Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 47 Fierce Battle, Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Network (Please subscribe, please vote with monthly tickets)
As soon as Su Yu stepped out of the arena, she sensed a gaze and turned around to see Ding Lingyu.

He smiled.

Ding Lingyu smiled slightly in return.

"This means they're really treating me as a rival."

Su Yu could clearly sense the change in Ding Lingyu's gaze, and he was filled with fighting spirit.

Six minutes later, the host called out his name again; his opponent was Wei Xia.

However, as soon as he teleported to the arena, Wei Xia surrendered immediately:

"My strength hasn't changed much in the past three months, so I won't go looking for trouble."

Coincidentally, Ding Lingyu's opponent, Lan Yiying, also surrendered immediately after him.

All eyes were on the two of them, and even the slowest person could vaguely sense that something was about to happen between them.

On the platform, eight guild leaders were watching the battle. In the center was Vice President Ding Hao, who had not missed any of the three mini-tests.

However, compared to his relaxed smile during the previous two mini-tests, today he still had a smile on his face, but the ease was gone, replaced by a hint of seriousness.

"Ling Yu, should we talk to him about this? Perhaps we can pay a price."

Ding Lingyu heard her father's voice transmitted from afar and couldn't help but chuckle:

"Father, you don't actually think I'll lose, do you?"

“I will not lose, and I cannot lose. He has only barely come close to me; he is merely qualified to challenge me, but he can never be my opponent.”

Ding Hao said in a deep voice:

"I have faith in you, but we must be absolutely certain that nothing will go wrong. Any unexpected event could affect your future."

Ding Lingyu said with a determined look:
"I will win!"

Ding Hao remained silent for a moment, but ultimately trusted his son and did not interfere.

"Do not disappoint me!"

Ding Lingyu did not reply. He had already teleported to the arena. He cupped his fists in a respectful gesture from afar and activated his transformation technique without hesitation. A burst of violent lightning transformed him into a divine general entwined with lightning.

"40 HP, he's gotten even stronger!"

Su Yu took a deep breath and returned the greeting with a cupped hand.

With a thought, the Nine-Aperture Pearl rose and hung above his head, while the two swords were raised and hovered above his head.

Everyone in the audience stared intently at the ring, and countless people were privately discussing who would win the fight.

However, the vast majority, almost 99%, of people believed that Ding Lingyu was better. Few people thought that Su Yu, who had directly admitted defeat in the last small test, could surpass Ding Lingyu in just three months. Even Wei Xia and He Shoucheng, who were close to him, thought so.

As soon as the countdown ended, Ding Lingyu transformed into lightning and soared into the sky. In the blink of an eye, he covered thousands of meters and appeared above Su Yu's head, the lightning exploding like a meteor crashing down.

Su Yu pointed his sword at a point, and the two swords, swirling together, shot into the sky.

"boom!"

A burst of lightning revealed a divine general, whose hands, wreathed in lightning, seized two violently trembling flying swords. Waves of lightning surged toward the swords like pulses, causing them to explode continuously. Su Yu sensed that the spiritual imprint left in the flying swords was being shaken.

With a thought, he activated his twin swords, and the Azure Sparrow trembled violently but was still unable to break free.

"Brilliant transformation!"

He decisively activated his ultimate move, and the true fire of the sun rose up. Ding Lingyu flicked his hand and the flying sword flew out. The sword rainbow turned and the true fire of the sun exploded. Qingque broke free and pounced down together with Yanri.

With a series of clanging sounds, the true fire of the sun and the lightning shattered.

Two seconds later, a barrage of attacks blasted through the general's defenses, and flashes of sword light left more than a dozen wounds of varying depths on the general's chest.

"His skills are not much different from Lan Yiying's."

Two flying swords circled around the divine general, slashing back and forth with lightning speed and clanging sounds like raindrops on banana leaves.
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Qingque had just broken through the defense, and the actual damage was less than 500. Only the output of the transformed Sun-Covering Sword was sufficient, with each sword dealing as much as 3,600 damage. When the two swords were combined, the damage was as high as 4,000. Each sword dealt four or five hits of damage, and the output of the two swords in one round was nearly 15,000.

With his superior swordsmanship, he broke through Ding Lingyu's defenses and unleashed a brutal beating while circling his twin swords.

After its transformation, the power of the Sun-Covering Sword increased dramatically, enabling it to directly block the Divine General. Together with Qingque, it suppressed Ding Lingyu at a distance of over 100 meters, preventing him from advancing an inch.

However, Ding Lingyu reacted quickly, realizing that continuing like this would only lead to being passively attacked, so he decisively activated his ultimate move, his hands forming an infinite gathering of lightning:

"Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net!"

This is a supreme thunder technique. When the Divine General Transformation Technique was raised to the twentieth level, it gave rise to the Taiyi Divine Thunder. Later, when the Divine General Transformation Technique was raised to the fortieth level, it gave rise to the Thunder Net.

The ultimate move was activated, instantly consuming over 20,000 mana to condense into countless Taiyi Divine Thunder bolts that gathered throughout the arena space, arranged like a lightning field.

The god pressed his hands down in a gesture of respect:

"burst!"

In an instant, the entire arena space transformed into a chaotic thunderstorm, with unimaginable and terrifying divine lightning power surging back and forth, turning everything into dust.

In that instant, countless people in the audience stood up involuntarily, staring in astonishment at the arena that had been transformed into a thunderous inferno.

"This move."

Wei Xia and He Shoucheng looked at each other in shock.

"I've never seen him use it!"

From the first preliminary test until now, Ding Lingyu has been overwhelming all the contestants with his own strength as a divine general. No one has ever been able to force him to this point, let alone force him to activate this move so early.

"We were being superficial."

"It seems Brother Su wasn't bragging; he really wants to challenge Ding Lingyu!"

On the arena, under the relentless bombardment of the raging Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net, Su Yu's Nine Aperture Pearl's defensive power plummeted like a flood, dropping rapidly at a rate of seven to eight thousand per second. This was after the magic weapon itself had been weakened by 20%, meaning the actual damage was as high as nine thousand, nearly ten thousand.

Such a terrifying outburst was difficult for even a sixth-tier defensive magic weapon to withstand. The Nine Aperture Pearl above his head shook violently, and his defensive power dropped drastically, no matter how much magic power he poured in, he couldn't stop it.

In a flash, Su Yu gritted his teeth and abandoned defense, urging his twin swords to continue the fierce attack.

The two flying swords were unaffected by the divine lightning net. The power of the divine lightning around the caster would be greatly reduced, and the two flying swords clung to the divine general like maggots clinging to his bones, attacking him frantically.

"boom!"

After holding out for six seconds, the light emanating from the Nine-Aperture Pearl was finally torn apart. The power of divine lightning broke through the defense and surged in. The Black Water Pearl lit up, and a phantom of a black snake flew out and circled around Su Yu to block the divine lightning.

However, the Xuan Snake Guardian broke after only one second, and the magic robe's defense activated.

Three seconds later, the robe's defense shattered, and a protective aura rose up.

A second later, the violent power of the thunder subsided rapidly, and the power of this wave of Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net had been exhausted.

The defense of the 48000 Nine-Aperture Pearls was shattered, the protection of the 5000 Black Water Pearls was shattered, the defense of the 20000 Magic Robes was shattered, and the protective aura was also damaged by 8500. In just eleven seconds, the total damage reached 81500 points. No one could stop it without a magic weapon of the seventh rank or above.

The key point is that this is still an area-of-effect (AOE) attack, with the bombardment range covering the entire arena, which is over 1500 acres.

There was no way to dodge on the ring; you could only take the hits head-on.

Fortunately, he had purchased the Nine-Aperture Pearl before the exam. Without this sixth-tier defensive magic weapon, he would have certainly died from the wave of divine lightning. He survived, and his transformation was only a few seconds away. At this moment, two flying swords surrounded Ding Lingyu, who had transformed into a divine general, and launched a frenzied attack. In just a dozen seconds, they had already taken away half of his health.

Of the original 400,000 Qi and Blood, only 200,000 remain.

If I could activate the Radiant Transformation again, I could definitely kill him.

Unfortunately, the CD takes too long and can only be restarted after an hour.

Moreover, even if he could delay it until then, he couldn't delay it. He simply couldn't withstand another round of the Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net.

When the fifteen seconds were up, the true fire of the sun that was wrapped around the Sun-Covering Sword disappeared, and the output of the two flying swords returned to seven hundred and five hundred respectively, entering the scraping sand state.

Moreover, the extra power attached to the swords faded, and the divine general's power gained the upper hand. He could no longer suppress the attack as before, and could only entangle with the divine general with both swords, occasionally launching a surprise attack. The two sides entered a stalemate.

Fortunately, although the divine general had the upper hand in strength, the advantage was not significant. Coupled with his inferior skills, the combined attack and defense of the two flying swords greatly slowed him down.

Su Yu then took to the air and moved quickly to create distance. The divine general couldn't reach him for a while, and could only occasionally condense a bolt of lightning to blast it out, or occasionally summon a Taiyi divine thunder to strike him down.

However, these attacks cannot be launched consecutively, giving Su Yu ample time to inject mana to restore her protective aura.

At this point, the two flying swords combined only dealt a little over 1000 damage. Occasionally, a sudden attack would strike, dealing four hits of damage, which could accumulate to around 4,000 damage.

The two sides went back and forth, wearing each other down.

A minute or so later, the surrounding audience suddenly realized that Ding Lingyu seemed to have fallen into a disadvantageous position.

"This is so amazing."

"He actually managed to challenge Ding Lingyu!"

The many high-ranking members of the guilds on the stage were equally shocked. They were well-informed and knew how much resources the Ding family had invested in Ding Lingyu. They never imagined that someone in the same grade could challenge Ding Lingyu, especially someone from a commoner background.

"This is a true genius!"

Xu Bochen, the captain of the second brigade of the guild's main force third team, looked on with emotion, somewhat regretting that he hadn't offered more money to sign him back then.

The expressions of the people on the stage varied, but most of them were very restrained and did not show it. Everyone secretly glanced at Ding Hao in the center of the stage. The vice president was still smiling, but it looked very fake. No one knew what he was thinking.

Sitting on the far right of the stage was Chu Xiaoyu, representing Chu Xinyue. She too looked at the arena with a face full of surprise, her small hands clenched tightly, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

"This is a win-win situation! Miss, this investment is going to be a huge profit!"

"No, I have to tell Miss."

Glancing around and noticing that no one else was paying attention to her, she turned her head and quietly contacted Chu Xinyue.

The shock and disbelief of the spectators did not affect Su Yu's movements. The longer the stalemate lasted, the more skilled he became. He had completely figured out Ding Lingyu's skill level. His two flying swords crossed back and forth, attacking and defending, and he had completely suppressed Ding Lingyu.

In just three minutes, the god's health was reduced by nearly 100,000, leaving less than 100,000.

Despite this disadvantage, Ding Lingyu showed no panic or anxiety. He remained expressionless, responding to each move as if trying to buy time.

A thought flashed through Su Yu's mind:
"Could it be that he can unleash another ultimate move?"

"That's right, the Thunder Net is different from other powerful Taoist techniques; its cooldown is very fast."

The Five Elements Thunder Technique in the Heavenly Ghost Transformation state has a cooldown of only 5 seconds, while Ding Lingyu's Taiyi Divine Thunder has a cooldown of about 10 seconds. The Divine Thunder Net, as an ultimate skill, will have an even longer cooldown, but based on the Thunder Technique, the cooldown is estimated not to be much longer.

Judging from Ding Lingyu's current health and the rate at which it was depleted, as well as his unhurried expression, Su Yu guessed that the cooldown time of Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net was probably only about five minutes.

With about a minute left in the five-minute time limit, without a burst of burst damage, it would definitely not be enough to kill him.

"If this is the case"

Su Yu raised an eyebrow, a smile appearing on her face.

In the next minute or so, with the tacit cooperation of both sides, they countered each other's moves as before, and reduced the general's health by about 40,000, leaving him with 63500 health.

Five minutes after the previous round of the Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net ended, Ding Lingyu, who had been expressionless, finally showed a smile:
"Your strength has indeed exceeded my expectations. You are qualified to challenge me, but not now!"

"it's over!"

"Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net!"

He gave a soft shout, stretched out his hand and pressed down, and 20,000 units of magic power burned and transformed into lightning power that exploded, instantly turning the entire arena into a sea of ​​lightning that obscured everyone's vision.

In just two seconds, Su Yu's protective aura was torn apart by the violent lightning power.

"Heavenly Demon Transformation!"

His form rapidly changed, transforming from flesh and blood into a bluish-gray celestial demon body. The power of violent divine lightning corroded his body, and his health rapidly decreased.

Forty-fifth level Heavenly Ghost Transformation: 90000 Qi and Blood, 18000 Mana, 2700 Physique, 4500 Strength, 1800 km/h Speed, Heavenly Ghost Body, Five Elements Escape Technique, Illusion and Reality Transformation.

A physique of 2700 can withstand all damage of 2700, including physical, magical, and divine lightning damage.

The damage was nearly 7,000 per second, and it lasted for a full nine seconds. The player's health, which had reached 90,000, was instantly reduced to just over 27000.

When the power of the divine thunder dissipated and the arena returned to clarity, everyone saw the Heavenly Ghost transformed, standing in the void, raising his hand to unleash a Bing Fire Divine Thunder towards Ding Lingyu.

"what?"

"This is impossible?"

For the first time, Ding Lingyu's face showed panic.

"boom!"

The Bing Fire Divine Thunder blasted out a massive -7200 damage, the immense power of which pushed him away.

"This is impossible!"

The divine general soared into the sky like a meteor falling towards the Heavenly Demon, but before he arrived, a Taiyi Divine Thunder struck down.

The Heavenly Demon flew backward, and with a flick of his wrist, he unleashed a Geng Metal Divine Thunder, which exploded simultaneously between the Divine General and the Heavenly Demon.

The divine general flew through the exploding thunder and fire like a meteor, only to be met by another Gui Water Divine Thunder, which then rose up and blasted him to a stop.

"Heavenly Demon Transformation!"

Ding Lingyu gritted her teeth and sped up to catch up again.

The two chased and fled, with the divine general being faster than the heavenly ghost. Given the limited size of the arena, the divine general was quickly overtaken, and the two collided at the edge of the arena.

The god gathered lightning into a spear and stabbed the heavenly demon, dealing 4800 damage. He then retaliated with a punch, dealing another 1100 damage.

The demon's two claws slashed across the general's chest, dealing two 700-damage attacks. He couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

"As expected of a transformation technique of the town's highest level."

It should be noted that his Heavenly Ghost Transformation is an exquisite transformation technique, and with the added bonus of a cheat code, forty-five layers are equivalent to ninety layers of the Heavenly Ghost Transformation technique, while Ding Lingyu's Divine General Transformation has at most around fifty layers.

The level is so much higher, but the attributes are still far behind, which shows how big the overall gap is.

If all you have is the Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique, you'll definitely get beaten up.

Unfortunately, this was just one of his tactics.

(End of this chapter)