Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 97 An Accidental Gain, The Nameless Sword Path

Through Qi Dongyang's introduction, Su Yu learned that Feixing Island was the largest island in this sea area, collectively known as the Feixing Archipelago, which consisted of Feixing Main Island and tens of thousands of islands of varying sizes in the surrounding area.

The main island is shaped like a slipper, with an east-west width of 50,000 to 60,000 kilometers and a north-south width of more than 300,000 kilometers. There are two major overseas sects on the island, namely Shenzhou Sect and Feixing Sect.

Among them, the Flying Star Sect was the original overlord of the Flying Star Islands, with a lineage spanning over ten thousand years.

Shenzhou Sect is a rising star with a history of only over three thousand years. Its headquarters are located on Feixing Island. After reaching a bottleneck in its development more than a thousand years ago, it began to expand to the main island and challenge the original overlord, Feixing Sect. The two sects have been fighting openly and covertly for ownership of Feixing Main Island ever since.

Previously, it was just a conflict between sects. Later, after players arrived, many players joined both sects, and their disciples formed factions and guilds. They fought fiercely for resources, and the conflict escalated. Now, the conflict between the two sects has become public.

Qi Dongyang led him directly to the largest port on Flying Star Island and introduced:
"The Raging Tide Gang that I joined is a small gang, neutral and not belonging to either of these two forces. The gang headquarters is far away from Flying Star Main Island and several large islands, on a small island in the northeast of the archipelago. Brother Su, you can go and have some fun when you have time."

Su Yu smiled and said:

"I'll definitely go when I have time."

But their eyes were already filled with amazement as they surveyed the enormous port.

This port is located at the mouth of a river that is hundreds of miles wide. The river flows from east to west, and the entire port encompasses both the north and south banks of the estuary. The port is thousands of kilometers long from north to south, with riverbanks and plains to the south and mountains and highlands to the north, all of which are densely packed with buildings.

The main trading area of ​​Flying Star City is located on the south bank. As soon as Su Yu entered, the regional channel automatically opened.

He opened it and scrolled through various information rapidly, as if it were scrolling across a screen, leaving him overwhelmed.

Once they entered the port, Leng Xijun took his daughter back to their residence in Feixing City, while Qi Dongyang led Su Yu over Feixing City, introducing her to the city's situation one by one.

Su Yu listened to his explanation with great interest and kept it in mind.

Regardless of the outcome of the search for his second brother, once he becomes stronger, he will still need to develop in the outer seas, as only there will be enough resources for him to continue to improve.

Flying Star City is a gathering place for players within a radius of millions of kilometers. Mingsu Palace on Golden Dragon Island is more than 700,000 kilometers away and is within its radiation range.

"Brother Su, you can rent or buy a room in the city later. There are auction houses and several large chambers of commerce on the island, with influence covering Blue Mountain Island and overseas. There are many good things that are not available on the mainland. You can learn more about them when you get there."

"Ok."

The two chatted as they walked, and it took them almost two hours to roughly circle around Flying Star City.

Finally, they found a hotel in the east of the city, where Qi Dongyang treated Su Yu to a meal, and the two became friends.

An hour later, Qi Dongyang went home, and Su Yu wandered around the streets alone.

The city had a very strong commercial atmosphere, and there were more players than he had imagined; the streets were packed with people.

Although there are auction houses in the city, many people prefer to trade offline, and some commercial streets are quite bustling.

Su Yu wandered around for a while, but didn't buy anything. The main reason was that ordinary things were not useful to him. The things he wanted were easier to find at large chambers of commerce or auction houses.

After wandering around for a while, he found an inn to stay at and opened the auction house page on the regional channel to check it out.

Qi Dongyang is right. He browsed for a while and found several interesting things from overseas.

Mirage Dragon Pearl (Rank 6): After use, it can transform into a figure that has been seen before. It cannot transform into a demon beast or a wandering immortal. During the transformation, it consumes 10 mana points per second. There is no upper limit to the duration. It costs 30 gold.

Ocean Stone (Spiritual Item): Consumes mana to gather fresh water, priced at 20 gold.

Canghai Token (Rare Item): Holding it can ward off water and monsters. Aquatic monsters below level 100 will not attack it on their own. Price: 120 gold.

Shipbuilding Order (Flying Star): A token for changing professions in the life professions. It allows you to change your profession to Shipbuilder. It costs 50 gold.

Considering the possibility of needing them, Su Yu purchased a Mirage Dragon Pearl and a Vast Ocean Token.

The Ocean Stone doesn't need to; its Sea-Suppressing Pearl contains endless water, so it doesn't need to gather itself.

Shipbuilding orders are unnecessary. Although there are no restrictions on occupations, and theoretically one can take on more than a dozen occupations, the problem is that time is limited. He has already taken on the jobs of brewer and array master, and he doesn't have much time to study these two jobs. Learning another one would be a waste.

After looking at these strange and unusual objects, he examined other things.

The highest-grade magic treasures sold at the Flying Star Island Auction House are only ninth-tier magic treasures. The prices here are slightly more realistic compared to those at the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect, although they are still very expensive.

After browsing for more than two hours, just as he was about to go to sleep, he suddenly saw something that really caught his eye.

Immortal's Handbook (Celestial Immortal): An immortal's cultivation handbook that can enhance Taoist techniques, sword skills, or supernatural abilities. The specific effects depend on comprehension. It costs 15000 taels of gold.

"Wow, they sell this stuff?"

Don't be fooled by the vague attribute descriptions; most people wouldn't know the specific effects, including the previous Su Yu. But after joining the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect, his status rose, and many of his past secrets were no longer secrets to him.

This immortal's manual was left behind by a celestial being. When a celestial being was about to die or perished, they would strip away the treasures that they had condensed from their own cultivation. Anyone who obtains the manual and comprehends it can gain various benefits depending on their level of comprehension.

Its minimum standard is to be able to raise a Taoist technique by more than 10 levels regardless of the conditions.

Note that this is the minimum standard.

If one has high comprehension, it is possible to advance 30 or 40 floors in one go, or even from floor 1 to floor 100 in one go.

In addition, the Immortal's Notebook contains the cultivation of an immortal. If one has high enough comprehension or meets certain conditions, one may have the opportunity to comprehend the Taoist methods or supernatural powers cultivated by the immortal.

What are the Taoist practices and supernatural powers cultivated by immortals?
OK.

This is an absolutely top-tier item; with a bit of luck, it could skyrocket to the top.

But it's just too expensive, costing a staggering 15000 taels of gold, which is more expensive than a typical eighth-tier magic weapon.

In fact, if this thing didn't require such high comprehension, and if even with high comprehension one only had a chance to comprehend it and not a 100% guarantee of comprehension, it definitely wouldn't be this price.

Su Yu took stock of her own assets; not to mention cash, she had 800 gold coins left.

The only thing I can sell is the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation. It can easily fetch 8,000 gold. If I sell the Nine Aperture Pearl and the other sixth-tier magic treasures, it will only be around 400 gold. With cash, it will be just over 9,000 gold, which is far from 15000 gold.

"I can't afford it."

"I really can't afford it!"

Indeed, you can borrow some, but not many.

Your master will definitely lend you some, but he can't possibly lend you seven or eight thousand gold coins.

Chu Xinyue could also borrow some, but at most around a thousand gold coins.

The guild should be able to cover some expenses, but not too much, since the team itself doesn't have much money.

My mouth was watering all over the floor, and there was absolutely nothing I could do.

"Ugh!"

He regretfully added the chamber of commerce to his collection and marked it.

I really can't afford it now, so I can only hope to buy it again when I've earned enough money in the future. This thing hasn't been sold yet.

Although this is unlikely.

After closing the panel, Su Yu lost interest in browsing and went straight to sleep.

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, he got up early and first bought a local map from an intelligence agency. The map showed an area of ​​over a million kilometers in radius centered on Flying Star Island, which was the area of ​​influence of Flying Star Island.

He browsed the newly lit map and quickly located Mingsu Palace on Jinjiao Island, more than 700,000 kilometers to the east. "Let's continue on our way, leveling up as we go."

Su Yu opened the panel, found her newly added friend Qi Dongyang, and bid him farewell.

"Have a safe journey, Brother Su!"

Su Yu clasped his hands in a salute:
"Once I find my second brother, I'll stop by the Angry Tide Gang to visit Brother Qi on my way back."

"Then I'll wait."

"goodbye!"

After bidding farewell to Qi Dongyang, Su Yu took to the air and flew eastward towards Flying Star Island.

As we traversed Flying Star Island, we saw mountains and rivers that were no different from those on the mainland.

If placed on Earth, the total area of ​​Flying Star Island would exceed the total area of ​​Earth, but in the other world, it is just an island.

Blue Mountain Island, with a total area far exceeding that of Flying Star Island, spans 20 to 30 million kilometers from east to west and nearly 40 million kilometers from north to south. It is also just an island, not a mainland.

According to what Su Yu learned from her master, there is a Celestial Continent in this world. The sect's senior immortals have been there, but it is an immeasurable distance from Blue Mountain Island, hundreds of millions of kilometers away. Even at the speed of an immortal, it would take hundreds of years to cross it.

This shows that the vastness of the other world is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and ordinary cultivators can hardly leave their birthplace even if they spend their entire lives.

If given the chance, Su Yu would love to travel to the legendary Immortal Continent.

But that must be an extremely distant time. Only after undergoing at least two Heavenly Tribulations to advance to the Earth Immortal realm would one have the strength to traverse this distant sea.

A day later, Su Yu crossed Flying Star Island and entered the vast sea once again.

We leveled up by defeating monsters along the way, slowly but surely moving forward.

He wasn't in a hurry. He leveled up with Ao Run during the day and hid inside the Zhenhai Pearl at night to study life professions using the ten times the time flow inside. He was quite content.

The sword energy cleaved through the atmosphere, parted the sea surface, and split a strange sea fish in two.

Without any pause, several more strange fish surrounded them.

The two swords swept across like lightning, sending blood splattering everywhere.

At the same time, he grabbed with both hands, and two sword beams flew out, twisting and turning back and forth, cutting several strange fish into pieces. The blood seeped into the seawater, attracting even more monsters.

On the other side, Ao Run charged directly into the school of strange fish, where the Midnight Cold Tide and the Gui Water Divine Thunder bombarded him repeatedly, making him quite happy.

The vast ocean is far more diverse in terms of the number of creatures than inland waters.

Various kinds of sea fish, crabs, lobsters, strange clams, sharks and whales, sea loaches and sea snakes, and occasionally you may encounter sea dragons, are all more ferocious and larger in scale than their counterparts inland.

The groups of spirits encountered in inland rivers are generally in the hundreds or thousands, with the occasional large group numbering in the thousands.

However, a single strange group in the sea can easily number in the thousands or tens of thousands, and larger groups can number in the hundreds of thousands or even millions, which is extremely exaggerated.

Among those large monster groups, there must be groups of monsters with levels over 100. If thousands or even tens of thousands of monsters with levels over 100 rush over, Ao Run will have to flee in panic.

"what!"

While clearing out a group of several thousand monsters and collecting their spoils, Su Yu discovered a Taoist manual on an unnamed sword technique.

Nameless Sword Path (???): Cultivating it can increase the power of sword energy. Each level increases sword energy damage by 10 points and sharpness by 10 points.

"There's such a Taoist method?"

The bonus isn't very high; reaching level 100 only increases sword aura damage by 1000 points and sharpness by 1000 points. Doubling the talent bonus only increases sword aura damage by 2000 points and sharpness by 2000 points.

Note that the increased damage is from sword aura, not from sword-wielding attacks.

Sharpness is similar to armor penetration, but not in terms of percentage penetration; the sharpness determines how much defense is ignored.

2000 points of sharpness means that the attack ignores 2000 points of defense strength or physique.

Su Yu figured that since she had never practiced any similar Daoist techniques before, she might as well learn them and improve herself even a little bit.

He reached out and slapped the Taoist book, which turned into light and entered his body. The Nameless Sword Dao appeared in the Taoist technique panel. Looking at the upgrade requirements, it only required 66 cultivation points and 20 points of Taoist cultivation to upgrade from level zero to level ten. The requirements were very low, similar to when he first learned an intermediate Taoist technique.

He glanced at the massive amount of cultivation points and Taoist power he had accumulated and began to improve without hesitation.

With 66 cultivation points and 20 points of Taoist cultivation, the level was raised to ten.

With 132 million cultivation points and 40 points of Taoist cultivation, the level was raised to the twentieth level.

With 562 million cultivation points and 60 points of Taoist cultivation, the level was raised to the thirtieth level.

With 12.5 million cultivation points and 100 points of Taoist cultivation, the level was raised to level 40.

With another 2700 million cultivation points and 150 points of Taoist cultivation, the level was raised to the fiftieth level.

It took a total of 48.1 million plus 360 points of cultivation to upgrade this technique to level 50, increasing the sword energy power by 1000 and the sharpness by 1000.

And that was it; no special abilities were developed.

"It really just increases damage!"

But he rubbed his chin, feeling that it wasn't that simple.

"Try upgrading it to the maximum level."

"Anyway, the demand isn't very high."

With his eyes closed, he randomly added points, and the cultivation points and Taoist cultivation accumulated in the experience pool quickly disappeared.

Fortunately, I had accumulated enough beforehand. Before setting off, I still had 677.5 million cultivation points and 491 points of Taoist cultivation. After setting off, I leveled up while traveling, mainly by killing monsters and bosses of level 100 and above. I didn't accumulate many cultivation points, but I did accumulate over 1,000 points of Taoist cultivation. Now I have a total of 852.2 million cultivation points and 1560 points of Taoist cultivation.

Su Yu consumed 765 million cultivation points and 1260 points of Dao cultivation in one go, raising it to the 90th level in one go.

"It's still a little worse."

"Okay, there's still a long way to go."

It takes a full 970 million cultivation points and 1000 points of Taoist cultivation to advance from the 90th floor to the 100th floor, and we are still short of quite a bit.

But it's not a big problem. With his current monster-killing speed, he can get it in another two months if he puts in some effort.

To max out a Taoist technique in two months is already quite efficient.

After closing the panel, Su Yu continued on her way with great pleasure.

As he leveled up, he clearly noticed how exaggeratedly powerful this technique was at enhancing sword energy. At level 1800, with the talent bonus, it could amplify the power and sharpness of sword energy by 1800.

For monsters below level 100, even those with ordinary or low-level templates, the physique will not exceed 2,000 points, and the sword energy power can be almost 100% maxed out.

What surprised him even more was that the Taibai Sword Qi also belonged to the category of sword qi. The sword qi itself was formed by condensing sword qi, and it was also enhanced by it.

Su Yu's sword aura damage was 4880 at this moment, plus the 1800 from the nameless sword path, for a total of 6680 damage, almost at its maximum. He swept back and forth with two sword auras, and the killing efficiency even exceeded that of Thunderclap and Mighty Strike.

(End of this chapter)