Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest
Chapter 989: 35 Only Killing_2

Chapter 989: Chapter 35 Only Killing_2

As expected, as soon as Yan Yu picked up the phone and listened for a moment, his expression immediately turned slightly stern.

“Sorry, everyone.” He quickly stood up and said, “Something urgent has come up, I need to go out for a bit, that’s all for today.”

“No worries.” “Thank you, Lord Yan.” “Take care, Lord Yan.” The crowd hurriedly nodded and bowed.

It was only after Yan Yu left that everyone turned their gaze towards Chen Lingyun and Liu Longtao.

Although they did not know what had happened, seeing Yan Yu’s serious expression, it was clearly not a minor issue. They could only look to these two most well-informed individuals for any intelligence.

Chen Lingyun remained expressionless, seemingly unconcerned. Liu Longtao, however, took out his phone, checked a few messages, then suddenly his expression changed dramatically, stood up and said to Yang Linhui:

“Let’s go.”

Without further ado, the members of Dragon Soar Team rose one after another and followed Liu Longtao out.

Thus, the remaining people could guess that something had probably gone wrong up north. Not to mention the Dragon Soar Team, even Yan Yu, the top Golden Core Cultivator of Lu Country, had been deployed, indicating the gravity of the situation.

Yan Yu left the base and swiftly proceeded northward by Sword Flight, while still on the phone call.

“You don’t need to intervene, let me handle it.” Anna insisted from the other end, “The Northern Border is my territory!”

“If you were capable, Lu Country wouldn’t need to send me to clean up your mess.” Yan Yu replied bluntly.

“You doubt my capabilities?” Anna asked coldly.

“I indeed do.” Yan Yu scoffed, “What about it?”

“Get lost!” Anna burst out, “The Amur Witch’s Group does not welcome you! Yan Yu, from today onward, you are banned from entering the entire Northern Border! You’re top of the blacklist for the Witch’s Group!”

“I don’t need to uphold Primordial Yang anymore.” Yan Yu said calmly.

“…I mean, shall we use the same large bed as last time?” Anna asked cautiously after a moment of silence, “I’ve also prepared a few nice uniforms, they really show off the figure, want me to wear them for you to see?”

“Let’s resolve the situation first.” Yan Yu said indifferently.

“…Okay.”

Anna hung up the phone, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then immediately burst forth with an infinite murderous aura, her brilliant golden hair framed a ruthless expression akin to that of a Roshasha.

“Clara, summon all the Elders.”

The crisis now facing the Northern Border was nearly a repeat of the earlier crisis at the Southern Border.

On the surface, the Amur Witch’s Group is the ruling authority recognized by everyone in this territory, but in reality, they are unable to extend their control deep into the grassroots level.

The Witches are too few, and the territory too vast, hence they have to establish loyalty relationships with the local extraordinary factions in each area. These factions declare allegiance to the Witch’s Group, who in return recognize their local authority and provide nominal protection—simply put, it is similar to medieval feudal relationships.

This feudal relationship is extremely fragile, because the superiors simply cannot effectively control the subordinates, nor can they prevent or stop them from rebelling.

With Chongying publicizing and selling globally the cultivation scheme of Orochi, many extraordinary factions in the Northern Border have also obtained corresponding technological schemes from Europe.

Whether Rashan Official had a hand in secretly promoting this is yet to be confirmed, but it undoubtedly severely shook the foundational rule of the Amur Witch’s Group.

With so many extraordinary forces, the Witch’s Group cannot possibly plant spies in every one to control; surely, someone will risk cultivating the “Orochi”.

Once a faction is suspected of cultivating the “Orochi”, it will definitely raise high alertness among the surrounding forces. Everyone knows that once your strength suddenly increases, the next step will certainly be to swallow up the neighboring territories, so the best way to avoid this worst outcome is to also cultivate the “Orochi”… just like nuclear weapons, I may not use them, but I must have them.

Thus, the practice of cultivating the Orochi quickly spread widely in the Northern Border, to the extent that even the upper echelons of the Amur Witch’s Group felt the insidious pressure from below, and even had elders urging to quickly test the Orochi plan to prevent being surpassed by lower-ranking factions.

Anna was originally absorbing Spiritual Energy at the Wudang Mountain base and suddenly rushed back to the Northern Border, partly to rapidly integrate the opposing opinions within the Amur Witch’s Group, and partly to handle the risk that affects the entire Northern Border.

In fact, the former turned out to be simple. After all, Anna has been in power for a long time, with the backing of Lu Country and Yan Yu, everyone is willing to accept her authority.

But the latter was impossible to start with, because the territory was simply too vast and the factions too numerous, numbering in the thousands. The Witch’s Group lacked a mature civil service cadre, and even contacting each faction to confirm would take a lot of time, so how could they possibly stop them from experimenting with forbidden methods and using the civilians within their territories for blood sacrifices?

At this point, the situation has already begun to barely contain itself. Although the Witch’s Group did not officially publish numbers, Lu Country estimated through surveillance satellites that there are as many as 84 wandering demons in the entire Northern Border territory.

These “Orochi” are notably weaker than the initial Head-falling Drought from the Southern Border, likely because the faction’s cultivation conditions were too crude and they lacked a sufficient number of human sacrifices.

However, considering that demons cannot be communicated with and could wander south into Lu Country’s territory at any time, it almost puts the Privy Council on high alert.

After Yan Yu was promoted to a Golden Core Cultivator, his Sword Flight speed increased nearly tenfold, and he soon arrived at Amur City.

An elder meeting was being held within the Witch’s Group. Yan Yu burst in energetically, sat down boldly next to Anna, and began speaking:

“I am here today representing the will of the Lu Country’s Privy Council. I do not interfere with the decisions of the Witch’s Group, I just want to remind you all: the methods that could be used have primarily been exhausted. Up to now, the situation is still out of control, which proves that there is no other solution to this matter.”

“A tangled knot must be cut with a swift sword. The only way is to kill!”

He made a hand gesture of a downward chop, causing the surrounding Witch’s Group elders to change their expressions dramatically, thinking that Lu Country’s premier Golden Core Cultivator was unhappy with them and intended to execute a bloody purge of the Amur Witch’s Group’s elder council.

Thankfully, Clara, sitting beside him, translated Yan Yu’s words into Rakshanese very quickly, which relieved everyone.

“It is not that we are cowards.” Suddenly, someone said, “Rule over the Northern Border usually involves appeasement unless it comes to rebellion or treachery. Excessive killing results in universal self-danger, and the forces opposing will only grow stronger.”

This is also one of the drawbacks of the feudal system: faced with an extremely assertive king, the nobility naturally tends to band together to resist. So much so that even when major rebels are captured, even if the king despises them, he must begrudgingly say, “I forgive you”—not actually forgiving them, but telling the still rebellious folks, “Stop it now, I won’t pursue you anymore.”

The Amur Witch’s Group, in their initial period of establishing rule, had several rounds of slaughters from east to west across the Northern Border, rightfully called rivers of blood. Later when Rashan’s Emperor Peter went on a campaign east, many extraordinary factions submitted due their fear, and after the failed campaign, they were purged by the Amur Witch’s Group… Today, the atmosphere is too fraught with danger; with any slight disturbance, even those not dealing with the Orochi will be forced to engage in it.

After Clara finished translating, Yan Yu noticed the speaker was actually Sullivan who used to follow Emperor Peter and asked:

“So what do you suggest we do?”

After pondering for a moment, Sullivan said:

“The greatest risk of cultivating the Orochi is that once they are cultivated, they are uncontrollable and almost certainly will backlash against their master. If we extensively publicize this danger…”

“Would they believe it?” Yan Yu questioned him.

“It’s difficult, but we must try.” Sullivan insisted.

“I have a better idea.” Yan Yu said, “Change the content of the propaganda: the biggest risk of cultivating the Orochi isn’t that they will backlash against their master, but that they will draw the attention of Lu Country’s Golden Core Cultivator Yan Yu, who will uproot them completely, leaving none, from top to bottom. What do you think about that?”

Sweat immediately began to drip from Sullivan’s forehead.