Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest
Chapter 916: 95 Sea Swallow

Chapter 916: Chapter 95 Sea Swallow

Yan Yu achieved Sword Control to reach the Southern Border of Nanjiang, landing at the front-line command center to meet up with the Annan Army’s guiding Cultivator.

According to intelligence provided by the staff department, initially Li Minghu’s decapitation squad was circling around from the Minjin Mountain Range towards the rear of the Witch King’s main formation. Subsequently, the Head-falling Drought descended and wrought havoc over a wide area, incidentally separating Lu Country’s main formation of Cultivators and the decapitation squad.

Simply put, they deep into enemy territory, their retreat cut off, the outlook is grim.

The Head-falling Drought’s clones, temporarily defined by Lu Country as “Level 1 Head-falling Drought,” are about the size of an adult’s head. They are very fast in flight, and their single method of attack is a dive-bombing bite, their saliva and blood are extremely poisonous, and if they come into contact with skin, the wounded area must be quickly amputated. Otherwise, once the poison spreads to the thoracoabdominal organs, it would be too late to save the victim.

There are many ways to deal with Level 1 Head-falling Droughts, and the fastest is to pierce them with Flying Swords. In a one-on-one situation, as long as the reaction isn’t too sluggish, even ordinary Cultivators can do it with ease.

The problem lies in the fact that a Level 1 Head-falling Drought, after being pierced, will not truly die. Instead, they will transform into an ashen stream of intangible light, which rushes towards another nearby Level 1 Head-falling Drought and merges with it—thus creating a Level 2 Head-falling Drought.

As the level of Head-falling Drought increases, firstly, their size will grow larger; secondly, their flight speed and durability also greatly enhance; lastly, they will develop more insidious and powerful Spells, to the extent that Lu Country does not dare deploy troops to eradicate them on a large scale (as high-level Head-falling Droughts will quickly appear). Therefore, they could only urgently gather a batch of poultry, livestock, and freshly butchered meat products, using airdrops to lure the clusters of Head-falling Droughts to move southwards.

Hearing this, Yan Yu also realized the severity of the situation: it should be noted that in the decapitation squad there was Zhou Hongyu, this Taoism Method monster. Without any intelligence, lighting up with Great Bright Fire as far as the eye can see, would immediately result in hundreds of levels of Head-falling Drought emerging.

Additionally, as they were an isolated squad, they couldn’t reduce the pressure on the frontline like Lu Country by air-dropping blood food…

“Time is of the essence; I must set out immediately,” Yan Yu said as he instructed everyone.

He had always been known for his resolute and decisive nature, and now, unencumbered by a team, naturally, he was ready to leave at once.

Crossing the border, looking towards the Southern Border from high altitude, one could see vast areas of lush green forests, while the areas desecrated by the Head-falling Drought group showed a color of withered yellow decay.

“What a tragedy,” the True Obscurity Sun Sword Intent said, “The saliva of the Head-falling Drought is highly toxic; even if it falls on the soil, it will seep in to contaminate the deep underground water element, leading this region to be barren of any vegetation for hundreds of years to come… Why are you humans so intent on courting death?”

“We Earthlings are just like this,” Yan Yu casually replied, even though his mind was already calculating.

Logically considering, after Li Minghu led the team to kill the Witch King and encountered the Head-falling Drought from the north, they should have discovered they were no match after probing and attempted to circumvent them from the west or east and return within Lu Country’s boundaries.

But the call for help from Li Zhaojiang indicates that the process of retreat must have encountered some danger and unexpected circumstance.

Ahead was the devastated area of the Head-falling Drought; Yan Yu squinted and looked forward, only to see swarms of heads densely fluttering in the air, akin to flocks of migrating sea swallows moving uniformly towards the south.

As the True Obscurity Sun Sword Intent said, creating monsters surpassing the current strength limit through massive blood sacrifices is essentially an extremely foolish act of courting death; it will destroy oneself before destroying the enemy.

Yan Yu followed the route taken by Li Minghu and others, circling down from the southern side of the Minjin Mountain Range, gradually delving deeper into the hinterland of the Southern Border.

At this high altitude location, the density of flora and fauna was comparatively lower; the number of Head-falling Droughts was not many, but there were still occasional encounters along the way.

Seeing Yan Yu, they turned around and rushed up with a menacing cackle. Yan Yu couldn’t be bothered to entangle with them, directly altering sword light to bypass from the side and leave them behind.

Hm?

Yan Yu was surprised to find that these small Head-falling Droughts’ speed was not slow, almost keeping pace with his regular Sword Control speed.

Considering the overwhelming number of them… If Li Minghu and the others got entangled with these demons, they would likely be hard-pressed to shake them off for a while.

If I were Li Minghu, when facing the Head-falling Drought for the first time, what would I do? Taking into account that everyone’s Sword Control speed is different, it seems plausible to let those with slower Sword Control leave first, with the faster ones remaining to entangle these Head-falling Droughts, delaying them until the rest could catch up for the reunion.

But this carries a fatal problem, that in reality the number of Head-falling Droughts is far more than initially observed from a long distance. Therefore, before the ones at the back catch up, those who left first encounter more Head-falling Droughts…

In order to shake off these Head-falling Droughts, they could not maintain a straight line of advance, which would also result in those Cultivators behind losing their bearings.

Thinking along this direction, what I’m looking for might not be a complete team, but rather, people scattered by the Head-falling Droughts into several groups.

What a hassle.

Thinking that he would not be able to rescue them all at once, Yan Yu was no longer in a hurry to help. Suddenly, he made an abrupt stop, turned around to face the pursuing Head-falling Droughts, and his right hand slightly bent to form a Sword technique.

Yin-Yang Dust Sword Formation.

In that instant, it was as if invisible pencils swiftly brushed over the paper, drawing dense lines in the air. They segmented the areas, cutting through space, piercing through the bodies of the Head-falling Droughts, followed by the Sword Qi from Instant Teleportation, shredding them!