Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 169 - 85: Celestial Deity Tower, Celestial Strike Battleship

Chapter 169: Chapter 85: Celestial Deity Tower, Celestial Strike Battleship

Like them, there were quite a few people who thought the same way. Some of the dozens of teams that Xi Muchuan had united earlier left, while others stayed, each occupying a section of the canyon to intercept the monsters pouring out from the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons.

No team could completely intercept the more than five thousand monsters surging per second; they could only intercept in segments.

The team at the front went on a wild bombing spree, retreated when they couldn’t hold, and the monster tide that surged out moved to the next section to be intercepted again. Unable to hold, they retreated again, letting the monsters surge to the next section.

Section after section was intercepted, with fewer and fewer monsters until they were completely eliminated.

But the fact was, although there were more than twenty teams intercepting in segments along this several-kilometer-long canyon, they still couldn’t kill all the monsters. Even when Su Yu summoned Ao Run, spraying the Meridian Cold Tide to cover nearly a kilometer, they still couldn’t intercept everything, and some managed to escape and scatter into the Demon Country.

Occasionally, a level 100+ BOSS would charge out from the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons and would be heavily targeted, rarely breaking through the layers of interception and escaping.

Su Yu and his group were positioned in the middle, fully firing to intercept at least ten percent of the monsters, and could hold for nearly twenty seconds each time.

With over a thousand monsters per second, that would be nearly twenty thousand monsters in twenty seconds, many of whom were lower in level than them and provided little experience, averaging three to four hundred thousand killing experience, with occasional one or two points of Taoism.

After the burst, their conventional methods were unable to withstand so many monsters, and they immediately retreated to the air to rest.

According to Ding Lingyu’s ten-minute cooldown time for the Qianqing Shangyuan Taiyi Divine Thunder Net, they could burst about six times an hour, and with intermittent bursts, they could accumulate up to two million killing experiences.

They could grind for about ten hours a day, accumulating over 20 million killing experiences, and Ding Lingyu and the others had over ten million killing experiences.

From morning to night, they returned to Demon Suppression City to rest and continued the next morning, then they moved into the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons.

Unbeknownst to them, five days had passed, and early this morning, the four of them headed to the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons again.

As soon as they left Demon Suppression City, someone relayed their departure information:

"They’re on their way."

The Dragon Scale Flying Ship swiftly shuttled through the sky, and Su Yu was distributing the loot to everyone:

"We previously destroyed two demon towns; Demon Suppression City rewarded us with 200 taels of gold and 200 sect contribution points. We killed 3 level 100 great demons, earning 30 gold and 15 sect contribution points. The two demon towns plus these few days of leveling up accumulated a lot of miscellaneous loot, worth a total of 360 gold."

"Additionally, I purchased Immortal Spirit Stones for 550 gold, and Xi Muchuan dropped two Tier Six Treasures worth a total of 250 gold."

"In the end, the total is 1390 gold and 215 sect contribution points. Ling Yu and I each get thirty percent, totaling 417 gold and 65 sect contribution points. Xu Lulu and Lan Yiyi get twenty percent each, totaling 278 gold and 42 sect contribution points. Any problems?"

"No problems."

"Then let’s trade."

Su Yu completed the trades one by one with everyone, examined his own wealth, and found it had returned to over a thousand gold.

The Golden Scale Flying Ship was very fast and soon arrived near the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, stopping nearby.

The four of them looked up in surprise; today, hovering above the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons was a giant flying ship, many times larger than his Golden Scale Flying Ship, probably over 3,000 meters long, like a tall ship with nine floors. Layers of Divine Thunder Towers rose above it, continuously condensing thunderballs to bombard the canyon.

Su Yu, who had previously operated the Divine Thunder Tower on the guild’s Rage Whale Ship to level up, could immediately tell that the Divine Thunder Towers on this giant flying ship were absolutely upgraded and not just by one level, with incredibly exaggerated power. With thousands of Divine Thunder Towers, it could intercept all the endless monsters pouring out from the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons and annihilate them near the central mouth of the canyon.

"Where did this force come from?"

"The grade of this giant flying ship must be at least Tier Eight, right?"

As they were wondering, Xi Muchuan, standing by the third-floor railing of the giant flying ship, with an extremely conspicuous Dragon Scale Flying Ship in sight, immediately got excited, slammed his fist on the handrail, and said:

"I’ve been waiting for you for a long time!"

He quickly turned around, came to the bow deck, and shouted loudly:

"Brother-in-law!"

On the deck, a dozen distinguished men and women were gathered, discussing something. When they heard the shout, they looked up, their expressions varying.

Among them, a handsome man in a luxurious brocade robe looked up helplessly:

"Can’t you see I’m in a meeting? Can it wait?"

Xi Muchuan immediately said:

"The person who killed me earlier is here, right outside. If we don’t act, they’ll leave."

Jiang Lang sighed, apologized to the Celestial God Association’s senior members around him:

"Sorry, friends, I have some personal business. It won’t affect the operation. I’ll offer 10,000 guild contribution points as compensation."

The senior member of another guild standing to the left smiled and said:

"It’s no problem; we haven’t started yet anyway."

Jiang Lang nodded and said to one of the core ship captains among the dozen:

"If you wouldn’t mind, later, when Muchuan points out the target, please focus fire and eliminate them."

He then turned back to Xi Muchuan and said:

"He killed you once, you kill him once, and that will be the end of it."

"No way, I lost two Tier Seven Treasures and one Tier Seven Equipment, he must compensate."

At that moment, a dozen gazes turned his way, everyone looking with perplexed expressions.

Looking at his troublesome brother-in-law, Jiang Lang rubbed his forehead and couldn’t help scolding:

"Do you really have two Tier Seven Treasures?"

Xi Muchuan wanted to say more, but Jiang Lang waved him off:

"Get lost! Say one more word and I won’t care about you anymore."

Feeling frustrated, Xi Muchuan returned, feeling increasingly wronged, muttering through gritted teeth:

"I’ll take some interest first and kill him again next time."

Pointing at Su Yu, he said to Lo Yunze:

"It’s those people, that Golden Scale Flying Ship is very obvious, you see it, right?"

Lo Yunze hesitated for a moment and sent Jiang Lang a message:

"There are many onlookers around the target, any action will affect them."

Jiang Lang casually replied:

"I see them, just a bunch of loose cultivators and small teams, let’s do it."

"Alright!"

Several kilometers away in the sky above the canyon, more than a dozen flying ships gathered to watch, and the Dragon Scale Flying Ship came over as well. Su Yu greeted a squad leader on a Taiyi Cyan Spirit Ship who had been leveling there these past few days and asked:

"Whose is this giant ship? It’s so extravagant."

"You don’t know about the Celestial Strike Battleship of the Celestial God Association?"

"Which guild is so arrogant to have such a name?"

"You’re just inexperienced."

"The Celestial God Association is a top guild in the region of Chixiao Sword Vein and Endless Forest, with its headquarters over 20,000 kilometers west in the Endless Forest. Its trump card is this Celestial Strike Battleship, armed with thousands of upgraded Divine Thunder Towers, and its main cannon can instantly kill elite monsters over level 100."

"That strong?"

"What do you think? It’s an eighth-tier battleship, which by battleship attributes is one tier higher than magical treasures, so its combat power won’t be inferior to Tier Nine Treasures."

"With this giant ship, the Celestial God Association..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his expression suddenly changed as he looked up. Su Yu also quickly turned his head to look at the Celestial Strike Battleship, seeing a giant mirror suspended above the ship rotate to face them. An invisible force spanned several kilometers, freezing this area.

"Damn, what are they doing? Clearing the area without warning?"

In that instant, Su Yu felt an intense chill, with a foreboding sense of imminent disaster.

Ding Lingyu said gravely:

"I feel like it’s aimed at us."

"I know."

He immediately activated the Dragon Scale Flying Ship, raising the defense barrier, but the sense of crisis in his heart did not go away.

"The Dragon Scale Flying Ship can’t withstand it."

He said solemnly:

"Everyone, fend for yourselves!"

With a thought, the Cyan Cloud Cover rose, decisively activating the magical robe’s attached spell ’Cloud Protection,’ as layers of cyan clouds surged out to form a protective cloud cover around his body. His defense instantly rose to 400,000, with a 50% damage reduction.

Lan Yiyi and Xu Lulu also reacted, swiftly deploying their defensive measures.

Seconds later, over a thousand Divine Thunder Towers facing them from the nine layers of the Celestial Strike Battleship lit up simultaneously, converging into a thundering ball of lightning that struck down.

"Boom!"

The unimaginable power gathered, instantly tearing through the defense barrier of the Dragon Scale Flying Ship.

At the instant the defense was torn apart, Su Yu decisively retracted the Dragon Scale Flying Ship, engulfed by the onslaught of countless thunders.

From the moment of contact, Su Yu knew the Dragon Scale Flying Ship couldn’t withstand the concentrated fire of the Celestial Strike Battleship; blocking it head-on would inevitably lead to violent destruction.

At this time, he couldn’t care about his teammates, choosing to save himself first.

The unimaginable power destroyed everything, the cyan clouds were torn apart in the blink of an eye, the Profound Snake Guardian and the Magic Robe Shield appearing and vanishing just as quickly.

Su Yu reacted swiftly, using the delay from the shielding equipment to activate the Nine Orifice Treasure Pearl, casting down layers of treasure light.

But the treasure light turned to void in an instant.

"Protective Barrier."

Shattered instantly.

"Demon Blood Stone!"

Qi and Blood max cap +30000.

Thunder struck his body, his Qi and Blood rapidly dwindling.

But at that moment, a wave of divine thunder bombardment had ended, leaving 18,500 Qi and Blood remaining.

When the Thunder Purgatory dissipated, within a 500-meter diameter only he remained; even Ding Lingyu couldn’t withstand it and died, let alone Lan Yiyi and Xu Lulu.

Su Yu looked up, taking a deep look at the Celestial Strike Battleship slowly turning in the distance, then took to the sky and fled.

"How could this be possible!"

Xi Muchuan, initially believing Su Yu was surely dead, was shocked and quickly shouted:

"Don’t let him escape, fire another salvo."

Lo Yunze glanced at him but said nothing, instead looking at the vice president Jiang Lang who had given the order.

Jiang Lang pondered for a second, then said:

"Activate the main cannon."

Lo Yunze nodded, and with an order, the giant mirror on the prow of the already-turning Celestial Strike Battleship lit up with spiritual light. Surging spiritual power began to gather, transforming into a vortex contracting inward under the array’s conversion, with a menacing wave slowly emanating from the vortex.

"Who exactly?"

Su Yu desperately racked his brains but couldn’t think of when he had offended this guild called the Celestial God Association.

Feeling the looming threat from behind, he instantly knew he couldn’t escape normally; no matter how fast he ran, he couldn’t outrun cannon fire. He decisively transformed into the Celestial Ghost Transformation, becoming insubstantial and turning into smoke to dive underground.

Entering the soil, the threat didn’t diminish; he burrowed deeper into the ground but not straight down, angling downward to avoid being targeted.

This move indeed caught Jiang Lang off guard, but after hesitating for a second, he ordered to continue firing.

"Boom!"

A dazzling beam like the spear of the gods descended from the sky, impacting the ground. The unimaginable force tore the earth apart, blasting billions of tons of soil, with the invisible force crashing deep into the ground.

The Celestial Ghost Transformation, turned into smoke, was swept by the force, instantly losing 70,000 Qi and Blood, shaking violently before reverting to solid form, stuck in the earth, with health rapidly declining.

Fortunately, neither transforming void into reality nor reality into void had a cooldown. He immediately turned back into smoke, continuing to float deeper into the ground.