Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 29 Ancient Secret Realm, Three Major Guilds

After completing his training, Su Yu came out of his retreat room and saw Shi Ning refining a Gu. The others were not around, so he casually asked:

"Are they going to level up?"

Shi Ning shook his head and said:
"They didn't go leveling today. Instead, they went to the Third Regiment's base to hire a group of craftsmen to expand the base."

"Oh!"

Su Yu shrugged, said goodbye and went out, ready to continue leveling up.

His strength has improved further. This time he went deeper into the water. He used Yanri to easily circle and kill a group of monsters, then dived into the water.

For him, a monster around level 60 is not much different from one at level 50, it just requires two more swords.

After spending a little time killing the nearby monsters, he continued to swim deeper into the water.

The last opportunity made him taste the sweetness. In these mountains and lakes, there are indeed many caves or treasures left by the predecessors. As long as you are lucky enough to come across one, it will be a huge profit.

I'm free anyway, so I might as well go for a walk.

Before I knew it, the morning had passed without any results.

He was not discouraged. This kind of thing must be hidden very deeply. It would be strange if he could easily come across it.

After a brief rest, he re-entered the water.

But just after diving less than a hundred meters, I suddenly received a message from Gu Zhiqiu:

"Brother Su, where are you?"

"Leveling in the swamp."

"Come to Yuanjiang quickly."

"what?"

"Secret Realm, the guild discovered an ancient secret realm in Yuanjiang. Look at the regional channel, the three groups have pinned the announcement."

"Ancient secret realm? Let me take a look."

He quickly opened the regional channel and saw the message pinned to the top of the channel.

The pinned message was posted in the name of the leader of the third main regiment stationed in the Poison Mist Swamp. It roughly means that someone from the guild discovered an entrance to an ancient secret realm at the bottom of the river not far from the mouth of the small river connecting the Poison Mist Swamp to the Yuan River. If nearby guild members have no important matters, they need to go there to gather.

Su Yu clicked on the trust message, carefully read the message and the comments of many guild members, and had an idea in his mind.

The good news is that the secret realm is real, and no one has ever entered it.

The bad news is that when the secret realm was born, a strong visual phenomenon occurred, which could be seen within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

This area is located on the edge of the Qianyu Guild. On the other side of the Yuan River is the Jianling Pavilion, a guild stronger than the Qianyu Guild. In the lower reaches of the Yuan River is the Leiying Guild, which is as powerful as the Qianyu Guild.

A strange phenomenon appeared in the sky, and people from both guilds saw it.

At this time, the three major guilds gathered near the ancient secret realm and were in negotiations.

At this time, Gu Zhiqiu sent another message:

"Do you want to come?"

He came back to his senses and said:
"Of course, I'm quite curious about this ancient secret realm."

After saying that, he closed the virtual channel, took off into the air and flew towards the south.

He soared into the air on his sword, as fast as lightning, and crossed the poisonous fog swamp and mountains. Soon he could see the Yuan River in the distance, which was as wide as the sea.

There was no need to ask for directions. From afar, one could see a thick pillar of light piercing the sky from the surface of the wide Yuan River. Circles of rich spiritual power ripples spread out in all directions with the pillar of light as the center.

There were three fleets anchored on the water around the light column, with a total of forty or fifty ships forming a circle around the light column. The Divine Thunder Tower was activated and bombarded the water surface.

The sky was filled with densely packed figures of people on flying boats, and judging from the scale, there were probably over a hundred thousand of them.

"That's an exaggeration."

He flew over quickly and contacted Gu Zhiqiu to join them.

"You've come at the perfect time. The three parties have almost reached an agreement. I guess they'll send someone in soon."

"So fast?"

"We have to hurry. After the secret realm opened, a huge amount of spiritual energy overflowed, attracting a large number of aquatic monsters to enter. In just a short while, several monsters over a hundred levels have already entered. If we delay any longer, there will be more monsters coming. If we attract those monsters over two hundred levels, we will be doomed."

"Time waits for no one. It's highly likely that the three parties have agreed to jointly explore and set up a formation to block the entrance as soon as possible."

"That's it"

Su Yu nodded.

At this time, Gu Zhiqiu put his hand in front of his eyes to look at the beam of light, shook his head and said:

"I don't know what kind of secret realm it is. I don't know if we have a chance to enter."

Su Yu smiled and said:

"Whether he has a chance or not is not of much concern to us. It's the first time to explore, and we can't let newcomers go in and explore."

"That's true."

"By the time the guild is done exploring, only slag will be left."

Su Yu shook his head and said:
"I'm going to the Yuan River to kill some monsters. Do you want to come?"

Zhuang Zhuo was speechless and complained:

"You are too diligent."

"You have to be diligent. If you're not diligent, how can you catch up with those rich second-generations or those with exceptional talent?"

"You cow!"

"You deserve it, you're awesome."

"hey-hey."

Su Yu waved his hand, took off into the air and flew away.

Away from the crowd, he came to the surface of the water more than ten kilometers offshore of the Yuan River. The aquatic monsters swimming in the water here were between level sixty and seventy, just right for him to hunt.

He stretched out his finger and pointed, and the Sun-Covering Sword flew out like lightning, drawing a large arc in the air and falling down to circle a group of green carp spirits inside. The flying sword crossed back and forth, and it took four or five rounds to strangle them.

He retracted his flying sword and dived into the water. The Black Water Pearl expanded the waterless space to form a bubble that sank. Less than fifty meters away, he saw a seven or eight meter long black fish monster opening its mouth wide to bite him.

He pointed casually, and the flying sword flew up, cutting diagonally along the edge of the fish's mouth. With one circle, it cut the seven or eight meter long black fish into several pieces.

The smell of blood spread and soon attracted a group of green fish spirits to fight for the remaining corpse.

Su Yu rolled them all up without hesitation, and the sword energy came and went in all directions.

He dived about four or five hundred meters in one breath and stopped, then squatted at this depth to kill the passing aquatic monsters.

About half an hour later, I received a message from Gu Zhiqiu:

"There are results."

"How about it?"

"It's true that the three guilds are collaborating on this exploration, and they've now formed a joint formation to block the exit from the secret realm."

"What's going on inside the secret realm? How do we explore it? Who will advance?"

"How would I know? They're probably still under negotiation."

"Ok."

Turn off the communication and continue to spawn monsters underwater.

He swam all the way to night. When he came out from the bottom of the water, it was dark, but the beam of light not far away pierced the sky and illuminated the area within dozens of kilometers.

There were more warships than during the day, and the total number of warships from the three parties combined was over a hundred.

In addition, he found that there were more players gathered nearby than during the day.

There are not only the three major guilds, but also a large number of non-guild teams and individual players.

"How long do we have to wait for this?"

Su Yu rubbed his teeth and sent a message to Gu Zhiqiu:
"Do you want to wait any longer? I'll go back first." "You go first. I have to wait a while."

"Row."

Su Yu was not very interested in this. When a secret realm was first opened up, experts were sent in, and it would never be the turn of a newcomer like him.

However, like Gu Zhiqiu, he was also very curious about what type of secret realm this was, whether it was complete, and whether the level of the secret realm was high.

A secret realm is an independent space attached to the main world on the other side, and can be roughly divided into three types.

A secret realm is an independent world formed naturally.

One type of secret realm is a paradise opened up by powerful beings above the level of immortals using great magic power. There is a chance that there are treasures left by the immortals inside, and of course there may also be various dangers sealed inside.

One type of secret realm is transformed from a space-type spiritual treasure, and the secret realm itself is a treasure.

The most valuable one is naturally the last kind of secret realm. The secret realm itself is a space spiritual treasure, and there must be various treasures derived from the space spiritual treasure.

The next is the paradise opened up by immortals with their great magic power. This kind of secret place is either the secluded immortal residence of a big boss or an important place of the sect.

Even if the immortal passes away and the immortal sect is destroyed, there will still be treasures left inside.

Of course, it is also possible that it is an abandoned cave by immortals or immortal sects, with nothing inside.

It is more likely to be a prison where immortals imprison criminals or demons. Not only are there no good things in it, it is also very dangerous.

The value of the lowest natural secret realm is uncertain. It may contain valuable treasures, or it may just be an ordinary space with nothing in it.

But no matter what secret realm it is, the secret realm itself has value.

Even in an ordinary space with nothing in it, you can open up fertile fields, build a country and reproduce living things.

When Su Yu returned to the poisonous fog swamp, it was already night. He ate something simple and went to bed.

Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, he found two new messages, one from Fu Ping and the other from Chu Xinyue.

First open the one sent by Fu Ping:
"Brother Su Yu, hurry to the newly discovered secret realm, there is good news."

Look at what Chu Xinyue sent:

"Come to the secret realm!"

He immediately wrote back to Fu Ping:

"I wonder what good news Brother Fu is talking about?"

Then write back to Chu Xinyue:
"right away."

The universal spell of cleansing was used to remove the filth from the body, and he flew directly into the air towards the secret realm.

On the way, Fu Ping wrote back:

"We've reached a conclusion after some discussion. Last night, the Guild, the Sword Spirit Pavilion, and the Thunder Eagle Society each sent a few experts to conduct a preliminary exploration of the secret realm. They discovered that it was an abandoned medicine garden. I don't know which ancient sect's medicine garden it was, but it's been abandoned. There aren't many spiritual herbs left, and there aren't any high-quality ones either."

"Furthermore, the medicine garden has been unmaintained for who knows how many years. The secret realm has begun to collapse, and the internal space is now extremely unstable. The entry of a Loose Immortal or above will greatly affect the stability of the secret realm."

"Several level-hundred monsters entered the secret realm yesterday, affecting its stability."

"After evaluation, this secret realm was originally estimated to last a hundred years at most. Now that it has been opened prematurely and destroyed, it is estimated that it will completely collapse in another twenty to thirty years. It is no longer worth occupying."

"After discussing last night, the three guilds decided to immediately send people in to take away all the spiritual medicines inside."

"Oh"

Su Yu was surprised:

"Anyone can collect herbs, right? Why are you looking for me?"

Fu Ping replied:

"Of course, we're not just collecting herbs. It's a rare opportunity for three guilds to get together, and everyone wants to test each other out."

"Everyone knows the guild's veterans, so there's nothing to test. Only the newcomers represent the future of each guild. Everyone wants to see the quality of the other guild's newcomers. The three guilds have agreed to send 100 newcomers each into the secret realm to compete for the resources within."

"It's limited to newcomers this year. You have one spot among the top eight in the last quiz."

"Oh!"

Su Yu understood.

The secret realm's value was too low, which disappointed everyone. However, we didn't want to end it hastily after mobilizing so many people, so we came up with this idea.

He returned to Yuanjiang River and quickly went to the guild's fleet to find Fu Ping. Fu Ping took him to one of the giant wooden divine ships, where many young men and women had already gathered. He saw several familiar faces inside, and He Shoucheng was standing there waving to him.

"Please wait for a moment. President Ding will come and speak later."

"Ok."

Su Yu came to He Shoucheng's side and stood still. Dozens of eyes were looking at him, including many familiar faces, including He Shoucheng's girlfriend and brother-in-law.

At this time, He Shoucheng whispered to him:
"It seems that there is no restriction on forming a team. Shall we join together later?"

"Okay."

"Do you want to bring in a few more people?"

"I don't know the others well."

"I'll get in touch."

"sorry to bother you."

He Shoucheng gave him a look, turned around and whispered to Wei Xia beside him.

At this moment, a Spirit Wing flying boat came from a distance and landed directly on the deck. A group of guild leaders walked down and someone immediately shouted:

"quiet!"

The deck fell silent, and a group of guild leaders walked up to them, with Vice President Ding Hao in the middle.

I didn't know this before, but I heard He Shoucheng tell me some secrets when I was leveling up with him some time ago. It seems that the president of Qianyu Guild is about to retire. He has not been involved in guild affairs for several years. The next president of the guild has not been elected yet, and the affairs of the guild are temporarily presided over by several vice presidents.

Ding Hao is one of the three vice presidents, in charge of administration.

It is worth mentioning that the succession system for the president of Qianyu Guild is not designated by the previous president, but the president selects several candidates before the end of his term.

Generally, only the three vice presidents and the three main group leaders have the right of inheritance.

Generally, after five years of observation, the guild will convene a meeting of all core members to vote and elect the president.

Of course, although the president is elected democratically, the candidates are hereditary.

These core decision-makers of the guild all have their own power and their own strongholds within the guild, and their positions are all selected internally.

It doesn't have to be a son or daughter, it could be an apprentice or a brother or sister.

Therefore, if Chu Xinyue can become the leader of the guild's main second group, she will be qualified to compete for the position of guild president.

The reason why she couldn't take control of the main second group was not only because the other people in the second group were dissatisfied, but more likely someone didn't want her to take control of the second group too early and participate in the competition for the president.

At this time, Ding Hao had already started speaking:

"I believe you all already know why I've gathered you this time. I have only one request for you. It doesn't matter how many spiritual herbs you seize within the secret realm. The key is to severely strike the Sword Spirit Pavilion and the Thunder Eagle Society. For each one you kill, you'll be rewarded with 50 contribution points and 50 taels of silver. If you work together, the contribution and silver will be split equally."

He didn't try to hide his intentions at all and directly encouraged them to kill:
"Kill 10 or more people alone, and the reward will be doubled."

"Also, the compensation for death in the secret realm will also be doubled."

At this time someone asked:

"Where are the elixirs collected in the secret realm?"

Ding Hao smiled and said:

"This secret realm has been abandoned. Although there are many spiritual herbs, most of them are not valuable. Therefore, all the spiritual herbs belong to you. Collect as many as you can."

"Wow!"

Everyone's eyes lit up and they became excited.

The value is not high only for the guild. To them, it is not low. If they collect enough, they can gain a lot.

(End of this chapter)