Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 178 - 92: Celestial Dao Divine Skill—Star Shifting

Chapter 178: Chapter 92: Celestial Dao Divine Skill—Star Shifting

"Summon Winds and Rain!"

The innate authority of the True Dragon.

"Stir the Seas and Rivers!"

With a sweep of its massive dragon tail, the entire waters within the Sea Suppressing Realm surged under its control, creating tumultuous waves. Su Yu sensed that the Sea Suppressing Realm was too small; outside in the wider world, a True Dragon with a level 200 mythical template could generate a tsunami radiating thousands of kilometers.

"Next, there’s the Divine Techniques rewarded by the Heavenly Dao."

At the end of the attribute panel, there was one unchosen option. Normally, refining the Supreme Dragon Transformation Bone from True Dragon Remains does not include this; it was an extra Divine Technique bestowed by the Heavenly Dao for refining an Immortal Bone using fragments of the Heavenly Dao Magic.

His gaze fell upon it, and with a thought, a layer of golden light exploded in front of the True Dragon’s eyes. Several lines of small text emerged on the golden light.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be five Celestial Dao Divine Techniques.

Vertical Earth Golden Light, Five Elements Great Escape, Star Shifting, Foresee the Future, Resurrection.

Vertical Earth Golden Light, an Immortal Realm Escape Skill that transforms into a golden light to escape, instantly traversing thousands of miles, but it does not suit the form of the True Dragon.

Five Elements Great Escape, proficient in Five Elements Immortal Skill and Innate Five Elements Escape Skill.

Star Shifting, capable of altering constellations, obscuring and changing celestial secrets. It’s said that the heavenly foreboding triggers killing intent, shifting stars and altering constellations, celestial secrets, akin to heavenly intent, the sage enlightening the cunning heart is celestial secrets, a great art of life and death.

Foresee the Future, able to perceive events that will happen in the future, skillful at discerning celestial secrets, predicting the future without prior knowledge, able to know the fate of all beings.

Resurrection, bringing the dead back to life, reviving flesh and bones, allowing the soul of the deceased to return to the body, nirvana rebirth, fully revealing the mysteries of life and death.

One of the five Celestial Dao Divine Techniques can be chosen.

Vertical Earth Golden Light and Five Elements Great Escape were immediately dismissed.

Resurrection seemed slightly impractical since players only need to consume a bit of lifespan to revive.

Foresee the Future was decent, but compared to Star Shifting, it fell short; if only one could be chosen, it had to be Star Shifting.

With a thought, all options vanished, leaving only Star Shifting merging into the golden light and embedded into the True Dragon’s forehead.

"Star Shifting!"

The world suddenly brightened as countless stars appeared within the tiny Sea Suppressing Realm, slowly rotating according to his will. Su Yu gained an insight, extended a dragon claw to lightly tap, and two stars were repositioned deep into the void, disappearing from sight.

Then, as quickly as they appeared, the countless stars vanished, and the world returned to its original state, as if nothing had ever happened.

But in reality....

Su Yu suddenly felt unable to maintain the Dragon Transformation because the duration had ended.

The next second, the massive True Dragon form filling the Sea Suppressing Realm rapidly shrank, reverting to a human form in the blink of an eye, and the surrounding clouds dissipated.

Due to his current weak strength, the duration of the Supreme Dragon Transformation was only 3 minutes and 42 seconds, with a cooldown of one month.

Only as his strength continually increased could the duration gradually extend; once reaching a certain level, he could maintain the dragon form for longer periods.

Today’s trial, the next transformation would be in a month.

After some testing, Su Yu had a general understanding of his strength after transforming into a True Dragon.

Extremely powerful.

Beyond his imagination, incredibly powerful.

Many aspects couldn’t be encapsulated by attributes; numerous innate Divine Techniques of the Dragon Race didn’t even appear on the attribute list.

Although the transformation lasted only a few minutes, in those minutes, he was all-powerful, with True Dragon Bloodline Divine Techniques and the terrifying boost given by the mythical template, not even ordinary Earth Immortals were his match.

"In the future, I will have a very powerful trump card."

The only regret was that his doubling talent could not affect the Immortal Bone.

However, he had anticipated this and wasn’t too regretful.

The doubling talent could affect the vast majority of Daoist Divine Techniques, but it was ineffective for refining Immortal Bones and condensing a true form.

Refining an Immortal Bone essentially involved refining True Dragon Remains to replace the spinal bone; nobody naturally has two spines.

Therefore, the talent would certainly not take effect.

Su Yu descended and noticed Ao Run, who was staring at him in shock, her expression a mix of astonishment and confusion.

"Who exactly are you?"

Su Yu paused, reaching out to touch her head, but she recoiled as if startled, darting into the wooden house, peeking out cautiously a moment later.

"Come here!"

Struggling visibly, she floated out, her small body tense.

"Am I that frightening?"

As he gently stroked her back, he could clearly feel the taut muscles.

But after a few gentle strokes, the familiar sensation returned, and her tense muscles quickly relaxed, even nudging against him.

After a little playful time, Su Yu began to tally the gains and losses from this time.

The equipment remained unchanged, but the loss of the flying sword treasures was immense. The Yenri and Cyan Sparrow Twin Swords were gone, and the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner, which was just used for a few months, self-destructed. The Dragon Scale Flying Ship gifted by his master also self-destructed.

Now, he only had the Thunderbolt and Thousand Jins Dual Swords, as well as the Cyan Cloud Cover and Nine Orifice Treasure Pearl, two defensive treasures, along with the Profound Light Mirror and Floating Light Saber, two Tier Six treasures.

This wave of operations instantly shrunk his wealth significantly.

Fortunately, the harvest was not bad; otherwise, this would have been a total loss.

Besides the merits, heavenly heart, and law fragments, he also acquired three Tier Seven Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars. Although they are non-combat treasures, their value is not low, and whether used personally or sold, they won’t lead to a loss.

In addition, he collected large amounts of resources abandoned by the Celestial God Association at the bottom of the Demon Lair, and altogether they might be worth a thousand gold.

If the three Four Symbols Thunder God Pillars are sold, they could fetch over four thousand gold. Including array materials and miscellaneous items, the total income from this wave should exceed six thousand gold.

Compared to his losses, the Celestial God Association’s losses were even greater this time.

Not to mention the guild compensation for the loss of so many lives; almost every one of the over twenty thousand guild members detonated one or two flying sword treasures, albeit not their best, mainly spares or unused ones, yet the total value was substantial even if all were Tier Four or Five.

Moreover, the main team often used Tier Six treasures in the Spirit Monster Refresh Pool’s rear and detonated them as well, which was an exceedingly significant loss.

Plus, several Loose Immortals self-destructed four Tier Seven treasures.

Overall, the total loss was at least over two hundred thousand taels of gold; even a large guild like the Celestial God Association had to suffer greatly.

Such tremendous losses were triggered merely by certain individuals’ personal grudges. Su Yu could already imagine the situation Xi Muchuan would face upon returning.

Even if his brother-in-law is the guild leader, he couldn’t withstand such significant losses.

Su Yu didn’t know whether Xi Muchuan survived during the Five-Colored Divine Ox’s rampage, but he believed it was a fate worse than death for him at that moment.

Emerging from the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Su Yu looked up to the sky, feeling his thoughts were clear, like his mind had been wiped clean.

He knew this was due to the Dragon Transformation granting him the Celestial Dao Divine Skill "Star Shifting," which allowed him to use the vast mana from the Dragon Transformation to obscure his and Ao Run’s celestial secrets.

With the mighty power of the Celestial Dao Divine Skill, combined with the vast mana from a True Dragon of over level 200 with a Mythical Template, only Immortals proficient in Celestial Secret Skills could possibly use them to discover him; otherwise, no celestial secret skill or magic could know his current situation.

This move could prevent the Celestial God Association from using celestial secret skills to locate him for an ambush, given the deep vendetta they assuredly would attempt this.

However, although the celestial secrets were obscured, he had no plans to leave just yet.

Star Shifting only obscures celestial secrets, not drastically change appearances; celestial secret skills can’t find him, but the naked eye can, restrictions can intercept, divine sense can survey.

By now, who knows how many experts from the Celestial God Association might be waiting outside the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, likely including a few Loose Immortals; using the naked eye, they could directly sight him without needing celestial secret skills.

Additionally, nearby town return points and resurrection points would likely be watched by the Celestial God Association as well, meaning he would be captured either way if he returned to town.

Only by transforming into a Celestial Ghost and sneaking away underground could he leave, but with people everywhere outside, he’d easily be discovered wherever he went, so it was better to remain here.

With the Five-Colored Divine Ox guarding the area, experts above Loose Immortal wouldn’t dare to descend. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Moreover, the area was filled with spirit monsters, ideal for leveling up.

Perched on the edge of the pit, Su Yu first activated the Sea-Suppressing Pearl and summoned a million tons of spiritual water to form a pool. Though not very large, with a diameter of about three thousand meters and the deepest part more than three hundred meters, this water domain was Ao Run’s domain, where she could exert most of her strength.

With Ao Run in front, he deployed the Thunderbolt and Thousand Jins and crouched behind the pool, engaging in a massacre.

Whenever the gathered spirit monsters became too numerous to handle, the duo would leap into the pool, and the Sea-Suppressing Pearl would solidify the water layer, or Ao Run would freeze the surface with a Meridian Cold Tide. This demon pool was filled with land spirit monsters, unable to exert their battle strength in the water, and thus powerless against the duo.

Thanks to Ao Run’s Meridian Cold Tide AOE mass clearing, his monster farming efficiency wasn’t slower than when teaming with Ding Lingyu and others.

While he was perched at the bottom of the Demon Lair gleefully farming, the entire Demon Country’s regional channel was already boiling.

The Celestial God Association, pouring the entire guild’s power with the Celestial Strike Battleship as a command, attacked the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, only to end in failure. The word of their heavy losses had already spread.

The details of the failure, the reason for it, and the exact extent of losses were equally clear, indicating that an insider deliberately leaked the information.

It was clear that the Celestial God Association wasn’t entirely united; the operation’s leader, Jiang Lang, would have to bear the brunt of the failure, and such a significant loss needed him to take main responsibility.

This wave of losses and compensation would definitely diminish his strength and influence substantially, potentially even destabilizing his position as vice chairman.

"Mr. Su, is what’s being said in the regional channel true?"

"They’re saying that you alone held off a main force group and four Loose Immortals from the Celestial God Association, leading to their operational failure. Is that true?"

Ding Lingyu and Lan Yiyi both inquired through messages.

Su Yu withdrew his sword and retreated to the corner, replying with a grin:

"It’s basically true."

"Is that formidable?"

"Is that not exaggerated?"

Su Yu chuckled:

"It’s basically true, meaning part of it is true while the other part is exaggeration."

Lan Yiyi asked, very intrigued:

"Which parts are true?"

"The part where I caused their mission to fail is true, but the part about me single-handedly holding off a main force group and four Loose Immortals is false."

"Think with your knees; I’m not even a Loose Immortal, how could I possibly hold off a main force group and four Loose Immortals alone? They exaggerated my abilities to cover up their own incompetence."