Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 356 Conferment of Ranks, Major General, Plan, Demon Star (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
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There was only the awarding of ranks, but no ceremony.

Of course, he could have one if he wanted, but Su Yu wasn't interested. She didn't know many people here, so there was no need for any ceremony.

After General Jiang Dongjun verifies his name, it can be entered into the Supreme Council.

After the conferment of ranks was completed, Su Yu suddenly grabbed Jiang Dongjun and said:
"General Jiang, I have a bold idea. Would you be interested in hearing it?"

Jiang Dongjun smiled and casually said:
"What bold idea?"

"Is the Supreme Council interested in defeating the other three races of the Fallen Star Islands and taking over the entire islands?"

Jiang Dongjun didn't think too much about it and said with a smile:

“Of course I’m interested. The Falling Star Islands are no less powerful than the main island of China. Taking them over would greatly enhance our clan’s fortune. However, the four clans on the Falling Star Islands are evenly matched and mutually restrain each other. Unless we have absolute strength or special circumstances, it is almost impossible to defeat the other three clans and take over the islands.”

He smiled and asked:

"What, do you have a plan?"

Su Yu nodded seriously, and with a sway of his body, a halo appeared behind his head, in which a red dragon coiled. A terrifying pressure that made Jiang Dongjun's breath catch in his throat rushed over, causing him to subconsciously take several steps back. In a flash of inspiration, a treasure cauldron appeared above his head, hanging down with precious light.

His eyes widened as he stared intently at the crimson dragon swirling within the halo behind Su Yu's head, his face a mixture of shock and disbelief.

"True immortals and true dragons?"

"No, this aura..."

"As you can see, one of my dragon avatars is at the True Immortal realm, but possesses combat power no less than that of a Profound Immortal!"

Jiang Dongjun's mouth was slightly open, and he looked at Su Yu as if she were a monster.

Su Yu remained expressionless and continued her introduction:
"In addition, although my wife Canghai is only at the Celestial Immortal realm, she also possesses top-tier True Immortal combat power. My wife also has four maids, and together they possess the combat power to kill ordinary True Immortals."

"Could a Xuanxian warrior and two Zhenxian warriors possibly disrupt the balance of the Falling Star Islands?"

"Fellow Daoist Su has truly surprised me."

Jiang Dongjun was shocked for a while before calming down. After a moment of contemplation, he said:
"Such combat power could indeed disrupt the balance, if executed well."

At this point, his eyes lit up, and he continued:

"If we prepare in advance and gather a group of experts before the three races notice, we can catch them off guard and defeat them, thus taking control of the Falling Star Islands."

After a pause:
"At worst, expelling one or two ethnic groups wouldn't be a problem."

Upon seeing this, Su Yu smiled and asked:
"So, is there any potential?"

"There is a head start."

At this moment, Jiang Dongjun had become interested and said with a serious expression:
"However, we need to prepare for this in advance. At this stage, we should not alert the enemy and should not let them notice."

"I need to go back to headquarters first to persuade the council, and then spend some time drawing celestial experts from various places. We must not let the various races find out. This will take one or two years to prepare."

"Does it really take that long?"

"Of course, the experts above the Celestial Immortal level in the clan are all regional overlords, either grand elders of major sects or patriarchs of top families. Many of them have missions to carry out, so we need to inform them in advance so they can prepare early."

"Another thing you need to be prepared for is that there won't be too many celestial beings gathered in the next year or two, at most around a hundred, and it's estimated that only a few true immortals will come."

"If you are willing to wait longer, prepare for about ten years, then you can mobilize two or three hundred celestial immortals and more than ten true immortals, which will be more stable."

Su Yu shook his head and said:
"I'd like to, but I have other important matters to attend to, and I can't stay here for ten years."

"By the way, the highest level is only True Immortal. Are the few Profound Immortals in the clan unable to take action?"

Jiang Dongjun waved his hand and said directly:

"Those few Xuanxian in the clan are available, but they can't come."

"why?"

"Because the most powerful force of each race right now is the Xuanxian, who are the pillars of each race. Once the Xuanxian makes a move, it will not be a local conflict, but a full-scale war. We do not yet have the ability to wage a full-scale war against all three races at the same time."

"That's it"

"Yes!"

Seeing that he didn't quite understand these things, Jiang Dongjun explained them carefully:

"This is an unspoken rule among all races. In local conflicts, only True Immortals can be mobilized at most. Once a Mystic Immortal takes action, it is considered a full-scale war."

Su Yu asked curiously:
"How many Xuanxian are there in my clan now, and how many player civilizations are there in the vicinity?"

"Our clan currently has four Xuanxian (Mysterious Immortals) and no Jinxian (Golden Immortals), but these are only those on the surface. We don't know if there are any unrecorded ones."

He explained:

"Human civilization has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. Many cultivators have left the Azure Immortal Realm for various reasons. Some players, after becoming Celestial Immortals, have left the Azure Immortal Realm to travel to the Four Continents. The distance is too far and the time is too long. It is unknown how many people have made further progress in their cultivation and advanced to the Profound Immortal or even the Golden Immortal."

Su Yu exclaimed in surprise:

"There are Golden Immortals too?"

Jiang Dongjun smiled and said:
"Who knows? There are hundreds of Celestial Immortal cultivators in our clan who have left the Azure Celestial Realm over the past 100,000 years. There are probably thousands of those who have not been recorded. There are probably tens of thousands of cultivators below the Celestial Immortal level. With so many people and tens of thousands of years, it is not impossible for someone to obtain a great opportunity and become a Golden Immortal."

"This is not only true for my human race; other player civilizations also have a large number of such people. Nobody knows if any of them have cultivated to the level of a Golden Immortal outside."

"Therefore, although there are occasional frictions between the various ethnic groups at this stage, no full-scale war has been launched."

"Oh!"

At this point, Jiang Dongjun suddenly looked at Su Yu and said with anticipation:

"Currently, no player civilization in the vicinity has dared to hear of any Golden Immortals, and even Profound Immortals are few and far between. Major General Su currently possesses the combat power of a Profound Immortal. If his cultivation advances further in the future and he gains the combat power of a Golden Immortal, then it will be the time for our clan to rise."

Su Yu nodded and said:
"I will work hard."

Next, Su Yu and Jiang Dongjun agreed to take action two years later.

Before that, he could
Having agreed to part ways with Jiang Dongjun, and with two years to wait, Su Yu, having nothing to do, opened the military channel, preparing to take on some missions to earn military merits to exchange for materials.

Although the resources of the human homeland cannot compare with those of the Azure Immortal Realm, it doesn't mean that all materials are useless. After all, it is a civilization with a vast territory, and there will always be some strange and wonderful treasures. In addition, civilizations have a great advantage in collecting some basic materials.

For example, the Heavenly Gang Essence is hard to find in Blue Mountain, but it is not too rare for the entire human civilization. Su Yu unlocked all the permissions to view it with his Heavenly Immortal strength and Major General status. The Heavenly Gang Essence stored in the Supreme Council and the military is enough for him to upgrade the Azure Cloud Treasure Canopy to a Celestial Treasure several times.

In addition, there are top-tier spiritual items such as Xuanhuang Mother Qi and Primordial Pure Qi, which can be used to enhance the foundation of the Azure Cloud Canopy.

Although we already have the Chaos Pearl, we still hope to have as many defensive innate spiritual treasures as possible, and we should refine them whenever possible.

It was, after all, the first treasure I built when I started my business.

Heavenly Merit Quest: Destroy the main city of the Horned Demons. Regardless of the method used, the destruction of the city is the only criterion. The reward is 5 Heavenly Merit Points and +1 entry permission to the Immortal Pavilion.

Heavenly Merit Quest: Destroy the Fire Clan's Wanhuo Main City. Regardless of the method, destroying the city is the only criterion for reward. Reward: 5 Heavenly Merit Points, +1 Immortal Pavilion Access Permission.

There are more than a dozen missions to destroy main cities, and all the main cities of the three races in the Fallen Star Islands are listed on them, with the rewards being exactly the same.

In addition, there are many tasks to kill contestants on the Prodigy Ranking of various races. The reward is at least 1 Heavenly Merit Point and at most 3 Heavenly Merit Points, depending on the ranking of the Prodigy.

Then there are various exploration missions, most of which involve exploring ancient battlefields to find the remains of ancient immortals or those who are still alive, with extremely generous rewards.

After reviewing all of them, Su Yu casually accepted all the tasks that rewarded Heavenly Merit.

Then, they left Turtle Island and headed north, preparing to visit the ancient battlefield in the center of Falling Star Island.

He had wanted to explore this place for a long time, but his strength was insufficient to venture deeper into it before. Now that he possessed combat power comparable to a Xuanxian, he could finally explore it thoroughly.

After being promoted to major general, he unlocked all privileges, including all knowledge that human civilization had about the ancient battlefield. After carefully reviewing the information, Su Yu gained a basic understanding of the situation on the Fallen Star Islands.

According to the explorations of some human celestial experts on the ancient battlefield and the ancient materials collected from it, the main island of Fallen Star was ruled by an extremely powerful sect called Star Palace in ancient times.

This sect was the absolute ruler of the Falling Star Islands in ancient times, and its overall strength was extremely powerful.

According to records, at its peak, the Star Palace was said to have one Golden Immortal, several Mysterious Immortals, dozens of True Immortals, and hundreds of Celestial Immortals, ruling this place for millions of years.

However, when the Star Palace expanded outwards, it engaged in a great battle with some unknown force. After tens of thousands of years of fighting, the Star Palace was defeated.

The two sides finally clashed at the Star Palace headquarters. In the end, a meteorite fell and smashed the massive main island of the fallen star into pieces, forming an ancient battlefield ruin with a diameter of hundreds of millions of kilometers. The Star Palace disappeared from that moment on.

Each race has a mission to explore the Star Palace, and each race will receive a Heavenly Merit for finding some important parts of the Star Palace.

If you can find the lost fragments of the Star Palace's main palace, you will be rewarded with ten Heavenly Merits.

Yes, they suspect that although the Star Palace was defeated, it was not completely destroyed, and it is possible that at the last moment, the Star Palace Cave Heaven was severed from the Earthly Immortal Realm and sunk into the void.

This is a common occurrence; the Yin-Yang Demon Sect did the same thing before, and the Star Palace will certainly do it too. Unfortunately, countless players have entered the Ancient Battlefield to search over the years, but have yet to find any clues.

A streak of light streaked across the sky, and a day later it crossed the continent and plunged into an ancient battlefield filled with chaotic spatial rifts.

"boom!"

A figure collided with a tiny silver light in the void, passing by without even pausing, leaving behind countless shattered fragments of space.

The spatial rifts that once required careful handling are no longer a threat at all.

Su Yu charged recklessly across the ancient battlefield, treating everything as if it were nothing.

Less than three hours later, he returned to the spatial fragment where he had first discovered the remains of the demon immortal. He plunged into it, where the high temperature was still intense but could no longer deter him. Su Yu's powerful divine sense swept across the entire fragment of the cave. The remains of the demon immortal had vanished without a trace, leaving only scattered flames and a large number of fire-type monsters scattered in the void. Among them were quite a few law-based monsters.

Both the blazing flames and the fragments of laws were quite useful to him in the past, but they are now useless.

We lingered for a short while before continuing on our way.

There were still quite a few players in this area. He saw players from time to time as he traveled. They were mostly elite players with a level of 160 or 170 or above, and occasionally he could see Golden Core cultivators with a level of over 200.

The further inside the player stayed, the higher their level became, but no celestial beings were seen on the outer perimeter.

It wasn't until they flew for tens of millions of kilometers in one go, entering the deepest part of the ancient battlefield, that they occasionally discovered traces of celestial beings.

Deep within this ancient battlefield, continental debris and spatial rifts float in the air, their destinations unknown. These rifts are teeming with countless spirits and monsters, and law-based monsters, rarely seen outside, are extremely common in the depths.

The star that fell from the center of Falling Star Island shattered the land within a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers, and even the underlying rules were distorted.

The fragments of the shattered earth floated in the air without falling, and the pillars of spewed lava lingered for a long time.

Billions of tons of water converge to form a water sphere with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers, suspended in the air like a planet. Numerous fragments of the earth float on the water's surface like floating islands, containing a complete ecosystem.

Unfortunately, this ancient battlefield has been searched countless times by experts from the four races. The outside has been basically ransacked and there are no good things left. The only good things are the fragments of caves behind the dense spatial rifts.

However, there are too many fragments, and even immortals cannot explore them all. If there are still treasures in the ancient battlefield, they can only be found in certain spatial rifts and in the Fallen Demon Pit in the center, which is where the demon star fell.

Yes, the local indigenous cultivators called the star that shattered the main island of the fallen star the Demon Star.

Su Yu didn't spend time searching within the spatial rift. Instead, she went straight to the center of the ancient battlefield. It took her almost a month to traverse the complex terrain of the ancient battlefield and arrive at a distorted barrier composed of countless spatial fragments and distorted laws. In front of her was an area where the underlying rules were completely distorted, and a star of unknown size had fallen into the depths of the earth.

This is a perfectly intact star, its size unknown, but roughly estimated to be over a million kilometers in diameter.

The surface of the star was extremely rough, riddled with pits and craters of varying sizes. It was permeated with a violent, ancient stellar aura that mixed with the distorted underlying rules to form enormous, twisted vortexes. Monsters of distorted laws kept crawling out of these vortexes, rushing in all directions to crash into the distorted barrier.

These Twisted Law monsters are of very high level, with the lowest being level 200 or above, and occasionally you can see Twisted Law monsters that are over level 300.

However, no matter what level of the Twisted Law Monster is, it cannot break through this Twisted Barrier. It will explode in the violent impact, and the powerful force it releases will continue to shake the Twisted Barrier.

"So this barrier is preventing the power of this demonic star from leaking out?"

Su Yu reached out and pressed her hand against the distorted barrier, but could not feel its existence.

"Only effective against the twisted monsters derived from the Demon Star?"

He did not rush into the distorted barrier, but instead moved around it, observing the demonic star inside from different angles.

It goes around from left to right, then passes over it, making a big loop until it reaches the bottom.

Although this demonic star fell into the ground, it was suspended in mid-air, with a hollow bottom, and did not sink into the earth as one might imagine.

It took him three days just to roughly survey the entire area, and he didn't find anything unusual from the outside.

Nothing special was found on the Demon Star. Although the Demon Star was covered with countless pits, they were all bottomless. No caves or cracks leading to the interior of the Demon Star were found. No so-called Star Palace ruins were found at the bottom of the Demon Star, and there was not even a spatial rift in a large area around it.

However, the dense primordial star energy genuinely emanated from the demon star, combining with the distorted underlying rules to form a twisted law monster.

Su Yu pondered for a moment, then reached out and placed her hand on the barrier, silently disappearing into it.

The moment he crossed the barrier, he felt an extremely violent and powerful divine thought rush into his mind. Madness, distortion, killing, violence, death, fear, destruction and other negative laws and true meanings surged through his sea of ​​consciousness like a flood.

The true meaning of this law is so powerful that, even though I have an immortal will and immunity to all laws, I can still feel that its strength is extremely high, far exceeding the limits of mortals and reaching the level of a celestial being.

If a cultivator below the level of an immortal were to cross the barrier and enter, they would likely be killed by the wildly distorted true meaning of the laws within three seconds.

The soul was scattered and the person died.

Moreover, Su Yu could clearly sense that this was not the limit. The closer he got to the Demon Star, the stronger the impact of the terrifying law essence mixed with divine sense would become.

The moment Su Yu entered the barrier, the numerous twisted law monsters that had sprung up from the vortex around the Demon Star and were rushing toward the barrier all looked over and pounced on him under the impetus of some unknown will.

Su Yu snapped her fingers, and a ring of fire appeared around her. Numerous distorted law monsters rushed into the fire ring and burst into flames with a "boom!"

The monsters that were once difficult to deal with are now just small fry that he can easily defeat.

Of course, precisely because the level difference is so large, killing any number of enemies will not yield any experience.

In fact, once a player becomes an immortal, they can no longer level up by grinding monsters. They can only cultivate by consuming rare and precious herbs and elixirs that enhance their cultivation, or by absorbing spiritual energy from spiritual veins.

At this stage, the speed of cultivation improvement will become polarized.

Celestial beings without sufficient resources and luck can only earn money while improving their cultivation. It is common for them to spend several years to advance one level, and it is considered very fast to advance to level 399 within a thousand years.

Conversely, if one has enough resources, one's cultivation level will increase very quickly, and there are quite a few who can reach level 399 in just a few decades or even a hundred years.

Another point worth mentioning is that Su Yu's Chaos Pearl can gain 10 billion Chaos Qi in experience and 100 points of cultivation every day, which changes as he becomes an immortal.

Before becoming an immortal, one does indeed gain so many cultivation points and Dao cultivation. After becoming an immortal, one no longer gains experience and Dao cultivation. Instead, one gains chaotic energy, which can be condensed into one Dao each day.

These two are essentially the same, only presented differently.

Chaotic energy is similar to the power of the Heavenly Dao. It can be used to enhance cultivation and bloodline, or to strengthen rare and precious materials and magical treasures. However, it is not as versatile as the power of the Heavenly Dao and cannot be used to strengthen cultivation techniques and supernatural abilities.

Immortal power can enhance an immortal's cultivation techniques and supernatural abilities. You gain 2 points for each level up, and a fully upgraded Celestial Immortal only gains 200 points.

Su Yu's level hasn't changed since becoming an immortal; she's still level 300 and hasn't accumulated any immortal power. However, she has accumulated 1125 points of chaotic power over the past three years since becoming an immortal.

That's enough.
It's enough to upgrade the Celestial-level Heavenly Ghost Transformation Technique from level 300 to the maximum, but the location isn't right now, so he decided to upgrade it later.

Stepping through the void, carrying a ring of fire, he flew towards the Demon Star towards the distorted law monsters that were rushing towards him like moths to a flame. The distorted law monsters became increasingly frenzied, while the distorted will that rushed towards the Demon Star grew stronger and stronger.

When Su Yu flew to within a dozen kilometers of the Demon Star, the intensity of that twisted will had reached the level of a True Immortal, a distance even Celestial Immortals would find difficult to approach.

"At this rate of increase, wouldn't only Xuanxian immortals be able to approach the Demon Star?"

He couldn't help but click his tongue and continued to approach.

Although we haven't found anything yet, since we're already here, we should at least get closer to observe the situation.

Anyway, although he is only at the Celestial Immortal level, he has an immortal will and is invulnerable to all magic at the Golden Immortal level. As long as the intensity does not exceed that of a Golden Immortal, he can withstand it.

No matter how strong this demon star is, it's unlikely to surpass a Golden Immortal.

A few minutes later, he arrived in front of the Demon Star, less than twenty meters away, with the increasingly dense hordes of distorted law monsters. The impact of the distorted will emanating from the Demon Star had reached the Xuanxian level, just as the data indicated.

Human records do not contain a detailed description of the Demon Star; to be precise, humanity still does not understand the Demon Star.

When humanity first discovered the Fallen Star Islands, powerful figures from various races entered the ancient battlefield and arrived before the Demon Star. Humanity was no exception; even two Xuanxian (mystical immortals) came, but none of them could figure out the mysteries of the Demon Star.

Based on their understanding, the two powerful immortals had two guesses about the Demon Star.

One theory suggests that this demonic star might be a half-fallen Golden Immortal. This theory is based on the constantly distorted power of laws within the demonic star, which embodies the true meaning of laws such as madness, distortion, violence, slaughter, death, fear, and destruction. This is quite consistent with the strange phenomenon of a Golden Immortal who has fallen but is not yet dead.

As for why it takes the form of a demon star, it is possible that the physical body of the Golden Immortal has perished, but the primordial spirit has merged with this star to become a demon star.

Another theory is that this demonic star might be a high-grade demonic treasure.

This speculation is based on the fact that a demonic star fell from the sky, shattering the vast Falling Star Islands into pieces, with a destruction range of up to 1 million kilometers. It is very similar to the terrifying damage caused by a Golden Immortal wielding a top-grade spiritual treasure.

This is not just wild speculation, because if Su Yu's cultivation reaches the Golden Immortal level, and he unleashes the full power of the Chaos Pearl with his wielding, he can turn the Blue Mountain, which has a diameter of nearly 100 million kilometers, into dust in one blow.

However, that is pure destruction. To distort the underlying rules requires an extremely high level of mastery of the laws. Ordinary Golden Immortals cannot do it. Only top-level Golden Immortals who are infinitely close to Taiyi or Daluo Golden Immortals can do it.

Of course, if one is a Taiyi Golden Immortal, it can be done easily.

There is essentially no third possibility besides these two.

But regardless of the possibility, no one has been able to subdue this demonic star or unravel its mysteries so far.

Su Yu circled the Demon Star repeatedly, braving the endless stream of distorted law monsters, changing her angle with each circle and searching inch by inch across a distance of more than ten kilometers.

He examined every pothole and crack carefully, but found nothing unusual.

(End of this chapter)