Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 362 A Shocking Strike, Number One on the Prodigy Ranking
It must be said that the Horned Demons reacted very quickly. In just half an hour, more than a dozen Celestial Immortals and one True Immortal arrived one after another, and players with cultivation levels above Foundation Establishment continued to be teleported over to provide support.

But it was all too sudden, and many immortals might not be in their own caves or temples, so it would be difficult to gather enough fighting power to counterattack in a short time.

The human race, having grasped this point, has gathered an overwhelming force, especially Su Yu, whose strength is comparable to that of a Xuanxian, making him a unique force on the Falling Star Islands.

Furthermore, the four women of Xuan Yue were able to set up a grand innate formation, which had already completed the encirclement of the Eastern Main City.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The four-headed, eight-armed demon god swung his massive Xuanhuang hammer down repeatedly, causing ripples to spread across the city's protective array's light barrier. Outside, the earth, fire, wind, and water surged, constantly eroding the city's defensive array. Even the various flying swords, magical treasures, and spells used by the demon players in the corners of the city to counterattack were directly annihilated in the boiling earth, fire, wind, and water after penetrating the light barrier.

The defensive array of the four main urban areas of Sixiang City boasts a defensive strength of up to 6000 billion, 80% damage reduction, and a defense intensity of 50.

His hammer blow had a power of 160 billion.

A single punch has a power of about 240 billion, and a round of six punches at once has a destructive power of up to 400 billion, totaling 40 billion, which is equivalent to one-fifteenth of the total defensive power of the city's protective array. Each punch can create a huge dent in the light screen, making the horned demon players behind the light screen tremble with fear and panic.

"That's insane."

When will our experts arrive?

"I heard about it, but we don't have enough people and our strength is insufficient, so we'll temporarily gather in the North City."

"Damn, they're here but they're not even attacking. If they can't beat them, at least they could harass them a bit, otherwise the city is really going to fall."

The city was filled with wailing and morale was low.

The city's defensive array weakened visibly amidst the numerous cries of agony.

As expected, after holding out for more than three hours, the protective array of the Eastern City was finally broken by Su Yu in conjunction with the Four Symbols Chaos Array and a large number of Celestial Immortals.

The moment the light curtain shattered, the boiling earth fire and wind surged into the city like a tidal wave, engulfing everything.

The various buildings within the city melted rapidly upon contact with the earth's fire and feng shui, their precious light flashing and then fading away. Players were annihilated by the earth's fire and feng shui without any power to resist.

It took more than three hours to break through the defenses, but it only took two minutes to wipe out the more than ten million horned demon players in the East City.

"Move formation!"

Without waiting for the horned demon players to resurrect and guard their corpses, the four women of Xuan Yue immediately withdrew the great formation and moved to the western main city.

The primary strategic objective now is to destroy all the main cities of the Horned Demons; killing people is secondary.

Because each race only has long-distance teleportation arrays in its main city, destroying all the main cities would prevent each race from quickly sending people from its headquarters to provide support, and they would have to rely on airships to cross the sea to provide support.

Even if a Golden Core cultivator is not good at speed, it would take half a month or even longer to cross hundreds of millions of kilometers of ocean to come here.

Once all the main cities are destroyed, the Horned Demons on the Falling Star Islands will be like rootless duckweed, unable to contend with the humans who have main cities to retreat to.

The encirclement of the western main city was a repeat of the eastern main city, with both sides attempting to encircle and block it, resulting in a stalemate. However, the light curtain of the Four Symbols Chaotic Array slowly but steadily spread out, and it seemed that the encirclement would be completed in less than an hour.

"We can't go on like this; if we keep waiting, we'll die."

At this time, the east and west cities had gathered 27 horned demon celestial beings, 2 true immortals, and 8 celestial-level spirit puppets, totaling 52 celestial-level combatants.

"The fall of Four Symbols City is inevitable. Our high-end combat power is insufficient to resist it, and we must withdraw."

"The human race is here to completely crush us. Their next target will definitely be the Silver Dragon City by the sea. We can retreat there first and gather our strongest members to fight them there."

A celestial being immediately said:
"We still don't have enough manpower. If we retreat to the Silver Dragon Main City, we can only gather another twenty or thirty Celestial Immortals, which is still far from enough."

"It's different. The Silver Dragon Main City is different from the Four Symbols Main City. It's a complete sixth-grade high-quality city protection formation, and there's a special magic treasure in the city that can increase the formation's defense limit and damage reduction. The total defense exceeds one trillion, and the formation's damage reduction is as high as 95%. Plus, with so many experts leading the formation, they won't be able to break through it in two or three days."

"The first batch of reinforcements from our clan will arrive in two or three days. With the addition of the reinforcements gathered here, we can gather more than a hundred Celestial Immortals. We should be able to hold out for a while."

Another concern is:
"What if they take a detour and besiege Tianyan Main City or Tianji Main City?"

"Then let them circle around, let them attack, we just need to defend the Silver Dragon Main City."

"Moreover, their strength will surely make the Fire Clan and the Six-Eared People feel threatened. I guess it won't be long before the two clans betray the Human Clan, leaving them vulnerable on both sides."

"Once the two races join, their numerical advantage in strong individuals will turn into a disadvantage, while we, who have just gathered experts from our own race, will have an advantage in terms of the number of strong individuals."

"Once the three races join, the human race will be attacked from both sides. At that time, they will not only have to give up all the territories they currently occupy, but they will also have difficulty holding onto their original territories. If the three races join forces, they may even drive the human race out of Falling Star Island."

"Makes sense!"

“Then let’s gather together and rescue our colleagues who are trapped in Dingxi’s main city.”

"it is good!"

After reaching an agreement with the high-ranking horned demons of the western and northern main cities, they immediately began the withdrawal process.

Two minutes later, Su Yu, who was standing in the south of the city, transformed into a demon god and constantly hammering the city's protective formation, suddenly heard someone shout:

"This is bad! One True Immortal and 22 Celestial Immortals have left the North Main City and, judging from their direction, intend to besiege our fellow Daoist to the north. Do you have any reinforcements?"

Wang Ziqing, who was in charge of the overall situation, immediately spoke out in the command channel:

"Order: Summon fellow Daoists Xushan, Zeng Lin, and Jiang Zhonghe from the east."

"Order: Draw troops from the south from Fellow Daoist Yu Chen and Fellow Daoist Xia You."

"Order: Draw Fellow Daoist Wanxiang from the west, Li..."

At this moment, General Zhu Wushuang's voice suddenly rang out in Su Yu's channel:
"This is bad. They might abandon the main city and flee. Fellow Daoist Su Yu, are you free to intercept them?"

Su Yu raised his head and looked towards the north of the city, nodding as he said:
“I can free my hands anytime.”

"Come and intercept them immediately."

However, Su Yu did not immediately agree, but instead said:

“I can intercept them at any time, but they might change their minds once I get there. I want to wait until they leave the city before I ambush and kill them.”

General Wang Ziqing immediately asked:
"How sure are you?"

"100% sure!"

"Okay, we won't be providing support here for now!"

Wang Ziqing immediately adjusted the order: whether to transfer personnel or continue, but to first determine the personnel to be transferred, but not to provide immediate support.

Su Yu also lowered her head, as if she hadn't noticed the horned demon's actions.

As planned, the horned demon expert rushed straight to the north, while the True Immortal in the center directly unleashed a treasure seal and threw it out, which quickly transformed into a towering mountain surrounded by dense yellow light and crashed down.

The other celestial beings also used their own methods, with various powerful spiritual treasures and supernatural forbidden techniques emerging one after another, instantly overwhelming them.

At the same time, more than twenty Celestial Immortals and one True Immortal secretly sneaked to the north from the besieged western main city. When their kin launched an attack, they also rushed out of the city's protective formation and launched a thunderous counterattack under the cover of the lightning pillars inside the city. In an instant, billions of lightning bolts soared into the sky, even obscuring the precious light of the city's protective formation.

The two sides surrounded them, and the two True Immortals outnumbered the nearly fifty-two Celestial Immortals, creating an absolute numerical advantage in a short period of time.

However, they were prepared. Having received Su Yu's order early on, Xuan Yue immediately withdrew his formation and instead activated the Earth Protection of the Innate Xuan Yue Banner, creating a light screen with a defensive power of 500 billion, blocking all the billions of lightning bolts. "Not good, they've seen through our plan."

The horned demon immortal Cheng Lan's expression changed, and he immediately shouted:

"Do not linger in battle, retreat immediately."

One by one, the figures decisively turned around and fell into the distance like shooting stars.

But at that moment, Su Yu's four-headed, eight-armed demon god form vanished in a flash, and the next second it appeared in the void thousands of kilometers away. The central celestial god head grinned, revealing a smile that made all the horned demons tremble. An invisible force of time exploded, and everything in its path froze.

In the realm of time, time within a radius of 100 kilometers is frozen, or flows forward or backward.

Outside this realm, no action or thought is permitted. In an instant, a single ominous thought arose in the minds of all the horned demons and celestial beings. The next moment, the thought froze, and thought ceased, becoming unknowable and unattainable.

"boom!"

The massive hammerhead of the Chaos Bell Hammer struck a horned demon celestial being squarely on the forehead. Its terrifying power was so great that even time itself could not be frozen, and a faint ripple spread out within the temporal domain.

"boom!"

The demon god turned around with lightning speed and slammed down with all his might again.

With a twist of his body, he struck another horned demon celestial being in the chest with the third hammer blow.

"hiss!"

To the human immortals outside the Time Realm, it appeared as if Su Yu had suddenly appeared out of thin air, and then everything within a radius of two hundred kilometers had come to a standstill. Then, a four-headed, eight-armed demon god appeared out of thin air and crashed down on the head of a horned demon immortal.

The demon god maintained its downward strike, but at the same instant, another demon god with four heads and eight arms appeared on top of another horned demon celestial being and struck down.

An instant of 0.36 seconds.

A mere 0.018 seconds.

One second is 56 instants.

In the blink of an eye, 52 towering figures of demons, each over 20 kilometers tall, appeared and were reflected in the small space between heaven and earth.

"it's over!"

"No, let's do it again!"

Su Yu let out a light breath and once again swung his hammer to bombard the 52 horned demon celestial beings, their mounts, spirit puppets, and two true immortals frozen in the time domain ten times over.

"enough!"

With a thought, Su Yu withdrew the Time Domain.

"Boom!"

The power accumulated from the 520 attacks of superior-grade innate spiritual treasures, frozen in time, was unleashed in this instant, erupting into an unimaginable chaotic torrent. Space within a radius of two hundred kilometers shattered, transforming into a terrifying, violently churning chaos.

In Su Yu's perception, the time span of nearly thirty seconds lasted only three seconds in the eyes of outsiders. The 52 Celestial Immortals and the 2 Horned Demon True Immortals were instantly reduced to ashes, and even their primordial spirits were annihilated in an instant.

"The Law of Time!"

Everyone gasped, their faces showing surprise and delight.

"Fellow Daoist Su truly deserves to be called the pride of our clan; he has a real chance of becoming a Golden Immortal!"

Only enemies would fear his power, while his own kind, with whom he has no conflict of interest, would only rejoice.

With a single move, all 52 horned demons, celestial immortals, and celestial spirit puppets, including two True Immortals, were killed.

All the immortals perished, and the morale of the horned demon players in the two cities who witnessed this scene collapsed on the spot, and they all prepared to flee from every corner of the city.

The northern main city, which had not yet been besieged, was easy to escape from, but the western main city, which had already been besieged, was much harder to escape from. They killed one person for every one that came out, and killed a group for every group that came out. Moreover, without a powerful immortal-level expert in charge, the defending army had no will to resist. The encirclement speed of the Four Symbols Chaotic Void Formation was far greater than before, and it was completed in less than five minutes. Then, the earth, fire, wind, and water boiled.

Without a celestial being to guard it, the city was breached after only 42 minutes, relying solely on its own energy pool. All 20 million horned demon players within the city perished.

Meanwhile, the players in the main northern city had all fled, and the city was breached effortlessly.

The moment the Four Symbols City fell, the sky shifted dramatically, and countless rays of light converged to form a massive list that hung in the air, displaying—

Su Yu: Daoist disciple of Xuanzhen Immortal Sect, 92 years old, a Primordial Spirit Celestial Immortal, ranked first on the list of human prodigies.

His record on the list: He used his supreme magical power to kill 52 Horned Demon Celestial Immortals and 2 True Immortals in one fell swoop, and destroyed the Four Symbols Main City of the Horned Demon Falling Star Islands. After the record was confirmed, his aura was captured and he was included in the list of Immortal Treasures and Prodigies, ranking first and enjoying the fortune of the human race.

"???"

"???"

"???"

All human players across the Fallen Star Islands can see the current leaderboard of prodigies, including their names and battle records, but all players who see this screen are completely bewildered.

It's not that I don't believe it, but the list of the most outstanding talents is genuine.

Rather, the content was too outrageous and beyond their comprehension.

A player with the Golden Core cultivation level rubbed his eyes hard and asked his companion next to him uncertainly:

“I recognize all the individual characters, but I don’t recognize them when they’re put together. Brother Li, can you see them clearly?”

His companion, equally shocked and incredulous, rubbed his face vigorously and said uncertainly:

"After all, it's been verified by the Prodigy Ranking, so it should be correct, right?!"

"Holy crap, they killed 52 Celestial Immortals and 2 True Immortals, and even destroyed the Four Symbols Main City of the Horned Demons? What kind of record is this? Is it really that outrageous?"

"This is unbelievable! How did they do that? Even a Xuanxian wouldn't be able to do this!"

"No, did you guys notice that he's only 92 years old and has already reached the level of a celestial being?"

"That's insane."

"Unprecedented, it seems like humanity has never seen anything like it before."

"No, as far as I know, the fastest person in the history of our human race to become an immortal was Marshal Li Wuji. He became an immortal at the age of 265, which is almost three times the age of the human race."

"Hiss, could it be that this person will surpass Marshal Li Wuji in the future?"

"Whether he can surpass it or not is hard to say, but there will definitely be no problem for him to advance to the Xuanxian realm in the future."

"A peerless genius!"

In the North District of the Four Symbols Main City of the Horned Demons, after breaking through the city's protective formation, the immortals temporarily entered the city.

General Wang Ziqing swiftly issued orders: several immortals skilled in formations repaired the city's protective array, over twenty celestial immortals dispersed to clear out the remaining horned demons in the surrounding area, and several celestial immortals returned to meet up with the main military force.

(End of this chapter)