Chapter 996: Chapter 40: Come Up and Face Your Death

    Anna’s biggest weakness right now is her complete lack of any ability to act or perceive.

    Without the ability to act, she cannot avoid danger; without perception, she wouldn’t even know if she gets hurt.

    The meatball itself is a precise magical energy gathering structure. The outer periphery is a magical power constraint circuit, the interior is a vast magic that flows along a fixed route, responsible for condensing and differentiating organs, and at the core is Anna’s soul.

    If it suffers any damage, the outer binding circuit would break, and the magic inside will inevitably pour out from the fracture. By then, even the Golden Core Cultivators, let alone immortals, would not be able to save her.

    Therefore, the primary task is to ensure that Anna, in this state, is not injured.

    Secondly, Anna needs to mobilize magic with her soul to reconstruct every part of her human form, a process that requires one hundred percent concentration. Any carelessness, any mistake in the reconstruction, would have disastrous consequences.

    Without the senses of vision and hearing, or even the most basic sense of touch, the meatball only perceives “inertial force” when the speed changes abruptly.

    Therefore, Yan Yu also couldn’t maneuver the meatball at high speed, otherwise, before even defeating the enemy, Anna would not be able to withstand it.

    Taking into account the above situation, the solution actually became quite clear.

    Yan Yu’s Sword Technique activated, and the Yellow Court Kunwu Sword Light swept up on the spot, enveloping Anna’s meatball within.

    The Sword Control Technique, in essence, uses the sword to carry people, and naturally, it could also carry others. Before Anna had the Flying Broom, she had ridden on Yan Yu’s sword back to the Northern Border.

    Bringing the sword light that wrapped around Anna to the front, Yan Yu then quickly left the cave chamber and headed towards the perimeter of the mineshafts.

    He still concentrated his Divine Sense on Anna, ensuring she wouldn’t make any serious differentiation errors. The work of scouting ahead was entirely entrusted to Puppet Azhen, who had been called back.

    On the other side, Peter and his group were continuing to delve deeper into the mine. Among them, the strongest was the Phoenix, but he just held his arms the whole time, not uttering a word, only watching the two werewolves beside him dig holes.

    Phoenix had no intention of fighting to the death with Yan Yu of Lu Country. In the past, in the Three Isles Treasure Ship Secret Realm, Yan Yu’s almost supernatural mobility had left a very deep impression on him.

    Fortunately, the Rakshasa Official had assured him that he only needed to hold off Yan Yu for five minutes. Once the time was up, regardless of whether the mission to assassinate the Queen Witch was completed, he could retreat and escape—Phoenix had agreed only because of this condition.

    At the same level, I believe in your impressive techniques, but I don’t believe you can take me down in an instant. Unless you have that Sun God Sword, just bring it out, and I’ll turn tail and run right away.

    When Yan Yu was undergoing his Golden Core heavenly tribulation, he did not use the True Obscurity Sun Sword Intent at any point, leading many forces to believe that Yan Yu was no longer capable of using the Divine Sword. That belief was Phoenix’s true motive for finally agreeing to get involved.

    “How much longer?” he suddenly asked.

    Peter, who was representing the Rakshasa Official as the team leader this time, turned to look at Maxim at his side.

    Maxim, whose profession was the extremely rare “Warlock”, was similar to the Amur Witches, also specialized in Mysticism, Potions, and Curses, and Maxim had a very rare Spell:

    Dream Divination.

    He nodded slightly, then drooped his head at once, falling directly into sleep where he began his divination through dreams.

    His consciousness swiftly traveled through a black and white environment, over numerous pits and geological layers, finally entering the bottommost chamber.

    However, it was already empty.

    Without hesitation, Maxim recited an extremely mysterious spell, and soon saw faint footprints emerging on the ground.

    His spiritual being followed the footprints ahead, never stopping, until he finally saw Yan Yu swiftly leaving ahead with the Yellow Court Sword Light in stable flight beside him, wherein lay his target for divination.

    Suddenly, Yan Yu turned around as if he sensed something, looking towards Maxim’s location.

    Maxim was shocked, no longer able to maintain the dream state, and immediately woke up startled.

    “He’s discovered me!” The terrified warlock screamed hysterically, “You promised not to let me engage in battle, but now he has found me! I’m going to die!”

    “Calm down, calm down!” Peter unceremoniously slapped him, “Who has discovered you?”

    “You know who!” Maxim collapsed to the ground.

    He had carried out divinations in advance, the result being that if he didn’t alarm Yan Yu all the way, there indeed was a chance to assassinate the Queen Witch. Now that Yan Yu had become aware of everyone’s presence, according to the divination result, the entire plan had turned from a slim chance of survival to certain death.

    While there’s still a slim chance of survival, one could fight a battle; however, no matter how high the Rakshasa promised pay, it couldn’t be spent in the Underworld.

    Therefore, Maxim immediately began to shout crazily, attempting to avoid going forward by feigning madness.

    Peter instantly saw through his intentions, and with a meaningful glance, a werewolf next to him immediately picked up the warlock, then grabbed a handful of mud from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.

    Maxim couldn’t scream anymore, only uttering muffled sounds.

    “Dear Maxim,” Peter said in a gentle tone, “You’re still useful to us, we couldn’t possibly just let you go. Without you, how would we know the location of the Queen Witch?”

    Maxim twitched for a moment, raised his hands to indicate surrender, and stopped pretending to be insane.

    The werewolf then pressed down on his shoulder and struck his back fiercely, forcing him to vomit out all the mud in his mouth and throat in one breath.

    “Cough cough! Cough cough!” Left with no choice, Maxim confessed, “Yan Yu has discovered us! He is leading the target out!”

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    “Where?” Peter asked quickly.

    Maxim pointed in a direction, and the group immediately changed course, starting off quickly to intercept Yan Yu.

    But speaking of Yan Yu, he suddenly felt a sensing from his Divine Sense and turned his head to look, but found nothing there, nor did his Divine Sense scan anything.

    Though ignorant of Mysticism, Yan Yu, to be safe, considered the worst-case scenario that the enemy might have detected his location through some unknown means.

    With the multitude of Extraordinary Professions in the world, each with different abilities, it would hardly be surprising that there were some means unknown to him. Thus, he made an immediate decision that he could not go on any longer.

    Puppet Azhen suddenly looked up, a golden-red beam already spewing from her mouth.

    Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire!

    As her head rapidly turned, the powerful cutting force of the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire instantly created a huge cylindrical opening in the ceiling of the mine tunnel.

    The price was the serious damage to the structural integrity of the entire mine. Quickly, a wide range of collapses began to occur around Yan Yu’s location at the center!

    Yan Yu, along with Puppet Azhen, rode upward on the Liangyi Microdust Sword, with the Yellow Court Sword Light slightly behind, its tail end following closely.

    To avoid the inertial force brought on by drastic changes in direction, which could interfere with Anna’s body reconstruction, the Yellow Court Sword Light flew slowly and stably.

    In contrast, the Liangyi Microdust Sword was darting all over the place, intercepting and shattering any collapsing rocks and soil that might hit the Yellow Court Sword Light in midair.

    Yan Yu finally flew out of the mine with Anna, hovering over a hundred meters above ground, looking down at the still-collapsing structures below, and couldn’t help but smirk to himself.

    Golden-haired one, what’s the use of your triple disguise? In the end, it still depends on me.

    Soon, Peter and the others also burst out of the collapsed area and looked towards Yan Yu, who was suspended in the air.

    Among the group on the scene, “Phoenix” Phoenix and “Great Emperor” Peter had the ability to fly themselves; therefore, one transformed into a giant bird of flames, the other spread golden light wings, and they quickly soared towards Yan Yu.

    “Warlock” Maxim could actually fly too, but he was convinced of certain defeat in this battle, so he pretended to be limp on the ground, unable to get up. Since Yan Yu’s location was already exposed, everyone else was too lazy to bother with his act.

    The remaining two were the werewolf brothers, Big Artem and Little Artem. They couldn’t fly and could only ascend by using the flight Magic Treasure “Icarus’s Boots,” which made them much slower and less agile than the others.

    The group arrived in front of Yan Yu, only to see that he was not continuing to flee but instead levitating idly high in the sky, standing with his hands behind his back and looking down at everyone below with an arrogant expression:

    “If you leave now, I’ll spare your lives!”

    Unable to let Anna get hurt, and unable to carry her through rigorous maneuvering, the only solution Yan Yu could come up with was:

    Stand his ground and put on an air of invincibility!

    The four people in the sky did not speak Lu Country’s language, but the Rakshasa had prepared in advance for Yan Yu, so Peter quickly took out his phone and started to play a pre-recorded message:

    “Mr. Yan Yu, we have great respect for your status and value the good relationship we have established with Lu Country over many years. The Amur Witch’s Group is not a mundane political power, and if anything happens to the Queen Witch, the successor may not continue the alliance with Lu Country, and no one can guarantee this won’t happen in the future.”

    “Isn’t a mundane political power, which can be reasoned with and follows rules, more trustworthy for Lu Country compared to an unstable and uncontrollable Extraordinary Force? We have a long history of cooperation and share common experiences of being ostracized by the Western World. What’s more crucial, we can divide the interests of the Northern Border, instead of letting the Amur Witch’s Group hold monopoly over it.”

    Having heard these terms, Yan Yu was quite astonished. Analyzing them one by one, it actually seemed quite sensible.

    The biggest problem with the Amur Witch’s Group is that it itself is an Extraordinary Force, operating under the survival of the fittest and the rule of the strong. Should a change in leadership occur, the new ruler’s attitude could instantly shift the group’s stance towards Lu Country, even a complete one-eighty wouldn’t be surprising.

    Just look at the series of Witch Kings in the Southern Border; some were hostile, some surrendered, then betrayed… It’s a cautionary tale! Who could guarantee that Anna will not, at some point in the future, fall from the top ranks of power and become a “former Witch King”?

    And to say nothing of the fact that it’s the Amur Witch’s Group that currently controls the Northern Border, ensuring that the Northern Border’s Spirit Communicators will not invade Lu Country’s frontiers. Yet, Rashan offers the grand blueprint of “dividing the Northern Border,” and based solely on these conditions, it’s already enough for Lu Country’s upper echelons to weigh carefully.

    But Yan Yu made no such considerations.

    His interactions with Anna certainly started out a hundred percent from a righteous standpoint, with not a hint of romantic involvement. But now, given how close their relationship had become, how could he possibly abandon Anna?

    Even if Pingjing ordered me to betray my ally, I would not comply!

    “Less nonsense.” Yan Yu indifferently lifted his right hand, and as the Sword Technique was activated, numerous strands of Liangyi Microdust Sword Qi materialized in the air, forming a dense and interwoven net directly in front of everyone.

    “Since you’re not leaving, come and meet your end!”