Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 337 Remains of the Time Insect, Enhancement of the Law of Time
This giant Kun seemed to wander aimlessly in this sea area, swimming from east to west and from west to east, occasionally opening its mouth to devour the sky and the earth, sucking away all the monsters within a radius of thousands of kilometers with a single breath.

This guy isn't picky about food at all; he'll eat anything, regardless of the type or level of the spirit or monster.

He followed the giant Kun for almost a week and witnessed it open its Devouring Maw and swallow two monsters of level 300 or higher no less than ten times.

And on several occasions, they swallowed up patrols of the Northern Dragon City's army that were patrolling nearby, as well as a patrol team from an important stronghold belonging to Dragon City near the Water Eye.

This is also the main reason why Beiminglong City wants to drive it away. This stronghold is not far from the water eye and is usually one of the important recruitment points. A Celestial Dragon and a Celestial Crab General are stationed here year-round, constantly conjuring up water soldiers from the water eye.

The presence of a giant Kun (a mythical fish) is severely disrupting the normal operation of recruitment points.

"This guy's trajectory follows a certain pattern."

After following the giant Kun for almost half a month, Su Yu discovered that the giant Kun's activity pattern seemed to be traceable, circling around this sea area, or more precisely, circling around this sea eye as the center.

"It has been stuck here and can't be driven away no matter what we do. This area must be very special to this giant Kun. Perhaps it is looking for something. If we can find something special, we might be able to get it to leave."

"but."

Su Yu pinched the bridge of her nose and gave a wry smile. This area was too big, with a diameter of twenty to thirty million kilometers. It would take forever to find it.

Moreover, he believed that the Beiming Dragon City side had been dealing with this giant Kun for so long that they must have figured it out and had thought of a way to deal with it. With the strength of Beiming Dragon City, they could easily send hundreds of millions of demon soldiers to conduct a carpet search, but they still had no results.

No clue at all.

Su Yu rubbed her forehead:
"Are we really going to kill this giant Kun?"

"But we can't beat them."

"Communication is also impossible."

For the past two weeks, he hadn't just foolishly followed along. He had also risked getting close to the giant Kun in an attempt to communicate with it, but when he transformed into a red dragon and approached, he was met with the giant Kun's gaze as if it were food. If he hadn't run fast, he would have been swallowed whole.

He transformed back into his true form and approached, but no matter how he called out to the giant Kun, it did not respond.

When he tried to attack the giant Kun, most of his attacks were ignored if they couldn't break through its defenses, and any excessive attacks only resulted in the abyss opening.

No way.

"There must be a way, let me think."

Su Yu opened her personal space and began to examine it carefully.

Although there were many items in the personal space, it seemed that nothing could attract the giant Kun's attention.

Then, upon opening the panel again, it seemed that even various supernatural powers and techniques were powerless to solve the problem.

"How to do it?"

"Should we give up and switch to another mission?"

Su Yu stroked her chin thoughtfully and said:

"If I were to switch to the second mission, I could indeed defeat all the demon immortals of Chenxingyuan one by one within a year, given my strength."

After all, the Ancient Dragon's Primordial Spirit Avatar has already cooled down, and with the Time-Treading Divine Power refreshing the cooldown, it can be used twice, giving him a total of 4 minutes, which is enough time for him to destroy the Abyss of Fallen Stars.

But Ao Ying has already taken on this mission, and their army is probably already at the entrance of Shenxingyuan.

The last option goes without saying; he had previously added the name of that snake-man celestial being to the Tianji Tower, which he had hired to search for Yu Jun's whereabouts, but he still didn't know its exact location.

Not only is he elusive, but he also seems to practice the art of celestial secrets, making it impossible to calculate his whereabouts using celestial Taoist methods.

"So now I only have two choices: either fight this giant Kun to the death, or try to reach an agreement with Ao Ying so that he will give up this opportunity and destroy Shenxingyuan himself."

"time is limited."

There were only a dozen days left in the month that Ao Ying and I had agreed upon.

"Damn it."

At this moment, Su Yu was completely helpless.

Time flew by, and more than twenty days passed in a flash.

During this time, he occasionally discovered that there were other experts observing the giant Kun nearby, and not just one group. There were both human Heavenly Eye people and merfolk, all of whom were Heavenly Immortal level experts, but they only observed from a distance and did not approach.

Su Yu didn't care. Driving the giant Kun out of Beiming Dragon City was a task in itself, and completing it would reward 10 great merits. Players from all races would definitely be interested.

One morning, Su Yu, who was continuing to observe the giant Kun, received a message from Ao Ying:

"Brother Su, are you ready? We'll be launching our attack in five days."

"Arrived on time."

He shut down the communication and sighed softly.

"Let's go to Ao Ying's side first. There's still plenty of time here. We'll come back and continue observing after the fight over there is over."

Shaking his head, watching the giant Kun open its enormous maw to devour a massive number of monsters, Su Yu suddenly had a strange thought:

"It seems that even after all this time, we still haven't gotten close enough to this giant Kun."

Just as the giant Kun had finished its big meal, he transformed into a wisp of smoke and flew over, landing directly on the giant Kun's back.

With its feet touching its back, the giant Kun's back was as hard as rock and as stable as the earth.

He tried to stomp down with both feet, but it didn't budge.

Giant Kun (Myth): Level 495, a deep-sea beast.

Attributes: 1200 billion HP, 3 million MP, 100 billion Attack Power, 2 km/h Speed: Devour Heaven and Earth, Giant Kun Collision, Mount Tai Pressing Down, Tail Strikes the Four Seas, Overturns the Four Seas, Universe in the Belly, Kun Tremor, Floating in the Void, Invulnerable to All Laws (Mysterious Immortal), Immovable as a Mountain.
"fear!"

As he stepped onto the surface of the giant Kun, its attributes were revealed to Su Yu, so high that he was utterly shocked.

"No wonder no one can do anything about it, its attributes are too exaggerated, comparable to a Xuanxian."

He shook his head and paced back and forth on the back of the Kun.

This creature is as large as a floating island, but unlike other giant turtles, its body is not covered with rocks and marine parasites; its surface is perfectly smooth.

That's strange.

Su Yu spent almost a day circling the giant Kun and returning to its back, but in the end, she shook her head.

His figure flickered and transformed into a celestial demon, then flickered again.
Instead of turning into wisps of smoke, it activated its Ruyi Transformation, rapidly expanding its body until it transformed into a giant Kun, only about 20 kilometers long.

"Ok?"

The moment he transformed, many experts from various races who were observing from afar were stunned:
"Wasn't he supposed to transform into a celestial demon? How can he transform into a giant Kun?"

"I've never heard of a demon transforming like this before?"

"Who among you knows about the Heavenly Demon Transformation?"

"I've heard of it before. It's just a sophisticated transformation technique. After establishing the foundation, it will give rise to new methods. There's a very small chance that it will give rise to the Ruyi Transformation technique, which can transform into all things, including spirits. But I remember that the Ruyi Transformation technique has a limited size. It can't transform into a large spirit. If you force a transformation, you can only transform into a smaller, more mysterious version that can be recognized at a glance."

"His transformed giant Kun is over 20 kilometers long, that's too outrageous."

"It's outrageous, but not impossible. It's possible that the magical transformations he developed are different from those developed by others."

"It is also possible that by consuming a large amount of Golden Core essence or Heavenly Dao power, the level of this transformation technique could be raised to the level of a sect-protecting master or even the supreme level."

"The power of the Heavenly Dao is so precious, and the essence of the Golden Core is limited. It would be a waste to use it on this, wouldn't it?"

"Who knows? If someone likes it, there's nothing we can do about it."

"Ok."

Regardless of the astonishment of the onlookers, Su Yu had already recovered from his surprise and understood why the giant Kun that had undergone this transformation was over twenty kilometers long.

The main reason is that the Heavenly Ghost Transformation has been upgraded from the original exquisite level to an unprecedented supreme level transformation, and its essence has undergone earth-shattering changes. In addition, the Heavenly Ghost Transformation technique has been upgraded to the Golden Core method, and its power has been qualitatively enhanced compared to the beginning.

Moreover, this transformation was not beyond the realm of common sense. Su Yu's true form was at the fourth-grade Golden Core level, which is level 240.

The giant Kun he has transformed into is about 20 kilometers long, which is equivalent to a level 240 giant Kun. This is not beyond the realm of common sense. If another cultivator were to raise the Heavenly Ghost Transformation to the Supreme Rank and then raise it to the Golden Core Rank in one go, he could achieve the same result as him.

The normal Heavenly Ghost Transformation is only at the refined level. There are many transformation methods stronger than this, but few would spend so much Heavenly Dao power to upgrade to the Supreme level or to the Golden Core level.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the ability to generate the supernatural power of "wish-fulfilling transformation".

The Heavenly Ghost's derivative abilities are not all fixed. For example, the Five Elements Thunder Technique, the Five Elements Forbidden Technique, the Five Elements Escape Technique, the transformation of reality into illusion, and the transformation of illusion into reality are all fixed derivative abilities.

The transformations of Ruyi and the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Forbiddenness are not fixed derivatives; they mainly depend on one's luck.

All these factors combined mean that although there are many cultivators in the world who practice the Heavenly Ghost Transformation, very few meet the conditions required for Su Yu's current level.

"hold head high!"

A long whistle, like a steam whistle, rang in Su Yu's ears, interrupting his thoughts. Before the little Kun he had transformed into could even raise its head, it could sense the violent changes in the seawater beside it.

"It has been discovered."

The little Kun strained its head and saw that the giant Kun, which had been slowly swimming around, had turned around and was looking at it.

"Stay calm and don't act rashly."

Twenty kilometers in length is not small, but compared to the giant Kun above its head, which is thousands of kilometers long, it is only a mystery.

The two giant Kun, one large and one small, looked at each other, and he could see the confusion in their eyes.

"Who are you???"

The sound was like a thunderclap, causing the surrounding seawater to tremble violently.

"Can you speak?"

But the little Kun in the mirage was not surprised but delighted, its eyes lit up, and a flash of inspiration struck it, so it pounced on it:

"Ancestor!"

Su Yu transformed into a tiny, bewildered Kun and quickly clung to the giant Kun, then burst into tears, embracing it tightly.

"Ancestor, I have finally found you."

The giant Kun was clearly bewildered, its massive face showing a sense of helplessness.

"Ancestor, where have you been? I've been looking for you for so long."

"There are so many monsters outside, I'm so scared."

After a long while, the giant Kun finally reacted. A fin, even larger than its own body, gently stroked it and asked in a buzzing voice:

“Child, I was also separated from my people and dragged into this place. I have been searching for my way back.”

Su Yu felt reassured and immediately asked:

"Did our ancestors find their way back?"

"I found it, but I can't open it or get in."

"Can you take me to see it?" "Come with me."

The giant Kun slowly turned around and flew in one of the directions, with the little Kun in the daze immediately following.

After wandering for several hours, the giant Kun arrived above the water eye it often passed by and hummed:

"it's here."

Su Yu looked down and saw a huge sea eye with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, from which countless aquatic creatures spewed out and surged in all directions.

The lowest level monsters inside are all over 100, and you can occasionally see monsters over 200. Most of them are low-level experience monsters, but you can also occasionally see some elite monsters or even legendary bosses.

Su Yu, transformed into a giant Kun, pointed her right wing fin towards the water eye below and asked curiously:
Is it inside this water eye?

The giant Kun nodded:

"It's inside, but I can't get in."

Su Yu transformed into a tiny Kun and turned to rush downwards, but an invisible force immediately bound him. Just as he was wondering what was going on, he saw the giant Kun's massive body brush past him and fly in front of him, slowly sinking down like an island.

He knew that the giant Kun was protecting him, afraid of being harmed by the high-level monsters that spawned in the water.

The two Kun, one large and one small, disappeared into the sea eye, immediately attracting the attention of the nearby observing cultivators.

"There is a situation."

"Hurry up and follow them."

More than a dozen figures flew in from different directions and entered the sea eye.

In the eye of the sea, Su Yu transformed into a tiny Kun and followed the giant Kun as it sank. Wherever they went, the monsters emerging from the water eye scattered and fled. The two Kun, one big and one small, entered the water eye and sank for thousands of kilometers in this abyss-like water eye before the giant Kun stopped.

"right here."

Su Yu looked around with a puzzled expression and quickly noticed something unusual.

Deep within this water eye, in a place invisible to the naked eye, lies a spacetime disorder.

Time is disordered, space is disordered.

The chaotic space was hidden beneath the disordered flow of time. If Su Yu's true form had not mastered the laws of time, she would definitely not have been able to discover the anomaly here.

Little Kun circled the anomaly and could see the monsters that spawned at the bottom of the water eye surging out and passing through this spacetime disordered area. Most of them passed through the area without being affected, but a small number disappeared as if they were swallowed by space.

"So this giant Kun emerged from this spatial rift hidden by the temporal disorder?"

"It lingers in this area because the way it came is right here, so no matter what methods you use to lure or drive it away, it won't work."

"At the same time, this spatial rift is covered by chaotic temporal turbulence. The giant Kun knows that the entrance and exit are here, but it has no way to find a place to enter by passing through the temporal turbulence."

"Well"

Su Yu pondered for a moment, then spoke:
"I'll go over and take a look."

He plunged headlong into it.

However, it was immediately blocked by an invisible force, and the giant Kun's booming voice rang out:

"Danger."

"I want to go back."

The giant Kun remained silent for a moment, the force that had been blocking it disappeared, and the little Kun plunged headlong into the turbulent flow of time, vanishing instantly.

The moment it entered the temporal turbulence, the power of time washed over it, and the giant Kun that the Heavenly Ghost had transformed into visibly aged and decayed. It collapsed on the spot and reverted to its true form in less than three seconds. Then, the time law of its true form, which was increased by 30, made it unaffected by the temporal turbulence.

"Time turbulence!"

Su Yu stretched out his right hand, and he could feel the power of time flowing within him.

With a thought, an invisible wave rippled outwards from him, causing the surrounding time force to pause and slow its flow, but it only lasted for a minute before exceeding his control limit and returning to its original state.

"My understanding of the rules is still insufficient."

Su Yu's gaze shifted, circling back and forth in this chaotic flow of time, and she quickly discovered the anomaly.

Within this temporal turbulence, there is indeed a spatial rift hidden within it. Due to the influence of the temporal turbulence, this spatial rift is not visible in reality and is generally invisible to ordinary people. Only those with extremely strong abilities or those who have mastered the laws of time can see it.

What surprised him even more was that although the spatial rift was quite large, with a diameter of more than ten kilometers, it was clearly not enough to allow a giant Kun, which was thousands of kilometers long, to pass through.

And
Su Yu arrived at the center of the spatial rift and could see a thin layer of world membrane on the surface of the rift. This was the power of the world to instinctively repair spatial rifts.

Logically, without external interference, the fundamental power of the world should gradually repair these spatial rifts.

But what he saw was a force preventing the space from being repaired.

This force is an extremely powerful force of time, which penetrates through the thin membrane of this world and seeps into this world, forming the temporal turbulence that covers the spatial rift.

That is
"Behind this spatial rift, there is an extremely powerful source of temporal turbulence preventing the spatial rift from being repaired by the power of the world."

Su Yu watched as spirits occasionally emerged from the water's eye and entered the temporal turbulence, rapidly aging and decaying. Occasionally, a high-level spirit would withstand the temporal turbulence, pass through the world membrane, and disappear into a spatial rift, leaving her in a state of bewilderment.

"Would you like to go in and take a look?"

After pondering for a while, he made up his mind:
"Go ahead, things have to be resolved. At worst, we'll die. It's not like we haven't died before."

Gritting his teeth, Su Yu summoned the Azure Cloud Canopy and plunged into the world's membrane.

At the same time, many cultivators had already dived into the sea eye and quickly found the giant Kun that was stopped above the turbulent flow of time.

"Huh? Where did that little giant Kun go?"

"What is this giant Kun doing here?"

The group looked around, but couldn't see anything.

“This giant Kun has never entered the sea eye. That person transformed into a giant Kun and is of the same kind as it. They must be able to communicate with it. Perhaps they learned something from the giant Kun.”

Some imaginative people have already guessed what it is.

There must be some secret around here.

"Let's dive over and take a look."

The group quietly bypassed the giant Kun from a distance and flew towards its base, soon touching the temporal turbulence.

"Oh no, there's a time turbulence here. My lifespan has been reduced by two months."

"I'm losing one month, or one month every second."

"Damn, I lose 4 months every second."

"There must be a secret here. Let's go in and take a look."

"You can go in. My mastery of the laws is insufficient; I cannot bear this loss."

"Row."

"Buzz!"

Su Yu felt a lightness throughout her body as an incomparably powerful force of time, mixed with a violent void storm, swept over her. The Azure Cloud Canopy trembled violently, and its defensive power vanished at a rate of millions per second.

Upon seeing the object ahead after passing through the spatial rift, Su Yu was shocked.

He didn't take the spatial storm seriously, relying on the current defensive power of the Azure Cloud Canopy and his own mana to withstand it for a long time.

What shocked him was a Time Worm corpse, only about ten meters long, floating in the void not far from the spatial rift. Unimaginable power of time flew out from the corpse, forming layers of temporal turbulence that surged in all directions.

Those spirits that managed to enter the rift through the spatial turbulence on the other side did not die in the spatial storm, but were swept away by this even more powerful temporal turbulence and decayed rapidly before the naked eye.

Time-reflecting insect.

Its name is ordinary, but its existence is extraordinary; many immortals have never even heard of it.

Su Yu only learned about this after mastering the laws of time. It was a time-related life form that lived in the Mother River of Time and was born by consuming the water of the Mother River of Time.

Logically speaking, this thing only exists in the Mother River of Time, and even if it perishes, it will be assimilated into the Mother River of Time, making it impossible for it to appear in the present world.

There is only one possibility for this situation to occur: something must have happened in the Mother River of Time that caused this Time Worm to be affected, resulting in its death and its true form being expelled from the Mother River of Time.

Su Yu didn't know exactly what had happened, but he knew he was about to make it big this time.

The Time Worm is born with mastery of the laws of time and feeds on the water of the Mother River of Time. Not only is its mastery of the laws of time stronger than Su Yu's, but it must also have residual water from the Mother River of Time in its body, or contain time-related divine objects.

Su Yu rushed towards the remains of the Time Insect almost impatiently, and the temporal turbulence that rushed towards him made him even more excited.

"Suck!"

He took a deep breath, and the power of time surging from the remains of the Time Worm was actively absorbed by him, forming a tornado of time power centered on him.

At this moment, his mind was clear and lucid, and the intangible laws of time took on a tangible form and entered his mind.

He rushed to the Time Worm Corpse in one breath, reached out and pressed down on it. Instantly, an even more turbulent torrent of time erupted, forming a huge time vortex centered on him.

"It's now!"

A flash of innate, indestructible spiritual light appeared in Su Yu's mind. She immediately closed her eyes, her figure began to blur, and she quickly merged into the vortex of time and disappeared.

"A flash of inspiration!"

"Another epiphany!"

Words cannot describe it. Su Yu felt as if her consciousness had transformed into time itself, constantly spinning in this vortex of time.

Sometimes it flows forward, sometimes it flows backward; the speed of time is constantly changing, sometimes a thousand years in an instant, sometimes hundreds of years in a flash.

As Su Yu's body transformed into time, her soul merged with time itself, and the innate, indestructible spiritual light within her true spirit constantly shifted and changed.

In this state, his mastery of the laws of time also progressed by leaps and bounds.

Time Law +31.

Time Law +32.

Time Law +35.

As his mastery of the laws of time became more refined, the power of the various supernatural abilities derived from the laws of time he had previously mastered began to increase rapidly and underwent a qualitative change.

Furthermore, the various time-based sword techniques originally derived from the Destiny Sword Manual began to become independent of the Destiny Sword Manual during this period of change, evolving into time-based divine abilities that rely on the laws of time.

It originates from the way of the sword, and is also included in the way of the sword and the way of martial arts.

Time Law Divine Power - Overdraft the Future: Borrow power from the future, physical attack power and magic damage +300%, lasting for a total of 60 minutes each month.

Time Law Divine Power - Passage of Time: Controls time, intercepts the lifespan of the target, the amount intercepted varies depending on the difference in strength between the two parties, 2000 years of lifespan is intercepted at the same level, cooldown time is 24 hours.

Time Law Divine Power - Snap of Time: Allows you to return to any point 60 minutes ago, with a 24-hour cooldown.

(End of this chapter)