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

Chapter 727 Working together
The witch's worries are not unreasonable.

With all the means she currently possessed, it was indeed somewhat inconvenient to use them to overcome the tribulation. In the past, many cultivators encountered this situation, and their first reaction was naturally to borrow.

Since it doesn't suit your needs, just borrow something else that suits you, use it temporarily, and return it later.

For the lender, the biggest risk is that if the other party is undergoing a tribulation and my magic weapon or flying sword is destroyed by thunder, wouldn’t I lose all my money then?
However, given Zhao Yuanzhen's current status, few people would believe that State Lu would allow her to fail in her tribulation.

Therefore, Yan Yu quickly began to combine his memories of his previous life and ran around.

First, make a list!
He asked Chen Tianming for a list of all the emerging folk monks who had been incorporated into the system, and he quickly found many names he remembered on the list.

The first on the list is still our old acquaintance Li Zhikang, who embarked on the path of spiritual practice at the age of over seventy. In his previous life, he was known as the "King Gou" Li Lao Gou!

This old man has now been naturalized in the Dingbei Army, but is no longer in active combat order. Apparently, the Dingbei Army's upper echelons, following their inherent thinking, feel that a man in his seventies is not suitable for traveling around the country on campaigns, so they gave him a position in the horse bone market, paying a fortune of a thousand gold coins.
The director of the Civilian Monks Management Office is specifically responsible for the naturalization management of civilian monks in the Dingbei Army.

Li Zhikang was naturally happy to see this happen. Unlike other common cultivators, he joined the system not for the resources, but simply to gain permission to practice legally.

He punches in on time every day, leaves work on time, drinks tea and reads the newspaper at his workstation, giving people the leisurely feeling of being completely retired... until Yan Yu comes to interrupt his peaceful life.

"Lao Li, Lao Li!" A young colleague who was usually on good terms with him ran over excitedly and said, "Guess who I saw at the leader's place?"

"Who is it?" Li Zhikang asked slowly, "Liu Longtao?"

This colleague was a fan of Liu Longtao of the Dingbei Army, and Li Zhikang was of course fully aware of this. Although Yan Yu's number of fans was overwhelmingly dominant in society, there were still many diehard fans of Liu Longtao within the Dingbei Army.

Li Zhikang himself is not a fan of anyone, but in order to avoid being treated as an outsider in the workplace, he just became a light fan of Jing Ye.

"It's Yanyu, Yanyu!" said the young colleague excitedly.

Yan Yu, the god general of Lu State, is the first Jindan cultivator in the country and the undisputed number one cultivator in Lu State. His resume and achievements are brilliant. Even Jing Ye’s die-hard fans find it difficult to have much resentment towards Yan Yu.

Li Zhikang's heart skipped a beat. Even before he started divination, he had a terrible premonition.

Just as he was about to ask again, he saw his immediate superior, and his immediate superior's immediate superior, coming in with Yan Yu surrounded by a large crowd.

"Hey, I found it!" Yan Yu laughed heartily. "Thank you for leading the way. I'll talk to Comrade Li Zhikang about the rest."

"If you need anything, please feel free to ask." Everyone around left tactfully. Even the young colleague next to Li Zhikang quickly slipped away after receiving a look from their leader.

"Captain Yan, what can I do for you?" The office was empty at this time, and Li Zhikang put away his flattered look and asked cautiously.

"I want to borrow a magic weapon from you." Yan Yu said.

Li Zhikang immediately turned bitter and said helplessly:

"My magic weapons are all officially registered. If you have any that you like, just contact our leader remotely and I'll hand them over."

"I want the Zhoutian Yishu Spectroscopic Star Plate." Yan Yu said.

Li Zhikang's expression immediately fell, his brows furrowed, and his tone was puzzled:

"This plate you're talking about..."

"The Zhoutian Yishu Spectroscopic Astrology Plate," Yan Yu emphasized, "is to inject true essence into it, and it can calculate all kinds of things, such as the fortune of a specific person at a specific time and place..."

After hearing his detailed account, Li Zhikang realized he could no longer pretend and sighed,
"Where did you know that?"

"You have secrets, and so do I." Yan Yu said concisely, "I'm not lending it to you for free. It comes with interest."

"It's not about the interest." Li Zhikang sighed. "Once you lend this thing out, you probably won't get it back. I know that."

He opened the drawer under his desk, took out a metal ashtray, removed the steel rim around it, and then wiped off the ash with paper, revealing the various patterns and symbols engraved underneath.

Yan Yu:………………

"You're using a magic weapon as an ashtray?" he asked in disbelief.

"Holding ashes won't affect the use of this magic weapon," Li Zhikang said calmly. "My grandfather's family once had an ancestral jade Buddha head. Back then, wars were frequent and bandits were rampant. To prevent it from being seen and causing trouble, they simply covered the outside with mud and hollowed out the inside. It's been used as a chamber pot for decades... Do you want it? If not, I'll keep it."

"You'd better wash yourself thoroughly first and get rid of the third-hand smoke smell before giving it to me." Yan Yu said, pinching his nose.

He turned to look at the tin box on the table, and suddenly saw Li Zhikang raised his eyebrows, quickly picked it up, put it in the drawer and locked it.

"What kind of magic weapon is that disguised as a tea box?" Yan Yu asked curiously.

"The tea my daughter sent me was just an ordinary box." Li Zhikang said quickly, "I can't give it to you."

"Who wants your tea?" Yan Yu said as his spiritual sense scanned inside the drawer through the gap, but he didn't find any magic weapon or spiritual light or anything like that.

He chatted with Li Zhikang for a few words, then turned and went out.

The Zhoutian Yishu Spectroscopic Star Plate, in the hands of a cultivator who is good at calculations, can easily calculate a variety of complex results, such as where and when the probability of a secret realm appearing is the highest, etc.

For cultivators completely unfamiliar with divination, this treasure can only perform simple functions, such as predicting the frequency and power of the calamity waves, when the next wave will arrive, and so on. For a cultivator like Yan Yu, who can easily multitask and possesses extremely keen perceptions, this function is better than nothing. But for a simple-minded cultivator like Zhao Yuanzhen, this treasure would greatly compensate for her lack of a brain and inability to think.

Next, we need to find some magic weapons that can launch large-scale attacks, which will be used as the main means to break the thunder.

In this regard, Yan Yu also made a detailed priority list based on his memory, and then he just had to look for them one by one according to the name.

While Yan Yu was running around, Zhao Yuanzhen was not idle either.

Although she made empty promises in front of Yan Yu, she suddenly realized in retrospect that the other sisters might not be willing to do anything for the captain as she promised.

We have to find a way to convince them!
The first target Zhao Yuanzhen chose was her good sister Ruoxi - starting with the simplest person to persuade.

Xie Ruoxi had actually made her stance clear early on. Her first experience was so pitiful that it had left her with a preconceived notion that "I alone couldn't possibly be a team leader's opponent," and so she welcomed the other sisters joining.

Anyway, I can't be the only one to be bullied by the captain!
However, when Zhao Yuanzhen stated his intention, Xie Ruoxi shook her head and refused without hesitation.

"Sister Zhao, are you serious or not?" she asked in horror. "What do you mean by 'agree to any request of the captain'? Can you make such a promise so easily?"

"Don't worry, I've already thought of this," Zhao Yuanzhen said nonchalantly. "I told him it has to be something related to that. Otherwise, what if he simply wants to humiliate us, like asking us to bark like dogs?"

"That won't work!" Xie Ruoxi said in panic, "What if the captain lets us bark like dogs while being bullied by him? Wouldn't that mean we don't break our promise?"

Zhao Yuanzhen was dumbfounded, and said after a while:

"Why would he do that?! Shouldn't this kind of thing... be a fair fight with real weapons?"

"Sister Zhao, you're too innocent!" Xie Ruoxi said frantically, "Even when it comes to that kind of stuff, there's a lot of super perverted knowledge out there!"

"It's okay, he hasn't agreed yet." Zhao Yuanzhen quickly made amends. "Then let's change the specific content. Hmm... For example, how about making it just normal communication without any humiliation?"

"That's fine." Xie Ruoxi pondered, "Abnormal behavior is absolutely forbidden. Also, since we're all together, we should also set up corresponding rules. For example, how long each person should stay each time, and we're not allowed to focus on one person and bully them, etc."

"Is it necessary to be so complicated?" Zhao Yuanzhen asked in confusion. "If I'm tired, it's your turn. If you're tired, it's my turn. If he's tired, he has to beg for mercy, otherwise we won't let him rest. Haha, I wonder how he'll beg for mercy from us then."

Xie Ruoxi was also a little moved after hearing this. You know, she had repeatedly admitted defeat last time, but was still tormented and ravaged. Wouldn't this time be a chance to get revenge for the last blow?

Thinking of Yan Yu kneeling in front of her and shouting "Ruoxi, my wife, I can't do it anymore", Xie Ruoxi felt a little happy in her heart and said softly:
"That's fine, but it depends on what other people think."

"This is a bit troublesome." Zhao Yuanzhen scratched his hair, "I don't think Yunjin and Ningning will agree to it."

"Sister Lingyun should agree. She's interested in things she hasn't tried before," Xie Ruoxi analyzed. "Sister Ningning... as long as we convince Sister Yunjin to join, and let her know she's not invited, she'll definitely want to join on her own initiative."

"So the problem is how to convince Yunjin." Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly had an idea. "I wonder if she was severely bullied by Yanyu last time. If so, we can use the excuse of sharing a common hatred against a common enemy to get her to retaliate with us."

"It's useless." Xie Ruoxi sighed and said, "Sister Yunjin is almost submissive to the captain. She only cares about the captain's favorability towards her. Maybe the more she is bullied, the happier she is, thinking that this is a sign that the captain likes her."

"According to what you said, we don't actually need to convince Yun Jin." Zhao Yuanzhen, worthy of being the demon sect's enchantress, immediately thought of a wicked plan. "As long as she knows that the two of us are planning to join forces to take over Yan Yu, she will definitely try to interfere."

"I see." Xie Ruoxi's little brain was also working quickly. "We need to communicate with the captain. If she stands by and watches, it means she will fall behind in the race to win the captain's favor."

"And we are going to try to make her think in this direction." Zhao Yuanzhen said proudly.

"Hehehe." Xie Ruoxi smirked. "Sister Zhao, you're worthy of being me. Only you can come up with this kind of conspiracy that directly targets people's inner weaknesses."

"Hahaha." Zhao Yuanzhen also smiled devilishly, "Ruoxi, you're not bad either. You know Yunjin and Ningning's qualifications like the back of your hand."

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

In the corridor outside the door, Lin Ning, who happened to be passing by, was silent for a while, thinking to herself, should I go in and remind Ruoxi, your room door is ajar and you forgot to close it. Did I hear everything you just said?

She returned to her room with a heavy heart and her mind was a mess.

The situation was developing so rapidly. If I had been in my shoes a few months ago, I would never have imagined such a chaotic interpersonal relationship.

It was only because he liked the captain and also needed the captain's help to reach the Golden Core level that he agreed to practice dual cultivation with the captain.

After practicing dual cultivation, they hoped to monopolize the captain's favor, making it even more impossible for them to quit as if nothing had happened... As a result, the competition escalated too quickly and too outrageously, and now it has reached the point where "more people must be found to join in" to please the captain, and the single-handed combat mode is about to be eliminated!

Do men always prefer to choose happiness with two wives rather than living together as a couple?
"This has nothing to do with men," the Fairy in the Mirror commented sharply. "Ultimately, he has too many choices, and you barely consider any other options. Naturally, the situation is developing in a direction that is infinitely beneficial to him."

"There's an idiom called 'waiting for a price to rise.' Since this is a treasure everyone wants, the seller will naturally be happy to see you guys bid against each other. Isn't that how the so-called auction came about?"

"The problem is, we're not bidding right now!" Lin Ning complained distressedly. "Everyone has already invested, and now we're all locked into sunk costs. In this situation, Sister Zhao and Ruoxi are going all-in. If I don't follow, I'll lose. If I follow... then what will I get?"

"If you follow him, you won't lose." The Fairy in the Mirror said, "Since you can't choose to give up on him and find a man you don't love, there's only one choice left."

"Join them in, keep them busy, and wait for them to make a mistake."

"I know." Lin Ning was silent for a long time, and finally said slowly, "I just need some time to convince myself."

(End of this chapter)