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

Chapter 639 Li Minghu takes medicine

After exploring in the narrow cave for a day and a night, the wall-walking, cloud-climbing and sword-flying skills were restricted, which meant that if they accidentally fell into a deep pit, they might be trapped forever and unable to escape.

It is sheer nonsense to say that Li Minghu has no mental pressure. Valkyries are not born fearless.

But when you are alone, even if you are afraid, it is useless. You can only suppress your emotions with reason and not let fear dominate your body.

Now that Yan Yu had finally arrived here, she felt all the weakness that had been suppressed in her heart suddenly burst out.

Li Minghu grabbed Yan Yu's sleeve, slowly calmed down the pent-up anxiety in his heart, and suddenly said.

"There's an ambush around here."

"I see." Yan Yu responded.

Broken swords lay profusely on either side of the road, casting shadows that were perfect for the sword puppets to hide in. These demons, broken swords transformed into spirits, blended in among the broken swords like water in a lake, remaining motionless, making them difficult to detect even with a divine sense scan. Therefore, the two could only barely sense movement in the distance, but their divine senses couldn't locate them.

In the manuals of ordinary martial artists, there is a very clear strategy for dealing with this situation, which is to strike back after the enemy attacks: you wait for it to jump out on its own initiative, and then deal with it.

Yan Yu bent his fingers slightly, the Huangting Sword circled around his body to prepare for defense, and the Liangyi Sword was ready to go.

Li Minghu held Yan Yu's sleeve with his left hand, and made a sword gesture with his right hand. The Sky Flash Sword was suspended in the air, protecting Yan Yu's back. He said in a voice transmission:
"Be careful of sneak attacks."

"Yeah." Yan Yu glanced around and thought that these sword puppets around him were really patient and hadn't taken action until now.

Could it be that he was intimidated by my powerful aura and so forcibly suppressed the urge to launch a sneak attack?
The more Yan Yu thought about it, the more it made sense, so he sent a message to Li Minghu:

"We can't do this. The flying swords have been revealed, and these sword puppets are not stupid. They will definitely wait until they are more confident before attacking us."

As for the specific timing, whether it is to wait for them to walk to a darker corner or wait for more sword puppet companions to gather, it is obviously very disadvantageous to the two of them - it is like a sword in the sheath, ready to be used, you don't know what move it will make, but instead you have to keep your mind tense and guard against the surroundings, which makes you inferior in momentum.

"You mean," Li Minghu understood immediately, "to show the enemy weakness and lure them out of their hole."

"That's right." Yan Yu said, "You can pretend to focus on me."

"I understand." Li Minghu pondered for a moment, first slowly retracted the Tianshan Sword, then changed from pulling the sleeve to holding the arm, and held Yan Yu's right hand.

Just like the intimacy they had in the Three Islands Treasure Ship Secret Realm before.

Yan Yu immediately guessed what she meant, so he put away the Huangting Sword and Liangyi Sword, and moved sideways to get closer to Li Minghu.

The shadows around seemed to be ready to move. Yan Yu's spiritual sense confirmed that they had approached to a distance of more than ten steps, but then they hesitated to move forward... After all, the two people stood there, motionless and doing nothing, which seemed to have aroused their vigilance again.

Li Minghu quickly realized this and suddenly turned around and threw himself into Yan Yu's arms.

Yan Yu immediately hugged her, pretending that they were being affectionate with each other, while secretly scanning the surroundings with his spiritual sense.

As expected! As the two of them embraced each other, with their backs facing the surroundings, those big and soft... no, rustling shadows finally couldn't be suppressed!

The assassination came silently from the darkness, bringing with it imperceptible wind and airflow. If the two had not been prepared, they would not have dared to stop scanning with their spiritual senses, and would not have been able to sense their existence with their eyes and ears alone.

Yan Yu put his right hand around Li Minghu's waist and his left hand around her shoulders, and suddenly he made a rapid sword gesture.

Li Minghu noticed his movements and immediately made a sword gesture, and the Tianshan Sword flew out.

Without any telepathic communication, both of them commanded their flying swords to kill the sword puppets that were attacking each other's backs!
Metal clashed, cracking. The Liangyi Sword took the lead, but Cangsong Yingke intercepted the Sword Puppet, effectively severing the opponent's decayed blade in two. The Huangting Sword, however, missed. The opponent unexpectedly used the White Crane Spreads Wings technique, striking downward at an angle just before impact, leaving the Huangting Sword missing.

Yan Yu was stunned when he saw this: This sword style that uses offense instead of defense...Shushan swordsmanship? The old man with long eyebrows?

No, the old man with long eyebrows is much more skilled in swordsmanship. These sword puppets seem to have learned the form but not the spirit. They are just clumsy imitations without soul.

"There are quite a lot of them," Li Minghu said in a voice transmission. The Sky Flash Sword used an Eagle Strike move, slashing four times with speed and accuracy, instantly shattering the opposing sword puppets.

Fragments fell, and the sneak attack came again. Three or four sword puppets pounced out at the same time, still attacking without any visible sword light and without any sound. However, Li Minghu saw through them and controlled the Sky Flash Sword to quickly perform the Night Battle in All Directions, making a 180-degree turn and sweeping across violently, finally forcing the three or four sword puppets to retreat temporarily.

Seeing that she was no match for four people with just two fists, Yan Yu immediately shook out the silver pill from his sleeve without saying a word, and transformed himself into a black-haired beauty with a slender waist and long legs. He swung out sharp blades with both hands, rushed over the broken sword, and wanted to share the firepower with Li Minghu.

As a result, the puppet Ah Zhen's charge was like rocks falling into a flock of crows, instantly startling a large number of sword puppets!

Countless flying swords suddenly rose up around them. Some were black, some were gray, some were rusty, and some were broken. Hundreds and thousands of densely packed sword puppet monsters rushed towards Ah Zhen like a swarm of bees. Seeing this, Yan Yu and Li Minghu both gasped in shock.
Damn, so many!

Fortunately, we discovered it early, otherwise, when these sword puppets formed an airtight encirclement and then rushed in to stab and shoot, we would have turned into hedgehogs even if we cast a curved spell!

Without a word, Li Minghu grabbed Yan Yu and ran forward. But Yan Yu's reaction was faster. The moment he rushed forward, he grabbed her waist and took the Fenyun Bagua step.

go!

The surrounding sword puppets naturally didn't want to let the two prey escape. Yan Yucai rushed out a few meters, and saw several dim sword lights rushing in front of him, sweeping his feet, chopping waists, slicing necks, and blowing heads off, fiercely killing him.

Yan Yu kept moving forward, charging towards the sword puppets. Before they could reach him, the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Qi appeared, followed by the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword, which teleported in. It chopped down, blocked, slashed straight, and sliced diagonally! With incredible precision, it blew up all four sword puppets that were attacking Yan Yu. Then, with another flash of sword light, it vanished from the spot.

The puppet Ah Zhen in the distance was surrounded and suffered the most ferocious firepower. His clothes were completely shattered and his limbs were tattered, revealing the dragon wood skeleton inside which was harder than gold and iron.

Suddenly, she opened her mouth and spurted out an extremely thin and dense golden thread, which swept across in a clockwise direction at a rapid speed, not only cutting the surrounding sword puppets into pieces, but also splitting all the enemies in front of Yan Yu.

Yan Yu, holding Li Minghu, finally took the opportunity to rush into the cave opposite. The puppet Ah Zhen arrived shortly after. Relying on the unreasonable hardness of the Shenlong Wood, he rushed forward, bearing the bombardment of flying swords all around, and rushed directly into the cave, cutting off the retreat for the two and blocking the pursuers.

Countless sword puppets pursued them relentlessly, rushing into the cave's corridor. Not long after, another burst of Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire shot out from the cave, blasting the corpses of numerous sword puppets away. "Amazing!" Li Minghu exclaimed in admiration.

The Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire is in the form of golden threads, which is most suitable for sweeping and cutting. However, the passage in the cave is narrow and the cutting power cannot be exerted. Therefore, the puppet Ah Zhen simply drew a circle and spit out fire. The Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire swept out a big trumpet, smashing the large number of pursuers behind him into pieces.

The remaining sword puppets rushed over, and were then killed one by one by Li Minghu with the Sky Flash Sword. Yan Yu put Li Minghu down from his arms, turned his head and looked behind him for a moment, and said:
"It seems that they didn't catch up."

"Yeah." Li Minghu was still frightened and patted his chest which was still heaving violently.

Being surrounded by a large number of sword puppets in an open environment is undoubtedly a very deadly situation, because the number of enemies is enough to carry out saturation and uninterrupted attacks. Unless you have a magic weapon specializing in defense such as the Xuanguang Ruler, it will be useless even if you are good at swordsmanship.

Fortunately, the two of them discovered the abnormality in advance and ran away in time with the help of the surrounding environment... cough cough cough!

"Starting coughing again?" Yan Yu asked.

"It's an old problem." Li Minghu coughed and said, "It happens when you exercise too vigorously. It's nothing."

"Try this." Yan Yu took out the pill he got from the secret realm last time from his arms.

"What is this?" Li Minghu asked curiously.

"It is said that this medicine can balance the imbalance of the body." Yan Yu replied.

Li Minghu took one pill and refined the medicinal power in his stomach for a while. His complexion seemed to improve a little, so he returned the pill bottle to Yan Yu.

"You take it." Yan Yu refused to take it and said, "This is for you."

"I'll try it first." Li Minghu said with a smile, "If it really works later, I'll ask you for it again."

After hearing what she said, Yan Yu could only put away the pill bottle, took out the Taiqing Yuanqi Yanlan magic weapon that she had given him last time, and pondered in secret.

This item is similar to the Xuanguang Ruler, also a niche magical weapon specializing in defense. It was originally intended for Xie Ruoxi, but she already has the Tide-Pushing Horizontal Wave Flute. Zhao Yuanzhen has the Red Lotus Bowl, which combines offense and defense, so there's no need for hardware enhancement in this area. Chen Lingyun and Su Yunjin are control-oriented fighters, and don't have a strong need to bear the pressure of the battlefield head-on, so that leaves only Yan Yu or Lin Ning.

Both of them played the technical swordsmanship style that prioritized mobility, and under normal circumstances, they didn't have much need for defensive magic weapons. "Why should I defend when I can dodge?" Therefore, Yan Yu always kept it on hand, intending to exchange it for some magic weapon in the future, for something more useful.

However, it now appeared that the dangers of this secret realm were extraordinary. Take the sword puppets for example, each one was at the Transformation Realm, and there were hundreds, even thousands, of them. If one wasn't careful, they would be beheaded.

The most suitable ones to deal with this situation are undoubtedly the magic cultivators with large-scale bombing capabilities, followed by the assistant officers with group combat magic weapons, and the ones who suffer the most are the sword immortals who are good at single combat.

Minghu and I are both sword immortals! Helpless!
After much thought, I decided to refine this Taiqing Yuanqi Yanlan and have it recognize its master.

Yan Yu had always been very careful with his use of his True Essence, even if it meant splitting a single strand of it into two. And if this defensive weapon was to be used to its full potential, it would inevitably consume a significant portion of his True Essence… However, in this moment of urgency, to ensure the Valkyrie's safety, a waste of it was a waste!
Recognize the Lord!

Yan Yu refined the Taiqing Yuanqi Yanlan, and then consumed his true energy to try to activate it. It turned into clouds and mist that enveloped his body, making him look like an extraordinary master.

Li Minghu had initially refined the medicinal power and felt his abdomen become much warmer. Gradually, heat seemed to be rising and his skin turned red.

This medicine originated from the Joyful Zen Sect. It not only has the effect of repairing the true yang and true yin, but also contains some aphrodisiac herbs.

Yan Yu knew nothing about this, and although Li Minghu sensed something was wrong, he refused to believe that Yan Yu was the kind of pervert who would tamper with the elixir, so he just forced himself to consolidate his Tao heart and suppress irrelevant thoughts.

After the two of them had rested, they continued along the passage.

Yan Yu secretly made sword gestures with his right hand, ready to command the Huangting Sword and Liangyi Sword to be unsheathed at any time; with his left hand, he formed a magic spell, which could control the puppet Ah Zhen, or Taiqing Yuanqi Yanlan as long as it was cast.

Li Minghu didn't need to multitask like him, so he just raised the Sky Flash Sword and was on guard. He suddenly felt a little lost, and an irresistible thought came to his mind:

It would be great if there were more enemies, preferably ones that even the two of us combined couldn't defeat, so he could hug me again...

She suddenly came to her senses and quickly dispelled these messy thoughts, but she saw that the corridor in front of her suddenly became clear, and everyone entered a cave.

The interior looks extremely spacious, about the size of several basketball courts combined, and the walls and floors are polished smooth.

In the center stood a figure, dressed in the attire of a classical monk, with two red and blue swords on his back. One was red-hot like hot iron, and the other was as cold as solid ice.

Around the figure, many corpses lay scattered. Most had rough, dark skin, though a few were chocolate-colored. They were probably sorcerers and ascetics who had arrived earlier than the two.

"Another one?" The cultivator opposite slowly turned around. It was a burly male sword immortal with an indifferent expression. "How dare you, you're so ignorant of your own life! If you're not from the Zhenmei Sword Sect, how dare you lay your hands on this peerless divine weapon?"

Yan Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and scanned the surrounding corpses with his spiritual sense to confirm that they were all killed by a sword that cut through their throats. There were not even any other extra wounds on their bodies. From this, it can be seen that the sword immortal in front of him is probably not an ordinary person, no matter his swordsmanship attainments or cultivation level.

He secretly sent a message to Li Minghu, who immediately said:
"We didn't mean to trespass. Please forgive us. We will leave now."

There are many entrances around the cave. The two had only entered from one of them before. Now it is just the right time to choose another entrance to continue exploring. There is no need to fight each other to the death here.

The male sword immortal sneered when he heard this, his expression even more contemptuous:
"Although you are two weak ants, you don't even have the courage to treat life and death lightly and draw your swords to meet me! How ridiculous and despicable! How dare you stand before me with swords on your backs! If you two abandon your swords here, cut off your arms, kneel down and kowtow, and retreat, I will spare your lives!"

Yan Yu frowned, but before he could say anything more, he heard the other party shouting again:

"If you don't want to kill yourself, then accept death!"

Before he finished speaking, the red sword behind him had already been unsheathed, and he used a move called "white rainbow piercing the sun"... no, it was "sky light breaking through the clouds"!
The opponent's sword was so fast that Yan Yu only had time to hold the Huangting Sword horizontally in front of him before he was knocked away by the terrifying force of the sword.

The burly swordsman was about to control the red sword to chase, when he suddenly shouted:
"How brave!"

The blue sword behind him was also unsheathed, and the White Crane Spreads Its Wings swept fiercely to the side. The azure sword light was bright and dazzling, but Li Minghu, who had stepped around to the side, remained unmoved. The sword technique urged the Sky Flash Sword to quickly change its moves, turning into a Cangsong Welcoming Guest, dodging the White Crane Spreads Its Wings, and the tip of the sword pierced the opponent's lower ribs!
(End of this chapter)