Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 116 Sooner or later one day

Under the siege of everyone, the Judge of the Ghost Palace did not reveal any hidden cards and finally fell to the ground with a loud bang.

It seems that just as Yan Yu said, there is basically no possibility of any "unsolvable levels" in the secret realm that can be opened at this point in time.

The biggest threat still comes from competing teams.

After the Judge of the Ghost Mansion fell to the ground, Yan Yu and Zhou Hongyu looked at each other for a moment. Needless to say, the Huangting Sword and the Chiyu Sword, who had just been fighting together, instantly fought each other again.

The girls gathered around to watch, not sure whether to intervene or not.

Zhou Hongyu's eyes were bloodshot, and he was so excited in the fight that he mobilized all his remaining true energy. Red light and heat almost overflowed from his mouth and nose.

The phoenix spit fire! One! Two! Three! Three flame spears fired in succession, blocking all of Yan Yu's escape routes.

Yan Yu calmly stepped sideways and walked directly into the pillar next to him.

Surprise, right? I can walk through walls!

Zhou Hongyu's expression froze. The flame spears had already exploded around him. Then Yan Yu walked out of the pillar safely, calmly avoiding the bright flames burning around him, and said with a smile:

"Isn't this the time to admit defeat?"

In response, he was stabbed by the Akabane sword.

Yan Yu's expression remained unchanged. He used the Huangting Sword to knock him away and then attacked Zhou Hongyu.

The Chiyu Sword hurried back to help and exchanged a few blows with the Huangting Sword, but Yan Yu suddenly came running towards him at high speed, and it seemed that he was not going to have a sword duel anymore.

Without a word, Zhou Hongyu adopted a close combat stance. His muscles swelled up under the blessing of the chanting spell, his teeth clenched, his eyes wide open, ready to fight him to the death.

Then he was hit on the back by the Huangting sword from behind and fell to the ground.

Yan Yu rushed to her side and slapped her on the lower back, and the Runzhu Zhen Yuan quickly sealed her Dantian.

Get it!

Unexpectedly, although Zhou Hongyu's Dantian was sealed, he still stood up with a somersault, twisted his body and punched Yan Yu hard - there was no true energy, no magic, it was just a pure fight between mortals.

Yan Yu calmly activated the Earth Elephant Curse, took the punch head on, and said calmly:

"Almost got it."

Zhou Hongyu still refused to listen and continued to punch and kick him. The girl's teeth were clenched tightly, her expression furious, her eyes bloodshot, her pretty face and neck all swollen and red, and her veins were exposed.

In the words of the older generation, this is called "beating like crazy."

However, no matter how crazy she was, with only her mortal fists and feet skills, she couldn't hurt Yan Yu who had activated the Elephant Curse, let alone even tickle him.

Yan Yu was also getting a little impatient, and seeing the right opportunity, he suddenly grabbed her wrist, twisted it, threw her to the ground, and pressed her down, pressing his knees hard on her back.

Zhou Hongyu struggled for a long time, and finally exhausted all his strength. He just lay on the ground gasping for breath.

Yan Yu pressed Zhou Hongyu's back with one leg, raised his right fist high, and announced:
"Haha, I win again!"

The girls looked at him with contempt.

"What are you looking at?" Yan Yu said nonchalantly, "When we play a game, we have to win!"

"Let me see how she is." Su Yunjin went over to check Zhou Hongyu's injuries.

"Don't worry." Yan Yu quickly stopped her, "She's now a demon-possessed Zhou Zhiruo. If you come over, she'll attack you directly. It's better to wait for the Pingxi Army medical team to arrive and take over."

"Alright." Su Yunjin had no choice but to go find the medical team. Over there, Chen Lingyun released five ghosts, which devoured the corpse of the Ghost Mansion Judge, and finally found a token inside the corpse.

"This should be the core of the secret realm." She turned to ask Yan Yu, who was still suppressing Zhou Hongyu, "What do you mean, you come?"

"You come and refine it." Yan Yu said, "You have to hand it over after you're done anyway."

"Then I'll take it." Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

"You can play with it as you please."

As soon as Chen Lingyun left, the Pingxi Army medical team rushed over.

To their surprise, although Zhou Hongyu looked very humiliated, he was actually not injured except for the depletion of his true energy. He was the only one of the five members of the team who was safe and sound.

"We're done." After another ten minutes, Chen Lingyun came back and said, "This secret realm has six levels. We're on the first level. The rest isn't open yet."

"As expected." Yan Yu looked around, "It's done, let's go."

Chen Lingyun teleported everyone out of the secret realm and back to the pavilion on Shuanggui Mountain. After simple medical treatment, the five members of Zhou Hongyu's team regained their mobility. They were currently sitting on benches recuperating, waiting for the military monks across the river to pick them up.

This period of time was actually quite difficult, because the girls of the Zhendong Army were sitting opposite them, chattering about where to go to eat and take pictures, as if they didn't feel any pressure from the previous battle at all.

But think about it: not only were they uninjured throughout the entire match, but they were also dominating us. What kind of pressure could there be? Did we win too quickly? Did we not let them have their fun?

As a result, the people of the Pingxi Army felt even more aggrieved.

Deputy Captain Zhang Huaide has noticed that the team's morale is currently too low, and if it is not handled properly, it may accumulate into a psychological shadow.

At times like these, Zhou Hongyu should have spoken out. As the team's captain and spiritual leader, she only needed to shout a few slogans or make a few harsh remarks to the opponent, and the team's morale would be immediately boosted.

But Zhou Hongyu didn't seem to be aware of this. She just stared at Yan Yu, who was sitting opposite her and playing with his mobile phone with a bored expression, as if she couldn't wait to rush over and die with him.

I'll stare you to death!

In order to break this silent atmosphere and negative emotions as quickly as possible, Deputy Captain Zhang had to stand up and said to Yan Yu with a smile:
"Played well."

"You too." Yan Yu responded.

"We can hardly be called good this time, right?" Zhang Huai sighed. "From the moment we fell into your ambush, our team was split in two, and then we were defeated one by one. Our original tactics didn't work at all - otherwise, we wouldn't have been defeated so quickly."

Tang Xiaolian, Qin Meng and Meng Qingxi pondered for a moment, and suddenly they felt as if they had suddenly realized something.

Throughout the entire team confrontation, they all felt a sense of powerlessness and frustration. Now, after listening to the vice-captain's analysis, they immediately realized the reason for their defeat:
The two main attackers, Captain Zhou and Qin Meng, were held back in the front by Yan Yu's goalkeeper; the deputy captain, Tang Xiaolian and Meng Qingxi had no offensive strength, but were forcibly besieged by Chen Lingyun and his four teammates from behind, outnumbered... Isn't it normal to lose?

It’s not that we are not strong enough, but that the opponent’s ambush strategy is too cunning!
"You guys did suffer a tactical defeat this time," Yan Yu said with a smile, "but we agreed beforehand that I would teach you tactical planning this time. If I can't crush you in this area, how can I teach you?"

"Is there?" Zhang Huaide asked in surprise.

"Yes, when we ate hot pot."

Zhang Huaide recalled silently for a moment, and finally remembered that the other party seemed to have said this in the hot pot restaurant.

"There's already a replay video." Yan Yu said slowly, "You must study hard when you go back."

"That's a must." Zhang Huaide smiled calmly, "Once we learn it, we won't lose next time."

"It's not that I won't lose." Zhou Hongyu suddenly said, her eyes still fixed on Yan Yu, but the flame of desire for struggle seemed to burn again in her dead pupils, and she squeezed out fierce words from between her teeth:

"Next time I'll beat the living hell out of you."

"Really?" Yan Yu was immediately amused by her. What he wanted was for you to hate me, the more the better. "Okay, okay, I will buy a pair of dentures in advance and look forward to your beating."

"Let's go!" Zhou Hongyu stood up and said coldly to everyone, "Let's go back!"

Everyone immediately stood up and said goodbye to Yan Yu and others:

"See you next time."

"Go back and practice hard."

"We'll win it back later!"

As the deputy captain, Chen Lingyun nodded and said goodbye to everyone, and finally her eyes fell on Zhang Huaide.

"I've learned a lot from Deputy Captain Chen's superb commanding skills this time," Zhang Huaide said with a smile. "I've benefited a lot from this. I'll definitely study and review it carefully when I get back."

"You're welcome." Chen Lingyun smiled slightly. "Deputy Captain Zhang, you should think about how to make Captain Zhou obey your orders at this critical moment."

Zhang Huaide smiled bitterly.

Although the direct cause of this defeat was that the team was ambushed and split into two by Team Yanyu, if Zhou Hongyu hadn't been so eager to chase Yanyu in the front, causing the team behind to become disconnected, how could the ambushing Chen Lingyun have seized the opportunity?
When Zhang Huaide discovered that the two teams were disconnected, his first thought was not to tell Captain Zhou to return quickly, but to ask the others to move closer to Captain Zhou. Why? Because Zhou Hongyu was already fighting hard and most likely would not abandon the goalkeeper and retreat.

Zhou Hongyu was the team's tactical core, while Zhang Huaide was its commanding core. Once the tactical core was separated from the commanding core, tactical execution would immediately run into problems. As for this ambush, it was just one of the consequences of this disconnect.

"I can't refute that." Zhang Huaide shook his head and said, "But you guys are almost there, right? Team Yan is too strong as the tactical core. You have to find a way to cooperate with him."

Whether it was the last battle against the Annan Army or this battle against the Pingxi Army, Yan Yu almost always acted alone, entangling the opponent's core character and taking him away, separating him from the tactical system of the entire team.

Although his own actions became the key to victory in these two confrontations, Zhang Huaide also keenly noticed the problem behind it: that is, the other members of the Zhendong Army are currently unable to fight alongside Yan Yu.

"There's nothing we can do about it." Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "We're not worthy of standing by his side yet."

Unworthy? Zhang Huaide pondered. Does that mean... his strength can't keep up?
"But there's no rush." Chen Lingyun continued with a smile, "Sooner or later, that day will come."

(End of this chapter)