Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 55 Black Water Serpent, Water Eye at the Bottom of the River

The man and the dragon quickly left. Su Yu glanced at the battlefield from afar. Thirty-six people each held a Xuanming Yin Water Flag and set up a Xuanming Yin Water Formation to surround the Black Water Serpent. They continuously condensed Xuanming Yin Water Serpents to attack the Black Water Serpent.

Surrounded by forty or fifty people under the cover of a large formation, and with dozens more flanking from the outer perimeter, the Blackwater Serpent seemed to have no chance of escape.

But at that moment, the river in the distance suddenly exploded, and another black water serpent rushed out from the bottom of the water, opening its mouth and spewing out a sky full of Gui water essence that gathered into thunder and exploded.

"what?"

"One male and one female?"

Lu Boxiao and the others who were on the perimeter reacted immediately, but the black water serpent that rushed out from behind happened to come from another direction, so they were a step too slow.

The enormous black serpent crashed into the Xuanming Yin Water Formation, causing the formation's light screen to tremble violently. The giant ship players inside were thrown about by the immense force, unable to maintain their balance.

Meanwhile, the black water serpent within the Xuanming Yin Water Formation sensed the changes in the formation and also began to go berserk.

With the combination of internal and external forces, the encirclement began to crumble.

Immediately, someone shouted to the company commander, Lu Boxiao:
"Captain, we can't hold off the two bosses."

Lu Boxiao acted decisively, immediately sending a telepathic message to Su Yu, who hadn't gone far:

"Brother Su Yu of the Thousand Feathers Society, help stop this Black Water Serpent outside, and you will be rewarded with five gold coins afterward."

"Forget about the reward. If I can kill the BOSS, all the loot is mine!"

"no problem."

Su Yu reached out and pressed down on Ao Run's head, saying:

"Kill that Blackwater Serpent."

Ao Run nodded eagerly, and with a flick of his thick dragon tail, he charged toward the level 162 Blackwater Serpent. From afar, he spewed out a blast of icy water, and the river water visibly froze and spread in layers.

The Black Water Serpent, which was attacking the Xuanming Yin Water Formation, immediately sensed the immense threat posed by Ao Run. Forgetting about rescuing its companion, it turned around and roared at Ao Run, its sharp fangs spewing venom, and its massive body thrashed as it charged toward the dragon.

"Bang bang bang!"

The frozen river water was shattered layer by layer by its brute force, producing a series of loud explosions. The black water serpent crushed the ice layer and rushed up, instantly engaging Ao Run in a fierce battle.

It bites with its mouth, tears with its claws, and smashes with its tail.

The fighting style of the demon race is so simple and unadorned that even Ao Run, who is extremely intelligent and has cultivated human Qi refining techniques, cannot avoid it.

Despite possessing numerous spells and magical artifacts, he dislikes using them, preferring to rely on his powerful physical body in combat.

Su Yu did not make a move at first, but waited until the two sides had fought fiercely for a while before unleashing his twin swords and charging in.

Dealing with such a behemoth that is over 150 meters long doesn't require any swordsmanship skills. There's no fear of missing a hit; just throw two flying swords at it and unleash a flurry of blows.

This guy has high defense and a physique even higher than Ding Lingyu's Divine General, but he can't withstand the armor penetration of his twin swords and the armor penetration of his Condensed Sword into Silk, which together provide up to 40% armor penetration. Not only can he break through defenses, but his output is also very fierce.

Today, Su Yu's swordsmanship has greatly improved under Xiao Qingli's tutelage. Facing such a large creature, a single flying sword circling around him can inflict more than a dozen hits of damage, and a casual sword strike can accumulate nearly 20,000 damage.

The two flying swords came together and slashed fiercely at the Black Water Serpent's body, which was several meters in diameter, with explosive power.

When the damage he caused was enough for the Blackwater Serpent to want to teach him a lesson, Ao Run began to exert his strength and tightly entangle the serpent.

The two, one human and one dragon, worked together seamlessly, firmly suppressing the BOSS and preventing it from escaping.

In less than five minutes, the Blackwater Serpent lost more than half of its health, and its body was covered with bite wounds and countless sword marks.

At this rate, they can take them down in a few more minutes.

But at this moment, the other Black Water Serpent in the Xuanming Yin Water Formation could no longer hold on. That serpent was only level 145 and had been besieged for so long that it was almost exhausted. At a certain moment, it suddenly let out a long mournful cry.

The other Blackwater Serpent, which was fighting Ao Run, suddenly raised its head and roared. It opened its mouth and spat out an inner core surrounded by black water, which flew out like a meteor and crashed towards the Xuanming Yin Water Formation.

Upon seeing this, Su Yu immediately sent a telepathic message to Lu Boxiao to remind him:

"Be careful!"

However, even without his reminder, Lu Boxiao, while besieging his own snake, never relaxed his attention to the other side. He had already seen the large black water snake spew out its inner core and decisively took out a ball of red smoke and threw it out.

The smoke exploded in the water, quickly spreading into a red haze covering nearly an acre.

The Blackwater Serpent's inner core crashed into it, and the smoke suddenly sank along the point of impact with the inner core, causing a shockwave to explode outwards. Most of the smoke collapsed directly, but it was barely blocked.

When its companions' support was intercepted, the Black Water Serpent in the formation let out a mournful cry, opened its mouth and spat out an inner core that trembled violently in the air, its energy overflowing.

"Oh no, it's about to self-destruct its inner core!"

The thirty-six players holding the Xuanming Yinshui Flag shook their flags in unison, causing the thirty-six Xuanming Yinshui Snakes that were shuttling back and forth within the formation to tremble. The Xuanming Qi swelled up and rushed towards the Black Water Xuan Snake.

But it was too late. The inner core exploded with a bang, and the surging energy of the core exploded like a tsunami. The great formation set up by the thirty-six Xuanming Yin Water Flags had limited strength and was directly blown apart, and everyone was thrown away.

Upon seeing this scene, the Blackwater Serpent that Su Yu was besieging let out a mournful cry, opened its mouth to suck back its inner core, its body trembled slightly and visibly grew larger, directly repelling Ao Run and turning to rush into the bottom of the river.

Ao Run opened his mouth and spat out a dragon pearl that flew out like a meteor and crashed into the bottom of the water.

"boom!"

The underwater currents exploded, but when Su Yu arrived, all she saw was a pile of broken scales and flesh.

"Chase!"

Ao Run retrieved the dragon pearl, then swung his thick dragon tail and chased after it.

Su Yu immediately followed and quickly descended.

After the Black Water Serpent activated its inner core, its speed increased dramatically, much like a demon disintegrating or using a teleportation technique, and even Su Yu couldn't catch up with it at this moment.

However, it was seriously injured, and the strong smell lingered in the water after it swam, so it wasn't afraid of getting lost.

They chased for almost ten minutes straight, long since leaving the area they had just been and entering the riverbed. Along the way, they saw increasingly higher-level monsters, and soon they could occasionally see monsters with levels over 100 around them.

Fortunately, Ao Run was powerful enough that even the highest-level monsters dared not provoke the BOSS.

He followed behind her, using her power to intimidate her, and no monster dared to approach.

"This guy runs so fast?"

In just a short while, the man and the dragon had traveled hundreds of kilometers along the riverbed, to an unknown depth. Even the water-repelling space attached to the Black Water Pearl on his body had been compressed to almost touching his body.

Looking at the enormous creatures that occasionally swept past, Su Yu felt a little nervous.

The Black Water Pearl possesses a water-repelling ability that allows it to dive to a depth of 10000 meters. In shallow water, it can create a waterless space with a diameter of one zhang (approximately 3.3 meters). The deeper the water, the higher the water pressure, and the waterless space will gradually shrink.

The water pressure is now close to the skin, indicating that the water depth is nearing its limit.

This depth is almost at the heart of the Cangshui River, and Ao Run's strength is no longer very high at this point.

Although the weakened BOSS was important, nothing was more important than her own life. Su Yu transmitted her thoughts to Ao Run, who was chasing after them with all his might.

"It's too dangerous here, let's not chase after them."

Ao Run turned around and spoke in human language:

"Reaching soon."

How do you know we're almost there?

"I know where it went." "???"

Ao Run didn't answer, he just kept charging forward.

"All right!"

This girl is just stubborn; Su Yu has finally seen through her personality.

This kind of personality can be a good thing or a bad thing, and I don't know if it will be good or bad this time.

Looking back on her past behavior, Su Yu realized that she was quite reliable most of the time.

Determined to continue chasing the dragon, Su Yu was shocked when Ao Run suddenly slowed down after only two minutes. She immediately looked up and her eyes showed a hint of shock.

"Is this a water eye?"

Several kilometers ahead of them, underwater, was a cave several kilometers in diameter. Endless river water mixed with countless aquatic spirits swirled and spewed out of the water's eye like a tornado, then swam in all directions according to their rank.

Every second, tens of thousands of monsters were spewed out, ranging from fish and shrimp of level 20 or 30 to giant blackfish and catfish of level 80 or 90, and occasionally giant fish of level 100 or above.

In the short time he had been observing, Su Yu saw a level 112 black dragon emerge from the water's eye, swaying its tail as it swam away into the distance.

Water Eye, also known as Monster Spawn Point in the Other Shore.

Generally, these are places where the earth's veins converge, where endless spiritual energy gathers and, combined with the laws of the other shore, gives rise to endless monsters, also known as experience monsters.

Ninety-nine percent of the experience monsters in the world are obtained by farming monsters at various monster spawn points.

Fortunately, when these spirits were first born, their consciousness was not yet fully formed. They would only follow the instincts given to them by the Heavenly Dao and disperse in all directions after leaving the water eye, without attacking each other.

Level 20 monsters and level 100+ monsters spewed out of the water eye at the same time, almost touching each other but not attacking each other.

So even though the Water Eye refreshes tens of thousands of monsters every second, and the surrounding area is densely packed with monsters, it is actually still quite safe.

Su Yu quickly recovered from the shock of seeing the watery eyes and looked at Ao Run, asking:
"This is the water eye, but what about the Black Water Serpent?"

Ao Run stretched out a claw and pointed it at the water eye:
"over there."

Su Yu looked puzzled:
"It hid in the water eye?"

"No."

Su Yu glanced around the water's eye with a puzzled look, but saw nothing.

Ao Run didn't explain, and flew straight towards the water eye.

He followed with doubt and soon arrived at a place less than a hundred meters away from the water eye. Less than ten meters above his head, the water eye spewed out tornadoes, and the ancient and deafening roar was deafening. Inside, there were countless monsters, which felt quite exciting.

After arriving here, Ao Run suddenly shrank to the size of an arm and then burrowed into the water eye.

"follow me."

Su Yu looked up at the rumbling water-eye tornado and couldn't help but swallow hard.

"The intimacy level is over 80, so they shouldn't betray me, their owner, right?"

He gritted his teeth, summoned the Nine Aperture Pearl, and went inside.

He instantly felt an extremely powerful impact erupt from the water eye, and he forced himself to steady himself and followed.

Seeing Ao Run nimbly dodge the monsters rushing out of the water eye and rush down to a depth of over a thousand meters, they saw many holes of different sizes appearing on the stone walls at the edge of the water eye.

The small ones were only the size of a fist, while the large ones were two or three meters in diameter. Ao Run found a hole, circled around it, beckoned to him with his claws, and then crawled inside. He quickly followed and crawled in as well.

The inner walls of the passage were as smooth as jade, with a faint spiritual mist seeping out, making it look very beautiful.

Su Yu followed Ao Run into the passage and flew downwards, the diameter of the passage increasing as they went down.

After flying for about ten kilometers, turning left and right, the view suddenly opened up, revealing a huge underground space with a diameter of several kilometers at the end of the passage.

The space is bright and airy, with warm, glowing jade walls illuminating the entire area.

There are many passages of varying sizes around the space. At the bottom stand jade pillars. The rich spiritual energy has gathered and turned into spiritual liquid that has settled at the bottom. A black water snake covered in wounds can be seen coiled around a jade pillar in the center of the spiritual liquid pool, healing its wounds.

"found it!"

Ao Run burst forth with blue light, revealing his true form over a hundred meters tall, and spewed down a blast of midday cold air.

The Blackwater Serpent, which was recovering from its injuries, suddenly sprang up and roared as it charged forward.

The two enormous creatures collided violently, and the powerful impact created ripples that spread outwards across the water.

The Blackwater Serpent, which had been injured and had its inner core essence activated, was in a weakened state after the outburst and was quickly defeated and suppressed in its struggle with Ao Run.

Only then did Su Yu unleash his twin swords, unleashing a flurry of attacks on the Black Water Serpent.

The Blackwater Serpent unleashed its inner core once more, and Ao Run countered by spewing out a dragon pearl to suppress it.

Suppressed from all sides and subjected to his siege, the weakened Blackwater Serpent quickly lost its ability to fight back.

Three minutes later, Ao Run bit down on the Blackwater Serpent's neck and yanked it off, tearing its head off.

Upon the death of the Blackwater Serpent, Su Yu instantly gained 195 million killing experience points and 136 points of cultivation, while six trophy orbs appeared on his body.

"Bashi!"

With a flash of light, the Azure Sparrow Sword swept back the six spoils of war, which he then counted one by one.

251 Blackwater Serpent Scales can be used to craft Rank 6 robes or equipment, and are worth over ten gold coins.

A damaged Blackwater Serpent inner core can be sold for around six or seven gold coins, depending on its grade.

The skeleton of a Blackwater Serpent, which is over 150 meters long, can be sold for 10 gold coins.

Xuan Snake (Sixth-Order Flying Sword): A divine weapon, a flying sword forged from the fangs of the Blackwater Xuan Snake, containing potent poison.

Attributes: Attack power 260-300, Attack speed 240-260, Sword control speed 250-270, Sword skill bonus 50%, Characteristics: Xuan Snake Fang, Black Water Xuan Snake.

Xuan Snake's Fang: Each attack deals 110 points of poison damage and reduces health recovery speed by 10% for 15 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.

Blackwater Serpent: Activate the Blackwater Serpent's divine soul within the flying sword to summon a level 162 elite Blackwater Serpent to assist in battle. Lasts for 5 minutes, consumes 1500 mana, and has a 24-hour cooldown.

Black Water Mysterious Pearl (Sixth Grade): An ornament made from the eyeball of a Black Water Mysterious Snake, containing a trace of the Black Water Mysterious Snake's power.

Attributes: Maximum mana +600, mana regeneration +3.

Features: Avoid water, can create a waterless space when entering water, swim freely in rivers, lakes and seas, with a maximum diving depth of 15000 meters.

Spell: Black Snake Guardian, automatically activates Black Snake Phantom Guardian when receiving predetermined damage, Black Snake Phantom has a defense of 10000, lasts for 15 minutes, can be activated once a day, and the damage critical point can be set.

Yes, it has the exact same attributes as the Black Water Pearl he's equipped with.

However, the Black Water Mystic Pearl he was wearing was originally dropped from a Black Water Mystic Serpent that was only level 112, and its grade was only fifth grade. This Black Water Mystic Serpent was level 162, and the Black Water Mystic Pearl it dropped was sixth grade, with higher attributes.

There's no need to hesitate; replace it decisively.

The last piece of loot was a small pile of spirit ore—Azure Nether Iron.

This is a high-grade spirit ore, each piece is worth about 1 gold. This small pile contains 14 pieces, for a total value of 14 gold.

(End of this chapter)