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

Chapter 735: Follow My Commands
The Bone Heart Locking Hammer, the complete form after collecting all four Bone Heart Locking Hairpins, has a built-in forbidden technique that can release pale and sinister bone fire.

If any cultivator were to be touched by it, his skin and flesh would rot, his bones would be burned through, and he would be reduced to ashes from top to bottom. Even gods would be unable to save him.

This gate-control spell was extremely powerful, but its drawback was that it couldn't be easily touched by even the owner of the magic weapon, so it could only be activated with the help of the White Bone Heart-Locking Hammer. Wherever the hammer struck, the devilish fire would follow. If it encountered a lightning bolt that could easily destroy a magic weapon, the hammer couldn't be used, and the White Bone Devil Fire naturally had no effect.

Yan Yu's reminder gave her this inspiration.

I can't touch the Bone Devil Fire, but my puppet can't be bothered! Its limbs are made of the sacred dragon wood that all evil spirits fear, making it extremely resistant to the Bone Devil Fire. I only need to use the puppet to perform the secret fire control method, and I can control the Bone Devil Fire at will, hitting wherever I point it!
The secret art of controlling fire is considered a low-brow trick in the world of cultivation. It's often used by wandering Taoists to manipulate flames into various birds and beasts to attract attention, deceiving the public into paying them money. If this technique were to encounter the flames of another cultivator using Taoist techniques or magical artifacts, their energy would directly connect to the source of their magic, making it impossible to seize control.

The Bone Demon Fire was essentially the seal of the Bone Heart-Locking Hammer. Control naturally rested with the weapon's owner, making its manipulation unimpeded. Using a puppet to perform the fire control technique effectively transferred the forbidden spell's relay authority to the puppet, greatly increasing its attack range and flexibility—even Zhao Yuanzhen couldn't help but admire his own quick wit.

After completing the spiritual host, the connection between her and the puppet had become extremely close. With a slight thought, the puppet Ami immediately raised her hand and waved it. The white bone devil fire instantly spread from the white bone heart-locking hammer, pouring a large white flame net into the air.

The Yinfeng Divine Thunder's erratic form made it extremely difficult to locate with the naked eye. Even using the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation to intercept it required aiming before cutting. However, the White Bone Demon Fire presented no such problem. The pale flames spread out in an impenetrable, impenetrable atmosphere. Simply wait for the thunder to strike, no need to think.

It’s just that the speed at which the true energy is lost is a bit scary.

Zhao Yuanzhen's aptitude for cultivation is excellent, otherwise he would not have been able to lead Yan Yu in refining Qi for such a long time without much loss of efficiency.

I think I can handle it!
In front of the live broadcast screen, Yan Yu shook his head imperceptibly.

He said that letting Zhao Yuanzhen use large-scale Taoist magic meant waiting for the thunderbolts from the sky to fall, and then casting a wave of spells, one batch at a time, instead of just casting spells all the time and waiting for the thunderbolts to hit - the latter would consume your true energy all the time!

You are not good at calculations and have poor endurance, but you still use this method to waste your true energy. Do you think you are Xie Ruoxi?

Seeing his heavy expression, Xie Ruoxi knew that Sister Zhao must have made a mistake again. Just as she was about to ask a question, she heard Su Yunjin say:

"I discovered that Sister Zhao has a special characteristic."

"What are the characteristics?" Yan Yu asked.

"Her style is completely different when she's playing in a favorable situation and when she's playing against it."

Yan Yu pondered for a moment, and suddenly felt enlightened: You are right!

The Demonic Sect's enchantress, when in a favorable situation, often attacks with swiftness and fire. She would rather waste more of her true essence than use her most powerful attack to instantly kill the enemy—this might be because she comes from the Demonic Sect and values decisiveness in killing.

On the contrary, if unfortunately she falls into a disadvantage, she will turn from extremely active to extremely passive, defending with all her strength while trying to use various insidious and vicious tricks to turn the tables - this has also been verified in her usual training.

In other words, the reason why she dared to squander her true energy at this time was because she felt that her current advantage was infinite.

"Then let her continue to be a bit reckless." Yan Yu sneered, "Even if we remind her now, she won't listen. Once she really suffers, she will naturally change."

"No!" Although Xie Ruoxi didn't understand yet, she also realized that there was something wrong with Zhao Yuanzhen's fighting style. She quickly hugged Yan Yu's arm and pleaded, "Yan Yu, transcending the tribulation is no joke! What if her current mistakes accumulate and just lead to the failure of the final tribulation? What should we do then?"

Her worries were not impossible. So Yan Yu could only go outside the meeting room again, summon the puppet Ah Zhen, and said:

"Tell her to conserve her true energy and not to use her Dao magic without restraint. It's too wasteful."

"Oh." Puppet Ah Zhen had only a sliver of primitive intelligence, about the same as a six or seven-year-old child. Although he had no intention of lying, he couldn't repeat the whole thing word for word. He communicated with puppet Ah Mi, saying, "My master told you to conserve your true energy and not waste it."

The puppet A-mi was also connected to Zhao Yuanzhen's consciousness. When she received the news, the demon girl immediately felt it and was immediately confused:
It was you who told me to use large-scale Taoist magic to deal with the disaster, and it was also you who told me to save my true energy and not waste it. Why don’t you teach me how to use large-scale Taoist magic while saving my true energy?
Although she was very dissatisfied with Yan Yu's frequent changes in his orders, she still trusted her husband very much. So she immediately stopped using Taoist magic and instead used the Wanzhu Sword and Xiaoxuan Guangchi to deal with the thunder.

These two things consumed very little of her true energy, and with the continued refining of medicinal power in her stomach, the true energy in her body began to recover.

Almost a huge amount of thunder was still falling densely. Although Zhao Yuanzhen kept cutting off layer by layer, the overall average height was still continuing to press down. It soon passed through a height of 3000 meters and was pressed within 2000 meters.

Yan Yu returned to the meeting room and heard everyone talking:
"This won't work, right? The second wave of thunder is too dense. I can't clear it with just the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword and the Small Xuan Light Ruler."

"Are you out of true energy? Why didn't you use the white flame technique just now?"

"She probably wants to recover her true essence first, and then use Taoist magic to clean up the lightning once it enters a 1000-meter range."

Yan Yu:………………

Everyone overestimated the intelligence of the Demonic Sect Demon Girl, but he realized almost immediately that the Demonic Sect Demon Girl probably didn't have so many plans in her mind.

She chose to use large-scale Taoist magic at first because I told her to do so; now she has stopped using Taoist magic because I told her to save her true energy!
As soon as this fool saw that I was teaching her how to overcome the tribulation, she became lazy and gave up thinking!
Yan Yu looked at the screen silently. At this time, the thunder had fallen within 1600 meters. It was most efficient to use the bone magic fire to clear it at this distance. On the one hand, it could hit it, and on the other hand, it was not very close, so it did not put much psychological pressure on people.

But Zhao Yuanzhen still did not use any Taoist magic, but continued to urge the Wanzhu Sword and Xiaoxuan Guangchi to hit the air, showing a posture of "I will use all my strength to restore my true energy."

"Hey, Lao Yan!" Liu Longtao asked directly, "Is this some special plan you designed for her?"

"Why do you care so much?" Ye Jun interrupted directly, "They are not from your Longxiong team, why do you care about how they overcome the tribulation?"

"Hey! I'm just curious!" Liu Longtao said confidently, "Everyone on our team has to overcome the tribulation too, so what's wrong with learning more? There must be a deeper meaning behind Lao Yan's arrangement!"

Yan Yu remained silent.

At this point, to say Zhao Yuanzhen was merely mechanically following my orders, without any thought or deeper meaning… would surely undermine my prestige and bring shame upon both her and me. "Not going?" Chen Lingyun asked with a smile. "Without your guidance, she probably won't be able to figure out how to adjust next, right? Or are you planning to abandon her completely?"

Yan Yu had no choice but to leave the meeting room again and let the puppet Ah Zhen send the message.

"Continue using your Bone Demon Fire, but don't leave it burning forever. Whenever a lightning strike reaches within 1500 meters, immediately fire a shot to clear it out, then wait for the next wave to land, and so on."

Puppet Ah Zhen quickly communicated with his sister Ah Mi:
"Keep the fire going, but don't burn it. Shoot within 1500 meters, and so on."

Zhao Yuanzhen received the news and thought, "Yan Yu, have you lost your mind? What does it mean to "keep the fire burning but don't burn it"? Why are you talking so nonsense?"

Forget it. Although his aptitude for cultivation is not good, his wisdom in combat has never disappointed me. I'd better continue to listen to him.

Zhao Yuanzhen clasped his hands together and quickly activated the White Bone Heart Locking Hammer and the puppet at the same time, sending the White Bone Demon Fire burning all over the sky.

Yan Yu returned to the meeting room in silence, only to hear everyone shouting:
"He's starting to use Taoism again!"

"Sure enough, we have to wait until we descend below 1400 meters before we take action!"

"Actually, we can already make a move at an altitude of 1600 meters, right?"

"No," Zhang Huaide said, lightly supporting the frame of his glasses with his fingers. "Whether to start at 1600 meters or wait until 1400 meters depends on the individual."

"Those who are good at calculations and have excellent control of their aim can increase the distance from which they attack. However, if they lack confidence in this area, it is best to use time to buy space. Otherwise, if a few mistakes cause the height of the tribulation lightning to continue to decrease, the advantage originally gained by attacking early will be immediately lost."

Everyone began to ponder.

"That's right," Li Minghu agreed. "After you go back, you can roughly measure your own accuracy. For example, practice repeatedly striking targets at different distances between 1000 and 2000 meters using your prepared tribulation-crossing methods to see at what distance the tribulation lightning is most effective for you to handle."

"That makes sense." Mei Yingxue nodded and said, "Yan Yu, valuable experimental plans like this should not be hidden away in the future. Try to bring them out as soon as possible so that everyone can discuss them together."

Yan Yu: ……………………

Is it too late for me to tell you that you have misunderstood me?
On the live broadcast screen, Zhao Yuanzhen was still majestically urging the White Bone Demon Fire to continuously disrupt, scatter, and explode the thunder in the sky. He didn't look like he was lacking in any true energy at all.

Yan Yu left the meeting room again and asked the puppet Ah Zhen:
"Ask her how much true energy she has left."

After a while, the puppet Ah Zhen replied:
"three."

"What do you mean by three?" Yan Yu glared. "30% or 3%?"

Puppet Ah Zhen paused for a moment and replied:
"Twenty-three percent."

Yan Yu frowned immediately. This was being consumed too quickly!

"Stop using the Taoist magic," he said quickly. "Wait until the thunderbolt reaches 1200 meters, then use the Yiqi Wind and Thunder Bag."

The puppet Ah Zhen tried hard to relay the message, but when it reached Zhao Yuanzhen, it was abbreviated to "stop using Taoist magic and use the thunder bag."

Zhao Yuanzhen vaguely realized that the intelligence of his puppet was too primitive and ignorant, and it might miss a lot of key information in the process of conveying messages, just like a very young child who speaks unclearly and fails to grasp the main points.

However, there was no time to continue asking questions, so he could only stop the Taoist magic and then grabbed the Yiqi Fenglei bag at his waist.

This thing is a magic weapon that Yan Yu specially found. It looks like an old, patched cloth bag. Every three hours, nine "Wind and Thunder Beads" will be generated inside it. After being sacrificed and hitting the target, they will explode immediately and tear the target into pieces with the power of wind and thunder.

Although it sounds mysterious, it is actually said to be just a low-quality counterfeit of some powerful magic weapon. The lethality of a single Wind and Thunder Bead is not outstanding, and is about the same as a full-strength slash from a flying sword. The only advantage is that it does not require the consumption of true energy, and the bead can automatically search for the enemy, which is very suitable for cultivators with low cultivation to use to transition to the novice period.

But when it comes to overcoming tribulations, it means meeting a talented person at the right time.

There are twelve hours in a day, and thirty-six Wind and Thunder Qi beads can be generated. In ten days, the total number can reach three hundred and sixty. Throwing them into the air like a celestial being scattering flowers, they explode everywhere, instantly reducing the Tribulation Lightning by a layer. It is a super convenient method that consumes no Zhen Yuan at all, so it is a waste not to use it.

Seeing Zhao Yuanzhen use the magic weapon in advance, Yan Yu was extremely speechless.

It's too early! The lightning is still far away from you and hasn't had time to gather! Throwing out the Wind and Thunder Qi Pearl now will not be effective at killing. What a waste!

The arrow was on the string, and it was too late to stop it. Zhao Yuanzhen raised his hand and quickly shot out all the lightning beads in the bag.

Yan Yu's eyes narrowed, huh?
This calamity, called "Dark Wind Godly Thunder," also contained both wind and thunder. Even from a distance, it interacted with the Wind and Thunder Qi Bead, much like the repulsion of like poles in a magnet, causing the Thunder Bead's flight speed to slow significantly.

Originally, Zhao Yuanzhen attacked too early, which resulted in no time for the thunder to gather into a cone shape. However, the wind and thunder of the thunder and the thunder bead repelled each other, delaying the time of collision. In the end, they encountered each other at a position of about 1170 meters.

At this time, the thunderbolts from all directions no longer continued to shoot vertically downwards, but shot straight towards Zhao Yuanzhen's position. The overall formation changed from a cylinder to an inverted cone. The number of thunderbolts at the top of the cone was extremely dense, and it happened to be hit by the wind and thunder bead, immediately causing a large area of ​​sabotage explosion light.

Seeing that the thunder bead had achieved success in one fell swoop, Zhao Yuanzhen was extremely excited. She thought to herself that her husband was indeed very well-planned and the order he sent was sent at the perfect time. It was worth it that I trusted him unconditionally!

(End of this chapter)