Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 72 - 35: Sweeping Through, 100 Taels of Gold
Five minutes later, Su Yu went on stage again, this time his opponent was Zhou Xuan once more.
"I didn’t expect to face you again."
Zhou Xuan looked helpless. Although his strength had improved over the past three months and even his magical treasure had upgraded a level, he really had no confidence in defeating Su Yu.
Su Yu chuckled softly and cupped his hands:
"Please give me your guidance!"
Zhou Xuan’s expression turned serious as he summoned the flying sword gourd again. With a whirl, a series of gourd flying swords shot out.
"Third-grade flying swords!"
The 108 gourd flying swords were a grade higher than they were at the small tournament last time.
"Interesting!"
Su Yu raised a mirror to reflect at Zhou Xuan and immobilized him. Then he summoned the Sun Concealing Sword, directly activating its radiant transformation, unleashing the Sun True Fire.
"Taibai Splitting Light Sword!"
Thirty strands of sword Qi flashed through the air and instantly engulfed Zhou Xuan.
The explosive force of 60,000 easily broke through the protective treasure with extra to spare, then effortlessly shattered the defense of his magical robe with a strike of Purple Essence Qi Strength before Zhou Xuan could react, sending him out of the arena with a single slash.
Anyway, every technique cools down after each match, so there’s no reason not to use them.
"Damn!"
As soon as he was teleported back, he heard Zhou Xuan’s somewhat flustered voice:
"At least let me exchange a few moves; being taken out in one hit is too embarrassing."
Su Yu couldn’t help but laugh, cupping his hands:
"Next time, for sure."
He turned to look at the arena, where the fierce battle continued, and saw He Shoucheng on Stage Three.
He held two sixth-grade magical treasures, one for attack and one for defense, showcasing significant strength, but his opponent was Ding Lingyu. After transforming into a god general, he integrated attack and defense, easily breaking He Shoucheng’s Wind Blades with his bare hands, advancing straight to He Shoucheng and pounding his protective treasure until He Shoucheng voluntarily conceded.
There was an overwhelming power in his unadorned simplicity.
"He couldn’t even break through the defense."
Witnessing this, Su Yu furrowed his brow deeply. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
While He Shoucheng’s Wind Blades didn’t deal high damage, their inability to break through defenses was astonishing.
Moreover, it was still unclear how high his defense truly was, as defeating He Shoucheng left him unscathed, indicating that the god general’s defense far surpassed the Wind Blade’s attack.
"Not in the same league!"
"If even a small Thousand Feather Association has such individuals, what about sects with masters aplenty?"
Su Yu pursed his lips, the small pride he achieved with continuous successes quietly faded away.
After three matches concluded, the final four emerged: Ding Lingyu, Wei Xia, Lan Yiyi, and Su Yu. Last year’s fourth place, Xu Lulu, was replaced by him this year.
The four individual stages silently vanished, replaced by a large stage.
"The top four participants of this small tournament are Ding Lingyu, Wei Xia, Lan Yiyi, and Su Yu."
As the host’s voice rang out, four beams of light fell upon them, instantly drawing thousands of eyes to them.
This was true attention from the masses, enough to make one’s blood boil.
The first round, Su Yu versus Wei Xia.
The transmission pillar lit up, and he and Wei Xia appeared on the stage simultaneously.
Wei Xia smiled broadly:
"Let’s skip the probing and go straight to the big moves!"
"Alright!"
Wei Xia waved, summoning the Thunder Hammer, a pillar of lightning shot skyward, and accompanied by a thunderous roar, a massive thundercloud formed above him.
Su Yu called the Sun Concealing Sword to his hand, with sword light flickering in his palm.
As the thirty-second countdown ended, Wei Xia swung the hammer, the thundercloud expanded rapidly across the entire arena, bolts of lightning danced within, and, following Wei Xia’s hammer, poured down like rain.
Su Yu shot into the air under a protective Qi shield, but still, more than a dozen bolts struck his head, causing the protective Qi shield to twist violently and lose over ten thousand defenses instantly.
With a thought, he injected Mana to restore his defense, pointed his finger, and sent the Sun Concealing Sword flying like a rainbow.
"Radiant Transformation!"
The sword abruptly burst into flames of Sun True Fire.
"Taibai Splitting Light Sword!"
The sword rainbow quivered, separating into thirty strands of sword Qi rushing toward Wei Xia.
"Boom!"
The second wave of lightning struck down, again landing more than a dozen strikes on his head, shattering the protective Qi shield, the Black Water Profound Pearl triggered automatically.
At the early stage, one’s techniques were limited, making the combat style very standard with an exchange of attack and defense.
Whoever’s attack was stronger and defense higher had the advantage.
When it came to instantaneous burst, Wei Xia was not as good as Su Yu, so before the third wave of lightning struck, the Taibai Splitting Light Sword Qi had already engulfed Wei Xia. The explosive force of 60,000 was impossible to withstand without a seventh-grade Defense Treasure, directly blowing away Wei Xia’s Defense Treasure, tearing the magical robe, and the remaining force halved the defensive power of his protective Qi shield.
Before Wei Xia had time to feel relieved, the faster Taibai Sword Gang caught up, intertwining with the Sun Concealing Sword, directly tearing the protective Qi shield, a flash of sword light cutting across his throat.
"Ah!"
He instinctively leaned back and covered his throat, only to find a layer of light membrane protecting him.
"I lost."
A flash of White Light, and he was teleported away.
"Player No. 8, Su Yu, wins!"
Below the stage, Su Yu smiled and cupped his hands toward Wei Xia:
"Thanks for letting me win!"
"You are indeed stronger than me."
Wei Xia, being a good sport, acknowledged:
"Each wave of my thunder takes a second or two to build up, not as instantaneous as your burst."
Whether by coincidence or because the higher-ups perceived him as one of the strongest alongside Ding Lingyu, Su Yu’s next opponent was Lan Yiyi.
Lan Yiyi pursued the rare Body Refining bloodline path; awakening the Flood Dragon Bloodline allowed her to transform into a half-human half-flood dragon, possessing Qi and Blood as high as 80,000. She wielded a sixth-grade weapon-type Magical Treasure and could also use Gui Water Divine Thunder, akin to a scaled-down version of Ding Lingyu.
Su Yu initiated with Radiant Transformation plus Taibai Splitting Light Sword, the thirty strands of sword Qi swarmed toward Lan Yiyi, who neither had a Defense Treasure nor a protective Qi shield, simply raised her long spear and struck in a sweeping motion.
