Cultivation: But Not a Game
Chapter 366 - 265: Ao Run About to Face the Earth Immortal Tribulation, Battleship Equipment
After cultivating at the Tianying Dojo for two months, Su Yu returned to the guild to handle some matters. Instead of heading back to the sect immediately, he flew towards Feixing Island, intending to purchase some items there.
Aboard the Heaven Escape Shuttle, Su Yu reached into the Sea Suppressing Realm and pulled out Ao Run, whose entire body was a jade-like azure blue.
Like a beautiful piece of jade, Ao Run nimbly circled around him once and coiled around his waist, sending a chill directly through his soul.
He gently stroked the cold dragon scales. After a few months apart, Ao Run’s level had soared to 198, just two levels shy of beginning her tribulation.
As he caressed her, a translucent panel appeared above Ao Run, displaying her current attributes:
True Blue Jade Dragon Ao Run (Peerless): Demon King, level 198, Aquatic Race, True Dragon.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 22.5 million, Demonic Power 1.01 million, Attack Power 150,000, Speed 7,500 km/h.
Demon Skills: Water-type arts, Thunder-type arts, Dragon Breath (Cold Tide), True Dragon Bloodline, Gui Water Divine Thunder, Gui Water Divine Thunder Net, Meridian Cold Tide Ban (Exquisite), Profound Nether Unifying Unattributed Earth Carrying Thunder Net (Sect Mastery), Swallowing Clouds and Exhaling Mist, Summoning Wind and Rain, Thunder and Lightning, Driving Clouds and Rain, Stirring Seas and Oceans, Cyan Nether Divine Breath Skill Level 198 (Mystical), Nine Transformations of the Dragon Scripture Sixth Layer (Great Divine Techniques).
Treasure: Dragon Pearl (Ninth Grade)
Items: Great Wilderness Dragon Chapter (Chilong), Great Wilderness Dragon Chapter (Xuanming)
Dragon Pearl (Ninth Grade): Treasure, a legacy Dragon Pearl left by a True Dragon, Ao Run’s lifebound treasure.
Dragon Qi Shield: Activates the Dragon Qi within the Dragon Pearl to shield, Defense 6 million, Damage Reduction 60%, Mana Conversion Rate 500, Defense Strength +6000, Trait: Supreme Firmness and Yang.
True Dragon’s Strike: Activates the Dragon Pearl to smash the target, causing up to 500,000 + 500% magic damage in physical harm, casting range 50 km, mana consumption 100,000, Trait: Supreme Firmness and Yang.
Supreme Firmness and Yang: The True Dragon’s power is of supreme firmness and masculine yang, capable of negating most magical effects.
Shatter: The power of the True Dragon can crush everything.
This Dragon Pearl incorporates both offense and defense and possesses formidable power. However, relying solely on it to pass a True Dragon’s Earth Immortal Tribulation is far from easy, and the success rate is not very high.
There are two ways to improve the success rate.
One method is to enhance the grade template, elevating from a Peerless template to a Legendary template, which will increase all aspects of attributes, thereby naturally enhancing the tribulation success rate.
The second method is to acquire a few more powerful demon artifacts, which can also improve the success rate of passing the tribulation.
The former method is simple, requiring the elevation of the Great Divine Techniques, Nine Transformations of the Dragon Scripture. Currently at the sixth layer, ascending to the seventh layer would transform into the Legendary template.
This is pure hard work, and there’s still a long way to go in accumulating enough experience. According to Ao Run’s current cultivation speed within the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, it will take another two or three years to accumulate sufficient experience.
The alternative method, acquiring demon artifacts, is difficult. In all this time, Su Yu has only seen the Dragon Pearl demon artifact in Ao Run’s possession.
Su Yu’s visit to Feixing Island this time is mainly to see if there are any demon artifacts for sale there. If so, he would buy a few for her to better pass the tribulation.
If not, then there’s no choice but to wait two or three more years until she transforms into the Legendary template.
The Heaven Escape Shuttle flew over 400,000 kilometers in one stretch, stopping in some sea region between Ten Thousand Poison Island and Feixing Island. Su Yu opened the map, studied it briefly, and nodded:
"This is the place."
He pressed his hand down, and the Heaven Escape Shuttle turned and plunged into the sea.
It dashed to the seabed over ten thousand meters deep in one breath. In sight were deep-sea giant fish above level one hundred, most following waste templates for experience training, with a few of ordinary or elite templates at level one hundred, occasionally spotting some elite or fearsome template flood dragons over level 150.
Su Yu, carrying Ao Run, stepped out of the flying ship, then turned to open the realm door, and Cang Hai and the few women emerged from the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.
Su Yu handed the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner to Cang Hai and instructed:
"The flood dragon group is at the bottom of this sea area. Start refining a batch here. I’ll make a quick trip to Feixing Island and be right back."
Cang Hai nodded:
"Rest assured, husband."
With the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner handed over to her, Su Yu once again urged the Heaven Escape Shuttle to charge out of the sea towards Feixing Island.
With Cang Hai’s level breaking through two hundred and ascending to an Earth Immortal, her power has seen a qualitative improvement compared to before, and now she has enough self-defense capability, giving Su Yu peace of mind to let her take care of matters outside.
As the Artifact Spirit of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl and the accompanying True Spirit, Xia Xiaoyue and the others can now be active within a million-kilometer range around him at most, and Feixing Island is only over 400,000 kilometers away, well within their activity range.
He took a trip to Feixing Island to handle business, while she just happens to refine the star souls here, fill the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner with star souls, and enhance the Ninth Grade Treasure’s power.
With their strength, they must at least craft a set of water attribute star souls at level 170 or above all using fearsome templates.
Incidentally, Su Yu just asked at the guild upon returning and learned about a large flood dragon group in this sea region, with tens of thousands of flood dragons entrenched there, four or five ones above level 200. Usually, no one dares provoke them.
Su Yu was intrigued upon hearing this. What others dare not do, he dared, directly bringing Cang Hai over here.
Beyond this batch of flood dragons, he even wanted to kill and refine the several flood dragons over level 200 in the group into star souls.
The power and augmentation properties of this Four Symbols Star Soul Banner are determined by the level and template of the demon souls, the higher the star soul level and template, the stronger the attached properties.
Su Yu’s plan is to initially refine a batch of flood dragons at level 160 or 170 to use temporarily, then slowly assemble a set of BOSS-level demon souls over 200.
If they can assemble a complete set of BOSS-level star souls over 200 with entirely fearsome templates, the additional attributes would be extremely impressive, becoming a great aid in passing future Earth Immortal Tribulations.
Using the Primordial Magnet Radiant Escape, with an ultra-fast escape skill granting 1500% flight speed, he arrived in the skies above Feixing City in less than an hour. Opening the trading panel, he immediately searched for demon artifacts, and a row of demon artifacts appeared before him in an instant.
"So few?"
At a glance, they were all clear to see. There were only 32 in total.
The grade from low to high, the best is an eighth-level monster artifact called the Refining Blood Cauldron. It’s a demon cauldron that can be integrated with the demon body to refine and purify the impurities in the devoured beast’s blood and flesh, turning it into pure essence. Its price is 50% higher than the treasures used by ordinary cultivators, totaling 35,000 gold.
Ao Run couldn’t use this thing; ever since following Su Yu, she spent most of the time inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl absorbing Spiritual Qi to upgrade, not needing to devour blood and flesh like other beasts.
However, Su Yu hesitated for a moment but still bought it. After all, it was a rare functional demon artifact, and it would be good to purify it when Ao Run occasionally indulges in eating blood and flesh.
Except for this Refining Blood Cauldron, there wasn’t much left in terms of demon artifacts worth looking at.
Then, the trading panel turned, and he entered the words "Battle Equipment Artifact" in the search bar. Quickly, a series of battle equipment artifacts popped up.
This was something he had heard of not long ago, that there was such a thing as battle ship-specific equipment, which he had never heard of before.
This time he came just to check it out, and if it wasn’t too expensive, he’d get a few pieces to equip the guild’s battleship of heavenly punishment.
He set the search criteria from high to low, and as the interface refreshed, several items appeared before him that were obviously good just from their names.
Poseidon Bow (Tier Ten): Battle equipment, Ship stability +300%, Ship durability +200%, Damage reduction limit +20%, Ship strength +20,000 points, with attached magic: Poseidon’s Power, Poseidon’s Shield.
Poseidon’s Power: Instantly restores the ship to its optimal state when activated, with a cooldown of 24 hours.
Poseidon’s Shield: Provides 100% damage reduction when activated, lasting 30 minutes, with a cooldown of 30 days.
Price: 1.5 million gold.
God of Wind Sail (Tier Nine): Battle equipment, Ship speed +100%, acceleration +100%, ship agility +100%, with attached magic: Divine Wind Technique.
Divine Wind Technique: Increases ship speed by 500% when activated, lasting 15 minutes, with a cooldown of 24 hours.
Price: 250,000 gold.
Great Gale Oar (Tier Eight): Battle equipment, Ship speed +100%, with attached magic...
"So damn expensive!"
The Tier Ten Poseidon Bow’s price is as high as 1.5 million gold, which is double the price of a ninth-grade treasure artifact.
However, on the other hand, this thing’s properties are indeed impressive. A high-level battleship equipped with this artifact would see its combat power and survivability soar.
Su Yu hesitated for a few seconds, then decided to spend 250,000 gold to purchase the God of Wind Sail.
The Poseidon Bow was too expensive; 1.5 million gold was too exaggerated.
Even though he could afford it, it just felt too unreasonable.
After spending 250,000 gold, Su Yu had 3.42 million gold remaining.
Although it seemed like a lot, the truth was it would be quickly spent.
At his level, even eighth-level artifacts were no longer appealing; he needed at least ninth or even tenth-level artifacts, each of which was expensive as hell.
After completing the transaction, with the items in hand, Su Yu lingered above Feixing Island for a while, spending a hundred gold to buy a document to understand the recent changes in the Feixing Islands over the past few years.
After spending a few hours reading, Su Yu already had a good idea.
There were indeed quite a few changes, but none were significant; no major events had occurred.
If anything caught his attention, it was that four months ago, a rising dragon entered Feixing Island, and the Overlord Guild Celestial God Association, located in the endless forest of Blue Mountain Island, suddenly announced an aggressive expansion overseas. They established a branch on an island over 200,000 kilometers north of Feixing Island.
This move conflicted with the guild alliance under the two sects of Feixing Island and Divine Ship Sect, but somehow they managed to settle the conflict with the two guild alliances and established themselves on Feixing Islands.
Su Yu had a very bad impression of the Celestial God Association, this Overlord Guild.
Whether it was their ruthless clearing of the area in the endless forest without warning that almost took him out or the conflict with Ding Lingyu that obliterated the Thousand Feather Association, they had indeed become enemies.
Su Yu had always wanted to find an opportunity to pay back this vendetta, especially as his own strength grew stronger and the Thousand Star Hall became more powerful, he wanted to find an opportunity to take down the Celestial God Association.
However, he had been busy improving his strength and didn’t have the time. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
Moreover, ever since he displayed his dragon form, the Celestial God Association had been very low-key and never provoked him, so he couldn’t find a reason to declare war.
"I’ll go back and have Gu Zhiqiu send someone to keep an eye on the Celestial God Association, see if there’s a reason to make a move against them."
Rubbing his face hard, Su Yu closed the panel, rose into the air, and left Feixing Island.
Just after leaving Feixing Island, he suddenly received a message from someone, and upon opening it, he was surprised to find it was from Ding Lingyu.
"Mr. Su, are you on Feixing Island?"
Su Yu didn’t pay attention to his title, curiously asking:
"How do you know?"
I’m in Feixing City, just checked the contact list, and your name suddenly lit up.
"Oh, what a coincidence, I just arrived a while ago, do you need something?"
"Master, if you have time, come to Yipin Tower in Feixing City, I’ll treat you to a meal."
Thinking that he wasn’t in a hurry, Su Yu nodded and said:
"Sure, I’ll be right there."