Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 9: Base Establishment, Swamp Clearing

"hair!"

Su Yu quickly climbed higher and watched the poisonous clam being sucked dry and turned into a clam skin.

By this time, Zhuang Zhuo had already killed the black python. He came over and saw this scene and couldn't help but click his tongue:

"What is that? It doesn't look like an octopus."

Su Yu didn't know either. This guy didn't show his full appearance, so he couldn't see his attributes or his name.

"It should be some kind of insect."

"There are many soft-bodied insects in normal swamps. They become very powerful when they become spirits."

This is not uncommon. There are a lot of parasites, earthworms, leeches, wireworms and other insects in the swamp. These creatures with weak vitality are difficult to become monsters, but once they become monsters, they will be very powerful.

"Mark this and send it to the base. Ask the experienced ones to handle it."

"Row."

Neither of them was a stubborn person, and this thing was obviously not something they could handle.

After sending the coordinates back, the two changed direction and continued cleaning.

A four-meter-long poisonous swamp centipede with a pitch-black shell crawled through the mud, and its knife-sharp feet left deep marks in the mud.

When passing a muddy puddle, the poisonous centipede suddenly stopped and raised its head, with its two tentacles flying back and forth as if exploring something.

He continued forward without finding anything. When he passed a puddle, the turbid water suddenly exploded, and a bright red flesh pillar flew out of it, picked up the poisonous centipede, dragged it into the puddle and disappeared.

Su Yu fired a fireball directly, and the puddle exploded, revealing a giant clam with a dark blue back.

Swamp Poison Clam (Common): Level 55, one of the Five Poisonous Clams.

Attributes: HP 5000, demonic power 600, attack 500, speed 130 kilometers, spells: jump, tongue roll, swallow, and recklessness.

"Can't you get on?"

"on!"

Su Yu stretched out his hand and pointed, and the Ice Soul Sword flashed and flew over the head of the poisonous clam.
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"The defense is so high."

The attacked poisonous clam let out a loud "quack" sound and opened its mouth to spit out the poisonous centipede that it had swallowed before. It was sprayed out like a cannonball to a height of more than 100 meters.

Su Yu raised his hand and slapped the poisonous centipede with a purple palm. A terrifying damage of -3120 came out, smashing the poisonous centipede into pieces on the spot.

Zhuang Zhuo, who was casting a spell not far away, had his eyes wide open, and the spell he was preparing collapsed without any control.

"Damn it, what's your method that's so powerful?"

"The Dao method derived from the Qi Refining Heart Method."

"Is the Dao method derived from the Qi Refining Heart Method so powerful?"

He looked incredulous.

"Yes!"

Purple Yuan Qi Jin: Derived from the tenth level of Qi Refining Art, it uses mana to condense a Qi Jin to hurt the enemy. After the talent bonus, the basic lethality is 200% of the Qi Refining Art damage, the mana consumption is 120 points, and the cooldown time is 15 seconds.

His basic magic damage is now 1600, and the damage of one shot is as high as 3200. Ordinary monsters below level 30 can basically be killed in one palm. This is his strongest burst weapon now.

Zhuang Zhuo wanted to say something, but the poisonous clam had already jumped out of the pool. He didn't bother to speak and urged the green wooden boat to avoid it.

"boom!"

The poisonous clam in the air opened its mouth and its tongue popped out to hit the Aoki boat. The huge force squeezed and deformed the shield of the flying boat, and the flying boat was directly bounced several meters away.

“Separate and be more flexible.”

Su Yu controlled his Qi and jumped out of the green wooden boat. He pointed his sword and the Ice Soul shot up into the sky and pierced the falling giant clam.

With two fingers put together and a turn, Bingpo spun around the giant clam's body, and three damages jumped out at the same time.

One move, but causes three damages at the same time.

This is a combat technique he has recently figured out. Normally, a sword move can only cause damage once, but if facing a large and bulky opponent, the rigid moves are too cumbersome and completely waste the flexibility of the flying sword.

So he suddenly had an idea. After the sword move caused damage, he forcibly interrupted the move and stabbed down with the sword.

It is not a sword move, but an autonomously controlled flying sword attack.

This way, when dealing with large, bulky spirits, you can deal multiple hits in a short period of time.

The sword move causes damage once when it falls from the poisonous clam. After interrupting the move, the flying sword slides down along the body of the poisonous clam, causing damage once. Then the flying sword is controlled to rise and fall slightly, causing damage for the third time.

This gave me an idea: if I could be faster and have more precise control, and make the flying sword rise and fall multiple times in the short moment when it passes through the target's body, could I cause more damage?

He thinks this idea is very promising and has been trying it recently.

It turns out that this idea was correct, and he can now cause up to three levels of damage at a time.

Within the same time of one move, the output is greatly increased.

The only drawback is that autonomous control does not have the damage bonus of sword moves, so the power will be weakened.

But the overall output is indeed much stronger, and as the technology becomes more proficient, this bonus will become higher and higher. In the future, if you can cause four, five or even more damage with a single sword, even without the bonus of sword moves, the overall output will be twice or even more than that of normal sword moves.

The falling poisonous clam opened its mouth and sucked hard, causing the surrounding air to shrink towards the clam's mouth, and the flying sword shook slightly and deformed.

The bright red tongue popped out and hit the flying sword, and with a crisp "clang" sound, the flying sword flew out.

But in the next second, it drew an arc and soared into the sky, returning to Su Yu's front. He stretched out his hand to call back the flying sword, re-injected magic power into it to refine it and restore its spirituality, and then cast it out again.

On the other side, Zhuang Zhuo did not dare to summon the Red Flame Flying Centipede, but instead summoned another magic weapon, a flaming sword, and slashed down. A three-meter-long flaming sword aura slashed down.

Faced with a monster like the Toad that has the ability to devour, he dared not summon the Red Flame Flying Centipede. Once he was swallowed, he would be killed instantly.

As a monk of the unconventional sect who practices the art of refining poisonous insects, he fears the most this kind of unreasonable, instant-killing type.

To deal with this kind of thing, you must have several large-sized poisonous creatures.

For example, the huge Mangcang red clam and large snakes and pythons are not afraid of being swallowed directly.

In order to avoid the flying sword being knocked down again, Su Yu did not dare to seek multiple attacks. The flying sword circled around the poisonous clam at the fastest speed, piercing and cutting. With its flexibility and high speed, the poisonous clam could not hit it even after swallowing and sticking out its tongue many times.

As the cycle went on, the poisonous clam's health slowly decreased and soon halved.

"boom!"

The mud and water on the ground exploded, and the poisonous clam suddenly shot up into the sky, opening its big mouth and tongue to prepare to attack.

At this moment, Su Yu turned his left hand into a palm and pressed down hard, and the purple magic power condensed into a palm and slapped down.

"boom!"

"-3150"

A huge amount of damage was released, and the tongue that popped out was directly blown to pieces. The purple air palm pressed down on the poisonous clam with great force, and the huge body bulged and deformed directly, falling into the swamp like a meteor and blasting a big hole.

"Brother Su, you are strong!" Su Yu smiled slightly, and swung both swords together. The flying swords passed over the corpse of the poisonous clam and rolled up the emerging ball of light of the spoils.

Su Yu casually opened the light ball, was slightly startled, took out the things inside and threw them to Zhuang Zhuo.

"You use it."

Zhuang Zhuo was also stunned for a moment after taking it, and a smile immediately appeared on his face:

“Indeed, I used it.”

It is a string of swamp poison clam eggs, with a total of 2021 eggs. It can hatch a group of swamp poison clams. It is very good whether for personal use or for refining poison.

He thought for a moment and said:

"According to the market price, this thing is worth two taels of silver, half for each of us."

"Row."

Su Yu was not pretentious and took the one or two taels of silver that Zhuang Zhuo had traded with him.

That's how a temporary team works, the spoils are split in half.

As for the poisonous clam, you can peel it, collect its venom glands, or collect its corpse directly. It can be used to feed pets, and it can be used as blood food for refining corpses, ghosts, poisons, and demons.

The corpse of a level 40 or 50 monster costs about 2 cents.

Logically speaking, it is not cheap. When leveling up, you usually kill so many monsters. You can kill hundreds or even thousands of them a day, which adds up to a lot of money.

But the problem is that this stuff can't be stacked like other materials, and their initial 20-grid storage space can't hold many of them.

Therefore, only the corpse of a BOSS is worth picking up. Ordinary wild monsters are generally not picked up. Only when you want to refine corpses, ghosts, poisons, and demons will you specifically collect blood food.

Next, the two continued to move back and forth in the swamp, clearing out the various poisonous insects and monsters hiding in the swamp.

About an hour and a half later, a sword light flew in from afar, revealing a young man in white robes. He waved directly at the two and asked:
"Where is that big monster you were talking about?"

Su Yu and Zhuang Zhuo flew over. He raised his hand and pointed the flying sword, which shot into the puddle and flew out from the mud on the other side. The next second, the puddle was stirred and tiny tentacles flew out.

Mutated Swamp Locust (Elite): Level 66, HP 26500, Demonic Power 800, Attack 1600, Speed ​​8 km/h, Skills: Penetration, Bloodsucking, Disgusting Attack.

The young man stretched out his hand and grabbed, strands of lightning gathered in his palm, condensing into a ball of rapidly surging divine thunder and pressed down.

"boom!"

The violent thunder blasted a large pit in the puddle and its surrounding area, revealing an extremely strange-looking monster hidden under the mud.

It looked like a tangled mass of tree roots, a wriggling ball of flesh with a diameter of more than ten meters, covered with tentacles that stretched and danced wildly, looking extremely disgusting.

The young man raised his eyebrows when he saw this, stretched out his hand to grab an ancient flying sword and slashed it downwards. A sword rainbow that was a hundred meters long came down like a wall, severing the flying tentacles one by one. The sword rainbow cut through the flesh ball, and milky white mucus mixed with blood spurted out.

Although this elite monster was of a high level, it had no power to fight back against the master. It was beaten violently and was soon chopped into more than a dozen pieces of meat and died.

After completing the mission, he collected the spoils and jumped up, disappearing in a flash, leaving the two people still in shock.

"Too strong."

Zhuang Zhuo murmured:

"A true man should be like this. We should also become such masters."

Su Yu nodded:

"Let's continue."

More than ten minutes later, they arrived at a swamp floating island. Just as they approached, a buzzing sound suddenly sounded in the gray-green jungle on the island. Soon, a black cloud about three or four acres in size flew up from the forest and rushed towards them.

A closer look revealed that it was not a black cloud, but a cloud formed by blood-sucking mosquitoes as big as fists.

"Shit, this thing can't be stopped, run."

Zhuang Zhuo turned the Qingmu boat around without saying a word, but Su Yu was even faster and flew away on his sword.

Fortunately, the swarm of mosquitoes were not fast, and they went back after chasing for a while when they couldn't catch up.

The two did not go back, but marked the coordinates and sent them to the No. 5 temporary base, asking the base to send experts to clear out the area.

In the next few days, Su Yu's horizons were broadened. He saw countless strange monsters in this poisonous fog swamp, from swarms of insects at level ten to huge monsters at level seventy or eighty. From time to time, he could see the BOSS chasing them and making them panic.

Fortunately, they can fly. They stay in the air carefully all the time and never dare to approach higher-level monsters, so they are safe.

It took almost four or five days to clear the area around temporary base No. 5. The two followed the team deeper into the swamp, and the guild established other temporary bases even deeper.

In addition, the guild's main fleet has already sailed deep into the swamp, established a fixed base on a large island, constructed a large formation, and opened a regional channel in the poisonous fog swamp. Many guild members can communicate in real time through the temporary channel.

The base was established and a large number of guild members gathered. In just a few days, more than 200,000 people gathered.

In addition to guild members, there are also many guild affiliated members and non-guild members.

Affiliated members are generally composed of family members of guild members, non-guild members recruited by guild members to form their own teams, and half of the new recruits who are eliminated each year.

Non-guild members are affiliated with the guild's affiliated teams, studios, chambers of commerce, individual players, etc.

They are active in the Yuan River, Chensha River, and Taihu Mountains. They take Qianyu City as their main city, buy houses in the city, and usually get supplies there.

Generally, they will be allowed to participate in large-scale guild activities such as attacking the demon village. They can also accept tasks issued by the guild to obtain guild contributions, and use the guild contributions to exchange items from the Qianyu Guild.

The poisonous fog swamp is so large that it would take a long time for tens of thousands of guild members to clean it up.

But if hundreds of thousands of non-guild members join in the cleanup, the process will be much faster.

After Su Yu and Zhuang Zhuo arrived here, they could check the regional channel from time to time while killing monsters. If they encountered a monster they couldn't defeat, they would send the coordinates and someone would come in less than a minute.

"There's a floating island near the temporary base on No. 22. There's a large group of golden-whiskered mosquitoes on the island, which are great materials for refining Gu. Brothers who need it, come quickly."

Zhuang Zhuo immediately became interested when he saw this message and asked:
"Brother Su, I'm going to catch some golden-whiskered mosquitoes. Do you want to come?"

Su Yu shook his head and said:
"I can't handle such a large group of monsters. I won't go."

"Then I'll go first and come back later."

"Row."

He immediately urged the Aoki boat to fly towards the temporary base No. 22.

Su Yu didn't care and continued to urge the flying sword to cut a black-scaled snake hidden in the turbid water. With a slash of his sword finger, the flying sword turned close to the water and circled a nearby loach with black scales.

With a few swish strokes, the long snake was cut into pieces. The flying swords shuttled back and forth and cut the loach into several pieces.

Without any need to rest, the flying sword plunged into a large patch of weeds. A large amount of water splashed out, and a snake spirit more than ten meters long jumped out from it. It opened its mouth and sprayed a poisonous water arrow to a height of hundreds of meters, but it could not reach the figure flying more than two hundred meters in the air.

After being hit by several swords, the long snake turned around and dived into the water. Suddenly, a large piece of ebony suddenly jumped out. It was a swamp crocodile more than ten meters long. It bit the snake's body and rolled hard.

Su Yu did not watch the show. The sword light flew over like a rainbow, circled the snakes and crocodiles, and cut them back and forth. At the same time, he multitasked and raised the Three Yang Fan with his left hand to summon three fireballs and smashed them down.

The flying sword cut back and forth at a high frequency, causing explosive damage. It quickly cut the snake into two pieces, and then the flying sword and fireballs attacked together to kill the swamp crocodile.

(End of this chapter)