Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 75 - 36: Jiezhi Concealment Skill, Scam (Part 2)
Invisibility Skill, as the name suggests, allows you to become invisible and can be combined with Jiezhi Concealment Skill.
Advancing to the first level requires 3,000,000 cultivation points and 20 Dao practice points.
Currently lacking cultivation points, he only advanced these two Secret Skills to level one, enough for now.
Nothing happened overnight, and early the next morning, Su Yu left Thousand Feather City, flying eastward to train at the Yuanjiang River.
The Poisonous Mist Swamp still isn’t very good, whether it’s the number of monsters or resources, both are far inferior to the Yuanjiang River.
Diving into the Yuanjiang River, the Black Water Profound Pearl parted the lake water to form a Waterless Space and sank slowly, the lake water clear and transparent, allowing him to see various aquatic race monsters swimming from afar.
After descending over a thousand meters, he halted. Su Yu immediately employed the Jiezhi Concealment Skill to gather his own aura, greatly reducing his presence. A large translucent sphere suspending in water, distant monsters seemed to overlook him.
It wasn’t until he released the Sun Concealing Flying Sword, encircling a group of level 60 or so Cyan-Backed Carp Spirits nearby, that the attention of nearby monsters was drawn.
The sharp Sword Qi crisscrossed, leaving deep gashes upon contact, and soon the blood stained this water area red.
Sweeping away this group of Fish Spirits, he retrieved the Flying Sword and released it again, pulling over another group of Cyan Fish Spirits.
"Oh ho!"
After killing this group of Cyan Fish Spirits, he unexpectedly obtained a Tier Three Cyan Fish Sword as loot.
Cyan Fish Sword (Tier Three Flying Sword): A flying sword refined from the bones of Cyan Fish Spirits.
Attributes: Attack Power 30-50, Attack Speed 20-40, Sword Control Speed 20-40, Sword Formulas Enhancement 20%, Special Feature: Cyan Fish Inference Dragon Array.
Cyan Fish Inference Dragon Array: Assemble a set of 108 Cyan Fish Swords to form a Cyan Fish Inference Dragon Array, summoning a level 150 terrifying template cyan dragon phantom.
Equipment Requirement: Basic Sword Formulas level fifteen.
"Hmm....."
Su Yu’s evaluation was:
"Extravagant yet useless!"
The Cyan Fish Sword’s attributes are below the average for a Tier Three Flying Sword, not very strong. The only highlight is that it comes with the Cyan Fish Inference Dragon Array, gathering 108 of them can form the array to summon a dragon phantom to assist in battle.
Initially, it seems powerful, with a level 150 terrifying template dragon being quite formidable.
But the issue is needing 108 of them. The market price of a Tier Three Flying Sword is between 10-20 taels of silver per sword based on quality, and although the attributes of the Cyan Fish Sword are likely at the bottom at 10 silver per sword, due to its feature, it’s priced as high as 20 taels silver each, making 108 swords cost 20 gold 60 silver.
Why not buy a premium Tier Five Flying Sword for 20 taels of gold? Who would buy a Cyan Fish Sword which is only slightly better than a Tier Two Flying Sword in attributes?
Furthermore, the Cyan Fish Inference Dragon Array shouldn’t be relied upon. Even though it’s possible to summon a dragon phantom with 108, the mana required to simultaneously control 108 Tier Two Flying Swords is exorbitant and cannot be sustained.
Moreover, the Cyan Fish Sword has low durability, and when clashing with higher-level flying swords, it can easily be cut apart.
Once too many are broken, the array shatters by itself.
Considering these negative factors, this sword is quite useless, only attracting those wealthy showbro second-generation types who like to gather a set to show off to impress girls.
Casually storing away the Cyan Fish Sword, Su Yu changed locations to continue slaying monsters.
These monsters are trash templates, not significantly different in health and defense from ordinary templates, but with very low intelligence, having only basic biological instincts, posing almost no threat, lovingly dubbed "experience monsters" by players.
Almost without pause, he cleared them from morning till night, successfully accumulating 1.26 million kill experience points.
Instead of returning to the Poisonous Mist Swamp base at night, he stayed in a riverside town nearby.
This town also belongs to a guild, seemingly the station of an independent squad. The town’s scale is larger than Chensha Town but not as important as Chensha Town.
At the town’s east gate lies a plaza where many players gather, forming a flea market.
After dinner, with the sky yet to darken completely, Su Yu didn’t go to bed early and wandered into the flea market.
Right at the entrance, he spotted a general store and conveniently flogged off some junk like fish scales and bones gained from leveling, including the Cyan Fish Sword, receiving a total of 32 taels of silver.
Having strolled around, just as he turned into another row of stalls, he accidentally bumped into someone. As he was about to turn, the person hastened over and whispered:
"Brother, I got a high-tier stolen flying sword cheap for sale; you want it?"
Saying so, he opened his coat, hanging there was a crystalline transparent flying sword, inscribed with....
Suspended (Tier Seven Flying Sword): Premium, a flying sword refined with Taibai Pure Gold and Xuan Guang Crystal.
Attributes: Attack Power 600-880, Attack Speed 480-720, Sword Control Speed 500-750, Sword Formulas Enhancement 70%, additional Dao techniques...
Before he could finish reading, the person closed his coat, glancing around cautiously.
"A Tier Seven Flying Sword?"
Su Yu was greatly surprised and immediately asked:
"How much is it?"
The person held up two fingers:
"500 taels of gold."
"Too expensive."
"It’s not expensive, a Tier Seven Flying Sword’s market price is over 1000 gold, this is only half."
"I don’t have that much money."
"How much do you have?"
"84 gold."
"84 gold?"
"Too little, it won’t do."
The person waved his hand quickly, turning to leave.
"Wait."
Su Yu grabbed him, gritting his teeth:
"Can you lower it a bit? I’ll borrow some."
A Tier Seven Flying Sword, such a low price is hard to come by in a lifetime, missing it would be a huge regret.
And with a high-tier flying sword, he can definitely break Ding Lingyu’s defenses, and coupled with a decent Defense Treasure, even a Tier Six would do, he would have a fighting chance against Ding Lingyu.
"It must be obtained."
The person hesitated before sticking out a single finger:
"150 gold, no less, you could ask your friends to lend you some money."
"Alright!"
"Let’s add each other as friends first."
"By the way, I need to take a screenshot or else my friends won’t believe it."
The person appeared impatient:
"Why so many requests? It’s down to 150 gold and you still dilly-dally; if you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. I’ll sell it to someone else for 200 gold."
Watching him walk away, Su Yu opened his mouth but ultimately didn’t insist, turning to take off into the sky towards the Poisonous Mist Swamp, simultaneously contacting Zhuang Zhuo and others.
"Mr. Zhuang, lend me some money to buy a flying sword."
"How much do you need?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
"How much can you lend me at most?"
"15 gold."
"Alright, I’ll repay after the next minor exam."
"Thanks!"
"Don’t mention it!"
.....
"Mr. Gu, lend me some money to buy a flying sword."
"Don’t you already have a Tier Six Flying Sword?"
"Yeah, I want to buy a Tier Seven Flying Sword."
"You can afford a Tier Seven Flying Sword? How much is it being sold for?"
"Someone’s selling it for 150 gold, says it’s discounted stolen goods."
"???"
"Even discounted stolen goods don’t have such a discount, are you being scammed?"
"No, I saw the flying sword’s attributes, it’s indeed a Tier Seven Flying Sword."
"Doesn’t make sense."
"Do you have a screenshot?"
"No."
Then Shi Ning suddenly messaged him:
"Mr. Su, you’re definitely being scammed."
"Is it a flying sword named Suspended?"
"Ah, you know it too?"
"Hahaha, you’ve been conned, it’s just a Tier One Flying Sword. Only the flying sword’s name is —— Suspended (Tier Seven Flying Sword): Premium, a flying sword refined with Taibai Pure Gold and Xuan Guang Crystal. Attributes: Attack Power 600-880, Attack Speed 480-720, Sword Control Speed 500-750, Sword Formulas Enhancement 70%, additional Dao techniques..."
"???"
"You didn’t misread, that long line of description and attributes is the name of the flying sword."
"This guy was fooling people on Thunder Eagle Association’s turf before, got exposed, and ran here."
Su Yu stopped abruptly, his face shifting from white to red, then red to green, shamed and furious, constantly changing.
"Dammit!"
Now seeing the name revealed means it’s truly clear.
He quickly turned back, soon finding that person was chatting furtively with someone at the flea market’s edge.
Descending from the sky, Su Yu immediately invoked the Light Fixing Mirror, freezing him with a beam of White Light.
His sudden action drew the market guards’ attention, and a team of Thousand Feather Guild players flew over. Su Yu immediately approached them, identifying himself as a guild member and explained the situation to them.
The team leader immediately took out a Spirit-Binding Rope to tie him up, searching him to find that so-called Tier Seven Flying Sword.
Then there was no need for further words; the person was directly taken away.
Scamming on their turf, and such a vast amount, if successful would have serious repercussions and would be severely punished.
He won’t be killed, that would be too lenient, most likely they’ll imprison him, locking him up for a decade or so to teach a lesson and cool Su Yu’s anger.
"Too dangerous, almost suffered a great loss."
Su Yu specially thanked Shi Ning.
