Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 144 - 71: The Mouse Demon Displays Its Might
The Mouse Demon was still trying to persuade with earnest words:
"Furthermore, I’m willing to give you all my treasures."
"I also know of a nearby place containing a cave residence with a treasure inside. As long as you let me go, I’ll immediately tell you the location."
However, no matter how much it pleaded or enticed, Su Yu remained unmoved.
"Human, you are too much!"
Finally, the Mouse Demon lost patience, baring its teeth with a fierce glint in its eyes, raising its hand to summon an endless net of demon thunder.
"Boom!"
The Celestial One Profound Ice Array swelled furiously, with the main formation players gritting their teeth, frantically pouring their Mana into the Celestial One Profound Ice Banner at hand to maintain the formation.
But the Mouse Demon’s mastery of spells was beyond everyone’s expectations. After a wave of thunder net, it once again channeled Mana, causing the exploding endless demon thunder to coalesce into over a dozen yellow thunder snakes that crisscrossed, striking heavily at the edges of the array.
Soon after, the thunder snakes disintegrated and transformed back into individual Divine Thunders, exploding once more.
The newly exploded Divine Thunder Net reformed into thunder snakes, crashing in all directions.
The thunder snakes were born and died endlessly, in a perpetual cycle.
"It’s a forbidden spell!"
"Stop it."
Ao Run cast a resentful glance back at him, then plunged into the continuously forming and disappearing Thunder Net. The thunder snakes struck her in unison, instantly shattering swathes of emerald-like jade scales, sending blood flying.
"Roar!"
With a fierce inhalation, the demon thunder filling the Celestial One Profound Ice Array was swallowed by the flood dragon, its belly swelling as muffled explosions echoed, while Ao Run’s health rapidly dropped at a rate of 110,000 per second.
With the demon thunder consumed, the continuously forming and dissipating Divine Thunder Net naturally broke apart.
Su Yu decisively activated the Dual Swords, forcibly merging them into an invisible stream of light that pierced through the residual thunder light, striking at the treasure tower atop the Mouse Demon’s head.
"Clang!"
"Clang, clang, clang...."
In an instant, countless crisp clanging sounds merged into one, and the treasure tower shook violently.
The Mouse Demon waved its large sleeve, causing the air in front to twist and expand, but the next second, a deflating sound echoed, and the bulging sleeve displayed numerous sword holes, deflating.
Then it opened its mouth and sprayed a yellow gas, instantly permeating the Celestial One Profound Ice Array.
"It stinks!"
Ao Run let out a strange cry, frantically blowing air around her.
Su Yu immediately erected a protective aura, but the yellow gas penetrated it as if it were nothing, merely a whiff was enough to make one nauseous with its stench.
He quickly pointed upward, conjuring clusters of cyan clouds that transformed into a cyan Qingyun, hanging down strands of light like a treasure cover, shielding him entirely. The stench cloud was instantly expelled and could not enter.
Cyan Cloud Cover (Tier Six): Rare, Defense Treasure, when activated, a surge of cyan cloud emerges, immune to water and fire, and Immune to All Skill.
"So that’s what being Immune to All Skill means, effective!"
However, while he could block this move, the array couldn’t prevent the stench. The yellow stench quickly penetrated the Celestial One Profound Ice Array, and soon retching sounds were heard from outside, causing the array to start tottering.
"Hold on!"
"Just a little longer."
However, after only four or five seconds, someone was directly knocked out by the stench.
As one fell, the Celestial One Profound Ice Banner fell along with them, and the array’s seal loosened.
Seeing an opening, the Mouse Demon frantically gathered demon thunder and bombarded, quickly breaking through the Celestial One Profound Ice Array to escape.
The freed Mouse Demon glanced around, baring its teeth savagely at Su Yu: 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
"Human, we shall meet again."
It then turned and fled on a cloud.
It did not go to rescue other demon generals, nor did it save the Demon King, it just fled directly.
Su Yu thought it was still early, the Nine Heavens Capital Seal Soul Suppression Talisman lasted an entire incense stick, equivalent to thirty minutes, and only a little over ten minutes had passed.
"Still in time!"
Decisively, he leapt into the air and pursued.
The Mouse Demon could ride the clouds to fly, but was not skilled in speed, and Su Yu quickly caught up, summoning the Treasure Mirror to immobilize it, then fiercely wielding the Sun Concealing Cyan Sparrow Dual Swords.
The Mouse Demon, while fleeing, occasionally waved to summon one demon thunder after another, but they were all easily blocked by the Cyan Cloud Cover.
After cultivating the Dao, this Mouse Demon actually disliked using its true form to fight, but beast intelligence can’t compare to human intelligence, and without anyone to teach, its understanding of Daoist spells was superficial, only mastering a few derived techniques.
It did not know numerous Secret Skills, nor did it possess battle-type Magical Treasures, only relying on gathering demon thunder for attacks, or conjuring demon essence Grapple to seize, or using proximate-range thunder net with forbidden spells and innate Divine Techniques, or simply relying on crude Mana oppression.
These methods, with added rank bonuses, had exaggerated power, easily dispatching ordinary players, but were slightly weak against experts.
And Su Yu was such an expert, deftly dodging and maneuvering in midair to evade most attacks, blocking those unavoidable, gaining an advantage in this pursuit.
Moreover, he intermittently summoned the Profound Light Mirror to immobilize for one or two seconds, allowing the slower Ao Run to gradually catch up.
By the sixth immobilization, Ao Run had finally caught up, and a single Meridian Cold Tide slowed it down, lunging to entangle the Mouse Demon along with the treasure tower on its head.
Using the exact same tactics as against the other two demon generals, but effective nonetheless.
With Ao Run’s strength, once entangled, it was hard to escape. The Mouse Demon, not being a power-type creature, could not break free, and once again performed its innate Divine Techniques to emit the yellow cloud stench.
But this time, Ao Ang was prepared, enduring the stench to unleash a wave of Meridian Cold Tide, biting, tail striking, and wrapping, fiercely pounding with Treasure Light, occasionally spitting out the Dragon Pearl to violently shake the treasure tower.
Su Yu’s pair of Flying Swords showed no sign of stopping, crisscrossing like a tornado, rotating and slicing.
Theoretically, twelve segments of damage per second, dual swords making it twenty-four segments, each segment dealing 4,000 damage, resulting in over 96,000 damage per second. With Tier Seven Treasure damage reduction taken into account, it still had over 67,000 damage per second, capable of unleashing four million terrifying output in a minute.
