Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 361 Siege of the Four Symbols Main City, Breakthrough

They safely swam to the depths of the East China Sea, arriving at the seabed less than a thousand kilometers from Sixiang City.

"Further ahead is the Four Symbols City."

Su Yu pointed, and a water mirror unfolded, displaying the Four Symbols City a thousand miles away.

He had previously learned about this main city. The Four Symbols City is composed of four large islands, each with an area of ​​1000 square kilometers, arranged in a grid pattern. Each island has a sixth-grade low-level protective formation, which can be combined to form a composite city-protecting formation of the highest grade sixth level.

The water mirror reveals a dense swarm of horned demon players above the city, and the strait between the four main cities is a huge joint port, filled with warships of all sizes.

Su Yu pointed to the main city and said in a deep voice:
“The four main cities are not large in area, but together they are four or five thousand kilometers in diameter in the east-west and north-south directions. My great formation cannot encompass them all at once, so I can only refine them one by one.”

"Therefore, we will need everyone to protect the four main formation masters and intercept the surrounding horned demon players from attacking the formation."

General Wang Ziqing, who was in charge of the operation, nodded and said:
"No problem. The number of Celestials that the Horned Demons can mobilize in a short time is limited, and they can't break through our defenses."

Su Yu nodded and continued:
"We can contact General Li Wumian now. The assembled troops are ready to set off and launch an attack directly towards the Horned Demons to draw their attention."

"In addition, we can now launch a full-scale war mobilization in the name of the military."

General Zhu Wushuang immediately added:

“I’ve already contacted Lao Li, and he’s already started mobilizing people.”

"very good."

Su Yu turned to look at the five True Immortals and the one hundred and fifty Celestial Immortals. Each of them was a well-established figure, the youngest of whom was over two thousand years old and the oldest was sixty or seventy thousand years old. They were all of his great-great-great-grandfather generation, but at this moment they were all listening attentively to his words.

With a single command, over a hundred celestial beings and five true immortals would be at his beck and call.

At this moment, he will be the most powerful person in the entire human race, without exception.

"This feeling isn't bad!"

Su Yu twisted her neck and said in a deep voice:

"Then let's get started!"

After speaking, he soared into the air, and the seawater was parted by an invisible force, revealing a huge channel that shot into the sky.

All the celestial beings smiled as they watched his figure soar into the sky. An elderly celestial being, clad in a red robe, stroked his beard and chuckled as he said:

"Fellow Daoist Su, you are so young yet possess such cultivation; you are truly a blessing to our clan!"

Another celestial being beside him smiled and nodded, saying:
"Clearly, this is because our human race is at the height of its fortune that a peerless genius has descended to guide our race to defeat all other races and reclaim our position as the protagonist of destiny!"

"However, everyone should not be too optimistic. In this era of great competition, every race has its own destined geniuses. Although Fellow Daoist Su is extraordinary, it is too early to be happy. After this matter is settled, Fellow Daoist Su should go out to train and improve his strength."

The celestial being in red reached out, stroked her beard, and nodded.

“Indeed, we should still prioritize cultivation. Our current advantage is not everything. We must remember that our enemies are not just the Horned Demons. If Fellow Daoist Su could reach the cultivation level of a Golden Immortal, or even a Taiyi or Daluo, then we could be truly at ease.”

"Then we'll talk to Fellow Daoist Su after this battle."

The celestial beings communicated telepathically and followed suit.

Su Yu burst out of the sea and opened the Chaos Gate with a wave of her hand. The first to emerge was Cang Hai, who was wearing a veil, followed by the four women of Xuan Yue.

She clasped her hands in a fist salute to the immortals and said in a clear voice:
"Canghai greets everyone!"

The immortals all returned the greetings:

"Fellow Daoist Canghai, you are too kind. Please bear with us during the upcoming battle!"

There wasn't much to say, because this place was only about a thousand miles away from the main city of the Four Symbols, and was already near the city wall. Horned demons were flying around everywhere, and sword light and escape light were everywhere.

Within a minute of the group stopping, no fewer than ten people passed by. However, to their surprise, none of these people paid any attention to them; they all brushed past them without even glancing at them.

It makes sense, really. This place is only about a thousand kilometers away from the main city, practically right on our doorstep. There are fellow humans everywhere. No normal person would expect a bunch of humans to have come here.

Not long after they set off, a spiritship passed by them, and a horned demon who was perched on the edge of the spiritship looking out at the scenery spotted them.

The group exchanged glances with him and quickly passed by.

It wasn't until they had separated for more than ten kilometers that the person turned around with a blank look on their face, their eyes full of doubt.

"Did I just see a group of humans?"

"what?"

The man sitting next to him, chatting with a female demon, turned around in confusion:
"What did you say?"

He scratched his head, his eyes gradually clearing, and said again:
"I think I just saw a group of humans heading towards the main city."

The horned demons on the airship were stunned when they heard this, then they all burst into laughter:

Dude, that was a good lame joke.

But I really saw it!

Several female demons laughed uproariously, and his companion patted him on the shoulder with a smile:

"Okay, I'll use this trick next time too."

"Hahaha!!!"

Everyone was saying the joke was hilarious, but nobody believed him.

He even started to doubt himself after laughing for a while:
"Could I have really misjudged?"

Ten minutes later, the group swaggered to a point less than ten kilometers from the southern part of Sixiang City. They passed by people along the way, most of whom didn't pay attention. Only a few noticed them, but there was no shouting or attack as expected.

Because they couldn't believe it for a moment, their first reaction was that their own people were using some kind of magic weapon or secret technique to disguise themselves as humans.

That's completely counterintuitive.

As the group stopped, passersby gradually stopped to watch, and many had already realized what was happening.
"Damn, humans have actually come to our house."

"How dare you! Aren't you afraid you won't come back alive?"

A large number of horned demons surrounded them, pointing and whispering, but did not immediately launch an attack. The main city was bustling with people, and the crowd grew larger and larger, soon reaching tens of thousands. The news spread through the channel, and more and more horned demons came out of curiosity.

Gradually, it attracted experts as well. Lie, the Horned Demon ranked 52nd on the Horned Demon Ranking, also ran over at the call of his friends. But when he passed through the crowd and saw more than a hundred people inside, he trembled, his eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

"So many human celestial beings?"

His unusual gaze seemed to immediately attract dozens of eyes. The cold gaze made his heart clench, and he felt as if he were being gripped by an invisible hand, unable to breathe.

"not good!"

A chilling thought instantly flashed through his mind:

"Humanity is about to wage war!"

He immediately sent a message in the main city area channel:
"Everyone leave immediately; these humans are all immortals."

However, this is the main city, which gathers hundreds of millions of players. The information in the regional channels refreshes at an astonishing speed. As soon as it is posted, it disappears in less than a second.

Some people caught a glimpse of it, but quickly forgot about it after scrolling through the messages. Others were skeptical, but couldn't find the sender's name by scrolling up.

Just then, Su Yu grinned at Lie, and the aura he had been suppressing suddenly erupted. A tangible pressure, like a volcanic eruption, swept across the area like a torrent. Everyone watched in disbelief as the true form of a four-headed, eight-armed demon god rapidly rose from the erupting halo.

The four heads looked around, all four faces smiled, and they raised their arms, as if pressing down.

"boom!"

The void within a 20-kilometer radius of him trembled violently, and the more than 100,000 horned demon players watching nearby were all pulverized.

The demon ranked 52nd on the list of peerless horned demons instinctively activated his magic weapon to protect himself, but he only lasted for a second longer before both he and his weapon shattered.

It wasn't some kind of supernatural power or magic; it was merely suppressing this space with power comparable to that of a Xuanxian (a type of immortal).

The appearance of the human demon god, which was more than 20 kilometers away, stunned the horned demons who were preparing to come and watch the show from afar. A sense of fear arose from the bottom of their hearts, and they all turned around and fled without anyone noticing.

"clang!"

A clear bell rang out from the nearest southern main city. The jade pillars of the city's protective array, standing in all directions, lit up one by one with spiritual light. The dense runes lit up and quickly transformed into a light screen that extended into an umbrella-shaped light screen to protect the entire city.

The defensive arrays of any major city are not usually activated at full power; they are generally kept closed.

If an enemy is encountered, as long as the main force activates the formation, a barrier with tens of billions of defensive capabilities can be temporarily formed within a few seconds, delaying the activation of the main body of the city-protecting formation.

At the same time, a white light shot into the sky from the depths of the main city, transforming into a phantom image of a horned demon immortal. When it saw the Heavenly Demon God outside the city and the hundreds of figures behind him, its expression changed drastically, and it shrank back in the next second.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!!!"

The bells rang out more urgently, nine times in a row.

At this moment, inside and outside the main city, from all directions, hundreds of millions of horned demon players stopped what they were doing and looked at the South Main City, where the bell had rung first. They saw the towering demon god appear above the South Main City in a flash, traversing a distance of tens of kilometers, holding a giant, dark yellow hammer in his arms and smashing it down.

"Throw!"

The horned demon celestial being guarding the city changed his expression and flashed to appear beneath the Xuanhuang giant hammer. A small golden umbrella opened above his head, instantly blotting out the sky.

"Just block it."

The colossal hammer struck the open golden umbrella without a sound. The top of the umbrella was instantly annihilated, creating a hole. A ring of chaotic light rapidly spread outwards, and the magical treasure was gradually destroyed.

As the aftershocks fell, the horned demon celestial being had no time to escape and could only roar as he activated his celestial true form.

However, the power of a superior innate spiritual treasure was something that a mere celestial being could not withstand. Unimaginable power crushed down, and the true body was powerless to resist for even a moment before being crushed into a bloody mist.

"boom!"

After shattering a low-grade defensive spiritual treasure and instantly killing a Celestial Immortal, the Chaos Bell Hammer's head struck the city's protective array barrier. "Boom!"

A violent shockwave exploded, tearing apart the city's protective barrier.

However, after breaking through three layers, the power of this attack had not yet been exhausted. The Chaos Bell Hammer fell into the city like a great sun, forming an unimaginable and terrifying shock that exploded, annihilating everything in its path.

"boom!"

An unimaginable shock swept across the entire South Main City in just a few seconds. The densely packed buildings within the city were instantly destroyed upon contact, and countless horned demon players, regardless of whether they were at the Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, or Golden Core stages, or whether they had activated their magic weapons, were all instantly killed.

With a single strike, one of the four main cities of the Horned Demons was reduced to ruins, and at least tens of millions of Horned Demon players perished under his attack.

"hiss!"

All the human immortals and countless horned demons who witnessed this scene gasped in shock.

"Xuanxian?"

"No ordinary immortal wouldn't be this violent, would they?"

"Fellow Daoist Su already possesses combat strength comparable to a Xuanxian, and his future is limitless!"

The celestial immortals and true immortals of the human race were deeply shocked and moved, but their hands moved quickly. They all revealed their celestial immortal bodies, and those with magic treasures used them. They split into four teams and headed straight for the East Main City not far away.

Each team consisted of one True Immortal and thirty Celestial Immortals, who escorted the four women of Xuan Yue as they flew towards the nearby Eastern Main City, each occupying a separate area.

By this time, the Horned Demons had realized what was happening. The main city issued a war announcement, and the military began conscription. People were already using teleportation arrays to request support in various places, and the regional channels were in complete chaos.

The protective formations of the remaining three main urban areas have been fully activated, and the celestial beings stationed in the three cities are urging the formations to combine them into a single entity.

Just then, the four women of Xuan Yue had completed the encirclement of the Eastern Main City and each of them used four innate spiritual treasures to begin setting up an array.

Su Yu flew up from the ruins of the South Main City to the front of the East Main City and saw a Horned Demon True Immortal talking to General Zhu Wushuang through the city's protective barrier.

"Are you humans preparing for a full-scale war with my Horned Demon race by launching a full-scale attack on our main city?"

Zhu Wushuang said in a deep voice:
"Let's be frank, we have no intention of starting a full-scale war, but the four races of the Falling Star Islands have been divided for tens of thousands of years, and it's time to end the division."

Cheng Lan, a True Immortal of the Horned Demon stationed in the Four Symbols Main City, looked at Su Yu flying towards him, a trace of solemnity flashing in his eyes:
"You humans want to fight against three races at the same time? Are you relying on him?"

Zhu Wushuang grinned, revealing a smile:
"Our clan's fortune has gathered, and an unparalleled genius has also descended."

Cheng Lan carefully examined Su Yu's towering true form and nodded, saying:

"Indeed blessed with good fortune, possessing extraordinary talent, just like the Qingyu Pavilion Master born in our clan seven thousand years ago."

"It's a pity that Lord Qingyu didn't stay long. After helping my clan defeat the Lei Gong clan and seize a territory, he left the clan's land to study in the Four Continents and has not returned since."

At this point, a smile appeared on his face as he said:
"You may win this time, but Lord Qingyu appeared in the world seven thousand years earlier than you. He is already a Xuanxian and will surely break through to Jinxian in the future. When Lord Qingyu breaks through to Jinxian, it will be the day your human race is destroyed."

Zhu Wushuang smiled slightly:
"Perhaps, but you probably won't have the chance to see it."

He might have been a little worried before, but after seeing Su Yu's attack just now, he was completely unmoved.

A Celestial Immortal already possesses combat power comparable to a Mystic Immortal. Once he advances two more levels to become a Mystic Immortal, coupled with the Supreme Treasure, he is very likely to possess combat power no less than that of a Golden Immortal. Moreover, given his growth rate, he will also be able to break through to the Golden Immortal level in the future, and his speed may not be slower than Qing Yu's.

On the contrary, Cheng Lan's expression darkened when he saw the confident gazes of the five True Immortals and over a hundred Celestial Immortals from all sides.
"Then try it!"

With a wave of his sleeve, he returned to the city.

The next instant, over 100 million players in the entire main city received a pop-up notification:

"The human race has mobilized five True Immortals and one hundred and fifty Celestial Immortals to besiege the Four Symbols City. I have already dispatched immortals and clansmen stationed in various places to provide support, but we need to hold out for a certain period of time. Now, in the name of the Supreme Elder Council, I am launching a full-scale mobilization. All clansmen have the obligation to protect the main city."

"All members of the clan may intercept human immortals in any way they choose, until death do them part."

"According to the highest conscription regulations, everyone must die in battle three times before they can withdraw from the battle."

Upon reading the prompt, all the horned demons became excited and responded to the call, each employing their own methods to charge forward in a suicidal manner.

However, the human race was prepared. A celestial being used a large-scale defensive magic treasure to protect everyone, while the others used various methods to kill the endless stream of horned demon players.

No powerful magic is needed; the most ordinary Five Elements Thunder Technique undergoes a qualitative change in power in the hands of a Celestial Immortal. With a wave of his hand, tens of thousands of Five Elements Thunder Nets are unleashed, covering a vast area in a second.

The horned demons charged forward in a suicidal manner, only to be reduced to dust in the endless sea of ​​Five Elements lightning.

Only a very small number of cultivators above the Golden Core stage, who possess good defensive magic treasures, can barely survive in this sea of ​​lightning.

If there are only a few Celestial Immortals, they might actually be surrounded and killed by hundreds of millions of players. After all, among hundreds of millions of players, there are bound to be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Golden Core cultivators, and the Five Elements Thunder Technique is generally not enough to kill them instantly.

With so many cannon fodder and multiple celestial beings presiding over the operation, it's quite possible that they could be surrounded and killed.

Unfortunately, there were 150 immortals at this time. Some were dedicated to defense, some were dedicated to using the Five Elements Thunder Net to kill cannon fodder, and some were dedicated to using powerful magic weapons or powerful supernatural forbidden techniques to instantly kill Golden Core cultivators.

At this time, there were still one or two horned demon celestial immortals in each of the three remaining main cities, totaling only five resident celestial immortals and one resident true immortal. The reinforcements they had called for had not yet arrived. Given the precedent of being instantly killed by Su Yu with a single hammer blow, they dared not leave the city to fight and could only let a massive number of cannon fodder be consumed.

It's cruel, but that's how cruel racial warfare is.

If other civilizations had the advantage and wanted to attack the human race, they would still use ordinary players as cannon fodder even when they were at a disadvantage, even if it was just to consume some mana, wear down some defenses, or divert a little attention from them.

The battle for civilization is everyone's responsibility.

Once defeated, the race is in danger of extinction, and no one can escape unscathed.

One side engaged in a frenzied slaughter, while the other side recklessly threw themselves to their deaths. One side activated the city-protecting formation of its three main cities, while the other side deployed the Four Symbols Chaos Formation to link them together.

Su Yu gripped the Chaos Bell Hammer with both arms and used it as a weapon, smashing it one blow after another at the border between the East and West Cities. The strength of this top-grade innate spiritual treasure was no less than that of a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, with a base attack power of 30 billion. In addition, with his own Chaos Demon God's power of 10 billion, he gained 100% Chaos Divine Power, making his full-force hammer blows as powerful as 80 billion.

This is the power of a top-tier divine weapon.

With a single hammer blow, even after damage reduction, the power is still a terrifying 200 to 300 billion. A Celestial Immortal is instantly killed, and even a True Immortal without strong protective measures cannot withstand more than two blows.

In other words, his current cultivation level is not high enough. If he were to advance to the True Immortal realm and his magical damage reached 500 to 600 million, the base power of his weapon alone would be over 80 billion, and with all the enhancements...
"So scary!"

While he was exerting his strength, the human experts who came with him were also exerting their strength, drawing ten people from each team to the border between the East City and the North City, frantically destroying the array nodes between the two main cities, as well as the array light curtain that was preventing the two main cities from gradually merging.

"Buzz!"

As a violent shockwave exploded, Canghai revealed his true form as a four-headed, eight-armed Chaos Demon God, clenching the Chaos Pearl in one hand and smashing it down on the light barrier that stubbornly converged no matter how much it tried to stop him.

"Boom!"

An unimaginable, violent shockwave exploded, shattering the light barrier over a radius of hundreds of kilometers into countless points of light, which were instantly swept away by the violent shockwave. At the same time, at least a million horned demon players were affected and turned into nothingness.

The earth-shattering blow shattered the extended light barrier, interrupting the combined trend of the two main cities' array.

However, the Horned Demons were also effective in intercepting the Four Symbols Chaotic Formation that was about to encircle them. There were too many Horned Demons, and they charged forward recklessly and without fear of death. Someone always found a way to break through the sea of ​​death lightning and rush in.

Meanwhile, things weren't idle inside the city either. The sect's protective formation continuously gathered lightning pillars with power comparable to a true immortal, forcefully preventing the formation from taking shape.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate.

However, the stalemate is temporary, and both sides know that one side will eventually take the lead.

On the human side, confidence was far greater than that of the horned demons, because they had far more high-end combat power.

Although the Horned Demons outnumbered the other demons, they were unable to muster enough numbers to assemble under the bombardment of numerous immortal lightning bolts. With 150 Celestial Immortals and 5 True Immortals working together, they could easily blockade a major city. The Horned Demons were unable to capitalize on their numerical advantage.

As Su Yu had predicted, as time went on, the light screen that had been scattered from the four innate flags in the hands of the four women of Xuan Yue slowly but steadily expanded under the bombardment of countless horned demons, until it finally merged with the other light screens in the four directions after half an hour, and the Four Symbols Chaos Array was successfully set up.

"Get into formation!"

Once the grand formation was complete, the void outside the light barrier of the main city's protective formation, which had been sealed off, began to distort, and matter disintegrated into boiling earth, fire, wind, and water.

"They're dead!"

The demon god stood outside the main city, unmoved by the thunder pillars with power comparable to true immortals and the attacks of countless players.

The defenses cannot be broken.

A demonic body, absolute defense.

A beam of light shot into the sky from the center of the western main city. The teleportation energy on the teleportation platform spread out, revealing seven horned demon celestial immortals and hundreds of golden core earth immortals, led by a true immortal.

The celestial being stationed there immediately went to greet the visitor, who asked:

How is the battle going?

"This is very bad. The human race came prepared this time, deploying seven True Immortals and one hundred and fifty Celestials. The sudden attack caught us off guard and destroyed the South City. Now the East City is also trapped. It seems that it will be breached sooner or later."

The leader turned to look towards the east of the city, and after more than ten seconds, he turned back and commanded in a deep voice:

"Use our trump card to link the West City and the North City together, otherwise we will be defeated one by one."

"In addition, we will unite all cities and mobilize all resources."

"General Cheng Lan has already issued orders to all regions."

Have you contacted headquarters yet?

"Have."

"How did headquarters respond?"

"Our headquarters has urgently recruited the nearest Celestial Immortals from our clan. We expect to recruit 20 to 30 Celestial Immortals within two days and around 100 within five days."

"too slow."

"This is the fastest we can do, considering we didn't prepare anything beforehand."

(End of this chapter)