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

Chapter 653: Big Sun True Fire, Sword Pointing to the West

The moment the flames rushed towards Yan Yu, the expressions of the people around him changed drastically.

The one who reacted the fastest was still Lin Ning. She shot out the Green Bamboo Sword and the Danyan Sword at the same time, trying to intercept the flames for Yan Yu.

The sword hasn't come out yet, but the fire has already arrived!
Yan Yu was hit directly, and then his body suddenly floated into the air, and light began to radiate from every pore of his body.

Lin Ning quickly flew after him on his sword.

Ever since those Arhats and Bodhisattvas were startled at the bottom of the lake and condensed their lotus pedestals and flew out, the flying restrictions in the secret realm have ceased to operate; coupled with the rampant destruction caused by the gatekeeper Taoist priests, the other restrictions have also begun to become extremely unstable under the crazy radiation of light and heat.

The disordered spiritual energy caused many strong turbulent winds in the sky, which were interspersed with many spatial cracks, refracting the light into extremely strange, kaleidoscope-like colors.

Lin Ning chased with his sword for a while, and suddenly hit an invisible space barrier.

The members of the Zhenhai team rushed over from behind on their swords, but were also stopped by the spatial barrier. They only heard Xie Ruoxi shouting:
"It's an air wall! Let's go around it and see if we can exploit the bug and get out!"

Although no one understood what it meant, they still thought they could give it a try, so they hurriedly and anxiously swam along the space barrier. Sure enough, they didn't fly far before the space barrier disappeared.

Everyone hurried to chase Yan Yu again, but before they could fly more than a hundred meters, they crashed into the second space barrier again.

"Will you let people pass or not?" Lin Ning yelled angrily.

"Why can the captain ignore these spatial barriers, but we can't?" Su Yunjin asked puzzledly.

"Because the flame is powerful enough to shatter the void." Xie Ruoxi guessed.

Even though it was just a guess, it might be surprisingly close to the truth, Chen Lingyun thought to herself.

According to Lu Guo's current research, the spatial barriers of a normal secret realm are fixed to the outer perimeter, like the outer walls of a house. Now, someone had fought in the house, causing it to half-collapse, so even in the room, one would encounter the debris of the collapsed wall.

In this situation, going around it is of course the most cost-effective way, but if you have enough strength, it is also possible to directly knock a hole in the wreckage.

"If that's the case!" Su Yunjin said anxiously, "Doesn't that mean we'll never be able to catch up with the captain?"

If the flames eventually left the captain's body, that would be fine. But what if the other party took over the captain's body and refused to leave? Wouldn't that be the "possession" so common in fairy tales?
Yun Jin couldn't imagine that one day the captain would finally come home, revealing a sinister and strange expression, and grinning at her:
"Haha, from today on, I am your captain Yan Yu!"

Aw, I don’t want that!

"We have to chase him even if we can't!" Zhao Yuanzhen said firmly, "He's in this secret realm, where else can he run to? Keep chasing!"

Everyone quickly bypassed the space barrier and continued to chase in the direction of the fire on their swords.

On the ground, Li Zhaojiang was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked Li Minghu:

"Sister, aren't you going to chase her?"

Li Minghu thought for a moment and said calmly:
"If that flame really had murderous intent, Yan Yu would have died the moment it hit him. Now it seems that it wants Yan Yu to do something for it. With the Zhenhai team following them, there's not much point in us going over there. It's better to go to the Taoist gatekeeper and see if we can find the control center."

"Okay." Although Li Zhaojiang was a little worried about his brothers, he thought what his sister said made sense, so he led the team in the direction of the Taoist guarding the gate.

However, Yan Yu was told by the other party, "I'll give you the sword, you come and kill", and then he felt as if something in his dantian exploded, and his whole body was filled with endless energy!

My little universe exploded!

The body flew uncontrollably for a long time and finally stopped. In front of him, he saw countless Arhats and Bodhisattvas flying and laughing, emitting Buddha's light everywhere.

When it rolls up the ghost, the ghost turns into a shadow and flies into the mouth of the gods and Buddhas; when it sweeps up the extraordinary people, that person immediately breaks down on the spot and cannot move, and is rolled into the sky by the Buddha's light to be devoured by various gluttons such as Arhats and Bodhisattvas, with limbs falling and flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Yan Yu's mind shifted slightly, and the Taiyang Zhenmei Sword slashed out immediately. The three or four Arhats across from him quickly turned their heads and spitted out Buddha's light. The flying sword slashed into the mud like a stick stirring up a sea of mud, and a faint sense of sticky resistance came from it.

When fighting with the Bodhisattva before, Yan Yu had already realized that the Buddha's light naturally restrained all physical attacks such as flying swords, and only the Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire had a more obvious effect.

The Sun Sword had two attack modes. The first was a flying sword slash, a purely physical attack that was incredibly powerful, regardless of speed or force. Even if the Buddha's Light could restrain physical attacks, it would still require three or four overlapping attacks to barely block it.

The second is that the sword energy releases light and heat, burning everything. This Buddha light cannot be blocked, but the problem is that this move is extremely depleting of the sword intent itself.

It was because the Taoist gatekeeper used too much sword energy that his sword power became so dim that he eventually abandoned him completely.

"Tsk." Yan Yu tried but missed, and a sneer sounded in his mind, as if saying, "That's it?"

Yan Yu didn't bother with it, but instead made sword gestures with his hands.

Man and sword unite!

It's strange. Theoretically, achieving the unity of man and sword requires a sword immortal to cultivate the flying sword for a long time, with a close connection between mind and thought. Yan Yu had originally intended to fly and slash with the sword, but he didn't expect to merge directly with the sword's light, becoming one, a fusion of self and self... Could it be that the sword's will resides within my body?
No matter what, apart from the consumption of true energy, the unity of man and sword is an enhanced version of flying sword in all aspects, so Yan Yu did not care too much and first used a move of white rainbow piercing the sun and flew forward!

The Buddha's light immediately surged up like a tsunami, blocking the path of the sword light. Yan Yu suddenly changed direction a second before the collision, rising a distance along the upper right, and then suddenly diving vertically downward. The Buddha's light also turned to the upper right and then downward, chasing him relentlessly.

"A feint, is this meant to put them under pressure?" the voice in his head sneered. "These Pure Land Sect monsters have no souls, acting only on instinct. They have no fear, and cannot be deceived. What's the point of your elaborate feint?" "You wouldn't understand even if I told you." Yan Yu continued to fly his sword downward, then quickly turned forward, then upward again. A large Buddha's light followed closely behind the sword light, like a piece of cloth covered with magnets.

"What a waste of effort... huh?" The voice was about to continue mocking, but suddenly an imperceptible hole appeared in the center of the dense Buddha light.

Yan Yu seemed to have expected it. The moment the small hole appeared, the sword light had turned around and almost brushed past the oncoming Buddha light. Then, it penetrated into the small hole before it closed, breaking through the defense line!
After passing through the Buddha's light barrier, only a few defenseless Arhats were left in front.

Yan Yu's sword gestures continued to form, and the sky shattered the clouds! The sword light once again transformed into a meteor, shooting into the chest and abdomen of an Arhat, opening a large hole in his belly. Then he turned around quickly, like a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, piercing through the lotus platform, breaking open the golden body, and piercing multiple targets in a row, flowing like clouds and water, and completing the task in one go!
"I understand." The voice in his mind fell silent for ten seconds before finally speaking again, its tone hinting at sudden enlightenment. "These Arhats lack intelligence, and their Buddha's Lights each act independently. So you deliberately moved around, exploiting their lack of unified command, luring them to pull and separate, thus creating a loophole in your defense... But how did you do that? They only chase you. With constant movement, they should be getting closer, not farther apart..."

"Just take your time to guess." Yan Yu did not explain to him, but continued to fly forward on his sword, silently checking himself in his mind and making estimates at the same time.

If high-intensity light and heat sword energy is released, the sword intent consumed is about 1.7% of the total amount, which means that the sword can be swung at most 58 times. However, the gatekeeper Taoist has used it more than 20 times in the process of chasing people and killing gods and Buddhas, and has consumed nearly half of it.

In contrast, pure sword flying and physical attacks consume almost no sword energy. In other words, powerful moves like sword energy should be used sparingly, and avoid using sword energy when you can kill with a sword.

For sword immortals, conserving true essence was a relatively unfamiliar concept, as sword control itself didn't consume as much energy as Daoist techniques. After three days and three nights of sword fighting, the first thing to be depleted wasn't your true essence, but your mental state.

But Yan Yu, as a mortal warrior in his previous life, relied on external storage devices for all his energy, so managing his energy endurance was a must. Even a simple move like White Rainbow Piercing the Sun could save a quarter of his energy compared to Ning Ning... although for a professional sword immortal, this technique was indeed useless.

Jian Yi continued to observe silently and found that this person was extremely skilled in saving energy, apart from anything else. It was just like Grandet meeting Zhou Baopi. Even if the true energy was as thin as a hair, he would force it to be divided into two strands.

For an ordinary flying sword, its inherent energy consumption is already very low, so there's no need to overdo it. However, as a sword spirit, it lacks replenishment, and every use is a loss. This meticulous combat style is actually most suitable for its current situation. Yan Yu slowly roamed, pulled, and attacked, breaking through defenses, severing Arhats, and assassinating gods and Buddhas. Although his attacks were circuitous and not very quick, his efficiency was still astonishing, as he always seized every fleeting window of opportunity.

"Your stingy fighting style..." The sword intent of the Sun Zhenmei Sword was suppressed for a long time, and finally came up with a suitable adjective, "It can be said to be unique."

"As long as we can kill the target, it's a good strategy." Yan Yu said calmly.

"Hmm." Jian Yi was silent for a moment, then added, "However, there's no need to be so frugal. Although I'm only a sword will, as long as you don't squander it recklessly, I can actually last a long time."

"Playing hard to get, huh?" Yan Yu sneered. "If the battery life goes down, I'm afraid you'll turn hostile and say I'm incompetent and want to kill me."

"How could I do such a thing?" Sword Intent immediately said unhappily, "Even if I am just a sword intent, it is the sword intent of the Sun True Darkness Sword, not some evil demonic sword! How could I commit such an evil act of killing innocent people and creating unnecessary karma?"

"Then who was it that said he would drain my vital essence and kill me?" Yan Yu asked sarcastically, "Did I hear it?"

"Ahem, I was just joking with you!" Jian Yi was silent again for a moment, then changed his tone and said, "If you are a habitual perpetrator of crimes that harm the world and morality, accumulating sins of killing and being burdened by karma, then it would be justified for me to kill you. Now that you have merits and virtues, why would I harm you?"

"Oh?" Yan Yu's eyes lit up, "I have merits?"

"Of course, why would I lie to you?" Jian Yi asked back.

If I think about it carefully, just by supporting Queen Eclipse and ensuring the stability of the northeastern border, I have indirectly saved more than tens of millions of lives. But now that I hear Jian Yi say it himself, I still feel a sense of accomplishment, as if I have returned home in glory and been envied by passers-by.

Since I have merits to protect me, God will have to give me some face when I go through the tribulation later, right?
Seeing Yan Yu hesitated to speak, Jian Yi thought he didn't believe it, and said:
"The heavy sword you carry is the 'Huangting Kunwu Sword' wielded by the Yellow Emperor in the past. This sword is the most righteous and awe-inspiring. Even if you harbor even the slightest evil thought, it will not recognize you. But now it is willing to serve you. Doesn't this speak volumes?"

"Of course." Yan Yu finally spoke again, "I usually love to do good deeds and accumulate virtue. No wonder the Huangting Sword recognized me as its master first, and then you came to help me exorcise demons. This is all what I deserve."

Sword Intention: ……………………

Although it's supposed to be the truth, why does it sound strangely familiar and mean?

He thought carefully for a moment, and among the many sword masters he had assisted in the past, no one seemed to have a similar temperament, so he just thought it was too much and continued:

"This place is home to the evil Pure Land Sect. The demonic monks have transformed their bodies and souls, transforming into beings neither human nor ghost, neither god nor Buddha. They specialize in devouring the souls, flesh, and blood of others, using them for their own purposes. Therefore, we must absolutely not allow them to escape, otherwise they will inevitably bring disaster to the world and leave an endless legacy of poison."

"I know what's going on, don't worry too much." Yan Yu said calmly.

"This Jade Buddha is none other than the remains left behind by the monk Wuxin after his death." When Yan Yu had slaughtered most of the miscellaneous soldiers and turned his attention to the distant Jade Buddha, the sword's will reminded him, "Those fake Arhats and Bodhisattvas are no match for you, but this Jade Buddha is far superior to them. Its Buddha light stretches for thousands of miles, endless and indestructible. Only an extremely powerful force can break it."

"If you still want to use your previous method of roaming, pulling, and creating loopholes to deal with it, I'm afraid you will suffer a great loss."

Yan Yu ignored it completely, and just gathered all the solar energy that filled his body into the sword, and then swung out a sword energy with all his strength!
At first it was just sword energy, but it soon transformed into a blazing flame! This flame was the true fire of the sun, so strong and powerful that it almost illuminated the entire underground cave.

In the distance, the Jade Buddha laughed strangely, and spit out Buddha light from its mouth like a vast ocean tide, rolling towards the Sun True Fire. For a moment, it seemed that they were competing with each other.

In just half a breath, the light and fire came into contact, and the Buddha's light immediately rolled back and melted. It was not a match for the Great Sun True Fire at all!
Yan Yu used all his strength to activate the Sun's True Sword Intentions, and the voice in his mind suddenly rose an octave:
"Save it, save it, save it! Hey, hey!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the nearly endless Great Sun True Fire, relying on the highest and strongest energy level and full-strength output at all costs, completely suppressed the Buddha's light in the sky in an instant, and even the jade Buddha sitting in the center of the Buddha's light, as well as the secret realm core it wore, were all burned to ashes!
The remaining Great Sun True Fire continued to erupt, even forcibly burning through the space barrier outside the secret realm, erupting from the real world, forming a huge column of fire tens of kilometers high, shooting straight into the sky from the Indochina Peninsula, penetrating layers of the earth's atmosphere, and rushing into the vast void of the universe!
"Hahahahahahaha!" A brilliant figure rushed out from the pillar of fire, his whole body aglow with brilliance. It was Yan Yu, who had just slashed out with the sword that destroyed the world. He raised the shadow of the Sun True Darkness Sword in his hand high in the air, laughing loudly with great enthusiasm, "This is the strongest power in the world that can match me!"

"Yes, yes." Jian Yi gritted his teeth and said, "That pretentious sword strike you just made consumed 30% of my sword energy. Did you know that? Now there's only 25% left!"

"Twenty-and-a-half percent left?" Yan Yu was overjoyed. "Great! Follow me!"

"What?" Jian Yi immediately had a bad feeling.

"Go straight to the west!" Yan Yu quickly turned into a stream of light and flew straight to the west on his sword.

(End of this chapter)