Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 54 Ao Run's Advancement, Midnight Cold Tide

Su Yu bowed respectfully to Xiao Qingli:
"Although we are not formally master and disciple, we are in fact master and disciple. I will never forget what you have taught me, and if I achieve anything in the future, I will repay you!"

Xiao Qingli chuckled and waved her hand:

"I'm only teaching you because of Xinyue. If you feel bad about it, you can use that favor on her in the future."

"The regimental commander is the regimental commander, and the teacher is the teacher. I will remember your kindness."

Xiao Qingli didn't speak, nor did she take his words to heart. In her opinion, although the young man Xinyue brought was talented and his learning progress was faster than she expected, she didn't think that a young man who had only awakened his cultivation a year ago could help her in any way.

As Su Yu emerged from the manor, he looked up at the sky. The azure sky was cloudless, mirroring his good mood.

Looking down and opening the communication interface, it was a message from Chu Xiaoyu:

"Miss has successfully overcome the tribulation, and you have also learned a great deal. We plan to return in a week. If you have anything to do, please go and take care of it quickly."

"no problem!"

After shutting down communications, Su Yu went straight out the door and flew towards Cangshui.

He reached out and pressed his hand against the spirit cage at his waist. He could feel the changes within the spirit cage. Several days had passed, and Ao Run had completed his transformation and evolution.

Reaching the nearest riverbank, he plunged into the water, plunging over two thousand meters into the depths. With a flick of his wrist, the vortex of his spirit cage opened, and a beautiful dragon with azure scales, resembling jade, flew out.

Su Yu's gaze shifted to the top of her head, and she noticed that the fleshy bun on her head was gone, replaced by a pair of small, exquisite, crystal-clear dragon horns, which felt cool to the touch.

In addition, the shape of its head has also changed. Originally it was somewhere between a snake and a dragon, but now it is more like a real dragon.

Two blue dragon whiskers dangled from her chin, swaying back and forth as she flew.

Ao Run floated in front of him, stretched out two claws, and its four crystal-clear, jade-like dragon toes kept grabbing and releasing, as if showing off.

"It has four toes!"

Su Yu remembered that it originally had only three toes, but now it has become four toes, and it is only one step away from becoming a true dragon with five toes.

Ao Run circled around him once, and with a blinding blue light exploding, the blue dragon disappeared, replaced by a blue jade dragon over 150 meters long.

Blue Dragon Ao Run (Terrifying): Leader, Level 131, Aquatic, Dragon.

Attributes: 468 million HP, 390,000 demon power, 42000 attack power, 2200 km/h speed, demon magic: water-based magic, dragon walking technique, Gui water divine thunder, Gui water divine thunder net, ice soul divine thunder, midday cold tide restriction (exquisite level), 130 layers of Qingming divine breath technique (profound level), the third layer of the Nine Transformations Dragon Scripture (great supernatural power).

Intimacy level: 83.

She only had 53 points since I subdued her, but after fusing her with the Great Wilderness Dragon Chapter, she instantly gained 30 points.

"very good!"

After refining the Great Wilderness Dragon Chapter (Chi), her template also transformed from an elite template to a terrifying template, with her attributes greatly improved. At the same time, she inherited the power of the Chi dragon's Ice Soul Divine Lightning and Midnight Cold Tide.

In addition, the Nine Transformations Dragon Scripture was upgraded to the third level, and the true dragon bloodline in his body was greatly enhanced.

As Ao Run had said before, once the Nine Transformations Dragon Scripture is upgraded to the fifth level, the true dragon bloodline within her body will reach its limit, thus transforming her into a true dragon.

"Let's test the midday cold wave!"

Ao Run turned his head and opened his mouth, and a fierce blast of cold air shot out in a fan shape. The river water quickly froze and spread far and wide, extending to over a thousand meters away. Several groups of aquatic monsters were frozen in the ice.

With a flick of its massive tail, the dragon slammed into the ice. An invisible force swept across the ice, shattering it inch by inch. Several groups of aquatic creatures caught in the shattered ice were instantly torn to pieces, each dealing 40000 damage.

"Great!"

Looking at her attributes, she only consumed 30000 mana.

Normally, a spirit of this level would only have around 100,000 power, and wouldn't be able to unleash its full power even after four attempts.

However, Ao Run cultivated the Azure Netherworld Divine Breath Technique, which is a profound Daoist technique with a mana power of up to 186 million and explosive endurance.

Seeing this, Su Yu suddenly had a bold idea.

With a quick glance around, he summoned the Sun-Covering Azure Sparrow, which flew to the left and right. His flying sword traversed over a thousand meters, passing through a group of blue carp spirits. He brushed past them, attracting their attention, and then flew past them to a group of black carp spirits further away.

It circled around once, attracting more than a dozen groups of over two hundred aquatic monsters, each at level sixty or seventy.

Once the masses had gathered, Ao Run opened his mouth and spewed out a blast of midday cold air, freezing a fan-shaped area of ​​over a thousand meters in just a few seconds, before lashing out with his tail.

"boom!"

The ice shattered, instantly killing all the monsters inside.

"Cool!"

Next, they changed locations and lured over a thousand aquatic monsters over, then unleashed another burst of Midnight Cold Wave, instantly gaining over 300,000 kill experience points.

"That was awesome!"

The man and the dragon immediately moved to another location and used the same method to lure a large number of monsters, then cleared them out in another wave, gaining two or three hundred thousand killing experience points.

A wave of monsters typically gathers every half hour or so. If you farm for twelve hours a day, that's twenty-four waves. Each wave averages 250,000 kill experience points, so you can accumulate nearly six million kill experience points a day, and a whopping 180 million a month.
It might not work, but 160 or 170 million shouldn't be a problem.

"If we do it this way, we'll have more than enough time to raise the Taibai Sword Manual to the seventieth level before the big exam at the end of the year."

"There are still more than two months until the end of the year. If we continue at this pace, we may even be able to raise the Qi Refining Technique to the seventieth level or the Heavenly Ghost Transformation Technique to the sixtieth level."

"continue!"

From then on, Su Yu worked hard for twelve hours every day. Even after returning home, she didn't stay idle. She would go to the Sword Testing Platform to practice for several hours every day. Her schedule was packed every day.

A week later, when Chu Xinyue was preparing to return to the guild, he found her and said:
"Guild leader, I'm not going with you. I plan to travel down the Cang River to the Yuan River, and then return to the guild along the Yuan River."

Chu Xinyue nodded:
"be careful."

"I will be careful."

After seeing them off, Su Yu plunged into the Cang River to reunite with Ao Run. They traveled downstream, leveling up as they went, making the most of every single day.

Ao Run, who has transformed into a terrifying template, is much stronger than before. The Cang River is only about a hundred miles wide, and there are probably only a handful of great demons over level two hundred. Since they don't go into the center of the river, they are unlikely to encounter any.

Wherever they went, the man and the dragon worked together to lure all the monsters within a radius of several kilometers. Then, Ao Run would unleash a Midnight Cold Tide attack, instantly killing a whole bunch of them. They would gain hundreds of thousands of killing experience points in an instant, and occasionally even a few points of cultivation.

He spends most of the day at the bottom of the river. When he rests, he just finds a shallow spot and lies down. No monsters dare to approach him.

By walking and stopping like this, we hadn't gone very far, but we had already accumulated a wealth of experience.

A few days later, after leaving the basin where the Crimson Sky Sword Vein was located, the river became narrow, and there were mountains on both sides of the river, making the terrain treacherous.

Occasionally, when they surface, they can see some monkey demons and monsters passing by on the mountain, sword lights flashing in the air, and occasionally they can see huge warships gathering monsters to bombard them.

About a thousand miles past the warship, a tributary about ten miles wide appeared. On one side of the tributary stood a city called Flame Dragon City, which was the headquarters of a guild called Flame Dragon.

Continuing down past Yanlong City, after half a month, they had completely entered the wilderness, where it was rare to see any signs of human habitation, and even the figures of players flying high in the sky had become scarce.

The river channel here has been compressed to a width of only about 40 kilometers, with sheer cliffs on both sides, extending to a depth of over 1,000 meters after entering the water.

Few people come here to level up; the number of monsters in this section of the river is extremely high, and they are all at a very high level, often around level 70 or 80. But this is actually an advantage for Su Yu, as she can grind through the monsters without feeling too overwhelmed.

After another four days of continuous killing, accumulating nearly 25 million killing experience points, Su Yu surfaced to catch her breath.

As soon as we surfaced, we were surprised to find a tributary several kilometers wide not far ahead, and a large ship was sailing out of the tributary.

To his surprise, the large ship was not carrying humans, but a group of white ape spirits dressed in human clothes. What surprised him even more was that these ape spirits were not red-named monsters, but green-named monsters.

At this moment, the white apes on the ship had already spotted Su Yu hanging on the water's surface, and one of the white apes at the bow of the ship clasped his hands in a salute to him.

White Ape Yuan Hao (Elite): Level 86, Ape Clan.

Su Yu returned the greeting, looking at the large ship casting out a large net to catch fish with considerable surprise, his behavior no different from that of an ordinary person.

"strangeness!"

He pinched the bridge of his nose, flew to the tributary they had come from, and found that not far upstream, the riverbanks were a basin with many buildings on both sides. These buildings were filled with white apes standing upright and a few humans, as well as many players.

Curious, he flew over and greeted a player fishing on the shore.
"Brother, where is this place? Why are all these ape demons green-named?"

The man didn't even turn his head; he just pointed behind him.

Following the direction of his finger, Su Yu saw a mountain wall with one side cut off, on which were written several large characters—White Ape Town.

"This is White Ape Town, the gathering place of the White Ape clan."

"The ancestors of this white ape clan were once the spirit pets of an immortal from the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect. Later, when their lifespan was about to end, they returned to their birthplace, gathered their former clan, and settled here. According to the decree of the immortal sect, the descendants of the white apes are born with spirituality and are no longer monsters."

"Oh!"

Su Yu looked up and around. This White Ape Town was quite large. She then turned and asked:
"Brother, do you know what special products White Ape Town has? It would be a shame to come here empty-handed."

"specialty?"

"Monkey wine counts as one. One sip increases your maximum mana by 10 points, with a maximum of 10 sips effective."

Where can I buy it?

"Any tavern in town."

"Thanks."

Su Yu waved her hand to express her gratitude and flew towards the town.

After wandering around for a while, we quickly found a tavern where many white apes were drinking and chatting, and a few human players were also there, chatting away with the white apes.

He spent 10 gold coins to buy 10 gourds of fourth-grade spirit wine, Monkey Brew.

One gourd is just enough for ten mouths. The remaining nine gourds can be taken back to Thousand Feather City and sold; they should be able to make some profit.

The talent took effect, and the monkey-shaped wine provided him with 200 points of maximum mana.

In addition, this monkey wine also has the effect of restoring mana. Drinking one sip can restore 5000 points of health and mana, and restore 500 points of health and mana per second for the next ten seconds.

After buying the wine, he didn't leave immediately, but instead wandered around White Ape Town.

In a town like this, there are bound to be some special opportunities.

After wandering around and asking many white apes, I found the largest shop in White Ape Town and discovered many interesting things.

Brewer (Ape): A profession that allows one to brew fine wines.

Brewing is a profession, while the Spirit Ape represents a faction. This faction is unique to the Spirit Ape clan and, in addition to brewing regular wines, can also brew wines unique to the Spirit Apes.

For example, Monkey Brew is a unique wine of the ape clan.

This profession comes with seven types of spirit wine that can be brewed: Sweet Potato Wine (Grade 1), Lao Bai Gan (Grade 1), Coconut Wine (Grade 1), Yellow Wine (Grade 1), Glutinous Rice Wine (Grade 1), Hundred Days Intoxication (Grade 2), and Monkey Wine (Grade 2).

Among the seven types of spirit wine that come with his profession, the Monkey Brew he just bought is not one of them. That is an advanced version of Monkey Brew, which requires an advanced brewing skill to learn.

Moreover, the recipe is very expensive; he checked and it required 20 taels of gold, while the brewer's job advancement only costs 10 gold.

Having mastered the skills, Su Yu left White Ape Town.

Life skills are easy to level up in the early stages; just brew a few more times when you have free time. Advanced levels are a matter for later, when you'll definitely have plenty of time to practice slowly.

They rejoined Ao Run in the river and continued their journey.

This time, we didn't encounter anything unusual along the way. While fighting monsters, we collected some spiritual herbs and minerals. Occasionally, we encountered some mini-bosses, which we defeated to gain some cultivation points and loot.

The quality of the equipment is not high, mostly fourth or fifth tier. Use the useful equipment and save the useless ones to sell for money later.

It took nearly a month to travel almost 200,000 kilometers in one go, finally arriving at the lower reaches of the Cangshui River, near the mouth of the Yuanjiang River.

Although the river is still flanked by towering mountains, the river itself has widened considerably.

As they approached the river mouth, players began to appear one after another. Occasionally, warships could be seen anchored on the water, using demon-attracting incense to lure large numbers of monsters, which were then bombarded by hundreds of lightning and fire towers.

A dragon and a human leaped from the underwater surface of the warship, but Su Yu suddenly stopped after swimming a short distance:
"Someone."

Four or five kilometers away at the bottom of the river, a large group of players were besieging and killing a level 145 elite Blackwater Serpent.

Before Ao Run could even get close to the few people on the outer perimeter, he was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly. Then, a group of people jumped down from the river. Some of them raised their battle flags and spread them out, while the other half used flying swords and magical weapons to attack.

"Good heavens, are they treating Ao Run like the BOSS?"

Su Yu quickly flew to Ao Run's head and waved vigorously:
"Stop, this is my spirit pet."

"stop!"

Lu Boxiao, who was leading the group, gestured for them to stop. He looked Su Yu up and down, then glanced at the magnificent dragon beneath him, a hint of envy on his face.

Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief and cupped her hands in greeting:

"I am Su Yu from the Thousand Feathers Society. I have no intention of offending you; I am just passing by."

Someone next to Lu Boxiao let out a soft exclamation and said:
"Qianyu Guild, I've heard of it. It's an old guild located downstream of the Yuan River."

Hearing his subordinate's words, and glancing at the level and template of the blue dragon beneath Su Yu's feet, Lu Boxiao said in a deep voice:

"This is the Giant Ship Gang. I am Lu Boxiao, the captain of the 22nd Independent Squadron of the Giant Ship Gang. We are currently besieging a BOSS. We thought another BOSS had arrived. If we have offended you, please forgive us."

Su Yu smiled and said:

"That's only human nature; I would think the same way if I were in your shoes."

With the matter resolved, Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Not wanting to dwell on it any longer, he simply clasped his hands in a fist and said:
"The misunderstanding has been cleared up. I still have a long way to go, so I'll take my leave now!"

"please!"

(End of this chapter)