Xiuxian: But It's Not a Game

Chapter 91 Merit, Heavenly Heart, Fragments of Laws
At this point, the overall situation has been decided.

After the Five-Colored Divine Ox returned, the Heavenly Gods were no longer able to take care of him, and the remaining players were even less likely to be able to stop the Five-Colored Divine Ox.

Su Yu stood in front of the core of the law, wielding the mighty Thunderbolt in his hand. Even if those scattered immortals attacked, he could withstand a few blows. Although their strength far surpassed Su Yu's, they were not strong enough to kill him instantly. This was enough for the Five-Colored Divine Ox to return.

This divine ox is currently in a state of berserk stress; it will rush over and beat them up if they touch the core of the law.

A level 198 legendary boss, a demon king-level BOSS, could unleash ordinary Five Elements Thunder Techniques with enough power to pose a fatal threat to mid-to-low-grade Loose Immortals. They dared not confront it head-on.

Several rogue immortals retreated to a distance, staring intently at Su Yu with murderous eyes, and said through gritted teeth:
"You've ruined my Heavenly Gods' great cause! I will kill you!"

Su Yu snorted coldly:
"Just as arrogant and domineering as your guild name suggests, you're allowed to kill but I'm not allowed to fight back, huh? I'd like to see how you're going to kill me."

The scattered immortals snorted coldly and turned to leave.

"withdraw!"

Many players from the Heavenly Gods Society, who had been chased to the heavens and the earth by the Five-Colored Divine Ox and had no way to escape, breathed a sigh of relief and immediately turned around and ran away.

In a short while, the remaining gods completely disappeared.

The enraged Five-Colored Divine Ox pursued them relentlessly until the Celestial Gods' Sky Strike Warships had all withdrawn before returning.

"Prompt: Heavenly Dao Quest completed. You have gained 1000 merit points, Heavenly Heart +1, and Law Fragment +1."

Su Yu looked up and vaguely saw invisible streams of light converging on him and merging into his body. In that instant, he felt his consciousness rising, as if he had everything under his control.

"Is this the Heart of Heaven?"

He opened the panel and immediately checked the status bar.

First, my merit points have increased to 1124. Looking closely at the prompt, I originally only had 9 points. The Heavenly Path quest reward is 1000 points, and the extra 115 points were given by the Heavenly God Society player who was killed by the self-destructing magic weapon.

Then, Tianxin +1, which wasn't displayed on the data panel, but he could feel the change within himself.

It embodies the will of Heaven above and conforms to the way of humanity below.

In the other world, Heaven is the will of Heaven.

Gaining the favor of Heaven means that a person has gained the approval of Heaven. In layman's terms, it means that Heaven's love has increased by 1, which will have a very magical effect.

Common effects include increased good fortune and improved luck, just like the protagonist in a novel who is blessed with destiny, finds money while walking, has treasures fall from the sky when going out, and is more likely to be recognized as a master by mythical beasts, etc.

Of course, his effect wasn't as exaggerated as that of the protagonist in the novel. After all, his Heavenly Heart only increased by 1 point. If he could increase it by five or six points, he would have this kind of effect.

Although the effect isn't quite as dramatic, it's still quite powerful. It can slightly increase the drop rate, improve the value of loot, and enhance luck. The most important effect is that after gaining a bit of Heavenly Heart, you're essentially entering the Heavenly Dao's field of vision, and you'll have the opportunity to obtain Heavenly Dao quests that reward you with merit, Heavenly Heart, or Law Fragments.

To put it bluntly, it's equivalent to obtaining the status of a civil servant in the Heavenly Dao.

After carefully understanding the situation, Su Yu put Tianxin aside, stretched out her right hand, and invisible light gathered in her palm, transforming into a ball of light without any physical form.

Fragments of the Heavenly Dao Laws!

The rewards available only for Heavenly Quests are awarded to players who have made great contributions to the workings of Heaven and Earth, making them extremely rare.

The vast majority of players have never seen it, including most wandering immortals who have lived for hundreds of years without ever having the chance to see it.

Because normal players will never have the chance to encounter a major event that can affect the operation of heaven and earth in their lifetime, and since heaven and earth are not affected, the Heavenly Dao will naturally not issue any Heavenly Dao missions.

It's worth mentioning that the destruction of normal monster spawn points doesn't actually have a significant impact on the local ecosystem. At most, it will only reduce the number of monsters in the vicinity. Monster spawn points are everywhere in the Other Shore. There are at least several within the Demon Ape Kingdom alone. If this demon cave is destroyed, the monsters spawning in other demon caves will be distributed to it. Normally, this won't generate any Heavenly Dao quests.

Otherwise, someone would have already exploited this loophole to farm Heavenly Path missions like crazy.

The reason Su Yu was able to obtain the Heavenly Dao mission was due to the influence of the undying spiritual light in his mind.

That thing was his real cheat code. From the time he arrived in the Other Shore World until now, it only appeared for a moment when he obtained the Zhenhai Pearl and became its master. After that, it never reacted.

It wasn't until this reappearance that he received the Heavenly Path Quest, thus gaining rewards that most players had never seen before.

Fragments of the Heavenly Dao Laws contain the ultimate principles of the laws of heaven and earth and possess incredible magical power.

It can improve cultivation level, directly raising the level of the Qi Refining Technique to a certain level. The specific increase depends on the size of the Law Fragment.

It can awaken the spiritual roots within the body, including hidden physiques and hidden bloodlines, provided that they exist. If there are multiple bloodlines, the highest-level bloodline should be prioritized for enhancement.

It can condense immortal bones, allowing one to obtain immortal bones that only loose immortals can acquire ahead of time.

You can upgrade equipment, flying swords, magic weapons, rare and precious materials, etc.

It can upgrade a pet's bloodline, improve its template, and so on.

Basically, everything can be improved; as long as there's enough power of laws, it can keep improving. The law fragments Su Yu received as a reward for this Heavenly Dao mission contain the power of 14 laws, which is quite a lot.

But now there is a problem facing him that he needs to seriously consider.

That is, this fragment of law has two ways of being used. One way is to use it as a whole, which can only strengthen one thing, but it can cause a qualitative change in that thing.

Another method is to split the law fragments into 14 parts of law power, which can be used to strengthen flying swords and magical treasures, or enhance bloodlines, etc.

Simply put, using it as a whole can produce an absolute qualitative change, while using it separately will not result in a very high enhancement level. For example, you can enhance the Azure Cloud Canopy in your hand to a seventh-tier rare Azure Cloud Canopy, and also enhance the Thunderous Strike Twin Swords to two seventh-tier rare flying swords.

Alternatively, it could be integrated into the Zhenhai Pearl to prematurely remove a layer of seal and release a portion of the celestial treasure's power.

Su Yu pinched the space between her eyebrows, looking extremely conflicted.

Just then, a wave of intense heat swept over him, interrupting his dilemma. He immediately looked up and saw that the Five-Colored Divine Ox had returned, but had stopped dozens of meters away from him. Its eyes, burning with fury, were fixed on him, but it did not attack.

Su Yu's heart relaxed, and she clasped her hands in a salute:
"Greetings, fellow Daoist!"

The five-colored divine ox, panting heavily, stared at him for a long time, looking as if it wanted to crush him but was being suppressed by something. This made him tremble with fear, afraid that it would suddenly pounce on him and slap him, which would be the end of him.

Fortunately, this guy was quite intelligent and not a ferocious beast. After driving away the enemy, his anger and murderous intent gradually subsided, and he slowly calmed down.

"You, leave here immediately."

Su Yu nodded quickly:

"Brother, please wait a moment, I'll be right back."

She immediately turned and flew towards the corner of the Demon Pool. Not far away, she saw Ao Run licking her wounds as she hovered at the entrance of the Zhenhai Pearl passage. She had completely blocked a rogue immortal, but she was still seriously injured.

Su Yu took her into Zhenhaizhu and closed the passage.

The released water was not taken back; the water inside the Zhenhai Pearl was inexhaustible, and even if it was released continuously for a hundred years, it would not affect the boundary.

Putting away the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Su Yu returned to the core of the law and saw the Five-Colored Divine Ox lying beside the core of the law with its eyes closed, resting. Only then did she notice how exaggerated the wounds on its body were.

His body was over two hundred meters long, with two large craters on his back and abdomen, each twenty meters in diameter and ten meters deep. Apart from that, his body was covered with wounds and sword marks of varying sizes, all caused by the Heavenly Gods' self-destructing flying swords and magical artifacts used to intercept him.

It's because this guy has thick skin and tough flesh; if it were Ao Run, the wound would have healed long ago.

Su Yu thought for a moment, then reached into the Zhenhai Pearl and rummaged around for a while. She then used a net to scoop out a large bag of colorful spirit fish and slowly floated it to the Five-Colored Divine Ox, handing the net over to it.

The five-colored divine ox, which had been resting with its eyes closed, suddenly sniffed the scent of the five-colored spirit fish and opened its large eyes slightly to stare at it.

Su Yu said with a smile:
"It is fate to fight alongside Brother Divine Ox. This is just a small gift, nothing more."

The five-colored divine ox's gaze swept back and forth between him and the net, then it snorted and tilted its snot back slightly.
"Don't get so close to me, leave immediately."

Su Yu smiled, put down the net, clasped his hands in a fist and said:
"I'm leaving now, until we meet again!"

After saying that, he turned around and left cleanly and decisively.

A dozen seconds later, the five-colored divine ox opened its eyes, sniffed the air, hesitated for a while, then stuck out its tongue and rolled the net into its mouth. The next second, its eyes lit up, as if it had tasted something delicious.

Su Yu flew along and soon emerged from the Spirit Pool. Before her eyes lay a chaotic underground cave, littered with the corpses of the Heavenly God Society.

Unfortunately, they were all killed by the Five-Colored Divine Ox, and no loot dropped.

However, the Heavenly God was chased away by the Five-Colored Divine Ox and ran away in such a hurry that the large array he had built here was not dismantled yet. Su Yu was an array master and was very familiar with it. He immediately saw that the three array-setting magic treasures embedded in the array base were of extraordinary quality.

He immediately flew over, arrived in front of one of the lightning pillars, and placed his hand on it, its attributes appearing before him.

Four Symbols Thunder God Pillar (Seventh Tier): A high-quality, special magic weapon, a thunder pillar forged by fusing the essence of the Nine Heavens Thunder with the power of thunder and rage.

Attributes: Formation, Suppression, Forbidden Items, Lock, Lightning Gathering, Lightning Strike, Thunderous Might
There are a total of three Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars. There is one more empty space in another corner of the formation. We are one pillar short of completing the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time, and the project failed because it couldn't be completed.

The raging Five-Colored Divine Ox drove everyone from the Heavenly God Society out. The three Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars and the Four Symbols Thunder God Formation were left here, and Su Yu accepted them without hesitation.

He directly opened the passage of the Zhenhai Pearl, disregarding whether it would damage the great formation, and had Ao Run forcibly roll up and pull out the four formation eyes one by one and throw them into the Zhenhai Pearl.

Anyway, he can't set up this great formation with his current abilities, so he'll dismantle the items first and then collect the last Four Symbols Thunder God Pillar after his formation skills improve.

Of course, you can sell it if you don't need it yourself; after all, it's a seventh-tier array magic weapon, so the price won't be low.

(End of this chapter)