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

Chapter 750 Return to Lu Kingdom
Yan Yu felt that something was increasingly wrong with his body.

First of all, I feel a little tired occasionally.

The body of a Jindan cultivator is in a state of perfect balance, so he should be energetic at all times. Fatigue is a typical symptom of damaged vital energy.

Secondly, his battery life is also shortening.

Yan Yu had to start considering a question: Was he really cursed?
Although Anna firmly denied it, Yan Yu couldn't believe that his perfect body, which had been tempered through thousands of trials and tribulations, would actually start to suffer losses due to too many battles - it must be this insidious golden-haired man who secretly cursed me!
The monsters in the north are not difficult to deal with at all. Firstly, the number of blood sacrifices is seriously insufficient, resulting in the average strength of the monsters being extremely weak; secondly, Yan Yu and Anna are both in the Jindan realm, so it is not difficult to kill them.

But the curse was a thorny issue. Although Yan Yu was a Jindan cultivator, theoretically he should be immune to external evil, but if he was cursed every time he fought, the cumulative effect would accumulate over time, and no one knew what the final outcome would be.

In his previous life, no man had ever been targeted by the Eclipse Queen in this way!
That day, after defeating the Witch King again, Yan Yu sat on the sofa next to him and began to ponder.

"What's wrong?" A lithe figure sat down next to him. It was Anna, who, despite being defeated, still looked radiant. "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about how to get rid of the curse you put on me." Yan Yu replied.

"My dear, I didn't put a curse on you." Anna said with a charming smile, "If you feel that something is restraining you, it is probably because of the love between us."

Is it love? Yan Yu asked himself: "I definitely love Anna, just like he does with the seductresses Ruoxi, Yunjin, Ningning, and the others. But to say that this love will restrict him is simply nonsense. Even if we talk about quantity, Lu Guo has so many lovers of mine, and you are only one, how can you compare?"
"I should go back to Lu Country." Yan Yu said in a deep voice, "The powerful ones have basically been killed now. You can deal with the rest by yourself."

"Sure." Anna agreed readily, and then said, "There are still 22 monsters left to be dealt with. Give me 22 more battles before I leave. Is that okay?"

"What 22 times?" Yan Yu immediately scolded her, "Even if the reserves are as abundant as the reservoir, there is no reason to open the gates and release water 22 times!"

"Ah, no?" Anna asked in surprise.

"Of course not!" Yan Yu was speechless. Are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? "How about this, 22 times, right? I'll go back to Lu Country first, and I'll give it to you next time I come."

"No." Anna hugged him with a smile on her face, "I won't let you go if you don't give it to me."

"Don't force me to fight you!" Yan Yu's face turned dark.

"Okay, okay!" Anna nodded immediately and said, "Put me down, and you can leave whenever you want!"

Yan Yu was unable to respond again, because even if the body was not demonized, the body of an advanced witch, which was completely reconstructed by magic, was also really awesome in terms of toughness. Unlike the monks of Lu State, they had to consider the balance of yin and yang... It would only take two or three hours to make her admit defeat, but it was unknown how long it would take to completely defeat her.

"Are you afraid of me?" Anna gently held his hand, interlaced her fingers with his, and then pulled him towards her. "A great general of the Lu Kingdom is afraid of the Witch King. If this gets out, it will damage the dignity of the Lu Kingdom, right?"

Yan Yu was startled when he heard this, and immediately suppressed her skillfully.

My personal health is of little importance, but the dignity of Lu's nation must not be insulted in any way!

Anna, who was ruthlessly suppressed by him, just giggled, her eyes full of cunning, pride and expectation.

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Yan Yu stayed in the northern border for three weeks, finally quelled the unrest completely, and returned to the Wudang Mountain base.

"What's wrong with you?" Mei Yingxue asked in surprise, "You look a little listless."

"Nothing." Yan Yu said expressionlessly, "Something went wrong during my training. I'll just have to adjust it."

"Yeah." Mei Yingxue didn't hesitate and said, "Xie Ruoxi will be going through the tribulation this afternoon. You can still go over now and lend her the Liang Yi Micro Dust Sword."

"It's useless to lend her money. She might not be able to hit the lightning with her accuracy." Yan Yu said, "large-scale Taoist magic is more suitable for her."

"No matter how you say it, the Wanzhu Sword is no longer suitable for her." Mei Yingxue pondered.

"That's right." Yan Yu sighed and said, "Her true energy is abundant enough to support some relatively large consumption, so methods with a higher unit consumption ratio can be considered, but try not to let her use those that require manipulation. If the effect is not ideal, it will increase her mental burden."

"Unit Consumption Ratio" is a new term in Lu-state cultivation rituals, referring to the amount of True Essence consumed by a particular tribulation-transforming method to break a single tribulation thunderbolt. If the amount of True Essence replenished by refining a Qi-restoring elixir is set at 4 standard units, then a tribulation-transforming method with a unit consumption ratio of 12-17 standard units is considered to be the most cost-effective. Of course, cultivation aptitude affects not only the total amount of True Essence but also its quality. Given the same standard unit of True Essence, Xie Ruoxi's would undoubtedly be more durable than Chen Lingyun's.

Therefore, in Yan Yu's opinion, any method with a cost per unit ratio of less than 25 can be given to Ruoxi to try, and if that doesn't work, methods with a cost per unit ratio of less than 30 can also be considered. On the contrary, the difficulty of operation needs to be restricted. For example, when activating the same magic weapon, others can hit the lightning with one shot, but she needs two shots because of her poor accuracy. In this case, the cost per unit ratio is doubled, which is actually a greater loss.

After listening to Yan Yu's analysis, Mei Yingxue nodded thoughtfully and said:

"Indeed, it seems that the plan for overcoming the tribulation will have to be temporarily changed."

"It's best to postpone it." Yan Yu said, "Won't she have to adapt to the changes afterward?"

"It's not easy to postpone it," Mei Yingxue said tactfully, "In the Sakura Empire, the number of missing people has reached 3000 million."

"So many?!" Yan Yu was also surprised.

In the past, the Sakura Empire cultivated the Yamata no Orochi, and the population decline was very slow. The population itself is extremely aging, and the elderly are not very good at using the internet to express their opinions. Therefore, as long as the decline in numbers and the media's caliber are controlled, the lid can be kept on for the time being.

Perhaps due to the immense pressure from the Lu Kingdom, they've been forced to accelerate their training program. Regardless, the disappearance of tens of millions of people in just one month is bound to cause significant social unrest. Conversely, the reappearance of the Yamata no Orochi is imminent, and the Lu Kingdom will undoubtedly feel the same pressure.

After all, it was a blood sacrifice of tens of millions of people!
"Are there any clues at the ceremony site?" Yan Yu asked.

"We're already stepping up our investigation," Mei Yingxue replied. "The internal system of Yin-Yang Academy is very strict, and the flow of information between the upper and lower levels is extremely opaque, so the progress in this area is also not smooth."

Mei Yingxue wasn't exaggerating. For example, regarding Goryeo's Ewhawon, the intelligence provided by Park Jianshen alone was worth nearly as much as the work of an entire division's worth of intelligence personnel. No matter what secret and difficult missions Ewhawon had, it would be virtually impossible to conceal from him. He was, after all, the nation's number one swordsman. How could you ask him to carry out a mission without revealing the details?
The more people know about something, the easier it is to leak it. With fewer people involved, the higher the skill level required of each person. Yan Yu even suspected that it was most likely one of the three great demon lords, Kanhara Shimie and Moroboshi Taiga, who were behind it, because Kore Soichiro was a conservative person and couldn't do it if he was asked to massacre ordinary people.

Well, I bet Soichiro Kore is not looking for the Taiyo Shinmei Sword!
"What about the whereabouts of the Sun Zhenmei Sword?" Yan Yu asked, "Any progress?"

"No progress, that's what I meant to say." Mei Yingxue sighed, "We suspect the Sun Sword's true form isn't in the trench at all."

Deep-sea exploration is extremely difficult, and there are not many monks in the State of Lu who have this ability. It is time-consuming and inefficient, so the State of Lu also adopted another approach, which is to let monks with divination ability do the calculations.

What's the point? The Sun Sword's true rank is too high, so calculating its precise location is bound to yield no results. So, you need to calculate the Mariana Trench's coverage area, where Transcendents frequently appear. Since someone is trying to conquer the Sun Sword's hidden secrets, they must be repeatedly entering and exiting.

The result is no.

There are no extraordinary beings in the Mariana Trench at all.

The Privy Council initially suspected that the divination results had been tampered with, but later asked the great divination master Li Zhikang (whose identity was revealed by Yan Yu) to personally calculate the results to see if there was any problem. The answer was that the results were correct; the Taiyang Zhenmei Sword was not in the trench at all.

"Hmm..." Yan Yu frowned and said, "Sword Intention told me that the main body is in the deep sea in the east, but it is not in the Mariana Trench. What's going on?"

"I don't know either." Mei Yingxue pondered, "If it's not in the trench, but in a very deep water environment, then could it be deep underground in the Sakura Empire?"

"Then we have to survey the underground water network structure of the entire Sakura Empire. The workload and difficulty are too huge." Yan Yu shook his head and said, "And let me ask you, how did the Sakura Empire Onmyoji discover that place?"

"There's a teleportation formation called the Myriad Miles Water Veins Divine Travel Formation, which allows people to teleport and jump between different bodies of water." Mei Yingxue said in a deep voice, "I'm not saying that the Yin-Yang Academy has mastered this formation, but the world of spiritual energy revival has so many extraordinary methods that go beyond common sense. It's reasonable that we can't imagine them without knowing them."

"I have an idea." Yan Yu suddenly said, "Whether it's finding the true location of Yamata no Orochi or exploring the true identity of the Sun Sword, we need to get our intelligence channels into the upper echelons of Yin Yang Academy, right?"

"What do you mean?" Mei Yingxue asked in confusion.

"See if you can persuade Daigo Moroboshi or Soichiro Kore to rebel." Yan Yu suggested, "There's no need to kill Kanhara. This guy is a lunatic. The best way to deal with him is to beat him to death."

"Although Daigo Moroboshi has an ambiguous attitude towards Lu Guo, we believe he has considerable ambitions and will be difficult to bribe. Soichiro Kore is traditional and reserved, and extremely loyal to Onmyoin. Neither of them is likely to be a rebellion," Mei Yingxue sighed. "But we still have to give it a try."

"If all else fails, try to gather a few more Jindan Zhenren, and then form a team to directly raid the Yin-Yang Academy headquarters." Yan Yu made a gesture of cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron, "Once we have wiped them out completely, we won't have to worry about any conspiracy."

"I'll suggest it to my superiors," Mei Yingxue said with a smile. "There's nothing else to do here. You should go meet your teammates. Xie Ruoxi would definitely appreciate you being her guardian."

(End of this chapter)