Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 176 - 90: Merit, Celestial Heart, Law Fragment

Chapter 176: Chapter 90: Merit, Celestial Heart, Law Fragment

At this point, the overall situation was settled.

After the return of the Five-Colored Divine Ox, the Celestial God Association could no longer handle him, and the remaining players couldn’t possibly stop the Five-Colored Divine Ox.

Su Yu stood before the Law Core, Thunderbolt in hand. Even if a few Loose Immortals attacked, he could withstand a few blows. Although their strength far surpassed Su Yu’s, they wouldn’t be able to instantly defeat him, which was enough to allow the return of the Five-Colored Divine Ox.

This Divine Ox was currently in a berserk and agitated state; the moment they touched the Law Core, it would rush over and mercilessly attack them.

A level 198, Legendary Template, Demon King-level BOSS— even the ordinary Five Elements Thunder Skill exerted by them would pose a deadly threat to mid and low-grade Loose Immortals, and they didn’t dare to take it head-on.

Several Loose Immortals retreated far away, glaring at Su Yu with eyes full of malice, gritting their teeth and saying:

"You’ve ruined our Celestial God Association’s grand plan; I will definitely kill you!"

Su Yu snorted coldly:

"Indeed as arrogant and domineering as your association’s name suggests. You permit yourselves to kill, but not allow me to resist, is that it? I’m curious to see how you plan to kill me."

The few Loose Immortals snorted coldly, turned around, and left:

"Withdraw!"

Many players who were chased without escape by the Five-Colored Divine Ox, some of whom had already retreated and fled, sighed in relief and immediately turned around and fled.

In just a short span, the remaining Celestial God Association members withdrew completely.

The enraged Five-Colored Divine Ox pursued them until even the Celestial Strike Battleship of the Celestial God Association retreated before returning.

"Notification: Heavenly Task completed, you have gained 1000 points of merit, Heaven’s Heart +1, Law Fragment +1."

Su Yu looked up, vaguely seeing invisible streams of light converging towards him, merging into his body. At this moment, he felt his consciousness ascending, as if everything in heaven and earth was under his control.

"Is this Heaven’s Heart?"

He opened the menu, immediately checking the status bar.

First, his merit had become 1124 points. Upon close inspection of the notification bar, he originally had only 9 points. The Heavenly Task rewarded 1000 points, and the extra 115 points came from the Celestial God Association players he defeated with his self-destructing magical treasure earlier.

Following that, Heaven’s Heart +1, which wasn’t displayed on the data menu, but he could feel the change within himself.

Aligning oneself with Heaven’s Heart, integrated with human destiny.

In the Other Shore World, Heaven is the will of the Heavenly Dao.

Gaining Heaven’s Heart signifies being acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao. In common terms, it means receiving the love from the Heavenly Dao, resulting in very magical effects.

The most common effect is increased fortune and better luck, akin to a novel’s protagonist blessed with destiny, finding money on the street, encountering treasures falling from the sky when stepping out, and more likely being accepted by exotic beasts and the like.

Of course, his situation wasn’t as exaggerated as a novel’s protagonist since he only added +1 to Heaven’s Heart. If he could add five or six points, it might have that kind of effect.

However, even though the effects weren’t that exaggerated, they were still potent. It could slightly increase drop rates, enhance the value of loot, improve luck, and most importantly, obtaining one point of Heaven’s Heart meant being within the Heavenly Dao’s vision, providing future opportunities for rewards of merit or Heaven’s Heart or Law Fragments through Heavenly Tasks.

In essence, it was like gaining a Heavenly Dao civil servant status.

After thoroughly understanding, Su Yu put aside Heaven’s Heart, extending his right hand, where invisible streams of light converged in his palm, transforming into a cloud of non-corporeal light.

Heavenly Dao Law Fragment!

A reward only available from Heavenly Tasks, only awarded to players with significant merit towards the workings of heaven and earth, extremely rare.

The vast majority of players had never seen it, including most Loose Immortals, who, even after living for centuries, had never had the chance to witness it.

Because in a player’s lifetime, there’s generally no chance to encounter world-affecting major events. The world remains unaffected, so the Heavenly Dao naturally doesn’t release any Heavenly Tasks.

It’s worth mentioning that the destruction of a normal monster spawn point actually doesn’t significantly affect the local ecosystem, at most reducing the nearby monster population slightly. There are countless monster spawn points throughout the Other Shore, and within the Demon Ape Demon Country, there are at least several. If this monster lair is destroyed, the monsters spawned in other lairs will redistribute, so normally, it wouldn’t generate a Heavenly Task.

Otherwise, someone would’ve exploited this loophole to farm Heavenly Tasks relentlessly long ago.

The reason Su Yu was able to obtain a Heavenly Task was due to the influence of that undying spiritual light within his mind.

That entity was his real Golden Finger. From the time he arrived at the Other Shore World until now, it only appeared briefly when he initially obtained the Sea-Suppressing Pearl to claim ownership, and then it remained inactive.

Until this time, it reappeared, allowing him to obtain a Heavenly Task and consequently receive rewards that most players had never seen before.

Heavenly Dao Law Fragment, containing the ultimate principles of the world’s laws, possesses unfathomable magical powers.

It can enhance one’s cultivation, directly elevating the level of the Qi Refining Heart Skill to a certain level, the specific increase depending on the size of the Law Fragment.

It can awaken the spirit root within, including any hidden constitutions or bloodlines, if present. If multiple bloodlines exist, it prioritizes upgrading the highest-ranked bloodline.

It can refine an Immortal Bone, allowing the early acquisition of the Immortal Bone typically reserved for Loose Immortals.

It can upgrade equipment, Flying Swords, Magical Treasures, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and so on.

It can upgrade the bloodline of spiritual pets, enhance templates, and so forth.

In essence, as long as there is enough Power of Law, everything can be upgraded indefinitely.

The Law Fragment Su Yu received as a reward for his Heavenly Dao task contains a total of 14 Powers of Law, which is quite considerable.

But now, an issue lies before him, requiring serious consideration.

That is, this Law Fragment can be used in two ways: one is to use it as a whole, which can only enhance one thing, but it can result in qualitative change.

The other is to split the Law Fragment into 14 parts of Power of Law, which can respectively enhance the flying sword magical treasures, or improve the bloodline, and so on.

In simple terms, using it as a whole can result in absolute qualitative change, while splitting it won’t dramatically enhance anything, such as enhancing the Cyan Cloud Cover to a Tier Seven Treasure Cyan Cloud Cover, and the Thunderbolt Thousand Jins Dual Swords to two Tier Seven Treasure flying swords.

Or infusing it into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, prematurely lifting a seal and releasing a portion of the power of the Innate Spiritual Treasure, and so on.

Su Yu pinched the spot between his brows, feeling extremely torn.

Just then, a hot wave interrupted his indecision. He immediately looked up and saw the Five-Colored Divine Ox had returned, but stopped dozens of meters away, its eyes burning with rage, staring at him intently, but not attacking.

Su Yu’s tense heart relaxed, and he cupped his fists in salute:

"Greetings, Dao Brother!"

The Five-Colored Divine Ox glared at him for a long while with heavy breathing, looking like it wanted to crush him but was somehow restrained, making his heart pound, fearing it might suddenly charge at him.

Fortunately, this creature was quite intelligent and not a ferocious beast, and after driving away the enemy, its inner anger and killing intent gradually dissipated, and it slowly calmed down.

"You, leave here immediately."

Su Yu nodded quickly:

"Please wait a moment, Dao Brother, I’ll be back soon."

He immediately turned around and flew towards the corner of the demon pool. It wasn’t long before he saw Ao Run, who was coiled at the entrance of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl channel, licking her wounds. She had completely blocked a Loose Immortal earlier but was severely injured.

Su Yu took her into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl and closed the channel.

The water released earlier was not collected back. The Sea-Suppressing Pearl has an endless supply of water, and releasing it continuously for a hundred years wouldn’t affect the realm.

After storing the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Su Yu returned to the law core, seeing the Five-Colored Divine Ox lying beside it with its eyes closed, resting. Only then did he notice how severe the wounds on its body were.

A body over two hundred meters long, with the back and abdomen having two deep pits ten meters in diameter and twenty meters deep. Apart from that, there were various sizes of wounds and sword marks all over, all inflicted by the Celestial God Association’s self-destructing flying sword magical treasures.

This creature’s skin and flesh were thick; if it were Ao Run, those wounds would have long dried up.

Su Yu thought for a moment, reached into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, and scooped out a large net of Five-Colored Spirit Fish, floating it over to the Five-Colored Divine Ox and offering the net to it.

The resting Five-Colored Divine Ox suddenly sniffed at the scent of the Five-Colored Spirit Fish, slightly opened its huge eyes, and stared at him.

Su Yu said with a smile:

"It is fate to have fought alongside the divine ox Dao Brother. This is a small gift, a token of respect."

The Five-Colored Divine Ox’s gaze shifted between him and the net, snorted slightly, and lifted its head:

"Don’t get so close to me, leave quickly."

Su Yu smiled, placed the net down, clasped his hands, and said:

"I’m leaving now. Until we meet again!"

With that, he turned and left briskly.

Seconds later, the Five-Colored Divine Ox opened its eyes, sniffed, hesitated for a while, then extended its tongue to draw the net into its mouth. The next second, its eyes lit up, as if savoring a delicious treat.

Meanwhile, as Su Yu flew, he emerged from the spirit pool, into a scene of the chaotic underground cavern, littered with the corpses of the Celestial God Association.

Regrettably, they were all killed by the Five-Colored Divine Ox, leaving no spoils of war.

However, as the Celestial God Association was chased away by the Five-Colored Divine Ox, they fled so hastily that they didn’t have time to dismantle the mostly constructed array formation here. Being an Array Master himself and very familiar with it, Su Yu immediately noticed the three formidable magical treasures embedded within the array’s foundation.

He swiftly flew over, arriving before one of the Thunder God Pillars, and placed his hand on it, revealing its attributes before him.

Four Symbols Thunder God Pillar (Tier Seven): Premium, special magical treasure, crafted by fusing the Nine Heavens Thunder Spirit with Thunderous Power.

Attributes: Array Formation, Suppression, Forbidden Items, Locking, Gathering Thunder, Thunder Strike, Thunderous Force

There are a total of three Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars, with an empty spot in another corner of the array, lacking just one more to complete the Four Symbols Thunder God Array.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to complete the array, so it remained unfinished.

The rampaging Five-Colored Divine Ox drove all the Celestial God Association members out, leaving these three Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars and the incomplete Four Symbols Thunder God Array here, which Su Yu gladly accepted.

He directly opened the Sea-Suppressing Pearl channel, without worrying about damaging the array, and had Ao Run forcefully extract each of the four array eyes and throw them into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.

After all, he didn’t have the ability to complete the array himself yet, so he decided to store the components and gather the final Four Symbols Thunder God Pillar once his array formation skills improved.

Of course, if he didn’t use them himself, he could sell them. After all, Tier Seven array formation magical treasures won’t have a low price.