Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 59 Opening a Boundary, Giving Birth to Five-Colored Spirit Fish
Death will randomly drop equipment, even suicide will result in dropping it, but special treasures like the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, which are bound to their owners, will not drop, and items stored within it will naturally not be dropped upon death.

Su Yu glanced at the storage space and found that she had lost two bottles of pills and a piece of Azure Iron, so the loss was minimal.

He took out the items and re-equipped them. A flash of light appeared on the spirit cage at his waist, and Ao Run flew out.

It circled him once, its body tense, then, recognizing this as his dwelling, it immediately relaxed, wagging its tail and flying to him, saying:

"Let me see, what did you finally get?"

Su Yu reached out and a point of blue light appeared, extending vertically to form a three-meter-high blue straight line. As he pulled the line left and right, it opened up to form a shimmering oval light gate, which he then stepped directly into.

Stepping through the gate of light, one enters the realm within the Zhenhai Pearl. Upon entering, an extremely rich spiritual liquid rushes towards you, flowing down your nose and into your throat like jelly, penetrating your body and instantly permeating every inch of your being.

"Cough! Cough cough."

I choked after just one sip.

Then I felt warm and cozy, and had no energy at all.

"This is already intoxicating?"

Su Yu opened the panel and found that just that one breath of spiritual energy had converted into a full 128 million spiritual experience points.

"Good guy!"

I have absolutely nothing to say.

He had to hold his breath to have a chance to look around.

This is a space enveloped by an extremely concentrated liquid spiritual liquid. The spiritual energy is so concentrated that it is almost like jelly, but the water is clear and transparent, and you can clearly see every inch of the space.

In the center of the space, a ball of light, a mixture of azure radiance and flames, was suspended. The innate water spirit was curled up within it, constantly inhaling and exhaling the innate essence and infinite water essence contained within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, and then unleashing a kind of magical power, namely, the layers of clear light like tides that continuously expanded the boundary space.

This innate water spirit was replenishing its essence and was in a dormant state. However, as Su Yu approached, wisps of clear light gathered to form the phantom of an innate goddess, and a clear, gentle voice rang out:

"Thank you for saving me. This place is great, I really like it."

Su Yu smiled and said:

"If you like it, you can stay here without worry."

"By the way, if you need anything else, just let me know and I'll prepare it for you."

The Primordial Goddess shook her head and said:
"This place is fine, there's nothing I need."

At this moment, Ao Run's loud shouts suddenly came from behind Su Yu:
"My God, where am I? Such high-level spiritual energy!"

Why do I feel a little dizzy?

"No, I can't drink anymore."

Su Yu turned around and saw that Ao Run had transformed back into his true form, floating swaying in the jelly-like spiritual energy.

Judging from her appearance, she was clearly drunk.

The concentration of spiritual energy here is too high, and it even contains traces of innate energy, which even a dragon cannot absorb much of.

Su Yu chuckled, then looked away and continued talking to the innate water spirit.

They were generally curious and asked about some secrets of the innate being, such as what she had seen and heard since she became conscious, and whether she had seen any special treasures, etc.

Unfortunately, she has been at the ley line node since she became conscious, and has never been anywhere else.

The only people he had ever met were Zang Tianshangren and Su Yu; there were no others.

This has led to her being extremely naive; she took the initiative to show up and ask for protection on their very first meeting.

She was lucky; if anyone else had seen her, the consequences would have been unpredictable.

If you're lucky, you can trick someone into becoming a spirit pet to protect you; if you're unlucky, you'll be captured and refined into a second primordial spirit.

The second primordial spirit refined by an innate being, even if it is incomplete, is of extraordinary nature and its upper limit is at least that of a Celestial Immortal.

It was also because Su Yu had the Zhenhai Pearl in her possession that she was able to enter the Zhenhai Pearl and open up the inner realm cave heaven in advance.

If not, then her fate is hard to predict.

A primordial being, Su Yu couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't be tempted by greed.

After talking for more than ten minutes, the innate goddess could no longer maintain the projection and withdrew her consciousness to enter a state of slumber.

Su Yu was also about to lose her temper and dragged Ao Run away from the Zhenhai Pearl Realm.

He let out a long breath outside, pinched the bridge of his nose, stuffed the still-recovering Ao Run into his spirit cage belt, and immediately went out.

First, he went to Qianyu Pavilion and sold all the miscellaneous items he had collected.

124 blue dragon scales sold for 12 gold and 40 silver.

251 Blackwater Serpent scales were sold for 12 gold and 51 silver.

A damaged Blackwater Serpent inner core sold for 6 gold and 80 silver.

A 150-meter-long Blackwater Serpent Dragon Bone sold for 10 gold coins.

The discarded Grade 5 ornament, Blackwater Pearl, was sold for 15 gold.

Thirteen pieces of Azure Iron were sold for thirteen gold coins.

In total, 69 gold and 71 silver were sold.

In addition, there were 9 jars of Monkey Brew. These were not sold directly, but instead a message was sent to Zhuang Zhuo, Gu Zhiqi, He Shoucheng, Wei Xia, and others to ask if they wanted them.

The purchase price is 1 gold, and the selling price is 1 gold for 10 silver. It's just a hard-earned profit.

It took me a while to send out the monkey wine. I haven't received the money yet, but I currently have a total of 78 gold and 14 silver.

After having money, Su Yu began making purchases.

First, I spent 20 taels of gold to buy a Array Master Inheritance Token, which I used to change my class to Array Master.

Array masters, alchemists, swordsmiths, shipbuilders, etc. are powerful life professions, and the price of their job change tokens is much higher than that of life professions like brewers and chefs.

The Zhenhai Pearl contains a space with such abundant spiritual energy that it must be developed and utilized.

Other methods of utilization are not feasible due to insufficient strength at the moment. The only thing we can do now is to develop it into a medicinal garden to cultivate various spiritual herbs.

But now the entire Zhenhai Pearl Cave is filled with water. Although it does not affect their movement, how can they grow spiritual herbs without open space and spiritual soil?

All kinds of aquatic medicinal herbs?

Aquatic spiritual herbs definitely need to be planted, but other spiritual herbs also need to be planted, such as the thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit branch in his hand.

Therefore, it is necessary to set up an array inside to create a waterless space, and then cultivate a medicinal garden within that waterless space.

Such a treasure as the Zhenhai Pearl cannot be easily revealed. We certainly cannot invite other array masters to set up the array; we can only do it ourselves.

Having obtained the job change token, Su Yu immediately began learning how to use it.

Then he spent another 30 taels of gold to purchase a complete set of second-tier protective array modules.

This thing was crafted by a high-level array master. It modularly crafts all the array's key structures, just like crafting a magic weapon. All that's needed is an array master apprentice to assemble it.

Upon returning to his residence, Su Yu immediately opened the Zhenhai Boundary Gate and entered.

After circling around the Zhenhai Pearl space, he demarcated an area and then used his authority as the Lord of the Realm to isolate the space below the Realm Cave Heaven as the land of this Cave Heaven.

The original Zhenhai Pearl was suspended in the air, just like space, empty in all directions and above and below.

He has now isolated the space below, and the space he opens up in the future will only extend and expand in the four directions and upwards, not downwards.

Then, the array modules were taken out and arranged one by one, with the central core array eye and eight secondary array eyes in the eight directions. Finally, magic power was injected to activate the core array eye and the eight secondary array eyes. When all the array eyes were activated, they transformed into nine pillars of light that shot into the sky. The core of the central array drew infinite spiritual power from the boundary cave within the array, transforming it into an invisible force that spread outwards from the core array eye.

The jelly-like spiritual energy within was forcibly pushed aside, creating a waterless space inside.

The main array eye is connected to eight secondary array eyes to form a transparent light curtain, which becomes an inverted light bowl with a radius of about 100 meters.

The space isn't very large, but it's enough for now. We can consider adding new large formations or upgrading the existing ones when we have more money in the future.

This protective array has only basic defensive capabilities and lacks the full range of functions of a complete defensive array. Even a level 100 monster could easily break through it after a few tries.

It definitely wouldn't work outside, but it's fine inside Zhenhai Pearl Cave.

There won't be any monsters here; the basic functions are sufficient.

Standing at the core of the array, Su Yu carefully adjusted some of the array's basic parameters, turning off all the basic functions except for basic defense and gravity repulsion.

Then, they saw dense spiritual mist seeping out from the edge of the great array barrier and disappearing into the array.

He carefully adjusted the parameters, controlling the concentration of spiritual energy inside the array to the third level.

The concentration of spiritual energy is not the higher the better. Just like over-fertilizing when growing vegetables will burn the seedlings, there must be a suitable range.

The third-order spiritual energy concentration is the limit for mortals, and it is applicable to most spiritual medicines.

After making these adjustments, Su Yu returned to Qianyu Pavilion and ordered a batch of spirit soil from the guild.

He bought one acre of first-grade spiritual soil, which cost a full 10 gold coins per acre.

Not too many are needed. Right now, only the thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit tree is a bit delicate and needs to be cultivated with spirit soil. The other spirit herbs don't need spirit fields; ordinary soil is fine.

Anyway, the Zhenhai Pearl is full of spiritual energy. Ordinary soil will naturally turn into spiritual fields after being soaked in spiritual energy for a long time.

The low-level spirit fields will be upgraded in no time. Based on the concentration and level of spiritual energy within the Zhenhai Pearl, the highest level of spirit soil that can be generated is the fourth or even the fifth level.

Then I bought another batch of medicinal seed, ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum spores, spiritual rice, etc. It was cheap, and I bought enough to plant hundreds of acres for less than 1 gold.

Ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum are valued for future purposes; whether it's a thousand-year-old or a hundred-year-old ginseng or Ganoderma lucidum, it's still valuable.

Then, I found a merchant guild through the guild and spent 10 gold to order one million cubic meters of fertile soil.

After finishing all that, the tens of gold coins I had just received were all used up before I could even enjoy them.

Then he went out and took a walk in the mountains north of Qianyu City. He dug up hundreds of mature trees and some beautiful flowers, pried up a lot of stones in the mountains, and scooped up hundreds of tons of pebbles from the mountain streams, and put them all into his storage bag.

When I returned on the third day, the ordered soil had arrived and was contained in a large storage bag.

He paid upon delivery and picked up two storage bags before entering the Zhenhai area.

First, lay a layer of stones at the bottom, then a thick layer of soil, pour in the spiritual water from the Zhenhai boundary, compact it, and then lay a second layer of soil, a layer of sand, and so on.

Layer upon layer, a full twenty meters thick layer of land was laid out.

Then, stone slabs were laid on the ground to divide the area into planting zones.

The spirit field is located in the center, surrounded by some beautiful flowers and plants, while the hundreds of large trees collected are planted at the edge of the formation.

After two days of hard work, a simple ecological area was completed.

During this time, something happened in the Zhenhai territory that greatly surprised Su Yu.

Previously, the pure light emanating from the innate water spirit combined with spiritual energy to create vortexes. Until this day, some of the vortexes exploded, and earth vein spirit fish swam out from them.

No, to be precise, they're no longer called Earth Vein Spirit Fish. These spirit fish are now born from the spiritual energy within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, so they should be called Sea-Suppressing Spirit Fish.

However, Su Yu thought the name "Five-Colored Spirit Fish" sounded better.

These colorful spirit fish are no different from the earth vein spirit fish; they are all derived from innate water spirits.

Su Yu was overjoyed to see this. She had previously regretted not being able to catch some, but now she had no regrets.

The newly emerging five-colored spirit fish are few in number, but they grow very quickly under the nourishment of the fifth-order spiritual energy within the Zhenhai Pearl. Moreover, they can divide and reproduce on their own, and it won't be long before they can breed a huge population.

It will not only be enough for personal use, but it can also be sold.

In a few years, tens of thousands of spirit fish will be bred. At that time, a spirit fish that can increase physique and strength by 30 points can easily sell for one gold.

"Not bad!"

Su Yu smacked her lips, took out a branch of the Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit Tree and planted it in the center of the only spiritual field in the realm, while planting the remaining seeds in other areas around it.

You don't need to worry about it anymore; just send down a shower of magical rain every few days.

With her busy schedule coming to an end, Su Yu turned her attention elsewhere.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered something and sent a message to Chu Xinyue and Chu Xiaoyu:
"I am back."

Chu Xiaoyu replied immediately:
"You've come at the right time. Come to Chensha Town in a few days."

"Ok."

After a moment of silence, Chu Xiaoyu asked:
Aren't you going to ask what's wrong?

Su Yu smiled and said:

"If Sister Xiaoyu summons me, I'll go through fire and water to come."

"loquacious."

On the other side of Thousand Feather City, Chu Xiaoyu covered her mouth and laughed uncontrollably:
"That's good news. Miss has successfully survived the tribulation. All the factors that prevented her from taking over the second team have been eliminated. The guild will officially announce her taking over the main second team soon. At that time, Miss will adjust the positions of the first, third and fourth teams. You can come and reserve a spot then."

"I?"

"I've only been a member for less than a year, is that okay?"

"If the young lady says it's okay, then it's okay."

"Ok."

"Remember to arrive in Chensha Town before 8 a.m. the day after tomorrow."

"Ok."

After closing the communication, Su Yu tilted her head and thought for a while before suddenly laughing.

"Never mind, let's keep leveling up."

Early the next morning, Su Yu headed straight for the poisonous fog swamp.

Returning to the base after several months, he saw that it had developed into a small gathering point with forty or fifty people staying there. People would occasionally fly in from afar and land at the base, while others would leave.

Su Yu entered the base and found Gu Zhi Qiu and Meng Chen there.

"You're finally back!"

Gu Zhi Qiu refined a golden-winged centipede and stored it inside the banner. He smiled, shook hands with Su Yu, and looked her up and down, saying:
"You look different; your strength must have improved significantly, right?"

Su Yu smiled slightly:
"of course."

"Are you confident you can defeat Ding Lingyu?"

"It should work."

There's only one month left until the year-end exam. He currently has nearly 150 million killing experience points. If he works hard, he can gain that many more within a month, and then he can raise both his mental cultivation technique and sword technique to level 70.

Combined with even more advanced swordsmanship, unless Ding Lingyu's strength can increase dramatically in the next three months, he is confident that he can defeat him head-on.

"Then I'm going to buy one last big wave."

(End of this chapter)