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

Chapter 741 Only Killing
"Before crossing the tribulation, you should first take a Qi-boosting pill. Because the efficiency of refining medicinal power to restore true essence is actually not very high. It takes a long-term approach to achieve a significant effect."

"Of course, if nothing unexpected happens before you cross the tribulation, your true essence should be fully replenished. So, when dealing with the tribulation thunder, don't be stingy with your true essence. Use your most powerful means and use up about 70% of your true essence in one go."

"The Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords and the Small Xuanguang Ruler aren't meant to deal with tribulation lightning. A set of Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords can, at best, break a hundred or so tribulation lightning bolts, and a Small Xuanguang Ruler can, at most, break a dozen. How can that compare to a Taoist technique that unleashes a large-scale bombardment?"

"Their true function is to temporarily free you from expending your True Essence, allowing you to focus on refining medicinal energy for recovery. Therefore, how long they can delay recovery is what matters most."

"The tribulation thunder comes in waves. If you destroy one wave too quickly, the next wave will arrive sooner, effectively shortening your time to recover your true essence. So does that mean the longer you delay, the better? Not really, because the speed of the tribulation thunder won't slow down. The longer you delay, the closer it gets to you, and the greater the risk..."

Yan Yu talked about his various experiences in overcoming tribulations, and everyone listened very attentively. Even Li Zhaojiang didn't bother to make jokes and was recording with his mobile phone.

Among the many people present, only Yan Yu and Liu Longtao had experience in overcoming the tribulation. No matter how long the others watched their videos or read various analysis reports, they still couldn't grasp all the details and key points.

The narration by Yan Yu, a person who experienced it firsthand, is undoubtedly the most valuable first-hand information.

Li Zhaojiang was listening to the lecture and thinking, when he suddenly woke up:
Damn it! How could my sister not be present for such an important event? She also needs to overcome the tribulation!

He hurriedly switched out of the recording interface and was about to send a message to his sister when he saw Zhou Hongyu and Tang Xiaolian coming over.

"You're holding a private study session and you didn't invite Captain Zhou and me, right?" Tang Xiaolian pretended to be angry.

"It was just a private dinner at first, and Captain Yan didn't come," Zhang Huaide said with a smile. "Then he said he wanted to talk about it, so I notified you immediately."

The people from other teams also woke up as if from a dream, and quickly took out their mobile phones to notify the female teammates who were absent.

"It's okay." Yang Linhui said to his teammates, "I told Deputy Captain Ye a few minutes ago, she will be here soon."

Now everyone in the Qing'an team was shocked. Could it be that our team was the only one that forgot to inform Deputy Captain Li and Xu Jin?
Jiang Hong quickly looked at Li Zhaojiang, wondering if he had informed him. However, he saw the captain was calm and composed, not panicking at all. He typed and sent a message on his phone, while calmly instructing Yan Yu:
"Wait until my sister and the others come, and then tell us what you just said."

Jiang Hong was immediately amazed. As expected of the captain! He always managed to come up with lines we couldn't even imagine.

"Get lost!" Yan Yu angrily refused. "Aren't you recording the whole thing? Why don't you just play the recording to them directly?"

"What if they have questions?" Li Zhaojiang insisted, "They can ask you directly if they're listening to the lecture in person, but who can they ask if they have questions after listening to the recording?"

"Then you can come to my room and ask me later." Yan Yu said without hesitation.

"That's true..." Li Zhaojiang pondered for a moment, then suddenly woke up, "Get lost! You tricked my sister into going to your room, didn't you? You have to ask here, in front of everyone!"

Everyone turned their heads and sneered. Li Zhaojiang's sister-con identity was no secret in the circle. Unfortunately, Li Minghu was not a brother-con and was very close to Yan Yu. So every time people saw Li Zhaojiang angry, they always felt that he had a red nose on his face.

Not long after, Ye Jun, Li Minghu, Xu Jin, and the girls from the Zhenhai team arrived one after another. The four major teams finally gathered together to listen to Yan Yu explain how to overcome the tribulation.

Yan Yu detailed everything he knew, answering every question without holding back, earning him a wave of admiration and respect. As they asked questions and discussed, they exclaimed, "God Yan is amazing!" and showered him with flattery.

"How is it?" Ye Jun asked Liu Longtao through voice transmission, "How does his method of overcoming the tribulation compare to yours?"

Liu Longtao was silent for a moment and replied:

"I'm not as good as him."

Jing Ye's true energy is far more abundant than Yan Yu's, and the materials for the tribulation are also doubled, so the overall difficulty of the tribulation is naturally lower.

Ask yourself, if you put yourself in Yan Yu's situation and conditions at that time, you probably wouldn't be able to get through it.

Ye Jun also asked knowingly. Seeing that Liu Longtao had to admit that he was not as good as Yan Yu, he smiled slightly in his heart and raised his hand to ask:
"Regarding the formation for overcoming the tribulation, which type would be more suitable, enriching spiritual energy to speed up the recovery of true essence or delaying the tribulation thunder to prolong the time?"

"It depends on the type of lightning." Yan Yu answered fluently. This kind of question was not difficult for him at all. "If the lightning is very fast, or the number of waves is extremely large, so that you don't have enough time to recover your true energy, then the delay formation will definitely be more suitable..."

Seeing that he had such a deep and thorough understanding of the heavenly tribulation, everyone became more and more enthusiastic in asking questions. Later, Yan Yu was almost always answering questions and rarely shared his experience.

Suddenly the phone rang again.

A cultivator of Yan Yu's rank would always send a message even if it was a family member calling. The reason was simply that they were afraid you might be on an urgent mission and be interrupted by the phone call.

In other words, once someone calls, it's probably not an ordinary matter.

Sure enough, Yan Yu picked up the phone and listened for a moment, his expression suddenly changed slightly.

"Sorry, everyone," he said, standing up quickly. "I have something urgent to do and need to leave for a while. That's all for today."

"No, no." "Thank you, God Yan." "Goodbye, God Yan." Everyone nodded and bowed hurriedly.

After Yan Yu left, everyone turned their attention to Chen Lingyun and Liu Longtao.

Although I don’t know what happened, looking at Yan Yu’s serious expression, it doesn’t seem like a trivial matter. I can only see what information these two most well-informed guys have.

Chen Lingyun's expression remained unchanged, as if she had nothing to do with it. Liu Longtao took out his phone and checked a few messages. Then his expression suddenly changed. He stood up and said to Yang Linhui:

"gone."

Needless to say, everyone in the Longxiong team stood up and followed Liu Longtao away.

The rest of the group could guess that something was most likely happening in the north. Forgetting the Dragon Soaring Team, even Yan Yu, the Lu Nation's number one Jindan cultivator, had been dispatched. It must be something truly significant.

Yan Yu left the base and quickly flew north on his sword, his phone still on the line. "Don't worry about it, let me handle it," Anna insisted from the other side. "The North is my territory!"

"If you were capable, Lu Guo wouldn't have to ask me to clean up your mess." Yan Yu said bluntly.

"You don't trust my strength?" Anna asked coldly.

"I really don't believe it." Yan Yu sneered and said, "What's wrong?"

"Get out!" Anna roared. "You are not welcome in the Amur Witch Coven! Yan Yu, from today on, you are not allowed to enter the entire northern territory! You are number one on the witch coven's blacklist!"

"I don't have to guard Yuanyang anymore." Yan Yu said calmly.

"...So, let's just say we should sleep in the same big bed as last time?" Anna was silent for a moment, then asked cautiously, "I've prepared a few nice uniforms that really show off my figure. I'll wear them for you to see when the time comes."

"Let's deal with the matter first." Yan Yu said indifferently.

"……it is good."

Anna hung up the phone, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then immediately burst out with endless murderous aura. Under her brilliant blonde hair was a cold expression like a Shura.

"Clara, call all the elders."

The crisis facing the North today is almost a replica of the crisis facing the South.

On the surface, the Amur Witch Coven is the ruling force recognized by everyone in this area, but in reality they are unable to extend their control to the grassroots level.

The witches were too few in number and their territory was too vast, so they had to establish a loyal relationship with the local supernatural gangs in each place. These gangs declared their obedience to the rule of the witch group, and the witch group was responsible for recognizing their local status and providing nominal protection - in simple terms, it was similar to the feudal relationship in the Middle Ages.

This feudal relationship is extremely fragile because the superiors cannot effectively control the subordinates, and naturally there is no way to prevent or even stop them from rebelling.

As the Sakura Empire publicly disseminated and sold the Yamata no Orochi breeding plan to the world, many extraordinary gangs in the north also obtained corresponding technical solutions from Europe.

Whether or not the Rakshasa authorities were secretly instigating this has not yet been confirmed, but it has undoubtedly seriously shaken the ruling foundation of the Amur Witch Group.

With so many supernatural forces, it is impossible for the witch group to place intelligence spies to control each one of them. Someone must be trying to cultivate the "Yamata no Orochi" by doing so.

If a gang is suspected of breeding the Yamata no Orochi, surrounding factions will inevitably be on high alert. Everyone knows that if your power suddenly increases, the next step is to devour your neighbors. So to avoid this worst-case scenario, the best way is to breed the Yamata no Orochi myself... Just like nuclear weapons, I don't need them, but I must have them.

Therefore, the trend of cultivating Yamata no Orochi quickly spread widely in the North, so much so that even the top-level Amur Witch Group felt the pressure of the undercurrent below. There were even elders within the group calling for a quick trial of the Yamata no Orochi plan, so as not to let their strength be overtaken by lower-level gangs.

Anna was originally gathering spiritual energy at the Wudang Mountain base, but she suddenly rushed back to the North. On the one hand, it was to quickly integrate the opposition within the Amur Witch Group, and on the other hand, it was to deal with the risks and hidden dangers that affected the entire North.

Facts have proved that the former is easier to do. After all, Anna has been in power for a long time, and with Lu Guo and Yan Yu behind her, everyone is willing to obey her authority.

But the latter has no way to start, because the territory is too large, there are thousands of subordinate gangs, and there is no mature civil servant group within the witch group. Even contacting and confirming each gang takes a lot of time. How can it be stopped from experimenting with forbidden methods and sacrificing the civilians within the sphere of influence?
By now, the situation was beginning to spiral out of control. Although the witch group hadn't released specific figures, Lu State's rough estimate, based on satellite surveillance, was that there were already 84 cross-border monsters roaming the entire northern territory.

These "Yamata no Orochi" are far inferior to the Luotouba in the southern border in terms of strength. The reason is probably that the conditions for gang training are too simple and there are not enough human lives for blood sacrifice.

However, considering that the monsters could not communicate, they could wander south and enter the territory of Lu at any time, which made the Privy Council feel like they were facing a great enemy.

After Yan Yu was promoted to the Golden Core stage, his sword-flying speed increased almost tenfold, and he soon arrived at Amur City.

The elders' meeting was underway inside the witch group. Yan Yu rushed in, sat down next to Anna, and said:
"I'm here today to represent the will of the Lu Kingdom Privy Council. I'm not interfering with the Witches' Coven's decision. I'm simply reminding you that you've already exhausted all the necessary methods. The fact that the situation remains dire proves that there's no other solution."

"When a tangled mess is cut, a sharp sword is needed, only killing is possible!"

He made a hand-knife-cutting gesture, causing the expressions of the surrounding witch group elders to change drastically. They thought that the Lu Kingdom's number one Jindan cultivator was dissatisfied with these insects and planned to massacre the elders' council of the Amur witch group.

Fortunately, Clara next to him spoke very quickly and translated Yan Yu's words into Rakshasa language in a snap, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's not that we're afraid of fighting," someone suddenly said. "In the past, unless there was rebellion or treason, the Northern Territory's rule was based on appeasement. Too much killing would make everyone feel insecure, and more and more forces would turn to the opposition camp."

This was also one of the drawbacks of the feudal system: faced with an extremely strong king, nobles naturally tended to band together to resist. So often, even when a rebellious noble was captured, the king, even if he hated them to the core, would be forced to say, "I forgive you," against his will. Of course, this wasn't true forgiveness, but rather a warning to those still rebelling, "Stop it now, I'll let you go."

In the early days of establishing their dominance, the Amur Witch Coven staged several rounds of slaughter across the entire northern border, leaving rivers of blood flowing. Later, during Peter the Great's eastern expedition, many supernatural gangs surrendered. After the expedition failed, these individuals were purged by the Amur Witch Coven... The atmosphere is now too tense to continue the killing. At the slightest sign of trouble, even those who didn't intend to attack the Yamata no Orochi will be forced to do so.

After listening to Clara's translation, Yan Yu noticed that the person who spoke was actually Sullivan, who had been with Peter the Great. He raised his eyebrows and asked:

"Then what do you think we should do?"

Sullivan thought for a moment and said in stiff Lu Guoyu:

"The biggest risk of the Yamata no Orochi is that once bred, it's uncontrollable and will almost certainly turn against its owner. If we fully publicize this danger..."

"Will they believe it?" Yan Yu asked him.

"It's hard, but we have to try," Sullivan insisted.

"Well, I have a better idea." Yan Yu showed a noncommittal expression and continued, "Change the content of the propaganda: the biggest risk of cultivating Yamata no Orochi is not that it will turn against its master, but that it will attract Yan Yu, the Jindan cultivator from Lu Country, who will wipe out the entire gang and their entire clan. All the extraordinary people from top to bottom, including the Yamata no Orochi, small snakes and rubber snakes they cultivated, will be killed. What do you think?"

Sweat suddenly broke out on Sullivan's forehead.

(End of this chapter)