Cultivation: But Not a Game

"Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body!"

A powerful energy surged throughout his entire body, and Su Yu could clearly feel the transformation from within to the outside. The immense power rose from all his limbs and bones, gathering along each meridian and surging like a vast ocean, directly into the sea of consciousness.

"Boom!"

Su Yu was momentarily dazed, and when he regained awareness, he found himself suspended in mid-air, completely bare.

Under the radiance, a robust body resembling one cast in gold was faintly discernible. His muscles undulated like mountain ranges, his back curved like a divine bow crafted meticulously by a celestial being, his face was flawless, and starlight danced in his pupils, as if blazing star fragments were burning.

"Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body!"

With a thought, Su Yu summoned his panel, and his attributes were displayed in front of him.

Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body: Level 1, Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body.

Attributes: All innate attributes +30, immune to attacks from Celestial Immortals’ Primordial Spirits and Heart Demons possession, all magic damage and range +200%, all resistances and damage reduction +50%, all speed +200%, Qi and Blood +3 million, Mana +300,000, Physique +30,000, Strength +30,000, Speed +30,000, Five Elements as One, immune to slowing, imprisonment, immobilization, and defense breaking below Celestial Immortals, mastery of the Law of Space.

Divine Techniques: Great Wisdom, Transform into Dragon, Rift Sky, Primordial Magnet Radiant Escape, Battle True Form.

Great Wisdom: Innate Insight +20, exempt from any cultivation conditions for Daoist techniques, with a chance to enter an epiphany state.

Rift Sky: Activate the Law of Space to tear the void, sever everything, breaking barriers and restrictions below Celestial Immortals, lasts 10 seconds, Mana cost 100,000 points, cooldown 24 hours.

Transform into Dragon: Transform into a red dragon, lasts for 9 minutes and 36 seconds, cooldown 1 month.

Primordial Magnet Radiant Escape: Communicate with the gravitational force of heaven and earth using Primordial Magnet Power, utilizing the Primordial Magnet Power for rapid flight, with a total of five levels.

Level one: Basic escape light speed is 1000% of his own aura flying speed, with each level increase +500% flying speed, Mana cost 1000 points/second.

Battle True Form: Transform into a four-headed and six-armed battle true form, Qi and Blood +200%, Mana +200%, Physique +200%, Strength +200%, Speed +200%, Characteristics: Celestial God Power, Indestructible Diamond, Immune to All Skill, Unmovable Mountain, Law of Heaven and Earth (Great Divine Techniques), Four Heads and Eight Arms.

Lasts 60 minutes, cooldown 24 hours.

Celestial God Power: Celestial God Power deals 100% extra damage to demons and ghosts.

Indestructible Diamond: Immune to all damage equal to Physique.

Immune to All Skill: Immune to all worldly magic.

Unmovable Mountain: The true form stands between heaven and earth without falling.

Law of Heaven and Earth: Transform one’s body into the universe, possessing immense mana, all attributes *10, lasts 60 seconds.

Four Heads and Eight Arms: A unique trait of the battle true form, allowing simultaneous deployment of four Dao techniques and activation of eight weapons and treasures, increasing the general-purpose treasure slot limit by 4.

"Good, very powerful!"

The previous Nine Heavens Battle Immortal Body was the fusion of five top-tier Immortal Bones into one Immortal Body, while the Battle True Form is similar to a transformation, possessing many powerful traits and able to use all the treasures and most cultivated Dao techniques of the true form.

This means that apart from Transform into Dragon, he finally has a regular ultimate move.

Unlike Rift Sky and Time Sword, the Battle True Form transformation lasts a very long time; each transformation lasts an hour, enough to face any situation, with a cooldown of only one day.

"Battle True Form!"

With a thought, Su Yu’s body rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a true form towering twenty zhang tall, with four heads and eight thick arms.

The true form’s four heads include the Celestial God Aspect in front, the Original Self Aspect at the back, the Angry Eyes Aspect on the left, and the Merciful Aspect on the right.

Su Yu’s consciousness split into four, with the Celestial God Aspect at the forefront, while the other three aspects act as auxiliaries, capable of casting different spells simultaneously without interfering with each other.

As everyone knows, normally, only one spell can be cast at a time, but in the four-heads-and-eight-arms state, he can have the Celestial God Aspect cast Primordial Qi of Ten Thousand Transformations Divine Thunder, the Original Self Aspect cast Hundred Eyes Divine Light, the Angry Eyes Aspect cast Innate Water Thunder, and the Merciful Aspect activate the Green Water Cold Tide Ban.

At the same time, two arms can activate two Tier Nine Flying Swords, another arm wields the Nine Heavens Violet Thunder Hammer, and another arm raises the Wind God’s Order.

The number of arms determines how many weapons or treasures can be activated.

It is noteworthy that the general-purpose slots increased by four for the four-heads-and-eight-arms state can be equipped not only with treasures but also with flying swords and weapons.

This essentially allows for the equipping of four treasures, four flying swords, or four weapons, all compatible.

With the four additional general-purpose treasure slots, after some consideration, Su Yu equipped the previously unequipped Cyan Gang and Violet Thunder two Tier Seven Flying Swords, along with the True Fire Heart Lamp and Wind and Fire Fan.

In doing so, he simultaneously had four flying swords equipped, plus the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Tier Nine Treasure Nine-Ringed Immortal Banner, Tier Eight Treasure Nine Heavens Violet Thunder Hammer, Tier Eight Treasure Wind God’s Order, Tier Eight Treasure Cyan Cloud Cover, Tier Seven Treasure True Fire Heart Lamp, and Tier Eight Treasure Wind and Fire Fan, making a total of eleven flying sword treasures.

"Perfect!"

With a thought, Su Yu’s towering true form rapidly receded, quickly returning to his original form.

Raising a hand, he conjured a water mirror, gently sweeping over his appearance, and smiled slightly.

His appearance had not changed, but there was now a unique aura from the Immortal Body that elevated his charm further.

"Next, I’ll enhance my sword formulas and Dao techniques."

Looking back at the panel, his innate root bone had reached 71 points, reducing his experience requirement from 25% to 30%, and Dao practice requirement reduction also increased from the original 10% to 15%.

"It is indeed so."

He blissfully gazed at the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture, and with a thought, endless cultivation points and Dao practice flooded into it.

In a while, a total of 28.3 billion killing experience and 17,000 Dao practice poured into it, raising the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture to ninety layers.

After resting for a while, he continued to enhance it.

A quarter of an hour later, a total of 47.5 billion killing experience and 29,500 Dao practice had been invested, smoothly elevating the Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture to one hundred layers, reaching the limit of the Qi Refining realm.

Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture (Supreme): Xuan Sect Supreme Sword Formulas, the sword severs destiny, cuts off lifespan, and can alter others’ life trajectories.

Attributes: Each layer increases flying sword damage by +300, attack speed by +200, sword control speed by +200 km/h.

One hundred layers of Destiny Reincarnation Sword Scripture: Flying sword damage +30,000, attack speed +20,000, sword control speed +20,000 km/h.

In addition, the Sword Formulas have been elevated to the eightieth level, successfully deriving a new Sword Dao method.

[Time Sword — Flow of Time]: Utilizes the Power of Time to seize the target’s lifespan, the amount varies depending on both parties’ power and cultivation level, Mana consumption is 10,000 points, cooldown time is 24 hours, characteristic: Time.

Time: The Power of Time is omnipresent, the Time Sword disregards level, ignores defense reduction and cultivation level, each strike deals true damage, which cannot be exempted by any means.

When the Sword Formulas are elevated to the ninetieth level, another new Sword Dao method is derived.

[Time Sword — Flicker of Time]: Allows one’s state to revert to any node ten seconds prior, cooldown time is 24 hours.

When the Sword Formulas are raised to the hundredth level, another new Sword Dao method continues to derive.

[Reincarnation Sword — Rebirth]: Sword Qi adheres to the target’s soul, can erupt again after their resurrection, Mana consumption is 10,000 points, cooldown time is 24 hours, characteristic: Reincarnation.

Reincarnation: Sword Qi will not disappear due to death and rebirth.

"Truly worthy of the pinnacle of Supreme Sword Scripture!"

This Sword Scripture’s grade is far higher compared to Su Yu’s primary cultivation of Qi Refining Heart Skill, an absolute leader among Supreme Tier Sword Skills, with all derived swordsmanship being exceedingly powerful.

Of course, the upgrade cost is also significant, it’s more than double that of the completed Profound Court Manual.

After upgrading the Sword Skill, Su Yu has already consumed 168 billion cultivation points and 146,972 Dao points in one go, leaving 70 billion cultivation points and 69,948 Dao points remaining.

Meanwhile, the Profound Court Manual is now at ninety levels, rising to one hundred levels only requires 33.9 billion cultivation points and 17,850 Dao points, completely sufficient with quite a bit remaining.

As for the excess cultivation points and Dao points...

Su Yu pondered for a moment, deciding to invest in the Celestial Ghost Transformation.

The combat power of this technique isn’t to be relied upon, currently, it’s not needed at all, but this transformation has a critical function — it can block tribulations.

Fully elevated, it has 200,000 health points, definitely adequate to withstand a wave of tribulation thunder, sufficient indeed.

Seventy levels of Celestial Ghost Transformation elevated to eighty levels, requiring only 770 million cultivation points and 2,125 Dao points after reduction via innate bones.

Eighty levels of Celestial Ghost Transformation elevated to ninety levels, requiring only 1.4 billion cultivation points and 3,400 Dao points after reduction via innate bones.

Ninety levels of Celestial Ghost Transformation elevated to one hundred levels, requiring only 3.3 billion cultivation points and 5,950 Dao points after reduction via innate bones, totaling 5.47 billion cultivation points and 11,475 Dao points spent.

One hundred levels of Celestial Ghost Transformation: Qi and Blood +200,000, Mana +40,000, physique +6,000, strength +10,000, speed +4,000 km/h.

Abilities: Celestial Ghost Body, virtual-reality conversion, Five Elements Thunder Skill, Five Elements Escape Skill,

This Transformation Skill, like the Dao Skill, needs to undergo tribulation after reaching one hundred levels before further advancement.

Su Yu glanced at the remaining cultivation points and Dao points, coming out from seclusion, and sent messages separately to Chu Xinyue, Second Brother and Sister-in-Law, and Gu Zhiqiu:

"I intend to return to the sect and undergo tribulation, the guild is up to you."

Second Brother and Sister-in-Law immediately replied:

"Are all preparations done?"

"Have been preparing for a year."

"When will you return to the sect?"

"Tomorrow."

Second Brother replied:

"Alright, call me then."

"Sure."

Closing the communication on this side, Gu Zhiqiu also sent a message back:

"I believe there will be no problem for you, hope to see you establish a First-Grade Dao Foundation next time."

"Thanks for your auspicious words!"

Chu Xinyue’s message was last, unexpectedly only two words:

"Wait for me."

A short while, Chu Xinyue, who was cultivating at Gold Spirit Summit, came to Fire Spirit Summit, she said nothing, merely presented an item.

Su Yu merely glanced, surprisedly lifted his head towards Chu Xinyue, whose expression appeared indifferent:

"What is this?"

"Lending it to you, return it when the tribulation is over."

She lent the Nine-tiered Mountain and River Map, her most core treasure.

Su Yu reached out to accept it, fingertip slightly touched something smooth, she withdrew her hand as if startled, her face slightly reddening.

He smiled faintly, asked:

"Xinyue, are you worried about me?"

She spoke with an unwavering face:

"I know your strength is great, but for tribulations, there’s never a one hundred percent assurance, you take it as a backup."

Su Yu smiled, suddenly leaned forward, startling her into instinctively leaning back, he laughed heartily and said:

"I know your heart is moved, and I know you feel unable to face Cyan Li Sword Immortal, rest assured, I’ll find a chance to talk to her."

"What nonsense are you talking about, stop imagining things!"

Her worries revealed, Chu Xinyue’s mind was a mess, she left with a flick of her sleeve.