Chapter 70: Chapter 69: The Swiftness of the Swallow
“Regarding the question of which direction to explore first,” Yan Yu quickly convinced the three military cultivators to follow his advice with his agile mind.
Everyone activated their Shifting Technique and raced toward the direction of the cliff like a gale of wind.
Upon reaching the edge of the dense forest, they all stopped as if by an unspoken agreent.
An icy wind ca from within the woods. When it brushed against them, everyone felt their hair stand on end and couldn’t help but get goosebumps.
It seems like a demonic wind, doesn’t it? Yan Yu glanced inside and saw the tree crowns blotting out the sky, the light in the forest dim, with chilling winds and ghostly shadows swirling about. It was almost as if there should be a sign outside saying “Demons and ghosts reside within these woods.”
“I see trees moving deep inside; it must be a tree demon.” Seeing the ladies look as if facing a formidable enemy, Yan Yu analyzed calmly, “If we enter, it’s easy to be ambushed. Better to lure it out and fight. The tree demon definitely fears fire, we can trap it using the Fla Curse while leaving gaps, then attack and injure it with the Impact Curse. Actually, it’s quite easy to handle.”
“Trap it with the Fla Curse?” Lin Ning imdiately asked, “How exactly?”
“Watch closely.” Yan Yu decided to demonstrate personally, first selecting a spot to cast the Fla Curse, and flas erupted from the ground, “Chen Lingyun?”
“Got it.” Chen Lingyun said with a smile.
With just a cursory glance, she had completely morized the location and size of the fireball.
“Su Yunjin.” Yan Yu interrupted the Fla Curse, then chose a spot not far to the side and released another Fla Curse, “Your Fla Curse should be cast here later.”
“Okay.” Su Yunjin stared intently at the ground. She did not have the sa confidence in her mory as Chen Lingyun.
Luckily, the surroundings were originally covered in lush grass, which was now burned away by the Fla Curse to reveal a bald patch of land that was easy to recognize.
After dispersing the flas with a wave of his hand, Yan Yu selected two more locations, successively releasing the third and fourth balls of fla, perfectly creating a rhombus with the first two flas. He then said to Wei Yun and Feng Haiping:
“Both of you, once the demon inside the forest is lured out and reaches this position, wait for the right mont to cast the Fla Curse at these two places. The four flas will form a fiery array, trapping the demon in the middle of it. No problem, right?”
“No problem, but…” Both military cultivators hesitated as if they had more to say.
Luring the enemy into an ambush is a tactic commonly seen in the ancient military history of Lu Country, but the difficulty in executing it is still quite demanding.
Not to ntion, what if the bait isn’t fast enough and gets eaten? What if running too fast arouses suspicion? And what if you’re wrong, and the demon inside isn’t afraid of fire at all?
“Very good.” Yan Yu ignored the worry in their expressions and continued to plan positioning, saying, “Zhao Yuanzhen and Officer Jiang, please stand at these two spots. Once the tree demon enters the ambush, and the four Fla Curses seal off its paths of escape, fire the Impact Curse through the gaps between the flas at it. No problem, right?”
Fire overcos tal among the Five Elents; an Impact Curse shot into the range of a Fla Curse would be extinguished into nothingness. But judging from the range of the Fla Curse Yan Yu arranged, the gap between the two flas was completely sufficient for the Impact Curse to pass through — unless the shooting was so poor they aid one way and hit another.
“I have a problem,” Zhao Yuanzhen complained, “Isn’t this too much trouble for just a tree demon?”
“Aside from that, is there anything else?” Yan Yu asked, swiftly interrupting her with a smile.
His smile had an unpleasant edge to it, and the Demonic Sect Enchantress was suddenly taken aback as realization dawned on her.
Without revealing other spells and only allowed to use the Three Arts and Five Spells against the enemy, this tactic of “forming a fiery array and fighting a simple battle” was indeed the safest choice.
Hmph, though I was montarily careless, that thief dared to threaten with a veiled smile. I rember this grievance!
If I have the chance one day, I too will hide a knife within my smile, making him tremble with fear of my displeasure!
Officer Jiang’s brows were so furrowed they seed about to tie into knots. To him, the tactic of using four Fla Curses to block the paths seed indeed not very challenging to implent, after all, the boundaries were marked on the ground, easier than targeting with a hand grenade…
The real question was whether the bait could co out alive and bring the demon precisely into the ambush!
Although he wanted to protest, Yan Yu gave him no chance to speak and decisively said:
“Let’s proceed with the plan.”
“What about ?” Lin Ning asked anxiously.
“You’re coming with to go in and also to learn the Enemy Luring Technique,” Yan Yu said with a serious look.
In Chen Lingyun’s team in his previous life, it was Qiu Ze, who excelled in mobility and positioning, who was responsible for scouting and luring the enemy.
Now that Qiu Ze hadn’t joined the team, Lin Ning, who was supposed to be the assault specialist, would have to take on that responsibility.
Of course, Lin Ning had not yet realized the team leader’s good intentions, but her character as a straight-A student made her subconsciously choose to obey authority.
No matter what kind of test you give , I’ll just keep my head down and do it.
“Okay,” Lin Ning said, suddenly feeling nervous again at the thought of being assigned the most dangerous task as a decoy.
“There’s no ti to lose, let’s go.” Yan Yu was also very decisive in his actions, not giving the military cultivators a chance to question or obstruct, and quickly rushed into the dense forest with the Shifting Technique, followed closely by Lin Ning.
At this mont, the effects of practicing the “Shifting Technique ergency stop” for several weeks beca evident.
The two moved rapidly through the dense forest with the Shifting Technique, and when confronted with obstacles like roots and bushes, they would quickly switch to the Cloud Ascension Technique to stop abruptly and change direction, then switch back to the Shifting Technique to continue sprinting at high speed.
Yan Yu was naturally flawless in this basic skill operation, and Lin Ning, although a newbie who had just begun to learn, managed to keep up with him, which even made Yan Yu see her in a new light.
Look at that, keeping up with my speed on her first ti, Sister Lin truly has the makings of a good assault trooper.
Whether it was her innate reaction speed or the Cutting Spell speed she had trained, she had already far surpassed her peer cultivators by a great margin.
“Don’t focus your attention on moving,” Yan Yu instructed as he saw her eyes locked on the ground, “You need to completely integrate this mode of movent into your mory, making it a part of your combat instincts. Your attention should be on your surroundings, with eyes and ears open in all directions.”
“Okay,” Lin Ning said nervously.
“When you can’t sense the enemy’s position,” Yan Yu continued instructing, “try to maintain high speed to make enough noise, which can entice the enemy to attack and thereby reveal their position.”
“What if the enemy doesn’t fall for it?” Lin Ning asked.
“Then that’s a different situation,” Yan Yu replied, “The tree demon we’re dealing with this ti is of low intelligence and has not yet awakened its spiritual wisdom, so it shouldn’t be too cunning.”
“As long as we enter its territory, it will definitely provoke an attack… here it cos!”
Before he finished speaking, a tree root suddenly blocked their path, lashing out at them like a whip.
With an abrupt stop and change of direction from Cloud Ascension Technique and a renewed burst of speed with the Shifting Technique, it was just a simple two-step switch that allowed Yan Yu to effortlessly dodge the tree root’s attack, ignoring inertia and darting to the side like a spectral figure.
As for Lin Ning, although her on-the-spot reaction was half a beat slower than Yan Yu’s, her well-practiced combination of Cloud Ascension Technique and Shifting Technique was instinctive and swift, allowing her to beautifully avoid the tree demon’s attack as well.
This is the confidence gained from a problem-solver’s routine training!
After dodging the attack, Lin Ning realized what she had just achieved, and her expression was imdiately replaced by disbelief.
I… I did it!
“Beautiful!” Yan Yu shouted his praise, and with another ergency stop and change of direction, he charged directly at the tree demon.
He began to execute the Enemy Luring Technique.
“What should I do next!” Seeing that all of the tree demon’s attacks were drawn toward Yan Yu, Lin Ning hurriedly asked loudly.
Yan Yu had no ti to answer, for as he closed the distance rapidly, the tree demon’s hostility reached its peak, and dozens of thick tree roots broke through the soil, smashing down around him.
However, Yan Yu’s speed completely surpassed them.
In just three or four seconds, it was impossible to see clearly how many tis he had made ergency maneuvers—Lin Ning roughly estimated at least more than ten tis. Accompanied by his dizzyingly swift dodges left and right, up and down, and back and forth, each sprint only covered a short distance of a single step or even just half a step. After narrowly evading the nearby tree root lashings, he would imdiately perform an ergency stop with Cloud Ascension and then accelerate with the Shifting Technique for the next sprint.
The dozens of tree roots swung and smashed in rotation, their attacks as dense and rapid as a sudden storm, yet Yan Yu, like a futuristic swift, dodged all the tree roots’ lashings with an incomprehensible speed and agility and advanced to within ten ters of the tree demon. He raised his right hand to shoulder height, bringing together his index and middle fingers in a sword gesture, and charged the tal-Elent Impact Curse.
Fire!
A 30-centiter-long gash, with unknown depth, suddenly appeared on the thick trunk of the tree demon.
Wood chips and sap flew in all directions, and Lin Ning couldn’t help but hold her breath. She saw the tree demon beco rigid like it had been electrocuted.
What followed was a complete loss of control and an outpouring of rage.
Innurable tree roots began wildly thrashing around, breaking and snapping many trees. Lin Ning hadn’t yet had ti to consider whether to stay put or temporarily retreat to avoid the fray when she saw Yan Yu burst out from the flying dust caused by the tree roots’ thrashing, covered in dirt.
“Let’s go!” he shouted to Lin Ning.
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