Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 199 - 110: Perfect Teamwork, the Duel Begins
Ao Run only trained for one day before not coming out anymore. Li Qin really liked her, and during breaks from leveling up, he would come over, wanting to hug and touch her, which made her very annoyed. On the second day, she stayed inside the Sea-Suppressing Pearl and refused to come out, no matter how much he coaxed her.
Su Yu had no choice but to let her be, which made Li Qin very unhappy.
The three of them stayed at this monster spawn point for several consecutive days to level up. They divided the tasks: Li Qin used the All Heaven Fiery Array specifically to deal with the large number of low-level toxic Gu insects, while Su Yu and Luo Qingchan each handled the big monsters and BOSSES emerging from the sides.
Whenever a monster over level 100 appeared, four flying swords from each side would swiftly converge.
"Quack!"
A muffled thunder-like croak sounded as a Manggu Zhuhe of level 124 leapt from a volcano’s mouth, immediately attracting the attention of nearby players who were leveling up.
Manggu Zhuhe (Elite): Leader, Level 124, Toxic Creature.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 3.85 million, Demonic Power 80,000, Attack Power 26,000, Speed 600 km/h, Demon Skill: Bone-Eroding Poison Mist, Bone-Eroding Demon Thunder.
"There’s a BOSS."
Players leveling up nearby realized it too, and they drove their flying swords or magical treasures straight towards the BOSS.
Luo Qingchan reacted very quickly, immediately using her dual swords to attack. The tiny sword light spanned several kilometers and appeared above the head of the Manggu Zhuhe, intertwining to form a sword lotus that fell. Poisonous flames erupted like flames on Manggu Zhuhe’s back, with fresh blood spewing out like oil added to a fire, making the poisonous flames burn even more fiercely.
At this time, a nearby team unexpectedly arrived first and attacked, ignoring that Luo Qingchan had already encircled the BOSS.
Just as Su Yu was preparing to attack the Manggu Zhuhe, he moved his dual swords to intercept, with a series of crisp dings blocking two flying swords.
With a flick of his hands, he grasped two sword energies and swung them like lightning, crackling as they struck a flaming blade over twenty meters long and a flaming wheel over thirty meters in diameter, causing them to tilt.
"Damn!"
The leader of the four-member team immediately shouted:
"Old Three and Old Four, block him. Old Two and I will take the BOSS first."
Saying this, he took out a string of white bone beads and tossed it into the air. It rapidly expanded into massive skulls wrapped in devil fire, spreading out and spitting fireballs towards Luo Qingchan.
He took out another mirror and enlarged it, shining a blood-red light at Luo Qingchan, but a flash of spiritual light on her body blocked it.
With someone taking the lead, other nearby players were unrestrained and unleashed their magical treasures to seize the BOSS, some even directly attacking Su Yu and Luo Qingchan.
Luo Qingchan said crisply:
"Help me intercept, half a minute is enough."
"Rest assured!"
Su Yu raised an eyebrow, pulling out the Wind God’s Order and throwing it into the air. It rapidly enlarged with a breeze swirling around it. He then consumed a full 40,000 mana to infuse it, making the Wind God’s Order shine brightly, releasing mysterious runes that flew out to the surroundings.
Above the heads of the many players surrounding Luo Qingchan, runes lit up and exploded into strands of breeze that fell and bound them.
Binding one target required 2000 mana, so 40,000 mana could bind 20 targets simultaneously, leaving all those who made a move bound.
Then Su Yu mercilessly merged his dual swords. Once merged, they entered a Flowing Light Realm that was difficult for the naked eye to perceive, each figure’s Treasure Light shuddering violently, shattering in the blink of an eye, with treasures dropping as they died.
Under the Wind God’s Order’s restriction, they couldn’t use techniques or flying swords and magical treasures. Even if they summoned defense treasures, they couldn’t channel mana to bolster their defense, letting Su Yu break through defenses in a burst.
The Wind God’s Order’s binding lasted 5-60 seconds, and the Tier Eight Treasure binding these players who hadn’t yet undergone tribulation was a leveling strike, binding them for several dozen seconds. After his dual sword merged and burst, not one of the 20 bound individuals remained unscathed, all forcefully killed in an instant.
"So strong."
Even Su Yu was reluctant to leave the Wind God Palace now.
Such a terrifying thunderous strike directly intimidated the other players, who retreated sheepishly.
Without interference, Luo Qingchan, relying on an unknown Tier Eight or higher flying sword, forcefully trapped the BOSS in place and slashed it fiercely. Each sword strike dealt over ten thousand damage, and in under half a minute, she had cut the BOSS down.
"You two are really strong!"
At this point, Li Qin, having put away the All Heaven Fiery Pillar, realized the battle had already ended. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
At the monster spawn point, more than ten thousand monsters spewed out every second. Even if bosses had a low spawn rate, over a dozen level 100 or higher big and small BOSSes could appear each day. Whenever a BOSS arrived on their side, it would be intercepted by them.
At this time, when Luo Qingchan started to intercept and kill the BOSS, Su Yu protected her.
No reminder was needed; as soon as she moved to act, Su Yu had already summoned the Wind God’s Order.
They had never cooperated before, but their coordination was seamless, with just a glance needed to understand each other’s intentions.
A week passed quickly, and the sword fight was about to begin, leaving them reluctantly returning to their temporary base.
After a week, they didn’t accumulate much killing experience, barely over a hundred million, but with all the daily BOSS farming, they gained over 800 Dao points.
In addition, they also obtained a lot of good things, including many rare toxic Gu insect eggs. Players of the Gu Dao Stream could use these eggs as seeds to slowly cultivate a batch of rare toxic creatures.
However, since the three of them weren’t following the Gu Dao Stream, they could only sell them or offer them to the guild for Gu Dao Stream players to exchange for.
Returning to the base, they found it already filled with hundreds of people, mostly players from the Divine Wind Gang.
In recent days, Lin Qingfeng had been calling friends and inviting two more experts to help. With two from his own guild and Su Yu’s group of six, they made exactly ten.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Gu Abyss, Ten Thousand Poison Gang’s Seventeenth Independent Squadron was also inviting experts to help in the sword fight.
In recent days, they had been monitoring the local channel of Ten Thousand Poison Island and confirmed that the team representing Ten Thousand Poison Gang was indeed unrelated to the headquarters and was just the personal action of the Seventeenth Independent Squadron.
However, although the headquarters wasn’t involved, the experts invited by the Ten Thousand Poison Gang mostly came from the Ten Thousand Poison Gang.
This didn’t change Lin Qingfeng’s determination to snatch food from Ten Thousand Poison Gang’s mouth.
When the time arrived, the Ten Thousand Poison Gang and Divine Wind Gang walked out from their temporary bases and gathered at the edge of Gu Abyss, with several large and small flying ships hovering nearby, as many players came to watch the sword fight.
The leader of Divine Wind Gang, Lin Qingfeng, and the captain of Ten Thousand Poison Gang’s Seventeenth Independent Squadron, Wang Gong, stepped out from their respective teams and began to trade barbs, while the invited sword fight witnesses also appeared one by one.
Each side invited several sword fight witnesses, all renowned experts on Ten Thousand Poison Island, including a Loose Immortal.
They were there to witness the outcome of the sword fight, with the winner obtaining ownership of Gu Abyss. Should the loser backtrack, it would damage their reputation and provoke a collective attack.
After a heated argument with the palace, Lin Qingfeng returned, looking serious and said:
"This situation is quite dangerous. Not only have they hired a few famous experts, but they’ve also managed to get a few experts from the Ten Thousand Poison Gang through connections."
"How strong are they?"
"They’re all among the top hundred on the Ten Thousand Poison Island leaderboard. The strongest, Zuo Qingren, ranks fourteenth. It’s said he possesses two Tier Seven Magical Treasures and a Tier Eight Magical Treasure. He once fought head-on with a Loose Immortal expert, ending in a temporary stalemate, showcasing formidable strength."
The smiles on Zhang Chao and Yao Chenfeng’s faces visibly faded, quickly turning serious:
"That strong?"
They looked at Li Qin, then at Su Yu, who smiled and said:
"I believe I can handle this."
Then they looked at Luo Qingchan, who said crisply:
"We can win."
The four participants from the Divine Wind Gang looked doubtful, but Lin Qingfeng, with a joyful expression, said:
"With confidence from both of you, I’m relieved. We’ll be counting on you shortly."
In truth, he wasn’t entirely convinced, having met Su Yu and Luo Qingchan for the first time. But with the situation critical, they had no choice but to trust their teammates to maintain morale.
At this moment, a guest witness acting as the host called out sternly:
"Participants from both sides, please step forward!"
Su Yu and his group of ten stepped out from their camp, glancing across the field with a hint of surprise on their faces.
Su Yu spotted three familiar faces among the ten people stepping out from the opposite side. These were the same three individuals he had previously defeated in a dragon transformation event. To his surprise, they had been invited by the palace to join this event.
The three also noticed him. Jiang Ming, in the center, grinned and made a throat-slitting gesture toward Su Yu, saying to his companions:
"See that kid over there."
"Last time we missed the chance; this time, we’ll teach him a harsh lesson for sure."
Jiang Zhihong, holding a demonic flag, glanced at the girls beside Su Yu, his eyes lighting up as he said:
"The two girls next to him are quite nice, especially the tall one with an excellent figure and temperament. As for the small one, well, she’s got quite the assets."
Saying this, he intentionally made a groping gesture with both hands.
Li Qin, beside Su Yu, blushed with anger:
"Scoundrel!"
Su Yu softly comforted her, saying:
"He won’t be arrogant for long. Soon, we’ll take him out."
He didn’t care about these few people at all. Having encountered them once before, he knew they posed no real threat and wasn’t worried.
His attention was on a man in a dark gold robe among the crowd, whose aura was significantly stronger than the others, marking him as a formidable opponent.
At this moment, the guest witness serving as the temporary host produced a flag and scattered them around, pointing with his hand to connect the flags with Spiritual Light, marking out an area, and announced loudly:
"The battle is confined to this area. Leaving this area results in a loss, dying results in a loss, surrendering results in a loss, and if no winner is decided within 30 minutes, it’s declared a draw with neither side advancing."
"Restoration through pills is not allowed during the fight, but equipment with restoration skills can be used. No items or spiritual pets are allowed, but Gu Insect Eggs are an exception."
"Also, if anyone surrenders, the fight must cease immediately, with no further pursuit allowed."
He looked at both sides and asked loudly:
"Do you have any objections?"
Lin Qingfeng and the palace both declared no objections, but Jiang Ming behind the palace pointed at Su Yu and said:
"I have a personal vendetta with someone on the other side. This duel is to settle both the score and our lives."
Everyone looked towards Su Yu, whom Jiang Ming had indicated, and the host asked:
"Do you share a personal vendetta?"
Su Yu nodded:
"Yes."
"In that case, it will be a fight to the death between you four."
"Now, the duel begins, and each side must select their first participant within one minute."
Lin Qingfeng flew back, his eyes falling on the ten people and asked courteously:
"Who will take the lead?"
Yao Chenfeng raised his hand with a chuckle:
"I’ll go first and test their level."
"Thank you, Mr. Yao."
"It’s my duty."
Yao Chenfeng jumped into the ring, and soon a man from the opposing side joined him.
Upon seeing this person, Lin Qingfeng’s expression changed slightly:
"Why is it him?"
