Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 82 Demon Tide, Wanbao Pavilion
"Thunderbolt!"

"Wanjun!"

These two flying swords were used by Su Yu in actual combat for the first time. The two sword lights pierced through the light curtain and rushed into the monster group. With a twist of the two swords, he cut a tiger spirit that had jumped more than a hundred meters high into two pieces.

With a back-and-forth movement, it cut the other monster in two.

With their twin swords gleaming, they were utterly invincible against these level 50-60 monsters; a mere touch would injure them, and a single strike would kill them—their killing efficiency was astonishingly fast.

However, no one could be as fast as Ding Lingyu. He transformed into a divine general, raised his hand and pressed down with a palm. A chain of lightning passed through the monster horde, taking down a whole group in a second.

Every now and then, he would throw out a Taiyi Divine Thunder, instantly turning the monsters into dust.

Lan Yiying was also quite efficient, constantly condensing one Gui Water Divine Thunder after another. Although its power was not enough to kill instantly, when she cooperated with Xu Lulu, she could also use Gui Water Divine Thunder. With the two thunders overlapping, they could basically kill monsters of level 50 or 60 instantly.

Besides them, tens of thousands of players gathered in the Demon-Suppressing City, and they used various methods to bombard the area, creating a blank space around the city walls.

However, this situation slows down as more and more monsters, and their levels, follow the monster tide.

Monsters at level 70 or 80, or even over 90, can no longer be killed easily; it requires a large number of cultivators to work together and bombard them relentlessly to kill them.

At this moment, the advantages of swordsmanship like Su Yu's become apparent.

A level 40 or 50 monster can be killed instantly with a single sword strike.

Even level 80 or 90 monsters can be killed instantly with a single sword strike. However, this single sword strike contains more than ten instances of damage, and when the two swords are combined, they deal more than twenty instances of damage. Even ordinary level 80 or 90 monsters cannot withstand this attack.

Staying under the light barrier of the great formation, there was no need to worry about monsters rushing in. Su Yu didn't even activate any defensive magic treasures, but instead frantically wielded his twin swords.

After a frenzied massacre, many cultivators took out pills to restore their mana, while Su Yu continued to unleash his power.

After a while, Ding Lingyu's divine general, who had transformed into a god, was almost exhausted of his tens of thousands of magical power, but he still continued to fight without stopping.

After a while, Lan Yiying and Xu Lulu had taken the pills to restore their magical power for the third time, while Su Yu hadn't taken one yet. Lan Yiying looked at them incredulously and said:
"Do you have to be so fierce?"

"How powerful are you? How can you last so long?"

Su Yu smiled slightly, then pursed her lips and remained silent.

After switching to the advanced level of the Profound Inspiration Scripture, the advanced level of the Qi Refining Technique at level 40 increases his mana by 8000 with the talent bonus. In addition, the rare and precious materials and equipment increase his mana by a total of 3050 points. Furthermore, the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner increases his mana cap by 16200 points, bringing his total mana to 27250.

What is this concept?
It is more than five times that of Lan Yiying.

With such immense magical power, it naturally lasts an exceptionally long time.

Correspondingly, the pills taken at this time are becoming increasingly expensive, with the top-grade Rejuvenation Pill costing as much as 15 taels of silver per pill, which can restore 24000 mana.

Su Yu thought that with her abundant magical power and the low mana consumption of the Flying Sword Style, she could hold out until the demon tide ended without needing any pills.

But they soon realized they had underestimated the scale of the 1000-1000 wave.

After an hour of frenzied fighting, the demon tide showed no signs of stopping. The overwhelming number of monsters completely engulfed the Demon-Suppressing City. Monsters were everywhere, in all directions and in the air. As far as the eye could see, there were countless densely packed demon beasts.

"This is too exaggerated!"

His response was a relentless surge of demonic forces that charged forward one after another.

Two hours later, many cultivators were too exhausted and had to go back to rest, where they were replaced by a group of players who were resting in the city.

The replacements were mostly disciples of the Crimson Sky Sword Sect, each wielding their flying swords and charging into the monster horde to begin a frenzied slaughter.

Su Yu could still hold on, but she didn't force herself and retreated, watching from behind as many disciples of the Crimson Sky Sword Clan slaughtered each other.

Two hours later, this group of Crimson Sky Sword Clan disciples also retreated, exhausted, and it was the turn of the players who had been resting to come up and take their place.

Meanwhile, the demonic tide outside the city showed no signs of abating and remained endless.

Su Yu was no longer as relaxed as she had been at the beginning, and said with a serious expression:
"These ten gold coins are really hard to get!"

The scale of this demonic tide is probably even larger than the battle between the two river gods of Cangshui that we saw before.

"boom!"

A level 124, over fifty-meter-long, blue-armored bull rammed into the city wall, instantly igniting a dense array of restrictive runes. The dazzling light exploded, clearing out a large number of monsters around the city wall.

This isn't a BOSS, but rather an experience monster that's over level 100.

And this was just the beginning. More and more monsters, all over level 100, appeared and began to crash into the city walls.

"boom!"

A firebird, its body wreathed in flames, spread its wings and condensed into a giant fireball that fell from the sky like a meteorite.

A dazzling sword light shot into the sky from within the city, swaying back and forth in the void, cleaving apart fireballs one by one.

One of the sword lights was particularly dazzling, soaring thousands of meters into the air and engulfing several firebirds, strangling and killing them repeatedly.

Su Yu also changed targets, using her twin swords to sweep up a level 100 demonic ape.

The demon tide was extremely fierce; even a large city like Thousand Feather City probably couldn't withstand it. However, Demon Suppression City was a fortress specifically designed to defend against demonic beasts, and its urban defenses were extremely strong. It managed to hold off the densely packed siege of demons.

After an unknown amount of time, a sharp shriek came from the sky, and then the relentless onslaught of the demonic tide began to slow down, as the demonic tide, unable to break through, began to retreat.

Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief. She was still considering whether to launch another attack while the demon tide was retreating when she saw a large number of players rush out of the fortress's light screen and chase after the retreating demon tide.

At this moment, Lan Yiying flew over and shouted loudly:

"Brother Su, shall we join in?" he asked.
"Aren't you afraid the demon tide will turn around if we go now?"

He shook his head and said:

"I just asked someone else, and the main force won't return after the demon tide retreats."

"Then let's go."

The four of them took to the air, bypassed the fortress's defensive array, and chased after the retreating demon tide.

Su Yu unleashed Thunderclap and Mighty Force, charging into the demonic tide and frantically slaughtering one monster after another. Surrounding him were groups of players following closely behind, defeating and leaving behind hordes of monsters.

"Be careful to maintain distance."

Lan Yiying reminded him from the side:
“I asked others, and they said that although the demon tide won’t turn back after it retreats, if we get too close, it will attract the demon horde.”

Su Yu immediately controlled her position to avoid overtaking others, but her attacks became increasingly fierce, and she specifically targeted those with higher levels.

A level 100 wolf demon was killed, dropping two orbs of light. The sword flashed and retrieved them, revealing a fifth-tier weapon-type magic item and a demon core.

Not long after, he killed another level 100 monster, which dropped two more pieces of loot.

Although they are all level 100 experience monsters, their level is so high that they will always drop some items. Even if you're unlucky, they can still be worth about one gold, and if you're lucky, they can be worth more than ten gold.

Little by little, even a few dozen posts can be worth hundreds of gold coins.

Unfortunately, this good fortune didn't last long, because these level 100 monsters were fast and strong, and they could easily squeeze into the monster tide and disappear without a trace. Su Yu killed more than a dozen of them, leaving only the slow-moving ordinary monsters behind.

They pursued the demons for hundreds of kilometers until the demon tide approached the demon mountain standing in the wild forest.

Seeing that the others had stopped their pursuit, Su Yu also stopped, and when she saw them return, she followed suit.

"That was a thrilling kill!"

Ding Lingyu smiled and said:
"I didn't expect to run into a demon tide so soon after arriving. It's all just luck."

The group returned, chatting and laughing. When they arrived back at Demon Suppression City, the city's protective formation had already been deactivated, and a large number of players were cleaning up the monster corpses scattered all over the ground outside the city.

The four of them first went to the city lord's mansion and sold all their miscellaneous spoils, earning a total of 42 gold.

After booking several superior rooms at an inn in the city, Su Yu returned to her room and opened the control panel to check.

This frenzied battle yielded 1150 million kill experience points and 32 points of cultivation.

Adding to what he had accumulated before, and the nearly three million killing experience points he could accumulate every day for more than a month in Zhenhai Pearl, totaling more than ninety million per month, he now has 16250 million killing experience points and 1291 points of cultivation in his experience pool.

Without hesitation, Su Yu consumed 77.5 million killing experience points and 350 points of cultivation to upgrade the Dongxuan Linggan Zhenjing from level 40 to level 50.

At level 50, your health increases by 5000, mana by 10000, spell power by 5000, and mana regeneration increases by 20 points per second.

The remaining 75 million killing experience points are insufficient to upgrade the exquisite Qi Refining Technique to level 60, and will be temporarily stored in the experience pool.

It is worth mentioning that the original Ziyuan Qi Refining Technique was an intermediate-level Qi refining mental technique. After listening to the Dao many times, the upper limit of the mental technique was 100 levels. The Dongxuan Linggan True Scripture that was switched to was an exquisite-level mental technique. After switching, the level of the mental technique was compressed, and the upper limit of the mental technique was also compressed. Now the upper limit can only be increased to 60 levels.

However, it's not a big problem. Now that I have a master, I can ask my master for guidance after reaching level 60 in the mental cultivation method, and easily advance to the maximum level of 100.

After leaving their accommodation, Ding Lingyu and the others were chatting with several unfamiliar locals at a shared table in the inn's lobby.

Seeing him come down, Lan Yiying waved to him and asked:

"You've come at the right time. The demon tide has ended. How about we go to the demon kingdom to level up later?"

Su Yu was surprised:

"Go now? Aren't you afraid of running into a demon tide?"

At this moment, a man sharing the table laughed:

"The demon tide will disperse once it recedes back into the demon realm, and it's unlikely to regroup in a short time. Now is a good time to level up."

"That would be acceptable."

"I'll go get ready. We'll meet at the North Gate in half an hour."

"it is good."

After leaving the inn, Su Yu randomly picked a shop on the street and bought a batch of top-grade Rejuvenation Pills. Then, she wandered around the street for a while and saw someone walking out of an extremely narrow alley when she passed a shop.

He glanced around casually and saw a small shop at the far end of the alley. A man was about to return when he saw Su Yu's curious gaze, stopped in his tracks, smiled slightly, and went inside.

Su Yu's heart stirred, and she slipped into the alley and came to the small door. The first thing she saw was the signboard standing by the door - Wanbaoge.

Below that is a line of smaller print: "All-encompassing, containing everything."

"What a loud tone!"

He looked up into the house, and the man he had just seen was standing in the doorway:

"Welcome to the Wanbaoge Demon Suppression City branch. I am the owner. May I ask what you need?"

Su Yu walked in out of curiosity and glanced around the room. It was empty except for a few small rooms at the back.

He asked doubtfully:
Where are your goods?

(End of this chapter)