Cultivation: But Not a Game

Cyan Cloud Cover (Level 10): A divine precious treasure, defense treasure, surrounded by innate clear energy when activated, with Cloud Protection, immune to the five elements, and Immune to All Skill.

Attributes: 50 million, 75% damage reduction, mana conversion rate of 1000, +20000 defense intensity, with traits: Innate Clear Energy, Immune to All Skill, Steadfast as a Mountain, Cloud Protection, True Dragon’s Scale, Artifact Spirit.

Innate Clear Energy: The innate clear energy can isolate all acquired laws.

Immune to All Skill: The innate clear energy can isolate all worldly laws from intrusion.

Steadfast as a Mountain: The treasure, when positioned above the head, will not topple or fall.

True Dragon’s Scale: Grants a defense treasure an additional 15% damage reduction, 20000 points of defense intensity.

Cloud Protection: Activating the Cyan Cloud Cover’s Cloud Protection provides ten times the defense of the treasure, lasting 5 minutes, with a cooldown of 24 hours.

Artifact Spirit: This treasure contains the nascent Artifact Spirit, and when the spirit’s strength forms and manifests in the world, it can elevate to become an Immortal Treasure.

"Excellent!"

"This investment is worthwhile."

Su Yu nodded with satisfaction, extended his hand, and the cyan cloud contracted into a clear light, which was drawn into his palm.

"Next is the Merit Fruit!"

As with the last time he obtained the Merit Fruit, he refined each one in succession. With the double talent boost, each one refined granted 200,000 merit points. A total of 24 fruits yielded 4.8 million merit points, added to the previously accumulated 1.8 million, making a total of 6.6 million meritorious deeds. The Merit Golden Wheel was further filled, getting a big step closer to forming at 10 million merit points.

Then there were three Truth Immortal Fruits.

This was simpler, requiring no refining, just directly swallowing them.

With one Truth Immortal Fruit consumed, a faint circle of invisible ripples spread out, and the time around Su Yu began to become turbulent, plunging him into a stupor.

Time flowed, and Su Yu’s consciousness undulated with its passage. In his haze, he vaguely sensed a long river hidden within the world, its waters surging, splashing towards the distance.

Each splash rose, countless lives rapidly sweeping past within each droplet, visible faintly.

The splashes fell, lives traversed, reaching dusk in the blink of an eye, until death.

The splashes continuously rose and fell, Su Yu’s consciousness instinctively watching these droplets, vaguely comprehending.

But before he could grasp it, the river of time suddenly began to fade and disappear.

Su Yu awoke, feeling a sense of loss.

"Again!"

He swallowed the remaining two Truth Immortal Fruits in one go. A little Power of Time spread, and that river of time again pulled his consciousness into a state of invisibility.

The splashes rose once more, fell.

And rose again, with countless lives flashing past before him.

Time elapsed, and as the Truth Immortal Fruit power waned, the river of time again retreated.

In a mysterious state, Su Yu suddenly reached out fiercely, catching a droplet of splashed time river water, only for the river of time to vanish instantly. Upon awakening, he found himself standing in place.

After coming to his senses, he opened his right hand, revealing nothing.

Stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly opened the panel, which displayed:

"Hint: You have glimpsed the river of time, Time Law mastery +1."

"Hint: You have glimpsed the river of time, Time Law mastery +1."

"Hint: You have glimpsed the river of time, Time Law mastery +1, and successfully comprehended the Divine Technique—Manipulating Time."

"Manipulating Time: Time Law Divine Technique, allows maneuver along the river of time, striking the target 30 seconds forward or backward, mana consumption 100,000, cooldown 10 days."

"Hint: Enhancing Time Law can increase the upper limit of forward and backward time nodes."

"Hint: Time Law +6, maximum strike 60 seconds forward or backward."

"Time Law Divine Technique!"

Su Yu placed a Spirit Fruit on the table, casually drew out the Immortal Sword with a wave, with no apparent change.

Sheathing the sword and sitting cross-legged in place, after 60 seconds, the Spirit Fruit suddenly split in two.

"Amazing!"

Su Yu couldn’t help but click his tongue; this Time Law was too abnormal.

It could attack 60 seconds along the river of time before and after; if a battle began with a sword strike, 60 seconds ago without any preparation, it might be an instant kill.

"Unavoidable!"

Moreover, more importantly, this move is a time-based divine technique, derived from the Time Law, not from the Destiny Sword’s derivation method, so its attack approach has no restrictions. It can be with a sword, with magic, or by opening Law of Heaven and Earth with the Battle True Body while wielding the Heaven-Splitting Axe for a destructive blow.

"Terrifying!"

Su Yu now declared, this move will become one of his new trump cards.

"Indeed, the Power of Law is powerful. In future similar situations, I’ll blindly choose to strengthen the Time Law."

With greatly enhanced strength, Su Yu was in a good mood, even having the leisure to appreciate the surrounding scenery.

The Heavenly Travel Boat sped through the sea, heading towards the Fallen Star Islands.

After Immortal Venerable Observing Void shared the map, his map fully unfolded, showing the positions of the Mainland of Divine Land and the Fallen Star Islands and Blue Mountain Island.

The Mainland of Divine Land would be left for later; he wasn’t ready yet to go to Zhongyuan Mountain to propose to Qingchan’s father.

Returning to Blue Mountain Island was unnecessary right now, so he might as well visit the Fallen Star Islands, especially since it had been one or two years since his last visit. He wasn’t sure if Major Cheng or Junior General Han had matters for him.

The Heavenly Travel Dart swiftly crossed the sky, three days passing in an instant, and Su Yu brought out the Nine Heavens Divine Clay; the golden divine clay had already changed to gray clay.

The Sea-Suppressing Pearl was revealed, releasing a faint wave of laws.

Sea-Suppressing Pearl (Innate Immortal Treasure): Sealed, with innate Water Dao Law.

Innate Water Dao+10: Command all the waters of the world, governs water-based magics (laws), innate water thunder+3, innate water escape+3, Water God true form+1.

Sea-Suppressing World: A world opened by an innate being, where the Heavenly Dao arises naturally, can accommodate all living beings, with Spiritual Qi at the seventh level, growing.

Sea Suppressing Realm Master: The Realm Master can freely control the time flow within the world, up to one hundred times; the Realm Master receives feedback from the world’s origin, gaining 300 million Spiritual Qi experience and 300 Dao practices daily, and 1 Power of Heavenly Dao Origin annually.

Sea Suppressing Strike: Activates the Sea-Suppressing Pearl to strike the target, causing physical damage of 10 million + 3000% magic damage, with a casting distance of 1,000 kilometers, consumes 1 million Mana, cooldown of 60 seconds. Feature: Size as desired, automatically returns.

Heavenly Dao Avatar: Vast Sea.

Accompanying True Spirits: Xia Xiaoyue, Yue Qingsi, Yan Qiubai, Cui Yunxian.

Su Yu held the Sea-Suppressing Pearl and immediately knew the changes occurring within the Sea-Suppressing World.

As expected, Vast Sea directly ascended to the Heavenly Dao within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, meaning the space within the Pearl elevated from a realm to a world, as only a real world can birth a Heavenly Dao.

When the four women, Xia Xiaoyue, ascended in the Sea-Suppressing World, Vast Sea incorporated the Eight Beauties Reunion Painting into the Sea-Suppressing World; their true spirits merged into the realm, becoming the Accompanying True Spirits upon the world’s ascension.

From now on, they are no longer confined to the Eight Beauties Reunion Painting, but to the Vast Sea Pearl.

Overall, there are no downsides, only benefits.

After all, with their true spirits residing in the Sea-Suppressing World, they can continuously absorb the Spiritual Qi and Dao practices within, rapidly enhancing their strength. If the Sea-Suppressing World can lift its seal entirely and release its full power, they will grow even stronger.

The ascended Sea-Suppressing Pearl can also continuously generate Spiritual Qi and Dao practices, but it can refine at most 100 Dao practices per day.

The Sea-Suppressing Pearl changed significantly, but the greatest change was in the ascended Heavenly Dao, Vast Sea.

With the realm elevating to a world, she became the Heavenly Dao, greatly enhancing her innate origin.

This manifested on the panel as her template officially evolving to an immortal level.

Previously (Myth/Immortal), achieving immortality required tribulation; now, with the innate origin greatly enhanced, there’s no need to undergo tribulation to evolve—it has already occurred.

Her enhanced innate origin means her potential and limits are also increasing.

In time, she could ascend beyond level two hundred, her strength far surpassing ordinary Earth Immortals. Holding the Sea-Suppressing Pearl by then will be utile.

If she learns a technique or treasure to conceal her innate being’s aura, she won’t need to hide daily within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, unable to venture out.

Moreover, the innate Power of Origin the Sea-Suppressing Pearl generates has become Power of Heavenly Dao Origin with the world’s ascension, akin to the Power of Heavenly Dao rewarded to Su Yu during his tribulation, this means...

"Heh heh!"

With a closed fist, Su Yu put away the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, reclining contentedly.

"What a bright future lies ahead!"

The Heaven Escape Shuttle was swift but nowhere near as fast as his light escape speed.

After leisurely flying for several days, he stowed the shuttle and opted for light escape travel.

Communing with the Primordial Magnet Power, he transformed into a fleeting stream of light.

Two months later, Su Yu returned to the Fallen Star Islands.

As soon as he entered the range of the Virtual Deity Network, he received a flurry of messages—six in total. One was from Junior General Han Zhuofei, and five were from Colonel Cheng Shayu, all inquiring about his return; the last message was from Cheng Shayu, half a month ago:

"Lieutenant Su Yu, if returning to the Fallen Star Islands, please proceed to South Sea Turtle Island immediately."

He responded to each message, his light escape directly heading toward South Sea Turtle Island.

Approaching from the south, he arrived above Turtle Island in less than a day and met Colonel Cheng Shayu in the military headquarters ten minutes later.

As soon as they met, Cheng Shayu said seriously:

"Your return is timely. The conflict between humans and the Horned Demon People in the Southeast Sea Region of the Fallen Star Island has escalated again—a formal war began a year ago. Since you are a formal military officer, a lieutenant, and have successfully crossed the tribulation to establish your Dao Foundation, you must accept the summons to join the war."

Su Yu’s face grew solemn as he said loudly:

"I am willing to accept the summons!"

"Very well, you have three days to prepare and understand the situation before entering the front lines. I’ve given you material to review."

No sooner had he spoken than Su Yu received the data and promptly downloaded it.

After business matters, Cheng Shayu’s stern demeanor softened; he sat down, smiling as he made tea and asked:

"How did your tribulation go this time? What grade is your Dao Foundation?"

"Super-grade Immortal Foundation!"

"Crash!"

The teacup accidentally shattered, and Cheng Shayu looked up, shocked.

"Super-grade Immortal Foundation?"

"Yes."

He quickly stood, examining him from head to toe, both surprised and delighted, pointing and pacing back and forth before eventually saying:

"Wait here, I need to inform the General."

Then he stood still, seemingly transmitting a message.

Su Yu remained quietly seated, not saying a word.

This was not something to hide; whether on the mainland of Divine Land or in the military, one must showcase their strength and potential to rise, especially in the power-revering military, where power is the true currency.

Only strength and potential can earn the attention and favor of the high-ranking figures.