Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 119 Red Tide Bloodbath

"A red tide is coming!"

Suddenly, someone shouted, and Su Yu, who was chatting with Luo Qingchan on the city wall, immediately turned around. In the distance, she saw a raging, crimson wave, half-cloud and half-wave, rolling in dozens of meters above the sea.

Although this thing is called the raging red tide, it is actually not an ocean wave or tide, but more like a cloud.

However, the rolling clouds surged in like a tide, sweeping in with unparalleled momentum, even more terrifying than a tsunami.

The raging waves surged rapidly toward the shore. As the distance closed, Su Yu, with his powerful eyesight, could already see the various crimson tide monsters rushing toward the shore from the rolling red tide.

These Crimson Tide Monsters are the sum of all living beings that have died in previous years. They include common leveling monsters, as well as various races of aliens, native cultivators, and even players who died in the Crimson Tide. Their lost essences combined with the essence of the Crimson Tide to form an essence that is exactly the same as the player's and possesses the cultivation techniques they practice.

These creatures swallowed by the red tide are trapped inside and unable to escape. They either fight each other or gain strength by being devoured by the red tide.

Even if an ordinary creature is swept up by the red tide and devours other creatures, as long as it doesn't die, it can become a monster of level 100 or above after several red tide outbreaks.

As the red tide drew ever closer, Su Yu unleashed the Thunderous Might surrounding himself and whispered to Luo Qingchan:

"Let's not separate later. Let's join forces and kill any monsters that get close. After the red tide ends, we'll chase after them one after another."

Luo Qingchan also summoned two ninth-tier flying swords that circled around herself, raising an eyebrow and smiling sweetly:

"Let's see who kills more."

Su Yu flicked the sword blade with his finger and laughed:

"Then try it."

He reached out and grabbed Ao Run, pulling him out and throwing him into the air. With a flash of blue light and a long roar, a two-hundred-meter-long dragon soared into the air, startling many players around him into retreating. Some were so frightened that they almost attacked.

Fortunately, he brought out the dragon in full view of everyone, and the surrounding players all knew that it was his spirit pet.

"Don't wander off later, just stay and guard the city walls."

No sooner had he finished giving his instructions than the surging crimson tide arrived. Instantly, the intense crimson clouds swept across the city, darkening the sky and filling the world with crimson light. Everyone was covered in a layer of bloody aura. Su Yu felt a sharp pain all over his body and immediately opened the panel, only to find that he had a negative buff.

"Crimson Tide Blood Flame: When in the midst of the raging crimson tide, ignoring physical strength and defense, you lose 20 points of health, 20 points of mana, 20 points of stamina, and 50 points of magic weapon defense per second."

This thing ignores defense strength and physique; even though Su Yu's physique was over 8,000, he still continuously lost health.

Even using defensive magic items cannot exempt one from this; activating a defensive magic item will cause both health loss and magic item defense loss, leaving one with no choice but to tough it out.

Fortunately, Su Yu has enough health and vitality, with 700,000 HP, just like the BOSS, so this amount of damage is negligible.

Following the red tide came various red tide spirits swept up by it. Facing them was a group of strange fish floating in the red tide, around level 70, their bodies covered in a layer of crimson flames, swimming in the red tide as if in water, and crashing into the city wall.

The players of the Raging Tide Gang on the city wall immediately retaliated under the command of their leader, unleashing a barrage of flying swords, magical artifacts, and spells. Many spirits were thrown about, but few actually died.

Su Yu urged his Thunderous Might to charge into the Crimson Tide, grabbing and slicing through more than a dozen spirits, only to find that the killing efficiency had plummeted.

Normally, a monster at level 70 or so only has 20,000 to 30,000 HP. With his output, he can easily kill it by wrapping it around and strangling it.

But it takes twice the usual amount of damage to kill this spirit.

Upon closer inspection of the prompts, it was discovered that this essence actually comes with a buff that reduces damage by 50%, meaning only divine lightning, pure yang fire, and Buddhist spells can deal full damage.

"Damn, this is a hard counter to ordinary players!"

No wonder this thing is so powerful; each burst causes huge losses, and small guilds and teams generally cannot withstand the impact of the Red Tide.

Fortunately, their strength far surpasses that of ordinary players. Even if they are weakened by 50%, it will only take them two more sword strikes, and they can still kill them easily.

The two attacked too fiercely, and Ao Run was strong enough that a single dragon could intercept a large area, quickly killing off all the incoming spirits. However, more spirits kept pouring in from the depths of the red tide, and their types were no longer limited to sea creatures. Various strange creatures began to appear, including land creatures, and occasionally a few humanoid monsters with spirit names that were actually ***.

These were left behind by players who died in the Red Tide over the years, and their strength varied greatly.

The weak are worse than monsters, while the strong are comparable to bosses.

They easily held off this section of the city wall thanks to their two skilled fighters, but the other areas were not so easy to defend.

The Rage Tide Gang is, after all, a small gang. There are some experts, but not many. The vast majority are still low-level players with average cultivation and magic weapons. Some of the worse ones are still using level 4 magic weapons, which are like tickling level 70 or 80 monsters.

Not to mention that the essence can reduce damage by 50%, resulting in even lower output.

Only by relying on their superior numbers and the support of the Divine Thunder Tower within the city could they barely hold out.

"boom!"

A celestial lightning bolt from the Crimson Sky North Pole struck a group of humanoid spirits, its terrifying power instantly annihilating a group of low-level spirits. Then, two flying swords crossed back and forth, transforming into a sword energy tornado that swept across the area, and the remaining spirits dissipated into wisps of red smoke.

The so-called spirit is the soul of a dead spirit, formed from the condensation of malevolent energy, but it does not actually have a physical body.

Therefore, physical attacks are reduced by 50%, allowing spells to deal full damage. With many monsters dead, only a level 96 mini-boss remained. Su Yu circled it with her twin swords and swung them back and forth, also grabbing two sword energies with her bare hands and throwing them out like scarves, wrapping them around the boss and rubbing them vigorously until it quickly turned into smoke and disappeared.

"Ok!"

Su Yu, with her sharp eyes, noticed that the BOSS had loot after its death. She swept her sword back and opened it, finding a few materials and a spirit inside.

Fourth-grade essence: formed by the fusion of the souls of dead beings with the essence of heaven and earth, it can be integrated into flying swords and magical treasures to enhance their power and raise their upper limit by four grades.

"generally!"

The item is a good item, but it's useless to him.

This thing can only upgrade a third-tier flying sword magic weapon to the fourth tier, and he wouldn't use a fourth-tier magic weapon now.

However, it can be sold for money, and can be sold at the price of a fourth-tier magic weapon.

"If only I could get a seventh-grade spirit essence, I could directly upgrade the Azure Cloud Canopy or the two flying swords to the seventh rank."

The Red Tide is dangerous, but it's not entirely dangerous; it also has many benefits. And this essence is one of the greatest benefits of the Red Tide. Any piece of it is equivalent to a corresponding flying sword or magic weapon.

In addition, killing the spirits within the Red Tide will also earn you merit, or good deeds.

However, ordinary spirits do not usually drop merit points. Only BOSSes or old spirits that have survived for a long time in the Red Tide and killed a large number of creatures will drop merit points.

Su Yu has killed thousands of spirits since the beginning, and has only accumulated 17 merit points.

Although it's not much, it's still many times better than the usual practice of killing tens of thousands of monsters a day while leveling up and getting no merit points at all.

"boom!"

A loud bang came from the south of the city, followed by someone shouting:

"Quickly send some experts from the northeast corner. There's a tough boss here."

Su Yu's eyes lit up, and she immediately sent a telepathic message to Luo Qingchan:

"Go over and have a look."

They were in the east of the city, just a few steps from the northeast. They saw a group of level 90+ Crimson Flame Flying Centipedes floating above the city wall. In the center was a level 125 Crimson Flame Flying Centipede spirit, its body ablaze with crimson flames, forming a fiery cloud covering more than ten acres.

Various flying swords, magical treasures, and spells bombarded the fiery cloud as if they had vanished into thin air. The fiery cloud churned and continuously spewed out thick pillars of crimson flames, blasting towards the players on the city wall.

Occasionally, demonic lightning would strike and explode. Some players who were not strong enough could barely withstand the demonic lightning. Then, a continuous stream of flame pillars would bombard them. If they were unlucky enough to be hit by multiple flame pillars, their defenses would be breached, and they would be reduced to ashes in a swirling crimson flame.

Then, a large amount of crimson light converged and condensed into a crimson shadow that looked exactly like the dead player, which rose up and joined the crimson tide army.

This thing is like a necromancer; once it dies in battle, it is immediately summoned back to become an enemy.

Fortunately, many people had already arrived from other directions. The newly formed spirits were blasted to death before they could even exert their power, and more flying swords and magical treasures bombarded the fiery clouds in the sky.

After a moment's thought, Su Yu feared that the twin swords would be useless as they would be trapped in the fiery clouds and unable to escape. So he summoned the Wind and Fire Vajra Wheel and threw it out, which transformed into a giant metal wheel with a diameter of 100 meters and slashed into the fiery clouds.

The seventh-tier magic weapon was incredibly powerful, easily piercing through the fiery clouds.

Luo Qingchan didn't have this concern. How could a mere level 100 BOSS possibly trap a ninth-tier immortal sword?

Two streaks of light plunged into the fiery cloud, their extreme sharpness slicing the cloud apart and preventing it from coming back together for a long time. Soon, the cloud shattered, revealing the Crimson Flame Flying Centipede inside.

Su Yu activated his magic weapon, and the giant wheel spun rapidly as it descended from the sky, cleaving a Crimson Flame Flying Centipede in two.

The other players retaliated by attacking the fallen BOSS, unleashing various magical weapons that completely shattered the fiery cloud. One after another, the Crimson Flame Centipedes were killed and fell to the ground. Soon, only the BOSS remained, being repeatedly lashed by two ninth-tier immortal swords. Its hard shell became as fragile as tofu.

After a brutal attack, the BOSS was chopped in two and fell to the ground in less than half a minute.

The spoils were divided into six portions and exploded. Su Yu got one portion, but it only contained a centipede bead, which wasn't worth much.

"boom!"

Less than two minutes after defeating this BOSS, a loud bang came from the south of the city, and the channel became noisy. Another BOSS had arrived.

Su Yu and Luo Qingchan immediately moved over and began attacking a level 127 Fire Turtle.

Turtles are inherently high in defense and health, and with an additional 50% damage reduction, it took Luo Qingchan three minutes to kill them, even with two ninth-tier immortal swords in hand.

The two then wandered around the walls of Rage Tide City, running towards wherever there was a boss.

There were too many people, so we didn't get much loot, but we still got plenty of cultivation points and Taoist cultivation. Each one could give us about 20 points, so ten would be 200 points. And there were a lot of bosses in this Red Tide, more than ten in an hour. It was a lucrative opportunity to make a fortune and it was incredibly satisfying.

Red tides generally last for about a month, and you can stay in one place for about two or three days. With some effort, you can easily gain three or four thousand points of cultivation.

(End of this chapter)