Cultivation: But Not a Game

Achievement: 256521.

"???"

"Why did my achievements increase so much when I only killed this few?"

"Could it be because I tricked and killed these Horned Demon People, so the credit goes to me?"

Upon careful thought, it indeed seems possible.

Su Yu didn’t dwell on it, after all, it’s a good thing.

Two BOSSes are positioned here, guarding the respawn point and crazily slaughtering.

Meanwhile, Su Yu didn’t idle around and started collecting the spoils of war from the ruined city.

The Red Tide Essence doesn’t collect spoils; after the city is destroyed, everything belongs to him.

After a few days, he collected nearly over six hundred thousand spoils spheres and brought them into the Sea Suppressing Realm, where the women sorted them.

Then there was the city’s warehouse and the immortal mansion of the Guardian Earth Immortal, both breached, and all collections inside were looted.

However, it wasn’t as much as imagined; the most valuable parts were with the Guardian Earth Immortal, and another part had already been taken by a group of experts. The remaining mostly were various medicinal materials and ores, with an estimated total value of over two million gold.

After collecting all the materials, the number of respawning Horned Demon People decreased, until on the sixth day, very few respawned each time, prompting the two super BOSSes to begin leaving.

After destroying this city, levels of the two super BOSSes significantly increased, one rising to level 290, the other to level 271.

"It’s done!"

After this wave of profits, Su Yu was content, not bothering with scattered leftovers, waving to the two BOSSes as one disappeared into the Red Tide.

"This wave was a huge profit."

Exiting the city, he dove into the sea, dug a hole in the seabed, entered, opened the portal, and returned to the Sea Suppressing Realm.

Upon arrival, he saw a mountain of spoils spheres accumulated in the grand plaza, with four women examining the spoils inside and categorizing them.

Pills, materials, ores, flying swords, magical treasures, daoist scriptures, etc., were respectively piled, already forming small hills.

"We’ve truly struck it rich this time."

This wave of income is equivalent to 10% of the total accumulation of a city with three million people, with an estimated total value exceeding five million gold.

Compared to this, the reward for sieging the city was nothing.

Su Yu opened the panel, the top-tier immortal treasure was ever-present. At this moment, the rank panel had already completed the calculation, granting 500,000 achievement points and 3 major achievements for destroying Yanbo City.

Typically, killing the Earth Immortal Primordial Spirit should also grant rewards, but the Earth Immortal Primordial Spirit has been refined by the Vast Sea into an Earth Immortal Spirit Puppet, and the top-tier immortal treasure couldn’t monitor the situation inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, hence there hasn’t been a calculation.

To have a calculation, it’s necessary to return to the human territory, summon the Horned Demon Earth Immortal Primordial Spirit refined into spirit puppet for the top-tier immortal treasure to inspect to finalize the calculation.

Without surprises, it should yield two major achievements; after all, it’s equivalent to completely eradicating a portion of the Horned Demon People’s high-level combat power.

With all achievements combined, Su Yu’s total achievement is now 4.12 million.

Destroying Yanbo City was a small matter, the major factor was his causing over a million Horned Demon People to exhaust all lifespans, leading to complete death.

Regrettably, it’s only an indirect effect, not direct annihilation, otherwise four million, even forty million achievement points would be possible.

With 4.12 million achievement points, Su Yu directly topped the achievement rankings.

After reviewing, Su Yu and the four women together sorted the treasure chests of spoils, taking two days to finish.

Luckily, time flows differently inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl versus outside, with a ratio of ten to one; here two days equate to merely a few hours outside.

The sorted spoils were divided into three parts: one part is materials, pills, and magical treasures that ordinary players frequently need, saved for storage in the guild warehouse when returning.

Another part is items that aren’t frequently needed or are too low in level, meant for sale.

The final part contains some rare valuable items.

Among over six hundred thousand spoils spheres, even with rare good items being few, some treasures favorable to Su Yu emerged.

Such as some rare spirit fruits, spirit plant seeds, which were directly planted in the Sea Suppressing Realm.

Various special Magic, Forbidden Skills, etc.

Special treasures, high-grade treasures, among this massive haul, contained twenty-four Tier Seven Treasures, three Tier Eight Treasures, but no Tier Nine Treasure.

This is normal; most seized were Qi Cultivation Cultivators, with few Loose Immortals dead.

Su Yu looked through them all and picked out several noteworthy Magic spells to learn.

Disguise and Transformation Spell: A secret skill to alter appearance and form.

Thousand Illusion Divine Curse: An illusion technique that allows thousand transformations.

Golden Silkworm Escape Technique: An escape secret technique, creating a fake shell to confuse enemies, while the true body flees hidden.

Forbidden God Skill: A method to seal divine soul.

Control Spirit Skill: A technique to control enemy’s physical body, used in conjunction with Forbidden God Skill.

Divine Sense Multiplication: A method to split divine sense.

Spirit Affixation Technique: Allows fragmented divine sense to attach to spiritual objects, treasures, or living beings, used in conjunction with Divine Sense Multiplication.

Soul Search Technique: Allows forcibly searching souls using divine sense to acquire target’s memories.

These are all common secret skills, requiring upgrades similar to the Jiezhi Concealment Skill. Su Yu, with his vast accumulation of cultivation points and dao attainments, directly spent over ten billion Spiritual Qi experience and tens of thousands of Dao achievements to upgrade all major secret skills to level four in one go.

"Husband, there’s a good item here."

Xia Xiaoyue suddenly presented an item to Su Yu. He took it and was shocked:

"Whoa, where did this come from?"

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Record: Immortal Realm Secret Skill, contains nine types of Immortal Realm Talisman, entry requires 10 billion cultivation points and 10,000 Dao practice.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul Suppression Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul Capturing Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul Summoning Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul Returning Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Sealing Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Catastrophe Avoidance Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Dominion Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal God Slaughtering Talisman.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Demon Slaughtering Talisman.

Yue Xin Yue shrugged and said:

"Discovered in one of the spoils of war."

Su Yu said in surprise:

"The owners of these spoils of war are not even a few Loose Immortals, yet they managed to produce such good things?"

"Husband, don’t underestimate Qi Cultivation Cultivators."

Yue Xin Yue smiled and explained:

"Luck is unpredictable, even the most ordinary player can have a time when luck is overwhelming."

Yue Qingsi also nodded and said:

"In the Other Shore, there are many lost treasures and Immortal family secret arts, which remain obscured for some reason. If one has the fortune, these treasures can see the light of day again. This Immortal Realm Secret Skill should have been gained by someone due to a stroke of luck."

"Hmm!"

Su Yu nodded in agreement, as he recalled the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, which was initially discovered from the remains of an unknown Loose Immortal.

If he didn’t say it, who would know such a valuable treasure was hidden in the remains of a mere unknown sect Loose Immortal?

I don’t know which unlucky fellow stumbled upon this secret skill, now it’s Su Yu’s gain.

However, after he glanced at the cultivation points and Dao practice needed for this secret skill, along with the drawing requirements, he decided to leave it for the Vast Sea to cultivate.

The cultivation of this secret skill not only requires extremely high cultivation points and Dao practice, but drawing the talisman requires consuming cultivation points as well.

Just to enter the first level requires 100 billion cultivation points and 100,000 Dao practice, and drawing consumes Mana and talisman materials, but also needs 1 billion cultivation points for each, and it’s only effective during the Qi Refinement stage.

To upgrade the secret skill to the second level, it requires 1 trillion cultivation points and 1 million Dao practice, and drawing a talisman requires 10 billion cultivation points, but it’s effective for Loose Immortals.

To upgrade the secret skill to the third level, it requires 10 trillion cultivation points and 10 million Dao practice, and each drawing requires 100 billion cultivation points, effective for Earth Immortals.

This thing is powerful, but it’s currently not suitable for Su Yu; it’s more apt for someone like the Vast Sea, who has plenty of time, strength, and inexhaustible Spiritual Qi to cultivate.

Even though he has now accumulated a massive amount of cultivation points and Dao practice.

After conquering Mist Wave City, he lingered at the resurrection point for a few days, and the number of Horned Demon People who died at his hands reached tens of thousands, among which at least fifty or sixty thousand were permanently slain related to him.

Normally speaking, killing a target permanently allows you to gain 20% of all their lifetime consumed cultivation points and Dao practice.

But that’s when you personally kill them; in reality, for those fifty to sixty thousand, he just struck once, and it can’t be considered a total kill by him, so the formula for the gained cultivation points and Dao practice doesn’t apply like that.

It’s worth mentioning that the slaughter experience and Dao practice gained from killing players differ from that of wild monsters.

Normally, for Loose Immortals like him, killing monsters below level 100 only net a minimal amount of experience, and not much more from level 100 and below BOSSes.

But players are different; regardless of the level difference, there will always be some gain.

For someone like Su Yu, killing at... on average level seventy. After all, those with too low a level are dealt with thoroughly early, those who can hold on for several days won’t have too low a level, averaging about seventy levels.

By completely killing players of this level, he could at least earn several billion slaughter experience and thousands of Dao practices, but if he only strikes once, each one can only yield about five million slaughter experience and a dozen or so Dao practices.

Among those completely linked to his death, there were fifty to sixty thousand, comprehensively...

Su Yu looked towards his experience pool, which had accumulated a full 285 billion slaughter experiences and 640,000 Dao practices.

With such an enormous amount of cultivation points and Dao practices, a significant advancement can be achieved.

Su Yu looked at the various Daoist arts on the panel; the first enhancement was for the Hundred Eyes Divine Light, a mystical-level forbidden art currently only at level thirty, now rendered ineffective.

But after all, it is a mystical-level forbidden art, with considerable power; putting it aside untreated seems too wasteful.

Merely consuming 12.6 billion cultivation points and 15,620 Dao practices, the Hundred Eyes Divine Light was raised to level one hundred.

Then, the transformation came.

Su Yu had already overcome the heavenly tribulation; all Dao arts elevated to level one hundred can transform into Dao Foundation arts.

Hundred Eyes Divine Light (Mystical): Dao Foundation art, forbidden art, simulates the innate divine technique of the Hundred-eyed Demon Spider, launching hundreds of divine lights to attack enemies, with various negative buffs attached.

Attributes: Each level increase adds a base power of 60+20% Magic Damage to each divine light, attack distance +200 meters, Mana consumption +3, cooldown time 30 minutes.

Attributes: Can carry negative buffs—burn, frost, armor break, penetration, meltdown, fear, blindness, confusion, stun, immobilize, bleeding, weakness, pain, petrification, silence, severe injury, defense break, poison, vulnerability, paralysis, soul devour, soul obliteration.

Hundred Eyes Divine Light (Dao Foundation): Each divine light power is 6000+20% Magic Damage=22000, attack distance 20,000 meters, Mana consumption 300 points, cooldown time 30 minutes.

After the transformation to Dao Foundation, the total damage is 2.2 million. It seems rather high, but the single divine light power is insufficient; if the target’s defense is strong enough, the lethality would not be adequate.

However, this forbidden art has never been about power, but the more than ten types of negative buffs attached, triggering a few randomly is overwhelmingly strong.