Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 415 - 11: The Divine Waterfall Ravine

Chapter 415: Chapter 11: The Divine Waterfall Ravine

Yan Yu was in charge of describing, while the female college student was sketching with her pencil on paper, frequently pausing to discuss with Yan Yu, erasing and rewriting.

“How can you remember so clearly?” Tang Xiaolian asked in surprise.

“When it comes to matters of Spiritual Energy, don’t ask too many details,” Yan Yu evaded the question.

Tang Xiaolian did not continue to pursue the matter and simply frowned silently, watching the landscape take shape on the paper that her senior was drawing.

Snow mountains, secluded valleys, and a grand waterfall.

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“Speaking of snow mountains, could it be the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain?” Tang Xiaolian pondered.

“Nanjiang isn’t just about the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain,” the senior laughed, “Here we have double digits of famed snow-covered peaks. But, judging from the orientation of the mountain range, I think it should be Meili Snow Mountain.”

“You can even discern that?” Yan Yu was instantly shocked.

“I’ve been studying landscape painting recently. Remembering lines is just the basics of the basics,” the senior said proudly, “It’s like ordinary people think all eggs look the same, but Da Vinci’s eggs would have their unique traits. Essentially, it’s just being more sensitive to the details in the lines.”

“Okay, okay, you’re amazing,” Tang Xiaolian conceded, opening her phone’s map, “So, let’s pinpoint a location. The snow mountain is in the middle, and then there are mountains on both sides…”

“That reminds me, I think I’ve seen similar scenes before,” the senior mused, “Hmm, where did I see it?”

She fell silent, deep in thought. Yan Yu and Tang Xiaolian looked at each other, clueless outsiders who could not be of any help. They could only make tea and fetch snacks, careful not to disturb her reminiscing.

“Speaking of which,” Yan Yu came over with a cup of tea, quietly using a voice transmission to ask Tang Xiaolian, “Is your senior tight-lipped?”

“She was taught by Teacher Feng Xianmin,” Tang Xiaolian replied, avoiding the question.

“Ah?” Yan Yu was taken aback.

“A national treasure of a master oil painter!” Tang Xiaolian revealed an expression that read ‘how have you not heard of him’, “If she had poor character, how could she have been accepted as a disciple by a great master?”

“You’d better not have misjudged her,” Yan Yu said grudgingly.

“I remember now!” the senior suddenly exclaimed, clapping her hands, “It’s Yubeng Village! I’ve been there before to do some sketching!”

“Alright, thank you,” Yan Yu collected the drawing, “I have to go.”

“Can you get me Su Yunjin’s autograph?” the senior quickly called after him, “In your team, Yun Jin is my favorite… haha, I mean, besides you.”

“Sure, I’ll introduce you to her as her friend.” Yan Yu took out his phone.

“Lulu, you’re clearly from Nanjiang, but you don’t support a Cultivator who’s also from Nanjiang. You don’t love your hometown!” Tang Xiaolian exclaimed sadly.

“Haha, maybe it’s because this Cultivator from Nanjiang is too familiar to me. Distance makes the heart grow fonder,” the senior joked with her.

After bidding farewell to the two of them, Yan Yu tucked away the drawing and hurried out the door, pulling up the location on his phone.

He hadn’t flown far when a pink Sword Control light approached from behind; it was Tang Xiaolian.

“Captain Yan, wait for me!” She sent her voice from a distance.

“Why are you following me?” Yan Yu asked in surprise.

“You’re going to explore the Mysterious Realm, right?” Tang Xiaolian said cheerfully, “I’ll go with you.”

“No way, forget about it,” Yan Yu firmly refused.

“Why not!”

“Because we’re not close.”

“That’s really saddening,” Tang Xiaolian feigned tears, wiping the corner of her eyes, and spoke sorrowfully, “Just now I was exhausting my wits for Captain Yan, and right after getting all the value squeezed out of me, you cold-heartedly abandon me without hesitation!”

“…What you call ‘exhausting your wits’ was just asking a friend,” Yan Yu couldn’t help retorting, “And that’s not even how ‘cold-heartedly abandon’ is supposed to be used, alright? That’s enough; if you keep bothering me, I’ll go complain to your Captain Zhou.”

“Oh, right!” Tang Xiaolian suddenly had a stroke of insight and chuckled, “Captain Yan, you want this matter to remain a secret, don’t you? If you don’t take me with you, and when I get back Captain Zhou or Deputy Captain Zhang ask me, ‘Xiaolian, what did Captain Yan want you for?’, I might accidentally let something slip.”

“Go ahead, go ahead!” Yan Yu immediately laughed, “Captain Zhou definitely won’t ask, okay? She couldn’t care less about what I’m up to. And even though Deputy Captain Zhang is likely to inquire, I trust that he’s tight-lipped and won’t go snitching to the military.”

Left without options, Tang Xiaolian could only angrily withdraw her Sword Control light and turn away.

Yan Yu continued on his Sword Control flight towards Meili Snow Mountain, following the navigation on his phone app, and landed near a local village.

“Hello,” he casually stopped an elderly man passing by and showed him the drawing paper, “Have you seen a place like this nearby?”

The old man stared at the drawing paper for a moment and said:

[Encrypted dialect].

Yan Yu: ???

“Let me talk to him for you, Captain Yan,” Tang Xiaolian popped up from somewhere and muttered to the old man in dialect for a bit, then turned back and said, “Go down there, in the direction of the waterfall.”

“How did you follow me here?” Yan Yu asked in surprise, “Weren’t you going to snitch on me to your captain?”

“That was obviously a joke,” Tang Xiaolian defended, “Do I look like the type of person who hurts others without benefiting myself?”

“I wouldn’t know about that.” Grateful for the girl’s help, Yan Yu didn’t hold the previous incident against her. He simply cautioned her, “Your traditional ethnic minority dress might make it difficult to move later on.”

“No problem,” Tang Xiaolian lifted the hem of her garment, “I’ve got layers underneath! I can just take it off when the time comes.”

Yan Yu said no more and simply let her follow him.

Although this was a remote mountain village, it was common to see backpacking travelers or locals herding mule trains to transport goods.

“Have you never been here before?” Yan Yu randomly asked as he saw her taking pictures with her phone.

“No,” Tang Xiaolian asked him in return, “Don’t you like the scenery here, Captain Yan?”

“The scenery is fine, but that’s not why I’m here this time,” Yan Yu replied.

“I see.” Tang Xiaolian didn’t inquire further, busy running around taking pictures from different angles.

After a few minutes, she suddenly exclaimed in surprise,

“Captain Yan! Look over there… doesn’t that look like the place you’re searching for?”

Yan Yu took out the drawing paper to compare and nodded, saying:

“It does resemble it, let’s go have a look.”

The two once again rose on their swords, flying straight regardless of the terrain, circling overhead for a moment before finally descending.

“This is it!” Yan Yu had just taken out the drawing paper when Tang Xiaolian leaned in to compare it to the distant scene for a moment, “It must be the right place.”

“Hmm,” Yan Yu pondered as well.

They had found the place, but there was no sign of an entrance to a Mysterious Realm…

Never mind, perhaps the Mysterious Realm hadn’t appeared yet.

“What do we do next?” Tang Xiaolian asked.

Yan Yu was about to answer when suddenly, a loud explosion sounded from afar, like a bolt from the blue!

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The two hurriedly rose on their swords again, following the sound to the waterfall depicted in the painting, only to see that the rock face hidden behind the waterfall had cracked open a large fissure, with stones continuously tumbling down, indicating that the crack had just recently appeared.

“I’m going in,” Yan Yu suddenly declared.

“Eh, you want to go in now?” Tang Xiaolian asked in shock.

“If not now, then when?”

“I mean, shouldn’t we notify the Pingxi Army first?” Tang Xiaolian was still hesitant, but seeing that Yan Yu was already heading towards the waterfall, she could only reluctantly lift her dress and silently follow.

The two passed through the waterfall and entered the fissure. Their hair and tops were soaked and they began to feel the chill, but fortunately, they had undergone Marrow Cleansing and wouldn’t fall ill because of it.

“So, where are we heading…” After walking for several minutes, Tang Xiaolian couldn’t help but start to complain, when suddenly she saw Yan Yu stop ahead.

“We’re trapped,” he said.

“What?”

“We’re trapped in some kind of Formation,” Yan Yu looked up at the thin sliver of sky and tried to rise on his sword.

He failed.