Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 247 A formidable opponent, a series of victories (6K views, please vote)
As soon as the horned demon appeared, it roared to the sky, its body rapidly expanding into a muscular giant nearly five meters tall. With a swift movement of its right hand, it grabbed a ten-meter-long crimson greatsword and slashed down fiercely, while a forty-meter-long flaming blade aura swept across the sky, slashing straight at Su Yu's face.

"He's actually a body cultivator!"

This was the first time Su Yu had encountered a body cultivator who had achieved some success in his cultivation. Instantly, he became interested and with a thought, he retrieved his twin swords and the Azure Cloud Canopy. His body rapidly expanded to a size of five meters. With a sway of his body, the other three heads and eight arms that had been hidden emerged, each grabbing a weapon or magic treasure.

With a swift, crossed swing of his two swords, two intersecting sword energies flew out to block the blade's aura, and he strode forward.

The horned demon was stunned for a moment when it saw the four-headed, eight-armed true form looking like a living person. It roared, blood light appeared on its body, and its size swelled up again. It charged straight at the demon like a wild bull.

"Well done!"

The two body cultivators collided in the blink of an eye. With a mournful clang, the longsword of unknown grade in the horned demon's hand was directly cut in half by the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe, and half of the blade flew an unknown distance.

"Uh!"

"So fierce?"

Both the human and the horned demon were stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted. The horned demon instantly drew a giant sword and slashed down with his backhand.

Su Yu flicked his wrist, retrieved the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe and all his weapons, and clenched his fist to smash it down.

"Bang Bang Bang!!!"

He pressed his two arms together against the giant sword, and then slammed down with his other six fists, knocking the horned demon off balance.

The central celestial being grinned and laughed heartily, his fists raining down like thunder, smashing the horned demon into retreat, its body riddled with holes and twisted like steel.

As the saying goes, two fists can't beat four hands, but nowadays, two fists are even more powerless against eight hands.

Su Yu possessed a strength of 14 even with his bare hands. Although he transformed into his Four-Headed, Eight-Armed Fighting True Form, he only revealed the four heads and eight arms and did not unleash the full power of the Fighting True Form. Therefore, his strength remained at 14. The total burst of power from the eight fists combined was 112, which was equally exaggerated.

His opponent had two million units of Qi and blood and nearly forty thousand units of physique. In addition, physical cultivators generally have damage reduction characteristics. He withstood two rounds of Su Yu's fierce hammer blows. His physical body was like a tin man being smashed into a shapeless form by a hammer, but it did not crack.

It wasn't until the fourth round that the terrifying burst of power finally exceeded its limits, smashing its body to pieces before it died on the spot.

Then two beams of white light fell, one landing on Su Yu, and the little strength he had just expended quickly recovered, and the horned demon who had died in battle also quickly disappeared.

In addition, you will receive a wisp of wind god power and one point for passing the first level.

The Wind God's power is used to exchange for items in the Wind God's Treasury, while points are used to exchange for additional rewards from the Eight Great Sects.

One minute later, the countdown started again, and his second opponent appeared in front of him.

This time it was a human cultivator, a standard Qi Refining system. Upon appearing, he summoned a white pagoda, which cast a layer of white light to protect himself. He then took out a large banner and placed it at his feet. A divine wind blew up, and layers of wind quickly formed on the field. A powerful wind pulled Su Yu's figure.

But his physique was too strong, and he had the characteristic of being as immovable as a mountain, so he remained unmoved in the raging wind.

A sharp, divine wind swept by, slicing through the strong flesh until sparks flew, yet not even breaking the skin.

"too weak!"

Fighting True Form strode forward with heavy steps, ignoring the howling wind. His opponent immediately summoned a large cauldron, which flew out and transformed in mid-air into a hundred-meter-long cauldron surrounded by flames, crashing down heavily.

Su Yu's eyes lit up, and she stretched out eight arms and raised them high.

"boom!"

A raging wave of fire engulfed him and exploded from beneath his feet, yet he managed to lift the giant cauldron.

"burst!"

The flames on the surface of the cauldron suddenly exploded, and the violent flames instantly engulfed him.

"turn!"

The cauldron overturned, covering Su Yu and trapping him inside.

The cultivator flew to the top of the cauldron, exhaled a breath of vital energy into it, and formed a hand seal:

"Refining!"

The cauldron slowly rose, and the nine fire dragons carved on its body flew out and entered the cauldron, forming a lid with nine dragons entwined around the mouth of the cauldron, sealing the mouth and quickly turning the cauldron red-hot.

"boom!"

The cauldron trembled violently, and its lid arched upwards, as if the nine dragons wrapped around it were about to break free.

The cultivator's expression changed, and he jumped to the mouth of the cauldron, spewing out another mouthful of essence, causing the nine dragons to close up again.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"

After seven violent tremors, the nine dragons at the mouth of the cauldron were forcibly opened by the powerful force, and a violent stream of flames shot into the sky. The four-headed, eight-armed true form, wrapped in blood flames, broke through the restriction and rushed out of the fire cauldron. With a series of swings of its eight arms, eight violent energies pierced through the air and slammed into the cauldron.

Unleashing his true battle form, he then unleashed the qi and blood smoke generated by the Nine Extremes Milun Immortal Technique, entering a berserk state and forcefully breaking through the eighth-tier treasure cauldron.

Blood and Mist: Unleash potential, all attributes +100% for 3 minutes, cooldown 24 hours.

In this state, Su Yu's physical strength reached an extraordinary level, and the power of a casual punch reached the level of an eighth-order magic weapon.

In an instant, eight punches rained down, unleashing an extremely terrifying force.

A barrage of attacks broke through the opponent's defenses and all means of defense, and they were brutally killed.

It's worth mentioning that the power of his punch against an eighth-tier magic weapon refers to the power of an eighth-tier magic weapon activated by someone of equal cultivation level. If it were a top-tier loose immortal or earth immortal of level 180 or 190, with the super strong magic damage bonus, the power of an eighth-tier magic weapon could also exceed one million.

Defeating the opponent in the second round grants +2 to both Wind God's Power and points.

A minute later, the third opponent appeared. It was another human, level 115, no more than twenty levels below Su Yu.

He has not yet advanced to the first level of the Xuan Ting Bao Ji (Dao Foundation), so strictly speaking, his level is only 100.

The third opponent's cultivation level hadn't improved much, but he possessed a ninth-tier defensive magic weapon with astonishingly high defensive power. Su Yu immediately activated his Qi and Blood Wolf Smoke at the start, unleashing a barrage of eight punches.

However, the ninth-tier defensive magic weapon was too powerful, and it was almost impossible to break it as long as the magic power was not exhausted. Su Yu finally used the magic weapon.

Three minutes ago, he began to gather sword energy and set up a sword formation. When the sword energy was almost accumulated, he held the Purple Thunder Hammer in one hand and began to charge up the Nine Heavens Thunder Strike. He threw the Nine Rings Immortal Banner in the other hand and let it hang in the air. He grabbed the Ninth-Rank Fine Dust-Cleansing Banner in the other hand and began to charge up his ultimate move. He also grabbed the Soul-Suppressing Bell in the other hand.

As the sword formation took shape, the Soul-Shocking Bell in his hand rang out, unseen waves rippled outwards, and his opponent was knocked unconscious by the shockwave.

"rise!"

With a reach, the sword formation erupted.

With a swing of the Purple Thunder Hammer, the Nine Heavens Thunder Strike was unleashed, and the Nine Commandments Immortal Banner suspended in the air crashed down, while hundreds of sword energies from the Dust-Covering Banner transformed into sword dragons and swooped down.

The decisive factor was the two ninth-tier flying swords, Xingxiang and Tiangang, which directly activated the power of the stars and the immortal power of Tiangang. The sword energy, as fine as hair, circled and cut wildly like lightning. The burst of power in one second exceeded that of the Nine Heavens Thunder Kill and the Nine Rings Immortal Banner.

In less than three seconds, the exaggerated burst of energy shattered the ninth-tier defensive magic weapon, and the sword energy swept past, instantly killing it.

Defeating the opponent in the third round will reward you with four Wind God powers and four points.

"Does it mean that the power doubles with each level up?"

A minute later, the fourth opponent appeared. He was a sword immortal who beckoned and launched a preemptive strike, sending three ninth-tier flying swords hurtling towards him.

However, this round was actually easier for Su Yu than the previous one.

He directly activated his Battle True Body, transforming into a twenty-foot-tall, four-headed, eight-armed giant, with all attributes increased by 200%. He then activated Blood Wolf Smoke, further increasing all attributes by 100%. His base physique was 100,000, which increased to 400,000 after the explosion. His opponent's three ninth-tier flying swords flew back and forth between the four heads like lightning, but they didn't even break the skin.

Ten thousand physiques can grant immunity to one point of armor penetration, while four hundred thousand physiques grant armor penetration resistance as high as forty points. In addition, the Vajra Indestructible characteristic further increases armor penetration resistance, so even a tenth-tier flying sword cannot penetrate the armor. The only armor penetration can be achieved through the sword technique realm's ability to condense swords into threads, and its extremely high priority can ignore the armor penetration resistance granted by the physique.

Yes, the armor-piercing priority granted by the condensation of swordsmanship into threads is extremely high, even effective against immortal bodies.

Equivalent to immortals is the armor-piercing ability of a first-class immortal flying sword.

In general, the priority of armor penetration and armor penetration resistance from low to high is as follows: flying swords below the tenth rank < physical resistance < immortal artifacts = top-level divine abilities or top-level traits < swordsmanship realm < the laws of the Great Dao.

所以此时苏瑜的对手只能靠剑术境界赋予的+4破甲与无上剑诀赋予的50%破防，但这50%是现有40%破甲的基础上增加并非迭加，也就是总共60%的破甲。

Even with 40 physique points minus 60%, that leaves 16 physique strength, which is still not enough to break through the defense, not to mention that the Immortal Foundation also has 70% all resistance and damage reduction.

The opponent decisively activated the spell attached to both swords, then combined the two swords, and the flying swords flashed into a flowing light state and disappeared.

Su Yu reacted incredibly quickly, also activating two ninth-tier flying swords and unleashing the Heavenly Gang Divine Power and the Starry Sky Divine Power. The two swords transformed into streams of light that surrounded her, and instantly, a dense clash of metal resounded, bursting forth with countless dazzling starlight. Hundreds of sword marks instantly appeared on the chest of her Battle True Body.

Unstoppable.

The speed is too fast to intercept completely.

Its attack speed was beyond human imagination. In just over ten seconds, the enormous true form turned into a bloody mess, and one of its heads was completely disfigured and unrecognizable.

Although the injuries appeared horrific, they were actually all superficial wounds.

After breaking through the defense, each sword strike deals less than a thousand damage; a thousand sword strikes would only amount to a million, and ten thousand sword strikes...
He didn't have that opportunity.

He activated two flying swords with both hands, freeing up both arms to draw the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe again and cleaved it down with a terrifying burst of 264 million power, splitting him and his treasure in two.

Defeat the opponent in the fourth round to gain 8 Wind God Power and 8 points.

The fifth opponent was a level 118 Buddhist cultivator. As soon as he appeared, he put his hands together and chanted Amitabha. A bright Buddhist light shot into the sky, and an unknown Buddha phantom appeared behind his head. He reached out and made a hand seal. The Buddha phantom then reached out and condensed a sky-covering Buddha hand that slapped down.

The four-headed, eight-armed true form flew up, each of its eight arms wielding a weapon or magical artifact, and the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe slashed down fiercely.

"boom!"

The towering Buddha seal shattered, and the axe light swept across like a mountain of knives. One axe shattered the Buddha's phantom, the second axe sent the opponent flying, the third axe forcibly broke through the protective Buddha light, and the fourth axe swept away all defensive measures. The twin swords, poised to strike, twisted together and cut the Buddha in two.

"fierce!"

This is the power of a pure killing tenth-tier magic weapon; it has no other fancy functions, it's just pure burst damage.

Combined with an immortal foundation and immortal body, it is unstoppable by any tenth-tier defensive magic weapon of the same level.

Defeating the fifth opponent rewards you with 16 Wind God Powers and 16 points. Clearly, the points double with each level you advance, meaning there are 32 Wind God Powers on the sixth level and 256 Wind God Powers and points on the ninth level.

“Winner takes all!”

One minute later, Su Yu ascended to the sixth floor of the Wind God Tower.

This time, the opponent was another horned demon, a first-grade Dao Foundation cultivator who cultivated both body and Qi. He possessed a true body with two heads and four arms, a ninth-grade defensive magic weapon, a ninth-grade divine weapon broadsword, and a ninth-grade treasure cauldron.

Upon appearing, he transformed into a twelve-zhang-tall true form, wielding a divine weapon and a hundred-zhang-tall blade of energy that swept across the platform.

"Well done!"

The four-headed, eight-armed fighting form was filled with fierce fighting spirit. With a powerful axe strike, the blade and axe clashed, shattering the blade's light. The axe force sliced ​​through the blade's light and plowed it away.

The horned demon swung his longsword three times in quick succession to shatter the axe light. His two heads immediately cast a spell, and a thick gray light struck the forehead of the Fighting True Body, the Celestial God. The point of impact quickly turned to ash and decayed, but it only lasted for a moment before a spiritual light swept over it, and the gray light disappeared instantly.

The Battle True Body possesses immunity to all spells below the level of Celestial Immortal. This one-horned demon's body-refining strength is significantly greater than the first one, in terms of physique, power, and magical treasures, but unfortunately, it is still far inferior to Su Yu.

It surpasses others in every aspect, with half the strength, blood, physique, weapons, and even its head and arms.

Even so, he held out for almost four minutes before breaking through the defenses, chopping off all the arms in succession, and finally beheading the victim with two consecutive axe blows.

Defeat the sixth opponent to gain 32 Wind God Power and 32 points.

One minute later, Su Yu ascended to the seventh floor of the Wind God Tower.

The moment he stepped into the seventh floor, the towering Wind God Tower within the Divine Palace suddenly lit up with layers of cyan runes. The disciples of various sects who were chatting and fighting outside the square all stopped and looked up at the Wind God Tower in surprise.

A small commotion arose among the crowd, and someone exclaimed:

"Damn, someone has reached the seventh floor of the Wind God Tower."

"Which sect do you belong to?"

All the disciples asked their assistants:

"Which faction sent in the last round?"

"I don't know. It's Senior Brother Zhang from our sect. He shouldn't be able to reach the seventh floor, right?"

"Junior Brother Wang from our sect probably doesn't have that ability either."

"Even our sect's Senior Brother Zhu has no chance of that happening."

Then someone said:

"Could it be Senior Brother Sun?"

A disciple of the Wuji Immortal Palace said:
“Senior Brother Sun, who just joined our sect, is very strong and is no less than the true disciples of our sect. He just hasn’t been promoted to true disciple yet because he hasn’t made enough contributions. Perhaps it could be him.”

Upon hearing this, someone else chimed in:
"Senior Brother Ren from our sect might also be a possibility. I remember that Senior Brother Ren possesses two ninth-tier magic treasures, one of which is of rare quality and its power is no less than that of an ordinary tenth-tier magic treasure. He has a good chance of reaching the seventh level."

The eight sects discussed the accounts separately, each proposing various possibilities.

On the seventh floor of the Wind God Tower, the light curtain fell, revealing a petite and beautiful woman. She opened her mouth and spat out a beam of white light, which quickly transformed into a large cyan bell.

"clang!"

As the bell tolled, a wave of blue light rippled out from the bell, initially like shimmering waves, but in the blink of an eye it transformed into a tsunami sweeping in all directions.

"A tenth-tier magic weapon!"

The true form of the Fighting Warrior wielded its axe and slashed down, the tenth-tier divine axe cleaving through the tsunami as it surged forward.

"clang!"

Another bell rang, and the second wave of impact roared in, only to be cleaved open by the divine axe once more.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The bell tolled continuously, and layers of blue light exploded without any blind spots. Each wave of light was extremely powerful, and the space in the places it struck was slightly distorted.

Unfortunately, the Heaven-Splitting Axe had high enough attack power, and combined with his strength, it could cut through every layer of impact.

Both sides played a simple and straightforward game of offense and defense, remaining deadlocked for a full 1 minute and 21 seconds before the platform fell silent after the seventeenth chime.

His opponent's mana was almost completely depleted.

A tenth-tier magic weapon consumes tens of thousands of units of magic power at a time. A rogue immortal who has just survived a tribulation has limited magic power and cannot sustain it for long.

Just like Su Yu's Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe, a full-force strike consumes up to 10 mana. With his current mana, he can only unleash four strikes, not enough for a fifth. If he activates the Immortal Spirit Stone accessory to restore some mana, he can unleash a maximum of seven strikes.

However, that refers to a full-force strike, where a single axe blow can unleash an axe beam with an attack range of up to 200 kilometers, sweeping away everything in its path.

In actual combat, he couldn't possibly use his full strength with every axe strike; he usually held back some of his power.

However, the power will decrease after you stop using it. Generally, the percentage of mana consumed will result in the same percentage of spell damage bonus.

For example, if you only exert five-tenths of your strength, you can only cause a 50% spell damage bonus.

If you don't use your magic power and rely solely on your physical strength to wield the divine axe, you'll only have physical attack power plus the axe's base attack power of 200 million, and you won't be able to unleash axe energy, only axe wind.

The power of the axe strike does not diminish; its power remains unchanged even when it strikes from a distance of 100 kilometers away, capable of splitting mountains and breaking peaks.

The axe wind is merely the aftershock of the weapon's power; it will dissipate automatically at a distance of a certain distance.

Just now, with the first of the seventeen axe blows, I went all out. After testing the strength of the opponent's shockwave, I stopped consuming mana and used my physical body to wield the divine axe. The axe's basic attack power alone was enough to break the shockwave.

However, his opponent was able to deliver a solid seventeen-point attack, which was quite unexpected for Su Yu.

It's obvious that she couldn't possibly have such high magical power. Even Su Yu couldn't possibly have activated the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe seventeen times at full power. Her magical power couldn't possibly be higher than Su Yu's. She probably used some secret technique to reduce magical power consumption or restore magical power.

This contestant probably never imagined that anyone could withstand seventeen full-force attacks from a level ten magic weapon without collapsing.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

When the magic power is exhausted, it becomes fish meat.

Su Yu didn't spend much effort hacking her to death with his axe and successfully stepped onto the eighth floor.

When his figure appeared on the eighth floor, the blue light on the surface of the Wind God Tower became brighter, and wisps of blue wind emerged, outlining various strange patterns around the tower.

This scene not only surprised the disciples of all the sects, but even the leading Earth Immortal elders showed expressions of astonishment and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"It's that disciple from the outer sect."

There's no need to guess anymore, because all the disciples except Su Yu have already come out this round.

Elder Zhang Yuanqi of Xuanyuan Palace said with considerable surprise:
"I thought he was quite strong because he had accumulated a lot of experience, but I didn't expect him to be so outstanding that he could actually reach the eighth level."

The assembled Earth Immortal elders looked at Immortal Venerable Guanxu, who stroked his beard and chuckled:

"No one has reached the ninth floor for more than a dozen sessions. I am quite curious to see if he has a chance to defeat his opponent and reach the ninth floor."

As he spoke, he gestured, and a circular light screen popped open, displaying Su Yu, who was located on the eighth floor.

Meanwhile, the various sects below the tower have begun sending their ninth batch of disciples to ascend the tower, and this time, the disciples who ascended the tower were the true disciples of the leaders of each sect.

They had originally planned to wait until the very end to enter, but they didn't expect Su Yu to climb to the eighth floor in one go. They couldn't sit still and all climbed the tower.

After reaching the seventh floor, the rest time increases from one minute to five minutes, giving climbers ample time to rest. If they accumulate cultivation points and spiritual power, they can also improve their abilities along the way.

Five minutes later, Su Yu stood up, and a few beams of light fell down, revealing a handsome human man.

The man appeared and immediately his body swelled up, transforming into a three-headed, six-armed form with a size comparable to his true fighting form. His two uppermost arms held a giant sword, his middle arms held two flying swords, and his lowermost arms held a pagoda in one hand and a cauldron in the other.

Su Yu was not to be outdone, and quickly transformed into her four-headed, eight-armed fighting form.

"Oh!"

The moment Su Yu appeared, the Earth Immortals before the water curtain showed surprise, and several exclaimed in astonishment:

"Four heads and eight arms? What kind of true form is this?"

After a long silence, the Immortal Venerable Guanxu smiled and said:

"It should be the Nine Heavens Battle True Body."

"A battle between three heads and six arms and four heads and eight arms is going to be interesting."

"boom!"

As soon as the countdown ended, Su Yu took the initiative and strode heavily toward her opponent.

The three-headed, six-armed true form rapidly chanted incantations and cast spells to enhance its power, causing its body to expand another size. Its six giant arms swung, unleashing a large and two small sword auras that swept across the sky.

"Blood and Qi Smoke!"

As soon as the explosion began, the giant arm swung its twin swords and the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe, unleashing two sword energies and an axe aura. The sword energies annihilated each other, and the axe aura was slightly stronger, shattering the sword aura, but its remaining power was easily shattered by the two sword energies.

They were slightly better, but by a small margin, not enough to turn into an advantage.

"interesting!"

This was the first body-refining cultivator Su Yu had encountered who could block her head-on, and who was clearly a dual cultivator of both body and magic, just like her.

"Since that's the case, then I'm going to unleash my ultimate move!"

With a thought, he decisively activated all kinds of sword techniques and spells.

"Starry Sky Divine Power, Starry Sky Divine Sword attack power and attack speed +200%".

"Heavenly Gang Immortal Power, Heavenly Gang Immortal Sword attack power and attack speed +200%".

It stacks with Swordsmanship Level 100%, adding an extra 300% attack power and attack speed, with a single sword output of up to 268000.

"Sword of Time - Overdrafting the future, flying sword attack power and attack speed +40, lasting 25 seconds."

The single sword deals a staggering 66.8 damage.

"Two swords combined!"

The combined power of the two swords is 133.6 million; when combined with the other two, the attack power will reach a terrifying 267.2 million.

The celestial being raised its form without any warning, and a horrifying wound instantly appeared on the waist of its three-headed, six-armed true form. In the next instant, another equally horrifying wound appeared out of thin air on the other side of its waist.

An instant of 0.36 seconds.

A mere 0.018 seconds.

With each blink of its eyes, the three-headed, six-armed true form revealed several exaggerated wounds.

But in that instant, the opponent reacted. A pearl hung above his head, its clear light blocking the sword light that was imperceptible to the naked eye. He threw out a pagoda, which quickly expanded and transformed into a mountain that crashed down.

The other treasure cauldron flew out and quickly expanded to a giant cauldron a thousand meters in size. The three-headed, six-armed figure leaped onto the mouth of the cauldron, and black light appeared inside. In an instant, an unimaginable suction force came, and the space inside the entire platform quickly twisted and collapsed towards the mouth of the cauldron. The distorted stream of light that was indistinguishable to the naked eye that surrounded the three-headed, six-armed true form fell into the cauldron and disappeared.

"Ok?"

"A tenth-tier supreme treasure!"

Space distorted, bound by powerful gravity, the giant tower above transformed into a mountain and crashed down, a tenth-order divine blade slashed vertically, and the blade's energy swept across the heavens and earth.

(End of this chapter)