Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 271 Enlightenment, New Laws and Divine Powers

Teams flew out from the three warships and dispersed in all directions around Thousand Feather City, forming a square formation of 1,000 people each, for a total of 150,000 people in 150 square formations.

Each formation contains a standard 108-person formation, mostly the Heavenly Blazing Fire Formation or the Heavenly Profound Ice Formation.

These formations are useless during sieges. Their main purpose is to allow players in one formation to hide inside the larger formation and hold out for a while when the enemy launches a concentrated counterattack, until other formations arrive to provide support.

Once the encirclement was complete, Gu Zhi Qiu gave the order, and his 150,000 men simultaneously unleashed their flying swords, magical artifacts, and spells to bombard the city's protective barrier.

With numerous subordinates providing additional damage, the recovery speed of the city's protective barrier was significantly slowed down. When the 40,000 Divine Thunder Towers on the three warships focused their fire again, the defensive power of the city's protective array was once again greatly reduced.

If this is repeated continuously, it becomes clear in just three waves that the defensive formation's recovery ability is inferior to its output.

Each round of attack and defense resulted in the loss of six to seven million defense points.

Ten rounds resulted in a loss of 60 to 70 million in defense capabilities.

The city's defensive array had a total defensive strength of 9 million, but in just over ten minutes, its defensive strength had been reduced to half.

Once the defense was reduced to a certain value, Gu Zhi Qiu immediately ordered in the guild channel to have the Gods' Thunder Tower slow down and synchronize with the main cannon.

Fifteen seconds later, one Heavenly Punishment main cannon, six Heavenly Strike main cannons, and forty thousand Divine Thunder Towers fired simultaneously. In an instant, the burst of over three hundred million directly broke through the remaining defensive power of the city's protective array, tearing it apart on the spot. The remaining lightning and fire blasted into the city, instantly killing a large number of people.

"attack!"

One hundred and fifty square formations spread out, summoning countless Gu worms that transformed into a vast cloud of Gu to fill the gaps between the formations and intercept the Heavenly God Society players escaping from the city.

Among the dense swarms of Gu worms, there were a great many large Gu creatures of level 100 or above. These large Gu creatures had thick skin and flesh, and their health was comparable to that of beast BOSSes. Hundreds and thousands of them stood in front, blocking the bombardment of many area-of-effect spells on ordinary Gu creatures.

These large Gu creatures, exceeding level 100, were refined through the Gu Abyss.

Wan Du Island has three large Gu Abysses, seven medium-sized Gu Abysses, and sixteen small Gu Abysses, which can continuously refine large Gu creatures with a level of over 100. At present, the entire guild probably has six or seven thousand large Gu creatures with a level of over 100.

The Thousand Star Palace dominates Ten Thousand Poisons Island, controlling the island's highest quality poisonous insects and worms.

Although the Gu Dao style is not viable in the later stages and has a difficult foundation to build, those who are lucky enough to survive the Heavenly Tribulation will basically only have a low-grade foundation. Mid-grade foundations are rare, and high-grade foundations are even rarer, with only one in a thousand years. Among loose immortals, its combat power is at the bottom. However, at the Qi Refining level, it is a powerful T1-level style.

Thousands upon thousands of Gu worms swarmed forward, and ordinary cultivators without powerful techniques and magic weapons would find it difficult to resist.

Large-scale team battles are also very powerful. For example, more than a third of the 150,000 people here follow the Gu Dao path. They can gather 40 to 50 million Gu worms in no time. Moreover, these are carefully crafted Gu worms of high level. Hundreds of large Gu creatures of level over 100 are coordinated and transformed into a Gu cloud that stretches for hundreds of kilometers. After the city is breached, it immediately submerges the entire city.

The enemy's resistance was also very strong. Some powerful forbidden techniques from experts could not even stop level 100 Gu worms. One bombardment burned hundreds of acres of Gu worms to ashes, and ordinary Gu worms suffered heavy losses.

But Wan Du Island has nothing else but a lot of Gu worms.

A batch dies, a batch is released to replenish the supply, and the number of Gu worms is always kept in a way that suppresses the Heavenly God Society.

"To be fair, the Gu Dao style is indeed very powerful at the Qi cultivation level."

Su Yu surveyed the entire battlefield through the water mirror and addressed the high-ranking guild officials behind her:

"We can build more Gu farms and refine more Gu worms for future use. Also, I remember that half of the guild's Gu Abyss is rented out, right?"

Gu Zhiqi immediately replied:
"Yes, the guild has a total of three large Gu Abysses, seven medium-sized Gu Abysses, and sixteen small Gu Abysses. One large Gu Abyss, three medium-sized Gu Abysses, and eight small Gu Abysses are available for rent. In addition, a batch of Gu worms are sold every year to generate income."

"We don't need to sell them anymore; we'll keep them all for guild members to exchange."

"Besides, aren't there many Gu worms for sale on the market? As long as they are rare Gu worms, we can buy them all. It shouldn't cost too much, right?"

"It won't cost much; at most, you'll need to spend 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per month to recoup most of it."

"That's settled then, spend 50 gold coins on this every year."

Su Yu made a decision.

The guild has not been established for long, and its accumulated experience is still not as good as other established dominant guilds. If it wants to close the gap, it has to be willing to spend money.

While they were chatting, the guild had already completely suppressed the Celestial Society, firmly confining them to the city area and putting up a stubborn resistance.

But such resistance was futile. As the two Sky Strike warships slowly sank and joined the battle, the resistance within the city was quickly dismantled. Six Loose Immortals, together with more than a hundred high-ranking members of the Heavenly God Society, forcibly broke through the encirclement. Ten thousand thunderbolts were unleashed, and a single Heavenly Punishment main cannon shot pierced through the crowd, instantly killing most of them.

The rest scattered and fled. Among them were three rogue immortals, one of whom was Jiang Lang, the vice president of the Heavenly God Society. He managed to escape by chance and glanced at the three giant ships in the sky with a resentful look. Then he saw a pitch-black axe-shaped aura appear out of thin air on his face.

Before he could react, his protective magic weapon was torn apart, and the axe's energy swept through, splitting him in two.

Seeing this scene, Su Yu, who was sitting on the warship, had a sudden thought and took a step, disappearing from sight.

The next second, he appeared outside the Heavenly Punishment Warship, revealing his true form and wielding the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe. The axe's energy cleaved out for less than ten feet before disappearing into thin air.

Gu Zhi Qiu and the others who came out were bewildered by this scene and asked in surprise:

"Boss, what is this?"

Su Yu flicked his hand and put away the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe, chuckling as he said:

"Let's try out a special skill."

Having finished speaking, he seemed to have gained some insight, and closed his eyes, entering a peculiar state. A faint fluctuation appeared out of nowhere, surrounding him. Seeing this, Gu Zhi Qiu had something to say, and said in a deep voice:

"Everyone, stay away from the president."

It was quite amazing; Su Yu couldn't tell what was going on or out for a moment, but she knew in her heart that she had to make this axe strike.

If I don't strike now, Jiang Lang will still die, but it won't be me who does it now, but my future self.

Manipulating Time: A divine power based on the laws of time, allowing one to move up and down the river of time, striking the target within 60 seconds. It consumes 10 mana and has a 10-day cooldown.

When Jiang Lang died from the inexplicably appearing axe, it meant that I had used my Time-Based Divine Power to kill Jiang Lang within 60 seconds of his death.

But that doesn't mean he has to take action; he can choose not to.

But Jiang Lang had already died ahead, and the deed was done; there must have been a reason for it.

Normally, he is the cause, but if he doesn't act now, cause and effect will be disordered, and space and time will be disordered. He must make up for this cause.

But if he doesn't take action now, then only his future self can make up for this cause.

Su Yu couldn't be sure if his future self would have this ability, but he was certain that becoming an immortal required settling karma. If he didn't take action, then his future self, who was about to undergo the great tribulation of heaven and earth, would have to take action to make up for this karma.

A profound realization will greatly influence one's future journey through the great tribulations of heaven and earth.

Therefore, he had to take action to make amends for killing Jiang Lang.

Once he understood the cause and effect, the power of time surrounding Su Yu began to contract inward and merge into his body.

"Hint: You have gained some insight during your enlightenment. Time Law +4, and you have mastered the Time Law supernatural power 'Stepping on Time'!"

Su Yu slowly opened her eyes, a look of joy on her face.

"It was an epiphany!"

He had heard of this: after establishing a foundation in the Dao, one has the opportunity to enter a state of enlightenment in daily life, thereby increasing one's strength or gaining benefits out of thin air.

For example, suddenly upgrading the Dao Foundation grade from a low-grade Dao Foundation to a mid-grade Dao Foundation.

Suddenly comprehend a Taoist technique or a forbidden supernatural power.

Or there is a very small chance that you will suddenly comprehend and master the law. If you have already mastered the law, it will increase your mastery of the law, and the increase will be very large.

This reminded Su Yu of the mission to win the inheritance of the Suspended Mountain Sect. He saw many elderly rogue immortals in seclusion in the underground of the Blood Fiend Sect. Their main purpose was to have an epiphany and improve their Dao Foundation level.

Those old, wandering immortals are mostly of low-grade Dao foundation. Their level is limited by their Dao foundation, and they basically can't advance any further once they reach that level.

If you have no desires and just drift along, you can still live a pretty good life.

With his cultivation level as a rogue immortal, plenty of young and beautiful new brides would be willing to follow him.

However, if they are still not satisfied, they will go into seclusion and try to achieve enlightenment in the process, thereby improving their foundation level and continuing their cultivation.

In the Other Shore, the lower-grade Dao Foundation will encounter a bottleneck when upgrading from level 120 to level 130, with the experience and Dao cultivation required for upgrading directly doubling by 100%.

The experience and cultivation requirements for leveling up from level 130 to 140 are doubled again, with an additional 200% increase.

The upgrade from level 140 to 150 doubles the previous level, with the experience and cultivation requirements increasing by 400%. This continues to double, reaching a staggering 12800% at level 190.

The intermediate-grade Dao Foundation is slightly better, as it only encounters a bottleneck when leveling from 150 to 160, starting from 100% and reaching 1600% at level 190. Although the requirements are still extremely high, at least there is a chance to achieve that.

Once you reach level 150, you can't level up any further. After that, you either have to stagnate or go into seclusion to achieve enlightenment and improve your Dao Foundation level.

As long as you can advance to the intermediate-grade Dao Foundation, you will have the opportunity to go further.

As for a superior Dao Foundation, even a third-grade one is not a problem. A superior Dao Foundation will not encounter any bottlenecks at the Loose Immortal level, and can smoothly advance to level 200 to prepare for the Tribulation.

This is the difference in Dao Foundation; the grade can directly determine life or death.

Fortunately, Su Yu doesn't have this problem. With a superior immortal foundation, she won't face any bottlenecks in her cultivation in the future, whether she's at the Earth Immortal stage or after becoming an Immortal.

One enlightenment of the Time Law increases the power by 4, now the Time Law increases by 10, and the power of all sword techniques and supernatural abilities based on the Time Law increases accordingly.

However, it's not a linear increase like before, but a small qualitative change of +10 in mastery of the laws.

Sword of Time - Overdrafting the Future (Foundation): Borrows power from the future using the power of time, increasing attack power and attack speed by 100 million for 30 seconds, consuming 5 mana, with a 15-day cooldown.

For every additional point added to the existing Time Law of +10, the attack power increases by 100,000 and the duration increases by 5 seconds.

Sword of Time - Passing Time (Dao Foundation): Uses the power of time to cut off the target's lifespan. If the target is at the same level, 350 years of lifespan can be cut off. The amount of lifespan cut off will vary depending on the difference in strength between the two parties. It consumes 5 mana points and has a 24-hour cooldown.

For every additional 1 point on top of the existing time law of +10, the base lifespan is increased by 25 years.

(End of this chapter)