Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 638 - 85 The Familiar Brother

Chapter 638: Chapter 85 The Familiar Brother

Chapter 638 -85 The Familiar Brother

Anna followed cautiously behind Yan Yu, whose hands constantly shifted through sword techniques. With each gesture he made, lasting no more than half a second, the clash of metal would ring out.

At times it was like the resounding boom of a morning bell or evening drum, signaling the Huang Tingjian blocking the Sword Qi; while other times it resembled the shrill, piercing sound of a robust blacksmith hammering iron, which was the Liangyi Sword intercepting a sneak attack.

Even as she strained her eyes, looking everywhere, at least half the time during the ten attacks, she experienced the sensation of “hearing the sound but not seeing its form,” which left her somewhat disheartened.

“Could the gap between my husband’s and my strength really be this vast?”

In that case, wouldn’t I have no chance to defeat him and keep him here in the Northern Border day and night?

While Yan Yu strolled leisurely, scanning the surrounding attacks with his Divine Sense, he still had enough attention to spare to notice the expression on her face and casually remarked,

“This thing is meant to test a Sword Immortal; you’re a Witch by profession and don’t need to train your reaction speed. Plus, it’s your first time encountering the Golden Mansion’s limited boundaries, so it’s normal to be unable to handle it.”

“So you’ve dealt with this kind of Sword Puppet Formation before?” Anna asked incredulously.

“At least in the four digits,” Yan Yu replied.

“Thousands of times? Keep blowing your own trumpet,” Anna retorted scornfully, “The Spiritual Energy Resurgence has only been going on for about a year and a half. Have you even explored a total of a hundred Mysterious Realms? Why not just say a billion?”

Yan Yu smiled without answering. Of course, he wouldn’t tell Anna that in his past life, the elite forces of Mortal Warriors had a professional training base in Nanchuan Province, which was a Mysterious Realm equipped with a Sword Puppet Formation.

Truth be told, the Sword Puppet Formation of the Wuya Sect on Xiankong Island and that of the Wuliang Sect in Nanchuan Province, whether it be the setup, mode of attack, or even the style of crafting the Sword Puppets, were not too different. I suspect that the Sword Immortal sects’ lines of succession come from the same source—a fact I’m all too familiar with.

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“Hey, I see Jobby over there,” Anna suddenly pointed in the distance, exclaiming, “Right there! Hurry, hurry, they’re getting away!”

“I saw them a while ago,” Yan Yu said slowly, “It’s inconvenient to make a move within the Sword Puppet Formation. Let them go their way, we’ll go ours.”

“But what if they leave the Sword Puppet Formation early and go seize control of the Mysterious Realm’s nerve center?” Anna asked.

“The nerve center has a goalkeeper to guard it, sister,” Yan Yu replied indifferently, “They can’t just openly leave the center there for you to pick up.”

“What if Jobby suddenly becomes overpowering, or that Asian girl has some secret weapon to deal with the goalkeeper, and they take over the center before we leave the Sword Puppet Formation? What then?” Anna continued to question.

“What if Divine Thunder suddenly strikes us dead from the sky? What then?” Yan Yu said dismissively, “That’s about enough, what’s with all these ‘what if’ scenarios? Right now, we need to focus on quickly getting out of this Sword Puppet Formation.”

Although Anna was itching to instantly teleport there and slaughter that pair, Yan Yu was the one leading the way out of the formation. She had no choice but to put up with him not speeding up, her irritation mounting silently, thinking I am after all the Chief Witch of Amur, even in Lu Country I’m of a rank to meet with the heads of state. Yet you dare treat me with such indifference, and tell me “that’s about enough!”

No matter, once I’ve captured this man and taken him back, I’ll make him beg on the bed for me to say “that’s about enough.”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

The more infuriated Anna felt inside, the calmer she appeared on the outside, choosing instead to continue observing Yan Yu’s techniques for breaking the formation.

She soon noticed that the Sword Puppets normally stood silent and still, but when initiating a stealth attack, there was a significant motion of raising their shoulders and hands and forming sword techniques.

Including the reaction time, Yan Yu seemed to detect the timing for the sneak attack not when the Sword Qi was upon him, but rather at the earlier moment when a “Sword Puppet began to raise its shoulder and hand.”

So that was it; his ability to handle the attacks with such ease wasn’t because of his quick reflexes, but because he was fully utilizing his Divine Sense for extremely frequent scanning, ensuring that every move of the surrounding Sword Puppets was within his perception!

Unfortunately, knowing something doesn’t always mean you can do it. Anna didn’t practice the Soul Refining Technique, so she didn’t have Divine Sense to scan with.

Even Zhang Xinlan, who was guiding Jobby and had learned the Soul Refining Technique from her father, hadn’t learned the official version and naturally couldn’t perform such frequent and flexible scans.

Techniques like the Soul Refining Technique, commonly known among Military Mansion Cultivators, are nearly impossible to keep secret without leaks. The issue with passing knowledge down is that in the process, it often gets distorted. Some are due to miscommunication while others are intentional omissions of key information, leading to civilian cultivators receiving imperfect versions, almost guaranteed not to be fully effective.

Jobby, of course, knew nothing of these nuances but could vaguely sense that his budget girlfriend, despite being a Lu Country cultivator, had a chasm of difference in power compared to genuine cultivators like Yan Yu. He forethought that if they ended up being chased and intercepted inside the formation, not only could he not expect her help, but he would also have to watch out for the sneak attacks of the Sword Puppet Formation—and by then, it would likely be too late to turn the tides. Therefore, he wore a sullen face and kept urging Zhang Xinlan to speed up.

Seeing the hint of anger on her boyfriend’s face, Zhang Xinlan didn’t dare to continue her tantrum and quickly put all her effort into activating the Magnetic Mother Token Treasure, almost forming a spherical shield made of elemental magnetic divine light around them, reflecting any attacking Sword Qi coming from the outside.