Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 264 Major Advancement, Foundation Establishment Fourth Grade
First, upgrade your magic weapon.

Su Yu took out the Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer, and then took out the Ninth-Order Essence and the power of 73 Laws.

First, refine the ninth-tier essence into the Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer to upgrade it into a ninth-tier magic weapon.

Then, he infused the newly promoted ninth-tier magic weapon with streams of law power, continuously improving its quality.

This Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer, fused with the essence of the ninth rank, was upgraded to a ninth-rank exquisite item upon advancement. Furthermore, by fusing with a continuous stream of law power, its quality and power continued to improve.

Consuming 50 points of Law Power in one go, the Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer was upgraded to a ninth-tier treasure.

Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer (Rank 9): A rare item, a treasure that wields the power of Nine Heavens Purple Thunder.

Lightning Strike: Activates the lightning hammer to unleash a bolt of divine lightning from the heavens, dealing 20 + 300% spell damage to a single target. Cast range is 50 kilometers, mana cost is 3000 points, and additional effects include: Paralysis, Heavenly Thunder Demon Suppression, and Thunderous Burst.

Nine Heavens Thunder Strike: Use the Purple Thunder Hammer to communicate with heaven and earth, charge for 10 seconds and then unleash a thunderbolt with 100 million + 700% spell damage to strike the target, which will definitely paralyze for 3-10 seconds. Casting range is 100 kilometers, mana cost is 30000 kilometers, cooldown is 15 minutes, additional characteristics: paralysis, heavenly thunder demon annihilation, thunder explosion.

Thunderbolts Strike the Top: Use the Purple Thunder Hammer to communicate with heaven and earth, charge for 60 seconds, and then summon a bolt of purple thunderbolts from the heavens to strike all enemies within a radius of 75 kilometers. Mana cost: 15 million. Cooldown: 2 hours.

Paralysis: A property where the power of heavenly lightning can paralyze the target and reduce their reaction time.

Heavenly Thunder Destroys Demons: Special Feature - The power of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder can deal 100% extra damage to demons, monsters, and ghost weapons, ignoring 100% resistance of demons, monsters, and ghost weapons.

Thunderous Burst: Lightning Strike becomes an area-of-effect attack. The main target explodes into countless tiny lightning chains that attack all enemies within a 500-meter radius of the center target, dealing 50% damage. This effect can be freely toggled on and off.

"Not bad, it's much more powerful now."

Under normal circumstances, the spell damage is 56, which exceeds the other four types of Five Elements Thunder Techniques except for Gui Water Divine Thunder. It can destroy a seventh-tier defensive magic weapon in one hit.

After upgrading the magic weapon, Su Yu turned his attention to the Dao Foundation.

He is currently at the second rank of Dao Foundation, and needs 3000 billion cultivation points and 30 Dao cultivation points to advance to the third rank.

With the reduction of innate physical attributes, only 2100 billion cultivation points and 25.5 Dao cultivation points are needed to improve.

Dao Foundation Upgrade by One Grade: Health +50, Mana +2, Physique +2, Strength +3, Spell Power +2, Physical Flight Speed ​​+5000 km/h, Health Recovery +1000 points/second, Mana Recovery +30 points/second.

Flying sword damage +6000, attack speed +4000, sword control speed +4000 km/h.

In addition, three new Taoist methods were successfully developed: a Qi cultivation method, a sword technique, and a body refinement method.

The Qi Refining Technique is a method for creating a second primordial spirit. It can be used to tear apart the soul using secret techniques to nurture a second primordial spirit.

There are two methods for refining the second primordial spirit. One method is to use one's own flesh and blood to create a physical body, which is equivalent to a second self. It starts at level 1 and is blank. It can cultivate any Taoist method and can consume cultivation points and Taoist cultivation to improve its cultivation level until it reaches the same level as the original body. At level 100, it is necessary to undergo a heavenly tribulation again.

The drawback of this refining method is that it starts with a small initial size and requires a massive investment of resources, since it's essentially starting from scratch.

The advantage is that there is no limit to growth, which is equivalent to a second self. If the real body is unlucky and dies, the second soul can live another life.

The second method involves attaching a fragment of one's divine soul to various spiritual objects and treasures, using these treasures as a foundation to create an external avatar.

Its initial level depends on the quality of the treasure. The higher the quality, the higher the level. If the second primordial spirit is refined based on a tenth-tier magic treasure, the initial level will be at least 180.

If a second primordial spirit is forged based on a celestial treasure, its initial level will be at least 200, and it will directly master the corresponding laws of the celestial treasure, making it extremely powerful.

However, although the second method is very powerful from the start, it is limited by its foundation and has a limit to its growth.

A tenth-tier magic weapon cannot possibly enable one to become a Celestial Immortal.

Immortal treasures are not a big problem. Although they also have limits, what more can you ask for after becoming an immortal?
The third method of refining the second primordial spirit involves using the physical body of a powerful being. For example, if you obtain the body of an Earth Immortal, you can infuse your primordial spirit into that body.

If one has the ability to obtain a celestial body for alchemy, one will immediately possess the combat power of a celestial being.

Besides the three methods mentioned above, there is a fourth method for refining a second primordial spirit, which is to use an innate spiritual root or an innate immortal treasure as the second primordial spirit. This method not only has no limits like a second primordial spirit refined from one's own flesh and blood, but also has a very high initial level. It can be said to encompass the advantages of the first two methods.

And coincidentally, Su Yu possessed a primordial immortal treasure that could refine a second primordial spirit that started at over two hundred levels.

However, Su Yu doesn't know how to cultivate, and at least she won't consider a second primordial spirit before her true body is gone.

The reason is simple: if the Zhenhai Pearl is used to refine a second primordial spirit, Canghai will die.

After the second primordial spirit is refined, the Zhenhai Pearl will become the physical body of the second primordial spirit, and the second primordial spirit will automatically become the spirit of the Zhenhai Pearl. Now, how should Canghai, the Heavenly Dao of the inner world of the Zhenhai Pearl, deal with itself?

A magical artifact cannot have two spirits, so one must be summoned.

Unless a new, unclaimed innate immortal treasure is found.

In addition, if you have a second primordial spirit, you need to invest a huge amount of resources to cultivate it. How much investment is needed for a second primordial spirit that is over two hundred levels?
Therefore, this method is currently useless and cannot be of any use at this stage.

Ignoring this Taoist technique, Su Yu turned his gaze to the sword art derived from the Time Sword Scripture—the Sword of Time: Time Stop.

Time Stop (Taoist Foundation): Fixes the target's time for 3-12 seconds, consumes 30000 mana, and has a 24-hour cooldown.

Simply put, it's time freeze—another divine skill. Next, let's look at the method derived from the Nine Extremes Milun Immortal Technique—Potential Overdraft (Dao Foundation).

Potential Overdraft (Dao Foundation): Overdrafts potential, restoring all Qi and blood and mana within three seconds, rapidly healing wounds and regenerating flesh and blood. For the next fifteen seconds, it maintains half the recovery speed. Cooldown time: 10 days.

In terms of pure survival ability, there's nothing to say.

It is worth mentioning that as the Dao Foundation grade is improved, the effects and power of the various Dao sword techniques and body refining methods derived from them will also increase, and their power will reach the level of a Loose Immortal.

After reviewing the three derivative Daoist techniques and resting for a while, Su Yu once again consumed 3500 billion cultivation points and 34 Daoist cultivation points to upgrade his Dao Foundation to the fourth rank, which translates to level 140.

The fourth-grade Dao Foundation did not give rise to any Daoist techniques or sword skills.

The Dao Foundation has been upgraded two ranks, consuming a total of 5600 billion cultivation points and 59.5 Dao cultivation points. There are still 1804 billion cultivation points and 138 million Dao cultivation points remaining. The cultivation points are insufficient to upgrade the Dao Foundation to the fifth rank.

However, he did not stop, but instead turned his attention to other methods.

"Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique, this could be improved."

The Ruyi Transformation skill can even transform into monsters and blend into the wild monsters; it's amazing and worth leveling up.

The experience required for the exquisite transformation technique is far less than that for the Qi Refining Technique. Su Yu glanced at her remaining cultivation points and Dao cultivation and began to rapidly increase them.

With 140 billion cultivation points and 17000 points of Dao cultivation, he was raised to the tenth level of the Dao Foundation.

With 180 billion cultivation points and 24000 points of Dao cultivation, he was promoted to the twentieth level of the Dao Foundation.

240.
He consumed 1400 billion cultivation points and 22 points of Dao cultivation in one go to upgrade the Heavenly Ghost Transformation Technique to level 150.

Heavenly Demon Transformation Technique (Exquisite): Level 150, a foundational Dao technique, allows one to transform into a Heavenly Demon.

The Five Heavenly Ghosts are skilled in the Five Elements and can fly and escape at will. They can change between reality and illusion at will, possess immense strength, have 25 million Qi and Blood, 250 Mana, 35000 Physique, 55000 Strength, and a speed of 25000 km/h.

Abilities: Heavenly Ghost Body, ability to transform between reality and illusion, ability to change at will, Five Elements Thunder Technique, Five Elements Escape Technique, Five Elements Forbidden Technique, Five Elements Divine Qi, ability to transform the body into the Five Elements.

New derivative ability at level 150: Body Transformation into the Five Elements, allowing you to transform into the power of the five elements.

Su Yu's figure flickered and transformed into a celestial ghost, shaking his head to examine himself, before flashing again and transforming into a cloud of fire that dispersed.

After a brief transformation, it changes from fire into a mass of Yi wood energy, and then transforms again into Geng metal energy and Gui water essence.

After a while, as if figuring something out, the essence of Gui water turned into a pile of water and splashed on the ground.

A few pieces come together again and transform into a stone, a tree, and so on.

It kept changing back and forth like this, playing for almost an hour before finally turning back into human form.

"This transformation skill is amazing, it's worth the upgrade."

He becomes a puddle of water in the sea and blends in. Unless one is at a higher level, who can find him?
The upgrades are now complete.

Su Yu emerged from the Zhenhai Pearl, transformed into a wisp of smoke, and plunged into the sea, quickly flying south.

The Red Tide still had more than ten days to go before it ended, but his trip to the Red Tide had ended ahead of schedule, taking advantage of the fact that the experts of the Horned Demons were all too busy to return to human territory.

The journey went smoothly. The Heavenly Demon's stealth ability was too strong. The omnipresent Red Tide was neutral and did not intercept him. It took him almost a week to cross the territory of the Horned Demons and arrive at the Southeast Sea.

He burst out of the red tide in one breath, and directly activated his innate water escape technique to hide in the sea and fly back to the South China Sea Turtle Island in less than a day.

"Finally home."

Upon returning to Divine Turtle Island, Su Yu proactively requested to examine himself using the Taixu Divine Mirror, confirming that he had captured the two Horned Demon Earth Immortals alive. He successfully gained four Great Merits, adding to the four Great Merits he had previously received, bringing his total to eight Great Merits.

And with an extremely impressive 582 million merits, it ranks first in the current merit list of local conflicts between humans and horned demons, more than two million higher than the second place.

However, this round of conflict is not over yet; it is only the first stage for now.

He conquered two cities of the Horned Demons, and millions of Horned Demons died because of him. He also confirmed the fall of two Earth Immortals and was now on the Horned Demons' kill list. It is estimated that he will not be able to live for the next five years, so he will naturally be unable to continue to accumulate merit.

So whether or not we can ultimately get first place depends on how well the other players perform.

Having achieved great success, Su Yu headed straight to the commercial district of Shengui Island and went directly to the military-affiliated chamber of commerce to sell off the numerous resources she had acquired.

They kept only about two million units of supplies, mostly common materials for alchemy and weapon crafting. They sold the rest for a total of 360 million gold, which was much lower than expected.

This is normal, though; such a large quantity certainly can't be sold at retail price.

360 million in cash is a lot.

With his current funds, he now has a total of 371 million gold and about 200 million gold worth of materials.

(End of this chapter)