Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chen Lingyun shook the Prison Banner, and suddenly the whole room was filled with a gloomy wind and the wail of demonic voices.

A multitude of ghostly creatures emerged from the banner, then vanished with a sinister laughter, dispersing through doors and windows in all directions, disappearing from sight.

Yan Yu followed Chen Lingyun out of the room, controlling the sword to fly low over the town.

Forward, forward, left, forward, right... Her flight path was completely erratic, but whether drifting left or right, it ultimately converged in the same direction.

Considering that they hadn't encountered any departed souls along the way, it indicates that those Yin Ghosts scattered to all corners did indeed provide Chen Lingyun with reconnaissance abilities akin to a full map view.

"I finally understand." Yan Yu suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "Every time you're not present, yet you know everything afterwards. It turns out you were surveilling us with this method."

"No, I'm not." Chen Lingyun smiled sweetly.

"Do you think I'd believe your nonsense?" Yan Yu sneered.

"If you don't believe, why ask me?" Chen Lingyun replied with a smile, "Acting all confident on the outside while secretly observing my expression, you're pretty adorable trying to be clever~"

Yan Yu: .........

No, I must hold back! She's deliberately provoking me to play a strategy game here! I can't fall for this woman's tricks!

In an instant, seeing through Chen Lingyun's scheme, he felt victorious once more, haha.

The two flew on the sword for about ten minutes, and Chen Lingyun's turns became more frequent, evidently due to the increasing numbers of invisible departed souls, raising the risk of being detected.

Suddenly, a giant flesh serpent as towering as a mountain rose from the ground. Yan Yu instinctively tried to pull Chen Lingyun away, but the serpent didn't even glance at him before turning to chase in another direction.

He turned his head back in confusion, only to see Chen Lingyun blink and say with a smile:

"It's a feint."

I must admit, though your tricks are impressive, the grin with which you flaunt them is annoyingly arrogant.

With the departure of the flesh serpent, no more departed souls lingered nearby.

Chen Lingyun led Yan Yu through multiple turns and finally stopped in front of a building.

"Is Lord Master hiding in there?" Yan Yu looked at the public restroom before them, puzzled.

"Yep," Chen Lingyun said, "and in the women's restroom too."

She quietly approached the women's restroom door, mimicking the stiff and mechanical voices of the departed souls, saying lifelike:

"Found you! Found you! Found you!"

In an instant, a sword light shot through the wall, fleeing for an escape route! Seeing Lord Master about to ascend into the sky and escape, Yan Yu hurriedly sent a telepathic message:

"Wait, that was Chen Lingyun calling just now!"

The sword light turned in the air, then slowly descended to the ground, revealing Liu Longtao's extremely displeased face, and after a moment he said:

"Why are you two so late? You weren't off somewhere enjoying yourselves before coming to find me, were you?"

Hehe, you almost guessed it, but luckily I have excellent strategic resolve. Yan Yu replied righteously:

"What are you saying? With you using diversion tactics, how could I waste the precious time you earned and get entangled with such trivial matters? Oh Liu, oh Liu, I must say, your habit of judging noble intentions with a petty heart needs to be changed."

"Heh." Seeing Yan Yu's steadfast demeanor, Liu Longtao felt a bit embarrassed, then gave a forced smile and looked at Chen Lingyun, wanting to jibe a few words, but quickly realized he was no match for her in verbal combat, and awkwardly changed the subject:

"Let's leave quickly. If those monsters come back and find us, it'll be trouble."

The three slipped into the nearby park management office, and Yan Yu fully relayed Chen Lingyun's deductions and assumptions to Liu Longtao.

"So, because we got in here by being swallowed by an invisible giant snake; does that mean to leave, we need to be swallowed by the flesh serpent?" Liu Longtao finally found a chance to mock Chen Lingyun, coldly laughing without mercy, "If I hammered your head and made you lose your memory, then according to your reasoning, to regain it, I'd have to club you on the head again, right?"

"You enter through a door, naturally you exit through a door, the serpent has proven to be that door," Chen Lingyun said faintly, "as for comparing with hammering and clubbing, it's too primitive and foolish. Even if I explained, you might not understand."

"Ha! You're only saying that because your logic doesn't hold up, so you can't explain!" Liu Longtao smugly said, "I knew this kind of analogy was complete nonsense..."

"Hold on," Yan Yu interrupted him, "Lingyun also said she'd personally verify this hypothesis."

"...But no matter how nonsensical a deduction or hypothesis, we shouldn't dismiss it without testing first," Liu Longtao seriously said, "Hmm, experience brings truth, I wholeheartedly support your test."

"Actually he just wants to see you fail," Yan Yu said to Chen Lingyun.

"I know." Chen Lingyun smiled slightly, "And you want to see it too, right?"

"I don't necessarily have to see it," Yan Yu admitted, "If you're successful, we can leave this ghostly place. If you fail, then seeing you embarrassed by a miscalculation wouldn't be the worst outcome."

"Then you probably won't see the latter." Chen Lingyun said calmly, "Because I am confident."

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The so-called personal verification is naturally an extremely dangerous thing.

If there is no portal inside the fleshly giant snake to leave this world, then the result of being swallowed by it is most likely to become those soulless human repeater machines.

However, Yan Yu and Liu Longtao are not worried about this because they know that Chen Lingyun, this woman, will never gamble her life on things she is not confident about.

The three of them flew grandly on their swords outside, and without deliberately avoiding any confrontation, they were soon discovered by the wandering ghosts nearby.

Liu Longtao opened fire fully, causing the ghosts to be utterly defeated until they gathered to form the fleshly giant snake, rising from the ground.

The two of them looked towards Chen Lingyun at the same time, only hearing Yan Yu caution:

"Be careful, don't take risks."

"Don't worry." Chen Lingyun said confidently.

She raised the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner in her hand and struck it hard on the ground, a ghostly shadow flew out from it, rushing swiftly towards the snake's head.

The latter opened its huge mouth, and instantly swallowed it whole.

Chen Lingyun frowned slightly, and after a moment said:

"No, this isn't right."

She struck the Prison Banner on the ground again, this time dozens of ghostly shadows flew out, once more swallowed up entirely by the giant snake.

The two: .........

So you never planned on testing it in person!

"Old Yan." Liu Longtao asked through sound transmission, "Roughly how many ghosts does she have in that magic treasure?"

Yan Yu said with a blank expression:

"It won't run out, that's for sure."

This woman, to rebuild the Yin Department, had planned to collect millions of Yin ghosts to serve as laborers. If she released all the ghosts in her banner, it might even exhaust all the wraiths in this world to death.

Faced with these Yin ghosts, the fleshly giant snake wasn't picky. If it could turn the souls it swallowed into enslaved ghosts, then Chen Lingyun's current approach was tantamount to feeding it, a willing feeder and eater.

As one by one the Yin ghosts were digested by the fleshly giant snake, Chen Lingyun was quietly probing the spatial structure inside it, suddenly smiling faintly:

"Found it."

"How is it?" Yan Yu asked.

Chen Lingyun did not answer, she simply flew her sword up and went into the giant snake's mouth.

Yan Yu and Liu Longtao looked at each other.

The next second, they saw the fleshly giant snake open its mouth, rushing towards them — startling them into hurriedly soaring and almost tumbling off their flying swords.

"Old Yan, can your wife handle this?!'' Liu Longtao cried out miserably.

"How should I know!" Yan Yu shouted loudly in reply.

In the real world, Chen Lingyun staggered out from the void, instantly merging with the sword light, and swiftly fleeing several hundred meters away.

The invisible giant snake behind her missed its mark, only to see Chen Lingyun's sword light quickly rising to thousands of meters in height, then directly streaking away.

"Got it figured out." Up in the sky, she dialed Mei Yingxue and said, "What's rampaging Chongying is an invisible giant snake that will swallow encountered mortals and send them into an internal world, then digest them to become part of the internal world."

"To bring Yan Yu and Liu Longtao out, I still need two more people."

"Name them." Mei Yingxue said.

"Su Yunjin, Li Minghu." Chen Lingyun stated.

"Li Minghu hasn't formed her Core yet." Mei Yingxue reminded her.

"Precisely because she hasn't formed her Core, she can be freely dispatched, right?" Chen Lingyun said calmly, "If I wanted two Golden Core True Men, I fear you might not be willing to give them."

"You knew?" Mei Yingxue paused for a moment, then said, "Yes, currently there are sightings of serpent-like behemoths appearing worldwide, so we can't deploy too many true men abroad for support, needing to keep them at home just in case."

"Leave them to me." Chen Lingyun said, "I will bring them out as soon as possible."