Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 358 Demon-Locking Pool, Golden Immortal Seal
In the days that followed, Su Yu stayed in Divine Turtle City, cultivating while waiting for Fang Hong to organize his own cultivation.

Besides the Small Heavenly Cycle Star Array, there are also many ancient texts from the Star Palace.

He is the master of the Star Palace, and can compile all the Star Palace's classic texts as the source of Taoist teachings, including everything from mental cultivation techniques, sword manuals, and body-refining methods to various supernatural powers and secret techniques.

However, condensing the original Daoist formula takes a very long time. Su Yu estimated that it would take two or three years, so he stopped waiting and left Divine Turtle Island to go to Crimson Dragon Luo.

There's still a year and half a year left, so it's better to stay there and use your ancient dragon power to transform into more true dragons.

Transforming that dragon into a red dragon was just a spur-of-the-moment idea for Su Yu, but later establishing a dragon palace here was a serious plan.

The Azure Immortal Realm is too far from the human headquarters, making it extremely inconvenient to mobilize troops.

Although Mount Tianzhu has a teleportation array leading to the heartland of humanity, the Heavenly Court does not allow direct participation in the war between civilizations. Moreover, the teleportation array is small and can only transport a limited number of people at a time, so it cannot be relied upon to mobilize troops from here at critical moments.

Therefore, having a large-scale, long-distance teleportation array that is unique to oneself is very necessary.

He used his ancient dragon identity to gain status among the Azure Dragon Clan, and then established another dragon palace here. The two dragon palaces were connected by a teleportation array, so that when war was needed, experts from the dragon palaces could be continuously summoned to provide support.

Returning to the Dragon Palace, Su Yu transformed back into an ancient dragon, coiling at the bottom of the water. The continuous power of his bloodline radiated in all directions, stimulating the bloodlines of the surrounding aquatic dragons and dragon races. Almost every moment, aquatic creatures awakened their dragon veins, and from time to time, the bloodlines of aquatic dragons transformed, turning into true dragons.

Su Yu was stationed at the Dragon Palace, while Ao Run and Chi Longluo split into two groups, leading a large number of naval forces to sweep through the surrounding seas.

He wasn't just sitting there doing nothing. Besides releasing his bloodline power to spread in all directions, he also took time to extract a massive amount of mineral resources and began refining demonic artifacts.

He had no shortage of materials. After unifying the entire Blue Mountain, he had stored a massive amount of refining materials in his Chaos Pearl, along with various spoils of war from before, ranging from low-level magic weapons to ninth and tenth-tier magic weapon materials.

Su Yu had never studied weapon crafting before, but after becoming a Celestial Immortal, her cultivation slowed down, giving her ample time to practice. She learned weapon crafting, alchemy, and other skills during her free time.

Starting from scratch with the cultivation level of a Celestial Immortal, he has a commanding perspective and learns very quickly. Now he is able to personally refine magic treasures or flying swords of the first to tenth tiers, including demonic artifacts.

Demonic artifacts are not much different from magical treasures used by humans; the only difference is the runes that are refined and inlaid during their creation.

Humans use proper Cloud Forbidden Runes, while demons use demon script. Su Yu learned the complete set of demon script from Dragon Fortress when he transformed into a dragon.

Since I have nothing better to do, I'll forge a batch of demonic weapons to arm my subordinates.

The magical artifacts of the demon race are very simple, nine out of ten of them are weapons, the most common being demon swords, spears, halberds, and water forks. They are not as complicated as human magical artifacts, and they are all standard weapons with identical attributes.

He mobilized his navy to create tens of thousands of molds, and then he unleashed a dragon fire of Xuanxian level power to melt all the materials, refine them to remove impurities and obtain the essence, which he then poured into the molds one by one, obtaining tens of thousands of artifact blanks in a short time.

Then, one by one, demonic runes were infused into the weapon, and the shape and edge of the weapon were finely adjusted. In less than five minutes, a seventh-tier demonic weapon was formed.

Four Seas Water-Slicing Blade (Tier 7): Demon weapon, standard weapon of the Dragon Palace.

Attributes: Physical attack power 1 + 100% magic damage, attack range 5 kilometers, demon power consumption 500 points, additional trait: Sharpness +2000.

This attribute is quite standard. To save effort and time, he didn't add any fancy features or spells; it's just pure sharpness, which is perfect for large-scale refining.

Having a seventh-tier demonic weapon as a weapon can greatly enhance the combat power of the navy.

However, having only weapons and no armor is unsuitable because the demon race has a strong physique, and inferior armor is not as strong as their physical bodies.

He can forge one sword in about five minutes. If he works non-stop all day, he can forge a maximum of 288 swords, but in reality, he can only forge 200 swords. It's impossible for him to work 24 hours a day without stopping.

In a year, only 73000 weapons can be forged. Even if all four women of Xuan Yue were brought in and all five of them forged weapons together, the total would only be 36.5 per year. For now, that would barely be enough to equip the elite naval forces above level 200.

But once the elite online army expands, it won't be enough. After all, it's the Dragon Palace; how can it be enough without tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of elite online trolls?

"We still don't have enough manpower."

"We need to change our approach."

Su Yu pinched her chin, and a bold idea popped into her mind:

"Perhaps I can issue a mission in my name to ask human experts in weapon crafting to forge demonic weapons."

"Or perhaps we could simply cooperate with the Thousand Star Kingdom?"

"According to his statistics when he left, there are 20 to 30 million professional players in the Thousand Star Kingdom, at least 4 to 5 million of them can refine weapons, and it is estimated that there are 20 to 30,000 who can refine seventh-order magic weapons. The Dragon Palace provides standard weapon blanks for them to refine. Even if it takes two or three days to refine one, it is not a problem to refine 100 pieces a year, which is 2 to 3 million pieces a year."

Wow, this is great!

In this way, the Dragon Palace only needs to provide the materials.

As for refining materials, Falling Star Dragon Palace hadn't stored much since it was just starting out, but Azure Dragon Palace had plenty.

Neither the dragon race nor the demon race is good at crafting weapons. There are more spiritual minerals in the sea than on land. Many low-quality spiritual minerals are left unmined. The warehouses of Beiming Dragon City are overflowing with materials for crafting seventh and eighth-tier demon weapons.

This is a good opportunity to cooperate with them and utilize these materials to equip an elite navy.

"can."

Having made the decision, Su Yu immediately left the Falling Star Islands and returned to Blue Mountain.

He convened a meeting of the nation's top leaders to announce his decision.

No one disagreed with this, because the offer from the Dragon Palace was too generous.

First, there are a large number of high-grade spirit ores unrelated to the forging of standard demonic weapons, as well as various spiritual items that can only be found in the deep sea. Then, the Dragon Palace opens up the purchase of naval soldiers. Members of the Thousand Star Kingdom can purchase elite naval soldiers from the Dragon Palace for their own use as long as they accumulate enough Kingdom military merits.

It's important to understand that for the Dragon Palace, only naval forces above level 200 are considered elite naval forces. In the Dragon Palace, they are just members of the naval force, but in the Blue Mountain, they are already top-tier combat power.

Imagine hiring a level 200+ aquatic creature as your pet; not to mention how weak it is, it would be incredibly convenient for leveling up.

Before leaving Lanshan, Su Yu spent some time with Chu Xinyue and Xiao Qingli, whose pregnancies were already quite obvious.

Su Yu gently stroked their slightly protruding bellies, feeling the faint life force within them, and felt a sense of anticipation.

He knew very well that as his strength grew, the possibility of having more children would decrease, especially the possibility of him having children with Canghai and Qingchan.

It is almost impossible for two chaotic demon gods to have offspring.

If Su Yu were to have a child with Qing Chan now, there would be a chance, but she is currently studying under the master of the Old Mother of Lishan, who is far away in the Four Continents. When they meet again in the future, she will be either a True Immortal or a Mystic Immortal. At that time, Su Yu's Demon God True Body level will probably be either level 20 or level 30. At that time, having offspring will only be a slight possibility.

So if you can give birth now, then you have the chance; if you can't give birth now, you'll never be able to give birth in the future.

Putting everything else aside, he would definitely wait until the two of them were born before he could feel at ease going to the Azure Immortal Realm.

During the two weeks I stayed here, Chu Xiaoyu accompanied me almost every day. Time couldn't be wasted; I had to hurry up and get her pregnant too, so that every child I could have was one more.

Half a month later, Su Yu returned to the Falling Star Dragon Palace, accompanied by over 100,000 human players, mostly life skill players, whom Su Yu had specially brought to help build the Dragon Palace.

The aquatic people's aesthetic sense is terrible. They can build a framework and a rough structure, but the human people are better at the actual decoration.

In addition, they were also responsible for finding a place near the Dragon Palace to build a base, so that the Thousand Star Kingdom could have a place to settle on the vast ocean after leaving the Blue Mountains.

With a human weapon refiner on board, Su Yu can now free up his hands.

He plunged into the Chaos Pearl, entered the chaos, and slowly refined strands of chaotic energy into the Azure Cloud Canopy.

This treasure is essentially a cloud of azure spirit, and incorporating various cloud formations can enhance its essence.

The Qi of the Heavenly Gang is acceptable, the Qi of the Earthly Fiends is acceptable, the Qi of the Primordial Element is acceptable, the Qi of the Mysterious Yellow Mother is acceptable, and the Qi of Chaos is naturally acceptable as well, especially the most advanced cloud Qi.

The process of integrating the essence of the Heavenly Gang must continue, but it can also be transformed by integrating the chaotic energy.

Su Yu even had another idea: when he had extra Chaos Origin in the future, he could merge a strand into it to completely change its essence, transforming Qingyun into Chaos Cloud, and refining a Chaos Treasure Canopy, the essence of which could probably reach the level of a high-grade spiritual treasure.

As he cultivated his skills, the Dragon Palace continued to expand.

Less than a month after his return, Chilong Luo in the east had already led his army to conquer a demon territory ruled by a giant sea crocodile.

In the end, the giant crocodile was killed, the demon territory was conquered, and the massive resources accumulated by the demon territory were brought back.

Two months later, good news also came from Ao Run's side: she had conquered another demon territory more than 400 kilometers to the west.

This demon leader is a level 322 legendary template Shattered Star Golden Crab, and has a Golden Crab clan under its command, with a total number of hundreds of millions.

However, due to the bond between the Dragon Clan and the Crab Clan, Ao Run subdued the Golden Crab and its clan after defeating it, adding a great general to the Dragon Palace.

In the fourth month, Su Yu suddenly received a request for an audience from Luo. He emerged from the Chaos Pearl and asked in surprise:
"Weren't you supposed to be going west to attack a demon kingdom called Yuan? Why are you back?"

Luo quickly replied:
"Your Majesty, the Yuan Kingdom has been conquered. I have discovered an ancient demon-locking pool in the forbidden area of ​​the Yuan Kingdom. I dare not open it. I beg Your Majesty to make a decision."

"The Demon-Sealing Pool?"

"Take me to see it."

Luo quickly led the way, and the two dragons left the Dragon Palace and flew westward.

The so-called Demon-Locking Pool is a cave world specifically designed to seal powerful demons. The entire cave world is sealed off, and the demons inside cannot escape.

The famous Dragon Locking Well is actually one type of Demon Locking Pool, except that the Dragon Locking Well seals the dragon race.

Two days later, the two dragons arrived at the forbidden area of ​​the now-extinct Yuan Kingdom.

That is, a demon kingdom called Yuan, whose demon lord is an unknown fish demon of level 300 or so.

There are so many fish in the sea that I don't know the names of many of them.

Luo led Su Yu to the forbidden area behind the capital of Yuan Kingdom. At the bottom of the center of the canyon was a disc with a diameter of 10 kilometers. The disc was the exit of the Demon Locking Pool, and the shimmering light of the seal could be seen in the distance.

The Demon-Sealing Pool could not contain the Crimson Dragon's true form, so Su Yu could only transform into human form and land on top of the shimmering seal, where he could immediately see the sealing talismans scattered around.

"The Dragon Clan Seal?"

Su Yu reached out and gently stroked it, carefully sensing the power of the seal.

"The seal of the Golden Immortal."

"No, the sealing talisman was drawn by a Golden Immortal, but the one who set up the formation was only a True Immortal."

Su Yu pondered for a moment, then reached out and pulled open a chaotic portal, asking:

"Does the Palace Master recognize this seal? Is it the seal that once belonged to the Star Palace?"

This chaotic gate opened within the chaos, and behind it lies the primordial spirit of Fang Hong, the Star Palace Master, nurtured within the chaos.

A weak but inherently powerful will emerged, and Fang Hong's voice rang out briefly:
"This is not a seal I made, but I recognize the power contained within it. It was made by the Eastern King of the Wuding Immortal Dynasty!"

"The Eastern King?"

"Yes, the Wuding Immortal Dynasty has two Golden Immortals. One is the ruler of the country, and the other is the Eastern King, who is modeled after the ancient Heavenly Court Demon Emperor and Donghuang Taiyi." "They've got some nerve."

Su Yu chuckled softly, looking at the seal and saying:
"This place is right next to Falling Star Island. Is it possible that it's sealed with a former Star Palace cultivator?"

Fang Hong pondered for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly:

"Logically speaking, that's possible, but apart from me, no one in the Star Palace is worthy of being sealed by a Golden Immortal."

Su Yu immediately asked:

"Can you break this seal?"

Fang Hong shook his head and said:
"No."

Su Yu was surprised:

"This seal has been around for millions of years, and it's no longer complete. Most of its power has been lost. You should be able to break the remaining defenses, right?"

Fang Hong nodded and said:
"I can indeed break the seal, but if I make a move, the Eastern King will find out."

Su Yu's eyes widened instantly, her face filled with shock:
"The Eastern King isn't dead?"

"Of course he's not dead. My primordial spirit has been sealed and worn down for two million years without perishing. How could he possibly perish so easily? Unless a Great Luo Immortal makes a move, or there is a mid-to-high-grade killing innate spiritual treasure, a Golden Immortal cannot kill a Golden Immortal."

Hearing Fang Hong's matter-of-fact tone, Su Yu had nothing to say.

At this moment, he gained a new understanding of the power of the Golden Immortals; the immortality of gold was truly remarkable.

The ancient kingdom of Wuding had been destroyed for so long, and he thought that as the king and the guardian immortal of the country, he should have perished with the destruction of the kingdom. He never expected that he was still alive.

"Okay, then I'll do it myself."

If he can't take action, then he'll take action himself; after all, he has the ability to break the seal.

Just as Fang Hong said, the power in this seal has been worn away and lost over millions of years, and the remaining magic power is not enough to resist him.

Dismissing his subordinates, Su Yu revealed his true form as a four-headed, eight-armed demon god, picked up the Chaos Pearl, and smashed it down on the seal.

Two divine blades slashed fiercely, while the other five arms, bare-handed, clenched their fists and slammed down in turn, causing the seal to ripple continuously and its defensive power to be constantly depleted.

Su Yu did not use the other Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blade and Sun-Shooting Divine Weapon that had not yet been upgraded, and they were still being nurtured.

There are two reasons.

One reason is that as his strength increases, especially after he becomes an immortal, the power of a tenth-tier magic weapon will be adjusted according to his realm.

For example, the power of the tenth-tier Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blade is 500 million physical attack power + 1000% magic damage bonus. When the cultivation level is below Heavenly Immortal, it can exert its full power. However, when the cultivator becomes an immortal, the corresponding magic weapon is a Celestial Treasure, which is a Spiritual Treasure. The power of the tenth-tier magic weapon will be weakened and adjusted in the hands of a Heavenly Immortal.

Now, he has transformed into the true form of the Chaos Demon God and is wielding the tenth-tier Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blade. Its power is 500 million physical attack power + 500% magic damage bonus, with the magic damage bonus being directly halved.

Of course, even if it's reduced by half, its power is still immense. With his current spell damage of over 100 million, a single slash can unleash a power of up to 500 million.

But then another problem arises.

That is, most tenth-tier magic treasures are not strong enough or durable enough to withstand the crazy collisions of immortals. Not to mention how abnormal the power of Su Yu after transforming into the true form of the Chaos Demon God is. If he swings his power to clash with an enemy of the same level, the tenth-tier magic treasure will be shattered in a few blows.

So now he either uses a proper magical artifact or he fights bare-handed.

Moreover, his strength is so great that his bare hands are even more powerful than a low-grade spiritual treasure.

Of course, the above refers to weapons; magical treasures are a separate matter.

Magical treasures don't need to be fought head-on. Even if their power is reduced by half, they can still be used. Most non-body-refining Celestial Immortals continue to use tenth-tier magical treasures before they can refine a spiritual treasure.

With his strength comparable to that of a Xuanxian-level body refiner, he unleashed a frenzied barrage of attacks, continuously delivering tens of thousands of punches before he could barely feel the sealing light barrier begin to thin.

"Gold's immortality is too powerful."

This is not because the seal has trillions of defensive power, but because the laws and supernatural abilities mastered by Golden Immortals are too powerful, resulting in unimaginably high damage reduction. In addition, the seal can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and has an extremely fast recovery speed, which is generally faster than the attack power of a Profound Immortal.

Without a moment's pause, the bombardment continued for almost seven days and seven nights until the sealing light barrier was worn down to its bare minimum, leaving only a thin, almost transparent layer.

Only then did Su Yu open the boundary gate and summon the four women of Xuan Yue.

"Set up the formation!"

The four women revealed their true forms and stood in the four directions, setting up the Four Symbols Chaos Formation to seal the exit of the Demon-Locking Pool. Only then did Su Yu grip the Chaos Pearl tightly and smash it down fiercely.

"boom!"

The final layer of the sealing light barrier was blasted open, revealing yet another layer of seal inside.

However, this seal is different from the outside; the seal's aura is somewhat familiar.

Su Yu opened the Chaos Gate again, but before she could speak, she heard Fang Hong's voice:
"I set up this seal, and the person hidden inside should be a member of my Star Palace sect, but I don't know which one of my disciples it is."

He sighed softly, and pointed out a finger formed from chaotic energy. An invisible wave spread out, and the sealing runes burned and turned into light and disappeared one by one. The lower layer of the seal separated, revealing a passage.

And then nothing happened; nothing was seen rushing out of it.

"Are they all dead?!"

Indeed, it had been sealed for over two million years.

No one but a Golden Immortal could survive such a long time; even a Profound Immortal would eventually die when their lifespan was exhausted.

Holding the Chaos Pearl, Su Yu jumped into the entrance.

He was stunned as soon as he entered the cave, and what he saw was a world that had been shattered.

The grotto-heaven has shattered, and the entire world is like a fine porcelain piece that has been broken into countless fragments of varying sizes. A violent spatial storm surges into the fragments, pulverizing everything.

However, just as Su Yu was staring blankly at the shattered cave, Fang Hong's voice rang in his ears:

"Lord of the Realm, may we enter this cave?"

Su Yu's heart moved, and he immediately asked:

"Can you sense anything inside?"

"Yes."

Fang Hong paused for a moment, then said with a hint of uncertainty in his voice:
"I feel like I can sense my physical body."

"???"

"Didn't you say your physical body had been destroyed?"

"Yes."

"That?"

"It might be a part of my remains, or it might be that treasure."

Su Yu's eyes lit up and she asked:
"The treasure that records the Small Heavenly Cycle Star Array?"

"Yes."

"Refers to location."

"That direction."

The demon god pointed outwards, and a stream of time light flew out of the cave, leaving a time marker outside to prevent being trapped in the void and unable to escape in case of an accident. Then, he strode into the shattered cave.

A piece of space debris several kilometers long crashed into him, shattering into pieces with a 'bang'.

The earth within the fragments of the cave flowed into the void, rapidly disintegrating into dust, and was swept away by the spatial storm.

Even chaos couldn't harm the demon god's true form, and spatial storms couldn't hurt him either. Su Yu stepped into the void and headed straight towards the direction Fang Hong pointed.

After traversing countless spatial fragments and covering a distance of perhaps millions of kilometers, they finally arrived at their destination.

Yes, even without Fang Hong's guidance, when Su Yu saw a palace floating in the void ahead, he knew he had arrived.

This is a palace, a magical artifact, and a palace-type spiritual treasure. It is of low grade and emits a faint spiritual light, hovering motionless in the void.

"This is inside, this is the Heavenly Palace of my third disciple!"

Fang Hong's voice carried a hint of sadness and longing.

"Now it seems that he must have escaped with part of my remains and the treasures of the palace, but he was eventually caught up and forced to seal himself in this cave when he had nowhere else to go."

He didn't need to explain further; Su Yu could guess it herself.

Only by using a portion of Fang Hong's remaining Golden Immortal body, combined with the power of the entire grotto-heaven, could they withstand the Eastern King, who was also a Golden Immortal.

However, it was ultimately not completely blocked, and the entire cave was shattered under the attack of the Eastern King.

Fortunately, the power of the same Golden Immortal level blocked the entrance to the cave, and the Eastern King was unaware that he had shattered the cave. In the end, he set up a seal and left.

Although the Heavenly Palace was still operating at this time, it only had the instinct to defend against the invasion of the void storm. The other restrictions of the Immortal Palace had been destroyed. Su Yu could see everything in the palace with a sweep of his divine sense, and he also saw the jade-like skeleton wearing a blue robe in the central hall of the palace.

He stepped into the palace, but the magical artifacts and restrictions did not react at all.

Upon arriving at the remains, Su Yu's gaze shifted, and she noticed three items placed on the jade table in front of the remains.

A small hammer, a ring, and a jade box.

The ring is clearly a storage ring, with most of the resources stored inside.

The jade box was also for storage, and it likely contained precious and delicate treasures, such as rare and rare materials. As for the small hammer...
Once Su Yu's gaze fell on the small hammer, she couldn't look away.

"This treasure is destined for me!"

The moment he saw the little hammer, he could clearly feel that it was resonating with the Chaos Pearl in his Purple Mansion Divine Sea in some kind of wondrous way.

The two are not related, but rather share the same origin.

In this world, the lowest level of treasures that can share the same origin as the Chaos Pearl is an innate spiritual treasure.

(End of this chapter)