Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 257 - 167: Breaking the Formation, the Terrifying Earth Immortal
After staying inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl for ten days, only one day had passed outside.
Upon coming out, Su Yu immediately opened the regional channel to check and confirm whether both sides had started fighting and whether anyone had noticed any anomalies at the closed-door training site within the sect.
After carefully browsing for almost an hour and confirming that no one had mentioned anything related, Su Yu breathed a sigh of relief and transformed into a Celestial Ghost, stealthily heading in the predetermined direction.
With the positioning from yesterday, he was now able to determine his location and headed straight for his destination.
Along the way, he passed through multiple Spiritual Energy Veins, each corresponding to a cultivation site within the Blood Evil Sect, with the largest ones linked to the core formations of the sect’s Sect Defense Array.
In fact, theoretically, if he could sever the veins under the Sect Defense Array’s core, without sufficient Spiritual Qi support, the array wouldn’t last long before being breached. Unfortunately, he lacked the capability to do so.
Continuing his stealthy approach, he soon reached the destination. A wisp of light collided head-on with the deep underground light curtain of the Sect Defense Array.
Digging out a space at the edge, Su Yu revealed his true form, unsheathed the Cyan Gang Sword with a reverse grip, exhaled softly, and activated the Great Divine Skill of Sky Splitting. A hundred thousand mana roared out like a flood, burning and converting into the formless Power of Space injected into the Cyan Gang Sword.
As he thrust his sword, the tip drew a black line in the air that lingered for a long time.
"Crack!"
The Cyan Gang Sword pierced into the light curtain, and a soul-penetrating shattering sound instantly echoed in his ears. Following this, cracks erupted like lightning from the sword tip, spreading extraordinarily far in the blink of an eye.
If his naked eye could penetrate the earth, he would see a massive, incomparably beautiful flower form on the gigantic Sect Defense Array’s light curtain as countless fractured lines merged into a pattern.
In the blink of an eye, it extended from underground to the surface, covering the entire southeast corner of the Blood Evil Sect’s Sect Defense Array.
"Boom!"
The flower shattered, and a massive void appeared instantly in the sect’s defense array, erasing an eighth of the light curtain completely.
The players of the Blood Evil Sect and the Blood God Guild Alliance, who were facing each other across the array’s light curtain, were stunned. After a few seconds of silence, they heard a torn, desperate shout:
"The Sect Defense Array is broken!"
"The Sect Defense Array is broken."
Voices rang out one after another, quickly spreading in all directions as panic transmitted throughout the sect.
At that moment, a blood shadow appeared in the sky. A sweeping motion of the large sleeves unleashed an invisible force, shaking the forms of the numerous dumbfounded guild alliance players outside the light curtain in this direction to powder.
"Calm!"
A booming voice resounded in the sect, seemingly possessing an invisible power that calmed everyone down.
Soon, a dozen figures appeared one by one, and the Blood Evil Ancestor issued orders in a deep voice to stabilize the situation.
Meanwhile, outside the Blood Evil Sect, in merely a few seconds, almost everyone on the battlefield knew that the sect’s defense array had broken.
Several high-level guild alliance supervisors in the rear were stunned when they received the news. After recovering, their first reaction was not to assemble more troops, but repeatedly to confirm its authenticity.
After confirming the truth from the front line, one of them hastily pushed aside a table and shouted:
"Have everyone prepare for a major battle."
Turning around, he clasped his fists towards the guild representatives and shouted:
"Notify your guild leaders to come over quickly; the opportunity has arrived."
The news spread rapidly, and even a million kilometers away in Dragon Map City, many learned of it. A lot of people rushed over, some looking to watch the spectacle, while others looked for opportunities to gain something amidst the chaos.
However...
The great battle ultimately did not happen.
Because the broken Sect Defense Array was repaired again.
Su Yu had only broken the Sect Defense Array’s barrier, not directly damaged the array itself. So after the Blood Evil Sect hastily inspected the nearby formation bases in their panic and found no issues with the array, they drew energy from the veins again to raise a barrier.
At this time, the numerous Loose Immortal experts of the guild alliance were not present, and they couldn’t seize the chance to expand their gains.
"Still not enough experience."
"Try a different approach tomorrow."
However, the power of the Sky Splitting strike, which could directly shatter a Sect Defense Array barrier with a defense of up to 900 million, was shocking even to Su Yu himself.
The property description really wasn’t an exaggeration, claiming that it could ignore anything to break below Celestial Immortal barriers and restrictions directly.
Additionally, it seemed the Blood Evil Ancestor didn’t realize that the Sect Defense Array had been deliberately broken, thinking instead that the array had a sudden malfunction causing it to collapse.
Since by logic, anyone capable of destroying the array should have permanently destroyed the formation base for good measure. What was the point of just breaking the barrier?
Thus, Su Yu cautiously hid underground and did not see the pursuit he had imagined from the Blood Evil Ancestor, despite waiting for a long time.
After an extended period of watching and seeing no threats, he exhaled and returned to the Sea Suppressing Realm to rest.
The next time he emerged was a day later, and Su Yu learned through the regional channel that the guild alliance experts were drawn over by yesterday’s disturbance.
Even though the array was repaired within a few minutes, who knew if it would break again, or if other areas would encounter similar problems? If another chance like this arose, with everyone present, they could launch a full-scale assault and potentially gain an advantage.
Through the players’ brief exchanges in the channel, Su Yu confirmed that the guild alliance experts were present, and most importantly, that the Blood Demon Hall’s True Inheritor Sikong Xiang had arrived. He decisively decided to act.
This time, he chose a different location, on the other side of where he acted last time. Stealthily, he made his way to the predetermined spot and stopped beneath a formation base.
"Are there experts on guard?"
Before he got close, he sensed several strong auras nearby the formation base.
They were all Loose Immortal-level experts, one in each of the four directions.
"The guards are quite strict."
Su Yu smiled slightly and sneaked underground to the base, as per the original plan.
The Celestial Ghost gently twisted, pressing out a space in the underground large enough to fit a person, reverted to true form, and reached out...
Just the moment he reverted to his true form, the four Loose Immortals standing around the base suddenly opened their eyes, turned around, and looked at a mirror hanging on the edge of the base. At this moment, the mirror was continuously glowing red:
"Someone’s underground!"
"He’s trying to sabotage the base!"
The four raised their hands in unison, pouring surging mana into their fists and smashing down hard.
Four thunderous rumbles sounded, invisible force penetrated the rock, crashing down fiercely. Su Yu felt a forewarning surge in his heart, instinctively raising a protective aura. In the next instant, four invisible impacts swept over, shattering the protective aura boosted by the Supreme Sword Formulas with 60% damage reduction on the spot, slamming him backward, embedding him forcefully into the stone.
"How did they discover me?"
Su Yu wondered internally, but his hands moved adeptly, drawing out the Cyan Gang Sword and activating a Great Divine Skill.
"Sky Splitting!"
The Cyan Gang Sword, infused with the power of space destruction, slashed out, tearing open the defense barrier protecting the base. The destructive force swept into the base frantically, shattering the densely packed runes within.
In just three seconds, he had already stirred the base into chaos, the formation runes inside either broken or disrupted. One-eighth of the barrier protecting the Sect Defense Array was violently shaking, and a few seconds later, it outright collapsed.
This time, unlike before when he merely broke the barrier, he directly destroyed the base that maintained one-eighth of it.
Until the base is repaired, this segment of the barrier can no longer be reactivated.
"Ah, you’re courting death!"
The four Loose Immortals watched the Sect Defense Array being breached, both shocked and furious, as they unleashed magical treasures to strike down.
But by this time, Su Yu had already sheathed his sword, reverted to a Celestial Ghost, and drilled underground, evading the bombardment of the flying debris caused by the magical treasures, while only layers of invisible impacts reached him from above.
"Hehe, the array is broken, now I can just sit and watch."
Su Yu quickly burrowed deeper, feeling the impacts grow more distant:
"Hopefully, the guild alliance shows some strength, once they..."
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a massive tremor shook the ground, followed by an unimaginable force sweeping through the earth, dispersing the wisp of smoke attempting to dive deeper, revealing Su Yu’s true form stuck in the soil.
"Damn, an Earth Immortal has intervened."
With one blow, it immediately obliterated the Celestial Ghost Transformation with 140,000 HP.
Without the Celestial Ghost Transformation, Su Yu found himself stuck in the soil, unable to move. The pressure of millions of tons of earth surged from all directions, and although he possessed strength in the thousands, he could only move a few fingers.
"Boom!"
Another unimaginable force swept through, like being struck by a battering ram, his vision went black, and when he woke up, he found he had only 500,000 of his over 900,000 blood points left.
Even though layers of earth weakened part of the force, the damage was still terrifying.
What terrified him even more was a Divine Sense that had materialized, sweeping through the underground like a searchlight, quickly locking onto his position, and an old yet extremely malevolent voice echoed in his ears:
"You dare to sabotage my Sect’s protection array, I shall throw you into the Blood Prison and refine you, never to reincarnate."
"Damn it!"
"Earth Immortals are this powerful?"
Feeling the earth tremble, Su Yu was greatly alarmed, his body embedded in the ground could clearly sense the earth’s distortion and deformation, it was as if...
Suddenly, a crazed image appeared in his mind—a massive hand of capture deeply plunging into the earth’s depths for kilometers, attempting to forcibly extract the land within a radius of several kilometers.
"Damn, this is insane."
Su Yu’s mind raced, and almost instantly made a decision, pressing a hand to his chest and directly severing his heart, committing suicide.
As his vision darkened, he lost consciousness.
When he awoke again, seeing the unfamiliar scenery of a small town before him, he laughed wildly towards the sky.
Fortunately, the law of death has a very high priority, and even an Earth Immortal couldn’t surpass the Heavenly Dao Laws to capture his soul after death.
With a thought, he opened the panel to check the log, which showed that he had committed suicide, losing five years of his lifespan along with some miscellaneous items.
"Not a big deal."
He had no shortage of life; his lifespan wasn’t lacking.
Not to mention that his lifespan limit was still 295 years remaining, owning the Star Shifting Celestial Dao Divine Skill destined him never to have a short life.
Closing the panel, Su Yu opened the map to see his current location, discovering himself in a small town less than ten thousand miles away from the Blood Evil Sect, uncertain of which guild’s territory.
Opening the regional channel to check, the small town’s regional channel had few people, but they were predominantly discussing the guild alliance’s assault on Blood Evil Sect, occurring over ten thousand miles away. From their discussions, he learned an exciting piece of news: the guild alliance had already launched a full-scale attack on Blood Evil Sect ahead of schedule.
Although the guild alliance wasn’t completely prepared, the opportunity was right in front of them, one not to be missed.
Repairing a broken base isn’t easy, and the guild alliance couldn’t pass up this chance to act.
If they let this opportunity slip by, waiting until the array is repaired, they would lack absolute certainty to breach the Sect Defense Array even if future preparations were made.
