Cultivation: But Not a Game

"Husband, how do you want to deal with him?"

This was the first sentence Su Yu heard upon entering the Sea Suppressing Realm.

Su Yu immediately asked,

"How can you take care of him?"

"There are two methods."

"One is to completely refine him. This is an Earth Immortal’s Primordial Spirit, which has begun to master law. Refining it provides a large number of cultivation points and skills, as well as a certain amount of Power of Law."

"The other method is to erase the True Spirit and leave the Primordial Spirit’s shell, from which a powerful Spirit Puppet can be refined, though its strength will be slightly weakened due to material limitations when recreating the body."

"Hmm... the Spirit Puppet then."

Refining the Earth Immortal would certainly grant a massive amount of cultivation points, skills, and quite a bit of Power of Law.

However, cultivation points, skills, and the Power of Law can all be obtained through various means, whereas a Level 200 Earth Immortal Spirit Puppet is not often seen.

"Husband, please wait a moment."

The Vast Sea extended a finger, and the Power of the World descended to form a heavenly smelting furnace made of luminous flames that began to wear away the Earth Immortal’s Primordial Spirit’s self-awareness.

"It will take a few days."

"No rush."

Su Yu curiously observed the grand furnace constructed by the Power of the World, in which the Earth Immortal’s Primordial Spirit thrashed madly back and forth but was unable to budge.

Innate Immortal Treasures are not something an Earth Immortal can easily shake.

Leaving the Sea Suppressing Realm, Su Yu was in a great mood.

"Capturing a Horned Demon People’s Junior General Earth Immortal Primordial Spirit alive, and reporting it after killing grants at least a great merit, and destroying Yanbo City earns at least three great merits; this wave is immensely profitable."

His figure flickered and morphed back into a Celestial Ghost, transformed into a Horned Demon People’s Essence, and returned to Yanbo City.

At this moment, two BOSSes were frantically hammering the city, but the City Defense Array remained steadfast. Without an Earth Immortal to guard it, it wouldn’t be easily broken down, at least not without grinding it down for ten days or half a month.

His gaze shifted through the transparent City Defense Barrier looking into the city, where the team of Loose Immortals that had previously besieged the BOSS had now retreated and were engaged in an intense argument.

Su Yu could clearly see that these Horned Demon People’s experts no longer had the confident expressions they once did, now full of dejection and concern for the future.

"Watch me break the City Defense Array in one day."

He gestured to open the Sea Suppressing Realm Gate, and the Vast Sea emerged holding the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, crushing it down.

A massive blue sun nearly a kilometer in diameter descended with earth-shattering force.

The sturdy City Defense Array was pressed into a large concave shape, shocking the nearby Horned Demon People into retreat.

"Continue in a moment."

The Sea-Suppressing Pearl is an Immortal Treasure, with a cooldown of only a minute. As long as there’s enough mana, continuous bombardment is possible, capable of suppressing the City Defense Array’s defense and preventing it from fully recovering.

A minute later, Su Yu appeared on the other side of Yanbo City, far from the two BOSSes.

The Vast Sea emerged, and with a flick of the wrist, launched a Gui Water Divine Thunder Net, causing the numerous surrounding Red Tide Essences to vanish, then decisively hurled down the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.

Su Yu also swung the Heaven-Splitting Axe, chopping the nearby Level 153 Red Tide BOSS into two.

"Will return shortly."

Casually collecting the spoils, his figure flickered and vanished.

"Damn! It’s that human."

Within the City Defense Array, at least thirty top-tier Loose Immortal experts clearly saw Su Yu’s trail but dared not leave.

The Guardian Earth Immortal had yet to revive, indicating he wasn’t merely killed but captured alive, which was far more terrifying than death.

Dying amidst the Red Tide only doubled the death penalty.

But being captured alive risked being completely refined and killed, a risk they weren’t willing to take.

Another minute later, Su Yu appeared again, with the Vast Sea emerging behind, and the Innate Immortal Treasure crashing down like the great sun, earth-shattering.

In a minute, the City Defense Array could restore billions of defense points.

The theoretical burst of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl in the hands of the Vast Sea is 130 million, and after reducing the City Defense Array’s mitigation, the damage is about 65 million. In theory, it should never break the Sect Defense Array.

But Yanbo City was under siege, surrounded by dense Red Tide Essences, and the two super BOSSes’ combined output approached a billion per minute. Together, they were grinding the City Defense Array’s defense down by five to six thousand per minute.

"This can’t continue."

The senior disciple of the Guardian Earth Immortal, a Level 195 Horned Demon People’s Loose Immortal, looked at the many Loose Immortal experts and guild presidents taking refuge in the city and said in a deep voice:

"Once the city falls, everyone’s dead."

"Prepare and gather teams to attack the Red Tide, use the opportunity to allow the City Defense Array’s defense to recover."

Everyone exchanged looks, silent.

Reality was clear; waiting any longer would definitely result in the City Defense Array being breached, and then everyone would perish.

Two minutes later, over a million Horned Demon People charged out to draw the Red Tide crowd’s attention, while over a hundred Loose Immortals attacked the two BOSSes to divert their focus.

The City Defense Array’s attack dwindled sharply, its Defense quickly recovering. When Su Yu came again, the City Defense Array which barely had over 500 million Defense turned into more than 700 million.

"Fighting to the death?"

Su Yu did not change his tactics; he continued to let the Vast Sea activate the Immortal Treasure to bombard the City Defense Array, then turned away without hesitation, not caring about the outcome at all.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to change, there’s just no way to change anything; before breaking the city, nothing can be done.

Even waiting here for them to come out and intercept from all directions is pointless; how many can he intercept on his own?

The only thing he can do is wear them down, anyway, they can’t hold out for long. Every time a million players charge out, a group must die, and if this wears on continuously, they will inevitably reach a breaking point.

Moreover, this won’t take many days; the cooldown time for the Sea-Suppressing Pearl is only a minute, ensuring that ten minutes can wear down half the Defense of the City Defense Array, forcing them to send people out to die to buy time to restore the Array’s defense.

Every ten or so minutes is a wave; at least four waves of attacks an hour are necessary to delay time.

With 24 hours in a day, that’s guaranteed to be at least over ninety waves.

Even if only 100 thousand died in a wave, 90 waves would be over 900 thousand dead, and within Smoke Wave City, the gathered Horned Demon People players are just over a million, meaning almost everyone will die once a day.

To be precise, it’s equivalent to dying twice, as the punishment for dying in the Red Tide doubles.

The first day passed amidst the anguish of the Horned Demon People, and as expected, the vast majority of them inside the city were killed once.

The second day continued.

As the Red Tide Essence Su Yu transformed into squeezed forward from behind the densely packed essences, he sensed something in the void and turned his gaze in a certain direction, immediately turning away.

Seconds later, a deep blue sphere over a kilometer wide penetrated the Red Tide and struck, whereupon the Red Tide Essences were pulverized into nothingness, and it heavily hit the City Defense Array.

After the sphere exploded, it quickly shrank, transformed into a stream of light, and disappeared into the Red Tide, along with Su Yu’s trace.

A minute afterwards, another deep blue sphere flew out from another direction of the city and hit the City Defense Array, still without any trace of Su Yu.

Shortly thereafter, a corner of the void at the edge of the City Defense Array’s interior slightly twisted, revealing twenty Loose Immortals with levels over 170.

"The ambush failed, he must have discovered us."

"We have Celestial Secret Skill hiding our aura, how did he discover us?"

"Naturally, with the Star Shift!"

After establishing the Immortal Foundation, Su Yu’s true self fully comprehends many of the Red Dragon’s divine techniques, including the Celestial Dao Divine Skill of Star Shift.

Once out, he sensed traces of celestial spellcasting, saw through their disguise at a glance.

With an ambush present, he simply wouldn’t show himself. Anyway, the Sea-Suppressing Pearl’s furthest attack range is a thousand kilometers, and attacking from close or a few kilometers away makes no difference.

From then on, he stayed completely hidden; every minute a deep blue sphere would penetrate the Red Tide and strike, with no one able to obstruct it.

The second day ended, and wails filled Smoke Wave City within.

By the end of the third day, many players with little life expectancy left dared not come out.

After five days, nearly half the remaining life expectancy of the Horned Demon People players reached the warning line, unable to gather a million troops to assault the Red Tide.

The sixth day, the city was filled with a multitude of flying ships, players gathering in dense clusters.

Soon, a deep blue sphere once again pierced the Red Tide and struck the City Defense Array like a signal, and the flying ship players inside the city soared through the defense array, escaping in all directions.

"Getting ready to run, huh!"

The Su Yu transformed Horned Demon People grinned malignantly but did not stop them.

With so many people, interception wasn’t feasible.

Furthermore, he didn’t need to intercept them; at present, over a hundred million Red Tide surges around the city, and beyond the encirclement, Red Tide Essences abound. Of these millions bursting out, maybe not even ten thousand will survive.

Strip away Loose Immortals who might flee to other bases or main cities; below Loose Immortal level, only a few have the capability to escape; most meet their demise halfway.

"Destroying this city, at least three major achievements aren’t a problem!"

"Really something to look forward to."

Following this, Su Yu ceased changing positions and remained stationary, delivering a blow every minute.

Inside the city, every Horned Demon People was breaking out, with no one left to maintain the array. Within just eight strikes, they hammered the City Defense Array’s Defense to rock bottom, and as the Battle True Body brandished the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe to cleave, the extremely thin Sect Defense Array shattered directly.

Endless Red Tide Essences stormed within, launching into frenzied slaughter and destruction.

Inside the city’s revival point, spiritual light surged skyward, with people reviving there constantly; these are the Horned Demon People who previously escaped, trapped amidst the Red Tide’s tumultuous sea, lacking enough power leads to dying back here.

Those from other places seeking refuge have it better, as their revival points were not fixed here and able to revive elsewhere.

Many who reside in this city or are disciples of this city, Horned Demon People are less fortunate, with their only revival point here.

Two Super Bosses lay in wait here, reviving means instant death, with deaths repeatedly yielding to revival again until their life expectancy is exhausted entirely.

The Su Yu transformed Horned Demon People Essence mixed in the rear, gathering Gui Water Divine Thunder one by one to throw forward, steadily amassing immense slaughter experience and Taoism, alongside sphere upon sphere of spoils of war.

"What a rush!"

After a bit of farming, the panel was opened, revealing the rapidly increasing slaughter experience pool and Taoism, with significant gains appearing intermittently.

Checking the hints section, it was continuously scrolling madly, densely packed instantaneously scrolling hints occasionally mingled with achievements and massive slaughter experience and Taoism gained from completely killing targets.