Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 783 - 36: Clever Ningning Has Brains

Lin Ning had already realized clearly that the enemy opposite was essentially a combination of an Envoy and a Magic Cultivator.

He could summon a large number of "summoned creatures" made of fresh blood, each of which acted as his eyes and ears, allowing him to sense the location of his enemies from a great distance; at the same time, he also possessed extremely powerful wide-ranging spells.

Combined, this meant he could lock onto your position from a great distance and then continuously launch bombardment attacks.

In fact, this multi-professional fusion model was a common phenomenon among the folk Transcendents. After all, they rarely had trustworthy partners and didn’t have the capital to continuously delve deep into a specialized field — they could only take the all-around development route, being both resilient and knowledgeable in various aspects, which made Lin Ning feel like she was facing a hedgehog, unable to start an attack.

If Lin Ning merely felt it was troublesome, then Ishana opposite had already started to lose his cool.

Folk Transcendents were always of mixed quality. More precisely, most were trash with no resources, no opportunities, and no development, so Ishana’s path to divinity wasn’t exactly smooth, but it was built on crushing countless weak opponents, yet he had never encountered someone with such explosive mobility as Lin Ning.

Every time he bombarded the area, thinking the other party was undoubtedly dead, the next second, he would see her calmly using the Ghostly Step Technique to escape from between the cracks of lightning, explosions, and shockwaves.

It was said that Yan Yu, the Divine General Dinghai, was best at the Ghostly Step Technique, which was reputed to be able to dodge all attacks, so Ishana became more convinced that "she is Yan Yu" and immediately commanded his subordinates to encircle and intercept, just as the Ascetics were also arriving.

Lin Ning reluctantly swept the area with her Divine Sense, still unable to locate Ishana, but saw more and more Ascetics coming... well, there was really no way to fight back now.

"I told you earlier to run away," the enemy taunted her again through telepathy, "it’s difficult to escape now."

"Shut up." Lin Ning rapidly scanned her surroundings, her mind flashing like lightning as she quickly devised several routes to the central water tower in the city.

"Why are you hesitating? Take to the rooftops!" the enemy said again.

"Why?" Lin Ning didn’t completely trust him and simply moved rapidly through the alleys, swiftly asking.

"If you take to the ground, you’re likely to get entangled by the Asuras lurking in the shadows," the enemy explained, "on the rooftops, though you’ll be exposed to the pursuers behind, you have the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, so you don’t need to worry about being bogged down. Instead, as they pursue you on the ground, they’ll have to deal with ambush attacks all around."

Lin Ning’s thoughts raced, realizing there was indeed some truth to his words.

On the ground, although she could use various buildings as cover to reduce the pursuit of the Ascetics from behind, she would still be restrained by the nearby lurking Mutants, and the complex structure of the alleys could also affect her mobility.

Her steps flickered below her, and she instantly shook off gravity and went up onto the rooftops, sprinting and jumping between different buildings’ tops.

Unlike what Lin Ning had anticipated, she also encountered attacks from Mutants on the rooftops. Hidden behind second-floor windows, they would suddenly reach out to grab someone passing by, or even burst through the walls with huge, barbed polearms, slashing fiercely at Lin Ning.

However, her Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step, with even greater mobility on the rooftop environment, completely undeterred by these attacks!

Lin Ning had practiced the step technique to the point where she could control it with ease, and even without focusing on it, her mind settled on a route and her feet automatically stepped in a pattern that matched the Eight Trigrams, pushing aside the numerous attacks while maintaining her speed.

Ishana closely monitored from a distance and quickly realized that continuing this pursuit was mostly futile; he hurriedly commanded two squads to flank Lin Ning from the left and the right in an attempt to intercept her ahead.

The left squad quickly reported: We are being held back by the Asuras nearby!

Ishana was speechless, only able to throw out the blue trident spear, summoning a large amount of thunder to blast ahead for the left squad and slay all the Asuras blocking the way.

Before he could catch his breath, the right squad sent a message:

We are lost! We have lost track of the target!

Ishana was furious, starting to suspect his subordinates were reincarnated from mountain pigs; he could only quickly pour out the Blood Storage Calamity Wave Cup, turning countless blood into rivers to guide the lost right squad towards Lin Ning.

As Lin Ning ran, she noticed the attacks from behind dwindling and began to grow cautious.

Why did the pursuit suddenly stop? Could they be taking a detour from the side, planning to intercept me ahead?

"Hey." Lin Ning asked inwardly.

"I am not called ’Hey,’" the voice answered, "I am the Ancient True Immortal trapped in the mirror..."

"Alright, Mirror Immortal," Lin Ning said, "you’ve been here all along, right? Then tell me: is the tall tower in the center the only route out of here?"

"It is not," the Mirror Immortal replied, "but for you, you can only take that tower, then up the Water Channel, and finally exit through the Dark River."

"So the exit really is that high-up Dark River entrance." Lin Ning quickly realized, "The reason I can only take the Water Channel is that there’s a prohibition against Flight here, and with my current Cultivation Realm, I can’t break through this ban."