Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 98 Invitation, Earning Extra Money

More than 3,000 meters deep, a group of giant deep-sea fish, 70 or 80 meters long, leisurely passed by Su Yu, completely ignoring him, a mere shrimp.

He swam up, reached out and condensed a sword aura, which he then slammed into the fish's eye, causing it to explode. The enormous eye was instantly reduced to a bloody mess of minced flesh, but the fish seemed oblivious and continued swimming forward.

Su Yu followed suit, nimbly swimming to the fish and striking them with sword energy.

At this moment, the sword energy was extremely sharp; the sword energy that exploded in the eye socket could directly rush into the depths of the brain.

The fish's reaction time was longer than he had imagined. It swam for almost half a mile before suddenly stopping, struggling and stirring up the seawater. But it was too late. The sword energy had entered its brain, and it was just a death throes.

With the enhancement of the Nameless Sword Dao, the power of his sword energy has greatly increased, and this previously somewhat useless technique has now become an extremely powerful tool in his hands.

His magical power of up to 70,000 is enough to ensure that he can activate the sword energy for a long time. While activating the two swords, he can also activate two sword energies at the same time to fight, and the destructive power is visibly increased by a large margin.

Increased combat power also means increased combat efficiency and monster-killing efficiency, making it incredibly enjoyable to travel and kill monsters at the same time.

After casually taking down a level 100 trash template experience monster, a piece of loot suddenly caught Su Yu's attention.

It was a uniquely shaped jade bottle called the Spirit Gathering Bottle.

Spirit Gathering Bottle (Rare Item): It can gather spiritual energy and transform it into spiritual liquid. One drop per day. Each drop of spiritual liquid can stimulate the growth of spiritual creatures and can also be refined into 100 million spiritual experience points.

He shook the jade bottle, which contained more than a dozen drops of spiritual liquid. He poured it directly into his mouth to refine it, and immediately gained 1400 million killing experience points.

"This thing is pretty good!"

This is equivalent to an extra 3000 million cultivation points per month. Although it's not a lot, it's extra and there are no requirements.

He placed the spirit bottle directly into the Zhenhai Pearl to see if the condensation speed would increase.

"It seems like our luck has improved a lot lately."

This sea voyage for leveling up not only yielded nameless Daoist books, but also rare items like Spirit Gathering Bottles, which I had never seen in the past year or so.

"Is the effect of +1 to Heavenly Heart really that noticeable?"

Although she sounded hesitant, Su Yu was quite certain in her heart that her luck had indeed improved a lot.

This is a good thing, meaning it means there's a chance to get some special good stuff.

Realizing this, Su Yu became even more motivated and proactive in leveling up.

Several days later, Su Yu, who had been practicing diligently for days without stopping, resurfaced on the water. Ao Run transformed into his true form and swam on the surface of the water, while Su Yu lay on Ao Run's back.

"It's still quite inconvenient without a flying boat."

In this vast ocean, it is often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers without finding a place to land. Although his magic power can support him to stay suspended in the air, flying continuously consumes energy and there will eventually be a time when he stops.

Fortunately, Ao Run was there; otherwise, he would have had to rest floating in the water, and he might have been swallowed by a ferocious sea monster if he wasn't careful.

Ao Run's strength is not bad. At least as long as he doesn't go underwater, he is quite powerful on the surface. Su Yu can rest assured and relax.

Before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.

Having slept for an unknown amount of time, Ao Run, who was idly swallowing and spitting out water, suddenly looked up alertly and saw two sword lights skimming along the seawater, instantly wrapping around Ao Run and twisting him.
"Notification: You have dealt 4150 points of physical damage to the nameless dragon."

"Notification: You have dealt 550 points of physical damage to player Anonymous."

"???"

When Sun Feng saw the prompt, he was completely bewildered, but immediately realized what was going on and withdrew his twin swords.

But the next second, a figure flew up from the back of the emerald dragon in the distance, and then two extremely thin sword lights came straight at them.

"Excellent swordsmanship!"

Sun Feng, seeing the opportunity, was overjoyed and immediately urged his two swords to fly backward to meet the attack. The four flying swords clashed for a moment, producing a series of crisp clanging sounds and sparks flying everywhere.

The four flying swords crisscrossed and collided repeatedly in the air.

Roll, twist, flick, chop, wipe, slash, thrust, parry—all sorts of basic sword techniques are displayed vividly on these four flying swords.

Both sides were evenly matched in terms of flying swordsmanship and swordsmanship skills.

Rarely encountering an equally matched opponent, Su Yu's initial anger at being ambushed had long since dissipated. Now, she would concentrate all her attention on sparring with her opponent, who was hiding somewhere.

After exchanging thousands of blows in one go, he was still full of energy, while Sun Feng, who was hiding in the shadows, was starting to have trouble holding on.

It wasn't that my swordsmanship was lacking, but rather that my magical power was almost depleted.

Even if swordsmanship doesn't consume much mana, the total consumption is still quite large after exchanging more than two thousand blows.

On the other hand, Su Yu had only used up a little over 10,000 of his more than 70,000 mana, leaving him with nearly 60,000 mana to continue exchanging tens of thousands of blows. He was currently in the midst of a fierce battle.

After exchanging more than ten blows, Sun Feng used his remaining magic power to knock Su Yu's twin swords away and immediately withdrew them.

Just as Su Yu was preparing to press her advantage, she heard someone shout:
"do not fight."

He reached out and retracted his twin swords, which were then placed on Ao Run's back. A few moments later, two young men broke through the seawater and flew out.

One of the men, carrying two sword cases on his back, clasped his hands in a fist salute to him and said:
"Brother, please don't be offended. I thought it was a wild dragon trying to level up, but it turned out to be your spirit pet. I'm very sorry." Su Yu waved his hand, seeing the sincerity in the gesture.
"never mind."

It was indeed an accident. Seeing a dragon in the vast ocean, the first reaction would definitely be to think it's the BOSS. He would have thought so too.

Besides, he was unharmed anyway. After condensing the Supreme Dragon Transformation Immortal Bone, his blood and qi reached 600,000, and his physical strength, plus what he had accumulated before, exceeded 8,000. Those two swords just now only scratched his skin.

After the misunderstanding was cleared up, Sun Feng had a sudden inspiration and said:
"Brother, your swordsmanship is superb, and you're quite strong. I wonder if you'd be interested in earning some extra money?"

Su Yu asked curiously:

What extra income?

"The Canghai Gang is preparing to build a batch of warships and needs keel materials. They have invited a group of experts to go out to sea to hunt, whether it is the skeleton of a large sea eel, sea serpent, or even a dragon. The price will be 20% higher than the market price. If we can obtain a main keel of more than 500 meters, the price will be 50% higher. Brother, are you interested?"

"Um, can I join halfway through as an outsider?"

Sun Feng laughed:

"Of course, it's not a secret operation. Anyone with the ability is welcome."

Su Yu thought about it and realized she was short of money right now, so making some money wouldn't be bad. She nodded and said:
"Sure, but who should I trade with if I get a dragon bone?"

“Our fleet is not far away, I’ll take you there.”

"Please lead the way."

"Walk."

The group turned around and flew back in the direction Sun Feng and his group had come from.

The three chatted as they walked and soon learned that the other man was named Zhang Zhiling and was a friend of Sun Feng.

On the way, Sun Feng explained the details of the event to him. Simply put, the Canghai Gang has been lacking keels for building warships for many years, so every year they organize a group of people to go to sea to collect keels.

In addition to members of the guild itself, we will also invite experts from all walks of life, without any restrictions.

There's no need to worry about offending Canghai Gang's rival guilds by participating in Canghai Gang's activities. The main weapons for guild battles at sea are various warships, which are practically consumables. Every major battle will sink a batch of them. All guilds are short of warships and often organize people to farm dragon bones and other materials.

Inviting neutral experts for help is a normal business practice; every guild does it this way and won't incur hostility from other guilds.

Sun Feng flew with him for a while, and in the distance they saw a giant, thousand-meter-long, poisonous dragon-shaped warship anchored on the sea.

The massive warship was filled with divine thunder towers, and players frequently entered and exited the ship. A huge flag of the Canghai Gang fluttered in the wind at the bow.

Sun Feng led him to the bow of the Poison Dragon warship, where he spoke a few words with an official from the Canghai Gang surnamed Zhang. Then someone invited him to join a temporary team, which was considered his joining the gang.

This dragon-shaped warship is a kilometer long, like a floating city, and has everything on it.

After joining the crew, Su Yu could go to most places on the ship. He first found the merchant who accompanied the Canghai Gang and sold all the miscellaneous items he had dropped while leveling up, earning 48 gold.

He turned around and met up with Sun Feng and Sun Zhiling, leaning against the gunwale, chatting and enjoying the scenery.

"We're heading to Sea Serpent Reef now. Sea serpents often roam that area, making it perfect for farming dragon bones."

Su Yu unfolded the map and found the location marked as Sea Snake Reef, which was about seven or eight thousand kilometers away from here, not too far.

He asked curiously:
Are there many sea snakes in this area?

Sun Feng laughed:

"It's not just a lot, it's an enormous amount. There's a giant sea serpent's lair beneath that sea area, a sea serpent kingdom that's home to millions of sea serpents of all sizes, and a sea serpent king that's over two hundred levels high."

Su Yu exclaimed in surprise:

"Wouldn't that mean we'd be heading straight for the sea serpent's lair? If we run into the sea serpent king on our only boat, do we really think we can escape?"

Sun Zhiling chuckled softly beside him:
"The sea serpent's lair is tens of thousands of meters deep on the seabed. The ship stays on the edge of the sea surface, and then we dive down to lure up any lone sea serpents and kill them."

"Oh!"

Seven or eight thousand kilometers is a considerable distance in the vast ocean; in fact, they have now reached the edge of the Sea Snake Reef.

The Poison Dragon warship continued sailing forward for about three or four thousand kilometers before groups of invited teams began to leave the warship and venture into the vast ocean to search for the sea snakes.

Su Yu and the others were no exception, and they also entered the sea.

However, although the three of them walked together, they did not form a team.

Sun Feng and Zhang Zhiling were on one team, while Su Yu alone, along with a dragon, was enough to deal with the level 100 sea serpent.

The two, one human and one dragon, dived into the sea and soon disappeared from sight of Sun Feng and Zhang Zhiling. However, they were not far apart and could support each other if they encountered danger.

Not long after entering the water, he encountered a group of deep-sea fish. Without activating his two swords, he grabbed two sword beams and flung them out like lightning, swinging them back and forth. The deep-sea fish seemed to be electrocuted, with bloody streaks appearing on their bodies.

With both hands grasping, sword energy crisscrossed back and forth, quickly dismembering the group of deep-sea fish into eight pieces.

With a swift movement of his sword energy, he retrieved his spoils. His gaze fell upon a dark shadow darting past in the distance, and instinctively, he unleashed a sword strike.

(End of this chapter)