, but the solution is to wait for technological breakthroughs: either miniaturize the external storage equipment of true energy, which depends on in-depth research on the properties of true energy and breakthroughs in basic theory; or increase the mobility of the current external storage equipment, such as installing it on a small aircraft, which is purely in the field of engineering technology.

Basic theory relies entirely on random clicks in the technology tree, and there's no telling if it will work. Luck plays a huge role. Engineering technology is more feasible, but also has a lower ceiling. Therefore, the decision-makers in the Privy Council quickly made a decisive move:
I have to be all!

Try both routes. While you'll definitely have to choose one in the future, the worst that can happen is you'll just end up spending a little more money. The most important thing is to avoid missing the right route.

However, after the leader of the Privy Council made the decision, he returned home from get off work and happened to meet Beijinger Liu Longtao who was returning home and talking on the phone with his mobile phone.

"Why are you back?" the leader asked. Shouldn't his son be training in the secret realm?

"Mom's birthday is tomorrow," Liu Longtao replied, "I'll make arrangements."

"You don't have to worry about this kind of thing." The leader then put on the authority of a father and said in a deep voice, "Just let Lao Jiang take care of it."

"Uncle Jiang is indeed making arrangements, but I have to take care of my biological mother's affairs. It's a matter of attitude," said Liu Longtao.

"You should prioritize improving your strength now," said Father Liu, frowning. "Yan Yu hasn't even reached the Transformation Realm yet. You need to close the gap in strength as quickly as possible and regain the title of Lu Nation's number one cultivator..."

Liu Longtao sighed and said:

"And then what? Wait until he reaches the Huafu level, and then he'll snatch it back? So we're just playing the game of passing the flower, right?"

"Can't you just fight for your dignity?" Father Liu laughed at his son's anger. "You have better talent than him and more resources. So what? You can't beat him unless you have a higher level?"

"Dad, you're not a cultivator, so you don't understand," Liu Longtao explained. "In terms of combat skills alone, no one in Lu Kingdom can match Yan Yu. I estimate that the second-placed person would be Li Minghu of the Annan Army, but the gap between Li Minghu and Yan Yu is also huge - he crushes all of us in terms of skills, don't you understand? If we don't use our cultivation level to crush him, we are not even on the same starting line, how can we compare?"

Father Liu was silent for a while, then said:
"Battle skills also fall under the category of talent, right?"

"From the looks of it, it should be," Liu Longtao said. "Some people are born with quick reactions, precise perceptions, and flexible brains. Wouldn't that mean their combat skills are superior to those of ordinary people? Of course, this can be improved through acquired training, unlike cultivation aptitude, which requires a lot of time to practice, which isn't suitable for me! I have good aptitude, abundant true essence, and am practicing both swordsmanship and Taoism. Next, I'll take the path of becoming a Taoist body, which will greatly enhance the power of my Taoism. I don't have time to practice those damn swordsmanship techniques."

Liu Longtao's major subject was the "Five-Direction Divine Dragon Purple Sky Sutra," which involved five dragon spells belonging to the five elements. Therefore, Master Jing also set an extremely exaggerated and ambitious goal for the path of the Dao-transformed body in his cultivation:

All five elements are present!

Unlike Su Yunjin, who specializes in the water route, he wants to gather all the elites of the Five Elements! By then, utilizing the principle of the mutual generation of the Five Elements, the power of Taoism can be multiplied. That is the path of cultivation with the highest ceiling!

Although Father Liu didn't understand this, he had a large number of think tank experts around him who had analyzed the pros and cons of Liu Longtao's path. In the short term, he would definitely not be able to compete with Yan Yu, who was a master of swordsmanship, but in the later stages, he would definitely be almost invincible. So he nodded and said:
"I've already asked the meteorological department for assistance with the matter of the acquired Five Elements Elite. Your workload is five times that of ordinary law practitioners, so you'll need to work overtime. Don't worry about your mother's affairs; I'll explain everything to her."

Okay, it's back again.

You just don't want to see me resting at home!
Liu Longtao spread his hands and turned to go out, only to hear his father ask behind him:
"If you can truly cultivate all five elements, can you crush Xie Ruoxi from the Zhenhai Team?"

"If she hadn't obtained a more powerful thunder technique," Liu Longtao said without turning his head. "But who can predict what will happen in the future?"

(End of this chapter)