Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 403 - 99 The Fall of Xiandao Jingyin

Chapter 403: Chapter 99 The Fall of Xiandao Jingyin

“How much longer?” Yan Yu asked through a voice transmission.

“Seven minutes,” Chen Lingyun responded.

“Oh.”

“Can you still hold on?”

“Of course, who do you think I am?” Yan Yu retorted.

“You are the strongest in this world~” Chen Lingyun said slowly.

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Yan Yu didn’t respond to that comment but swiftly surveyed the entire battlefield with his divine sense.

The swordsmen of the Pear Blossom Courtyard were attacking the high ground from the right side of the steps while the Sword Immortal of Lu Country was responsible for counteracting their sword techniques, and the Magic Cultivators focused their firepower on the main entrance of the Departure Palace.

Inside the Departure Palace, the Onmyoji repeatedly attempted to break out but were forced back inside by the concentrated firepower of the four Magic Cultivators.

In summary, the current situation could be described as “The enemy’s large forces divided into three routes; the Sword Immortal holding one, the Magic Cultivators another, and the Longcheng Flying General standing alone against one.”

Yan Yu’s sword technique changed, and the Huang Ting Sword unleashed the Triple Cloud Strike, swift as lightning and heavy as thunder. The first strike cut a priest of the gods in half at the waist from the side; the second strike hit a Berserker from behind — the enemy turned abruptly and tried to block with his sword, but both he and his sword were broken and tumbled down the steps.

The third strike was the most powerful, sweeping across the steps and forcing all the superheroes in its path to hastily retreat. Some even retreated too quickly, missed a step, and fell down.

Such was the terror of a single strike!

Yan Yu burst into laughter, reminded of the past when the Valkyrie had slain the Witch King with one strike in the sky above the South Sea and then pushed back the Allied Forces of the Southern Border with another.

Li Minghu, look at the might and dominance I wield now, how does it compare to your prime in the past life?

While he dominated the battlefield, someone finally lost their patience and made their way through the crowd.

“Phoenix” the Phoenix!

Last time in the Three Isles Treasure Ship Secret Realm, united with three eagles yet forcefully killed by Yan Yu and later bombarded out of the secret realm by Su Yunjin’s Triple Lang Feiyun Strike, Phoenix had been harboring a grudge and was determined to use this opportunity to redeem his honor and reclaim his worth!

He made a gesture towards Yan Yu, signaling a challenge for a “one-on-one” fight.

Yan Yu naturally ignored him. A madman! You challenge me to a duel while your comrades try to rush and join the Onmyoji, right?

Seeing that Yan Yu ignored him, Phoenix immediately became furious.

Fuck! Don’t you recognize me? I’m Phoenix! The superhero “Phoenix” who has fought you before!

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Blinded by rage, he snapped his fingers, and flames enveloped him instantly. Spreading his arms like a Phoenix, he glided up the steps!

The surrounding superheroes exchanged looks and immediately used their own skills to quickly ascend the steps!

Yan Yu knew that Phoenix’s self-combustion technique was quite troublesome. If even a bit touched him, that divine fire would burn on him, fueled by his own True Yuan… Theoretically speaking, it severely restricted professions like Magic Cultivators who required a lot of True Yuan.

As a Sword Immortal, Yan Yu didn’t have high demands for sustaining True Yuan. His combat style involved meticulous management of every bit of True Yuan, so he certainly wouldn’t let Phoenix’s scheme succeed. He merely performed the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, walking in a zigzag pattern around the opponent. The wildly burning self-combustion flames splashed around but missed the Longcheng Flying General, instead setting several superheroes who couldn’t dodge in time aflame.

In the external broadcast room, it had been broadcasting live for over twenty hours, and the staff were visibly exhausted.

But none complained. After all, the cultivators at the frontline had been fighting intensively without rest, battling through for six to seven hours, with the battle for the Departure Palace lasting over ten hours, not even having time for a break — staff at least could take turns going to the restroom!

“The Longcheng Flying General faces off against ‘Phoenix’ Phoenix!” Xu Dongming’s voice had become hoarse, yet he still refused to lower his volume and shouted, “Other superheroes are seizing the opportunity to rush up from both sides! But they can’t make it! Every movement of Yan Yu is calculated, forcing the chasing Phoenix to spread flames everywhere, leaving no safe passage! The affected superheroes have reached 6! 7! 8!”

“Phoenix has obviously lost his mind!” Zhou Erhe followed with a shout, “He is completely unaware that the divine fire technique on his body is instead scorching his allies and hindering their advance! The Longcheng Flying General still maintains absolute control of the battlefield, able to turn everything around him to his advantage, even the attacks from enemies!”

“We are witnessing the birth of a miracle!” Xu Dongming yelled, his voice cracking, “With one man forcing seventy to eighty foreign Transcendents to be blocked at the base of the stairs! Who else in the world could achieve such a terrifying record? This is truly a case of one man holds the pass, ten thousand cannot break through! Here, there are no grand passes, only the Longcheng Flying General! He alone equals Hu Lao Pass! Si Shui Pass! Shanhai Pass!”

Fuck, all three of those grand passes were eventually breached! The outside director was too exhausted to criticize the commentator’s choice of words, but didn’t bother to correct it. Because Yan Yu truly was single-handedly holding down an entire battlefront…

“Hey! What’s happening?” Zhou Erhe suddenly exclaimed, “An Onmyoji has burst out!”

“It’s Xiandao Jingyin!”

At this moment, the level of bombardment at the main gate of the Departure Palace by the cultivators of Lu Country was brutally devastating. Storms, floods, fire dragons, and thunderbolts raged; the so-called elite squad organized by Xiandao Jingyin couldn’t breach this deadly area.

She activated a magical mirror to create a protective barrier around herself, but just a few steps into the bombardment, Xie Ruoxi’s lightning shattered it. She had no choice but to use a life-saving spell, leaving an illusory double in her place, while her true body barely made it a few steps before the double was shredded by the Green Bamboo Sword shot by Lin Ning.

Every split of this mirror incarnation halved its existing spiritual power and consumed the original power of the magic mirror to create an identical physical appearance, undetectable even by the cultivators’ divine sense… yet it was wasted in such a place, causing Xiandao Jingyin immense pain.

But she knew that now was not an ordinary time, the Onmyoji had fallen into a large pit dug by the Lu Country cultivators. If she didn’t take the time to explain clearly now, what would happen after leaving the Mysterious Realm when others asked for treasures? How could she produce them?

Now that Lu Country’s power was formidable, and with heroes like the Longcheng Flying General, only a tripartite alliance could control the situation! For long-term considerations, for the sake of the nation, the tripartite alliance could not afford to fail!

Xiandao Jingyin once again split off a mirror incarnation to stay in place to attract fire, while her true body finally escaped the bombardment range of Lu Country’s cultivators.

At this point, only about 20 percent of her True Yuan remained, and the magic mirror was even more covered with cracks, greatly damaged. Xiandao Jingyin forcibly mobilized her remaining spiritual power, activated the magic mirror, and shot out a light sword attacking Yan Yu, while secretly forming a paper crane for transmission, sending it flying towards Stevenson in the crowd behind.

Stevenson knew some Chongying language, and seeing Xiandao Jingyin’s paper crane flying towards him, he subconsciously reached out to catch it. The paper crane landed in his big hand, its beak opening and closing, voicing a female tone:

“There are problems inside the Departure Palace! Those treasures…”

The speech abruptly halted, and looking again at Xiandao Jingyin on the steps, her throat was pierced unknowingly, her eyes wide open, but she could not make a sound.

The one who killed her was a slim-legged girl, a blade protruding from her wrist, skewering Xiandao Jingyin’s corpse, then flinging it forcefully, tossing it down the steps like a broken rag. She then leaped to Yan Yu’s side and suddenly disappeared.

Yan Yu quietly flipped his wrist, stowing the Silver Pellet transformed from the puppet Ah Zhen, then looked down at the “Phoenix” Fenix coming to hunt him again, and smiled, saying,

“Goodbye.”

His figure turned into a white light, along with Lu Country’s cultivators on the high steps, and all chose to teleport out of the Mysterious Realm, disappearing completely.

Inside the Departure Palace, the Onmyoji finally sprinted out of the palace, only to hear suddenly a squeak from behind; the grand doors of the Departure Palace closed by themselves without any wind, firmly shut. At the same time, an ancient and ethereal female voice resounded in everyone’s ears:

“Twelve hours have passed, the trial of the Departure Palace is over. In one incense stick’s time, everyone will be automatically transported out of the Mysterious Realm.”

Shenyuan Simie rushed to inspect Xiandao Jingyin’s corpse below the steps.

It was too late; she was thoroughly dead.

Pitiful, lamentable, and tragic, Xiandao Jingyin! With your Demon King level strength, if not bound by duties to your nation, repeatedly expending vast amounts of spiritual power and even the magic mirror’s origin, trying desperately to break through, how could you have ended up like this, easily killed by the Longcheng Flying General and discarded here?

And what could the message you sacrificed so much to send change? Now, with your death, all the responsibility for this venture’s defeat could be placed entirely on your shoulders, how tragic!

…No, not just tragic, but also hateful and laughable.

At the end of the day, the so-called Four Great Demon Kings are just the great men’s four loyal hounds. As a Transcendent, if you cannot transcend mundane powers and completely control your own destiny, the end is no different than Xiandao Jingyin – dying for some illusory thing, not even seeing your loved ones for the last time.

Shenyuan Simie stood up expressionlessly, only to see Stevenson and Park Changmin rush up to him, urgently questioning him:

“What happened? Why did the Departure Palace suddenly close? What did you do inside?”

No answer.

Shenyuan Simie just stared straight at them, then suddenly began to laugh wildly, bizarrely, and unrestrainedly.

“Better to return!” He turned and walked up the stairs, laughing, “The mortal world is full of suffering! Better to return!”

Stevenson tried to grab him from behind, but only caught a white light.

Shenyuan Simie teleported away.

Following that, the Onmyoji on the steps also teleported and disappeared in unison.

Seeing this, the superheroes and Pear Blossom Courtyard swordsmen were stunned for a moment, then anger surged in each of their faces, almost predatory!

Stevenson didn’t exchange a word with Park Changmin, only looking back at the superheroes, his eyes cold and murderous as he squeezed out a few words through his teeth:

“Kill them all!”

The superheroes transformed into white lights and disappeared.

“I’ve always said, these Onmyoji are not to be trusted!” Park Changmin also turned away, saying fiercely to the furious swordsmen, “Pretending to talk about a tripartite alliance, but secretly colluding with Lu Country cultivators to steal treasures!”

Even though Lee Kyung-joon and Choi Seung-hyun were habitually contrary to him, they could not stand on the Onmyoji’s side this time. Considering that Pear Blossom Courtyard’s swordsmen had gained nothing, while more than half of the Onmyoji had been inside the Departure Palace… just thinking about this made them furious.

“Kill!” someone among the swordsmen shouted.

“Kill!” Park Changmin gritted his teeth, “Since there are no gains in this venture, let’s replace them with military achievements! I want to see, these Onmyoji who dare to break the agreement and monopolize the treasures, how many can live to bring the treasures home!”