Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 511 - 7: Holding Lemons to Control Zhao

Chapter 511: Chapter 7: Holding Lemons to Control Zhao

Some people have the habit of only being able to sleep in their own beds, uncomfortable anywhere else.

However, Lin Ning clearly didn’t have this issue, as she not only fell asleep quickly but also very deeply. When she woke up groggily the next day, she was completely unaware that her right hand was holding someone else’s, and comfortably turned over, hooking her left arm around Yan Yu’s neck.

Yan Yu: ………..

He was the first among the three to wake up because Zhao Yuanzhen had turned around early and pressed his leg over his lower body.

Lin Ning’s left arm was also placed on him, the added weight immediately woke Yan Yu.

He sighed softly, gently pushed the two away, and then sat up on the bed.

To play with his phone.

Suddenly, Lin Ning’s body tensed up.

At the moment Yan Yu pushed her away, her somewhat confused senses suddenly became clear, and she almost cried out instinctively.

…Thankfully, she held it in.

Last night’s memories surged in her mind, followed by endless alarm and embarrassment.

I actually, really spent the night in the captain’s room?

The so-called “being caught if I leave” was just a forced excuse, the real reason she stayed was half because of the psychology of competing with Sister Zhao, and the other half was an indescribable worry and fear.

If Sister Zhao can do it, why can’t I? Moreover, sneaking away must be stopped!

Having found enough reasons for her actions last night, Lin Ning finally suppressed all her strange emotions, held her breath, and waited for the captain to get up and go to the toilet, so she could immediately sneak out.

But Yan Yu didn’t seem to have the intention to leave; he was just boredly swiping on his phone’s screen.

Lin Ning slowly curled up and started mentally chanting “get out of bed, get out of bed, get out of bed,” trying to transmit her thoughts to the man next to her.

Damn it! He’s started watching short videos!

She was getting anxious, when suddenly someone nudged her, followed by Yan Yu’s voice:

“Haha, Ningning, look at this, it’s hilarious…”

Lin Ning sprang up from the bed, clutching her chest and glaring:

“What are you doing!”

“Aren’t you awake?” Yan Yu asked, puzzled, “I just wanted to show you a funny video.”

“How did you know I was awake?” Lin Ning’s demeanor grew increasingly forceful, as if glaring angrily could cover the embarrassment and awkwardness inside.

“Your body was all tensed up,” Yan Yu said.

Lin Ning felt as if struck by lightning, dare not think about “why he would know my body was tensed up,” and hurriedly jumped off the bed, grabbed the coat from beside the nightstand, and ran off in a flurry.

Watching her fleeing back, Yan Yu couldn’t help but smile.

Run away now, but tonight you’ll have to come back obediently.

That’s how dual cultivation is, once you start, there is no last time.

Once you start, you know the taste!

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After everyone had breakfast, they headed to the second layer of the Mysterious Realm again to continue clearing those automatic puppets.

“Ningning,” Su Yunjin suddenly asked, “What’s wrong with you? You don’t seem mentally right, and your face is quite red.”

“It’s nothing.” Lin Ning forced a smile.

“Do you have a fever?” Su Yunjin checked her forehead, “You don’t have a temperature. Did you not sleep well last night?”

“I slept very well last night!” Lin Ning quickly explained, “As soon as I lay down last night, I fell asleep, didn’t dream, and slept till dawn!”

“It must be because of adequate sleep,” Xie Ruoxi yawned and said sleepily, “If you usually stay up late and then one day you don’t, and you sleep for 10 hours straight, the next day you will wake up looking rosy and radiant.”

“Hmm.” Su Yunjin nodded, “Ruoxi, but you have serious dark circles, didn’t you sleep well?”

“Don’t even mention it,” Xie Ruoxi waved her hand, “that darn game had a card draw event at midnight, and the room’s signal was bad, forcing me to run outside looking for a good signal to draw cards.”

“The signal in the rooms is quite good though,” Yan Yu suddenly said, “I had no problems watching videos, could it be that too many people online caused your game to crash?”

Xie Ruoxi was silent for a while, then showed a sudden realization.

“I don’t care if you stay up, but don’t impact serious matters!” Seeing her look foolish, Yan Yu quickly warned her.

Chen Lingyun observed all this, remaining silent for a moment, then revealed a contemplative, feigned smile.

Back in the valley, they saw that the clearing, which had been cleaned by everyone before, was now occupied by some scattered puppets.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

“Don’t worry,” Chen Lingyun observed for a moment and said, “The total number of puppets should not have changed, otherwise Military Manor would have notified us. I guess there must be some internal mobilization mechanism in the Mysterious Realm that moved other puppets over here.”

“As long as there are no additions, it’s fine,” Yan Yu waved his hand decisively and said, “Let’s kill!”

It was another tedious process of luring, gathering, and exterminating the puppets. With yesterday’s experience laying the groundwork, Lin Ning’s techniques for luring the enemy had also improved.

She stepped into the alert range of a puppet on the right, inducing it to attack her with Sword Control, then quickly used the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step to create distance, ensuring she didn’t get too far, and ran to the left to lure another puppet.

Like this, she gradually lured five puppets before turning around and running towards the main team.

“Handed over.” Su Yunjin utilized the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Art, rushing the puppets together before a giant wave flipped like a carp smashed them all down, enabling Xie Ruoxi to pick them off.

“Okay.” Lin Ning fell silent for a while before turning away.

She suddenly felt guilty and remorseful, considering her relationship with Yun Jin, yet she had secretly practiced with the captain at night, even sharing the same bed… Was that really okay?

…Forget it.

Sorry, Yun Jin. The captain said it was to be kept secret; I can’t let you know.

She wandered off, lost in thought, and without realizing it, she strayed a bit far from her team. That’s when she noticed a puppet sitting by the river, lost in thought.

Lin Ning finally snapped back to reality and took a step forward.

By her judgment, she was already within the alert perimeter, but the puppet did not attack with Sword Control. Instead, it slowly turned its head toward her.

Lin Ning: ?

If you won’t attack me, I will attack you.

She formed a Sword technique with her hand, commanding the Green Bamboo Sword to strike the puppet across from her.

The puppet finally reacted, but instead of releasing a Flying Sword, a misty Qing Guang emanated from its body—quickly flying out, like fabric, directly rolling toward Lin Ning.

Lin Ning quickly formed incantations with both hands; the Green Bamboo Sword swiftly slashed at the Qing Guang but was caught tightly, and as she pulled towards the puppet’s direction no matter how she altered the Sword technique or infused True Yuan, the Green Bamboo Sword struggled fervently but could not break free.

“What happened?” Yan Yu briskly approached from a distance, seeing the puppet stimulating the Qing Guang to entangle the sword, uttered a sound, took Puppet Azhen from his sleeve, and released a Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, slashing toward the puppet.

The puppet’s body surged with more Qing Guang, presumably attempting to block it, but since this Qing Guang was clearly of Yimu attribute, fearful of the life-severing Fire Blazing Dao Method, it was directly broken through by the overwhelming force of the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, consequently cutting the puppet’s body in half, so the Qing Guang entangling the Green Bamboo Sword also dissipated.

Lin Ning finally recalled the Green Bamboo Sword to her side, settling her startled mind, and asked:

“What was that just now?”

“Don’t know,” Yan Yu replied, “From the perspective of being hard to cut with blade and sword, it seems like Qing Ling Upper True Light, whether it’s a Magic Treasure or a Taoism Method is unclear.”

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He went over to inspect the remains of the puppet, Lin Ning approached, slightly bending over to look at the puppet, and suddenly feeling somewhat wronged, bit her lower lip and said:

“You were actually paying attention to me? I thought you were just slacking off behind the lines, not caring about the front at all.”

“Nonsense, of course, I’m watching everyone,” Yan Yu retorted without looking up.

“Can’t you just say ‘I do care about you’? Would it kill you?” Lin Ning immediately became annoyed, “Why must you emphasize everyone?”

“No Taoism imprint,” Yan Yu disregarded her minor irritation, standing up, “It might be a Magic Treasure. Ningning, dismantle it for me.”

“Can’t you dismantle it yourself?” Lin Ning was still upset, disdainfully speaking, “Don’t you have a Flying Sword too?”

“Hurry up; this is your chance to shine,” Yan Yu said.

Lin Ning resentfully conjured the Sword technique, the Green Bamboo Sword chopping and slicing horizontally, cutting open the puppet’s torso, only to find it was hollow inside—with a mass of cloud-like, air-like “Qing colored gas” swirling and rotating within the cavity.

“Call Sister Zhao over.” Before Lin Ning could inspect it closely, Yan Yu swiftly closed the split cavity with a snap, instructing her.

Seeing his serious attitude, Lin Ning knew there must be something to gain, hurriedly calling Zhao Yuanzhen over.

“Does this look like Qing Ling Upper True Light?” Yan Yu opened a small gap in the cavity for her examination while asking.

“How could it be?” Zhao Yuanzhen rolled her eyes, “This is Qing Yuan Qi, okay?”

“What’s the difference?” Yan Yu pondered and asked, “Aren’t they all related to the Eastern Qing Emperor?”

“The Eastern Qing Emperor has ten veins,” Zhao Yuanzhen scoffed at him, “Qing Hua, Qing Gong, Qing Yao, Qing Ling, Qing Lian, Qing Zhi, Qing Guang, Qing Yuan, Qing Ming, and Qing Cheng, each vein’s Taoism Method, Incantation, and Spiritual Treasure are distinct. You only know Qing Ling, better not flaunt that.”

When it came to the theoretical knowledge of cultivation, Yan Yu admitted he truly was not as knowledgeable as this Demonic Sect Enchantress, but that didn’t mean he would tolerate her riding roughshod over him. He turned and said:

“Ningning, no special treatment tonight, let Sister Zhao have the community meal.”

“Wait!” Zhao Yuanzhen immediately became anxious, “Don’t you want to know what this Qing Yuan Qi is useful for? Beg me nicely now, and I might tell you.”

“Don’t want to,” Yan Yu said.

“It’s very useful to you!” Zhao Yuanzhen urgently emphasized.

“Not needed,” Yan Yu said.

“Consider it my plea to you!” Zhao Yuanzhen gritted her teeth.

“Since you’ve asked,” Yan Yu’s attitude finally softened, indicating to Lin Ning, “Explain in detail, and I might consider letting Ningning cook for you tonight.”

Zhao Yuanzhen was infuriated, thinking to herself:

This rogue wants me to appraise the treasure, yet turns it around and makes me beg him? What kind of logic is that? It’s just because Ningning’s cooking suits my taste!

I remember this offense. If the opportunity arises in the future, I’ll make sure to pay it back tenfold! Wait, why not win Ningning over, making her my weapon against the rogue!

With that thought, an image formed in her mind:

She saw Yan Yu kneeling at her feet, pleading:

“My lady, please persuade Ningning, I can’t be without Ningning!”

She kicked him away hard, scolding:

“You boss me around on normal days, and now you’re groveling here, who are you showing this to? Ningning, let’s go!”

Lin Ning hummed in agreement, not even glancing at the kneeling Yan Yu, obediently following her.

Muahaha!