Chapter 378: Chapter 74 Borrowing a Knife to Kill

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Rikoku Cultivators were battling within the Mysterious Realm. Outside the Mysterious Realm, from the Privy Council to Shixun Group, a large number of staff and a complete set of professional administrative and business teams were handling matters related to the live broadcast.

Actually, if Rikoku had a choice, they would definitely choose not to broadcast. Winning would certainly stabilize public sentiment, but if they lost several battles, the pressure of public opinion would be overwhelming.

But the problem is that if you don’t broadcast yourself and can’t stop your opponent from doing it, then you’re essentially driving all the viewers to the other side. If Rikoku Cultivators suffer defeat and the opponents produce a few stylishly edited, all-angle videos, the propaganda effect would be explosive–unless Rikoku follows the example of a certain neighbor and decides to isolate itself from the world, only then could they completely block out foreign news and avoid unrest among their citizens.

After all, the information sphere is like the biosphere, and it also has what’s called an “ecological niche.” If domestic live broadcasting occupies the ecological niche of the information source, the public will lose interest in foreign sources of information.

The reverse is also true: when domestic short video apps make inroads in foreign lands and take up much of the international netizens’ time, they get used to checking these platforms for news and grow lazy to seek out “authoritative messages” through official channels. This is truly a matter of life and death, one absolutely cannot let go easily.

The live broadcast data was sent back to the Privy Council in real-time, with eleven people looking at a total of eleven screens, each monitored by a dedicated team, including military experts, intelligence experts, linguists, ethnologists, psychologists, and so on. They had to keep a sharp eye on everything, from the pattern on a pillar far within the Mysterious Realm, to the minute tactical movements of the Cultivators themselves.

At this moment, more than half of the screens on the main control wall focused on Inferno Pass. The Rikoku Cultivators gathered together, with Ye Jun personally activating the Xuan Guang Ruler nonstop to protect the group, in case a sudden white light struck like a clap of thunder and chopped someone down on the spot.

The other two screens, representing Su Yunjin and Lin Ning respectively, showed a loss of signal.

This was not unusual. For instance, Mirror Lake Divine Palace and the previous animal level had both experienced signal loss as soon as cultivators entered.

This was not due to issues with communication technology, but rather the restrictive spells within the Mysterious Realm acted like a firewall, which so far no country in the world could crack, leaving them no choice… But still, the teams responsible for these two screens had to keep watching the black screen, as required by their job.

These two teams had it relatively easy, as they could rest their eyes. The team responsible for Yan Yu was more exaggerated; although there was no black screen, the perspective was continuously rotating left, right, up, and down, accompanied by high-speed advances and retreats, nearly making everyone sick.

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The leaders were also worried about Yan Yu’s situation and kept asking the expert team every couple of minutes if the Longcheng Flying General was still holding up.

Their reply was, “We don’t know.”

Because they couldn’t keep up with what they were seeing! How could they make any judgments if they couldn’t even see clearly?

As they worried, the screens for Lin Ning and Su Yunjin suddenly lit up.

The two had finally cleared the Illusion Realm level and entered the second level: surprisingly, it was again the Inferno Pass level. The members of the Zhenghai Team finally gathered together.

However, this also meant that since everyone was indeed unable to find a solution to Inferno Pass, they all got stuck there.

Lin Ning and Su Yunjin entered the level one after the other and, after exchanging glances for a moment, greeted each other without asking “how did you pass the last level?”

Lin Ning was subconsciously guilty and didn’t dare to ask; Su Yunjin was more thoughtful, wondering why Ningning seemed off and whether she had encountered the same thing as her.

In any case, as the Mysterious Realm had not been completely conquered, it was inappropriate to dwell on personal emotions at this time.The gathered superheroes, Onmyoji, and Lihuayuan Swordsmen quickly sent representatives to find a place to exchange views upon the suggestion of Xiandao Jingyin.

“Find a way to restrain him,” Xiandao Jingyin stated, “He can only confront the white sword light head-on by relying on his reaction speed. Even if we delay his actions by half a beat, the white sword light would be able to kill him.”

“That’s not acceptable,” Park Changmin objected, “The risk is too high.”

The swordsmen of Lihuayuan can fly and are fast. If they decide to take action against Yan Yu, even for the sake of justice, they would definitely be the ones sent into battle, meaning they’d have to face the risks of confronting Yan Yu and the white sword light directly.

The representative of the superheroes, “Judge” Stevenson, a priest-dressed foreigner, fell silent for a moment before suddenly speaking:

“The speed of the white sword light is indeed very fast, absolutely beyond our capability to handle. His own mobility isn’t enough to match the white sword light, and he’s only relying on reaction speed and control to barely avoid defeat. But how long can he last like this?”

Although he posed it as a question, his stance was clear: the superheroes believed that Yan Yu couldn’t hold out for long against such a formidable enemy and that they should just wait for him to self-destruct. There was no need to go to any extra lengths.

Xiandao Jingyin had nothing to say and simply turned and walked away without any hesitation.

She had seen clearly that though the three factions had joined forces under the threat from Rikoku Cultivators, they could at most maintain superficial cooperation. Privately, they were still wary and guarded against each other, even ready to fight. Even the Michi Country’s Soil Defense Bureau, which led this tripartite cooperation, couldn’t fully handle its own superheroes. In crucial moments, these people still acted as if “the general is outside, the emperor’s orders can be ignored”.

After all, everyone wants the Departure Palace treasures. Heroes are here to fight with their lives for the treasures to boost their capabilities, not for some “international strategy” or “limiting Lu Country”… Although they wouldn’t say this openly, their actions are still primarily selfish.

With the heroes drifting apart, now they could only wait until the Departure Palace Gate to settle the matter!

As long as the Rikoku Cultivator seals the gate, attempting to monopolize the Departure Palace’s treasures, they will inevitably become the target of everyone’s arrows. At that time, these people would have to join forces, even if they harbored ulterior motives!

Yan Yu, unaware of the Onmyoji’s plan to besiege him, which hadn’t fully formed before prematurely collapsing due to the superficial unity and substantial disunity among the three parties.

He was merely silently coping with the assault of the white sword light while reflecting and recalling the past in secret.

Chen Lingyun from his previous life had not elaborated much on the Secret Realm of Ligong, probably due to some confidentiality requirement. But one thing was certain, each of the six stages had its theme and specific requirements to pass.

Mei Yingxue at the Golden Core Realm level, even if only her speed was at that level, was not someone the present day Transcendents could beat–thus, the requirement to pass shouldn’t be to defeat her.

Another suspicious thing was that, currently, only he was enduring Mei Yingxue’s attacks.

Why is she only targeting me?

Yan Yu decided to conduct an experiment.

Once again, lightning-fast, he adjusted his blocking angle to intercept Mei Yingxue’s attack, only to be predictably sent flying.

His body was thrown through the air by the formidable force, his viewpoint wildly spinning. Ordinary people would have long lost sense of direction, but Yan Yu felt no dizziness whatsoever. His Divine Sense quickly spread to the furthest reaches around him, then he once again used Sword Control to position himself just right to intercept the following strike from Mei Yingxue.

Again, he was sent flying by the impact force, but this time he had calculated the direction of his flight–his body shot straight toward the ground like a cannonball, covering a few hundred meters in an instant.

There, several Onmyoji who had used some technique to hide their presence, were trying to pass by “quietly” without disturbing the fierce battle in the sky. Yan Yu suddenly appeared, startling everyone.

Before they could attack him, Mei Yingxue’s sword light also descended from the sky!