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

Chapter 702 Haiyan
Yan Yu arrived at the southern border on his sword, landed at the front-line command center, and met up with the guiding monks of the Annan Army.

According to intelligence provided by the General Staff, the decapitation squad led by Li Minghu was initially circling the Minjin Mountains towards the rear of the Witch King's main formation. Then, the Luotouba descended and wreaked havoc across a large area, separating the Lu Kingdom cultivators' main formation from the decapitation squad.

Simply put, if you go deep into the enemy camp and your retreat is cut off, you will be in great danger.

Luotouba's clone, tentatively designated a "Level 1 Luotouba" by the Lu Kingdom, is roughly the size of an adult's head. It flies at high speed, attacking by a single swooping bite. Its saliva and blood are extremely toxic. If it comes into contact with the skin, the wound must be excised quickly to prevent the toxin from spreading to the chest and abdominal organs, rendering recovery impossible.

There are many ways to deal with a Level 1 Falling Head Demon, the quickest being to pierce it with a flying sword. In a one-on-one situation, even a common cultivator could easily do this, provided their reflexes weren't too slow.

The problem is that a Level 1 Luotouba that is penetrated will not die in the true sense. Instead, it will turn into a gray invisible stream of light, pounce on the nearby Level 1 Luotouba and merge with it - then a Level 2 Luotouba appears.

As the level of Luotouba increases, first of all, its size will become larger and larger, secondly, its flying speed and durability will be greatly improved, and finally, it will derive some more vicious and powerful spells, so that the Lu State did not even dare to send out troops for a large-scale cleanup (because high-level Luotouba will soon appear), and could only urgently mobilize a wave of poultry, livestock and freshly slaughtered meat products, and lead the Luotouba cluster to the south by airdrop.

Hearing this, Yan Yu also realized the seriousness of the situation: You know, Zhou Hongyu, a Taoist monster, is in the decapitation team. Without any intelligence, the Great Bright Fire burned all over the sky, and hundreds of levels of Luotouba would immediately emerge.

In addition, they were alone in the deep, and they couldn't use the airdrop of blood food to reduce the pressure on the front line like the Lu Kingdom...

"There is no time to lose. I have to set off immediately." Yan Yu explained to everyone.

He has always been a man of decisive character, and now that he is alone without the burden of a team, it is natural for him to leave without hesitation.

Crossing the border and looking towards the southern border from a high altitude, one can see a large area of lush green jungle in the distance, while the areas where the Luotouba are wreaking havoc appear to be withered, yellow and rotten.

"What a sin!" said Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intention. "The saliva of Luotouba is extremely poisonous. Even if it lands on the soil, it will seep into the deep underground water system and pollute it, causing this area to be barren in a few hundred years... How can the humans here be so suicidal?"

"We Earthlings are just like this." Yan Yu said casually, but he was thinking in his heart.

From common sense, after Li Minghu led his team to kill the Witch King, he discovered the group of Luotouba coming from the north. After testing them, he found that they were no match for him. He should have tried to bypass them from the west or east and return to the territory of Lu State.

However, Li Zhaojiang called for help, which meant that the retreat must have encountered some danger or accident.

Ahead was the area where Luotouba was wreaking havoc. Yan Yu squinted his eyes and saw densely packed human heads dancing in the air, like a flock of migrating birds, flying towards the south in unison, and at the same time pushing the breath of corruption and withering towards the south.

Just as Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intention said, using large-scale blood sacrifices to create monsters whose strength exceeds the current upper limit is essentially an extremely foolish and suicidal act, which will destroy oneself before destroying the enemy.

Yan Yu followed the route taken by Li Minghu and others, went south from the Minjin Mountains, and gradually went deep into the hinterland of the southern border.

This high-altitude area has a relatively low density of plants and animals, and the number of Luotouba is not large, but they still appear sporadically on the road.

They turned around and saw Yan Yu, and immediately rushed forward with strange laughs and roars. Yan Yu was too lazy to tangle with them, so he turned his sword light and circled from the side, leaving them behind.

Ok?
Yan Yu was surprised to find that the flying speed of these little Luotouba was not slow, and was almost on par with his regular sword-flying speed.

Considering their overwhelming numbers...if Li Minghu and others were entangled by these monsters, it would probably be difficult to get rid of them for a while.

If I were Li Minghu, what would I do when I first encountered a Luotouba? Considering that everyone's sword-wielding speed is different, I think I should let the slower ones go first, while the faster ones stay behind to entangle the Luotouba, delaying them for a certain period of time before catching up and joining them.

But there is a fatal problem with this: the number of Luotouba is actually much greater than that observed from a distance. So once the people behind have not caught up, the people ahead will encounter more Luotouba...

In order to get rid of these Luotouba, they could not continue to move forward in a straight line, which resulted in the monks behind having a high probability of losing the direction of the front team.

If I think in this direction, what I am looking for may not be a complete team, but people who have been broken up into several groups by Luotouba.

What a hassle.

After realizing that he couldn't rescue them all at once, Yan Yu was no longer in a hurry to go to the rescue. He suddenly stopped and turned to face the Luotouba pursuers behind him, and bent his right hand slightly to make a sword gesture.

The Yin-Yang Dust Sword Formation.

In that instant, it was as if an invisible pencil swiftly brushed across the paper, drawing dense lines in the air. They divided the area, slicing through space, piercing through Luo Tou Ba's body, and then the sword energy that teleported in to rip it apart!
Broken flesh and blood fell to the ground, and a gray spirit of light broke out of its shell and quickly rushed towards Luotouba behind it. Before it could merge with the body, another line pierced the target.

The speed at which the dead Luotouba merged with each other was totally incomparable to the speed at which Yan Yu shot out the Liangyi Weichen sword energy!

His fingers kept changing, manipulating the two-pronged sword energy to pierce continuously from up and down, left and right, front and back, and the group of Luotouba was like an angry but clumsy bull, being pierced and pierced again by countless swords, so that every muscle was cut off accurately and ruthlessly before it could exert force.

Yan Yu finally put away his sword and watched the last Luotouba explode. The large gray light spirit, which had lost all its targets, circled confusedly in the air for several times and soon flew towards the east.

"Nothing more than that!" he said with disdain, turning around and soaring onto his sword once more. "What advanced Luotouba? They don't exist! As long as I kill them fast enough, they won't even have a chance to fuse and level up!"

"Well, your use of the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation was truly ingenious and a work of genius," commented Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intention. "If you didn't take the Qi-boosting pill immediately after using it, I'd give you 100 points for showing off."

"You know shit." Yan Yu said, "I'm taking the Qi-boosting pill not because I'm running out of energy, but because I'm constantly trying to maintain my endurance! What if I'm surrounded by more Luotouba and don't even have time to take the medicine? Planning is the key to success, don't you understand?"

"I understand," Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intention said, "With a meager amount of True Essence, we must pay closer attention to endurance. A thin dog has a loud voice, and a poor student has a lot of stationery."

"Do you believe I'm going to shoot you right into the wall right now?"

After arguing with the sword for a while, Yan Yu felt his anxiety subside considerably. He flew his sword to the Witch King's main camp, only to see the wreckage of buildings and splattered blood everywhere. It was clear that a great battle had taken place there not long ago. Strangely, all the bodies had mysteriously vanished.

"It must have been eaten," Jian Yi warned. "A Luotouba can easily eat over 5 corpses in 100 minutes, and you can see traces of venom corrosion on the ground over there."

"Don't make any noise, I'm looking for clues." Yan Yu quickly circled the periphery of the battlefield, turned around a few times, and finally found some clues:
Broken trees.

"What kind of clue is this?" Jian Yi asked in confusion.

"If you're not proficient in sword flying, you're likely to crash into a tree at full speed in a forest like this." Yan Yu carefully examined the crack in the tree trunk. "When a flying sword breaks through wood, the force is initially concentrated at the tip of the sword, then explodes forward in a cone. So, by connecting the wound from narrow to wide, you can infer which direction they were flying the sword."

"As a Sword Immortal, what are you doing with such a brilliant mind?" Jian Yi said earnestly, "Your mind is too full and too complex, making it difficult to fully concentrate on improving your swordsmanship. This will be detrimental to your future efforts to reach the upper limit of your strength."

"What a joke! Every time I exert my strength, I always push it to the limit and push it to the limit." Yan Yu sneered, "Don't insult my wisdom with nonsense." "These are all golden words!" Jian Yi protested, "It's okay that you have no vision. But Teacher Mei, whom you always call Teacher, you always take my advice as your golden rule!"

"You stupid swordsman! This little girl idolizes you, and you really think you're that powerful. If you're really that awesome, why is your true form sealed deep under the sea?"

"It's not a seal! It's a sleep!"

"You didn't leave with the original body, so how do you know it's a sleep state and not a seal?"

Yan Yu teased the Sun Zhenmei Sword Intent in various ways, which made the latter so angry that he was fuming and even his head became pointed. He began to speak incoherently, such as "Then I ask you, do you want to be the master of the Sun Sword? Then I ask you, did my original body fall asleep on its own initiative?"

Another clearing appeared ahead. Judging from the cuts on the fallen tree, it must have been severed in half by Zhou Hongyu's Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire.

"Hmm." Yan Yu observed for a while and said, "The troops are divided into two groups."

"What do you mean?" Jian Yi asked.

"The main force should have headed west." Yan Yu touched the broken wooden spike, then looked to the left. "A few people were left here to hold back Luotouba... Hmm, that's not right, only one person?"

His expression suddenly became serious, and his speech became faster:

"She didn't stay behind. This person initially headed west with the main group, but halfway through, she suddenly turned back... That's right, here, she chose to turn back and hold off the pursuers alone. She must have been worried that the others wouldn't agree, so she took the initiative and acted on her own."

"Look here. The troops ahead realized the pursuers weren't coming, or maybe they realized she was missing, so they quickly turned back to look for her... They looked for her several times, twice? Three times, probably, but they couldn't find her because she was so decisive and pulled Luo Tou Ba directly to the southeast."

"Southeast?" Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intent said in astonishment, "They were heading northwest, but this person turned southeast. Doesn't that mean..."

"She's just trying to stay behind and die," Yan Yu said. "Of course, maybe she doesn't realize it, and simply thinks it'll keep the pursuers away. People who habitually put themselves on the sacrificial scale won't think there's anything wrong with their actions."

His eyes gradually became fierce, and suddenly he jumped up, merged with the Huangting Sword, and flew towards the southeast along the trail.

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Li Minghu was still running.

She did not have Yan Yu's Fenyun Bagua Step, so she could only rely on the Wanli Shenxing Technique to fly on the surface, while constantly changing directions with the Dengyun Technique to bypass the horizontal branches and leaves or the winding tree roots.

The speed of the Wanli Divine Movement Technique was no match for flying with a sword, so naturally, it was impossible to shake off the Luotouba behind her. Li Minghu had to pay attention to the road under her feet while scanning the back with her spiritual sense, and then fly the sword to kill the enemy who was about to catch up with her.

After all, there are no eyes on the back, and the scanning of spiritual consciousness is limited by frequency. Sometimes, just when you scan the nearest Luotouba, you will find that the other party has approached to within one meter, and will bite you if it moves forward.

Such dangerous situations have happened more than once. Sometimes Li Minghu even feels surprised, thinking that it is a miracle that he has survived until now.

But... maybe that's all.

There were too many Luotouba to stop and kill, and she had to maintain this high-speed maneuvering at all times. The jungle environment was extremely complex and she could not afford any mistakes. If she stumbled, she would definitely die.

Maintaining a precise, full-speed run was incredibly taxing on her mind. How much longer could her stamina hold out? She didn't know, but as her chest grew increasingly congested and stuffy, she realized she was nearing her limit.

Li Minghu suddenly became furious. He quickly pulled out the pill bottle he was carrying and swallowed all the pills Yan Yu had given him.

She is going to fight to the death.

As the medicinal power dissolved in his stomach, the nearly exhausted lung meridians were revitalized. Li Minghu quickly divided his attention between three tasks, his feet swiftly charging forward. His right hand formed a seal to control his sword and cut down the enemy, while his left hand quickly fumbled for his cell phone.

no signal.

Her thumb clicked like lightning, opening the chat window with Yan Yu and quickly typing out two words:

Sorry.

A thought flashed through my mind: Say something more?

Although I have countless words to say, I obviously don't have that much time.

Li Minghu hesitated, but his fingers seemed to be out of control and typed out three words again:
I love you.

Her eyes looked lonely for a moment, and she quickly deleted the three words.

Even if it was a suicide note, it was too corny.

Li Minghu finally made a decision because her whole body was starting to feel hot. She knew she couldn't hold on for much longer and the remaining time could almost be counted in seconds.

She put a period.

Just... just say "sorry" and he'll understand.

Li Minghu suddenly stopped and then turned around quickly. The determination in his eyes was like a sharp blade, completely cutting off the last trace of fragility in her heart.

She activated her sword gestures, leaped forward, and merged with the radiant sword light. With her unreserved energies, the sword light instantly surged an unknown distance, and then, without hesitation, she charged towards the horde of fallen demons that were powerful enough to completely submerge her.

Like a petrel flying into a storm.

　After saying "I can do anything", I was finally let go. Update!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)