Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 18 Sword cuts the wind column, big boss pays attention

Bingpo's speed was too fast and his explosion was too violent. Li Tong was taken away before he could even activate the protective air shield.

Fortunately, the formation has its own protection mechanism. When the damage it receives exceeds the limit, it will form a protective force field and teleport away.

In addition, the status will be refreshed when the battle ends, and the CD of most spells with short CD will be refreshed.

After defeating this opponent, I rested for about a minute. Then a beam of light fell and the second opponent appeared.

Just like in the previous round, Su Yu's attack seemed to be a sword, but in fact, the six levels of damage consumed more than half of the defense of the protective magic weapon. Then, a purple energy force shattered the light of the protective magic weapon. Bingpo took the attack seamlessly and killed him instantly on the spot.

The killing speed was too fast, and I had to wait almost two minutes before matching with the third opponent.

This one is slightly stronger and has a better magic weapon in his hand, but a set of combos couldn't break the defensive magic weapon.

But the result was no different. Su Yu's swordsmanship was too powerful. The damage of each sword was as high as 500 with the addition of sword energy and thunder sound. One sword had six levels of damage, and he broke through the defense and took the enemy away in just a few strokes.

In just less than six minutes, they won all three games and secured a spot in the next round.

Coming down from the ring, his figure emerged from the waiting hall, instantly attracting the attention of a group of people.

Su Yu looked back and saw that he was the sixth person to complete the battle, except for the first echelon.

The main reason is that waiting for matching takes too much time, and he is confident that he is definitely the fastest in actual combat.

After all, the strongest first-tier team skipped the first round directly, and he didn't believe that anyone in the second or third tiers was more efficient than him.

Of course, the first five do not necessarily represent all winners. It is possible that their strength is too weak and they are defeated in three rounds.

As time went by, more and more people finished the battle and came out. Soon, seeing Gu Zhiqiu also finished the battle, he leaned over and asked:

"How about it?"

"Gone."

"One win, two losses, direct elimination."

"Uh"

Gu Zhiqiu rubbed his face vigorously, patted his shoulder and said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's within expectations. I'll see you later. Come on."

“Strive for it!”

"It's not about striving for it, it's about making sure. Otherwise, my one ounce of gold and your three ounces of gold will all be wasted."

"hey-hey."

After a while, a voice sounded above the waiting hall:

"The first round of the quiz is over. Those who are eliminated can leave or go to the audience to watch the game. The winner will enter the next round."

As soon as the words fell, beams of light fell and covered the figures one by one. When some of the light beams disappeared, the figures inside also disappeared.

When Su Yu looked again, he was already in front of the podium in the main part of the auditorium. There was an independent area here, and dozens of newcomers who had advanced were all teleported here.

Behind them was a tall podium, which had been empty before but was now full of people.

He glanced and saw a beautiful figure sitting in one of the dozen or so seats in the center of the rostrum.

It was the beautiful lady in palace dress who had amazed him during the Poison Mist Swamp Guild event. Now she was sitting in the center of the podium. From the side, her face was exquisite and beautiful, and her swan-like neck was flawless, like a fairy.

"who is she?"

Su Yu felt that she had to ask someone about her identity after the quiz.

After a short break, the host's voice sounded again:

"The second round of this quiz is about to begin. The rules are two-on-two matches until the final ranking is determined."

Su Yu saw that the internal formation of the arena had been readjusted, from hundreds of small arenas to four large arenas, which meant that there would be four battles in one round.

"Contestant No. 5 and Contestant No. 87 are on the first ring."

"Contestant No. 14 and Contestant No. 68 are on the second stage."

"Contestant No. 33 and..."

Su Yu at the back didn't hear it because it was his turn already. He was number 68, on stage number two.

He was teleported to the ring and stood there. His opponent was a young man from the first echelon. He was clasping his fists and bowing to the left and right. Su Yu heard cheers coming from the surrounding audience seats.

“It’s really different.”

In the first round, no sound from outside could be heard.

The young man finally saluted to the many guild leaders who were seated on the rostrum. He turned back to see the 30-second countdown, bowed to Su Yu, and said with a smile:

"I have some impression of you. You're quite capable of making it from the second tier, but that's all. You have no idea how big the gap is between the first and second tiers."

He opened his mouth and spit out a small bell, which flew out and grew bigger, hanging above his head, and lowered a trace of yellow light to protect him.

"Sixth-level defensive magic weapon."

Then he took out a small emerald green palm-leaf fan and fanned it gently, looking extremely cool.

"Remember my name. The one who defeated you is He Shoucheng."

"Nima."

Another sixth-tier magic weapon

Su Yu curled the corners of his mouth, feeling both envious and speechless.

He stretched out his right hand, and the Ice Soul Sword appeared in his palm, passing through his palm and moving flexibly around his body.

"Flying Sword Flow!"

He Shoucheng glanced at the countdown that was about to end, opened his mouth and sprayed a stream of condensed magic energy onto the emerald green banana fan in his hand. A green light gushed out, and the banana fan quickly expanded to three meters long. He clasped his hands together and swung it violently.

Just as the countdown ended, the invisible isolating light curtain disappeared, and the invisible airflow within a radius of hundreds of meters was drawn together by the magic weapon, forming a wind wall forty to fifty meters wide and ten meters high, which rushed towards him like a wave.

Su Yu looked up, and the icy soul surrounding him turned into light, pierced through the wind wall, and landed on the yellow light of the treasure bell. The tip of the sword shook violently, and several flying sword phantoms appeared and stabbed down, causing six injuries in an instant.

"what!"

Several people on the rostrum fixed their gazes and sat up straight, and the beautiful figure also cast her eyes on the stage.

The Ice Soul surrounded a circle of yellow precious light, and instantly six damages jumped out, and the magic weapon's defense dropped instantly.

He raised his hand and a huge purple hand flew across the sky. With a muffled 'bang', a big hole was smashed in the wind wall.

Only two moves were enough for He Shoucheng to put away his contempt. He quickly injected his magic power into the magic weapon to supplement the defense. He waved the banana fan in his hand continuously, and the layers of wind walls pushed forward to block the giant hand transformed by the purple energy.

Then he quickly changed his moves and swung the huge banana fan down with force. The air flow a hundred meters in front of him surged wildly, condensing into forty or fifty wind blades nearly three feet long that attacked from all directions.

After five consecutive swings, more than two hundred wind blades instantly occupied most of the arena space, with an astonishing momentum.

Su Yu flew into the air, and the wind blade turned and tracked him.

"A sixth-level magic weapon cannot be blocked head-on."

He made the decision almost instantly and grabbed with his empty hand. The flying sword flew backwards and turned into a ten-meter sword rainbow across the sky, violently cutting through four wind blades. It then shuttled back and forth like a spirit snake, accurately cutting through each wind blade.

The sword rainbow shuttled back and forth, and in a few seconds it cut through nearly a hundred wind blades, all of which collapsed into breezes and disappeared.

"how is this possible?"

He Shoucheng was shocked and immediately urged the wind blades to gather. He waved the banana fan vigorously, and infinite airflow gathered and turned into a wind blade air column with a diameter of two to three meters and twenty to thirty meters high.

The air column emitted a powerful attraction, sucking in the surrounding airflow. The wind column quickly expanded to hundreds of meters high. The powerful gravitational force even sucked the nearby wind blades into deformation and flew backwards.

"Once this wind column of mine takes shape, it will continue to absorb airflow and grow stronger, eventually affecting the entire arena space. Let's see how you can hold your own against me."

Although this move consumed a significant portion of his mana, He Shoucheng remained extremely confident that he would ultimately triumph. Su Yu's face remained expressionless as he continuously activated his Ice Soul. The ten-meter-long sword rainbow, wrapped in wind and lightning, shuttled back and forth, leaping and shattering the approaching wind blades one by one.

In less than ten seconds, the wind blades in the sky cleared away, and the remnants of the collapse were all absorbed by the rapidly growing wind column. The strong suction force had affected the edge of the arena space.

"It's not just an ordinary sixth-level magic weapon, it's at least a fine product, or even a rare treasure."

He pursed his lips, and the Ice Soul Sword rushed into the wind column without a pause.

The sword fingers moved together, and the sword rainbow circled around the inner edge of the wind column, circling like a dragon rising into the sky, and the structure of the wind column was cut open layer by layer, causing it to collapse layer by layer.

The sword rainbow circled inside the wind column, rising from the bottom to the top in one breath, and forcibly destroyed the internal structure of the wind column. The huge wind column was distorted and deformed, and collapsed layer by layer, turning the upright wind column into a huge eye of the wind vortex.

The range becomes larger, but the power becomes visibly smaller.

"How can this be?"

“That’s a bit exaggerated!”

A guild leader narrowed his eyes and murmured:

"A fourth-tier flying sword, a sixth-tier magic weapon, or even a beginner's sword energy and thunder sound is difficult to achieve."

"Well!"

He tapped the armrest lightly with his fingers and saw that several people on both sides had strange expressions.

Everyone looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

On the ring, when Su Yu used his swordsmanship to cut the wind pillar into pieces and turned it into the eye of the wind, He Shoucheng was dumbfounded.

After getting this palm-leaf fan, he had tested its power more than once, whether it was fighting BOSS or PK competition. Others' response methods were either to temporarily avoid the attack or rely on powerful magic weapons to withstand it. He had never seen anyone who could withstand it without a magic weapon better than his own.

At most, you can hold on for a while, but you will eventually be worn out.

He had never seen a magic weapon that was inferior to his own and could forcibly break his move.

If it was a competition, He Shoucheng would immediately take the elixir to restore his magic power and madly activate the wind blades. If five hundred were not enough, he would use a thousand. He was confident that he could kill his opponent by force.

But this is in the ring, and taking medicine or using disposable props is not allowed.

The two sixth-level magic weapons consumed a lot of mana, which had been almost used up just now. Now it was impossible to activate a wind column. I could only wave the banana fan to continuously swing out wind blades, but they were all accurately defeated by the flying sword.

A sword rainbow flashed across the sky, rapidly rotating around the precious light, and the defense power dropped rapidly.

He Shoucheng felt the empty magic power in his body, and determined that there was no hope of turning the situation around, so he shrugged and chose to surrender.

"Ring number two, number 68 wins!"

The space was distorted, and Su Yu was back in the rest area in the blink of an eye. Before he sat down, he heard a voice behind him:

"I was careless this time. Next time I'll be prepared. You won't be my opponent."

Looking back, he saw He Shoucheng standing behind him and smiled slightly:
"We'll see!"

He didn't take He Shoucheng's challenge seriously at all. He would be able to earn a large sum of money after this small test. After three months, his strength would definitely increase significantly, and his mental level would be able to rise to at least the fiftyth level.

He Shoucheng's current cultivation level is at least above level 50. The higher the level of his mental skills, the harder it is to improve. After three months, the maximum level will be 60. The gap between the two sides will not increase too much.

The same is true for magic weapons. Magic weapons above level seven are extremely rare, and the equipment requirements are very high. It is unlikely that He Shoucheng can get a magic weapon of level seven.

Su Yu collected his thoughts and sat down to watch other arenas.

There are 32 battles in the 64 to 32 promotion round, with 4 games in a round, which requires eight rounds. He can observe the strength of other players carefully.

At this time, two rounds of contestants have already finished their battles, leaving only the final ring No. 3. The two contestants are of similar level and are using magic weapons to fight each other.

After watching the battle for a few seconds, I suddenly received a message on the communication. I opened it and found that it was from Fu Ping.

"Brother Su, I didn't expect you to give me such a big surprise."

"Your performance just now was amazing. Several guild leaders have asked me about your situation. You're going to be very successful."

He subconsciously turned around, and happened to see several people on the podium looking at him, all smiling and nodding at him, including the beautiful woman in palace dress.

He smiled and nodded, then turned around to see Fu Ping had sent another message:

"If I'm not mistaken, after this quiz is over, the three main groups of the guild and the various independent squadrons will contact you. You can now consider which one you want to join."

"It's not that exaggerated, is it?"

"No exaggeration. Regardless of your future achievements, the swordsmanship you have mastered now is enough to make every regiment and every independent squadron offer you generous recruitment packages."

"Uh"

Su Yu couldn't suppress the curled corners of his mouth for a moment.

"Here, this is the basic information for the guild's three main groups and each independent squadron. Please take some time to read it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

"Thank you, Director Fu."

"You're welcome. After all, based on your performance right now, your year-end bonus is already secured, hahahaha."

Su Yu smiled and opened the information sent by Fu Ping.

"Three main regiments, seventy-four independent squadrons."

There was no time to look at it carefully now, so Su Yu just flipped through it casually, planning to look at it carefully again when he got home after the quiz.

However, when he turned to the interface of the guild's main second regiment and saw the information of several leaders of the main second regiment, he let out a light exclamation and his eyes stopped.

Chu Xinyue is the current deputy leader of the guild's main second regiment, captain of the second battalion of the second regiment, and a core member of the guild.

His eyes fell on the exquisite and flawless portrait on the information, and his heart moved slightly.

"Director Fu, could you tell me about Deputy Commander Chu of the Second Main Regiment?"

"she."

Director Fu frowned, thought for a moment and replied:
"She is the daughter of the former leader of the Second Main Group and an inner disciple of the Xuanzhen Immortal Sect. She has a promising future."

"But listen to my advice, she is not someone you can miss."

"Ahem, I'm just asking."

Fu Ping understood clearly and said:

"I understand love between a man and a woman, but her situation is a bit complicated."

"Her father was one of the founding fathers of the guild. The guild's main force, the Second Division, had always been managed by her family. However, her father passed away sixteen years ago, and her eldest brother, who inherited the Second Division, failed to overcome the tribulation five years ago. Now, her family's control over the Second Division is in jeopardy."

"She had no choice but to return from Xuanzhen Immortal Sect to take charge of the situation, but she had previously stayed away from the guild. She didn't have enough reputation within the guild to suppress the factions within the Second Regiment."

"Not only are her father's former subordinates ready to make a move, but many of the guild's senior and second-generation leaders are also interested in pursuing her. If he marries her, combined with his own strength, he'll have the opportunity to take control of the guild's main force, the Second Regiment."

Fu Ping paused and continued:

"There's a whirlpool around her right now. If you're a newcomer, you could easily get crushed if you get involved. Listen to my advice, don't get involved."

"I understand."

"That's good to understand. The only thing you need to do now is to practice hard. When you are strong enough in the future, you can have any beauty you want."

After closing the communication, Su Yu shook his head and turned the page with some regret.

The first heartbeat ended in vain.

"It's better to improve your strength honestly."

He shook his head and continued to check the information.

(End of this chapter)