Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 208 - 119: Blood God Child, Merit
After a frantic seven to eight hours of killing, Su Yu and Luo Qingchan finally retreated back to the city for a rest.
They sold off the miscellaneous spoils collected on them for a total of 82 gold pieces.
In addition, they accumulated 10,580,000 experience points for killing and 1,380 Dao points, quite a satisfying result.
Su Yu had 680 Dao points remaining from before. Adding the newly accumulated points, he now had a total of 2,060 Dao points and 741,500,000 cultivation points, enough to elevate his Qi Refining Heart Skill and Dao practice by ten levels.
Without hesitation, he decisively opened the panel and focused on the Taibai Sword Scripture, which had not been upgraded for a long time. He spent 345,000,000 cultivation points and 600 Dao points to bring the Taibai Sword Scripture up to level eighty.
Taibai Sword Formulas at level eighty: Flying Sword damage +4800, attack speed +3200, Sword Control speed +3200 km/h.
Remaining 386,000,000 cultivation points and 1,460 Dao points.
He could upgrade Thunder Skill and Celestial Ghost Transformation, but he frowned, pondering which to improve.
"Boom!"
Just as he hesitated, a deafening explosion suddenly echoed from South City, shaking the entire city violently.
"What’s going on?"
He immediately heard the reverberations of bells throughout the city and someone shouting loudly:
"There’s a special essence in the South City, hard to deal with, calling for experts to defend it."
Su Yu immediately closed the panel and flew toward South City, where he saw the sky filled with a bloody glow. In the air, blood clouds gathered, and a blood-colored sun seemed to suspend at the center, illuminating the world in red light, with countless blood shadows weaving back and forth, pouncing everywhere.
A blood shadow pounced on a player, their protective Treasure Light twisted violently and soon shattered. The blood light pierced through, and the person fell. Su Yu’s sharp eyes vaguely caught a struggling soul being captured and carried into the high blood cloud.
Once a soul is captured, death is inevitable.
"Blood God Child?"
Although seeing it for the first time, Su Yu recognized it by its form.
This creature was notorious, said to originate from a supreme demonic technique called Blood Nerve, capable of refining a monster called Blood God Child that can pass through living beings and take away their Primordial Spirits instantly.
Its most insidious aspect is that players killed by it need twenty to thirty years of lifespan to rebuild their bodies.
Su Yu immediately summoned the Cyan Cloud Cover, a treasure immune to all skills, to prevent Blood God Child’s sneak attacks.
A dense cluster of Blood God Children flew out from the blood clouds, shuttling back and forth on the city walls, driving many defending players into a retreat, periodically breaking through defenses and being killed by blood shadows.
Su Yu directly summoned the Red Copper North Pole Immortal Thunder, unleashing a dazzling white lightning that caused the Blood God Children within it to distort frantically and seem to collapse.
But when the light’s power vanished, the blood shadows reformed, only their color dimmed significantly.
His action immediately attracted a swarm of Blood God Children attacking him. He immediately wielded his dual swords to meet them, but as the Blood God Children dispersed into a vast blood mist, his flying swords penetrated through, and the mist re-formed as Blood God Children, pouncing again.
"Damn!"
A dozen Blood God Children pounced on him, instantly being bounced off by the Cyan Cloud Cover, but the defense of the magical treasure plummeted by tens of thousands due to their high attack power.
Su Yu immediately summoned the Wind and Fire Fan, converting over ten thousand mana into a vital breath that he sprayed into the fan and swung it furiously, producing a massive True Flame that condensed hundreds of True Flame Fire Thunders that bombarded out. The Blood God Children did not dodge and advanced head-on, hitting the explosion, the blood mist being swallowed by True Flames and turned into nothingness.
Killing a Blood God Child directly granted 1 Good Deed point.
Su Yu immediately gained interest, taking out a pale jade gourd and drinking a sip of Spirit Wine to recover some mana, then frantically waving the Wind and Fire Fan in a chaotic frenzy.
On the other side, Luo Qingchan did not use any other magical treasures, only manipulating her dual swords.
But the Blood God Children that Su Yu’s flying swords couldn’t deal with stood no chance against her. She slashed them in two with each sword strike, then they dissipated into nothingness, unlike his enemies that reformed after being cut in half.
One sword for one foe, effortless like slaughtering chickens.
Su Yu knew why—she had comprehended the True Sword Intent, allowing each sword to be infused with Sword Intent, directly attacking the Primordial Spirit and soul.
The core of Blood God Child is merely a thought, not even a Primordial Spirit. A slash of Sword Intent directly turns them into nothingness, naturally unable to maintain their form.
A Sword Cultivator who comprehends Sword Intent follows the path of breaking all techniques with a single sword, becoming the bane of such evil techniques, effortlessly sweeping them away.
The duo went on a frenzied rampage, with numerous Blood God Children dying under their swords, stabilizing the collapsing South City step by step.
"Another Good Deed point."
"Yet another Good Deed point."
He took out the pale jade gourd again, drinking a sip, while waving the Wind and Fire Fan tirelessly.
This thing was refined using two kinds of Divine Bird True Feathers, and the flames it conjured were not common fire. Instead, they were True Flame Fire Thunders summoned by a deity-level Divine Bird, possessing tremendous power, with 5000+50% magic damage. The mana cost was only 50 points.
Tremendous power and low mana consumption are the characteristics of this magical treasure.
Within a short time, he accumulated 176 Good Deeds points, wishing the entire Red Tide was filled with Blood God Children.
But clearly, this was not possible. Blood God Children were just one type of Red Tide Essence, with many more kinds of essences present.
Once the duo held off the Blood God Children, the threat significantly decreased.
Soon, Qe Dongyang arrived with a group of reserves to replace the previously collapsed guild members, continuing the defense on this side.
He activated the Soul Suppressing Bell, emitting resonant chimes, a magical treasure also effective against Blood God Children. Invisible ripples swept over, dissolving their forms with the bell’s chime, taking several seconds to re-form.
"Mr. Su, luckily you both were here, or the guild would have been in danger this time."
Su Yu waved the Wind and Fire Fan while gesturing modestly:
"Mutual help and cooperation."
"You deal with the other essences, leave the Blood God Child to us. I’m just in need of merit."
"No problem."
Qe Dongyang immediately ordered his men to set up formations to intercept the other essence creatures.
With others intercepting the other essences, Su Yu could focus on dealing with the Blood God Child. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
At this moment, Luo Qingchan transmitted a message to ask:
"Do you need to accumulate merit?"
He nodded and said:
"Yes, during that PK on Ten Thousand Poison Island, I exploded that Demon Fire Golden Banner. It was originally a Tier Nine Buddha Treasure, but to completely repair it and restore it to a Tier Nine Buddha Treasure, at least over ten thousand merit is needed. I am very short now."
She nodded thoughtfully, then changed her target to eliminate other surrounding essences, leaving the Blood God Child all to him.
Su Yu understood her intention and made a gesture of thanks to her.
In this blood cloud in the sky, the Blood God Child being released was probably in the thousands. Part of them were killed by Luo Qingchan, part were blasted by the Divine Thunder Tower inside the city, part were suppressed by Qe Dongyang, and the remaining over a thousand were eliminated by him, accumulating 1325 merit points in one go.
Previously, he had accumulated 1107 points of merit, now totaling 2432 merit points.
"So rewarding!"
With merit accumulated, Su Yu faintly felt certain changes in himself, just like the last time he gained a thousand merit, his dusty spiritual platform felt polished, his thoughts became clearer.
"If merit can be accumulated to ten thousand, will there be qualitative change?"
He speculated it was very possible, ten thousand merit should be a threshold.
In this Red Tide, there were many such demonic creatures, even more bosses. Hopefully, this wave of Red Tide will accumulate enough merit.
"If I can directly accumulate over ten thousand merit in one go, that’d be thrilling."
When the Blood God Child was completely eliminated, the blood cloud in the sky began to dissipate, which was very unexpected for him, as he thought there would be a boss inside.
Without the Blood God Child, he could only honestly level up.
This time, he was too lazy to activate the twin swords, without realizing the Sword Intent, the flying swords within the Red Tide were still no match for Tier Eight Treasures.
Holding the Wind and Fire Fan, he waved fiercely, the wild wind howling, fire thunder rolling, nearly ninety thousand mana was enough for him to squander wantonly, fully unleashing the power of the Tier Eight Treasure.
With a casual wave, dozens of Wind Blades and over a hundred True Flame Fire Thunder were blasted out, each Wind Blade and Fire Thunder dealing up to eight thousand damage. The essences at level fifty or sixty were instantly killed, when dozens rushed forward, those essences below level one hundred couldn’t withstand a single round of burst.
Even essences above level one hundred with two to three million health couldn’t withstand his brutal burst of ninety thousand mana, being directly killed with all-out effort, the burst was terrifyingly high.
This is the power of high-level treasures. As long as mana is sufficient, big monsters over level one hundred can be swiftly killed.
"There’s a boss in the east of the city, hurry, experts."
"On my way."
Su Yu and Luo Qingchan immediately hurried over, only to see Ao Run had rushed out of the city and was spiraling in the air, clashing with a two-hundred-meter-long flood dragon with a completely bluish-black body.
Corpse Flood Dragon (Elite): Level 152, Dragon Species, essence of a flood dragon imprisoned by Rage Sea Red Tide.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 4.03 million, Demonic Power 60,000, Attack Power 41,000, Speed 550 km/h, Demon Skill: Bone-Eroding Corpse Poison, Corpse Evil Blood Flame Gang Qi,
This Corpse Flood Dragon was shrouded in a layer of Bone-Eroding Corpse Poison, constantly spraying Corpse Evil Blood Flame Gang Qi, transforming into blade and spear to slash at Ao Run.
Ao Run was enveloped in a layer of water curtain, withstanding the blades and spears without breaking, repeatedly swinging dragon claws, making the iron-like body of the flood dragon spark wildly.
Occasionally, he sprayed out a Meridian Cold Tide to freeze it, then smashed the ice into flying fragments with a claw.
Occasionally, he would spit out a Dragon Pearl, mixing it with the Meridian Cold Tide, each time creating a large hole in the bluish-body of the flood dragon.
With a lower-tier template and an eight-level difference, the Corpse Flood Dragon was no match for Ao Run from the beginning.
Also, being in the Red Tide, the essence had a 50% damage reduction BUFF, and its body was hardy as iron, only then could it withstand head-on. A flood dragon of the same level outside would have been beaten to a pulp by Ao Run long ago.
"Now that we’re here."
Reactivating Thunderbolt, the twin swords combined and slashed over, and Luo Qingchan, disregarding the martial virtue, activated two Tier Nine Flying Swords to join the siege.
The two of them, together with the flood dragon, gave it a fierce beating, taking nearly three minutes to finally slay the iron-hard Corpse Flood Dragon.
The spoils were average, but they got a Tier Six Magic Treasure and a sixth-grade essence, with him taking the magic treasure and the essence being randomly distributed to Luo Qingchan.
Whether it’s a magic treasure or essence, to them, it’s all about selling for money, it doesn’t matter who has it.
The two cooperated, each gaining 82 cultivation points, which is valuable to them.
The two of them, along with the flood dragon, continued their relentless slaughter, taking a break in the city every six to seven hours, then continuing.
After three consecutive breaks, the first day had passed.
By this time, the Red Tide had completely covered Rage Tide Island, and Rage Tide City seemed like a lone boat in the sea, with flying ships occasionally emerging from the Red Tide and entering the city.
Within the city, the revival point had a continuous flow of resurrected individuals, some were the fallen members of Rage Tide Guild, but more were scattered on the island or leveling outside the island, caught off guard by the sudden outbreak of the Red Tide, they didn’t have time to return, only finding places to hide.
The Red Tide was everywhere, even hiding under the sea was not spared.
