Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 353 Unifying Blue Mountain, Version Update

The army stayed in the Blood Demon Palace for almost a month, and it took less than half a day to conquer the Blood Demon Palace, but it took a month to clear out the vast territory of the Blood Demon Palace.

The clearing is not yet complete; only a few important temples and cities have been occupied to establish sovereignty.

In addition, during this period, Su Yu also made an agreement with the sect leader to rename Blood Demon Mountain as Suspended Mountain, as the dojo of the Suspended Mountain lineage. The sect leader would then decide on the Yin Yang Demon Sect, which would be conquered later.

As for guild territory, there's no need to mention it. Native cultivators only care about sects at the same level. They don't care about guilds. Even if the entire Blue Mountain were ruled by the Thousand Star Palace, they wouldn't have any objections.

A month later, after the Suspended Mountain lineage rebuilt its mountain gate there, Su Yu and the sect leader led the main force of the army westward, heading straight for the Yin Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate.

However, it's not a straight line; it keeps moving and stopping, and every time it stops for a while, a demonic sect perishes.

The war to exterminate demons is mainly aimed at the Blood Demon Palace and the Yin-Yang Demon Sect, but that doesn't mean other small and medium-sized demon sects will be spared; they are all targets to be destroyed.

These sects don't even have Celestial Immortals, so how could they be a match for them?

To speed things up, Su Yu sent out the four women of Xuan Yue to set up a primordial array, which forcibly reduced the entire sect and its members to ashes.

After traveling at a leisurely pace, it took almost four months to finally arrive at the gates of the Yin-Yang Demon Sect.

Su Yu stood atop the cloud platform, looking down at the Yin-Yang Divine Mountain, whose protective array had already been dismantled, and laughed:

"It seems they have retreated into their secluded cave."

The many high-ranking members and true disciples of the surrounding sects were deeply moved to see a top sect on par with their own being so frightened that it had closed its doors and secluded itself.

"Fortunately, it's our sect's disciple, otherwise we would be the ones in trouble."

At this moment, the sect leader came to Su Yu's side, looked down, and asked:
"The grotto-heaven has been closed. Does the Daoist have a way to open it?"

"I'll go take a look first."

With one step, he disappeared from the cloud platform and reappeared at the Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate, directly on a platform at the top of the mountain gate. On the other side of the platform was the Yin-Yang Demon Sect's council hall.

An elderly immortal sat at the entrance of the main hall. Upon seeing Su Yu arrive, he laboriously clasped his hands in a respectful bow.
"But Daozi Xuanzhen?"

"It is indeed I, the two sect leaders. Do you have any messages for me?"

The old, immortal-like figure grinned:
“Indeed extraordinary. It is a great fortune for the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect to accept you as a disciple. Why can’t my sect find such a fine disciple?”

Su Yu remained silent, watching as the old immortal, after a moment of reflection, suddenly became serious and said in a deep voice:

"We already know that Daozi's strength is extraordinary, probably no less than that of a true immortal. Normally sealing the mountain would probably be difficult to stop Daozi's methods, so we have completely severed the connection between the cave heaven and this world. It will probably be difficult to return in the future."

"Furthermore, before leaving, our sect has already set up an array beneath this mountain. Once activated, it can turn tens of thousands of kilometers around into chaos."

"boast!"

The old earth immortal paused for a moment, then chuckled dryly and continued:

"Even if it fails to turn ten thousand miles into chaos, it can still destroy a radius of a thousand miles."

"If Daozi agrees to exterminate all the disciples who did not leave with our sect, we can obtain our sect intact; otherwise, we will perish together."

"No need, I can do it myself."

Su Yu turned and left, flashing back to the cloud platform in a few moments. Behind him, the chaotic gate opened wide, and the four women of Xuan Yue emerged from it. He waved and said:

"Set up a grand formation and refine this mountain for me."

"Your Highness's command is hereby obeyed!"

The four women transformed into four streams of light that soared into the sky and dispersed to the four directions of the Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate, thousands of miles away. Soon, four demon gods stood in the four directions, holding up the Primordial Treasure Banner and planting it into the ground. The four lights of earth, fire, wind, and water extended in all directions and quickly merged into one.

"The Four Symbols in Chaos!"

The power of the innate spiritual treasure transformed the acquired matter of this world into earth, fire, wind, and water, which rapidly extended towards the Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate.

"So decisive!"

The old earth immortal atop the mountain gate sighed softly, stomped his foot, and an invisible wave traveled to the ground, activating a large array hidden underground.

A short while later, the earth within a radius of a thousand miles began to tremble. As if an earth dragon were turning over, the earth arched up and cracked. Suffocating poisonous fire mixed with evil energy spewed out from the cracks, transforming into pillars of evil energy that shot into the sky.

"There really is such a trick!"

Su Yu immediately sent a telepathic message to the four women of Xuan Yue:
"Simply seal off the space!"

The four women immediately changed formation, and the transformed earth, fire, wind, and water gradually calmed down, while the light screen strengthened its lock on this area.

They have already stirred up the ancient poisonous energy accumulated in the earth's lungs. At this point, there is no way to stop them; the only thing to do is to limit the impact to this small area.

"You dare to pull this trick on me? You think sealing off the mountain is the end of it? Watch how I bring you back."

Su Yu snorted coldly and quietly watched as the massive Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate gradually crumbled.

As the toxic fire from the earth's lungs burst forth and transformed into a pillar of fire supporting the sky, the earth cracked, and endless lava mixed with poisonous flames spewed out, engulfing the ravaged land. The vast Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate was completely reduced to ashes.

Normally, when the earth cracks and spews out toxic flames and fire from the earth's lungs, it will carry billions of toxic fire and evil energy, polluting an area of ​​tens of thousands of kilometers in radius, which is not wrong with what that old earth immortal said.

Unfortunately, the four women of Xuan Yue were here, and the innate grand formation sealed off space and time, firmly binding this world-destroying and endless poisonous flames within this area, preventing them from spreading.

Half a month later, Su Yu ordered the four women of Xuan Yue to activate the great formation to transform all the endless poisonous flames and earthly evil into earth fire and wind water, and then sink down to cover the ground to form a solid land.

Thus, the natural disaster has vanished, and the mountain gate where the Yin-Yang Demon Sect was located has been transformed into a plain.

The fifth-order spiritual vein located underground collapsed with the collapse of the sky and the cracks in the earth, turning into hundreds of spiritual veins of different sizes that flowed in all directions along the cracks in the earth's veins.

"Pity."

The fifth-order spiritual vein had just disappeared, and the sect leader looked regretful.

Su Yu also shook her head and said:

"The Demonic Sect is the Demonic Sect; it should be exterminated."

Then, he took a step forward and reappeared above the now-vanished Yin-Yang Demon Sect's mountain gate, turning back and forth a few times before finally appearing in a certain void.

"Found you."

The extraordinary perception granted by the immortal will of the Chaos Demon God allows one to sense the traces left in the space; this is the former entrance to the Yin-Yang Cave.

After all, it was a cave entrance that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years. It had only been broken for two months. How could it be so easy to erase all traces?

Su Yu's figure blurred as he transformed into the true form of the Chaos Demon God. He stretched out his arms, channeled his magic power, and his five fingers shone with crystalline light as he fiercely plunged into the void.

"Chaotic Divine Power!"

The space suddenly trembled, and two ripples spread out, revealing a rugged and uneven space beneath the ripples.

"boom!"

The other two arms, enveloped in crystalline light, swiftly and rapidly plunged into the uneven spaces of space, their five fingers piercing halfway into the earth as if they were being driven into it.

"Open it for me!"

With both arms working together, he channeled all the magic and power in his body. After a violent tremor, the space cracked with a crisp 'crack' sound, and the space where his ten fingers were inserted split open, the cracks spreading rapidly in all directions.

"Crack!"

The cracks expanded outwards under the terrifying power of the demon god, and soon the sounds of shattering blended together.

"boom!"

In an instant, the space within a radius of several kilometers shattered like a piece of tempered glass, breaking into countless fragments suspended in the air, and a faint scream could be heard coming from within.

Su Yu pointed a finger and gently tapped down, causing countless fragments to fall and revealing a huge spatial passage.

He lowered his head, a slight smile playing on his lips:
"We've got you."

Behind the spatial passage lies the Yin-Yang Cave Heaven, which was recently severed. It is only a few kilometers away from the main world's crystal wall, and is not even as long as the arm of the Demon God's true form.

The demon god's true form extended its six arms and pressed them into the crystal wall of the Yin-Yang Cave. This power was not enough to shake a large cave and pull it back, but it was enough to fix it in place and establish a stable passage, as well as firmly block the exit of the Yin-Yang Cave.

Then the four women of Xuan Yue flew onto his back into the Yin-Yang Cave Heaven, and opened the Chaos Gate, allowing two Celestial Spirit Puppets to fly inside.

Six Celestial Immortal-level warriors are enough to sweep through the Yin-Yang Cave Heaven.

As expected, the six celestial immortals only took five days to wipe out all the Yin-Yang Demon Sect demons within the cave, including the less than a thousand players who had retreated into the cave.

Of the tens of millions of disciples of a prestigious top sect, fewer than a thousand are willing to stand with the sect through thick and thin.

The other disciples had long since left the sect, some fleeing overseas, some to remote areas of Blue Mountain, and some core disciples and above preparing to leave Blue Mountain in groups to make a living elsewhere.

From beginning to end, in less than five months, the two great demonic sects, with a lineage spanning over two hundred thousand years, were destroyed, shaking the world.

Then the main force of the sect returned, while Su Yu stayed behind. He needed to work with Canghai and the four women of Xuanyue to bring the broken Yin-Yang Cave back together.

This Yin-Yang Cave Heaven is the core cave heaven of the Yin-Yang Demon Sect. Its area is no smaller than that of the Xuanzhen Cave Heaven. It can serve as the core foundation of a sect and should not be wasted.

Although the Yin-Yang Demon Sect's fifth-order spiritual veins are ruined, they are not completely destroyed. In the future, it will take hundreds of years to slowly dredge the spiritual veins, reassemble the broken spiritual veins, and reshape them into fifth-order spiritual veins.

Su Yu did not raise any objections to the ownership of the Yin Yang Cave Heaven Mountain Gate. After a struggle among the various branches within the sect, it was finally allocated to the Wanfa branch, one of the six main branches.

While Su Yu was struggling to draw the Yin-Yang Cave Heaven, the Thousand Star Palace had already launched a counterattack.

They split into three groups. One group went ashore, followed the Yuan River westward to Wulong City, and then went south from Wulong City, passing through Zhenmo Pass and heading straight for Longtu City.

They also landed along the way, heading south along the coastline, conquering the coastline and near-shore areas.

One group traveled by waterway straight to the South China Sea, sweeping all before reaching the headquarters of the Anti-Thousand Star Palace Guild Alliance.

However, the once-powerful Anti-Thousand Stars Palace Guild Alliance headquarters is now reduced to a handful of members, with only a dozen or so remaining out of hundreds of guilds. They surrendered immediately when the army arrived.

These dozen or so guilds are those that are willing to merge into Thousand Star Palace.

Gu Zhiqi left a group of people to take over the area, while the main force continued south. Riding on the momentum of Su Yu's annihilation of the two sects, they swept through the land with unstoppable force, and no power dared to resist their advance.

A year later, when Su Yu had completely pulled the Yin-Yang Cave back and re-fixed it, the Thousand Star Palace had already initially achieved its strategic goals.

In addition, while he was drawing upon the Yin-Yang Cave Heaven, the Nine Heavens Sword Sect and the Brahma Buddhist Sect issued statements one after another, deciding to leave Blue Mountain as a whole.

At this point, the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect had initially completed the unification of Lanshan.

Next came a series of complex issues: how to allocate resources and territory, and how to deal with the disciples who had not left the sect, especially the many applications from disciples from the Nine Heavens Sword Sect to join the Profound True Immortal Sect.

After discussions between Su Yu and the sect leader, it was decided that all formal disciples of the Nine Heavens Sword Sect would be allowed to directly transfer into the inner sect. Outer sect disciples who had been disciples for less than five years could also transfer directly, while those who had been disciples for more than five years could develop on their own.

In addition, with the consent of all the main and branch branches of the sect, the sect leader reported to the patriarch and proposed that the Xuankong Mountain branch be designated as one of the main branches of the sect.

As for the original Nine Heavens Sword Sect mountain gate that was soon vacated, it was directly assigned to the Heavenly Sword lineage, which was the main lineage of the sect's seven main branches and focused on swordsmanship, which was a perfect fit.

The Brahma Buddhist sect's mountain gate was assigned to the Nine Extremes Body Refinement lineage.

At this point, only the Immortal Thunder lineage and the Pure Void lineage remain without a sect. There's no other way; besides the five major sects, Blue Mountain has no sixth fifth-order spiritual vein.

Time passed, and two years went by in the blink of an eye. The once bustling Blue Mountain gradually calmed down, and Su Yu was finally able to find time to return to the Thousand Star Palace.

At the guild headquarters, all the high-ranking members gathered.

Gu Zhi Qiu sat at the lower end of the table and earnestly reported the current situation of the guild to him.

"The guild's current territory includes the entire East China Sea and half of the South China Sea."

“Starting from Blue Sea City at the mouth of the Yuan River, Blue Mountain extends upstream to Five Dragons City, then south to Demon Suppression Pass, and further south to Dragon Map Main City. The entire southeastern region, which accounts for about a quarter of the Blue Mountain main island, belongs to us.”

"Oh, right, there's also the Endless Forest branch."

"The guild now has over 100 million members, controls two main cities and two secondary main cities, and has an annual income of over 2 billion gold."

"These are the guild's detailed data and income and expenditure statements. Guild leader, please take a look."

With a thought, Su Yu opened the panel and began to examine it carefully.

"Because you, the guild leader, once said that you wanted to restructure the guild, the specific membership structure of the guild has not yet been determined. We would appreciate your decision."

"Ah."

Su Yu looked at it for a while, then closed the panel, nodded, and said:
"Before I talk about the new guild structure, I want to announce something first. The guild is now strong enough, and I plan to transform the guild into a kingdom and establish the Thousand Star Kingdom!"

"The entire structure is based on the national system, such as the official rank system."

"According to the common nine-rank system, the first rank is the highest and the ninth rank is the lowest. I am the only one who is above the rank."

"Ranks seven, eight, and nine are considered low-ranking officials; ranks four, five, and six are considered mid-ranking officials; and ranks one, two, and three are considered high-ranking officials. The salaries and retirement benefits of each rank are different, and the specific details will be discussed later."

"As for the new guild structure, here's what I'm thinking: build a professional nation legion, divided into three tiers. The highest tier is called the Legion level, limited to three, with a total of about 1000 million members."

"The second-tier elite division level, also known as the division level, consists of 20-50 divisions, with a total population of around 100 million."

"The number of regular raid groups in the third tier is uncertain, with around 10 members. The exact number depends on the number of members in the guild."

"Below the regiment are battalions of 10000 men, brigades of 1000 men, companies of 100 men, and squads of 10 men."

"In addition, apart from the fixed leaders of the main army corps, all the mid-to-high-level positions such as deputy army commanders, division commanders and deputy division commanders, regimental commanders and deputy regimental commanders, battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders are appointed by higher authorities, and each person serves a term of 20 years and can be reappointed, but must be transferred to other regiments. No one may serve in a position for a long period of time."

"Equal to other administrative positions in the guild."

"In addition, in order to improve the mobility of promotion channels within the guild, there are age requirements for different positions, and a retirement system has been introduced."

"Mid-level officials are required to have reached the Foundation Establishment stage and be over 40 years old. They must retire when they are over 200 years old. If they condense the Golden Core, the retirement age is increased to 1000 years old."

"High-ranking officials such as the regimental commander are required to have Foundation Establishment cultivation, and disciples of the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect are required to be over 60 years old. Those over 300 years old must retire. If they condense the Golden Core, the retirement age is raised to 1200 years old."

"Note that the above cultivation level is only the current requirement. In the future, all mid-level officials will need to have a cultivation level of at least Golden Core."

"Furthermore, I do not advocate that officials serve long terms. If they cannot be promoted in a certain profession, their maximum term of office shall not exceed two terms. Then they shall be transferred to a second-tier administrative position for one term before retiring."

"Retirement benefits are determined by rank. One of the descendants can be included in the national cadre reserve. The descendants can be promoted to the rank of their father before retirement, or one major rank, within a specified period."

"The merit system, the merit system of the Thousand Star Kingdom will be remade. We will discuss the details later."

"These are the main changes. We will discuss the specific details further. I hope that everyone can come up with the proposed regulations within a month and submit them to me."

By delegating specific tasks to his subordinates, Su Yu only made it clear that a few core points would remain unchanged. The details derived from these core points would be decided by them through discussion, and he would make the final decision.

Then he plunged into the Chaos Realm and began to tally up his gains.

This time, with the destruction of two top-tier sects and dozens of other sects, Su Yu, as the absolute core, has absolute priority in the distribution of spoils.

Although he returned all the spoils of war to his sect, the sect leader immediately returned the vast majority of them, especially the various sect treasuries which provided him with a list to choose from.

Su Yu didn't stand on ceremony and picked out most of the rare and precious materials from various sects, then took two out of the four low-grade acquired spiritual treasures.

The four low-grade acquired spiritual treasures are the Blood Sea Banner, the Blood God Blade, the Yin-Yang Immortal Cauldron, and the Yin-Yang Divine Mirror.

The Blood Sea Banner was ruled out; he had absolutely no use for it.

He didn't need the Blood God Blade either, as he had already obtained two low-grade spiritual treasure blades by defeating Yu Jun.

The Yin-Yang Immortal Cauldron is a precious cauldron used for alchemy, which is perfect for Canghai.

The Yin-Yang Divine Mirror was the original tenth-tier Yin-Yang Divine Mirror that he had obtained before, a low-grade spiritual treasure. Su Yu took it and gave it to Kong Ming to use.

In addition, there were twelve tier-ten magic treasures as spoils of war, but he only took half of them.

The largest quantity of items were various rare and precious materials, including several pieces of Nine Heavens Breath Soil, a bag of Merit Pearls, and countless top-grade refining materials.

Su Yu was extremely wary and didn't want the golden statue of a celestial-level Arhat.

There are also several extremely rare natural treasure seeds and residual root systems, but they are unable to replant them.

What attracted Su Yu's attention the most was a shriveled white lotus seed. He didn't recognize it at first, but Cang Hai did. He discovered that the lotus seed was not dead and still contained a trace of residual life force and innate Daoist charm.

This means that the lotus seed is either a naturally occurring spiritual object or grew from a naturally occurring lotus-type spiritual object; either way, it is extremely valuable.

Since Canghai had some free time, he planted the lotus seed in the center of the Chaos Realm and stimulated it with the innate energy that was mixed and transformed from the innate origin. It really began to take root and sprout.

He was quite looking forward to it. Once this innate treasure was cultivated, it would either be a treasure for improving cultivation or it could be used to refine spiritual treasures.

Lotuses, being naturally occurring objects, are best suited for refining defensive spiritual treasures, and their value far exceeds that of offensive spiritual treasures.

Given the Chaos Pearl's time flow rate of one to one thousand, it shouldn't be long before it takes root and sprouts completely. At that time, we'll know exactly what kind of innate spiritual object it is and what its value is.

If the value is sufficient, he might take out the last Time Crystal to induce its creation.

After spending nearly two weeks counting all the spoils, Su Yu let out a soft breath and turned to Cang Hai, asking:
"Is the Purple Mansion Heavenly Origin Pill ready?"

Canghai waved his hand, and a storage bag flew over. He caught it, and inside were countless jade bottles, a total of 3000 bottles, each containing 36 Purple Mansion Heavenly Origin Pills, for a total of 108000 pills.

As his cultivation level improved, the Purple Mansion Heavenly Origin Pill had little effect on him, but it was a sacred medicine for the guild to enhance their cultivation.

He plans to set aside a portion of it in the national treasury, without exchanging it, and use it only to reward members who have made contributions to the country, as well as the salaries and benefits of officials at the mid-level and above.

With a wave of his hand, Su Yu opened the gate and stepped out. Just as he was about to contact Gu Zhi Qiu, he suddenly paused, a look of surprise on his face.

"The version has been updated?"

Without any system notification, Su Yu had a premonition that from now on, Blue Mountain could awaken and give birth to new players.

Before this, all new players in Blue Mountain were transported from the human heartland. No new players would awaken locally. Even if local men and women married and had children, they would only be ordinary people and could not awaken a data-driven body to become new players.

Unless they are descendants born in other places, such as Qi Dongyang's daughter Qi Xiaoqi, who was born in another place.

But things are different now. With the unification of Blue Mountain, all sects except Xuanzhen Immortal Sect have been eliminated, leaving only one sect. Blue Mountain will now fully enter the era of players.

As in all other places, when a new pioneering area fully enters the player era, the natural order will be in your favor, and the offspring born from the union of local players may awaken and become new players.

In other words, starting now, the number of new recruits being sent from mainland China will gradually decrease until it is completely stopped.

From now on, Blue Mountain will have to start relying on its own efforts.

This means that many couples playing in Blue Mountain will begin preparing for pregnancy and childbirth.

"The many secret realms occupied by the kingdom will come in handy."

Su Yu immediately contacted Gu Zhi Qiu and asked:

"You should know that Blue Mountain has been updated. Prepare to modify the dungeons belonging to your guild."

Gu Zhiqiu immediately replied:
"I have already given the order to prepare."

"By the way, boss, does it refer to all the secret realms? The large cave heaven in Suspended Mountain belongs to Suspended Mountain, not to us."

"You don't need to worry about that, I will communicate with my master."

"Ok."

After closing the communication, Su Yu rubbed her teeth, feeling a bit of longing for Qingchan.

If she were here, we could discuss with her whether or not to have a child. If we don't have one now, it will be difficult later.

He has now become an immortal. Immortals are already extremely difficult to have offspring, and someone like him, who has condensed the true form of a chaotic demon god and whose bloodline is incredibly strong, is even more unlikely to have offspring.

He is currently only a Celestial Immortal. Once he advances to the Mysterious Immortal or Golden Immortal level, the probability of him having offspring will be even lower.

After all, beings above the Celestial Immortal level will inevitably have offspring who inherit their parents' bloodline. In other words, if he were to have offspring now, they would certainly be top geniuses.

If one waits until the future to become a Golden Immortal before having offspring, it is possible that they will be born as immortals.

(End of this chapter)