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

Chapter 716: True Essence Exhaustion
No one expected that Yan Yu's tribulation would cause such a big commotion.

The golden lightning fell from the sky at an astonishing speed, arriving in a flash from a distance of ten thousand meters. Yan Yu then desperately intercepted it with the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation, the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword, and the Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire. Every collision caused a violent flash of light and explosion.

Yan Yu had completely closed his eyes. If he opened them for even a second, he would be burned by the bright light in the air.

His consciousness scanned the sky like a radar, his hands rapidly changing into various sword techniques and spells as if they were cramping. The puppet Ah Zhen beside him also helped control the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword, sweeping towards the numerous thunderbolts that fell.

The golden thunderbolt is extremely powerful. Even if it is intercepted and exploded during its fall, the evil-breaking golden light and evil-suppressing gale will still burst out.

The former fell on the top of Tianzhu Peak, and when it touched the trees, the trees caught fire; when it landed on the soil, the soil was burned and melted into glass sand. Only a small area around Yan Yu was protected by the continuously activated Xuanguang Ruler and was safe for the time being.

The latter swept in all directions, and continued to merge, swirl and strengthen under the promotion of hot air, eventually forming small hurricanes that began to wreak havoc in the territory of Jingbei Province.

All areas of Shiyan Prefecture are in emergency!
The surrounding counties of Fangling, Zhushan, and Shangjin were successively struck by the hurricane, prompting a large number of military monks to join the rescue and relief efforts. Parts of the hurricane moved northward into the Han River, causing it to surge uncontrollably. Emergency flood control measures and evacuations were initiated downstream, including at the mouth of the Danjiang River.

The surrounding situation became increasingly chaotic, but Mei Yingxue, sitting in the center, remained calm and issued various orders with a stern expression.

Chen Lingyun, acting as her temporary deputy, stared at the communication screen on the wall for a long time, and suddenly said:
"Someone sneaked in."

"Are you sure?" Liu Longtao asked with a chuckle.

"Yes." Chen Lingyun smiled and said, "If it's as I expected, the surrounding attacks are just feints, and this is the real killer move."

She pointed her finger at a place on the screen, and heard Mei Yingxue say:
"Liu Longtao, go here and intercept."

"Understood, sir!" Liu Longtao saluted and left at lightning speed.

"Let's add another layer of insurance?" Chen Lingyun continued, pointing to another location on the screen. "Here, let Minghu defend it."

"Leave it to me." Li Minghu nodded and stood up.

Zhou Hongyu crossed his arms and looked at Chen Lingyun with an unfriendly expression, as if asking, "Then what should I do?"

Chen Lingyun ignored her silent urging and just stared at the surveillance screen with a smile.

Liu Longtao arrived at the location and asked:

"Don't you see any problem? Are you reliable, Mr. Chen Lingyun?"

"Wait a moment." Chen Lingyun replied.

As she moved her mind slightly, a strange bird suddenly appeared above Liu Longtao, then spread its wings with all its might, fanning out thousands of dark blue phosphorescent flames, as if stars were falling like rain.

A large amount of phosphorus fire fell rapidly from the sky and landed densely on the ground in the mountains. Then many figures emerged from their invisible state. They were Yin-Yang masters with paper figures tied behind their hands and feet. There were countless secret words on the paper figures to maintain the spell of concealment and shielding the divine consciousness.

At this time, their bodies were ignited by the phosphorus flames, and their identities were immediately exposed. They quickly cast spells to put out the fire.

"What a guy!" Liu Longtao was immediately furious, thinking that he was outdone by Chen Lingyun this time. He quickly chanted a spell and made a hand gesture to summon a five-colored dragon. The dragon was over hundreds of meters long, with glistening scales and prominent horns. The dragons were red, green, yellow, white and black. The dragon roared into the sky, shaking the whole area, and instantly fell straight towards the Yin-Yang masters below!

The Onmyojis hurriedly scattered, and some ninjas used smoke escape techniques to create a large fog near the surface, completely obscuring everyone's figures.

This smoke could block the cultivator's spiritual sense scans; it was a unique secret technique of the Sakura Empire ninjas, unparalleled in the world. Liu Longtao sneered inwardly and once again controlled the Five Divine Dragons, using magic to completely enclose the smoke.

Since I can't scan them with my spiritual sense, I will just blow them all up and see how you can struggle and resist!
On the other side, Li Minghu also arrived at his destination.

This place was halfway up the mountain, and there was a pavilion built against the cliff, so she walked in and rested for a while.

After a while, a ghost suddenly appeared. It was a big white dog. It came over and grabbed the corner of her clothes, pulled it, and then looked into the distance.

Li Minghu immediately understood and soared onto his sword. The dog-like ghost also floated up, swooping down from the air and immediately pouncing on someone who was hiding. It turned out to be one of the four demon kings of Yin-Yang Academy, a madman who called himself "Shenyuan Simie."

Shenyuan Simie's invisibility was broken, but he was not panicked. He just shook his sleeves with a sneer, and a hundred paper people flew out and surrounded Li Minghu. The secret words on their bodies flowed like ink.

"Originally, this move was prepared for Yan Yu." Shenyuan Simie said with a smile, "However, being able to capture the vice-captain of the Qing'an team is also a pleasant surprise."

Li Minghu calmly surveyed the numerous paper figures around him. Some circled and swung to divert attention, some dived and soared in feints, some launched a frontal assault, and still others hid in blind spots, such as behind and above, ready to bare their deadly fangs at any moment.

She leaped into the air, becoming one with the sword. The sword light surged, instantly passing through the encirclement and blockade of countless paper figures, and headed straight for Shenyuan Simie in the distance.

Behead!

Shenyuan Simie was still smiling, not dodging or evading, but just mobilizing a large number of paper people to intercept, blocking Li Minghu's way forward.

Li Minghu's sword suddenly stopped, as if he was unwilling to force his way into the paper man line. He suddenly turned around and rushed towards the other direction at full speed.

Her backward flight was so unexpected, and her speed reached the extreme in an instant, so that it was too late for Shenyuan Simie to mobilize the paper figures to chase her. The sword light broke through the encirclement in an instant and went straight in the other direction.

In the empty place, Shenyuan Simie's true body appeared again, with an expression of disbelief on his face, and a big hole in his chest had been torn open by the sword light.

Then it turned into rustling debris and disappeared.

Li Minghu controlled the sword light to turn around again, and his spiritual sense quickly swept the surroundings, but found no trace of Shen Yuan's death.

But her idea was very clear, that is, the other party had spent a lot of manpower and material resources to attack here, and would definitely not accept the result of "just killing Li Minghu".

The other party’s real and only target is Yan Yu!
She quickly turned to search in the direction of Tianzhu Peak and soon found Shenyuan Simie who escaped by using a paper man to die in his place.

The latter cursed in his heart and shook out a large number of paper figures again, trying to delay Li Minghu's sword light.

But Li Minghu ignored the paper figures around him, and once again entered the state of unity between man and sword, directly slashing at Shenyuan's body!

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The Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords had been completely consumed, and his true energy was almost exhausted.

There were still over two hundred golden lightning bolts in the sky. Normally, it would have been a matter of forming a Liang Yi Micro Dust Sword Formation, but now Yan Yu had already run out of ammunition and food, not even enough energy to unleash a sword.

The medicinal power in his stomach was still slowly being refined, continuously replenishing his true essence, allowing him to barely maintain the loss from flying with the sword.

But even if one relies on flying swords to eliminate the remaining two hundred golden thunderbolts, it is still a foolish dream.

Yan Yu's mind raced, all sorts of possibilities emerged, and then were rejected one by one by his reason.

Activate the Xuanguang Ruler for defense? No, the remaining true energy is not enough to support it to withstand the thunder.

Use the Huangting Sword to fly and slash? That won't work either. There are too many lightning strikes, and the damage will be transmitted through the sword. I estimate that I can't slash more than 30 or 40 lightning strikes before my body completely collapses.

Or maybe just sacrifice this puppet and use the "Silk Pulling Technique" to escape, just like when Zhao Yuanzhen was hunted by Mi Mei Yingxue...

This thought went through Yan Yu's mind, but he quickly gave it up.

Not to mention that there is a new spirit inside the puppet, it would be a pity to give it up. The key is that there is no guarantee that the heavenly calamity will be deceived by the escape of the golden cicada. What if it can still lock me tightly?

Yan Yu was actually at a loss for a moment, and the only two hundred or so golden thunders left had already passed the optimal penetration range of 1000 meters to 2000 meters and dropped to a height of about 600 meters.

The creepy smell of death is already right in front of us.

From the distant military satellites, the golden light was already extremely close to the surface of the earth. If Yan Yu still had true energy, they should have been intercepted and exploded long ago.

Did he fail to overcome the tribulation?
The next second, the calamity clouds suddenly began to surge!
Yan Yu actually controlled the Huangting Sword and rushed out of the top of Tianzhu Peak and left the tribulation site!
This incredible move shocked the entire Lu State Privy Council so much that they almost lost their souls. What was he planning to do?
The golden lightning chased Yan Yu away from Tianzhu Peak. Without the delaying effect of the Taiqing Yanlan Formation, its speed suddenly soared, and it kept biting the tail end of Yan Yu's sword light.

Not only that, even the calamity clouds began to roll and surge, ready to follow Yan Yu to fight elsewhere.

However, in the Wudang Mountains, whether to the east or west, or to the south or north, there are almost always rural towns and roads. What should be done if these thunderbolts fall in densely populated areas?
The people above were stunned, when suddenly they saw Yan Yu's sword light rise again and rush towards the thick calamity clouds directly above.

The golden light and thunder still followed closely behind, chasing relentlessly.

Due to some enemy attacks, Mei Yingxue needed to stay in the central command and had no time to answer questions, so the cabinet secretaries could only connect to the Academy of Sciences' Tianjie Expert Research Group to ask Yan Yu's intention of doing so.

Experts can't give a definitive answer. Theoretically, the lightning will pursue the person undergoing the tribulation until they are completely destroyed. This destruction must be of sufficient energy intensity. In other words, it's impossible to deliberately trick them into crashing into the ground; they will simply create a large hole and continue to pursue you.

You must use flying swords or magic to get rid of the thunder.

The problem was, if Yan Yu could use flying swords and magic, he would have done so long ago. His current situation was likely because his true essence was running low, so he needed to buy time to refine the medicinal power in his stomach and restore his true essence.

However, flying with a sword consumes true energy. While you are recovering your true energy, you are also consuming it. Can you really have any surplus in the end?

"There must be." Just as everyone was frowning in thought, an old man suddenly spoke.

This was the old man who had bestowed upon Yan Yu the title of "Divine General." He had not only been following Yan Yu's deeds for a long time, but had also been the one who had insisted on Yan Yu becoming the "Sword Master of Lu" after he had acquired the True Sword Intent of the Sun. Now, he spoke with a firm tone:

"Looking at his life and career, he never took any meaningless action on the battlefield. We must trust Comrade Yan Yu."

The others fell silent, but their minds were filled with rapid thought.

Yan Yu rode his sword light upwards, almost reaching the lower layer of the calamity cloud. As he got closer, the calamity cloud began to spew out a large number of electric snakes, showing obvious hostility towards his approach.

If he rushed into the calamity cloud at this point, it would most likely cause some very bad changes, so Yan Yu quickly changed the sword light to a horizontal movement, drawing an arc with the golden calamity thunder behind him, and then began to fly downwards rapidly.

In terms of absolute speed, Yan Yu's flying sword was slightly faster than the lightning, but he couldn't leave the sky above Wudang Mountain and could only move around in the limited space. The more he changed direction, the closer the distance became, and the dangerous situation did not improve at all.

Zhou Hongyu was watching with such anxiety that his hands were almost pinching his arms to leave white marks. Suddenly, he saw Zhang Huaide, who was the first to go out to quell the riot, had returned with his team members to report.

"Huaide." Zhou Hongyu asked directly, "Did you see anything?"

Zhang Huaide glanced at the screen and said:

"Team Yan's use of the thunderbolt in this way must have some deeper meaning."

"Nonsense," Zhou Hongyu said impatiently. "He abandoned the formation on the ground and flew up into the sky to play a game of chase with the thunder. He can't be idle, right? And flying at full speed like this, it's hard to say whether he can replenish the energy he consumed..."

"Yes," Zhang Huaide replied, "I've tried flying at this speed, and the amount of energy consumed is slightly less than the amount restored by the elixir, so he should be stalling for time to accumulate energy."

"That's good." Zhou Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief.

"But that's not right," said Zhang Huaide.

Zhou Hongyu felt his heart tighten suddenly and asked quickly:

"What's wrong?"

"If we want to delay time," Zhang Huaide said, "we should move within the range of the Taiqing Yanlan Formation. This will be safer."

Zhou Hongyu thought to himself, "I'm so scared! I thought you were talking about Yan Yu making some mistakes." He shook his head and said,

"The formation's coverage area is too small, and it may not support him to perform complex maneuvers."

"That's still not right." Zhang Huaide frowned slightly. "Why would he take this wide loop? Even if the sword light is faster than the lightning, he's going outward first, and then the lightning will go inward. His distance advantage will be quickly reduced. Didn't you notice that the lightning is actually getting closer and closer to him?"

When everyone looked carefully, they found that it was indeed the case. The thunder was initially just following behind Yan Yu, but now it was even approaching the trail left by the sword light!
"What should we do then?" Zhou Hongyu asked hurriedly.

Zhang Huaide was silent for a moment, then slowly said:

"Team Yan's move must have a deeper meaning."

"Just say you didn't understand it either!" Tang Xiaolian yelled frantically.

(End of this chapter)