Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Taking a shower, lying on the bed, I took out my phone, wanting to ask Ningning how her preparation for Crossing Tribulation was going. Just as I unlocked the phone screen, I saw a private message from Tang Xiaolian, saying that she and everyone were actually just joking around, telling Yan Yu not to take it to heart.

Yan Yu smiled slightly as he read it. This little girl actually knew how to consider my feelings, that's rare.

"Come to my room tonight," he sent the message domineeringly.

Tang Xiaolian, who was chatting and laughing with Chen Lingyun and Zhao Yuanzhen, glanced at her phone during some free time, and suddenly had a hard time keeping her composure.

I was just trying to comfort you. What on earth does this message of yours, as if saying "I'm quite comforted, I'll turn your card over tonight," mean!

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Around 11 PM, the three girls were watching a movie in the living room. Suddenly, Tang Xiaolian claimed to be a bit sleepy and got up to leave the room.

She quietly returned to her room and started picking out clothes from the wardrobe.

From a practical point of view, there's actually no need to dress up specially. After all, the clothes will be taken off eventually, and once the lights are off, you can't see a thing... but life isn't only about practicality; sometimes, you have to consider a bit of ritual.

Tang Xiaolian still remembered last time with Zhou Hongyu. The experience wasn't bad, but it always felt like something was missing.

It's like going to the supermarket and buying a huge slice of Basque cake— sharing it with my sister inevitably brings a tiny bit of disappointment. Even though I can't finish such a big piece alone, and sharing with my sister is fine, eating it alone is just delightful! The satisfaction of ownership is something no other emotional value can replace.

Humph, this time I'm going to enjoy it all by myself!

Tang Xiaolian put on her favorite dress, a small floral lace with butterfly patterns. She looked at herself in the mirror and realized that, in her Golden Core state, she had nearly flawless skin, without a hint of blemish, not needing any foundation to cover up.

Then she sprayed some perfume on her neck and tied her hair into twin ponytails at the back of her head, sneaking silently into Yan Yu's room through the wall, for safety, she scanned with her Divine Sense first.

Great, besides Yan Yu lying on the bed, there was no one else.

At this moment, Yan Yu was on the phone with Xie Ruoxi, listening to her various complaints. What was the issue exactly? Well, after she arrived at the site, she first used ordinary Thunder Group to probe the Bohai Giant Snake.

She couldn't hit it. The ordinary Thunder Method formed a parabolic descent upon release, the intense gravity caused the descent to be too strong, and it couldn't even reach the giant snake, which was within expectations.

The Privy Council has detailed records of each Golden Core True Man's combat power, so they told Xie Ruoxi to take out the Thunder Cone magic treasure for another test.

This treasure, when activated, can unleash a massive Thunder Dragon, but at the cost of extremely consuming True Yuan. Back then, Yan Yu tried it, and nearly drained all his True Yuan, not even forming a piece of dragon scale.

After being unleashed, the Thunder Dragon can soar in the air, unlike Thunder Group, which is relentlessly pulled downward by gravity, thus being able to ram into the Bohai Giant Snake against the high gravity barrier's pull.

The tremendous destructive power of the Thunder Method can blast the hit area to bits, unlike the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, which can only drill into a part without moving further.

However, this snake-shaped giant monster in Bohai exhibited bizarre abilities similar to those of the previous fleshy snake monster:

High-speed regeneration.

Remote sensing devices detected that every time it was severely wounded, the giant snake would plunge its tail fiercely into the seabed. After a while, the wounds would miraculously regenerate at high speed until fully healed.

In this era of Spiritual Energy Resurgence, countless inexplicable new phenomena arise, mostly subject to observation and speculation. As such, experts proposed a theory claiming that this giant snake might be extracting some energy from the earth's depths, which we have yet to discover, to repair its bodily injuries.

For instance, in ancient times, it was said that the Divine Land had a Dragon Vein. The dragon head was in the Kunlun Mountains, and the dragon tail flowed east along the Yellow River into the sea. The Yellow River repeatedly changed course historically, and now it finally flows into the Bohai Sea. So, is the giant snake extracting energy from the Yellow River's Dragon Vein?

When this hypothesis emerged, the Privy Council and the Cabinet couldn't remain calm. Because traditional teachings suggest that Dragon Veins often impact a country's fortune... so they hurriedly asked Xie Ruoxi to intensify the output, bombarding the giant snake with Thunder Dragons day and night.

As long as my damage speed surpasses your regeneration speed, won't I be able to forcefully kill you?

Xie Ruoxi then gave it her all, infusing abundant True Yuan into the Thunder Cone, continuously summoning giant Thunder Dragons to attack the serpent monster. This girl was also extraordinarily gifted, her True Yuan surprisingly abundant, causing the skies over Bohai to be filled with constant lightning and thunder. So many electrified dead fish and shrimp floated up to the surface that it was unknown how long the fishing ban would take to recover the fishery resources.

To everyone's shock, they found that the heavier the giant snake's injury, the deeper its tail would dig into the seabed, and the faster it recovered.

So, they quickly called it to a halt. They couldn't allow the giant snake to endlessly extract; although we still don't know what energy it's extracting from the seabed, extracting too much is bound to lead to adverse consequences.

After toiling for half a day without achieving anything, and being called off, Xie Ruoxi was filled with frustration. It's Friday night, and there's a new episode. I didn't even catch up just to come here to work, and this is it?

Yan Yu coaxed her for a while, finally soothing her. He also casually searched other news, and sure enough, in places where giant snakes appeared, countries worldwide were in turmoil, not just Lu Country suffering alone.