Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

[Win Over with Virtue]: You little annoying spirit, I'm done talking with you.

Yan Yu immediately closed the chat window, sighed, and searched his mind for someone else who could be an alternative engine. Suddenly, he received another message.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Haha! I have ascended to the Hua Fu Stage! Yan Yu, do you admit defeat now?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Hehe.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Hearing about my advancement, someone can't take it anymore, huh? Isn't it hard to eat and sleep, feeling all fragile now?

[Win Over with Virtue]: Speak human.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: I advise you to relax, don't let staying in the Marrow Cleansing Stage affect your eating and sleeping. After all, this all depends on cultivation talent, if your talent is too poor, there's nothing else to do about it.

[Win Over with Virtue]: I've told you already, I'd agreed with your sister to advance to the Hua Fu Stage together.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: I asked my sister, and she said she never made such an agreement with you.

[Win Over with Virtue]: You actually went and asked her?

Li Zhaojiang on the other end was first shocked, then silent, and finally wanted to spit blood, his joy of advancement utterly vanished.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Damn it, Yan Yu, just hurry up and find a girlfriend to distract yourself, otherwise I can't even find a good way to threaten you!

[Win Over with Virtue]: That's not great, your sister would get upset.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: My sister is on a special mission right now and doesn't have time to care about you!

[Win Over with Virtue]: So what exactly is the mission?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Good question! You think I'd leak secrets?

[Win Over with Virtue]: You could share some permissible information without giving away secrets.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: I can only tell you it's unrelated to combat, nothing more to say.

[Win Over with Virtue]: It isn't about helping the government train a special forces unit, is it? Haha.

Li Zhaojiang saw the message and his hand involuntarily trembled, nearly dropping his phone.

How does Yan Yu know about this? Damn, I really didn't say a thing!

Should I delete him as a friend fast? Otherwise, the higher-ups might think I blabbed... Wait a second, their team member, Chen Lingyun, whose dad is the Jianghai Governor, has connections everywhere. It's quite normal for him to get this information; I just need to make sure I don't let anything slip.

[Sunshine Pearl River]: How's the weather in Jinling today?

[Win Over with Virtue]: That topic change is pretty awkward, plus we are all cultivating in the Mysterious Realm, right? Aren't the Grotto Heavens in the Mysterious Realm completely isolated from the outer world's weather, creating their own systems except for the shift between day and night?

[Sunshine Pearl River]: Ah, so that's how it is! No wonder it never rains in the Mysterious Realm here; it's warm all year round like spring!

As Yan Yu sensed the overt dodging, he guessed he must have hit the nail on the head.

Li Minghu must be in charge of training the first batch of Mortal Warriors!

In the previous life, although the Mortal Warrior project officially came into existence after Li Zhaojiang's rebellion, Yan Yu was certain that the government had started working on it much earlier.

The logic was not hard to grasp; Cultivators, due to their differences from mortals, were bound to eventually form a new class. Currently, in Lu Country, Team Monks suppress Military Mansion Cultivators, who in turn suppress civilian Cultivators, essentially dividing and ruling within the cultivator community, but this still doesn't change the fact that the cultivator class can overpower the mortal class in terms of martial power.

If you can't control them, then rebellion will brew, a universal truth that human will cannot alter. Hence, there had to be a non-cultivator group capable of restraining Cultivators — the Mortal Warriors of the past era.

Because of True Yuan limitations, Mortal Warriors could only choose the least energy-consuming profession of Sword Immortal, and therefore could only seek instructors among Sword Immortal Cultivators. In this regard, even Liu Longtao and Yan Yu were no match for Li Minghu, who naturally came with the trait label "born with a chronic illness, incurable." You never know when she might pass away, so it's definitely safest for the government to use her.

Sigh.

Yan Yu actually also wanted to be an instructor for these Mortal Warriors, but he was not supposed to know of their existence yet, so he had to let it be.

Yet, he had never heard of the Valkyrie training the first batch of Mortal Warriors in his past life, which was a bit strange. Maybe it was due to some unpredictable butterfly effect, after all.

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"That won't work," Li Minghu said, "The most important thing for a Sword Immortal is mobility. What's the difference between a Sword Immortal without mobility and a target?"

The base manager responded:

"Your feedback will be reported. There are still technical flaws at present, please design the training program based on the current situation. We'll notify you if there are any adjustments."

Li Minghu sighed and couldn't help but cough again.

The current secret project — unnamed, therefore she didn't know how to refer to it — was supposed to enable mortals to utilize Cultivator's True Yuan and combat methods through some technological means.

The problem was, the machine devices for storing Cultivator's True Yuan were too large, reportedly weighing nearly a ton, and then connected to the test subject's arm vein through a tube.

Providing True Yuan in this manner meant the subjects couldn't move away from the device quickly, what kind of Sword Immortal was that?

To be honest, setting up a machine gun or artillery here would be more cost-effective than forcibly creating a Mortal capable of Sword Control Technique.

Not only was mobility almost zero, but the externally provided True Yuan was also extremely limited, and many subjects even reported that the True Yuan was unstable, working intermittently... Anyway, there were too many problems, and Li Minghu could only do so much within such constraints, designing Sword Control Techniques for these mortals that didn't require agile movements and had low requirements for True Yuan consumption and activation.