Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 697 - 3 Ancient Heroes Tire the Beauties

That was a lie, as a cultivator has great tolerance for temperature fluctuations and doesn’t need to sweat to cool down, much less change into cooler clothing.

However, Yan Yu didn’t say anything, because he wanted to watch.

Xie Ruoxi’s wardrobe used to have a lot of cosplay outfits, mainly popular female characters from mobile games, followed by various female leads from hot anime. But since understanding Yan Yu’s preferences, she had emptied and refilled her wardrobe once more. Now, it mainly consisted of everyday romantic comedy clothing, including school uniforms—the kind that wouldn’t look strange to wear out and about.

She changed into a white blouse, tying the hem into a bow to reveal a hint of her belly and a cute belly button. Then she added a grass-green tie and a black, delicate necklace, while changing into a blue-green plaid skirt below.

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“Is this the fashionable high school girl look?” Yan Yu guessed.

“It’s a spicy girl look,” Xie Ruoxi replied.

It must be said that she pulled off the anime spicy girl look quite well. If Yun Jin or Ningning tried it, even with revealing clothes, smoky makeup and tattooed arms, they would still give off the genteel aura of good family girls—mainly because society has prejudices, thinking that a spicy girl must at least have a fiery figure.

Upon closer inspection, she was probably ‘Main C’ quality. It didn’t matter that she couldn’t compete with the Demonic Sect Enchantress, who was beyond ordinary standards; visitors from the Otherworld have genetic differences from us Earthlings, but even compared to Anna or Ye Jun, she did not fall short. In this regard, I recognize you, Xie Ruoxi!

From today on, you are no longer just a pretty but useless beauty! But a beauty with both looks and body, still useless!

“Does this suit me?” Xie Ruoxi asked, coming out in her new outfit, cautiously.

“It suits you well,” Yan Yu replied.

As everyone knows, out of a need to show off, a team leader often won’t give perfect scores, because that would come across as being inexperienced, so “quite good” can be considered a full score.

Xie Ruoxi immediately beamed with joy.

“So what’s your question?” Yan Yu asked again.

“Uh, it’s like this…” Xie Ruoxi slowly pulled over a chair, sat down next to Yan Yu, and finally thought of a question they could talk about:

“I feel like I’m naturally suited to a powerful brute-force combat style, but my weakness lies in my poor self-defense. I’m not good at defense, I’m not agile in my positioning and dodging, and my awareness is even harder to train. If I have teammates covering for me, it’s fine, but if I’m forced into a situation where I have to fight solo, how can I better preserve myself?”

“Train,” Yan Yu stated succinctly.

“I am indeed working hard at training, but I feel like I’m just naturally clumsy,” Xie Ruoxi said with a pitiful, aggrieved expression, “Ningning picks up the same dodging skills in a few minutes, but I might not grasp them even after several days.”

“It’s a lack of insight,” Yan Yu immediately concluded.

A cultivator with exceptional talent and brute-force capabilities, yet poor performance in technical areas, could be excused as “bullying the weak needs no skill,” with Lord Master being the prime example. But considering that Xie Ruoxi had indeed trained for quite some time without much progress, it might be because her insight was really low.

This was not referring to insight in cultivation, but the insight needed to adapt on the fly in combat, or, to use a more general term:

Intelligence.

“How about drinking some brain tonic oral liquid?” Yan Yu thought for a while and hesitantly said, “Or let Ningning cook you some crucian carp soup, maybe brew some walnut drink.”

“Captain, I’m serious here!” Xie Ruoxi clung to Yan Yu’s arm, coquettishly shaking it, “Being smart or dumb isn’t something I can choose, but since I’ve joined the Zhenhai Team, I can’t drag everyone down, right?”

The clever Ruoxi had already observed thoroughly; as long as she used discussing tactics as an excuse to cozy up to the captain, he wouldn’t get angry!

Sure enough, Yan Yu wasn’t bothered by her coming closer, instead, he focused on pondering a solution.

Previous life training methods for Mortal Warriors were almost all unsuitable for Xie Ruoxi. After all, those people emphasized “make up with skills when cultivation is lacking,” but Xie Ruoxi’s cultivation was already over the top and at the other extreme.

Those with situations similar to hers were more like Lord Master Liu Longtao. Unfortunately for him, his “inadequate skills” were only in comparison with technical masters like Li Minghu. Among the Team Monks as a whole, he was still a badass and didn’t need to worry about self-defense.

And Xie Ruoxi’s technical insight compared to Lord Master had fallen far short, almost to the ridiculous extent of “if the opponent isn’t taken out in the first round, then you’ll be taken out in the second round.”

Oh man, what to do?

The best method would surely be to find her a defensive magic treasure, like Ye Jun’s Xuan Guang Ruler—an infusion of True Yuan splits out a protective shield, and after putting it on, there’s nothing left to fear—but defensive magic treasures aren’t so easy to find. This world lacks an appraisal technique, and you simply can’t know a Magic Treasure’s effects before it’s refined and acknowledged by the owner.