Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 87 Ancient Mythical Beast, Five-Colored Divine Ox

He plunged deep underground in one breath, and after confirming that no one could catch up, the Heavenly Demon swung his claws repeatedly, digging a small space underground to reveal his true form.

He reached out and pulled open the blue light gate, then plunged into the Zhenhai Pearl.

He opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing a stream of cool spiritual energy to soothe his anger, but it was completely unable to suppress the boiling rage within him.

"Fuck your God Society, I'm not done with you."

He understood the need to clear the area during guild activities. In the past, when there were guild activities in Qianyu, the area would be cleared to prevent others from causing damage. However, the normal clearing process was to first inform nearby players to leave. Only those who refused to leave would be dealt with, but a warning would be given before any serious action would be taken. It was unheard of for someone to kill someone without a word.

"You want to destroy this Demon Cave, is that it? I'll make sure you don't get your way."

Su Yu made up her mind to sabotage their operation later.

After resting inside the Zhenhai Pearl for a while and waiting for his magic power to recover, he re-refined all the magic treasures he had broken.

The Azure Cloud Canopy and the Nine Aperture Pearl were reforged and re-equipped, but the Dragon Scale Flying Boat suffered the most severe damage when it directly faced the Sky Strike Giant Ship's main cannon. It needs to go back to the weapon refiner for major repairs before it can be used again.

Fortunately, he acted decisively; if he had been a second slower, the entire airship would probably have been blown to bits.

He had already sold the previous Spirit Fish Shuttle, so he had no flying boat to use now.

Su Yu rested inside the Zhenhai Pearl for about an hour. When she felt it was about time, she came out and transformed back into a Heavenly Ghost, becoming a wisp of smoke that flew upwards through the soil and rocks.

Not long after they returned to the ground, they saw the colossal ship of that day suspended hundreds of meters in the air in the center of the canyon. The ship's numerous divine thunder turrets were activated, continuously gathering divine thunder to bombard the Ten Thousand Demon Cave in the center of the canyon.

"Are they leveling up, or are they planning to destroy this Demon Cave?"

It looks like a leveling-up exercise, but the fact that such a massive ship was deployed and cleared out the area without warning makes it impossible that it was just a simple leveling-up exercise.

Su Yu guessed that the main purpose of the Heavenly God Society was to destroy the Ten Thousand Demon Cave in order to obtain the power of the laws condensed within it.

As we all know, the Demon Cave, like the Water Eye, is a monster spawn point in the Other Shore. It is a monster spawn point formed by the combination of earth veins and the laws of heaven. The power of the laws of heaven inside has condensed into a tangible form. If the Water Eye or the Demon Cave can be forcibly destroyed, the power of the laws of heaven may condense into a physical form, which would be an extremely rare treasure with very magical effects.

In addition, these monster spawn points must be the center of the earth's vein convergence, where various rare and precious materials may be born.

In addition, as a monster spawn point, there will definitely be guardians inside, which will definitely be high-level BOSSes.

Additionally, when threatened, it will instinctively spawn some small and medium-sized bosses to protect it; defeating these bosses will definitely yield rich loot.

Therefore, monster spawn points like these are generally considered top-tier resource points.

Logically, top-tier resource points should be well protected to continuously generate benefits, but the reason for destroying them is not only because the benefits gained from destruction are substantial, but also because they are difficult to capture.

Monster spawn points continuously spawn monsters, with a throughput of tens of thousands per second. The accumulation of monsters in the vicinity, coupled with the occasional spawning of various BOSSes, makes it extremely difficult to occupy a spot.

Let's not even talk about the super bosses that theoretically spawn at level 200 or so, the probability of that is too small, but normally bosses at level 170 or 180 spawn frequently.

With just one or two random attacks and a constant barrage of monsters, even if the Celestials had their Sky Strike Battleships stationed here every day, they might not be able to stop them.

Therefore, there are actually quite a few monster spawn points in various places on the other side, but I have never heard of any guild being able to completely occupy a monster spawn point.

The best course of action for them is to destroy the monster spawn points and reap the benefits they contain.

However, destroying a monster spawn point is not an easy task; even a full-scale guild effort would struggle to accomplish it.

Hard power is one aspect, but luck is also very important.

The first step is to pray that the level of the guardian you get won't exceed 200.

If you're below level 200, you have a chance; if you're above level 200, there's nothing more to say, just head back home.

After careful observation, Su Yu discovered that although the Sky Strike Giant Ship continued its attack, the number of people on board seemed to have decreased significantly, leading him to guess that they had already disembarked.

"We cannot let them succeed."

With a thought, he submerged underground again and swam towards the Demon Cave from a depth of more than 100 meters.

He quickly traversed the canyon peaks and arrived at the edge of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave. His divine sense could perceive everything within a range of more than ten meters. He slowed down as he approached the edge of the cave until he peeked out from close to the rock edge.

He was currently in a huge cavern with a diameter of nearly two kilometers, like a sinkhole. The edges were smooth stone walls covered with claw marks, probably left by monsters that had spawned in the demon cave.

However, there were no monsters here anymore; only bolts of divine lightning fell from above, passing through the middle of the passage and into the bottomless pit below.

He peered down and saw explosions erupting one after another at the bottom of the deep, unknown sinkhole.

Su Yu watched for a short while before retreating and continuing to dive down the rock face.

After descending for less than two minutes, Su Yu suddenly felt an invisible wave sweep over her, as if she had entered a certain area. She felt much lighter and more agile. At the same time, she discovered that the texture of the rocks here had begun to change, just like the jade-like rocks she had encountered when she entered the underground near the water eye. The spiritual energy contained in the jade began to rise sharply.

At the same time, he felt in his mind that there was a burning sun below, and he was moving closer to that sun.

"Is this the so-called law domain deep within the monster spawn point?"

He hesitated for a moment, then continued diving downwards.

A few minutes later, Su Yu felt that he was getting close to the edge of the sun. He knew that he should have reached the deepest part of the sinkhole and was about to get close to the refresh point. Only then did he change direction and swim towards the edge of the stone wall.

Before he even peeked out from the rock face, he felt intense vibrations emanating from within the rock, wave after wave.

"It should be at the bottom."

A sliver of consciousness peeked out and saw that outside was an enormous underground space, probably tens of kilometers in diameter.

In the center of this space is a massive pool with a diameter of at least ten kilometers, filled with boiling earth vein spiritual energy. Occasionally, mysterious golden light can be seen emerging, and a continuous stream of spirits are crawling out of the boiling spiritual energy, launching attacks on the Heavenly God Society players gathered in the underground space.

"They've already attacked this far."

Su Yu roughly scanned the area and estimated that there were about 20,000 players gathered there. With so many people attacking together, plus the support of the Sky Strike Giant Ship above, they managed to suppress the spawn point of the Demon Cave.

He looked around and noticed that many players with life skills were building structures below.

Su Yu, being a formation master, immediately recognized that this was the construction of a large formation's core.

"Are they planning to set up a formation here to deal with the boss that will spawn later?"

The prerequisite for the guardian to spawn at the monster spawn point is that the core of the internal laws is attacked. At this time, although the Celestials had already attacked this place, they only attacked the monsters that poured out from the spawn point and did not attack the spawn point itself, so the guardian spawning mechanism was not triggered.

"Don't even think about it!"

Su Yu snorted coldly and sank into the rocks.

But the next second he resurfaced, his gaze fixed on the figure jumping and leaping on the construction site on the other side of the underground space, a look of realization on his face.

"Xu Muchuan!"

"So that's why you cleared the area without warning." He now understood completely, and with a cold snort, he disappeared into the stone wall.

Continuing to descend along the stone wall, they soon reached the bottom of the underground space. Unbeknownst to tens of thousands of people, they unknowingly arrived at the edge of the monster spawn point. Even deep in the earth, they could feel the miracle of heaven and earth born from the combination of the power of the earth veins and the power of the laws of heaven not far away.

In his perception, it was a sun containing boundless power.

Once the location was confirmed, Su Yu emerged directly from the stone wall. Less than two meters in front of her was the boiling monster spawn pool, within easy reach.

A continuous stream of spirits emerged from it and flew in all directions.

Su Yu, who had transformed into a celestial ghost, was also a type of monster. Surprisingly, he was not attacked. These spirits ignored him and walked past them. The Heavenly God Society players who were surrounding him did not even notice the wisp of smoke that had suddenly appeared.

Without time to think too much, he directly materialized the illusion into a celestial ghost, reached out and grabbed a piece of earth-element divine lightning, condensed it into a physical form, and pressed it in.

"boom!"

The boiling spiritual energy in the spirit refresh pool suddenly trembled, and a large amount of spiritual liquid spurted out.

As soon as he attacked, the monsters that had gathered from the pool all looked at him. A snake demon opened its mouth and bit the waist of the Heavenly Ghost, while a tiger demon swung its claws and brought two black energies.

Su Yu ignored it and condensed another Gengjin Divine Thunder, which exploded in the pool.

Then it transformed from reality into illusion, turning into a wisp of smoke and disappearing into the earth.

The instigator disappeared, and the monsters continued to roam in all directions.

Ten seconds later, Su Yu, who had already submerged underground, suddenly felt an invisible wave sweep past. He instantly realized that the monster spawning pool had been attacked by him and, having confirmed the threat, had begun to spawn guardians.

At first, nothing seemed amiss, and no one noticed anything unusual. However, as the number of monsters spawning at the monster spawn points began to decrease, reaching only half of what it used to be, the higher-ups of the Celestial Society, located at the rear, keenly sensed something was wrong.

"Something's wrong. The number of monsters spawning has decreased by 50%. It's like the Guardians are about to spawn."

"what?"

The group of people all looked at the monster spawn pool, their expressions immediately turning grim:
"There's no reason for it. We didn't touch the refresh pool, so how could the Guardian have refreshed ahead of schedule?"

Jiang Lang said with a solemn expression:

"Regardless of the reason, the fact is that the Guardian has been refreshed. Have the artisans and array masters who set up the formation retreat immediately, and have the brothers prepare for battle."

"Also, notify the Sky Strike Ship to prepare for battle, lower its altitude, and make sure to trap the BOSS inside."

A senior executive said:
"What a pity. In another half hour, the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation will be set up. Combined with the power of the Heavenly Strike Giant Ship, we will be able to fight even a level 200 BOSS."

Jiang Lang did not respond, but continued to issue various orders in an orderly manner.

After receiving the order, more than 20,000 guild members began to adjust their positions, and the flag formation teams lined up and waited for orders.

The Heavenly Mystic Ice Formation.

The Great Fiery Array of the Heavens.

Xuanming Yin Water Grand Array.

A vast array of yellow sand dunes stretching for thousands of miles.

You can find all kinds of large formations commonly used by various guilds here, all of which consist of 108 poles per set, and there are several sets of each type.

"What? Retreat?"

Xu Muchuan, who was in charge of building the Taiyin Qimen Formation, was stunned when he received the order to abandon the construction and retreat:

“Brother-in-law, we’ve already built most of it, used up most of the materials, and secured the two seventh-tier magic treasures for the formation. There’s no time to take them down now.”

"There's no time left. The guardian is about to respawn. You only have two or three minutes to retreat at most."

"grass!"

Two or three minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Not long after the many craftsmen and the array formation hurriedly left, a deafening roar suddenly came from the monster spawning pool. It sounded like a beast or a bull. Then the pool water exploded, and a huge figure, as large as a mountain, slowly emerged from the pool. It was a Five-Colored Divine Bull BOSS with five-colored fur, its feet on colorful clouds, and a legendary template of level 198.

Five-Colored Divine Ox (Legend): Demon King, Level 198, Ancient Beast.

Attributes: 1850 million HP, 88 demon power, 186000 attack power, 5000 km/h speed. Demon magic: Immense strength, fearless of ghosts and gods, Five Elements Thunder Magic, Five Elements Escape Magic, Law of Heaven and Earth (Great Divine Power).

"Shit!"

Su Yu, who also saw the attributes of the demon beast, was greatly surprised, but then her face lit up with joy.

Good news, less than 200 levels.

The bad news is that it's a legendary ancient beast, or even a demon king-level boss.

For the Celestial Gods, it would be better to just farm a level 200 non-demon king BOSS.

At the Heavenly Gods Society's command center, all the high-ranking members looked at Jiang Lang:

"President Jiang, you are the commander-in-chief of this operation. What do you say, should we launch the attack?"

Jiang Lang was torn between his inner thoughts and his own. This thing was even harder for them than a level 200 non-demon king BOSS. Perhaps in terms of attributes it couldn't compare to a level 200+ BOSS that had passed the Earth Immortal Tribulation, but its template was too strong and its innate divine abilities were too powerful.

However, he was a resolute man, and quickly made a decision, gritting his teeth and saying:

"We've already fired the arrow; retreating now would result in heavy losses. We might as well fight with all our might."

"Everyone take your positions as planned, but don't make a move yet. Order the Sky Strike Giant's main guns to focus fire to attract its attention. Only make a move after it has attracted enough aggro."

The orders were passed down layer by layer, and the guild of more than 20,000 people received the instructions to begin the transfer. The Sky Strike Giant Ship, located hundreds of meters above the Demon Cave, adjusted its angle, and several precious mirrors on the bow shone down. Although they did not freeze the Five-Colored Divine Ox, they did attract its attention.

With the main gun at the bow of the ship beginning to charge, the intense threat immediately caused the Five-Colored Divine Ox to abandon the tiny ant in front of it, soar into the air, and charge forward.

"The main force regiment will follow up and support the Sky Strike Battleship!"

"The second, third, and fourth main forces will continue to suppress the monsters spawning in the refresh pool, ensuring that the BOSS spawned there will not affect the battle above."

"in addition."

Jiang Lang pinched the bridge of his nose and continued:

"The craftsmen and array masters returned to continue setting up the array, striving to complete the grand array as soon as possible."

The grand formation must continue to be built. If the Sky Strike Warships cannot withstand it, the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation will be used to finish the job.

Whether it was just his imagination or not, Jiang Lang always felt a strange shadow looming over him, a feeling that things wouldn't go so smoothly.

(End of this chapter)