Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 57 Earth Immortal Avatar, Incomplete Innate Water Spirit

The man and the dragon spent five days exploring the underground, discovering more than a dozen underground spirit caves.

One-third of them are owned, and a large number of earth vein spirit fish are kept inside by the Eight Desolate Prison Lock.

The remaining spirit caves are too small to support many earth vein spirit fish; some only have a dozen or so, while others have just over a hundred. It's likely that the people of the Hidden Heaven don't value them.

The powerful figures didn't value what were considered invaluable treasures to them, and the entire collection was devoured by the man and the dragon.

Su Yu then gained experience and managed to snatch over a hundred different grades of earth vein spirit fish from the dragon's mouth.

In total, this adds 660 points to Physique and Strength. With the talent bonus, it's 1320 points of Physique and Strength. Adding the previous increase of 138 points, the total increase is 1458 points of Physique and Strength.

This excited him greatly, and he spent all his time squatting here wandering around, wishing he could get hundreds more to max out their attributes, even if he couldn't finish them all, he could save them for later.

The main problem is that this thing has an exaggerated potential for enhancement, unlike other rare and precious materials that have a specific limit, such as the Millennium Vermilion Fruit, which becomes ineffective after eating three.

This thing can accumulate up to 1000 points of physique and strength at a time, and the key point is that this is not the upper limit, but the annual limit.

This means that with a talent bonus, after increasing physique and strength by 2000 this year, you can continue to refine and increase the upper limit of physique and strength by up to 2000 next year, and so on every year.

No wonder the Celestial Being of the Hidden Heaven specially used the Eight Desolations Prison Lock to raise and properly care for these spirit fish; he wanted to raise them too.

"This place needs to be noted down; we can come here once a year to loot some."

The people in the heavens eat the lion's share, while they themselves eat what others leave between their fingers—that's enough.

With this in mind, Su Yu refined several earth vein spirit fish, then put Ao Run away and continued swimming deeper underground.

Fortunately, this place is underground, not underwater, so the water pressure is not high.

If it were underwater, he would probably be hundreds of thousands of meters deep. Neither the Black Water Pearl nor the water-repelling properties of his robe could keep him at that depth.

However, even though it's not underwater, the pressure at such a depth is still immense, especially since the soil and rocks here have been transformed into jade, which is even more solid than spirit ore, by some unknown influence. The magical power consumed by the Heavenly Ghosts during their traversal is increasing.

After resting for a while, Tiangui continued to descend.

After diving thousands of meters in one go, Su Yu was surprised to find that the difficulty of earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique for escaping through mud) had increased dramatically when she entered a certain area, and at the same time, the spiritual energy contained in the jade-like soil and stones had increased dramatically.

Su Yu raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised, and said:
"Have we entered the core area?"

The Heavenly Demon continued to descend, and the deeper it went, the harder and more impenetrable the jade-like soil and rocks became. The spiritual energy contained within the earth also became increasingly concentrated. At a certain depth, it could even faintly sense some fluctuations sweeping across the Heavenly Demon who was trapped in the earth.

"Could this be the benefit Ao Run was talking about?"

It's a pity there's nowhere to release her using earth magic, otherwise I would have to ask her for advice.

He had been diving for almost half an hour, and with his mana depleted by more than half, he was considering whether to return to find a spirit cave to replenish his mana when he sensed the edge of a spirit cave.

He was overjoyed and quickly moved closer.

He quickly reached the edge of the spirit cave and went inside. Instantly, he felt a surge of spiritual energy pour over him like a bucket of ice water, giving him a thorough chill.

But he couldn't care less about being shocked by how abundant the spiritual energy in the cave was. Instead, he stared at the cave with a look of astonishment and gasped.

This is an enormous spirit cave, with an inner diameter of more than ten kilometers. Its edges are made of transparent jade, which emits a faint glow that illuminates the entire spirit cave. You can see that at the bottom of this enormous spirit cave is a huge spirit pool.

The spirit pool is filled with pure spiritual energy liquefied into spiritual liquid, with spiritual mist swirling at the bottom, and surging spiritual energy gushing out and flowing into this spiritual cave.

Within this crystal-clear spiritual liquid, schools of earth vein spirit fish swam back and forth, their numbers enormous.

Five-tailed ley line spirit fish, which were rarely seen before, are everywhere here. Even rarer are the seven-colored fairy fish, of which only three have been seen before. There are probably hundreds of them here, and there are even quite a few ley line spirit fish with eight or nine tails.

But what shocked Su Yu the most was a crystal-clear jade pillar, nearly ten meters in diameter, extending from the ground in the very center of the spirit pool.

Above the jade pillar was a smooth cross-section covered with dense array patterns. Eight chains of light formed by runes rose from the array eyes in eight directions of the jade pillar, firmly binding a figure to the center of the array at the top of the jade pillar.

The distance was too great for Su Yu to see clearly what was trapped, but she vaguely felt that it was a human-shaped figure.

After observing for a while, he looked up and saw chains covered with runes converging towards the center above the spirit pool, tied to a giant lock platform that was hundreds of times larger than the Eight Desolate Prison Locks he had seen before.

On the giant lock sat a white-robed Taoist priest, and wisps of spiritual energy rose and gathered towards him.

Su Yu's gaze fell on the white-robed Taoist, whose attributes were immediately revealed:
Hidden Heavenly Being's Avatar (Peerless): Earth Immortal, Level 240, Human Race, Hidden Heavenly Being's Second Primordial Spirit.

"hiss!"

"He's a big shot."

He instinctively shrank back, retreating into the jade wall.

The second primordial spirit of the Hidden Heaven Immortal, who was sitting cross-legged on the stone lock, suddenly looked up with a puzzled expression.

Fortunately, this place is located hundreds of kilometers underground. The stone wall was transformed into a jade wall and then compressed, resulting in an extremely exaggerated strength. Even the divine sense of a terrestrial immortal could not penetrate it, which is why the celestial ghost hidden behind the jade wall was not discovered.

"This should be the convergence point of the earth's veins within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, and also the core of this underground spiritual cave complex."

Su Yu pinched her chin, pondering what she could do.

But upon careful consideration, I realized there was nothing I could do.

There was a powerful Earth Immortal of over two hundred levels right outside; he had absolutely no ability to do anything under their noses.

"but."

He peered out again, his gaze lingering on the spirit pool beneath the Eight Desolate Prison Lock, where there were probably thousands of earth vein spirit fish, his mouth practically watering.

It would be so awesome to have so many magical creatures as my own.

If your physical and strength caps increase steadily by 2000 per year, that's 20000 in ten years. What does that mean?
To say that one can achieve sainthood in the physical body is definitely an exaggeration.

Although this thing doesn't specify an upper limit, and it seems like it can infinitely stack attributes, there are no rare and precious materials in the world that can infinitely stack attributes. It can only be said that this spiritual object has a very high upper limit.

This can be seen from the fact that the Hidden Heavenly Being did not refine all of these spirit fish. If they could be infinitely stacked, they would have been eaten long ago and would not have been left.

But regardless of whether it's infinitely stackable, the effect shown right now is already very impressive.

Even if it can only be added up to ten years, it is still very powerful.

But
Under the nose of the powerful Earth Immortal, Su Yu racked his brains, but there was really nothing he could do. At most, he could sneak in every year and take what others didn't want.

"Ugh!"

Su Yu sighed, glanced around reluctantly, and prepared to leave.

However, when his gaze fell once again on the blurry figure locked on the jade pillar below the Eight Desolations Prison Lock, a thought suddenly struck him.

Since we're already here, we might as well take a look at what's locked inside.

He glanced around a few times, then turned and entered the jade-like soil and stone, extending his Heavenly Demon Claw to begin digging.

After a burst of sparks, it dug out an underground space large enough to accommodate itself, and then transformed back into its true form to rest.

The Heavenly Demon incarnation's magic power is almost exhausted; it needs to recover.

Half an hour later, it transformed back into a celestial demon and slid down along the edge of the spirit cave. After descending to the bottom of the spirit cave, it felt that the level was about right and emerged from the spirit wall, but did not show its head. Only its eyes were visible, pressed against the jade wall, and its position was exactly level with the jade pillar. It could see at a glance a perfect figure locked by the rune chains on the jade pillar.

She was a goddess with a flawless appearance, truly possessing skin as white as ice and bones as jade.

It's not a description; it's skin as transparent as ice, so transparent that you can see through it with the naked eye to the jade-like bones and the flowing, azure blood vessels.

Her face was the most perfect he had ever seen, even surpassing that of Chu Xinyue and Xiao Qingli.

Just by looking at Su Yu for the first time, you can tell she's not human.

His pupils dilated instantly when he saw her name for the second time:

Incomplete Innate Water Spirit (Myth): Innate being, Level 1, born from a wisp of innate pure energy combined with the essence of water accumulated over millions of years by the earth's veins, but lacking sufficient innate origin, it is difficult to truly be born.

"hiss!"

This time, he was even more shocked than when he saw the avatar of the Earth Immortal Hidden in the Heavens.

"No, a primordial being?"

Su Yu was shocked, but even more so, she was incredulous and couldn't believe it.

What are innate beings? They are beings born at birth, also known as innate deities. They are born with the ability to master a great law, and upon reaching adulthood, they are comparable to immortals. They grow with the passage of time, and their upper limit is extremely high.

However, such beings are generally born only at the beginning of time, when there were still many innate origins that could give birth to innate beings.

As time passed, the laws of the world gradually became more complete, and the innate essence gradually transformed into acquired spiritual energy, leaving no longer the conditions for the birth of innate beings.

This innate water spirit is like that. Although it was fortunate enough to develop consciousness, its innate origin was insufficient, so it could not truly take shape.

Su Yu looked at the formation and wondered if the Hidden Heaven Immortal had set up this formation to draw on the power of the earth's veins to replenish her own essence.

"should be."

Even though it was their first meeting, Su Yu knew that this innate water spirit's current state was not acceptable to the world.

Once a being takes shape, it either succeeds or fails; it cannot remain in this state indefinitely. Without an array to maintain it, it would probably have failed long ago.

"Tsk tsk tsk, what a pity."

If it can successfully transform into human form, it won't be long before it becomes an immortal.

Innate beings have sufficient resources and grow very quickly. Becoming a Loose Immortal in one year, an Earth Immortal in three years, and a Celestial Immortal in ten years is all easy for them. And Celestial Immortal is not their limit; it is just the beginning for innate beings.

"So this is the benefit that Ao Run was talking about?"

"How did she know this? Has she been here before?"

He desperately wanted to pull her out and ask her questions, but there was nowhere to put her out.

"it's a pity!"

Su Yu smacked her lips and prepared to leave.

But I was also somewhat unwilling to give up.

It would be such a waste for all the innate beings to just leave after seeing this.

"As the Fourth Calamity, it would be a disservice to the name not to take advantage of all this good stuff."

"We need to find a way to make some money."

His gaze swept around, quickly settling on the jade pillar in the center of the spirit cave, then moving down to the base of the jade pillar and the boiling spiritual energy at the bottom of the spirit pool.

"Logically speaking, this innate water spirit needs to draw a massive amount of earth vein spiritual energy every moment to maintain its existence, which means that the great formation cannot be completely locked down."

Although the earth's energy can seep through the formation and be drawn in, the efficiency is too low and certainly not enough to sustain a primordial being.

Don't underestimate her just because she's only at level one. Innate beings need innate origins, and their essence is incomparable to the acquired spiritual energy they possess now. It might take hundreds of millions of spiritual energies to equal even a trace of innate spiritual energy.

Therefore, Su Yu concluded that this great formation should be different from the other Eight Desolate Prison Locks he had seen before. The place where the earth vein spiritual energy gathered at the bottom was definitely not completely sealed off, and there was an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"First, we'll dive down to the bottom and then see what happens. If there's an opening, we'll see if we can sneak a few people out. If there's no opening, we'll look for other opportunities."

Having made the decision, Su Yu decisively descended.

As I descended along the edge of the spirit cave to the bottom, I instantly felt the surging spiritual energy from the earth rushing over me like a tide and flowing in a certain direction.

There is definitely a loophole.

With a sense of relief, Su Yu followed the direction of the surging spiritual energy and soon arrived at the place where the spiritual energy gathered. Here, the spiritual energy had been compressed into liquid, and countless spiritual tides surged from all directions to converge into an ocean.

Su Yu glanced at the panel, which showed that she could gain more than 5,000 spiritual energy experience every five seconds, which was extremely exaggerated.

"Damn it, I could just stay here and cultivate without doing anything."

"Let's see if there's an opportunity later. If not, I'll come back and cultivate for a while to accumulate some experience."

With a thought, the celestial ghost swam upstream along the spiritual tide.

A few seconds later, it crashed into a hard object. Upon closer inspection, it appeared to be the lower half of the jade pillar. Reaching out to touch it, it was incredibly hard, yet it acted like a sponge, absorbing the surging liquid spiritual energy into it.

The celestial demon flew upwards along the jade pillar to the left and right, but was quickly blocked by a barrier.

After circling around the stone, it became clear that the only gap in the great formation above was blocked by this jade pillar.

He immediately reached out and pressed his hand on the jade pillar, and the celestial ghost, which had turned into wisps of smoke, floated toward the jade pillar.

"boom!"

With a barely perceptible sound, the jade pillar suddenly lit up, and dense array patterns appeared on its surface. The wisps of smoke that the Heavenly Demon had transformed into were ejected.

Above the Spirit Cave, above the Eight Desolate Prison Lock, the avatar of the Hidden Heavenly Being suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp as he looked at the perfect figure awakened on the jade pillar beneath the great formation. His divine sense instantly swept across the entire Spirit Cave, but he found nothing.

After a brief silence, the avatar of the Hidden Heavenly Being closed his eyes again.

Standing beneath the stone pillar, Su Yu was speechless.

Good news: There is indeed a gap in the formation.

Bad news: But it's blocked.

"It's hopeless. I can only go back to my cultivation."

Su Yu had no choice but to give up. She returned to the jade pillar, transformed back into her true form, and sat cross-legged amidst the surging spiritual tide.

He casually pulled Ao Run out of the spirit cage, pressed one hand to her mouth, and transmitted his voice:

"Don't make a sound, an incarnation of the Hidden Heavenly Being is right above your head."

Ao Run, who was about to struggle, immediately relaxed. The long dragon body wrapped around his waist with its head and tail intertwined, and its head rested on his crossed thighs. It opened its mouth and inhaled the rolling liquefied spiritual tide.

(End of this chapter)