Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 261 Breaking Through Crimson Cloud City Again

At this point, the BOSSes have already surrounded the city, with a total of eight super BOSSes positioned in eight directions.

The lowest level is 214, and it is the essence of a horned demon.

With a maximum level of 273, it is an extremely rare Demonic Chapter BOSS. Its body is extremely large and it floats in the air. Eight thick tentacles of varying lengths, at least 20 to 30 kilometers long and the longest ones nearly 40 to 50 kilometers long, are spread out and frantically lashing at the city's protective array, making muffled thuds.

Instead of sitting idly by, nearly three hundred rogue immortals gathered under the protective array's light barrier, seemingly preparing to jointly besiege and kill the BOSS. It's estimated that the seven super BOSSes in the previous Crimson Tide were killed one by one in the same way.

After observing for a while, Su Yu ordered the team to move closer in the channel and said in a deep voice:

"One small team will follow me to intercept the spirit, the rest of you stay here and don't move around. Do nothing without my orders."

"no problem."

"it is good."

After assigning tasks, the team fell silent again.

After almost a quarter of an hour, more than 300 horned demons and rogue immortals in the city were ready. They transformed into light and rushed out of the city's protective formation to attack one of the besieging bosses.

"It's now."

The Heavenly Demon's body swayed and transformed back into its true form, then swayed again and transformed into a four-headed, eight-armed form. Its powerful aura leaked out, immediately attracting the surrounding Crimson Tide Spirits to surround it. A team of ten Loose Immortals immediately took action to intercept and kill the surrounding spirits.

Su Yu reached out and summoned the Zhenhai Pearl. With a million units of magical power burning within him, the Zhenhai Pearl rapidly expanded and transformed into a large sun burning with blue flames, which he then placed in his hand.

"Immortal treasure!"

Everyone stared at him in horror. He flicked his hand, and the sun flew out, rapidly expanding until it transformed into a sun with a diameter of one thousand meters, crashing down towards Crimson Cloud City.

The scattered immortal demons, who were arranging their troops to besiege the BOSS, suddenly felt their scalps tingle, and unimaginable fear rapidly approached:

"An attack has occurred! Prepare for defense! Team One, prepare to engage! Team Two..."

"Boom!"

The terrified cries abruptly ceased as the azure sun, a kilometer in diameter, crashed down, instantly crushing the horned demon who had given the order into minced meat and nothingness.

With a single strike, more than three hundred horned demon immortals were killed, leaving only twenty or thirty survivors. They were spared because they were just outside the range of the Zhenhai Pearl's attack.

"Intercept them."

At Su Yu's command, hundreds of human rogue immortals rushed out from their hidden magical artifacts and surrounded and fiercely attacked the twenty-seven horned demon rogue immortals who had just regained their senses.

"It's human!"

At this moment, an uproar erupted within Crimson Cloud City. At least a million people had witnessed this horrific scene, and some quick-witted individuals immediately thought of something and shouted:

"The human who destroyed Yanbo City has arrived."

"It was him, the one who used that blue magic weapon to break through the city's protective formation."

Panic immediately gripped the city, and some Horned Demon players who had respawn points in other cities were already considering whether to flee.

In the center of the city, the horned demon immortal who guarded the city had a solemn expression, but his voice was loud and powerful:

"There is no need for worry, everyone. The fall of Yanbo City was due to the carelessness of the garrison commander who was killed. I will guard the city and defend it together with you all. They cannot possibly break through Chixia City."

The deputy general of Chixia City, standing to the side, asked with a worried expression:

"Can we really hold on?"

The Horned Demon Major General took a deep breath and said:

"We have no other choice but to hold our ground."

As it turns out, they couldn't hold out, not even with a powerful immortal guarding the area.

Su Yu used the same tactics he had used to breach Yanbo City, hiding inside the Red Tide and unleashing the Zhenhai Pearl every minute to bombard the area before retreating to a different direction to continue the attack.

He never shows himself; he hides deep within the red tide.

He was not afraid of ambushes. Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations was the strongest celestial secret technique, bar none. Unless a celestial immortal skilled in celestial secret techniques personally suppressed him based on their realm, no one could ambush or scheme against him.

At this moment, the Red Tide broke out, and every Celestial in the Falling Star Islands was burdened with important missions and could not possibly spare the time to besiege him.

If they dare to leave the main city they are stationed in, the humans and the celestial beings of the Six-Eared Clan will definitely take the opportunity to attack, even if they have to join forces to destroy one of the main cities first.

The premise of so-called unspoken rules is the absence of opportunity. If there is an opportunity to significantly weaken an opponent, the so-called unspoken rules automatically become invalid.

The term "main city" doesn't simply mean a city with a large number of players.

The main city is a crucial core hub, where the earth's veins converge, and it is also an important spatial node from which one can teleport to other areas of the civilization.

Just like in the human territory of Falling Star Island, South China Sea Turtle Island is the core of the entire South China Sea. There is a key spatial node here, from which you can directly teleport to the main city of other human civilization territories.

Although the teleportation requirements are very high and only a few can be teleported at a time, with this teleportation node, several immortals can be teleported from the heart of the human realm at critical moments, which can instantly change the course of the battle.

It is worth mentioning that during the Red Tide outbreak, most teleportation functions are unusable, including teleportation runes.

Therefore, when the Red Tide breaks out, it is the most dangerous time for all races. The Celestial Immortals of each race will only guard a few main cities and will never leave. No matter how great the losses are outside, they will wait until the Red Tide ends before making any decisions.

Therefore, no matter how high the bounty offered by the Horned Demons for Su Yu, only some rogue immortals would accept the bounty, and the strongest would be prodigies and members of the peerless rankings, and even then, there wouldn't be many. After all, compared to the bounty, the safety of the city was more important. "Rumble!"

The azure sun pierced through the crimson tide and struck the city's protective barrier. The terrifying power of the immortal treasure pressed a large dent into the barrier, reducing its defensive strength by tens of millions.

Su Yu reached out and summoned back the magical treasure, glanced at it not far away, and said:

“There are people there. Brother Yu, take five squads to intercept them.”

Yu Chengyun glanced over and saw nothing there, but considering that he had already exposed the horned demons who had infiltrated three times before, he decisively sent five squads over.

As expected, the group unleashed a barrage of wide-range spells, quickly drawing out the horned demons hiding there.

"withdraw!"

After breaking stealth, they immediately retreated, braving the dense barrage of spirit attacks from all around them to squeeze into the depths of the Crimson Tide.

The majority of the spirits in the Red Tide are ordinary spirits with limited attack power, but each of them has strong defense. As long as they don't provoke the BOSS, they can thrive in the Red Tide, and the Red Tide can't do anything to them.

The boss wouldn't give up a city worth millions just because of a few people.

They had no desire to fight the horned demon experts. After exposing their true intentions, they ran away and moved to another location to continue their attack a minute later.

One was in the open, and the other was in the shadows. With only about three hundred horned demons and rogue immortals, they had no chance of capturing Su Yu.

Meanwhile, the guardian immortal who could keep a close watch on him was sitting inside the city and refused to come out.

Su Yu guessed that this person was afraid of following in the footsteps of the garrison commander of Yanbo City.

As this continued, the defensive power of the city's protective array inevitably decreased over time. After nearly a third of it was worn down, the garrison commander finally couldn't bear it any longer and ordered the gathering of over a million horned demons to attack the Red Tide in order to relieve the pressure on the city's protective array and restore its defensive power.

"Drinking poison to quench thirst!"

This scene was exactly the same as it was back in Yanbo City.

The only difference is that Crimson Cloud City has an Earth Immortal guarding it, so the city's protective formation will last longer, but the final outcome will not change.

After two days of this back and forth, nearly half of the horned demons dared to leave the city, and the number of horned demons inside the city also decreased by more than half, leaving only a little over four million. The other eight or nine million horned demons had other resurrection points, and after dying once or twice to do their best for their race, they would not resurrect in this city.

With the garrison drastically reduced, the defenses of Crimson Cloud City crumbled even faster. By the third day, they were on the verge of collapse, and groups of horned demons were already fleeing in droves.

They failed to intercept it. The red tide erupted, and the outside was filled with spirits. Their strength was insufficient, and they could not escape far.

Su Yu loudly reminded everyone in the channel:
"Brothers, the harvest time is coming. Be prepared for the enemy's counterattack."

"Be careful not to get targeted by the Earth Immortal, or you'll suffer a huge loss if you die at the last moment."

"Haha, I'm all on my toes now, just waiting for them to come out."

Everyone spoke in a relaxed tone, but they were all on high alert, including Su Yu.

Once the city falls and there is no hope of defending it, the Earth Immortals stationed inside will definitely come out to fight for their lives, and they will feel better if they kill a few of them. Su Yu, in particular, is definitely a thorn in their side and a target for them to kill.

Although protected by the Earth Immortal Spirit Puppet and the Tenth-Order Divine Treasure Azure Cloud Canopy which is impervious to all magic, it is basically impossible for anything to go wrong. However, things are unpredictable. What if this Earth Immortal has the methods of an immortal?
"Boom!"

The sun fell like a meteor, and the already thin and transparent city-protecting array finally gave way and was smashed open. The Zhenhai Pearl passed through the shattered barrier and crashed into the city, instantly killing a large group of horned demons.

Many of the horned demons here had exhausted their lifespans to the limit, and with this wave of complete death, a massive amount of killing experience and cultivation points instantly flooded into the experience pool.

The remaining two million horned demons scattered the moment the city fell, but were instantly overwhelmed by the crimson tide spirits that surrounded them from all sides.

"The Earth Immortal has not yet appeared, so do not go down yet."

At this moment, Su Yu had transformed into a celestial demon, becoming a horned demon spirit that drifted with the tide in the crimson vortex.

Most of the others hid outside the city, but some bolder ones, or perhaps even Heavenly Demons transformed into Crimson Tide Essence, surged into the city to plunder its resources.

Su Yu had nothing to say about this; a word of advice would suffice, and further advice would only offend people.

However, he soon realized something was wrong. He wandered around the city for almost half an hour, but the horned demon guardian immortal did not appear.

But the celestial warning from the shifting stars and changing constellations in his mind told him that the guardian immortal had not left, but was hiding somewhere in the city, lying in ambush for him.

There's no need to guess; they were definitely lying in wait for me, the culprit.

"Interesting. Let's see how long you can hold out."

Su Yu immediately said in the channel:

"The city-guarding immortal is still here, but you don't need to worry. His target is me. You can proceed with the plan to harvest resources and kill people."

"No problem, just hide it well, and we'll take care of the rest."

The group excitedly swept through the city, with a clear division of labor: some looted the city lord's warehouse and the warehouses of various shops and merchants, while others guarded the resurrection points to collect kills.

These are all players whose lifespans are nearing their end. Each kill grants millions or even tens of millions of killing experience points and a large amount of cultivation.

Su Yu watched silently, glancing occasionally at the rapidly increasing killing experience and cultivation level in the experience pool, a smile on her face.

(End of this chapter)