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

Chapter 705 Self-doubt

Yan Yu has made up his mind.

From now on, don’t worry about anything else and focus on reaching the Golden Core Realm!
Of course, there wasn't much to do, except go to the secret realm every afternoon to practice breathing exercises with the girls and provide them with protection. Yan Yu was already accustomed to this kind of selfless dedication and self-sacrifice.

Unfortunately, the girls didn't seem to appreciate it. For several days, they were even reluctant to say "thank you" to me.

Doing good things to this extent makes me feel confused.

Yan Yu couldn't help but miss Taiyang Zhenmei Jianyi again. He had to admit that although Jianyi was extremely foul-mouthed when they first met, he later worked hard and responded to every request. If needed, he would immediately go into battle without complaining or feeling tired... Isn't this me in the team?

Now that I no longer have the sword intent of Sun Zhenmei, I have become the bottom of the labor exploitation chain!
The more Yan Yu thought about it, the more unhappy he became. He simply went to talk to Anna. Currently, among all the people, she was the only one who didn't need his help in dual cultivation to reach a higher realm.

When I pushed the door open and entered Anna's room, I saw her packing her luggage, with a pile of things scattered on the bed.

"What's wrong?" Yan Yu asked curiously, "Are you leaving?"

"My dear, I have to go back to the North for now." Anna came over and gave him a long kiss, then said helplessly, "Someone in the Elders Council wants to cultivate the Yamata no Orochi. I have to go back and stop them."

"Having seen the tragic situation in the southern border, how could anyone still want to commit suicide?" Yan Yu expressed his great confusion.

"Everyone only sees that the Southern Territory cultivated their Yamata-no-Orochi, forcing the Lu Kingdom to send out the Sword Masters to deal with it," Anna shrugged helplessly. "You set off such a huge firecracker in the Southern Territory, and the mushroom cloud was even photographed by weather satellites. People will only think that the Southern Territory's Yamata-no-Orochi is so powerful that the Sword Masters were forced to use their devastating ultimate move."

Yan Yu:………………

Well, there is a reason why the foreign population is small, and it will get smaller and smaller in the future.

According to Taiyang Zhenmei Sword Intention, these evil creatures that were artificially cultivated through ultra-large-scale blood sacrifices are almost all Jindan-level super-category demons, and the Jindan realm will gain some conceptual abilities, such as the endless killing of Luotouba's clones. Without Jindan-level extraordinary people or corresponding means, it is impossible to compete with it.

Therefore, any force that intends to cultivate "Yamata no Orochi" will basically repeat the mistakes of Onmyoji Temple in its previous life - they will find that they cannot control Yamata no Orochi at all, and then start to give up and let it be ravaged.

What is even more troublesome is that there is no one holding the sword in the State of Lu anymore.

So even if some outside force were to launch the Yamata no Orochi Project, there would be no one to clean up the mess. It would be fine if the demons only harmed our own country, but I'm afraid they might spread to the border of our country...

"We can't let them get themselves killed." Yan Yu asked, "Do you need me to go with you?"

"No need." Anna hugged him tightly and smiled, "It's enough for me to go back. It's just that someone made trouble while I was away, don't worry."

Yan Yu held her quietly, feeling that the girl's chest seemed to have grown larger. Strange, isn't she already an adult?

Well, it’s probably a witch’s superpower.

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Lin Ning has also made up her mind.

Just as the Fairy in the Mirror said, if you just blindly follow the routine and practice, you will almost never be able to catch up with the captain.

Given the captain's personality, if you can't fight alongside him, you will be left behind by him sooner or later, and in the end you will become the poor guy who is asked "Who is that?" by the captain when everyone reunites after decades.

I want to be stronger!

"Let's make it clear in advance. If you try to trick me into going somewhere, I won't go." Lin Ning said to the Fairy in the Mirror, "Also, if you ask me to practice any weird magic, I won't do it."

"Don't worry," the Fairy in the Mirror said with a smile, "I'm just teaching you swordsmanship. Can you really be possessed by someone while practicing pure swordsmanship?"

"Hmph, who knows." Lin Ning suddenly became suspicious again. "Strange, isn't your real body with the captain? Why are you still talking to me?"

"Your captain is inside the base, closer than my telepathic range. What's so strange about that?" The Mirror Fairy said matter-of-factly. "On the contrary, you are being so overly cautious. Don't you realize that this is detrimental to your swordsmanship?"

"Why do you have the final say on whether it's harmful or not?" Lin Ning subconsciously started to be stubborn.

"If you don't believe me, go ask your dear captain." said the Immortal in the Mirror.

Lin Ning stopped talking, only to hear the Fairy in the Mirror say:
"Your captain may be a formidable swordsman, but he's definitely not a great teacher. He prefers complex and tedious sword techniques because his mind is better at adapting flexibly to complex situations in a short period of time, but this is precisely your weakness. Your strength lies in your quick reaction speed, so you should use more routine sword techniques and rely on ultra-fast attacks to draw the enemy into a situation where their reaction speed can match yours."

"Hmph." Hearing her belittling Yan Yu, Lin Ning immediately became unhappy again. "Are you starting to understand again? The captain has long known where my strengths and weaknesses are, but he said that a sword immortal shouldn't have weaknesses, otherwise if someone targets him, it would be a disaster."

"That's quite true," the Fairy in the Mirror said with a smile. "From a long-term perspective, you definitely need to address all your shortcomings, but should you do it now or later? If you don't demonstrate your strengths soon, once your captain optimizes you, you'll be left to silently work hard on your sword skills."

Lin Ning fell silent again.

Being optimized by the captain was something she absolutely could not accept. In comparison, taking a more quick and easy path seemed more acceptable.

"What are you going to teach me?" she urged impatiently.

"Well, let me think about it." The Fairy in the Mirror stretched out his voice.

"Why do you still want to think about it?" Lin Ning immediately put pressure on her.

"There are things I can teach you, but you can't learn them now." The Fairy in the Mirror said slowly, "I have it. I'll teach you 'Spectral Spectrum'."

"First, use White Rainbow Piercing the Sun to rush towards the target. Then, in the last half second, use Floating Cloud Triple while charging forward."

"How is that possible?" Lin Ning asked in confusion, "A white rainbow piercing the sun and turning into three layers of floating clouds?"

"It's about performing the Three-fold Floating Clouds move while performing the White Rainbow Piercing the Sun move," the Mirror Fairy said with a smile. "It sounds incredible, but it's very simple once you get the hang of it. Go ahead and perform it, and I'll teach you the details."

Lin Ning said nothing and flew up with his sword, a white rainbow pierced the sun!

This move was essentially a straight thrust, and a very fast one at that. With the speed increasing, it was extremely difficult to stop and change moves at the end. At best, she could only make a slight adjustment in direction. Lin Ning, determined to see the Mirror Fairy make a fool of herself, simply increased her speed to maximum. Without slowing down or changing moves, she directly unleashed the Floating Cloud Triple Move at high speed...

Huh?
Because the speed was extremely fast at this time and the starting move of Floating Cloud Sandie was a slash, she only needed to slightly deflect the sword light, and the Green Bamboo Sword suddenly spun under the thrust of inertia.

After spinning several times, she finally managed to stabilize the sword awkwardly, and angrily said in her mind:
"I told you it was impossible! You insisted on asking me to try. Now you're satisfied, right?"

"Haven't you already used it?" the Mirror Fairy said calmly. "With the White Rainbow Piercing the Sun's charge, deflecting the sword light by more than 30 degrees will force the sword to spin. Treat the rotation as a slash. Three consecutive rotations equal three consecutive slashes. Isn't that exactly the Floating Cloud Triple Formation?"

Lin Ning was completely speechless. You know, the most feared thing about sword control is the sword losing its stability. Before regaining balance, you have no way to control the direction of the flying sword, which means that the sword immortal has no self-protection ability at all.

But since the Fairy in the Mirror was still quibbling, she could only verify it again.

I will personally destroy your heresy!
A few minutes later.

Lin Ning pressed down the green bamboo sword light and fell to the ground silently. For a moment, she was actually a little speechless.

How could it be possible...it actually works?
"Simple, right?" The Fairy in the Mirror said with a smile. "A sword losing its stability will indeed lead to loss of control in most cases, but rotation is special. It's like a bicycle. As long as the tires are spinning, it won't tip over."

Lin Ning pondered for a long time, and suddenly questioned:
"Spinning only prevents complete instability, but controllability is still very poor. Performing a triple Floating Cloud move is indeed impossible."

"Of course," the Fairy in the Mirror said matter-of-factly. "If this move could be performed simply by spinning, it would have been used by accident long ago. I call it a routine because it leaves almost no room for change. There are five details throughout, completely limiting all variations in the sword's path. It's like a narrow mountain path sandwiched between cliffs. If you don't follow this path, you'll hit the wall."

"Well, isn't it perfect for you, who isn't good at dealing with complex situations? As long as there's no room for maneuvering, there's no need to think about how to make emergency maneuvers, right?"

"It's not that I'm not good at dealing with complex situations." Lin Ning continued to be stubborn, "I'm just not at the top level in this area."

"Ah, right, right!" The Fairy in the Mirror laughed heartily. "Come, let me teach you. To achieve the triple-fold floating cloud effect at the end of the Split Light and Glancing Shadow, not only does the sword body need to rotate, but the central axis of rotation also needs to rotate..."

Lin Ning quickly realized that the Immortal in the Mirror wasn't exaggerating. The conditions for performing this move, Splitting Light and Glancing Shadow, were extremely stringent, and no mistakes in the details were allowed, otherwise the sword would simply lose control.

But its advantage is also obvious: there are only so-called standard answers. To use the words of test-takers, it is said that "objective questions are easier to score than subjective questions" because all you have to do is memorize them!
Lin Ning dares to say that I am not good at anything else, but I am best at repeatedly doing exercises and memorizing them!
She practiced from 6pm to 11pm, without even stopping to drink a sip of water, which made the Fairy in the Mirror amazed at her perseverance.

More importantly, Lin Ning pulled out her top magic weapon that she had used for over a decade to master the vast sea of questions:

Collection of wrong questions!
"That last detail is the hardest." She already has over 30 pages of notes in her notebook. She records every mistake she makes during practice and puts a "correct" on the back of it if she makes it again. "The other three rotations are also getting harder and harder each time... Oh, they're so hard."

"You're already quite impressive," the Immortal in the Mirror said sincerely. "I've seen sword immortals who can summarize their mistakes, but I've never seen someone like you who even memorizes every mistake he made."

"Huh? Isn't that only natural?" Lin Ning said, puzzled. "Since this sword move has only one solution, of course you have to practice it until you know it by heart and can execute it with 100% accuracy without thinking. Otherwise, what will you do if you suddenly make a mistake during actual combat?"

The Fairy in the Mirror was speechless. She was shocked by the powerful force displayed by Lin Ning, as if she was facing an indestructible peak.

Lin Ning practiced it 10 more times, and this time it became smoother and smoother, as if with divine help. Every mistake was quickly resolved. By the 7th time, she finally succeeded in performing the Spectrum Shadow for the first time.

She rushed forward with a white rainbow piercing the sun, then suddenly deflected the sword light and spun like a full moon... Two rounds, three rounds! Three different crescent slashes were launched almost simultaneously, leaving a dazzling afterimage and shattering the target of the sword.

"Done!" Lin Ning finally landed on the ground, her face full of excitement, "I've roughly mastered it!"

"That's amazing." The Fairy in the Mirror was full of admiration. "Well, now that we've mastered it, let's..."

"Practice another 100 times!" Lin Ning announced loudly.

Yan Yu was sleeping on Anna's bed when suddenly the cell phone beside the bed vibrated.

He opened his eyes, picked up his phone dazedly, and saw Lin Ning sending a message:
"Captain, hurry to the training ground. I have something good to show you!"

No, it's already midnight, what good stuff do you have to show me...

Yan Yu wordlessly pushed Anna away from him, then changed his clothes and left the room.

As soon as I arrived at the training ground, I saw Lin Ning shoot out a white rainbow through the sun, and then it split into three full moons that kept spinning. I was immediately stunned.

No...what is this, a spell?
"Captain, did you see that?" Lin Ning ran over triumphantly, showing off like a puppy fawning over its master. "I just learned this sword move called Splitting Light and Glancing Shadows. Isn't it amazing?"

"Wait a minute." Yan Yu interrupted her. "This is the Splitting Shadow move, right? How do you use it specifically?"

"This move has five key details," Lin Ning explained frankly. "First, the final move of White Rainbow Piercing the Sun requires active deflection, and then there are three rotations..."

Yan Yu listened to her explanation patiently, memorized it for a moment, and then merged with the Huangting Sword, and a white rainbow pierced the sun!
Then, three full moon spinning slashes quickly appeared, as smooth and perfect as flowing clouds and water.

Lin Ning:………………

The smile on her face slowly disappeared.

"This is an interesting move." Yan Yu landed steadily and asked curiously, "How did you come up with this idea?"

"The Fairy in the Mirror taught me," Lin Ning said dully, completely unable to accept that the sword moves she had practiced all night were replicated successfully by the captain in one go. "She said this is a very difficult sword technique."

"It's really difficult." Yan Yu commented, "You need to practice more if you want to master this move."

Lin Ning laughed mechanically, and said with dull eyes:

"Haha, okay, I won't sleep tonight."

"Well, there's no need to go to such lengths." Yan Yu thought for a moment and said, "The Fairy in the Mirror wants to teach you swordsmanship, so you can learn. Other than that, you still have to be careful and cautious."

"I understand." Lin Ning turned around silently. Although the shock she had just felt had mostly subsided, the feeling of confusion and hesitation in her heart became even stronger.

Do I really lack talent in kendo?
Can I really catch up with the captain?
(End of this chapter)