Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 303 The Flying Star Sect is Destroyed, Unifying the East Sea
Thus, the city's protective formation was broken, and the Flying Star Sect was destroyed.

Two days later, a Divine Immortal from the Divine Boat Sect abandoned the sect with its high-ranking elites and numerous treasures and resources, and the Divine Boat Sect was defeated without a fight.

Soon after, the Thousand Stars Palace entered Flying Star City without bloodshed. In addition, the two major guild alliances surrendered early on. At this point, the East Sea was settled, and the Thousand Stars Palace officially became the overlord of the East Sea.

The next step is to continue expanding the guild throughout the East China Sea, until it can completely control most of the important resource areas in the East China Sea.

Time flies, and years pass quickly.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Ten years later, the headquarters of the Thousand Star Palace is located on Thousand Star Island, outside the main city of Thousand Star.

Yes, after destroying the Flying Star Sect, the Flying Star Islands were renamed the Thousand Star Islands, the main island was renamed Thousand Star Island, and the original Flying Star Main City was renamed Thousand Star Main City, serving as the headquarters of the Thousand Star Palace.

The original Flying Star Mountain Gate was renamed Thousand Star Mountain. Inside, there is a fourth-grade high-quality spiritual vein, which Su Yu uses for his own purposes. It is his dojo in the East Sea.

The original God Zhoumen Mountain Gate was bestowed upon my second brother by Su Yu as his dojo, which can be passed down as a family dojo after my second brother's family prospers.

The original headquarters of the Thousand Stars Palace, Ten Thousand Poisons Island and Five Elements Cave Heaven, were left to Chu Xinyue as her training grounds.

After ten years of development, the Thousand Star Palace, which dominates the entire East China Sea, has more than 1500 million members.

Among them, the main force regiment, where Su Yu is located, has 500 million members.

Chu Xinyue's main force, the Second Regiment, has 180 million members.

The second brother's main force, the Third Regiment, has 200 million members.

Of the remaining 620 million members, more than 200 million are engaged in various professions. The remaining 42 million are divided into 420 brigades, with each brigade consisting of 10 members. After more than ten years of training, Su Yu's two older siblings are now each leading a brigade.

By integrating all the resources of the East China Sea, the guild now earns hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

The annual income from various mineral deposits, spiritual fields, medicinal fields, and other special resource points is 7800 million gold.

The total annual income of Qianxing Main City, Wandu Island, and several newly built large cities, including taxes, income from local industries, and shop rents, is 568 million. Qianxing Main City, with an annual floating population of over 100 million, accounts for more than 80% of the total income.

In total, the Thousand Star Palace has an annual income of 64600 million.

Annual operating expenses amount to 26000 million, including all guild expenses, city and resource point maintenance, warship maintenance fees, guild rewards, salaries for officers and important professions, etc.

It's worth mentioning that the reason why the expenditure is so low despite having 1500 million people is because Su Yu gave up the vast majority of resource points.

Currently, the guild's core is concentrated in the Thousand Star Islands and the two important branches of Ten Thousand Poisons Island and Endless Forest. Other areas are used to build cities in places where players gather to attract players, and resource areas are basically given to small and medium-sized forces.

They ate meat, while everyone else had soup.

The reason is simple: the main city of Thousand Stars is too profitable.

The core of the entire East China Sea is the Thousand Star Islands. This location is too crucial. It is located in the center of the East China Sea and is also a transportation route between the entire Blue Mountain Islands and other areas of the human world. Large merchant guilds from human civilization all stop here first. Every year, new pioneering players transported from the human heartland are transported to the Thousand Star main city and then transferred from here to various parts of the Blue Mountain.

Apart from the main city of Thousand Stars, there are no other large islands or spiritual veins in the entire East Sea. The vast majority of the population and resources are concentrated here.

The extreme concentration of population resources naturally brings enormous benefits.

At this point, he doesn't need to monopolize all the resource territories; he only needs to firmly hold onto the Thousand Star City.

Moreover, he distributes these resources to other players so that they have enough money to spend. No matter how much they earn, they have to come to the Thousand Star City to spend it, and the money ultimately ends up in his hands.

He then used the money he earned to buy up large quantities of resources and loot from casual players.

After making money, casual players need to spend it to improve their strength. This continuous cycle forms an economic loop, ensuring a steady stream of income.

After deducting all expenses, the guild's annual net income is as high as 3.86 million gold.

In just ten years, the guild's total revenue reached as high as 38.6 billion.

After deducting the guild's reserve, Su Yu herself will receive 20%, which is 7.7 million gold.

Yes, the guild leader's annual salary used to be 10% of the guild's total income, but after the unification of the East China Sea, Su Huan proposed and it was unanimously approved, and his annual salary doubled to 20%.

In addition, the spoils from destroying the Flying Star Sect and conquering the original Flying Star main city exceeded 86 billion, of which Su Yu alone took half, 43 billion. With his income over the past ten years, his total net worth has now reached 40.7 billion gold.

For Su Yu, who unified the East China Sea and ruled over hundreds of millions of players, money was just a number.

He is not short of money or conventional resources.

For the past ten years, Su Yu has spent most of his time cultivating in the underground world with Qing Chan, accumulating killing experience and cultivation through frenzied killing in preparation for heading to the Azure Sea.

With his strength at this level, ordinary Earth Immortals were like chickens and dogs to be slaughtered. He posed no challenge in the Blue Mountain Islands. At this moment, Su Yu's mind was no longer here, nor in other places within the human sphere of influence, but in the Azure Sea.

Ever since Ao Run learned that the Other Shore Realm was the legendary Immortal Realm, his thoughts had already flown to the Four Continents, hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

Blue Mountain Island is just a small place. At most, its resources can only support him to reach the Earth Immortal level, and it takes a long time to slowly grind his way up. If he wants to go further and become a Celestial Immortal, he needs to go out and train.

Of all the places to gain experience, none is better than the Four Continents.

For the past ten years, he has been on a killing spree, all in preparation for his journey to the Azure Sea.

The guild has been developing for ten years and is already on the right track. Its strength is enough to ensure that even if he is away for a long time, there will be no chaos. He can go out with peace of mind. After a series of thoughts, Su Yu slowly opened his eyes and looked at Qing Chan, who was sitting cross-legged opposite him, and said:
"Preparations are almost complete. Once we get back and make the necessary arrangements, we'll head to the Azure Sea."

Qingchan nodded and said:
"It's becoming increasingly difficult to progress here; it's time to move on to a higher level."

Back at the guild, Su Yu summoned the guild's senior members and told them directly that she was going out to gain some experience.

Gu Zhi Qiu said with a grin:

"Don't worry, guild leader. Our guild has no rivals in the entire Blue Mountains Islands. We also have a good reputation locally, so there won't be any problems."

Su Yu glanced at Gu Zhi Qiu, whose level had already reached 156, and nodded.

"With you all here, I feel at ease."

Although Gu Zhi Qiu is only a mid-grade Dao Foundation cultivator, with the support of the guild's massive resources, his level is still rising quite quickly, and now his level is only 4 levels lower than his.

However, this level is meaningless and is only a reference.

He was only at the middle-grade Dao Foundation stage, and the experience required for his upgrade was less than one-tenth of that required for his own. Their strengths were worlds apart, making them completely incomparable.

Su Yu glanced at everyone present. Chu Xinyue was level 167 and Chu Xiaoyu was level 152.

My second brother, Su Huan, is currently level 171, and my second sister-in-law, Meng Siyi, is level 168.

The other core members are all around level 150, even the fourth sister is level 142 and the ninth brother is level 140, they are all quite good.

With the current resources of the Thousand Star Palace, even those at the mid-grade Dao Foundation stage have a chance to advance to the Earth Immortal realm.

But it's just an opportunity; whether they can actually become Earth Immortals depends on themselves.

Su Yu's current ability can only quickly create Loose Immortals; she cannot create Earth Immortals.

After arranging the guild's internal affairs, Su Yu returned to the Falling Star Islands.

Seventeen years have passed since the Horned Demon Red Tide. The local conflict between humans and Horned Demons has ended. Su Yu returned to the military to settle his merits and finally ranked third with 582 million merits.

The rewards are plentiful and of extremely high quality. The third-ranked player can choose a 10th-tier magic weapon or upgrade one of their 9th-tier magic weapons to 10th tier.

After a slight hesitation, Su Yu chose to upgrade the Nine Heavens Purple Thunder Hammer in his hand to the tenth level.

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

Lightning Strike: Activates the lightning hammer to unleash a bolt of divine lightning from the heavens, dealing 50 + 500% spell damage to a single target. Casting range is 100 kilometers. Mana cost is 10000 points. Additional effects: 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 ten seconds and then unleash a thunderbolt with 1000 million + 1000% spell damage bonus to strike the target, which will definitely paralyze for 5-15 seconds. Casting range is 200 kilometers, mana cost is 5, and cooldown time is 15 minutes.

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 100 kilometers. Mana cost: 30 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 1000-meter radius of the center target, dealing 50% damage. This effect can be freely toggled on and off.

After upgrading the magic weapon, Su Yu visited Han Zhuofei again and told him about her plan to go to the Azure Sea for training.

"The Azure Sea?"

Han Zhuofei paused, a look of confusion on his face, as he held up the teacup.

"This name sounds familiar, and it looks somewhat familiar."

Su Yu's heart moved, and he immediately asked:

"Does the general know this place?"

"I have a vague recollection of it; I think I've heard someone mention it before."

He pondered for more than ten seconds, then suddenly his eyes lit up and he said:
“I remember now, I once heard a general mention this place, the Azure Sea, also called the Azure Immortal Realm, I think. Wait a minute.”

Han Zhuofei paused for a moment, then continued:

"I just checked the information about the Azure Immortal Realm, but you don't have the necessary permissions to send it to you."

"This Azure Immortal Realm is the center of our sea area, extremely far away from us. Even a Celestial Immortal would need decades to travel there."

Su Yu was greatly surprised:
"so far?"

Han Zhuofei sighed:

"Our world is vast and boundless, incredibly large. Our human civilization occupies a vast territory, but it is only a drop in the ocean of this world."

"The Azure Immortal Realm is extremely far from here, but it is the center of this Immortal Realm. The concentration of spiritual energy, resources, and number of powerful individuals there far surpasses that of here. Therefore, most of the top geniuses of human civilization go there to develop after becoming Earth Immortals, hoping to find the opportunity to become an immortal there."

(End of this chapter)