Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 49 The Mysterious True Branch, the Crimson Sky Sword Lineage

"But don't worry, Miss's friend is an extremely powerful sword immortal, even more powerful than Sword Immortal Liao. We should study hard and hopefully make progress before we leave."

Upon hearing this, Su Yu quickly expressed her opinion:
"I will study hard."

"Ok!"

Chu Xiaoyu gave a soft "hmm" and picked up her teacup:

"Go and get ready, you'll be coming with me tomorrow."

Su Yu realized what was happening, drank the tea in her hand, got up, and took her leave.

As soon as he left, Chu Xiaoyu asked with a grin:
"Miss, how do you think he's improved lately?"

Chu Xinyue took a small sip and nodded:

"To my surprise."

"Compared to Mu Chen and Xiao Yunya?"

Chu Xinyue glanced at her and said reproachfully:

"Asking questions knowingly!"

"Hehe, I knew he was better than Mu Chen and Xiao Yunya."

Chu Xinyue sighed softly and said in a deep voice:

"His progress is indeed beyond my expectations. In addition to his strength, his innate talent has also improved significantly. When I last saw him, his innate talent was less than 20, but now it is close to 30."

"Is it?"

Chu Xiaoyu's face showed a moment of confusion, then she quickly smiled and said:

"Isn't that even better? Improved innate aptitude means a higher potential for future growth."

But Chu Xinyue shook her head and said:
"This is certainly good for him personally, but you need to know why I'm investing in him. I don't want to cultivate some unparalleled master, but rather a guild leader to manage the second guild on my behalf. After all, my future focus will be on the sect, and I won't stay here for too long."

"But if he can advance further in the sect and become an elite or core disciple in the future, why would he care about a guild's main leader?"

"Uh"

Chu Xiaoyu also realized what was happening:
"That seems to be true. If he could become an elite disciple in the Immortal Sect, he would stay there for a long time. Why would he come back here to be a minor guild official?"

She pinched her delicate chin and asked:
"So, Miss, do you still want to continue investing in her?"

"Of course."

"I've already scratched off a few numbers on the lottery, how could I not keep looking?"

"What if he doesn't want to come back to the guild in the future?"

"Then I won't go back."

Chu Xinyue said lightly:
“We can just replace him with someone else when the time comes. He can be treated as a normal investment. If he can successfully overcome the tribulation, build a foundation for the Dao, and advance to become a Loose Immortal, he will be a help to the Immortal Sect.”

"Oh!"

Nothing happened that night. The next day, he received a message from Chu Xiaoyu, asking him to wait on the west city wall.

Su Yu turned off her communications and went straight out the door, heading directly to Chensha River.

They ventured deep into the river to find Ao Run, who was still struggling, explained the situation to her, and then put her into their spirit cage belt.

After waiting for a while at the west city wall, a spirit-winged flying boat stopped on the wall, and Chu Xiaoyu waved to him from the bow.

He leaped onto the deck and greeted Chu Xinyue at the bow:

"Commander, Sister Xiaoyu."

Chu Xinyue nodded slightly, waved her water sleeves, and the spirit wings on both sides of the flying boat gently flapped, causing the flying boat to rise rapidly and fly westward.

On the deck, there were not only Chu Xinyue and Chu Xiaoyu, but also five men and one woman chatting together. When they saw him come up, all six of them recognized him and either nodded or waved.

The Lingyi Flying Boat was extremely fast, traveling at around 2600 kilometers per hour. It sped across mountains and rivers like lightning, and soon it had left the Yuanjiang River and entered the mountains.

This was Su Yu's first time leaving the Yuanjiang area, and all she saw were new mountains and rivers. She leaned against the edge of the boat and looked around with great interest.

This seemingly endless mountain range is also part of the Taihu Mountain Range. It is shrouded in spiritual mist, making the peaks below appear hazy. From time to time, pillars of demonic energy can be seen rising into the sky from the mountains, and occasionally, the figures of giant beasts can be seen passing by.

As the airship gradually entered the depths of the Taihu Mountains, the peaks grew increasingly towering, with towering peaks overlapping one another, forming a continuous, interconnected range.

"Wow!"

Suddenly a sharp shriek came from afar. Su Yu immediately looked up and saw a huge figure flying out from behind a towering peak in the hazy mist.

Its enormous wings flapped, whipping up layers of gale-force winds that dispersed the mist, revealing its true form.

It was a giant bird with a wingspan of over three kilometers and covered in black iron feathers.

Iron Feathered Divine Eagle (Elite): Leader, Level 192, Bird.

"What a huge bird!"

The divine eagle flapped its wings and soared into the sky, disappearing into the clouds not far from them, completely ignoring the spirit-winged flying boat not far away.

Five hours later, the flying boat passed over a giant peak whose upper half was covered in ice and snow. Behind the peak, between three other peaks, there was a deep pool. The pool was filled with spiritual mist, and a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen swimming in the water.

The next day, as the airship flew over a mountain range consisting of more than a dozen giant peaks, Su Yu, with her sharp eyes, spotted a white snake, more than ten kilometers long and entirely white, coiled on the summit of one of the giant peaks.

The white snake resembled a dragon or python, its entire body covered in snow-white scales like jade. It had a single horn on its head, and its breath exuded a chilling aura, with an invisible halo slowly emanating from it.

Is this level 300?

Unfortunately, the distance is too far to see its attribute panel.

Su Yu opened the map and marked this place with a skull.

Five days later, the Spirit Wing Flying Boat traversed countless mountains and arrived in a completely unfamiliar area.

Amidst the vast mountains lies a huge basin, through which a great river flows from northwest to southeast.

As they entered the basin, they saw flying boats or flashes of sword light passing by in the sky.

When crossing the great river that runs through the basin, you can see towns on both sides of the river, which is hundreds of kilometers wide, as well as warships and players leveling up on the river. The population is even greater than that of Thousand Feather City.

The flying boat passed through the basin and arrived at the southeastern river mouth. On the left side of the river mouth, a giant peak rose abruptly from the ground, probably tens of thousands of feet high.

From afar, one can see the giant peak shrouded in a large array. Through the transparent array barrier, one can see pavilions and towers covering the entire mountainside, as well as a radiant light soaring into the sky.

Every now and then, streaks of sword light could be seen flying out of the mountain gate and soaring into the sky, and every other time, sword light could be seen flying in from afar and landing in the mountain.

The flying boat did not enter the mountain gate directly, but slowly descended. At the foot of the mountain was a huge city. The flying boat stopped on a huge platform on the edge of the city, where flying boats could be seen landing and taking off.

The group disembarked, and Su Yu was about to disembark when Chu Xiaoyu called her back:
"This is not our destination."

"Oh!"

He nodded, then looked up curiously at the city.

This city is larger than Thousand Feather City, and the flow of people is more dense. Su Yu discovered that there are a lot of sword cultivators here, half of the ten people are sword cultivators.

This is an exaggerated proportion; it's less than one percent in Thousand Feather City.

Just as he was surveying the city, several people on the edge of the platform waved to them from afar. Chu Xiaoyu flew over and said a few words to them, and then the people who had come with them joined them and left.

After they left, the Spiritwing Flying Boat took off again, leaving the city and flying towards the giant peak not far away.

Su Yu asked curiously:

"Sister Xiaoyu, which sect is this?"

Chu Xiaoyu shook her head and said:

"This is the Crimson Sky Sword Vein, a branch of the Profound True Immortal Sect."

"?" "You can think of it as the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect having many branches, and this is one of them, called the Crimson Sky Sword Branch."

"Oh!"

“Miss has a friend who is one of the core disciples of the Crimson Sky Sword Clan in the present day. His swordsmanship is superb and he is a worthy teacher.”

At this point, Chu Xiaoyu's tone suddenly became serious, and she said to him:

"Although she's a friend of yours, you'll have to repay this favor in the future."

Su Yu nodded quickly and assured him:

"Don't worry, I'll keep it in mind."

Chu Xiaoyu smiled and nodded, saying:
"You don't need to rush. With your current strength, you can't repay it even if you want to. It's not too late to consider these things when you are strong enough in the future."

"Ok!"

While they were talking, the flying boat had already arrived at the foot of the mountain, where there was a huge mountain gate archway. Next to the archway was a stone wall with four powerful characters written on it: "Crimson Sky Sword Peak". Su Yu's eyes fell on the characters and instantly felt a sharp sword intent rushing towards him.

He tilted his head back slightly, quickly regaining his senses, his face filled with shock:
"What a sharp sword intent!"

Sword intent is a power that can only be mastered at the fourth level of swordsmanship. It is a combination of extremely condensed will and swordsmanship beliefs. The condensed sword intent can break through all laws in the world and is extremely powerful.

The prerequisite for the saying "one sword can break all techniques" is mastering the essence of swordsmanship.

The four large characters on the stone wall in front of us contain the sword intent left behind by a powerful figure. The fact that the sword intent could remain in the characters for decades or even centuries means that the level of the sword intent had reached its peak, which is extremely exaggerated.

The Spirit Wing Flying Boat landed on the plaza in front of the mountain gate, and a sword rainbow flew out from the mountain gate, instantly arriving in front of the Spirit Wing Flying Boat.

Su Yu only felt a flash of sword light, and the next second she saw a tall and slender figure suddenly appear on the flying boat.

The woman wore a moon-white long dress, with a light green ribbon cinching her waist, perfectly outlining her curves. The Mongolian yurt on her chest seemed about to burst out of the dress.

Her eyebrows were long and slender like swords, her phoenix eyes were cold and sharp, her nose was like jade, and her slightly upturned lips gave her a warm and reserved smile.

Then, for most of the journey, Chu Xinyue sat cross-legged in meditation. Her usually aloof and silent face revealed a smile that Su Yu had never seen before, and she embraced the girl.

Su Yu blinked, feeling a little strange at their intimate behavior.

The Spirit Wing Flying Boat took off and flew straight into the huge mountain gate that was hundreds of meters high.

Passing through a gently undulating transparent barrier, a cool, spiritual aura rushed towards me.

On the flying boat, the two women had finished their whispered conversation. The woman turned to look at Su Yu from head to toe. A sharp sword intent, inherited from the Crimson Sky Sword lineage, rushed towards him, scraping across his body like a blade.

She nodded slightly, and her clear, cold voice rang out:

"not bad."

"I won't hold back on what I've learned from Xinyue, but how much you can learn depends on your own abilities."

Su Yu quickly clasped his hands and bowed:

"Su Yu thanks you, Senior!"

Chu Xiaoyu whispered a reminder in his ear:

"Call her Sword Immortal Li!"

He quickly changed his tune:
"Su Yu bows in gratitude to Immortal Li Jian."

The woman nodded, turned around and looked gently at Chu Xinyue, took her hand and soared into the air, disappearing in an instant, leaving Su Yu with her mouth slightly open and her face full of shock.

"Snapped!"

Chu Xiaoyu patted his shoulder lightly, and he came back to his senses, hearing her earnest advice:
"Don't look around or talk nonsense."

He nodded quickly:
"I didn't see anything."

"Ah."

After the flying boat entered the mountain gate, it quickly ascended and soon arrived above a manor surrounded by lush flowers and trees and array light screens on the mountainside, which was tens of thousands of meters high.

However, it did not enter the main gate, but flew directly to a small courtyard on the edge of the manor and landed there.

Chu Xiaoyu pointed to the courtyard and said to him:

"We'll be staying here for about a month, during which time Miss Qingli will come to give you lessons whenever she has time."

Su Yu thought of something and asked:

"Isn't there a specific time? The lecture shouldn't take too long, so how should I arrange the rest of the time? I can't just stay here for the whole month, can I?"

"No rush, stay for a few days, I'll ask Miss later."

"Ok."

Then Chu Xiaoyu arranged a room for him in the courtyard, and told him not to run around here or leave the courtyard to go to other parts of the manor before leaving.

Su Yu watched her leave, then looked around.

The main peak of the Crimson Sky Sword Clan is tens of thousands of meters high. The manor is located on the mountainside. Standing on the edge of the courtyard, one can see various pavilions, towers, and sect buildings built against the mountain.

Sword rainbows crisscrossed the sky, nine out of ten of them flying on swords.

Compared to the city outside the mountain where about 50% of the players were using the flying sword style, 99% of the players in this Sword Peak are using the flying sword style, and their skill levels are all quite good.

Of course, he's not bad; many others aren't as skilled as him.

It wasn't that the Crimson Sky Sword Clan was weak, but rather that most of the people he saw were just outer disciples, so their strength naturally wouldn't be that great.

Having entered the Other Shore with her Awakened Law Data Body for so long, Su Yu has learned quite a bit.

First of all, it is not difficult to join a sect. As long as any one of your innate attributes reaches 20 points or more, you can try to become an apprentice. It is generally easy to join an ordinary sect that is not a celestial sect.

However, these are only outer disciples, also called nominal disciples. Their names are not recorded in the sect and they are not considered true disciples.

There are many such disciples from various sects and schools, with varying levels of strength. The strong ones are very strong, while the weak ones are not much stronger than ordinary people outside.

It's like casting a wide net to catch many fish.

By recruiting many disciples and encouraging them to compete with each other, a few elite masters will inevitably emerge, much like raising poisonous insects.

Of course, 20 points of innate talent already shuts out 99% of players.

Disciples who are registered under the name of the sect generally have a ten-year probationary period. If their progress in cultivation does not meet the standards after ten years, they will be expelled from the sect and can no longer stay.

Once the standards are met, one will be promoted to a formal disciple, registered in the sect, and only then can one be called a true member of the sect.

There is no time limit for formal disciples; no matter your cultivation level, you will remain a disciple for life.

The vast majority of disciples in the various sects on the other side are outer disciples, and after wasting ten years, they have no choice but to leave the sect.

However, this is not a bad thing. Most of the outer disciples were already mentally prepared, and many of them never thought they could stay in the sect in the first place. Their main purpose in joining the sect was not to become a formal disciple, but to obtain the sect's cultivation techniques.

Even the worst sects have advanced Qi cultivation techniques for their outer disciples. These techniques cost hundreds of taels of gold outside, but if you join a sect, you can learn them for free.

Besides the cultivation techniques, the sect also possesses many thunder techniques that are extremely difficult to obtain outside, as well as various powerful Dao techniques, which can be exchanged upon reaching certain sect contribution levels.

This kind of good stuff is hard to buy even if you have money outside, but you can easily learn it within the sect.

Moreover, the Daoist techniques learned and exchanged within the sect will not be retrieved once you leave the sect. You can continue to cultivate and improve them, but you cannot pass them on to others.

Disciples who are eliminated from the sect are highly sought after outside, and are sought after by guilds of all sizes. They can easily become elite members by joining any guild.

Therefore, every year, each guild tries to use a lot of resources to exchange for disciple slots from various sects, specifically to cultivate elite masters.

If someone is capable of becoming a formal disciple of a sect, they can receive financial assistance from the guild to help them.

Even if these formal disciples don't return to the guild in the future, they can still forge a bond of kinship and friendship. It's fine in normal times, but when the guild faces danger, they can always find a group of experts to help them.

Only through years of accumulation can those large guilds become stronger and stronger.

(End of this chapter)