Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 112 Bull-Headed Ghost

On the way, Princess Jianghai transformed herself into a good student of Jianghai, and asked Yan Yu about every ghost she saw, as if she was really studying hard.

"What is that?" she asked, pointing at the headless monster in front of her.

"Headless ghost. It's looking for its head everywhere. If you don't hit it, it won't hit you." Yan Yu replied.

If you can even lose your head, how can you be worthy of entering my banner? Chen Lingyun thought to himself, and pointed at a green-necked ghost and asked:
"What about that one?"

"Hanged ghost, there are strangle marks on his neck." Yan Yu said, "The attack method is to strangle the person's neck, which is very weak."

"So they are just small fry?" Chen Lingyun asked with a smile.

"What else?" Yan Yu squinted at her helplessly. "If we run into a powerful monster every three or five steps, how can we make it through this secret realm? Can we use our brains?"

"It's normal that they're just trash." Zhao Yuanzhen also put on the air of a veteran and said with a conscientious air, "You haven't seen the truly powerful secret realm!"

"You don't understand, so don't talk nonsense." Yan Yu interrupted her, "The spiritual energy revival works like this. The lower difficulty secret realms appear first, followed by the higher difficulty secret realms. So as long as your own cultivation progress can keep up with the upper limit of spiritual energy concentration, the secret realms will not be too difficult to deal with."

Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly realized: in the world of cultivation where she was, there was no such thing as the revival of spiritual energy, so after a cultivator discovered a secret realm, whether he could win or not was entirely a matter of random probability.

But this place has finally experienced the era of extinction, and now it is the early stage of the revival era. The emergence of secret realms is gradual, so there is no need to worry about the difficulty of exploration. The main problem is that there are too few secret realms - but why don’t I seem to feel it?

If Chen Lingyun knew what she was thinking, she would definitely start talking about something scary like "franchising". But fortunately, Zhao Yuanzhen did not ask any nonsense questions this time, but just pondered silently.

The group crossed the long mountain road, eliminated some ghosts and monsters that blocked the road (most of them were killed by Lin Ning who was responsible for clearing the way), and finally reached the halfway point of the mountain.

"How much true energy is left?" Yan Yu suddenly asked.

"About 70%." Lin Ning replied.

"Then take a rest." Yan Yu ordered.

"Aren't you afraid that they won't be able to find us and will just rush into the depths of the secret realm to kill the goalkeeper and take over the control center?" Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter." Yan Yu said, "I have a hunch."

"What premonition?" everyone asked curiously.

"Xiao Zhou will wait for me near the goalkeeper." Yan Yu replied calmly, "This is the tacit understanding between us captains!"

"Tsk!" The girls dispersed. They had expected the captain to say something serious, but it turned out they had expected too much from him.

Lin Ning quickly sat down on the spot, breathing in and out to regulate his breathing and restore his true energy.

Chen Lingyun also took out the soul-summoning banner and began to infuse true energy into it to refine the five ghosts.

Yan Yu was standing by the mountain road, taking a walk, when he suddenly saw Su Yunjin approaching him. He whispered, "What are you doing?"
"Captain, you are certain that Team Zhou Hongyu will not adopt the tactic of quickly pushing through the secret realm. What is your reason?"

"Why don't you think about it yourself first?" Yan Yu asked with a smile.

"Hmm." Su Yunjin pondered seriously. "First of all, I just observed that Ningning's sword light is relatively easy to identify from a distance in this dim environment."

"But we haven't seen any strange sword lights in the distance all the way. This proves that our two teams are probably far enough apart that we can't see each other."

"Team Zhou Hongyu should also be able to notice this, so they have two choices: one is to take down the secret realm core as soon as possible, and the other is to stop at a certain progress and wait for us to arrive."

"If they were to sit back and wait," Yan Yu asked leisurely, "where do you think they would be?"

"Where the gatekeeper is guarding the gate," Su Yunjin replied, "Because no matter where our two teams set out from, their destination is the core of the secret realm."

"That's right." Yan Yu enlightened her, "Another point, if they are besieging the goalkeeper in front, and we suddenly arrive from behind, what will happen?"

"They will be attacked from both sides!" Su Yunjin suddenly realized, "Just like what the Annan Army team worried about last time in the Longquan Mountain Secret Realm!"

"That's right." Yan Yu said with a smile, "It's a simulated confrontation, simulating the battle between hostile monks for the core of the secret realm. So when we encounter that kind of situation, we will definitely choose to kick them when they are down, rather than helping them besiege the goalkeeper."

"To avoid this, if they arrive at the finish line early, they will most likely wait for us at the goalkeeper's position, and then confront us directly after we pass, once and for all. This is obviously safer - this is also an easy conclusion to draw."

"That's the high probability... but what about the low probability?" Su Yunjin asked. "The low probability is that the goalkeeper looks vulnerable, or Zhou Hongyu gets carried away and decides to go for it," Yan Yu said leisurely. "Both possibilities are unlikely. If that happens, consider yourself unlucky."

Su Yunjin nodded and continued to think silently.

The goalkeeper was set by the original master of the secret realm, and this is a secret realm of ghosts and monsters, which means that the original master of the secret realm was an evil cultivator who raised ghosts and monsters. The probability of setting up a weak goalkeeper is indeed small.

As for Zhou Hongyu getting carried away, it is not impossible, but the vice-captain Zhang Huaide seems to be a very rational type. He should not be so arrogant as to think that after they have gone through so much trouble to defeat the goalkeeper, they still have the energy left to deal with us who are waiting behind, right?

Thinking of this, Su Yunjin secretly breathed a sigh of relief and looked towards the mountain again.

After looking for a long time, she suddenly hesitated and asked:

"Yanyu, look over there... doesn't it look like a palace?"

Yan Yu looked in the direction she was going, pondered for a moment, then turned around and asked:

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Lin Ning stood up and held the Green Bamboo Sword in her arms.

"Let's go?" Chen Lingyun picked up the soul-calling banner.

The group continued to move up the mountain road. As the team climbed higher and higher, the outlines of the buildings on the top of the mountain gradually became clearer in the darkness. It looked like a group of palaces built along the mountainside, but it seemed a little weird when you looked closely.

Rather than a palace complex, it's more like...

Tombs?
Just as Chen Lingyun said at the beginning, if there are man-made buildings in the secret realm, the core is most likely inside.

Everyone cheered up and quickly reached the building, where they saw a statue standing at the main entrance square.

The statue is in human form, but with a bull's head on its neck. It is about five meters tall, sturdy and muscular. Its weapon is a mace more than three meters long, which he holds with his hands behind his back and leans on the ground, motionless.

"Be careful." Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly said, "This is not a statue, it's a ghost cultivator."

"Is he a monk who summons ghosts?" Lin Ning asked curiously.

"It's not a human," Yan Yu said. "It's a lonely ghost who was lucky enough to obtain a named inheritance and embarked on the path of cultivation. Judging from its size, it should have obtained the Bull Head inheritance from the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Sect."

"He seems to be guarding the main gate of the palace." Su Yunjin said cautiously, "If we want to enter the palace, we will definitely conflict with him."

"So this is the goalkeeper?" Lin Ning asked in surprise, "Is the control center inside?"

"Not necessarily." Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "But at least no one has been here before."

If Zhou Hongyu's team had really been here, they would definitely have fought with the Minotaur in the square... So it's a simple inference that they haven't been here.

"Do you want to fight?" Chen Lingyun asked Yan Yu.

"Of course we will fight." Yan Yu pondered for a moment, "But we don't have to fight here."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, only Chen Lingyun immediately understood what he meant and said with a smile:

"Bring them in to fight?"

The terrain outside the square is open, which is very suitable for this huge ghost to show its violence. When it swings the mace, it can inflict damage all over the body.

But if they were to use the narrow environment of the palace, the Bull-Headed Ghost's long weapon would not be fully utilized, and Yan Yu's team would be able to save a lot of effort.

"How to induce it?" Lin Ning was still more concerned about the actual operation.

"Oh, that's easy." Yan Yu said, "I'll hold it back. You guys go into the palace and wait. I'll lead it in."

"Isn't it the same as not saying anything?" Lin Ning was furious.

(End of this chapter)