Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 85: Dual Swords Combined to Slay Heads, Top-Tier Equipment and Immortal Spirit Stones

Many players immediately took action, unleashing their flying swords and magical treasures to bombard the area.

At least half of the people took action immediately, and several sword lights were particularly sharp, seemingly belonging to disciples of the Crimson Sky Sword Clan.

However, Su Yu's Dragon Scale Flying Boat has extremely high defense. The Dragon Scale characteristic is that durability and defense strength are increased by 5000, similar to physique. Damage below 5000 cannot break through its defense.

The airship was bombarded with a dense barrage of attacks, most of which failed to penetrate its defenses. Those that did manage to break through dealt negligible damage, amounting to a mere drop in the ocean compared to its million-strong defense.

Lan Yiying, who had been somewhat worried, felt relieved upon seeing this and held an ancient mirror, continuously shining white light outwards.

However, as more and more people joined the battle, including many strong players, especially several team leaders who possessed seventh-tier magic weapons, a pagoda over a hundred meters tall descended from the sky and blasted down, causing the defensive magic light of the Dragon Scale Flying Boat to tremble violently.

Another large cauldron hung in the air, its mouth blazing with flames, from which house-sized fire meteors fell.

In addition, there were many players inside who, although they did not have seventh-tier magic weapons, were still powerful enough to launch attacks in turn, causing the Dragon Scale Flying Boat's defense to visibly decrease rapidly.

Seeing this, Xu Muchuan felt greatly relieved and quickly summoned a defensive magic weapon, loudly encouraging everyone:

"Brothers, give it your all! If we work a little harder, we can break through this turtle shell."

Su Yu sneered at this, and with a thought, she activated a spell on her flying sword:
"Thunderbolt!"

The Thunder Flying Sword suddenly lit up, its attack power, attack speed, and sword control speed increasing by 50% in an instant, instantly suppressing the cyan flying sword that was entangled with the Thunder.

However, instead of pressing his advantage, he spurred his twin swords into a single, intertwined strike:
"Two swords combined!"

The two flying swords disappeared, replaced by a fleeting stream of light that was barely visible to the naked eye. The next second, Xu Muchuan felt something circle him like lightning, and then his protective aura was split in two.

Before I could react, a flash of light appeared, my vision spun around, and I vaguely saw a familiar headless corpse falling.

"I am dead?"

Consciousness quickly faded.

Su Yu stomped her foot, propelling the Dragon Scale Flying Boat into the sky amidst a barrage of attacks. With a thought, a thunderous, flowing light swept around the flying boat, and a series of clanging sounds mixed with exclamations of surprise shattered the sword light of more than a dozen flying swords attacking the Dragon Scale Flying Boat, which were directly cut in two by the combined twin swords and fell to the ground.

The terrifying outburst startled everyone, and Su Yu shouted loudly:

"If you keep chasing me, don't blame me for going on a killing spree."

Some people were frightened and stopped, while others continued their attack, and still others were shouting:
"He's already killed someone, and now he wants to stop? There's no such thing as a free lunch."

The sound abruptly stopped; the speaker was now two pieces of corpse, and most people didn't even know how he died.

The combined attack speed of the two sixth-tier rare flying swords was too fast, exceeding their reaction time.

The instant kill had a very strong deterrent effect, and many team leaders immediately ordered their subordinates to stop attacking. Then, most of the players gradually stopped attacking.

Su Yu said in a deep voice:

"I have no grudges against any of you, so please do not let those with ulterior motives use this to incite conflict."

The group looked at each other in bewilderment. Several leaders who had little will to fight had already led their men in retreat. With one person taking the lead, the others followed suit.

Su Yu watched them leave, then reached out and swept up their fallen spoils with a swift sword strike.

"mob!"

It's impossible to fight a temporary alliance like this to the bitter end. As long as the leader is killed and we demonstrate enough strength to threaten their lives, they will naturally collapse.

If it weren't for the fact that killing too many people would reduce one's merit, they would have already used their ultimate move. Ding Lingyu transformed into a divine general and unleashed a Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net, killing 99% of those present.

Su Yu casually opened the two people's spoils, and when she saw the items inside, she was stunned and said in surprise:

"Good heavens, how much merit has this guy accumulated? He's lost so much!"

Lan Yiying looked over curiously:

"How much fell?"

"Look."

He shared Xu Muchuan's loot, and the others were all surprised when they saw it.

He alone lost a total of nine pieces of loot, while a normal player would only lose 1-3 pieces of loot upon death.

Moreover, probably because the merit points were too low, the quality of the loot dropped was very high: two sixth-tier magic weapons, one seventh-tier equipment, and the rest were all valuable items.

The spoils of war were fine with Su Yu; he didn't need them. What really caught his eye was this Rank 7 equipment, which was exceptionally good and had top-notch attributes.

Immortal Spirit Stone (Rank 7): Legend has it that a celestial stone fell to earth and contains a trace of celestial power.

Attributes: Maximum Mana +3000, Mana Regeneration +30.

Attributes: Restores 30% + 20000 maximum mana upon use. Cooldown: 60 minutes.

Attribute: Magic item slot +1.

Of course, it wasn't just him; everyone had their eye on him.

Lan Yiying looked up excitedly, but seeing the interested expressions on Ding Lingyu and Su Yu's faces, her joy quickly vanished, and she spread her hands, saying:

"Okay, I knew it."

Su Yu smiled and said:

"Team loot, highest bidder wins."

Lan Yiying waved her hand and said directly:

"Come on, I know my place. Only you and Ding Lingyu are putting in the effort in this team. Lulu and I are just here to make up the numbers. You two can split this piece of equipment. We'll bid on these two sixth-tier magic items."

Su Yu smiled and didn't explain further, then turned to Ding Lingyu and said:

"Since we both want it, let's make an offer."

However, Ding Lingyu hesitated for a moment and asked:

"What grade of necklace are you wearing?"

Su Yu directly shared the attributes of the Five Elements Stones:
"Sixth rank."

Ding Lingyu shrugged and said:
“I’m using a seventh-grade one, but its attributes are a bit worse than this one. Since you’re still using a sixth-grade one, I’ll give this one to you.”

Su Yu shook his head and said:
"That's not how it works. Since we're all teaming up, the loot should be distributed according to the team rules."

Ding Lingyu nodded after listening:
“Alright, let’s do it the way we do. The starting bid for a seventh-tier magic weapon is 1000 gold, and the starting bid for seventh-tier equipment is usually 500 gold. I’ll bid 500 gold.”

Su Yu immediately made a bid:

"550 gold."

"P"

"???"

Ding Lingyu smiled and said:
"I do not want it."

Su Yu smiled:

"Since that's the case, then I'll accept it without further ado."

I casually equipped the Immortal Spirit Stone to replace the Five Elements Stone, and sure enough, one more magic item appeared in my inventory, bringing the total to five.

He considered the Xuan Guang Mirror, the Nine Aperture Pearl, and the Floating Light Blade for a moment before deciding to re-equip the Nine Aperture Pearl into the new magic weapon slot.

"Not bad, you've gotten even stronger."

He currently has five magic weapon slots, equipped with the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Azure Cloud Canopy, Four Symbols Star Soul Banner, Mystic Mirror, and Dragon Scale Flying Boat. Flying magic weapons are also magic weapons and occupy one magic weapon slot. After closing the magic weapon slots, Su Yu checked the notification panel again; there seemed to be a notification for the recent killing of Xu Muchuan.

"Hint: Killing Xu Muchuan grants 7 Heavenly Merit Points."

"Hint: Killing Li Xinyu grants 1 point of Heavenly Merit."

"Huh? My merits didn't decrease, but instead increased!"

"How many bad things has this bastard done?"

Su Yu had spent a year with the Thousand Feathers Society and only had 1 point of merit. With the rewards from these two, he now has a total of 9 points of merit.

This shows that Xu Muchuan and his subordinates are not good people. Their merits are negative, and their evil deeds are not low. Therefore, killing them is equivalent to acting on behalf of Heaven. Not only will he not lose merits, but he will be rewarded with good deeds.

Those who understand the concept of merit know that it can be divided into good merit and bad merit.

Simply put, doing good deeds brings good karma, while doing bad deeds brings bad karma.

However, the standards of good and evil cannot be explained by the moral concepts of normal people, but must be interpreted from the perspective of absolute rationality of the Way of Heaven.

The good and evil of the Way of Heaven are different from the good and evil of humankind. Humankind's good and evil are too insignificant to the Way of Heaven, so killing and eating meat for survival does not produce any good or bad deeds.

Killing someone due to conflict between players generally does not result in good or bad deeds. Only acts of evil committed without any purpose, such as those for personal survival, will result in bad deeds.

Just like Xu Muchuan, Su Yu leveling up here wouldn't affect him, but he still harbored malicious intent and wanted to kill them. That's evil.

When someone is burdened with evil deeds, Su Yu will not only be free from evil deeds after he kills them, but will also be rewarded with good deeds.

In addition, players can kill countless monsters while leveling up, because monsters are derived from the rules of Heaven, so no matter how many they kill, they will not incur any negative karma.

Good deeds and bad deeds are rare; many players may never accumulate any good or bad deeds in their entire lives.

Its function is also irrelevant to ordinary players.

Since one of the core functions of good deeds and evil deeds is related to transcending tribulations, and most ordinary players will never encounter tribulations in their lifetime, they are naturally irrelevant.

Good deeds and bad deeds do not reduce the power of the Heavenly Tribulation, but they can reduce its difficulty.

If you have accumulated a lot of good deeds, you are more likely to encounter simple tribulations when you undergo tribulation. As long as you are well prepared, your success rate in undergoing tribulation is very high.

If you are wicked, you will inevitably encounter a high-difficulty heavenly tribulation when you undergo tribulation. No matter how well you are prepared, you will still be reduced to ashes under the terrifying heavenly tribulation.

Nine points of merit isn't a high number, but it's a good start. Perhaps I can try to accumulate more in the future, which will make it easier to overcome tribulations later.

After everyone had left, Su Yu and the others descended again and continued leveling up.

This place is amazing, a perfect spot for leveling up. You can accumulate nearly 20 million kill experience points in a single day, it's incredibly satisfying.

The mission to wipe out the demon town that they had previously received had long been forgotten by them. The meager rewards from that mission were nowhere near as satisfying as the tens of millions of kill experience points they had accumulated over the years.

Yes, the 20 million kill experience points are because Su Yu has the talent to gain double experience, while Lan Yiying and others normally only have a little over 10 million kill experience points a day.

Even with over ten million kills, it was an unprecedented amount of experience for them, something even Ding Lingyu had never encountered before. He had never had such an enjoyable time on the guild's boat trip.

Su Yu decided to stay here for a while, at least half a year, to see if he could accumulate nine billion killing experience points and enough cultivation to condense an immortal bone first.

After joining a sect, the next step is to consider the matter of transcending tribulation.

Although the tribulation is still far away for him, to achieve it, he must cultivate all his Taoist techniques to the hundredth level of perfection, including Qi Refining Technique, Sword Technique, Heavenly Ghost Transformation Technique, Crimson Sky North Pole Immortal Thunder, and so on. He may also need to cultivate other methods afterward.

Moreover, for the sake of his future prospects, he also needs to consider learning the supreme-level Qi cultivation method of the Suspended Sect and acquiring a basic sword technique that is at least at the profound level.

The level of the sect-level Qi Refining Technique and Sword Art will be compressed, and the experience required to upgrade to the hundredth level will be even more exaggerated. All of this requires a very long time to accumulate cultivation points and Taoist cultivation.

The cultivation of top-level Daoist sword techniques requires extremely high innate attributes, and he must condense two or three immortal bones to gather enough innate attributes.

All things considered, he would probably need to accumulate hundreds of billions or even trillions of cultivation points and hundreds of thousands of cultivation points to reach perfection.

Even without considering any fortuitous encounters or opportunities, at his current rate of accumulation, it would probably take him decades to build up his wealth.

Therefore, opportunities like this, which allow one to quickly acquire a large number of cultivation points and Taoist cultivation, should never be missed.

On the central square of the Demon Suppression City, thousands of kilometers away, a figure slowly solidified, and a few human-shaped features took shape. It was Xu Muchuan, who had been beheaded by Su Yu with a single sword strike.

Upon resurrecting, he immediately checked his equipment and magic item inventory, and his expression changed the next second:
"grass!"

"My equipment, my magic weapon."

"Su Yu, I want you dead!"

He immediately opened his communication app and sent a message to the person tagged 'brother-in-law':
"Brother-in-law, I've been murdered."

After a while, the person responded:
"What have you done now? Who have you offended?"

"This time it wasn't me who provoked anyone. I discovered a Ten Thousand Demon Cave in the Demon Kingdom and joined forces with some teams to destroy it. However, one team not only refused to let me go but also framed me. I could tolerate that, but I didn't expect that person to want to kill me. He was very strong and killed me."

There was no response from the other side.

After waiting for a while, just as Xu Muchuan was getting impatient, three words came back from the other side:
"I do not believe!"

"."

"I know what kind of person you are. Did you try to clear the area and end up kicking a hornet's nest?"

"I've told you more than once before, don't use my name to cause trouble outside. Although our Heavenly God Society is powerful, I'm just the vice president. I can't clean up all the messes for you."

"No, absolutely not. You can ask Li Xinyu and the others if you don't believe me."

"Hmph, they're just like you, can you trust what they say?"

"Brother-in-law! Just tell me, will you help me or not?"

"Help you with what? Help you bully others? No way!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

"Depend on!"

Undeterred, he sent another message:

"Brother-in-law, there's a newly established Demon Cave over there. I've checked, and it seems the guardian demon beasts haven't been formed yet."

"Elaborate."

Su Yu and the others were unaware of Xu Muchuan's actions after his resurrection, and they wouldn't care. Such a rabble posed no threat to them whatsoever.

Unless we can get a wandering immortal to help.

But it's impossible for a wandering immortal to take action against them for something like this.

The wandering immortals are no longer in the same league as them. No matter where they level up or go on adventures, lower-level players can't go, and they rarely interact with them.

Generally speaking, as long as they don't foolishly provoke a rogue immortal, the rogue immortal usually won't take the initiative to attack them.

Even the most skilled rogue cultivators in the guild are like this; if a guild member has a dispute with an outside player, the rogue cultivators offered by the guild will not intervene.

After all, with tens of thousands of members in such a large guild, there are conflicts almost every day, and it would be exhausting to manage them all.

The only exception is when the interests involved are too great, so great that even a powerful immortal cannot help but intervene.

Their conflict with Xu Muchuan was not at all worthy of attracting the attention of a powerful cultivator.

Therefore, Su Yu and the others were not worried about any danger. They stayed outside the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, occupied a section of the canyon, and buried themselves in grinding.

(End of this chapter)