Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 173 Nine Heavens Breath Soil, Creating Land Within the Sea-Suppressing Realm
The recipe cost 500 gold, and he bought it immediately.

Both of these main materials are available for purchase: a single Thousand-Year Snow Lotus costs 300 gold, and a serving of Extreme Northern Mystic Ice Marrow costs 200 gold, totaling exactly 500 gold.

Su Yu directly purchased five jars of materials, which, along with the recipe, cost a total of 3000 gold. If she used them sparingly, alternating between Moon Essence Dew and Azure Sea Fire Extinguishing Agent, it should last for several years.

After buying the items, he returned to the sect and went straight to the Inner Affairs Hall, where he directly used a major merit to exchange for a piece of Nine Heavens Breath Soil.

This thing is extremely important to him.

Many plans and bold ideas could not be implemented due to insufficient space within Zhenhai.

The Nine Heavens Breath Soil is a chaotic color, and looks like a clod of earth that is constantly growing, but its size is eternal and never increases.

Its surface is covered with densely packed chains of runes, which are seals to prevent the Nine Heavens Breath Soil from growing indefinitely.

Once the seal is broken, this thing will quickly grow to the size of a mountain, and before long it will form an island. Given enough time and spiritual energy, it can even become a continent.

In theory, the growth of the Nine Heavens Breath Soil is unlimited, but in reality, it is affected by the environment and spiritual energy, and its growth will slow down after it expands to a certain extent.

Su Yu took the Nine Heavens Breath Soil home and, after entering the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, took it out, immediately attracting Cang Hai's attention.

"Nine Heavens Resting on the Earth!"

She took the chaotic clay block and asked with delight:
How do you plan to adjust and grow?

Su Yu already had a plan in mind, so she took out paper and pen and started drawing in front of her.

A few design drafts were completed and presented to her.

“Starting from the seabed, first lay a layer of land on the seabed as the earth’s crust, then gradually develop a certain number of islands, and finally develop a subcontinent in the center and in each of the four directions of east, west, south and north.”

"The center is the main continent, supported by four pillars."

He casually scooped up some soil from the spirit field and sculpted a model with his hands to show her.

It is said to be supported by pillars, but in reality, it is a solid continent with a hollow bottom, just like a table. The center of the continent's underground is the center of the Zhenhai Pearl, the place where the spiritual energy and innate origin of the realm converge. In the future, a celestial palace will be built here as the core of the realm.

Spiritual energy surged from here, flowing along the surrounding passages into the four seas.

Canghai examined the model carefully for a moment, then nodded and said:
"I know what to do."

She first lifted up the spiritual field that she had painstakingly built, then turned around and came to the seabed in the center of the Zhenhai Realm with the Nine Heavens Breath Soil in her hands. With a thought, the seal on the Nine Heavens Breath Soil was released, and the chaotic soil clump rapidly expanded, growing to the size of a small building in just a few seconds.

She threw the Nine Heavens Breath Soil into the bottom of the boundary, and the constantly surging soil began to flow in all directions under her control, slowly covering the seabed.

At the same time, four stone pillars with a diameter of more than three kilometers began to rise from the location where the Nine Heavens Breath Soil first fell, slowly extending upwards.

The four stone pillars are three kilometers in diameter, but only one kilometer apart, giving them a solid and robust appearance rather than a flimsy one.

At the same time, she began to adjust the water level of Zhenhai Boundary, causing it to slowly drop until it stopped at about two-thirds of the boundary, which was exactly level with the top of the stone pillar that had risen there.

The stone pillars stopped growing upwards here and began to grow in all directions until the four pillars grew horizontally and touched each other, merging into one, and the prototype of a continent ten kilometers thick was formed.

At this time, the Zhenhai boundary was 30 kilometers in diameter, and the central continent was about 10 kilometers in diameter, accounting for a very large proportion. The other four continents had not yet developed and would develop later when the Zhenhai boundary expanded further.

However, as Zhenhai Realm continues to expand, the proportion of the Central Continent will gradually decrease.

The Zhenhai Pearl is, after all, a primordial immortal treasure primarily composed of water, so water areas should have an absolute advantage. In his plan, the total area of ​​the five continents combined would only be 10% in the future.

Once the Nine Heavens Breath Soil had completely covered the Zhenhai Realm and stopped expanding, Su Yu immediately put down the spirit fields he had previously planted and replanted all the rare and precious materials there in the central continent.

After finishing all that, Su Yu let out a soft breath.

After leaving Zhenhai Realm, Su Yu teleported directly to Mingsu Palace via the sect's teleportation array.

After telling his second brother and sister, he returned to Ten Thousand Poisons Island.

Nothing much to say, let's level up first.

In any case, his accumulated merits, sect contributions, and number of demon-slaying achievements have all met the standards. According to his master, the previous top ten were far inferior to him, so he was definitely going to be in the top ten.

The final trial requires the top ten to compete for two spots, and even if he accumulates another 100,000 merits, he will still have to fight against the other nine people.

Since that's the case, there's no need to take any risks; it's better to focus on leveling up.

He has now accumulated 49.8 billion killing experience points and 7808 cultivation points, and is just a step away from the next immortal bone. He needs to work harder.

There's no need to hesitate about choosing the next immortal bone; it will definitely be the Heavenly Might Star Bone.

Although there's no way to directly resolve the Blood God's Curse, it can at least be suppressed to some extent.

Back on Wan Du Island, he and Miss Luo Qingchan happily started playing duo queue again.

Aside from occasionally training the second group's subordinates, he mostly leveled up with Qingchan, enjoying their time together.

The Blood God Curse is very annoying, causing him to be consumed by lust whenever he is with his beloved. He has to enter the Zhenhai Realm to rest during his daily breaks and use the innate water elemental power of the Canghai Sea to suppress his inner fire.

He can now take advantage of Qingchan, privately measuring her size and feeling her touch, but he can't go all the way to base yet.

If he dares to go, the consequences will be severe.

There was a high probability that her ancestor would immediately appear and kill him with a single blow. Four months later, or more precisely, three months and twenty-eight days after he killed Sikong Xiang and returned, with only five days left in the trial, Su Yu bid farewell to Qing Chan and returned to the sect from Mingsu Palace with his second brother.

Before leaving, however, he took out 36 thousand-year-old vermilion fruits and 100 portions of earth vein spirit fish and gave them to Qingchan as a welfare benefit for the second group for his subordinates to exchange.

These are from two different years.

The reason I didn't keep 18 for myself is because there won't be any more Millennium Vermilion Fruits for the next two years.

After the thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit ripened this time, he used his sword to cut down the thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit tree, dividing it into four branches, and then replanted it into five parts including the main trunk.

Back then, a single branch could grow into a thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit Tree, and it can still be done now, even more easily, because Canghai has now successfully transformed and is much more powerful than before.

One thousand-year-old Zhu Guo tree is still too few.

He plans to wait for these five saplings to grow up, then cut one down to propagate again, leaving four saplings to bear fruit.

Repeating this process, the thousand-year-old Zhu Guo tree was expanded into a forest.

Spend over a decade or so to cultivate hundreds of thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit trees, and then harvest 3600 thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruits a year—it would be incredibly satisfying.

Upon returning to the Suspended Mountain, many disciples had already returned one after another.

It wasn't just the few dozen disciples who participated in the trial; most of the disciples from Suspended Mountain had already returned.

Besides the major event of disciples vying for the position of sect leader, the second major event is the upcoming inner sect competition of the Suspended Mountain lineage at the end of the year, with many disciples returning one after another to prepare for the competition.

Their trials came first, followed by the minor ones.

It was still the main hall of Suspended Mountain. The heads of the seven branches of Suspended Mountain were all present, and the disciples stood in the center. Many fellow disciples and relatives were watching. Second Brother had also specially returned to the mountain with him to watch him compete for a spot. He was standing on the other side of the hall watching the ceremony.

In Su Huan's view, obtaining the sect's supreme teaching inheritance is a major event, representing becoming a core disciple of the current sect, which is of great importance.

As the eldest brother, he naturally had to come over.

The head disciple, Xuanwei Daoist, stood with his hands behind his back, smiling as he looked at his disciples and said:

"The second half of this year's Suspended Mountain Inheritance Trial has concluded. Together with the other chief disciples, I have examined the immortal seals of all the trial disciples and determined that the following ten disciples have ranked in the top ten based on their overall scores in this trial and can proceed to the final competition stage."

The Grandmaster glanced at the disciples standing in the center and said in a deep voice:
"Now, when I call your name, please step forward. There is no order of precedence."

"Ye Xiyi, Lang Qiu, Xiang Jun'an, Kong Yuecheng, Su Yu, Lan Hongwen, Jiang Wanqing, Wang..."

As each name was called out, a figure emerged from the crowd.

The expressions on everyone's faces changed as each name was called out; some were happy, while others were disappointed.

Su Yu quickly heard his name called and naturally took a step forward. Ye Xiyi happened to be next to him, and he subconsciously smiled and nodded in acknowledgment. Ye Xiyi, however, remained expressionless. At the same time, Su Yu heard Ye Xiyi's voice:

"Don't be too happy yet. I will prove to my master that I am no worse than you."

"???"

"baffling!"

After all the names were read out, the ten disciples—eight men and two women—stood out and received everyone's attention.

Su Yu sensed something and turned around, only to see her master smiling broadly as he exchanged greetings and laughter with several of her fellow disciples next door.

Sensing his gaze, his third senior brother and fifth senior sister gave him a thumbs-up, and he could hear their cheers.

He smiled slightly, turned around and saw his master flick his sleeve, a stream of light flew out and stopped in the air, a light screen hung in the air, on which were the ten names that had just been read out and their comprehensive scores accumulated in the trial. Everyone could clearly see everyone's scores and rankings.

The top-ranked character is composed of two characters: Zuo Su and You Yu, and is rated 100. The second-ranked character, however, only has 76 points, a significant difference in rank.

As soon as the list was announced, it immediately drew everyone's attention. He could feel that the nine people around him were looking at him, and several of them looked eager to try and take on the challenge.

"Does that mean they already know about me?"

At this moment, the Grandmaster's voice rang out again:
"The above ten disciples are the top ten in the overall evaluation of this trial. They will enter the final competition to compete for rankings based on their martial prowess. Each person will fight nine matches, and the two disciples who rank first and second in the final number of wins will inherit the supreme Xuan Ting Treasure Book of our sect."

After speaking, the Grandmaster waved his sleeve, and streams of light fell from the dome of the main hall, hovering in the air and converging into a ball of light suspended in the air. If you looked closely, you could see that there was a world inside the ball of light.

"Disciples, is there anyone who will be the first to claim the title and become the champion?"

The disciples' eyes lit up, and one of them immediately stepped forward and said loudly:

"Disciple Langqiu wishes to win first place!"

He turned and gave Su Yu a provocative look before leaping into the sphere of light.

Su Yu raised an eyebrow, preparing to fight, but someone else jumped into the sphere of light even faster than him:
"Disciple Lan Hongwen!"

The others who were a step behind were filled with regret.

This shows the difference between elite disciples and ordinary disciples. They are confident in their abilities, unafraid of challenges, and not afraid of their opponents seeing their strength and strategies.

(End of this chapter)