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

Chapter 730 Time Bomb
Zhao Yuanzhen’s idea is quite simple.

If you have an affair with Mei Yingxue, I will suck all your energy away so that you won't be able to continue your affair with her.

On the contrary, if you have no affair with her, and I didn't make it clear and misunderstood you, then I am giving you a reward now to express my apology.

Anyway, whether it's rewards or punishments, she has the final say, and it all makes sense logically. One can only say that this evil witch is so insidious and cunning that it's hard to guard against her.

Yan Yu really couldn't defend it.

The first thing I want to state is that if he had not forcibly extracted his true yang to help others practice, his physical fitness would actually be quite strong, otherwise he would not have been an ordinary warrior in his previous life.

The most important thing for any warrior is their physical foundation. Not only do they need to carry heavy loads and maneuver for long periods of time, but they also have to endure alien true energy that doesn't belong to them, which puts a severe strain on the body. Those who don't meet the requirements won't even pass the training.

As long as there is no training mission, Yan Yu has a huge advantage over anyone in pure physical combat.

Although Zhao Yuanzhen's physical fitness is not as good as Yan Yu's, she has an extremely troublesome personality, which is that she refuses to admit defeat.

Even if she only had one finger left to move, she would poke Yan Yu hard and make him feel pain.

Therefore, the two men fought each other directly until the whole room was dark and there were traces of fighting everywhere in the room: tables, chairs and coffee tables were pushed over, and sheets and quilts were scattered on the ground, making it look like it had been robbed by robbers.

Zhao Yuanzhen was finally knocked down completely and had no strength to stand up. She was still shouting, "Kill me if you have the guts." However, she got what she wanted and was severely beaten by Yan Yu. She was beaten so hard that she couldn't even make a sound and her pupils were almost dilated.

Yan Yu stood up contentedly. It was another day of successfully maintaining the dignity of the family. Great!

"You think I'm afraid of you?" He draped a towel over his sweaty shoulders like a victorious boxing champion. He then opened a bottle of mineral water on the table and poured it over his head to cool down. Then he tossed his hair triumphantly and sneered, "Now you know who's the boss in this family, right?"

Zhao Yuanzhen was unable to move and could only roll his eyes to show his dissatisfaction, but he was wailing in his mind.

Sad! Sad! Before marriage, I was no match for the thief. I could only dream of taking revenge on him after marriage, but after marriage, I was still no match for him!

Could it be that this little thief is really the nemesis of my Empress Yuanzhen?

I don’t accept it!

When people encounter setbacks, they instinctively seek out any available lifeline. Zhao Yuanzhen recalled the previous fight and found that he had been defeated in almost every aspect.

He lacks endurance, strength, awareness, and even fewer tricks than Yan Yu, so it's normal for him to lose.

But does this mean that Yan Yu is invincible? No, after all, this is not a fair fight.

Ruoxi once said, "Two fists are no match for four hands." She was so obsessed with bringing Yunjin, Ningning, and Lingyun into the fight, probably because she realized she was no match for Yan Yu on her own.

So we still have to work together! Although Lü Bu is brave, he has to retreat temporarily when facing the combined forces of Liu, Guan, and Zhang. I already have the Five Tiger Generals on my side!

Zhao Yuanzhen made up his mind, and stopped harassing Yan Yu, and began to circulate his true energy to restore his strength.

Yan Yu picked her up, walked into the bathroom, threw her into the bathtub, pinched his nose and said:

"Wash yourself. You've sweated so much, it stinks."

"Nonsense!" Zhao Yuanzhen finally regained the strength to speak and immediately retorted, "It was clearly your sweat that got on me!"

"It was so easy to deal with you that I didn't even break a sweat." Yan Yu said with a sneer.

"Indeed, I didn't sweat much, but I did experience a lot of other things." Zhao Yuanzhen sneered and counterattacked, "You talk tough, but your body is quite honest."

Yan Yu smiled playfully, as if looking at a child. Who was lying in the bathtub, unable to move, only able to chatter? You talk tough but your body is honest. Are you sure you're talking about me?
Zhao Yuanzhen blushed when he looked at her, but she still said stubbornly:
"There are only tired cows, but no plowed fields! Just wait and see. I don't care. Even if my physical strength is exhausted, I will recover sooner or later. But you..."

Her eyes looked at Yan Yu with ill intention, causing the latter to frown.

Honestly, while bullying the demon girl was satisfying, it was incredibly time-consuming and exhausting. While it was true that cultivators' bodies were far superior to those of ordinary people, and wear and tear wasn't an issue, the main issue was the demon girl's stubborn temper. Each fight would take two or three hours, and if I didn't knock her down, she would taunt me. Beating her down every time... that was too tiring.

Interest and fun are about emotional value and fun. The demon girl is a galactic battleship in hardware, but her software is a mess, so much so that Yan Yu can only seal her mouth most of the time.

Otherwise it would be easy to be teased by her.

Now, after her reminder, Yan Yu finally came to his senses and felt that the initiative to start trouble should not be taken away by the evil woman.

The simplest way is to let her give birth to a baby for him.

Monks are no different from mortals in this regard. No matter how they act before the birth, they'll start focusing on the baby afterward. By then, the demon woman won't be interested in continuing to cling to them. If you want to maintain a relationship, go find her. If you don't want to, let her continue to take care of the baby...

Of course, it's too early to think about this now.

The international situation has not yet fully stabilized, so it's not a good time to start a family. Even if we take a step back, the demon girl hasn't even reached the stage of elixir formation yet, so it's too early to consider those things.

Yan Yu thought carefully in his mind, picked up the shower head, turned on the faucet, and instantly drenched Zhao Yuanzhen's head and face.

"What are you doing!" Zhao Yuanzhen screamed.

If I wasn't so sore, tired and numb all over that I couldn't even lift my feet, I would kick you!
"Let me wash it for you." Yan Yu said with a wicked smile.

Although the water temperature was just right, Zhao Yuanzhen felt very uncomfortable after all as he was being sprayed in the face by the nozzle. He could only keep turning his head to avoid it with difficulty. He secretly hated her in his heart and thought, "When I deal with Yun Jin Ningning and the others, I will grind you into sugarcane residue!"
"Forget it, I don't want to play with you anymore." Yan Yu suddenly turned off the faucet, threw the shower head aside, then turned and left.

Only then did Zhao Yuanzhen realize that the bath water had been prepared without his noticing.

She curled up her legs in the bathtub and felt warm and comfortable. The numbness and pain from before seemed to have disappeared.

Humph, let’s switch from dregs to milkshakes.

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Shortly after Liu Longtao formed his elixir, news came from Chongying Yin Yangyuan: Shen Yuan Si Mie successfully advanced to Lingxu Realm.

The Yin-Yang Academy's system of elitism is even more exaggerated than that of the Lu Kingdom, with resources heavily tilted towards the top. However, due to its small territory and scarce resources, coupled with the extreme suppression by the Lu Kingdom, the top forces are always inferior to the Lu Kingdom.

Of the four great devil lords of Onmyoin, one died and there was no replacement, so now there are only three left: Kanhara Shimie, Kore Soichirō, and Moroboshi Daiga.

Among them, Daigo Moroboshi was constantly disengaged, earning him the extreme dislike of his superiors. Soichiro, while diligent in his duties and capable, was, after all, old and lacking in potential. Therefore, after careful consideration, only the madman of the Kanhara family was worthy of promotion. With resources amassed at all costs, Kanhara died shortly before Liu Longtao's tribulation, entering "disappearance," and finally returning to the world the day after Liu Longtao's elixir formation, announcing his successful advancement.

Lu Guo attached great importance to this matter, because the promotion tests of each extraordinary system were different, and the first person to try it was the most dangerous. After all, all his information came from second-hand classics whose authenticity was difficult to verify.

With the first promoted Onmyoji passing back various information about the tribulation, the Onmyoji Academy will be able to make targeted adjustments based on this information.

The power of the state machinery when it is activated is terrifying. Just look at what Lu State has prepared for Liu Longtao, the second person to undergo the tribulation.

When Yan Yu learned the news, he was eating in the cafeteria, and Zhang Huaide was sitting opposite him.

Comrade Zhou Hongyu did not die a heroic death in this life, so Comrade Lao Zhang is still the deputy captain. However, he is serious and wears plain glasses. Sometimes when the angle reflects light, it is difficult to see his eyes behind the lenses, which makes him look very majestic. As a result, people rarely talk to him in their spare time. This has nothing to do with whether he became the captain or not.

Of course Yan Yu didn't buy it. After receiving the news from Chen Lingyun, he asked Zhang Huaide directly if he knew about it.

Zhang Huaide shook his head. He wouldn't use his phone while eating, so even if someone in the Pingxi Army found out and informed him, he wouldn't be the first to know.

"What do you think, Xiao Zhang?" Yan Yu asked.

After notifying him on her phone, Chen Lingyun casually asked, "What do you think?" If she didn't answer, it would seem she didn't understand; if she answered but didn't get to the point, Chen Lingyun wouldn't say anything on the surface, but she would definitely be grinning inside.

It’s not that Yan Yu can’t figure out the key, but Zhang Huaide just happened to be sharing a table with him, so he could borrow his brain.

"It won't have much of an impact on Lu," Zhang Huaide replied. "The appearance of the first qualifier will bring about a surge in top-tier combat power. However, Yin-Yang Academy's presence is smaller than ours. They started too late, and their momentum isn't strong enough to cause much of a stir."

Yan Yu pondered for a moment and felt that what Comrade Xiao Zhang said made sense.

He was still influenced by his past life and subconsciously regarded the Chongsakura Yin Yang Academy as a behemoth that could compete with the monks of Lu State's Zhendong Army... In fact, in the battle in the Li Palace Secret Realm, the Yin Yang Academy suffered heavy losses in high-end personnel, and even Sendou Jingyin was defeated, so that the top forces instantly fell far behind Lu State.

The era of spiritual resurgence is essentially a snowballing game. If you fall behind early on, you have fewer resources; with fewer resources, your manpower can't grow, leading to a further lag in the competition. In short, there's no solution.

Yan Yu silently edited Zhang Huaide's analysis into text and sent it to Chen Lingyun.

"Haha, Xiao Zhang is quite insightful." Chen Lingyun smiled back, "The General Staff has the same opinion."

Yan Yu immediately scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense, but found no invisible ghosts. So she had guessed it? This was bad, and it was no fun.

"Where have you been again?" Yan Yu sent a message, "When will you be back?"

"Why, did you miss me?" Chen Lingyun replied quickly.

"Haha." Yan Yu also responded with a smiling expression.

The rest of the team had already reached the Golden Core stage, leaving only Chen Lingyun. With her intelligence, she could easily guess that Yan Yu would use their dual cultivation as an opportunity to bully her, so she was deliberately hiding somewhere to figure out a solution. This was Yan Yu's guess.

Chen Lingyun did not reply, only to hear Zhang Huaide on the other side say:
"For Onmyoji, a fair competition with Luguo is bound to lead to a loss. The only way out is to resort to unexpected tactics and gamble on the fate of the nation. The Yamata no Orochi Plan is one way, and the true form of the Taiyang Zhenmei Sword is another."

"Both of these roads are difficult to take," Yan Yu commented.

Yamata no Orochi-level monsters require the blood sacrifice of a large number of lives to cultivate. The fragmented Southern Territory can do this, but the Sakura Empire cannot. The current secular social order will collapse directly.

Not to mention the Sun Sword itself. The divine sword was spiritual, not something that ordinary people could control. The only way to use it for one's own benefit was to gain its approval, and the Yin-Yang Master had absolutely no chance of that.

Therefore, for the State of Lu, whether sending Yan Yu to search for the illusory Yamata-no-Orochi, which may or may not exist, or to search for the Sun Sword, which may take an unknown amount of time to find, it would be more cost-effective to keep Yan Yu in the country at this stage to protect him and strive to produce a few more Jindan cultivators safely.

It would be most cost-effective to wait until signs of a ritual appeared within the Sakura Empire, or when the exploration team sent by the Kingdom of Lu to the Western Pacific located the secret place where the Sun Zhenmei Sword was suspected to exist. Then, it would be best to send Yan Yu there to reap the harvest calmly.

There was no need for Yan Yu to explain this, Zhang Huaide certainly understood it, and said with a smile:
"So we don't need to do anything. We should prioritize stability and wait for the enemy to be defeated."

Yan Yu also laughed.

As a reborn person, saving the hero who was about to die and revitalizing the originally unfavorable situation has achieved the greatest meaningful goal of being a reborn person.

As for having a harem... well, that's because they're all in love with me and can't bear to leave me. It's a private matter. I didn't think about it when I was reborn. It was all luck.

"Eat and eat vegetables." Zhang Huaide said.

He was a very direct person, and what he said meant was, "Do you have any other questions? Just keep eating without asking me." In other words, if Yan Yu hadn't finished yet, Zhang Huaide wouldn't have the heart to focus on eating.

"You eat." Yan Yu's mood improved, so he stopped disturbing him while he was eating. Turning around, he saw Tang Xiaolian holding a plate and sitting next to him.

"Why do you eat so much?" She put her plate on the table, but her eyes were fixed on Yan Yu's plate. "And it's all meat."

"Why do you care so much about me?" Yan Yu said with a smile, "Anyway, I can finish it, so it won't be wasted."

"Won't you get tired of eating it?" Tang Xiaolian extended her chopsticks, "I'll trade with you for some food."

She picked up a piece of abalone for Yan Yu, and then took a flower intestine from him.

Yan Yu smiled and let her pick up the food. In fact, there were two women on Yan Yu's side, and they didn't usually try to be ambiguous in their conversations.

One of them was Ye Jun, who had a cheerful and generous personality. When not talking about love, Yan Yu would always subconsciously treat her as a brother.

The second one is Tang Xiaolian, who has the lively personality of a girl next door and likes to tell jokes and make fun of others. It is difficult to have any evil thoughts about her when chatting and joking with her in daily life.

Of course, this only applies to daily life. If she deliberately displays her charm to seduce him, turning a vegetarian dish into a meat dish would be a completely different way of eating.

Yan Yu didn't care about it, but Zhang Huaide, who was sitting across the table, frowned secretly and started thinking about it.

He instinctively realized that the psychological distance between Tang Xiaolian and Yan Yu was very close, almost to the point where they were defenseless against each other.

But this is problematic, because Zhang Huaide is already vaguely certain that Zhou Hongyu is also interested in Yan Yu.

As a member of the Fire Phoenix Team, how could you compete with your captain for the same man? If you lose, your faith will be shattered; if you win, you won't be able to stay on the team.

This is another time bomb...

(End of this chapter)