Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 257 Taking Stock of the Harvest, Nine Heavens Capital Immortal Record

Merit points: 256521.

"???"

"How come I gained so many merits for killing so few people?"

"Could it be that because I killed these horned demons, it's being blamed on me?"

Upon closer examination, it is indeed possible.

Su Yu didn't dwell on this point; it was a good thing anyway.

Two bosses are entrenched here, guarding the respawn point and relentlessly attacking them.

Meanwhile, Su Yu was not idle; during this time, she extensively collected spoils of war after the city fell.

The Crimson Tide Spirit does not collect loot; once the city falls, everything in the city belongs to it.

Over the course of several days, they collected nearly 600,000 spoils of light orbs, all of which were stored within the Zhenhai Realm and handed over to the women for counting.

Then the city's warehouses and the immortal mansion guarding the earth immortal were also breached, and all their collections were looted.

However, it wasn't as much as expected. The most valuable part was in the hands of the guardian immortal, another part had already been taken away by that group of experts, and the rest were mostly various pills, materials, and ores, with a total value estimated at over two million gold.

After all the supplies were collected, fewer and fewer horned demons revived at the resurrection point. By the sixth day, only a handful of them were revived each time, and the two super bosses began to leave.

After conquering the city, the levels of both super bosses increased significantly, with one reaching level 290 and the other level 271.

"That's it!"

Satisfied with this harvest, Su Yu didn't bother to search for the remaining scattered loot. He waved to the two bosses and disappeared into the crimson tide.

"This is a huge profit."

He left the city and plunged into the sea, dug a hole on the seabed, crawled inside, opened the boundary gate, and entered the Zhenhai Realm.
Upon entering, they saw a huge plaza piled high with orbs of loot. The four women were examining the loot one by one and then categorizing them.

Pills, materials, ores, flying swords, magic weapons, Taoist books, and so on were piled up separately, forming a small mountain.

"This time we've really struck it rich."

This wave of income is equivalent to 10% of the total accumulated wealth of a city with three million inhabitants, with a total value estimated to exceed five million gold.

Compared to this, the reward for conquering this city is nothing.

Su Yu opened the panel, and the power of the top-level immortal treasure, the Taixu Divine Mirror, was omnipresent. At this moment, the military rank panel had completed the calculation. Destroying Yanbo City would reward a total of 50 merit points and 3 major merit points.

There should have been a reward for killing the Earth Immortal's primordial spirit, but the Earth Immortal's primordial spirit has been collected by Canghai and refined into an Earth Immortal Spirit Puppet. Furthermore, the Taixu Divine Mirror is unable to monitor the situation inside the Zhenhai Pearl, so the reward has not yet been settled.

To settle the score, you need to return to human territory and summon the spirit puppet formed from the primordial spirit of the horned demon immortal so that the Taixu Divine Mirror can examine it before the score can be settled.

As expected, there should be two major achievements, since it is equivalent to completely killing a terrestrial immortal, which is equivalent to the complete disappearance of one of the high-level combat forces of the Horned Demons.

With all merits combined, Su Yu now has a total of 412 million merits.

Destroying Yanbo City was just a small part of the problem; the real issue was that he caused millions of horned demons to exhaust all their lifespan and die completely.

Unfortunately, it was only an indirect impact, not a direct annihilation; otherwise, the number of meritorious officials could have been far more than four million, perhaps even forty million.

With 412 million merit points, Su Yu immediately rose to the top of the merit list.

After checking all of these, Su Yu and the four women took two days to count the loot chests.

Fortunately, the flow of time inside Zhenhai Pearl is different from that outside. In the square, it's ten times faster than outside; two days here is only a few hours outside.

The loot was divided into three parts. One part consisted of materials, elixirs, and magic items that ordinary players often needed. This part was kept and stored in the guild warehouse.

Another part consists of items that are not frequently needed and are of low quality, which can be sold for money.

The last part contains some rare and valuable items.

With over 600,000 loot orbs, even if good items are few, there will always be some out of such a huge quantity. Among them are some items that Su Yu considers quite good.

For example, some rare spiritual fruit and plant seeds are planted directly within the Zhenhai Realm.

Various special spells, forbidden spells, and so on.

Among all these spoils of war were twenty-four seventh-tier magic treasures, three eighth-tier magic treasures, and no ninth-tier magic treasures.

That's normal. The vast majority of those who died were Qi Refining cultivators; very few Loose Immortals died.

Su Yu read through them all and found a few good spells to learn.

Disguise and Transformation Techniques: Secret methods for altering facial features and body shape.

Thousand Illusions Divine Spell: A magic technique that can transform into countless forms.

Golden Silkworm Escape Technique: A secret escape method that creates a fake body to confuse the enemy while the real body disappears and escapes.

Divine Sealing Technique: A method to seal away the soul.

Controlling God Technique: Controls the enemy's physical body; used in conjunction with the God-Suppressing Technique.

Divine Consciousness Transforms into a Thousand: The Method of Differentiating Divine Consciousness.

Divine Consciousness Attachment Technique: This technique allows one to attach a differentiated divine consciousness to a spiritual object, magical artifact, or living being, and can be used in conjunction with the Divine Consciousness Transformation Technique.

Soul Searching Technique: Can use divine sense to forcibly search the soul and obtain the target's memories.

The above are all commonly used secret techniques. The upgrade requirements are similar to those of the Mustard Seed Concealment Technique. Su Yu has accumulated a massive amount of cultivation points and Taoist cultivation, and directly spent more than 10 billion spiritual energy experience and tens of thousands of Taoist cultivation to upgrade many secret techniques to the fourth level in one go.

"Husband, here's something good." Xia Xiaoyue suddenly brought something and handed it to Su Yu. He took it and looked at it, his face full of surprise:
"Holy crap, where did this come from?"

Nine Heavens Capital Immortal Record: A secret technique of the immortal realm, containing nine kinds of immortal talismans. To enter the sect, one needs 100 billion cultivation points and 1 Dao cultivation points.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul-Suppressing Talisman Edict.

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal of the Soul-Capturing Edict.

The Nine Heavens Capital's Summoning Talisman.

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal of the Returning Soul Edict.

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal and Edict.

Nine Heavens Capital Seal of the Edict to Avert Calamity

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal of Imperial Decree.

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal of the Edict to Slay the Gods.

The Nine Heavens Capital Seal of the Demon-Slaying Talisman.

Xia Xiaoyue shrugged and said:
"It came from one of the spoils of war."

Su Yu was surprised:
"The owners of these spoils probably aren't even many Loose Immortals, yet they managed to get such good stuff?"

"Husband, don't underestimate Qi Refining cultivators."

Xia Xiaoyue explained with a smile:
"Luck is unpredictable; even the most ordinary player can have a stroke of incredible luck."

Yue Qingsi nodded and said:
"There are many lost treasures and immortal secrets on the other side, which have been covered in dust for some reason. If there is a chance, these treasures can be brought back to the light of day. This immortal secret should be obtained by someone with a stroke of luck."

"Well!"

Su Yu nodded in agreement, because he remembered that the Zhenhai Pearl was initially discovered from the remains of an unknown immortal.

If he hadn't said anything, who would have known that such a treasure existed in the remains of a mere nameless, wandering immortal?

I don't know which unlucky guy got this secret technique by chance, but now it's benefited Su Yu.

However, after reviewing the cultivation points and spiritual level required to practice this secret technique, as well as the drawing requirements, he decided to entrust the practice to Canghai.

Practicing this secret method requires not only a huge amount of cultivation points and Taoist cultivation, but also the consumption of cultivation points when drawing talismans.

The first level of entry requires 1000 billion cultivation points and 10 points of Taoist cultivation. In addition to consuming mana and talisman materials, drawing a talisman also consumes cultivation points, with each talisman costing 1 million cultivation points. It is only effective for those in the Qi Refining stage.

Upgrading the secret technique to the second level requires 10000 trillion cultivation points and 100 million cultivation points. Drawing a talisman requires 10 billion cultivation points. Talismans are useful for rogue immortals.

The secret technique requires 10 trillion cultivation points and 1000 million cultivation points to advance to the third level. Each talisman drawn requires 100 billion cultivation points. Talismans are useful to Earth Immortals.

This thing is powerful, but it's not suitable for Su Yu yet. It's more suitable for someone like Cang Hai, who has the time, the strength, and, most importantly, an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy, to cultivate.

Although he has now accumulated a massive amount of cultivation points and spiritual power.

After conquering Yanbo City, he spent a few days at the resurrection point. Hundreds of thousands of horned demons died at his hands, of which at least fifty or sixty thousand were completely killed because of him.

Normally, completely killing a target will grant you 20% of all the cultivation points and Taoist cultivation points consumed in their lifetime.

But that refers to personally killing them. In reality, he only briefly touched those fifty or sixty thousand people, so it can't be considered that he completely killed them. Therefore, the cultivation points and Taoist cultivation formula obtained cannot be calculated in that way.

It's worth mentioning that the experience and cultivation gained from killing players are different from those gained from killing wild monsters.

Normally, a rogue immortal like him would only gain very little experience from killing monsters below level 100, and wouldn't gain much from killing small or medium-sized bosses below level 100 either.

But players are different; regardless of the level difference, they will gain something, more or less.

Su Yu's kill count is around level 70 on average. After all, those with very low levels would be eliminated very early on, and those who can last for a few days won't be too low-level, averaging around level 70.

He could gain at least hundreds of millions of kill experience and thousands of cultivation points by completely killing players of this level, but if he just casually kills them, he can only gain about five million kill experience and a dozen or so cultivation points per kill.

There are fifty to sixty thousand people who died completely because of him, and in total...
Su Yu looked at his experience pool, which had accumulated a total of 2850 billion killing experience points and 64 cultivation points.

With so many cultivation points and spiritual power, one can make a significant leap forward.

Su Yu looked at the various Dao techniques on the panel. The first one to be upgraded was the Hundred-Eyed Divine Light. This profound-level forbidden technique was only at level 30 and was completely useless at the moment.

But it is, after all, a profound forbidden technique with considerable power, and it would be a waste to leave it unused.

It only consumed 126 billion cultivation points and 15620 points of Dao cultivation to raise the Hundred-Eyed Divine Light to the 100th level.

Then comes the transformation.

Su Yu has already survived the Heavenly Tribulation, and all his Dao techniques have risen to the hundredth level, at which point they can be transformed into foundational Dao techniques.

Hundred-Eyed Divine Light (Mysterious): A foundational Dao technique, a forbidden technique that simulates the innate divine power of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Spider, unleashing a hundred beams of divine light to attack enemies, while also inflicting various negative buffs.

Attributes: For each level increase, the base power of each divine light increases by 60 + 20% spell damage, attack range increases by 200 meters, mana cost increases by 3, and cooldown time is 30 minutes.

Attributes: Can inflict negative buffs—burning, frost, armor penetration, penetration, meltdown, fear, blindness, confusion, stun, immobilization, bleeding, weakness, pain, petrification, silence, critical hit, armor penetration, poison, vulnerability, paralysis, soul devouring, soul annihilation.

百眼神光（道基）：每道神光威力6000+20%法伤=22000，攻击距离20000米，法力消耗300点，冷却时间30分钟。

The total damage after the Dao Foundation transformation is 220 million, which seems quite high, but the power of a single divine light is insufficient. If the target's defense is strong enough, the destructive power is completely inadequate.

However, this forbidden technique is not judged by its power, but by the dozen or so negative buffs it comes with. Triggering just a few of them makes it incredibly powerful.

(End of this chapter)