Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

The Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner is an extremely formidable treasure.

However, what's even more formidable than the treasure itself are actually the three Nine Heavens Yin Demon Divine Inscriptions mingled among the countless seal scripts on the banner.

Tracing its origins, one can find the ancestral Orthodox Demon Sect Techniques from the ancient desolate era, titled "The Arcane Secrets of the Nine Heavens Yin Demon", divided into an upper and a lower volume.

The upper volume contains many profound spells and Nine Heavens Yin Demon Divine Inscriptions, and it's said that by cultivating to a profound level, one could cast aside their physical body, refine their soul into a demon, and achieve supremacy over heaven and earth, which typifies the Demon Sect's method for eternal longevity.

The lower volume, on the other hand, is about the crafting methods of various Yin Demon treasures, each with immense power and treacherous effects. The method for crafting the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner can also be found within it.

Later, when the formidable practitioner of the Demonic Path ascended and took the book with him, he left behind a bunch of disciples who hadn't fully mastered the cultivation (much like a developer fleeing with the funds, leaving behind a row of unfinished buildings).

Some people had learned from the upper volume, forming the divine inscriptions, but hadn't had the chance to learn the lower volume; others knew the lower volume and had crafted the treasures, but hadn't looked at the upper volume at all. Those from the former group needed treasures while those from the latter needed divine inscriptions, so the two sides hit it off immediately.

In order to fully recreate the supreme demonic techniques of the ancestral master, each pleaded with the other to contribute their years of arduous cultivation, even at the cost of their lives...

In short, the lineage of this cultivation method is now fragmented and scattered, and no one knows how many divine inscriptions there are, nor how many treasures.

But, without a doubt, their combination, even if just incomplete fragments, can unleash tremendous demonic powers!

Yan Yu performed the Sword-Body Union and transformed into a sword light, which surged in might and thrust towards the giant's eyes and brows, only to see the latter exhale a stream of demonic energy, turning into a huge hand in mid-air to grasp at the sword light.

However, this hand wasn't a technique from the Demonic Sect but rather mimicked the Buddhist Sect's "Sumi Ratna Hand," with five fingers clawing towards him as if to crush him on the spot, but unexpectedly, Yan Yu was also familiar with this spell. The sword light halted abruptly in its flight, merely grazing the fingertips, causing his opponent to grasp at air.

The puppet Ah Zhen had already rushed beneath the giant, suddenly spread her arms, and ascended into the clouds to strike towards the adversary's head.

The Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner sensed the threat and abruptly surfaced a pitch-black divine inscription, which smashed down on puppet Ah Zhen's head—this thing was actually the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Secret Thunder, capable of destroying the body and eradicating the soul.

Had it hit Yan Yu, it would have been an immediate enactment of "Yan Zhanlong's demise," without the slightest chance of rescue.

However, Yan Yu had purposely used the Sword-Body Union to draw the giant's attention, creating an opportunity for puppet Ah Zhen, and of course, he didn't plan to take it too lightly.

Ah Zhen, facing the Yin Demon Secret Thunder, didn't dodge but instead charged forward, speeding up even faster, with her forearms protecting her face, and she charged straight into the Secret Thunder from below!

Amidst the explosion, fragments flew, and Ah Zhen's forearms were completely shattered, revealing the white jade-like arm bones inside—the Divine Dragon Wood, the essence of the best wood, natural at repelling evil, and coincidentally the natural nemesis of such evil spirits as the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Secret Thunder!

Ah Zhen, once again accelerating out from the dispersing Yin Demon energy, finally reached the giant's head and grasped the pole of the banner with her finger bones.

I'll pull!

As the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner was violently jerked by her, the giant also let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering scream and flailed around with his halberd, striking chaotically—he didn't dare to attack Ah Zhen on his forehead, afraid that excessive force would damage the banner, so he instinctively aimed his blows at Yan Yu, seeking to rescue one crisis with another.

Yan Yu, while mentally urging Ah Zhen to exert force, continued to control his sword flight to dodge the attacks, moving nimbly like a fish in the water. No matter how the halberd hacked and slashed, turning the grand hall upside down, he didn't receive a single scratch.

While Yan Yu was fully utilizing his agility to dodge, puppet Ah Zhen, on the other hand, adopted a different mode. No matter how the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner activated the divine inscriptions, producing Secret Thunders to explode, she remained silent and endured, relying on the Divine Dragon Wood's evil-repelling properties.

She withstood about seventy to eighty blasts of Secret Thunder, and finally yanked the banner pole out to its limit with great force. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

However, inside the palace where everything was being turned upside-down; outside the palace, day and night made another silent exchange.

At the end of the day, the medical and security teams had already arrived, taking away the entire Flying Dragon Battle Team for treatment; as night fell and countless ghosts roamed, the four members of the Zhenhai Team had to find a room indoors to take shelter and wait for the night to end before rushing toward the palace in the north of the city.

The four girls dashed swiftly, entering the palace, turning into a side hall, descending all the way in search of their team captain. The director also switched the view to their first-person perspective—even though the shaking was enough to make one nauseous, the bullet comments contained hardly any complaints.

Everyone only wanted to quickly understand: how is Yan Zhanlong doing after pursuing the gatekeeper all by himself?

As everyone just descended into the palace corridor, they heard a thunderous explosion from afar.

Inside the palace, the immense sword light surged in a flash, piercing straight into the forehead of the half-bodied giant and violently erupting out from the back of his head, then, tracing an arc, it landed on the ground, revealing Yan Yu's figure once again.

The puppet Ah Zhen, with the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner in hand, landed lightly and gracefully beside him. She casually stuck the banner into the ground, gave a slight smile, and turned into a Silver Pellet to return to his sleeve.

Yan Yu's divine sense swept across the field, realizing that the girls were approaching from behind. He casually grabbed the flagpole beside him, sent True Yuan into it, and the uncontrolled Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner no longer condensed runes, its luminous glows on the surface dimming as well.

Finally, the girls entered the underground palace and saw Yan Yu holding the banner, standing tall. Despite seeming a bit disheveled, there were hardly any injuries on him.

Looking at the half-skeleton giant opposite him, a dark hole was precisely in the middle of its forehead, the area around the wound rapidly disintegrating.

Web-like cracks spread quickly, soon reaching the entire skull and then snaking down along the spine... Yan Yu couldn't be bothered to watch how the gatekeeper BOSS died; he simply turned around while holding the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner in reverse, his expression calmly walking towards the girls.

Against the grand backdrop of the skeleton giant's body collapsing and bone fragments raining down like shards, Yan Yu, with his steady stride, carrying the banner and sword, approached the girls. Like a tough guy walking away from an explosion in a movie, he stirred another round of uproar in the live stream comments.

He handed the flagpole to Chen Lingyun and asked unceremoniously,

"Why are you so slow? I've finished the fight."

"To give you a chance for a one-on-one with the gatekeeper~" Chen Lingyun removed the camera from her collar and aimed it at Yan Yu's face, smiling sweetly, "Is there anything you'd like to say to the viewers?"

"Tired." Yan Yu yawned, "Let's pack up and prepare to head back."

In the studio, watching the dying disintegration of the half-giant BOSS, Zhou Erhe was still baffled:

"That's it? It's finished? I mean, it's only been about twenty minutes tops outside, and he's finished down here?"

"It's a pity we didn't get to see the BOSS fight." Now that things were settled and the stagehand was signaling to pacify the crowd outside, Xu Dongming naturally had to come out and explain promptly, "It can only be said that in the martial world, among masters, victory can be determined in an instant.

And for a master among masters like Yan Zhanlong, as long as you give him an opportunity in a drawn-out battle, he can strike to kill immediately."

"How do you explain him being chased around the city by Yin Soldiers and running all over the place from the BOSS, then?" Zhou Erhe scoffed coldly.

"He was probably just gathering intelligence." Xu Dongming explained seriously, "After figuring out the mechanism of the day-night transition and seeing through the BOSS's attack patterns, what's left is an easy win. However, the camera damage is indeed an issue, and I hope the Dingbei Army can solve this durability problem in the future.

After all, missing out on the most exciting part of the battle is something I believe the audience in front of the screen still finds regrettable..."

He patiently soothed the crowd watching the live stream, but the comments didn't seem to mind missing the BOSS fight; they were all concerned about whether Yan Yu was really tired:

"Yan Zhanlong, you've worked hard."

"Yan Zhanlong, get some good rest."

"Yan Zhanlong, when are you coming to Jiang Hai to sign an autograph for me?"

"Does Yan Zhanlong need physical therapy? I have a certificate for it..."

"Alright." Seeing that the comments weren't hung up on the missed BOSS fight and having received the cue from outside, Zhou Erhe quickly took the opportunity to steer the conversation, "With this, the live broadcast of the contest has come to an end. Next, let's take a look at the replay of the battlefield.

To better analyze the details of the fight for everyone, we've specially invited from the Zhendong Army, Cultivator Qi Changping, to come and explain..."

Inside the studio, applause thundered— all of it from hired clappers.

Qi Changping walked onto the stage with a heavy heart, seemingly at a loss for words for a moment.

From the start of the term to now, had it not been him enduring Yan Yu's show-offs in silence every time, hoping that he would be a bit more modest, a bit more restrained, a bit more normal?

Unexpectedly, as time changed, he now had to help that kid show off big time in front of the entire country! Damn it, how did things turn out like this?

"I heard that Teacher Qi used to be Yan Zhanlong's teacher at school, right?" Zhou Erhe started the conversation.

Used to? Qi Changping felt a bit annoyed. I am still his teacher, even though I haven't been able to teach him much, that is.

"Yes." He put on the air of an insider, speaking calmly and composedly, "Yan Yu, when he first enrolled, I was in charge of admissions. From the first moment I saw him, I realized this person was definitely a once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigy..."