Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 699 - 4 Why Are You Playing Hard to Get Too

“There are,” the other party answered, “but they definitely won’t meet your expectations. Defensive Taoism Methods are a niche, with inherently low stockpiles, and those who claimed them tend to prefer lower-rank, low-consumption convenient spells. The high-ranked ones are all listed.”

If you can’t even fancy the methods listed, those they claimed are even less likely to catch your eye.

Upon hearing this, Yan Yu frowned. If there were none available with the Zhendong Army, he could only ask the other three armies.

He took out his phone and looked through his contact list.

Zhou Hongyu, Li Zhaojiang, Liu Longtao—who should he ask first?

After hesitating for a long time, Yan Yu suddenly had a spark of inspiration:

Why bother asking! How could I have forgotten about that?

He left the storage room without another word, heading straight to the principal’s office. Along the way, he casually called Zhou Hongyu.

The ringtone went on for about a minute before someone on the other end picked up, but didn’t speak.

“Hongyu,” Yan Yu got straight to the point, “where did you get that Great Bright Fire from?”

“Mysterious Realm,” Zhou Hongyu said.

“No shit, which Mysterious Realm?” Yan Yu asked.

“You ask Zhendong Army,” Zhou Hongyu said.

It’s not that I can’t tell you, but the location of the Mysterious Realm is a military secret. What are you asking for?

“I don’t mean anything else,” Yan Yu knew she had concerns and said with a laugh, “I just want to ask, did you find a Magic Treasure there that looks like a flute?”

“No,” Zhou Hongyu replied succinctly.

“Then you definitely missed it!” said Yan Yu immediately.

“It wasn’t me who looked,” Zhou Hongyu sighed, “I was only responsible for leading the team to conquer the Mysterious Realm. It’s Pingxi Army’s job to sort through the goods.”

That made sense. Yan Yu remembered very clearly that after Zhou Hongyu’s death in his previous life, the Mysterious Realm where she obtained the Great Bright Fire also had its second level entrance discovered. Zhang Huaide lead the team in to conquer it, and they even obtained a flute Magic Treasure. When played with True Yuan, it could unleash tidal wave-like sound waves that were versatile for killing, blocking, and trapping enemies.

Of course, as Zhang Huaide himself was more of a strategic commander role, using this thing wasn’t of much significance. Look, he was a Sword Immortal and hadn’t mastered his Sword Control Technique! It would be better to give it to my Ruoxi; I’m sure Huaide would understand.

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“Take me to that Mysterious Realm,” Yan Yu said.

“That’s not right,” Zhou Hongyu said.

“The debt of saving your life in Jawa, you don’t want to pay it back?” Yan Yu asked with a sly smile.

The classic move of ‘manipulating through indebtedness’!

There was silence on Zhou Hongyu’s end. After a moment, Zhang Huaide’s voice came through:

“Captain Yan, it’s me, Zhang Huaide.”

“This is Zhou Hongyu’s phone, how come you’re using her phone?” Yan Yu feigned surprise.

“We are at a team dinner,” Zhang Huaide replied.

“Why is it that every time I look for you guys, you’re eating?”

“Let’s talk business. Captain Yan wants to go to the Mysterious Realm where Captain Zhou previously obtained the Great Bright Fire?”

“Yeah.”

“Does Captain Yan have a clue that proves something was missed in the Mysterious Realm, or that a second layer is about to open?”

“It’s probably the latter.”

“If that’s the case, then Captain Yan also knows the rules. This was a Mysterious Realm discovered by the Pingxi Army, so by right, it should be the Pingxi Army who arranges a team to explore it.”

“Yes, but I’m worried you won’t find the entrance.”

“We haven’t looked for it yet, how do you know we won’t find it?”

“You’ve been stationed there for almost a year now, and haven’t discovered the entrance to the second layer, and you still dare to say that?”

“So, Captain Yan has clear knowledge of where exactly the entrance is and how to open it, right?”

“What else?”

“Even so, using a piece of information in exchange for the rights to explore a Mysterious Realm is still insufficient. The higher-ups would never agree to it.”

“I know. That’s why I’m also staking the favor that Zhou Hongyu owes me, plus I only want one Magic Treasure from the spoils of war afterward.”

“We can try,” Zhang Huaide pondered for a moment, thinking that if we rule out the extreme case of “the Mysterious Realm’s final gain being only one Magic Treasure”, exchanging one treasure for the chance to open the second layer of the Mysterious Realm in advance could be acceptable, especially since the other party was Yan Yu from the Zhendong Army. From the superiors’ perspective, it should be something that can be negotiated.