Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 77 - 37: Sword Control Technique Upgrade, BOSS Battle, Fisherman Waiting Behind (Part 2)
As time passed, the battle grew more intense. Both BOSS figures occasionally revealed themselves with scars, damaged azure dragon scales, shattered crab shell fragments, and broken spines.
"Boom!"
A massive bolt of lightning exploded in the chaotic waters, followed by an eruption of river water as two colossal creatures burst forth.
One was an Azure Dragon, 150 meters long and covered in wounds, and the other was a Golden Ao Crab, nearly 100 meters in diameter with a dark golden shell and massive pincers flailing.
Logically, the Azure Dragon was only level 126, an elite template at most, and couldn’t possibly defeat a level 156, terrifying template Golden Turtle Crab General. The levels and templates were on entirely different planes.
Yet the result was that both seemed to have fought each other to a standstill, with the Azure Dragon not losing ground.
After bursting out from the chaos, the Azure Dragon’s massive body lashed out, its thick tail slamming into the Golden Ao, sending debris flying.
The Golden Ao countered with a pincer strike, shattering many dragon scales.
The dragon roared in pain, its two massive claws swinging as two giant hands launched forward, grabbing the pincers. A blue orb shot from its mouth, striking the Golden Ao. With a deafening roar of pain, the thick golden shell was left with a huge hole, blood and debris spraying everywhere.
"Whoa, is that the dragon from the secret realm?"
"It survived the secret realm?"
The injured Golden Ao thrashed wildly, but couldn’t break free from the grasping hands for the moment, leaving the Azure Dragon free to open its jaws and unleash Gui Water Divine Thunder on the wound on its back relentlessly.
"It’s unbelievably fierce."
At this moment, the Golden Ao Crab, long oppressed, couldn’t hold back anymore, spewing a gold lightning-wrapped inner core like a meteor into the dragon. With a loud ’boom’, the dragon cried out and was sent flying back.
Su Yu focused his gaze, realizing that one of the dragon’s claws had disappeared.
Angry, the dragon opened its mouth and released a blue orb that descended like a shooting star, while the Golden Ao Crab unleashed its inner core to meet it.
"Rumble!"
In an instant, it was as if heavenly thunder triggered earthfire, endless streams of blue light and golden thunder exploded, the shockwave spreading like lightning, sending him flying hundreds of meters away, reducing his defense of 18,000 to a thin layer, less than two thousand.
Once he stabilized his position, he suddenly noticed a group of eight people appearing several kilometers away in the waters, having been revealed by the powerful shockwave, unlike Su Yu, whose concealment ability remained intact.
Su Yu thought for a moment, then quietly altered his course to another side, ensuring he wouldn’t be noticed due to the battlefield in between.
Daring to fish in troubled waters required strength, and with their numbers, they would likely be hard to defeat.
By now, the two BOSSes were entrenched in a deadly struggle, biting and striking each other, with the dragon tail slapping and the pincers smashing, and the Golden Ao Crab’s inner core clashing continuously with the Azure Dragon’s treasure pearl, Gui Water Divine Thunder and golden lightning clashing without pause.
In this brutal combat, both sides’ health was rapidly declining like flowing water.
Surprisingly, the one with the advantage was not the higher-level and template Golden Ao Crab, but the level 121 Azure Dragon.
When the Azure Dragon’s health dropped below one million, the Golden Ao Crab General’s health was just over seven hundred thousand.
"A domesticated magical pet, how terrifying!"
Su Yu thought the reason the Azure Dragon could gain the upper hand was not just due to its cultivation but mainly because of a powerful magical treasure.
The Golden Ao Crab was using its inner core, while the Azure Dragon was using a treasure pearl, not its inner core.
The inner core is the essence of a spirit beast’s life, its core of existence, and one of its strongest means.
However, if the inner core gets damaged, at best, cultivation regresses; at worst, it results in death and the dispersion of the soul.
Colliding inner cores with magical treasures was extremely disadvantageous. Half of the damage suffered by the Golden Ao Crab General came from these collisions.
But the Crab General had no choice; not using the inner core would mean passively receiving blows, and its body couldn’t withstand the relentless bombardment of the treasure.
"It’s nearly dead."
Kong He’an said excitedly to his companions:
"Everyone, get ready, and wait for my order to strike."
The group of eight prepared their magical treasures, waiting for the BOSS to reach low health.
As time ticked by, the Golden Ao Crab General’s health continued to drop, but it fought even more fiercely, golden lightning erupting from its entire body, tearing into the Azure Dragon.
"Roar!"
The Azure Dragon opened its jaws, releasing the blue orb to fall, while the Golden Ao shot out its inner core to meet it.
"Boom!"
The inner core collided head-on with the blue orb, suddenly producing a soft ’crack’ sound, as a crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the inner core.
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Accompanied by the Golden Ao Crab General’s mournful scream, a terrifying damage figure that sent chills down one’s spine erupted.
The Golden Turtle Divine General, grappling with the dragon, suddenly lost all its strength, its two seizing dragon claws pressing down to catch the crab shell, while the Azure Dragon bit into the hole on the crab’s back it had created earlier.
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A series of lethal strikes instantly drove the Golden Turtle Divine General into a near-death state.
Kong He’an, who had been observing the battle, smiled with delight and shouted:
"Do it!"
As soon as the words were spoken, eight different Magical Treasures, already prepared, simultaneously blasted towards the Golden Turtle Divine General, who was being suppressed by the dragon.
In an instant, a dozen or so under-100 damage exploded, pushing the near-death Golden Turtle Divine General further into death.
At this moment, dense golden lightning appeared all over the Golden Turtle Divine General’s body, and a golden light sphere flew out, exploding with a bang.
Infinite golden lightning erupted in an instant, engulfing everything around like a solar explosion, with a faint dragon’s painful roar heard from within.
Su Yu was directly blasted out a thousand meters; when the violent golden lightning shockwave passed, he quickly summoned the Sun Concealing Sword, his hands forming two sword qi projections, thrusting them into the golden chaos that looked like a solar explosion.
"Flare change!"
"Taibai Splitting Light Sword!"
"Purple Essence Qi Strength!"
Locking onto the position of the Golden Turtle Crab General, all the outbursts slammed down fiercely.
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Almost forty damages jumped up simultaneously, then a warm current surged into his body, and three loot spheres flew out of the chaos into his embrace.
"Got it."
But Su Yu couldn’t bother to check these; instead, he summoned the Flying Sword and sword qi to kill the green dragon also in a near-death state.
The Golden Turtle Crab General, facing death, self-destructed its Inner Core, directly striking the nearby green dragon into a near-death state.
"Someone!"
"The BOSS has been snatched."
Kong He’an’s face changed, a surge of anger rising from his heart to fill his mind.
By now, the aftermath of the explosion had gradually dissipated. The Golden Turtle Divine General’s corpse and the wounded dragon could be seen floating in water at the explosion’s center, alongside a figure quickly approaching the center, collecting the BOSS’s corpse.
"Damn! You’re stealing my BOSS, seeking death!"
A group of people immediately rushed over.
Su Yu didn’t even glance at them; the shockwave had pushed them far away. Rushing over would take time, and there was still time.
He frantically operated the Sun Concealing Sword and two sword qi to slice back and forth around the dragon, causing sparks to fly from dragon scales and damage numbers under one hundred to keep spewing out.
At this moment, the dragon BOSS’s health was just over twenty thousand, and it could be quickly worn down to death.
"Human, I recognize you!"
At this time, the dragon had regained its senses from the self-destruct impact of the Golden Turtle Inner Core, instantly aware of its current state and the human attacking it, as well as the eight people quickly approaching not far away.
Almost instantly, the dragon made a decision, spitting out words in human speech:
"Human, I swear by the Heavenly Dao, spare my life, and I’ll give you an advanced Magical Treasure."
Su Yu directly shook his head:
"If I kill you, the treasure will still be mine."
The dragon immediately said:
"Two advanced Magical Treasures, spare my life."
Su Yu did not respond, only urging the Flying Sword to chop furiously at the wounded area of the green dragon.
Meanwhile, Kong He’an and several of his companions had arrived, carefully sacrificing their treasures to prepare for an attack.
"Suppress the sea!"
Su Yu’s pupils flashed blue light; an invisible force condensed the water space around Su Yu and the dragon into a wall two hundred meters thick. The eight people collided against the water wall and bounced back, quickly launching a barrage of treasures, destroying large swathes of the water wall by several tens of meters. Still, the two hundred meters of thickness could not be breached quickly.
Meanwhile, with just these few words, the dragon’s health had been worn down to slightly over ten thousand, unable to last much longer under Su Yu’s attack.
In a life-and-death moment, the green dragon finally gave in, reluctantly speaking:
"Human, by the Heavenly Dao, I take an oath, I am willing to serve you as my master."
