Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 324 Golden Core Characteristics, Immortality
Supernatural Powers: Realm Suppression (Earth Immortal), Crimson Dragon Techniques, Five Elements Unity, Supreme Dragon Transformation, Primordial Magnetic Flowing Light Escape, Battle Dharma Form, Time Law, Metal Element Law.

Realm Suppression (Earth Immortal): Reduces damage from Foundation Establishment cultivators by 50% and damage from Qi Refining cultivators by 75%.

Red Dragon's Laws: A human being who is proficient in all kinds of magic and supernatural powers of the Supreme Dragon Transformation.

Five Elements Unity +3: Can master the spells of the five elements simultaneously.

Supreme Dragon Transformation: The transformation lasts for a total of 24 hours. The base level of the Crimson Dragon is 300. For every +1 point of Supreme Dragon Transformation level, the level increases by 1.

Magnetic Flowing Light Escape +1: Second level, base escape speed is 1500% of own flight speed, mana consumption is 1000 points/second.

Time Law +30: Master all kinds of time law supernatural powers.

Metal Element Law +10: Master all the supernatural powers of the Metal Element Law.

Battle Form: Transforms into a 300-foot-tall, four-headed, eight-armed battle form, with increased health, mana, physique, strength, speed, spell damage, and flying sword attack. Characteristics: Quick casting (Earth Immortal), divine power, indestructible, impervious to all spells, immovable as a mountain, embodying the laws of heaven and earth (Great Divine Power), four heads and eight arms.

No duration, no cooldown.

Faster Casting: A universal trait of spellcasting, allowing you to cast spells at an extremely fast speed with -50% mana cost.

Divine Power: Divine power deals 200% extra damage to demons and monsters.

Indestructible: Immune to damage equal to physical strength, greatly increases armor penetration and resistance.

Invulnerable to all laws: immune to all laws in the world below the level of celestial beings.

Immovable as a mountain: one's true form stands between heaven and earth and will not collapse.

Law of Heaven and Earth: Transforms into Heaven and Earth, possessing immense magical power, all attributes *10, lasting 300 seconds.

Four Heads and Eight Arms: A unique feature of the Battle Form, it can simultaneously unleash four layers of Taoist magic and activate eight weapons and magical artifacts at the same time, increasing the maximum number of universal magical artifact slots by 8.

The Metal Element Law +10 gives rise to several supernatural abilities, namely Metal Element Laws, Metal Element Mastery, Innate Metal Thunder, and Innate Metal Escape.

The Time Law +30 grants a new Time Law supernatural power—Time Reversal, which allows the user to control the reversal of time within a 1-kilometer radius, with a maximum reversal time of 1 minute.

Furthermore, as the laws of time are enhanced, the power of the various time-related supernatural abilities that were previously mastered has also increased to varying degrees.

After reading the rules, Su Yu immediately stopped to check the characteristics of his Golden Core.

The so-called Golden Core characteristics are a certain number of characteristics given after the Golden Core is condensed, taking into account the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation, the grade of the Golden Core, one's own cultivation methods and talents, bloodline, and the laws mastered. One of these characteristics is chosen as one's own talent.

Note: For the Super Grade Immortal Golden Elixir, two Golden Elixir properties can be selected.

Feature 1: Vast Mana: Maximum Mana +1000%, Mana Regeneration Speed ​​+1000% (Superior).

Feature 2: Overwhelming Power: Maximum HP +1000%, HP recovery speed +1000% (Superior).

Feature 3: Four Symbols Suppressing the Prison: Uses the power of the four spirits to suppress the enemy, weakening the opponent's all attributes and damage by 20%, slowing their speed by 50%, prohibiting air travel, and prohibiting teleportation. The influence level is fourth tier, and the influence radius is 1000 kilometers (super quality).

Feature 4: Immortality: Gain immortality, regenerate severed limbs, remove fatal weaknesses from the physical body, and recover 1% + 1000% of maximum health per second (superior quality).

Characteristic 5: Lord of Time: Your current time law power and effect +1 level.

Without any hesitation, Su Yu chose the four attributes of immortality and the five attributes of time mastery.

Needless to say, the Lord of Time increases the priority of the laws of time, making them even more powerful.

Immortality greatly enhances survivability. The ability to regenerate severed limbs ensures that they can quickly regrow and remove fatal wounds, meaning that even if someone is ambushed and has their head cut off, they will not die. As long as their head is found and reattached, they can continue fighting.

现在生命恢复是3万，选择不死之身后每秒再生是30万，再加自身最大生命值5000万的1%是50万，共80万。

After selecting the Golden Core characteristics, there are still 36 Heavenly Dao Powers left to use.

But figuring out how to use it proved difficult.

If you allocate points to the Supreme Dragon Transformation skill, each point of Heavenly Dao Power will grant you one level up, with a maximum level of 336. Even with the 8 points accumulated over the past eight years by the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, you'll only reach level 344.

If you allocate points to the Laws, the Time Law is now +30, and it would take 30 points of Heavenly Dao Power to increase it by one point.

If the Metal element rule is only +10, 30 points can directly upgrade it to +20.

If you add it to the bloodline, 10 points will increase the progress by 1 point, and with the accumulation of Zhenhai Pearl, it will only increase the progress by 4 points, which is too little.

In addition to these, there are also Heavenly Demon Transformation, Innate Water Thunder, and Innate Water Escape.

Yes, there are also the Five Elements Daoist arts, including the Five Elements Thunder Arts, the Five Elements Escape Arts, the Five Elements Forbidden Arts, and so on.

Of course, there is also the Five Elements Unity derived from the Golden Core, and even the newly acquired Golden Core characteristic of immortality can be enhanced.

Another Golden Core trait, the Lord of Time, cannot be improved.

For every 10 strands of Heavenly Dao Power, the Undying Body increases by 1. Each level increases the speed of health recovery and limb regeneration by 200%. When the Undying Body reaches +10, it upgrades from limb regeneration to blood regeneration, resulting in another qualitative change in regenerative ability.

In other words, only 100 strands of Heavenly Dao power are needed to complete the transformation of an immortal body.

"The demand is too high; the power of Heaven is simply not enough."

Su Yu rubbed his head vigorously, hesitated for a long time before finally making up his mind to add all the power of the Heavenly Dao to the Undying Body.

There's no other way; the power of Heaven is limited, and it can only be applied to the most valuable and quickest results.

The Metal Element Law is currently not in demand, and it is not as useful as the Time Law until all five elements are gathered.

Needless to say, bloodline wouldn't change much even if all the Heavenly Dao power at hand were added.

Su Yu had a total of 44 points of Heavenly Dao Power, which directly upgraded his Undying Body to +4, increasing his physical body recovery speed and health recovery speed by an additional 800%.

The remaining 4 points will be kept for future use.

Thus, this tribulation came to an end, and Su Yu's strength had undergone a tremendous change compared to when he was at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Emerging from the tribulation platform, Su Yu clasped his hands and bowed to his master outside the platform:

"I have successfully survived the heavenly tribulation and have fulfilled my mission."

Ye Lingfeng stroked his beard and laughed heartily:

"Good, you have successfully created the immortal elixir. Your master is very pleased."

"It is thanks to Master's excellent teaching."

Looking at the other senior brothers and sisters, their smiles were forced, with only the smiles of the fourth and fifth senior brothers and sisters being genuine.

The group returned to the Divine Turtle Island Dojo, and Ye Lingfeng, seated at the head of the table, said happily:

"Now that you have successfully formed your core, you are qualified to compete for a place as a true disciple of our sect. However, since you have just undergone tribulation, your cultivation is not yet stable. It would be best if you continued to cultivate for a few more years and wait until your cultivation reaches the fourth rank or above before competing for a place as a true disciple of our sect."

"At that time, I will recommend you in the name of the Tianxing lineage, so you can skip the previous procedures and go directly to the final assessment."

Su Yu nodded seriously:

"Disciple thanks Master."

Ye Lingfeng stroked his beard and said:

"You're the one who's good at it."

Huaimeng and the others sat at the lower end of the table, and their moods were not very good after hearing what their master said.

"grass!"

Back at his lodgings, Huaimeng swept the things off the table with a wave of his sleeve, looking annoyed, and said:
"The old man is confused. I begged him so many times but he refused to recommend me. He just formed his core and he can't wait to bring it up. It really infuriates me."

Xingyi, also a member of the Heavenly Eye Clan, sat at the lower end and said in a deep voice:
"Who told him to form a top-grade immortal golden core? For each level he advances, the golden core essence he condenses is 3 points, which is 1 point more than ours per level. At 100 levels, that's 100 points. His potential is visible to the naked eye, so naturally he is more valued."

Huai Meng said coldly:

"So what? It's not absolute. As long as there are enough resources, we can make up for it in other ways."

"Hehe, we can make up for it in other ways, but others can also go further in other areas. We can't compete with them."

“A top-grade immortal golden core, once it grows up, none of us can beat it. Not only will it be the position of true successor, but it will also be the future head of the Heavenly Punishment lineage. Once it becomes the head of the Heavenly Punishment lineage, this lineage will belong to humanity.”

Huai Meng's face was gloomy, and he remained silent.

A few stars shifted and said:
"The best way is to cripple him before he gains too much power."

"Elaborate?"

“He can’t stay in the sect forever; he’ll have to go out and gain experience eventually. We’ll hire assassins on the black market to kill him then.”

He reached out and made a knife, then slashed down fiercely.

Huai Meng remained silent for a few seconds, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes:

"it is good."

Su Yu was naturally unaware of his two senior brothers' plans. At this moment, he was on his Red Jade Peak, flipping through the Golden Core Cultivation Manual given to him by his master. It detailed the cultivation path and the things that needed to be done after breaking through to the Golden Core stage.

The cultivation methods after reaching the Golden Core stage are largely the same as those after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, with only minor differences.

The process of upgrading levels is the same as when establishing a foundation. You can upgrade them separately or directly upgrade the Golden Core grade. You can upgrade from no grade to the tenth grade of Golden Core and then trigger the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth to become an immortal.

Upgrading one's rank also requires cultivation points and Taoist cultivation, and the amount required is naturally enormous.

The biggest difference between Golden Core and Dao Foundation lies in the fact that after Golden Core improves cultivation, one can obtain a power called Golden Core Essence, which can replace the power of Heaven to enhance divine abilities, techniques, and even bloodlines.

However, it should be noted that the essence of the Golden Elixir only has an effect similar to the power of the Heavenly Dao, but it is not the power of the Heavenly Dao itself; it only possesses a portion of the effects of the power of the Heavenly Dao.

For example, it can only improve the level of Taoist techniques, strengthen the level of bloodline, strengthen the laws, and so on.

However, it cannot improve the grade of Dao techniques. For example, exquisite Dao techniques cannot be strengthened to the profound, sect-suppressing, or even supreme grades like the power of the Heavenly Dao.

Bloodlines can only be strengthened on the basis of existing bloodlines; they cannot be allowed to leapfrog and advance in rank.

It cannot be used to enhance magical artifacts or other treasures like the power of the Heavenly Dao; it is essentially a limited version of the power of the Heavenly Dao.

Even so, that's still very strong.

Normal low-grade Golden Elixir grants 1 point per level. High-grade Golden Elixir grants 2 points per level.

The Super Grade Immortal Golden Core gains 3 points for each level up, which is equivalent to gaining 300 points of Heavenly Dao Power to improve oneself when reaching level 300. This is the main reason why the Super Grade Golden Core is more valued, as the difference is too great.

There are roughly three ways to cultivate the Golden Elixir.

One method is traditional leveling, which is still the most efficient way, but the prerequisite is having enough experience monsters that are level 200 or higher.

The second type is to cultivate in a spiritual place, such as a sect's grotto or one's own dojo.

It is worth mentioning that Su Yu's Red Jade Pavilion can provide 8 million spiritual energy experience points and 400 cultivation points every day. This is not the limit of the Red Jade Pavilion, but the limit of his disciple's status and authority.

As his cultivation level improved and he condensed his Golden Core, his authority increased, and he can now provide up to 20 billion spiritual energy experience points and 1000 cultivation points every day.

That's 7300 billion cultivation points and 36.5 points of Taoist cultivation in a year.

To advance from the initial Golden Core stage to the first rank of Golden Core requires 10 trillion cultivation points and 1000 million Dao cultivation points, and it takes 13 years to accumulate enough for the advancement. Even if we deduct 30% for innate talent, it will still take eight or nine years.

This is only the first grade; there are ten grades to come. The demand keeps increasing. Relying solely on spiritual vein cultivation, one would have to remain still for at least four or five hundred years.

Therefore, it is still necessary to combine multiple aspects.

Traditional leveling methods include using spiritual veins and taking potions.

Yes, the third way to cultivate is by taking pills, various pills that can improve cultivation, such as the Purple Mansion Heavenly Origin Pill. One pill can grant 1000 billion cultivation points or 1 points of Dao cultivation. As long as you have enough pills, you can quickly improve your cultivation.

While others need hundreds or even thousands of years of accumulation to reach level 300, with enough resources, one can accumulate enough in just a few decades.

Su Yu has something to say about this.

The main ingredient of the Zifu Tianyuan Pill is the Tianyuan Immortal Fruit. There are a thousand Tianyuan Immortal Fruit trees planted in Zhenhai Pearl. It takes a hundred years to flower, a hundred years to bear fruit, and a hundred years to mature. In reality, it only takes three years. From the last time to now, eight years have passed, and two harvests have already been produced.

One fruit tree can bear 36 fruits, a thousand trees can bear 36000 fruits, two rounds can bear 72000 fruits, each fruit costs 5 cents, and this alone can sell for 36 cents.

"The hard times are over!"

Su Yu waved his hand to open the boundary gate and entered the Zhenhai Realm. Canghai was refining pills, specifically the Zifu Tianyuan Pill.

These Heavenly Origin Immortal Fruits will definitely not be sold; they will all be used for alchemy and personal consumption.

However, after watching Canghai refine pills for a while, he suddenly realized a big problem.

"You've reached such a high level?"

It's been so long since I've noticed that Canghai's level is now 290, just ten levels away from 300. Like Su Yu, Canghai will directly upgrade to the Golden Core stage, meaning he's only one rank away from undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation.

"not good."

Su Yu immediately asked seriously:

"How confident are you in successfully surviving the great tribulation of heaven and man?"

Canghai considered for a moment and said:

"It is almost impossible for innate beings to be born in this era. My existence is an accident. If it weren't for my husband, I wouldn't have been able to take shape. The tribulation of heaven and man for innate beings is far more difficult than that for acquired beings. I'm not very confident now."

Su Yu frowned and asked in a deep voice:
What else do you need to be confident?

Canghai immediately said:

"I need at least a mid-grade defensive immortal treasure, or a low-grade defensive innate immortal treasure."

"Can't the Zhenhai Pearl be used?"

"The Zhenhai Pearl is fine, but its current unlocked power is not yet at the level of a Celestial Treasure. It is somewhere between the tenth rank and a Celestial Treasure, and it needs to be unlocked again."

Do you know how to unlock it?

"At least ten or more innate chaotic origins, or refine a primordial immortal treasure of the same attribute, or, my husband, if you survive the Heavenly Tribulation, the power of the Heavenly Dao will provide feedback that can upgrade it by one grade."

"Of course, if a powerful being of Golden Immortal rank or above personally intervenes, the seal can be forcibly broken."

"A powerful Golden Immortal."

The Xuanqing Upper Sect has no Golden Immortal experts. The only Golden Immortal expert he knows is the Old Mother of Lishan who took away Qingchan. She is not only a Golden Immortal, but also a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

But he dared not take out the Zhenhai Pearl.

Although the Zhenhai Pearl has not been fully unsealed and its quality is still unknown, judging from the current display, it is definitely not an ordinary innate immortal treasure. It is at least a high-grade innate immortal treasure or even a top-grade innate immortal treasure.

He even had a bold guess in his mind: could this Zhenhai Pearl be the famous Dinghai Pearl?

He didn't know where the Dinghai Pearl was in the real Earthly Immortal Realm, but in the novels he read in his previous life, the Dinghai Pearl was originally the treasure of Zhao Gongming of the Jie Sect. There were 24 of them, which were later taken away by the Buddha Dipankara and transformed into the Twenty-Four Heavenly Kings.

According to Su Yu's understanding of the ancient texts he has read in the sect over the years, the outcome of the ancient Investiture of the Gods war in this immortal realm was not much different from what he had read in the novels of his previous life. After the Investiture of the Gods war came the Journey to the West calamity, and Buddhism flourished. Logically speaking, it could not have been the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl.

But the reality is that the great flourishing of Buddhism was a thing of the past eons ago. Now we are in a new eon, and after countless millennia, Buddhism is no longer as prosperous as it was during the Journey to the West.

This can be seen from the fact that, whether in the Blue Mountains, the human realm, or among the various sects of the Azure Immortal Realm, the Buddhist forces are not very strong.

The scriptures of the sect also record that Buddhism once had a period of strength, but it is now in decline.

With Buddhism declining, is it possible for the enemies it suppressed during its heyday to retaliate?
Or, to put it another way, the decline of a power is generally a top-down process. Could it be that the counterattack by the enemies of Buddhism in the past led to the decline of the Buddhist ancestral temple, Lingshan, which in turn caused Buddhist sects in various places to begin to decline?

If the ancestral temples of Buddhism decline, is it possible that the twenty-four heavens of Dipankara Buddha will be lost?
After all, we are currently in the midst of a great calamity, and it is entirely possible that the powerful figures sitting high above would make moves for their own benefit, using the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls as pawns.

Or to go even further, is it possible that Dipankara Buddha himself took the initiative to throw out the twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls to lay out a plan for the revival of Buddhism, and Su Yu was one of the pawns in it?
It's entirely possible.

You should know that when he had previously examined the karma within himself after achieving enlightenment, he discovered two hidden karmic lines that were no less significant than those involving the Ancestral Dragon, indicating that the entities behind them were definitely not ordinary beings.

If the Zhenhai Pearl is the Stabilizing Pearl, then it means that one of the two hidden causal lines on one's body is Buddhism.

If the Zhenhai Pearl is the Dinghai Pearl, its grade is at least a first-class superior innate spiritual treasure. The combined power of twenty-four superior innate spiritual treasures surpasses that of most top-grade innate spiritual treasures and is second only to innate supreme treasures.

The Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is an innate celestial treasure that governs the great law of water. It contains an independent space and has transformed into the Twenty-Four Heavens.

The Zhenhai Pearl is also an innate immortal treasure, it also governs the Great Law of Water, it also contains an independent space, and it can even give rise to an independent Heavenly Dao. The two are very similar, and it is highly likely that it is the Dinghai Pearl.

But even the highest estimate is still just speculation; nothing can be confirmed until the Zhenhai Pearl is completely unsealed and returns to its original state.

Moreover, this is something we need to consider in the future. Right now, the most urgent task is to prepare Canghai for the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Man.

"There are two paths: either find a way to unseal the Zhenhai Pearl again, or find a way to obtain a mid-grade defensive innate immortal treasure."

"Or perhaps we could upgrade the Azure Cloud Canopy?"

Su Yu pinched her chin, thinking the idea was feasible.

However, while the idea may be feasible, putting it into practice is not easy.

After examining the Azure Cloud Canopy, Canghai said to him:

"This treasure's foundation is too weak. Although it was forcibly upgraded using the power of laws and the power of the Heavenly Dao, a tenth-order magic treasure is already the limit, and its origin is insufficient to support further advancement."

Is there absolutely no other way?

"Yes, it can collect higher-quality Gangyun or Gangqi and integrate it to enhance its essence."

"Hmm, I'll go find out first."

Su Yu turned and came out of the Zhenhai Realm Gate to contact her master for an inquiry. Ye Lingfeng quickly responded:

"You can go to the Nine Heavens Gale Layer to collect some Heavenly Realm Gale Cloud Essence, also known as Heavenly Gale Essence, and refine it within. This is enough to support this treasure's advancement to a low-grade immortal treasure. If you want something better, you can seek out some special innate energy, such as Chaos Energy, Innate Pure Energy, Profound Yellow Energy, and so on."

"By the way, if you have enough merit, you can also integrate into it and gain the characteristic of being immune to all laws."

Su Yu asked again:

"Master, do you know where to collect these special energies?"

"You can collect Heavenly Gang Essence in the Nine Heavens Gale Layer, but the Nine Heavens Gale Layer is extremely dangerous, and the number of Heavenly Gang Essence is also small. It takes a lot of time. If you don't have the time, you can buy it directly with money. It is estimated to be about 200 Immortal Coins per essence. You need to collect 108 essences, which will cost more than 20,000 Immortal Coins."

"The Chaos Qi, the Primordial Pure Qi, and the Profound Yellow Qi are all extremely rare. I only know that they are occasionally sold in the auction houses of major immortal cities. Apart from that, only the Heavenly Court can exchange them, but that requires a lot of merit points."

"I see."

After shutting down the communication, Su Yu decided to first collect a batch of Heavenly Gang Essence to upgrade the Azure Cloud Canopy to a low-grade immortal treasure.

Besides, his Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe and Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Blade were both broken, so he needed to get two new, handy weapons. He decided to go all out and get two Immortal Treasure-level weapons directly.

He acted immediately and left the sect.

He had barely stepped out the door when his senior brothers found out. News immediately spread from within the sect and reached Xuanqing Immortal City outside the sect through the regional channels of various clans.

After leaving the sect, Su Yu went straight to Xuanqing Immortal City, then found several large merchant guilds in the city and offered a reward of 200 immortal coins for 108 Heavenly Gang Essences. After that, he browsed the market to find suitable refining materials.

It was impossible for him to personally go and collect the Heavenly Essence. That thing was located in the Nine Heavens Gale Layer, and only those with the cultivation of a Celestial Immortal could move around in the lower layer. Those with the cultivation of a Golden Core cultivator would not last long before they would die.

Of course, with his physique and immortality, he wouldn't die, but he would be living a life worse than death.

The Nine Heavens Gale is incredibly powerful. A typical tenth-tier defensive magic weapon would be shattered in just over ten minutes. His strong physical body and immortality allow him to withstand it for a while, and he can even endure it indefinitely, but his physical body will suffer greatly.

Moreover, insufficient strength makes it inconvenient to move around in the Gale Layer, resulting in pitifully low efficiency; it's common to not find a single person in a year if you're unlucky.

So it's better to spend money faster, since I have money anyway.

As for forging magical weapons, Su Yu did not choose to forge them himself, but instead directly purchased magical weapon embryos.

Some tenth-tier divine treasures are of very high quality, and the materials used in their forging are top-grade, far surpassing other tenth-tier treasures. After years of nurturing, their power exceeds that of normal tenth-tier treasures, but they fail to advance to immortal treasures for some reason.

These top-tier tenth-order magic treasures all have the potential to be upgraded to immortal treasures. He plans to buy two such immortal treasure embryos and upgrade them himself.

However, before that, he purchased four level 10 flying swords.

He's already at the Golden Core stage, yet he's still using two ninth-tier flying swords; they're no longer worthy of his strength.

(End of this chapter)