Cultivation: But Not a Game

The massive body of the Sea Serpent King emerged from the sea, arching its body and extending its head, its eerie green vertical pupils staring at them fiercely, filled with primal brutality.

"Hiss!"

The enormous snake mouth opened, revealing sharp fangs. A green light glowed in its mouth as a ball of venom brewed.

"Everyone, retreat to the warship."

Before the order was even given, the guild members flying in the air had already started retreating to the warship or pulling far away.

As the Sea Serpent King completed its charge, it spat out a mouthful of venom, which exploded and spread over five to six kilometers like a rainstorm of venom.

The venom landed on the warship’s shield, sizzling like hot coals on the shield.

Masses of venom splattered onto the sea, causing the water to boil violently as if it were burning. Sea snakes touched by the venom were melted into pus in the blink of an eye.

"Such strong poison!"

After spraying the venom, the Sea Serpent King jumped more than ten kilometers into the air, crashing heavily onto the No. 1 Giant Wood Divine Ship.

"Boom!"

The colossal creature, several kilometers long and of unknown weight, pressed down on the warship, causing it to suddenly sink more than thirty meters.

On the deck, many players looked up, watching the behemoth, over a hundred meters in diameter, coiled above the warship. The serpent’s head opened wide, revealing fangs seventy to eighty meters long, and bit down hard. With a loud ’bang,’ the transparent shield sank, and four long fangs bit into it, sending ripples of green light outward.

The Sea Serpent King coiled around the giant ship and pushed with force, causing the kilometer-long behemoth to sway back and forth like a toy, as if it could be pulled into the sea at any moment.

"Damn, this defense is dropping so fast, three to four million per second."

The ship’s members shivered inside, with many looking at Gu Zhiqiu, asking:

"Where’s the guild leader? Why hasn’t he acted yet?"

Gu Zhiqiu stood as steady as a mountain on the deck, hands behind his back, and smiled faintly:

"Don’t panic, the guild leader will be here soon."

As shown, emotions are contagious. His calm demeanor reassured many.

Within five seconds of his words, the Sea Serpent King, furiously gnawing at the warship, suddenly paused, then recoiled backward and fell into the sea, like its tail had caught fire, creating huge splashes.

Seeing this, Gu Zhiqiu laughed heartily and said:

"See, the guild leader has arrived."

Just then, everyone felt a slight tremor in the world. Sea snakes within a radius of several dozen kilometers scattered in all directions as if fleeing for their lives. Then, the sea within the encirclement exploded, and the Sea Serpent King, which had just escaped into the sea, suddenly burst out of the water, leaping over a giant wooden divine ship, spreading its comparatively tiny fins and gliding into the distance.

"Roar!"

Seconds later, the water exploded again. Following a thunderous dragon’s roar, a more massive figure broke through the sea, soaring into the sky with its crimson true form, occupying everyone’s line of sight in an instant.

"Wow.... such a big... true dragon!"

"Is that the guild leader?"

That massive body, that terrifying pressure, all were incredibly shocking.

The crimson dragon instantly rushed up to more than ten kilometers high, its body stretching as it turned its dragon head towards the fleeing Sea Serpent King, its figure flashing into a broad red light and chasing after it.

The sea serpent was naturally not suited for flying, and its speed could not compare to a true dragon. It was quickly caught up.

In their view, that true dragon caught up with the Sea Serpent King in no time. Twice its length and several times its size, the true dragon descended from the sky, pinning the Sea Serpent King into the sea.

For a while, the water exploded and boiled, dragon roars and low hisses ceaseless, green light exploded, and flames and thunder light erupted, instantly covering the sea area of several dozen kilometers.

"Quickly, go and see."

Numerous guild experts rose into the air and approached the battlefield, seeing the red dragon firmly pressing a sea serpent under the cover of flames and thunder.

It was not a match at all.

The Sea Serpent King was only around level 210, with a supreme template, while the red dragon was an imposing level 258, with a mythical template.

A level gap of more than forty levels, a template gap of two layers, and a size difference of several times made it a completely different level of combat power.

Even the previously un-upgraded red dragon could easily crush it, let alone now.

Two dragon claws reached out, one pinning the Sea Serpent King’s waist, another on its vital spot, while the other two claws landed powerful blows, smashing serpent scales and deforming the serpent’s head, breaking its four fangs forcefully.

To show his strength, Su Yu did not finish it off immediately but, after enough beating, lifted the Sea Serpent King from the sea, dragging it to the center of the fleet and dropping it.

Understanding the gesture, Gu Zhiqiu immediately announced loudly in the channel:

"Brothers, see this? It’s a super BOSS over level 200, shared generously by the guild leader, everyone can join in, and the loot will be distributed randomly."

Amid cheers, everyone released their flying swords and magical treasures and began a wild assault.

The Sea Serpent King, disoriented, attempted to resist, gathering venom in its mouth, but was immediately smacked back by the red dragon circling above.

Nearly 200,000 players unleashed their attacks, and the Sea Serpent King held out for almost an hour before being beaten to death.

The loot balls burst open, divided into twelve parts scattered in all directions, flying into the hands of twelve lucky individuals, followed by cheers in the guild channel.

"Damn, I got the serpent bone."

Immediately, Gu Zhiqiu announced loudly:

"At current market prices, this dragon bone is worth around 12,000 gold. This lucky brother can come over and trade with me later."

"Holy crap, I’ve hit the jackpot! Long live the guild leader."

Everyone was filled with envy.

At this moment, after defeating the Sea Serpent King, Su Yu had submerged into the sea, swiftly swimming towards the Sea Serpent King’s lair.

In such a level 200 super BOSS lair, there should be some good stuff.

Now, the seabed was filled with sea serpents of all sizes. Wherever the Red Dragon reached, the sea serpents fled in panic. When he arrived at the underwater mountain previously occupied by the Sea Serpent King, the remaining sea serpents in numerous caves fled deeper into the underwater mountain range.

The Red Dragon twisted and turned between the mountains and soon found the lair of the Sea Serpent King within the submarine canyon.

"What abundant spiritual energy!"

There was a giant Spirit Vein beneath the BOSS lair, extremely rich in spiritual energy.

He roughly sensed that the concentration of spiritual energy from a single Spirit Eye was no less than one of the peaks within the Thousand Star Grotto Heaven.

The Red Dragon glanced around. In such terrain, there was a high probability of mineral deposits. Additionally, since it’s a sea serpent lair, it’s known that these spirit monsters easily drop skeletons, which are used as warship keels.

"Nice place. It would be good to establish a secondary residence here."

Su Yu emerged from the lair and charged at a nearby sea serpent, several hundred meters long.

A few minutes later, he returned to the surface and found Gu Zhiqiu to instruct him to build a residence here.

The following matters didn’t require his concern, as his subordinates would handle everything.

Back at headquarters, as soon as the guild acquired the Sea Serpent King’s skeleton, they began to construct the Sky Punishment warship. Meanwhile, Su Yu didn’t idle around; he spent his days frantically slaying monsters to prepare for consolidating his Battle Immortal Body and undergoing tribulation.

Most of the time, he ventured out with Ao Run alone and occasionally invited Chu Xinyue along.

From time to time, he organized guild events, showcasing strength in the surrounding seas to expand the influence of the Thousand Star Hall.

Time flew by, and before he knew it, a year and a half had passed.

After a year and a half of intense grinding and three months of secluded cultivation within the Thousand Star Grotto Heaven, Su Yu accumulated enough cultivation points and attained mastery. He immediately entered the Grotto Heaven and declared a seclusion.

At the Fire Spirit Main Peak, Su Yu shut down the main peak’s formation, took a deep breath, and absorbed all the spiritual energy above the Spirit Eye. Then he refined the Spiritual Liquid accumulated in the Spirit Gathering Bottle one by one, glancing at the experience pool. He had accumulated a whopping 238 billion killing experience, spiritual energy experience combined, and a full 210,000 cultivation points.

"Open the panel!"

His gaze fell on the seventieth level of the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture, and with a thought:

"Upgrade!"

Raising the Supreme Sword Formulas from the seventieth to the eightieth level required a full 23 billion killing experience and 12,500 cultivation points. However, due to innate root bones’ reduction, it only required 17.25 billion cultivation points and 11,250 cultivation points.

"High root bones are awesome!"

"Wait, that’s not right."

Su Yu suddenly recalled something:

"If I consolidate the Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body, will my innate attributes receive additional enhancement?"

If he could increase his innate root bones, just an additional 5 points would boost his innate root bones to 71 points, allowing another rank upgrade, further reducing experience consumption.

"Let’s give it a try."

Su Yu pinched his chin, decisively turning his gaze to the Supreme Divine Skill Nine Heavens Bone Forging Skill.

"Supreme Immortal Body, I hope it delivers."

Su Yu took a deep breath and invested a total of 75 billion cultivation points and 90,000 cultivation points into the skill. The next second, all his Immortal Bones lit up, countless intricate runes manifested, and started to dissolve with the advancement of the Supreme Divine Skill.

Su Yu didn’t panic.

Because the Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Bones fundamentally rely on five Immortal Bones for the foundation, merging and refining into the Immortal Body. The prerequisite is to first merge the Immortal Bones into one.

The process went smoothly without any accidents. Once all the Immortal Bones merged into a crystallized liquid, with the input of massive cultivation points and the operation of the Supreme Divine Skill’s Secret Skill, the liquid Immortal Bones began to slowly transform....

"Hmm?"

Su Yu suddenly opened his eyes, filled with surprise.

"Why did the talent activate again?"

He remembered that the double talent didn’t affect the Immortal Bones. When refining the five Immortal Bones, there was no effect, but now consolidating them into one Immortal Body activated it.

"No, only part of it activated."

Su Yu could clearly feel that this talent only partially affected the Immortal Body, with another part remaining inactive.

The inactive part involved the Immortal Body itself, which, like the previous five Immortal Bones, still didn’t activate. However, some derived powers of the Immortal Body did activate.

"Hmm...."

"It’s alright."

Better than nothing.

With the help of invisible forces, the Immortal Bones were reconstructed into a whole within him, Immortal Light formed by countless tadpole runes blossomed within his flesh and blood, permeating inside, and began transforming his flesh into.

Immortal Bones only altered the bones within, but the Immortal Body transformed his entire internal and external being.

Bones, internal organs, meridians, flesh, and everything else underwent transformation.

Under the illumination of Immortal Light, Su Yu could clearly feel the earth-shattering changes occurring within himself, evolving!