Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 39 News from the Immortal Abode and Listening to the Dao

Ao Run wiped his forehead with his paw, and the clear light flashed again, restoring his blue dragon scales.

“This was passed down to me by my mother.”

"Your mother?"

"Was your mother a real dragon?"

"No."

"Was that taught you by your mother's master?"

“My mother found it in a celestial abode.”

"Immortal Mansion?"

Su Yu's eyes lit up, and she immediately asked:

"Which immortal abode? Where is it located? Is it still there? Are there any other treasures inside?"

"Human, let's make a deal. I'll tell you where the Immortal Abode is, and you'll set me free."

Ao Run's body rose up, leaned forward, and said in a seductive tone:

"That is the immortal abode of an immortal, with golden courtyards and jade pillars, containing great treasures. I only took one, which was enough to dominate the Yuanjiang River. There are many more treasures inside, including a rare heavenly treasure. This is enough to make you a powerful figure of great importance in your clan."

Su Yu looked at Qingjiao with a strange expression and remained silent.

Qingjiao thought he was tempted and continued:
"Don't believe me? I can take you there to see for yourself."

"No, I believe it."

Su Yu snapped out of her daze, but the next second she reached out to grab the Azure Dragon. The dragon twisted its body and sprang several meters away, floating in the air to dodge. Seeing this, Su Yu raised an eyebrow and said in a deep voice:

"come over!"

His soft words contained an irresistible power within the azure dragon. It twisted and flew towards him, only to be grabbed by the neck by the man, who chuckled softly:
"You need to understand, you are my pet now, and I am your master. Even if I don't release you, you have to tell me where the Immortal Abode is."

The Azure Dragon raised its head and said with a hint of stubbornness in its voice:

"You guessed wrong, I can choose not to tell you."

Su Yu's face darkened, and she commanded:
Tell me where the immortal abode is!

The azure dragon showed no reaction, its body circling in the air once more.

"Private property is sacred and inviolable, but the oath of heaven does not include this."

"What the hell is this? Private property is sacred and inviolable!"

Su Yu quickly opened the panel to check the oath of Heaven that they had signed, which indeed stated that the servants had the right to manage their private property.

"It really is."

There's nothing more to say about that, and there's nothing we can do about it. Back then, the Azure Dragon was about to slay at any moment, and Kong and An were about to break through the water wall and rush over at any moment. There was simply no time to amend the Heavenly Oath, so we used the default master-servant contract.

To make changes, both parties must agree to alter the contract terms.

Now that the crisis is over, He certainly cannot agree to change the master-servant contract into a slave contract.

That is, one cannot use the master-servant authority to force Him to sign, let alone deliberately put Him in a desperate situation to coerce Him. The standard contract clearly states that if one deliberately puts Him to death, the servant has the right to refuse.

"Since we can't use force, let's leave it at that for now."

Let's get along well first, and ask again when our relationship is better. Anyway, the immortal abode isn't going anywhere, and if it's an immortal's abode, he probably can't get in now.

Having subdued a dragon, Su Yu couldn't stay still for a moment. He immediately put away the Azure Dragon, left his residence, and flew towards the Sunken Sand River.

He plunged into the river, entering waters over a thousand meters deep. Su Yu patted his waist, and a small, exquisite dragon flew out of the spirit cage, rapidly expanding into a massive dragon over 150 meters long with a long roar.

Su Yu pointed to the aquatic creatures that had scattered in fear of the dragon not far away:
"Go! Bite them to death!"

Don't compare me to those beasts.

The Azure Dragon opened its mouth reluctantly, and countless elite Gui Water spirits gathered around the monster.

"Boom boom boom!"

One by one, the Gui Water Divine Thunder condensed and took shape, then exploded with a roar, instantly turning that area of ​​water into a chaotic Thunder Pool.

Once the river calmed down and the chaos disappeared, a large number of shattered corpses were left behind, and the blood quickly attracted more aquatic creatures.

Su Yu opened the panel, which displayed:
"Notification: Your spirit pet dragon has killed a level 58 blue carp spirit (useless), and you have gained 76 kill experience points."

"Note: Due to unknown factors, you actually gained 152 kill experience points."

"Hint: Your spirit pet"

"can!"

"continue!"

When a spirit pet kills a monster, it will automatically receive half of the kill experience, but the percentage can be adjusted.

Correspondingly, when he kills a monster, his spirit pet will automatically receive half of the kill experience, and the percentage can also be adjusted.

After thinking for a moment, Su Yu decisively adjusted the experience ratio so that the spirit pet could gain 90% of the killing experience when it killed her, while the dragon could only gain 10%.

Just after the mediation was finished, the Azure Dragon Ao Run suddenly became agitated, quickly rushing in front of him and opening its mouth as if to devour him:
"You're too greedy, change it back now."

Su Yu explained:
"You're far stronger than me. I need to improve my strength now. How about I transfer back when I'm stronger?"

Ao Run crossed his arms with his two dragon claws, raised his head, and said:

"No."

"Then I'll increase it for you, how about 20%?"

"Keep it the way it was."

"Thirty percent, at most 30%."

Su Yu said with a smile:
"If you agree, I'll give you more freedom, how about that?"

Ao Run maintained his crossed arms posture, but turned his head to the side:

"What freedom?"

"If you agree, I'll give you a few days off each month, and you can go wherever you want."

"Too little."

"Five days?"

"It's still not enough."

"One week, at most one week. If you don't agree, then forget it."

The azure dragon raised its head and thought for a moment, then turned back and pointed a claw at his chest, saying:
“I could stay for a week, but I don’t want to stay inside.”

Su Yu thought about it and nodded:
“Okay, you can stay in the nearby river most of the time, but you must come back when I need to summon you.”

The Azure Dragon thought for a moment, then extended one claw:
"A word is settled!"

"A word is settled!"

Su Yu reached out and shook hands with the dragon claw.

After the two parties reached an agreement, Su Yu saw a notification on the panel that the dragon's intimacy level had increased by 20 points, now reaching 35 points.

Ao Run also seemed to be in a great mood. He turned around and dived into the water, his huge body disappearing in a few swishes.

Less than two minutes later, Su Yu opened the panel and saw a notification on it—

"Notification: Your spirit pet, the Flood Dragon, killed a level 66 Grass Carp Spirit (useless), and you gained 126 kill experience points." "Notification: Due to unknown factors, you actually gained 252 kill experience points."

"Hint: Your spirit pet"

A slight smile played on his lips.

He reached out and summoned the Sun-Covering Finger, a flying sword that swept across several kilometers of water, engulfing a group of carp spirits in the far distance. The sword energy crisscrossed back and forth, and the water quickly turned blood red.

He then extended his left hand, and the temperature of his palm dropped sharply, with ice crystals condensing and taking shape in his palm.

He multitasked, controlling the ice spirit to shuttle back and forth in front of him.

The Golden Turtle Ring comes with an extra slot for flying swords, allowing him to equip two flying swords at the same time.

However, Su Yu had never tried controlling two flying swords at the same time before, so she needed to start practicing from scratch.

However, he felt it wouldn't be too difficult. Even someone like Lan Feiyu from the Sword Spirit Pavilion in the secret realm, whose swordsmanship was not as high as his, could easily control two flying swords, so he would have even less of a problem.

Although she didn't have a professional instructor, Su Yu knew how to practice.

The first step is to multitask, simultaneously activating both flying swords.

This isn't a big problem. He's already capable of multitasking, even controlling two or three flying swords simultaneously.

Then comes the slow practice of simultaneously activating two flying swords. This is a gradual process that can only be mastered slowly.

But Su Yu is very confident that she can master it.

Because the cheat code has hidden functions, as long as you practice, you will definitely improve. Every bit of progress will be solidified, allowing him to maintain his best state and continue to improve.

In less than an hour, he was already able to simultaneously activate the Sun-Covering Combat Technique and the Ice Soul Technique to flexibly execute sword moves.

Three hours later, he had mastered all the sword techniques.

By the fifth hour, he was able to activate the Ice Soul Sword to join the battle and fight in coordination with the Sun-Covering Sword.

By the eighth hour, he was already able to simultaneously activate two flying swords for coordinated combat, greatly increasing his killing efficiency.

Next, you gradually improve your proficiency through actual combat until the two flying swords are in sync.

Su Yu practiced until nightfall, then left the Azure Dragon at the Sand-Sinking River and returned alone.

The Azure Dragon's strength is comparable to that of a level 150 terrifying boss, making it one of the top-tier bosses in the Sand River. As long as one doesn't recklessly provoke the River God or a very few other major bosses, one is basically safe and sound.

After practicing for several days, Su Yu applied to the guild to listen to the teachings, intending to use up the few available spots.

After carefully reviewing the basic information and schedules of the guild's several worshippers, he chose to listen to the teachings of one of them, a senior rogue immortal named Li Zhuoran.

I submitted the application and received a response the next morning.

"Please arrive at Listening Pavilion No. 5 at 9:00 AM on August 16th, 20th, and 28th to listen to the sermon. Latecomers will not be accepted. If you are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances, please explain the situation one hour in advance and request a refund."

"That's the day after tomorrow."

We shut down communications and continued our journey to Chensha River.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. He did not go out on the 16th, but went out at 8:30 to Tingdao Pavilion.

After having my ticket checked, I entered a large hall that resembled a classroom. There was a raised platform with a meditation cushion on it, presumably for the preacher. Below it were rows of twelve bright yellow meditation cushions. A faint fragrance wafted through the room, creating a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere.

Su Yu arrived rather late; several people were already chatting in the lobby. He casually found a cushion in the back row and sat down.

After a while, the people who were going to hear the sermon arrived one after another, and they were all there before 9 o'clock.

When the time came, a clear bell rang out from inside the room, and a figure silently appeared on the futon above and sat down cross-legged.

Su Yu looked up and saw an old Taoist priest holding a whisk, wearing a moon-white Taoist robe, with white hair and beard, a face like jade, and a fan-shaped aura of spiritual light hanging behind his head, looking like an immortal.

This old Taoist priest is one of the guild's honorees, named Li Zhuoran, a senior rogue immortal at level 132.

Despite his old appearance, he is actually only a little over two hundred years old. He just failed his tribulation before becoming a Loose Immortal, which greatly reduced his lifespan and caused him to look like this before the tribulation.

After his tribulation was over, his potential was exhausted and he could not make any further progress, so he simply gave up and became an honorific in the Thousand Feathers Guild, specializing in preaching.

A sermon costs 3 gold coins, and a maximum of twelve people can be accommodated at a time, which is equivalent to 36 taels of gold in revenue.

An income of 36 gold coins per day.

"Tsk tsk!"

While it's impossible to preach every day—it requires a great deal of experience and spiritual cultivation—preaching once a week, at least four or five times a month, and nearly sixty times a year, would amount to an income of nearly two thousand taels of gold.

If a rogue immortal master were to abandon cultivation and focus solely on making money, they would be incredibly powerful.

"Boom!"

As a clear bell rang, the old Taoist priest flicked his whisk and chanted a mantra:

"The Great Dao is without emotion, yet it gives birth to Heaven and Earth; the Great Dao is without emotion, yet it governs the sun and moon; the Great Dao is nameless, yet it nurtures all things. I do not know its name, so I call it Dao. The Dao is: sometimes clear, sometimes turbid; sometimes moving, sometimes still. Heaven is clear, Earth is turbid; Heaven moves, Earth is still. Man is clear, woman is turbid; man moves, woman is still. It descends from the root to the branches."

With each incantation, tadpole-shaped spiritual characters, formed from the old Taoist's experience in killing and his cultivation, appeared above his head.

When a Taoist text was finished, countless tadpole-like spiritual characters condensed above the old Taoist's head, transforming into a spiritual cloud.

With a flick of his whisk, the tadpole-shaped spiritual runes flew out and scattered evenly over the twelve people below, quickly merging into them.

Su Yu immediately opened the panel, which displayed:
"Hint: You have gained some insights from listening to the lectures of the immortal Li Zhuoran. The level cap of the Purple Origin Qi Refining Technique has increased by 1."

"Note: Due to unknown factors, your Purple Yuan Qi Refining Technique level cap has increased by 2."

"So this is what preaching is like."

At this moment, Li Zhuoran began his second sermon, condensing a large number of tadpole runes into clouds. With a flick of his whisk, the tadpole runes flew out and were absorbed by them. Su Yu raised the upper limit of his Qi Refining Technique by two levels.

After repeating this process five times, Li Zhuoran stopped his sermon and began to speak:
"Today's sermon is over. Those who are interested can register next week."

Then, with a flick of his whisk, he left, leaving the crowd still reeling from the shock.

Emerging from the lecture hall, Su Yu smacked his lips, leaped into the air, and flew towards the outskirts of the city. He flew over a thousand kilometers upstream along the Chensha River before plunging directly into the river.

He killed the aquatic monsters wandering nearby with a few sword strikes, and after a while, he saw a blue-scaled dragon swimming over.

A man and a dragon churned and raged underwater, relentlessly attacking the aquatic creatures and monsters below.

A few days later, Su Yu went to Tingdao Pavilion again, and it was Li Zhuoran's class again.

Because the offering materials clearly state that among the many offerings in the guild, Li Zhuoran's courses are the best, and each time you listen to his teachings, you can increase the upper limit of your Qi Refining Technique by 5 levels.

However, his price was the highest. The other offerings cost between 150 and 200 taels of silver per offering, while his cost 3 taels of gold.

If time isn't an issue, his price isn't the highest in terms of cost-effectiveness, but since Su Yu's spots are guild rewards and don't require personal spending, of course, the most expensive one would be the best choice.

After using up his three chances, the upper limit of his Purple Origin Qi Refining Technique has increased from 75 to 100.

He'll keep the remaining two opportunities for now, as he doesn't need any other cultivation techniques at the moment.

The Taibai Sword Scripture can indeed be improved, but the guild's only sword cultivator, the Loose Immortal, rarely holds sermons. That big shot is still very young and is currently striving to reach a higher realm. He is away from home most of the year and rarely comes to the guild, so he simply doesn't have time to come and give sermons.

Apart from that, techniques such as Mustard Seed Concealment, Invisibility, and Lesser Heavenly Cloud Restriction Technique do not need to have their upper limits increased.

Five levels is the upper limit, unlike the Qi Refining Technique which can be raised to one hundred levels.

Besides sword techniques, which have a maximum limit of one hundred levels, there are also various spell interpretations, various lightning spells, forbidden spells, etc., which he currently lacks.

After listening to the sermon, Su Yu had no more worries and focused solely on leveling up.

Every morning he would immerse himself in the Chensha River, leading a dragon to slaughter at the bottom of the river, and his cultivation and swordsmanship improved by leaps and bounds.

As time went on, Su Yu was quite surprised to find that Ao Run was also a hard-working dragon, even more diligent than him.

(End of this chapter)