Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Tang Xiaolian sent a message saying she finally succeeded in crossing the tribulation.

As of today, there's already a fully developed technical plan for crossing tribulations. As long as you're not someone with particularly poor talent and a severe deficiency in True Yuan, you can easily form your core with the resources prepared by Lu Country — as for the grade of your core, that still depends on your cultivation fundamentals.

To use an analogy, it's like after the expansion of university enrollment, as long as your grades aren't bad, you can get into a university, but the difficulty of getting into a 985 or 211 university remains unchanged.

After recording some simple data, the young lady couldn't wait to pack her luggage and flew toward Jinling.

Yan Yu, Sister Hongyu, I'm here!

Landing in the suburbs of Jinling City, Tang Xiaolian wasn't here for the first time, but considering that she would be living here permanently, she couldn't help but circle the villa several times.

Flowers and plants were planted on both sides of the front yard, all cultivated and designed by Yun Jin himself, looking as beautiful and lovely as a natural garden. The building's exterior was quite elegant and meticulous, after all, it was the villa personally chosen by Chen Lingyun, so there wasn't a flaw to be found.

It fit Tang Xiaolian's aesthetic well.

She quickly walked to the door and knocked.

The door opened, and Xie Ruoxi poked her head out, asking somewhat cautiously:

"Hello?"

"Hi, Ruoxi." In contrast to Ruoxi, the otaku girl, Tang Xiaolian was an extremely sunny social butterfly, "I'm here to find Yan Yu, is he home?"

"He's upstairs on the phone." Xie Ruoxi explained, "Ningning is preparing to cross the tribulation and needs his guidance."

Guidance? Do you still need guidance? The Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword and Xuan Guang Ruler piled there, even a pig with enough True Yuan could successfully cross the tribulation, right?

Tang Xiaolian thought indifferently, probably Lin Ning had been at Wudang Mountain for too long, causing severe separation anxiety, which led her to deliberately use the "I'm very nervous" excuse to attract Yan Yu's attention.

Humph, such petty tricks, I saw through them at a glance!

She dragged her suitcase in, following Xie Ruoxi into the villa.

Su Yunjin was busy cooking in the kitchen. Without Lin Ning, she was the king here, taking in everyone's appetite, and she even started researching the red oil base that Hongyu liked lately.

Zhao Yuanzhen and Chen Lingyun were sitting on the sofa watching TV. Thanks to Zhou Hongyu's join, even the enchantress who originally didn't like Ling Yun now felt the two were from the same team, couldn't let outsiders laugh — their relationship started turning harmonious.

Tang Xiaolian went upstairs smoothly, familiar with the territory, and found her own room.

The room sign had "Tang" written on it, though it represented her surname, it always made her feel mocked.

She entered the room, put down her luggage. It was clear the room had been cleaned, and the next step was nothing more than unpacking her belongings and arranging them properly in the room.

Clothes, skirts, shoes, underwear, then candies and snacks she liked, and insect cultivation jars. She'd use the available bed sheets and comforter instead of buying new ones outside. Towels and toothbrushes must be placed in the outside bathroom...

Someone suddenly knocked on the door outside. Bang bang bang, the sound was steady and strong, with a strong rhythm, definitely Sister Hongyu.

Sure enough, before Tang Xiaolian could go to open the door, Zhou Hongyu went straight through the wall and told Tang Xiaolian:

"You're finally here. These days, Zhao Yuanzhen and I have competed many times, yet we're always evenly matched."

Tang Xiaolian was speechless upon hearing this, half a beat then she said:

"Sister Hongyu, haven't I already told you? Competing with them to decide a winner is useless! What you need to capture is Yan Yu's heart!"

"Humph." Zhou Hongyu certainly understood the reasoning, but she just couldn't stand Zhao Yuanzhen's look of "I knew Yan Yu first, I'm the main wife", "Anyway, I just dislike her."

Tang Xiaolian helplessly held her forehead, after a moment she asked again:

"You haven't fought to the point of real hatred, have you?"

Please don't tell me you've become mortal enemies! Even if you don't care about your relationship with Zhao Yuanzhen, you should consider how the other girls from the original Zhenhai Team would see you, Sister Zhou!

"We're evenly matched, neck and neck." Zhou Hongyu said proudly, "If we join forces, even Yan Yu would have to retreat temporarily."

Tang Xiaolian was stunned for a while, suddenly realized, so this was how they compete!

No wonder Yan Yu would sit by watching you two get into conflicts, turns out it was like this... darn! He's benefiting too much from this!

Even though she was part of Yan Yu's harem, Tang Xiaolian obviously had no sense of awareness, just resenting Yan Yu for enjoying the blessings of having many wives all day long, and angrily considering how to punish the scumbag together with Sister Hongyu, fantasizing in her mental theater, then exhaled deeply.

What a thrill!

As for the actual operation, of course, it's not possible. The two of them combined can't handle him at all, they've already tried and realized they're not a match, so they can only attain a spiritual victory in their minds.

"Sister Hongyu," Tang Xiaolian whispered, "Next, tell me in detail everything you've observed over these days about everyone's behavior and their attitude towards you."

"Let me help you analyze it."

Zhou Hongyu came to find Tang Xiaolian, wasn't it just to use her brains for this palace intrigue. Upon hearing this, she immediately started talking:

"First of all, I think Yun Jin is a good person..."

"As for Chen Lingyun, I can't quite see through her either..."

"Zhao Yuanzhen and Xie Ruoxi are just a couple of fools..."

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Lin Ning has been feeling very anxious lately.

She was originally ranked tenth on the list for crossing tribulation. Although Yan Yu took advantage of Mei Yingxue's connections to move her up the order, she knew in her heart that when it came to cultivation talent, this was exactly her place.

And crossing tribulation precisely requires high cultivation talent and True Yuan capacity.

Yan Yu used Chen Lingyun as an example to comfort her. "Even she can easily cross tribulation and form a top-grade golden core, what are you afraid of?" But this reason didn't convince Lin Ning.

Because Sword Immortal and Necromancer are not the same. Necromancers can use Yin Ghosts as resources to deplete Tribulation Thunder, but can Sword Immortals?

"Why not?" Jing Zhongxian mocked in her mind, "Are those piled-up Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords of yours fake?"

"What if the Flying Swords aren't enough?" Lin Ning started plunging into a "scare yourself" mode characteristic of a problem solver. "What if my heavenly tribulation is more intense than theirs? What if the type of my tribulation is just immune to Flying Sword damage?"

"The intensity of heavenly tribulations is generally related to the Golden Core Grade of the cultivator." Jing Zhongxian said lightly, "With your poor cultivation talent, even if you forcibly broke through to a top-grade golden core through some dubious means, it's actually at the lowest level; the intensity of the heavenly tribulation won't be too intense."

Jing Zhongxian successfully convinced Lin Ning, pulling her out of the tension and worry before crossing tribulation, only to immerse her in an even stronger sense of inferiority, with tears already welling up uncontrollably in her eyes.

"Oh, did I say something wrong? Ahahaha!" Jing Zhongxian awkwardly tried to smooth things over, "Why not watch the frontline live broadcast of the Gong Gong plan? I'm very interested in how you all plan to deal with that Orochi, let me see, let me see."

Lin Ning gloomily opened the live broadcast and saw Su Yunjin, Zhou Hongyu, Yang Linhui, and Liu Longtao standing in the sky over Bohai from different directions, using Taoism Method to attack the serpentine behemoth.

The power of Golden Core True Man's Taoism Method is enough to change local weather phenomena. Blizzard, flood, flames, and dragons took turns in the assault, with shockwaves and turbulences swirling, making it impossible for the drone to stabilize and get close, so it could only hover at a distance for filming.

It's as if modern weapons were firing at Godzilla.

Su Yunjin's Tianhe Water was quickly defeated, being pulled irresistibly into the sea by gravity before even reaching the serpentine behemoth, unable to hit it at all.

Yang Linhui's blizzard and Zhou Hongyu's flames managed to penetrate the gravity field and hit the giant snake, but could not pierce through its surface of earth-colored hard scales. Both used their full strength in various techniques, but the only effective one was the breaking-through Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire, which could only barely cut through the outermost layer of scales, unable to go deeper.

As for Liu Longtao's Five Dragons Roaming, because it was in a Flood Dragon form, it wasn't fast enough and was pulled and exploded by gravity as soon as it entered the scene, unable to have any effect at all.

"This gravity field is too tricky." Lin Ning quickly entered problem-solving mode and analyzed, "Probably need to have Ruoxi go over... no, Ruoxi's Thunder Method won't work either, the lethality is enough, but the Thunder Group travels in a parabolic trajectory, which means it will be affected by gravity..."

She was still deep in thought when she suddenly heard Jing Zhongxian say:

"Fool, such a monster should be cut down with Sword Gang."

"Sword Gang?"

"It's when a Golden Core Sword Immortal injects enough True Yuan into a Flying Sword and cuts out a giant Sword Qi that can fly very far." Jing Zhongxian said, "At least that's how you all explain it."

"If Sword Gang were useful, the captain would have gone long ago." Lin Ning said, "He told me the Yin-Yang Dust Sword Formation can't reach that far. Also, the defenses that Taoism Method couldn't penetrate, the Sword Gang probably won't work either."

"Absolutely wrong." Jing Zhongxian said with disdain, "In terms of armor-piercing capability, actually, the strongest is the Sword Immortal. Especially when you've comprehended the true meaning of Sword Dao, the Sword Gang will change accordingly. For example, agile, sharp, and invincible... Of course, this might be a bit soon for you, after all, you haven't crossed tribulation yet, have you?"

"I'm about to cross tribulation." Lin Ning said expressionlessly.

She became quite interested in what Jing Zhongxian said about the "true meaning of Sword Dao." If I can slay this serpentine monster on my own, the captain will definitely see me in a new light, won't he?

Ning Ning recalled what Yan Yu said, "My wife must be the second strongest in the world," and silently made up her mind.

Whether as a cultivator or a Sword Immortal, I will catch up to the captain's footsteps and won't let him get too far ahead!