Chapter 943: Chapter 9 True Yuan Depletion_2

Beheading!

Shenyuan Simie was still smiling, not dodging or evading but instead summoning a large number of Papermen to intercept, sealing the path ahead of Li Minghu so tightly that not even the wind could pass through.

Li Minghu abruptly halted the sword light, seemingly unwilling to forcefully charge through the Papermen’s formation, then suddenly turned around and dashed at full speed in another direction.

Her backward flight was indeed unexpected, and the speed was instantly pushed to the extreme, so much so that Shenyuan Simie couldn’t gather Papermen fast enough to pursue, and the sword light broke through the encirclement in a blink, heading straight in another direction.

In an empty space, the true body of Shenyuan Simie reappeared, his face wearing an expression of disbelief, his chest already pierced by a gaping hole from the sword light.

Subsequently, he disintegrated into fine pieces, vanishing without a trace.

Li Minghu once again controlled the sword light to turn back, her Divine Sense swiftly sweeping the surroundings, yet failing to find any trace of Shenyuan Simie.

But her line of thought was crystal clear: the enemy had expended a great deal of resources and manpower to get here, they definitely would not accept “just killing Li Minghu” as the result.

The real and only target of the enemy must be Yan Yu!

She quickly turned towards the direction of Sky Pillar Peak to search, and soon found Shenyuan Simie who had escaped death by substituting himself with a Paperman.

The latter, cursing inwardly, shook off another large number of Papermen, attempting to delay Li Minghu’s sword light.

But Li Minghu ignored the surrounding Papermen and entered the Sword-Human Unity state once more, directly slicing at the true body of Shenyuan Simie!

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Having consumed all of the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword, Yuanzhen’s True Yuan was also on the verge of exhaustion.

There were still more than two hundred golden Tribulation Thunder in the sky.

On a normal day, this would merely be the work of a Yin-Yang Dust Sword Formation, but now Yan Yu was already at the end of his tether, not even possessing the True Yuan to summon a streak of Sword Qi.

The power of the Elixir Medicine in his belly was still slowly refining, continuously replenishing True Yuan, allowing him to barely maintain the consumption needed for Sword Flight.

However, even relying on the Sword Flying Slash to deal with the remaining two hundred golden Tribulation Thunder was an absurd fantasy.

Yan Yu’s mind raced, all kinds of possibilities emerged and were then systematically rejected by his rationality.

Using the Xuan Guang Ruler for defense? No, the remaining True Yuan is insufficient to brace against the Tribulation Thunder.

Using the Huang Tingjian for Sword Flying Slash? Also no, with too many Tribulation Thunder, the damage would transmit through the sword’s body, and it’s estimated that after slashing through thirty to forty Tribulation Thunder, his body would completely collapse.

Why not simply sacrifice this Puppet and perform the String-Pulling Technique’s escape method like how Zhao Yuanzhen had done when Mei Yingxue chased after him…

This thought circled through Yan Yu’s mind, and was quickly abandoned by him.

Setting aside the fact that there is a newly-born Artifact Spirit inside the Puppet, which would be too much of a pity to discard; the key is that there’s no guarantee the heavenly tribulation would be fooled by an escape trick. What if it could still lock onto me relentlessly?

For a moment, Yan Yu found himself without any strategies, while the remaining two hundred or so golden Tribulation Thunder had already crossed the 1000-meter to 2000-meter optimum breaking range, and had descended to an altitude of roughly 600 meters.

The spine-chilling breath of death was now frighteningly close.

From the distant military satellites, the golden light was extremely close to the ground. Had Yan Yu still possessed True Yuan, they should have been intercepted and exploded long ago.

Has the Crossing Tribulation failed?

The next second, the Tribulation Clouds suddenly began to surge!

Yan Yu actually rode the Huang Tingjian, bursting out of the peak of Sky Pillar Peak, and left the scene of Crossing Tribulation!

This operation, like a sky-soaring celestial being, shocked the Privy Council of Lu Country so much that they nearly lost their souls. What was he trying to do?

The golden light Tribulation Thunder chased after Yan Yu as he left Sky Pillar Peak. Without the delaying effect of the Tai Qing Smoke Mist Array, their speed soared, clinging stubbornly to the tail of Yan Yu’s sword light without letting go.

Not only that, even the Tribulation Clouds began to roll and surge, intent on shifting the battle to another location with Yan Yu.

But here in the domain of Wudang Mountain, whether it is east, west, south, or north, there are almost always rural villages and highways. If these Tribulation Thunder were to fall in densely populated areas, what then?

The people above were staring dumbfounded when suddenly they saw Yan Yu’s sword light soar again, charging towards the dense tribulation clouds above.

The golden tribulation thunder closely followed, relentlessly pursuing him.

Owing to certain enemy attacks, Mei Yingxue needed to command from the central position and could not spare time to answer questions, hence the Cabinet secretaries could only connect to the heavenly tribulation expert research team at the Academy of Science to inquire about the purpose of Yan Yu’s actions.

The experts couldn’t provide a definite answer. Theoretically, the tribulation thunder would chase the person crossing the tribulation until it completely shattered them, and such shattering required sufficient energy intensity, meaning it was impossible for you to intentionally lure it to crash into the ground; it would simply create a huge hole and then continue chasing you.

Only with a Flying Sword or spells could the tribulation thunder be resolved.

The problem was, if Yan Yu could use a Flying Sword and spells, he would have used them already. The current situation most likely indicated that he had little True Yuan remaining, hence he needed to buy time to refine the power of the Elixir Medicine in his belly to recover True Yuan.

However, Sword Flight consumes True Yuan; as you recover True Yuan on one hand, you’re using it on the other–could there really be a surplus in the end?

“There surely is,” as everyone was deep in thought, an elder suddenly spoke up.

This was the elder who had initially bestowed the title “Divine General” on Yan Yu. Not only had he been closely following Yan Yu’s various deeds, but after the latter acquired the True Obscurity Sun Sword Intent, he also vehemently advocated for Yan Yu to become “the Sword Holder of Lu Country”, and now he spoke with confidence:

“Looking over his accomplishments and life, he never makes meaningless actions on the battlefield, have faith in comrade Yan Yu.”

The others fell silent, but their minds raced.

Yan Yu maneuvered the sword light to ascend rapidly, nearly completely close to the bottom layer of the tribulation clouds. As he drew closer, the clouds began to spurt out massive amounts of electric snakes, showing clear hostility to his approach.

If he were to rush into the tribulation clouds, it would most likely trigger some very unfavorable changes, hence Yan Yu quickly shifted the sword light horizontally, pulling the trailing golden tribulation thunder into an arc, and then began to dive rapidly downward again.

In terms of absolute speed, Yan Yu’s Sword Flight was slightly faster than the tribulation thunder, but he couldn’t leave the airspace above Wudang Mountain and could only maneuver in a limited space. The more changes in direction, the closer the distance would actually become; the dangerous situation had not improved in the slightest.

Zhou Hongyu was watching anxiously, his hands nearly leaving white marks on his arms from how tightly he was gripping, when suddenly he saw Zhang Huaide, who had been first to go put down the disorder, returning with his team to report back.

“Huaide,” Zhou Hongyu asked directly, “have you noticed anything?”

Zhang Huaide glanced at the screen and said:

“Captain Yan is luring the tribulation thunder like this, there must be some profound meaning.”

“Nonsense,” Zhou Hongyu said impatiently, “ignoring the ground formations and flying into the sky to play cat and mouse with the tribulation thunder, he obviously isn’t just bored. And it’s hard to say whether the True Yuan he’s consuming by flying at full speed can be replenished…”

“It is possible,” Zhang Huaide replied, “I’ve tested flying at his speed, and the True Yuan consumption is just a little less than what the Elixir Medicine can replenish, so he should be accumulating True Yuan by buying time.”

“That’s good then,” Zhou Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief.

“But it’s not right,” said Zhang Huaide.

Zhou Hongyu felt his heart tighten and hurriedly asked:

“What’s not right?”

“To buy time,” Zhang Huaide said, “he should be performing maneuvers within the range of the Tai Qing Smoke Mist Array, it would be much safer.”

Zhou Hongyu thought to himself that he’d been scared to death, thinking Zhang Huaide was indicating Yan Yu had made a mistake, and shook his head saying:

“The range covered by the formations is too small, perhaps not supporting the complexity of his nimble evasions.”

“Still not right,” Zhang Huaide said with a slight frown, “why does he choose this kind of large, looping route? Even if the sword light is faster than the tribulation thunder, him taking the outer arc first and the tribulation thunder taking the inner arc later, the distance advantage will quickly be reduced. Haven’t you noticed that the tribulation thunder is actually getting closer to him?”

Everyone looked closely and indeed found it to be the case; originally the tribulation thunder simply trailed behind Yan Yu, but now it had even started to approach the trail left by the sword light!

“What should we do?” Zhou Hongyu asked quickly.

Zhang Huaide fell silent for a moment, then slowly said:

“Captain Yan’s actions must have a significant purpose.”

“Just say you don’t understand either!” Tang Xiaolian exclaimed frantically from the side.