Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 213 - 124: Vast Sea Dragon Whale, Eight Desolate Dragon Turtle
"Clang!"
A deep bell rang from within the city. The eight massive stone pillars standing in all directions lit up one by one, with a flowing light extending outward, connecting to form an inverted light bowl with a diameter of over a thousand kilometers, enveloping the vast Feixing City.
Inside the city, it was bustling with noise, and numerous players took to the air, gathering at the city’s edge, gazing at the approaching Red Tide from afar.
Unlike those smaller guilds they passed by earlier, where everyone was panicking, everyone in the city was calm.
Feixing City, with its ten-thousand-year history and thousands of Red Tide experiences, had given them enough confidence.
"Boom!"
The Red Tide surged toward Feixing City like a flood. Rolling blood clouds crashed against the City Defense Barrier like ocean waves, shattering on impact.
Su Yu looked up and saw the Red Tide sweeping over the dome of the inverted light bowl. The sky turned from clear to covered with red clouds, changing the world to an eerie red and dark hue. Outside the transparent barrier, countless Red Tide Essences were furiously crashing against it.
"Such density, wow!"
While he marveled at the scene, a pillar of light shot up from the center of Feixing City, swiftly transforming into a figure of light with white hair and a beard.
Star-Pointing Daoist (Unparalleled): Earth Immortal, Level 240, Supreme Elder of the Feixing Sect.
Attributes: ???
Star-Pointing Daoist flicked his wide sleeve, and eight streams of light shot in all directions, directly striking the eight towering 500-meter-high pillars at the edge of Feixing City. In an instant, countless Flowing Light Runes flew up, outlining and swiftly transforming into eight Heaven-Reaching Divine Generals, each clad in light armor and towering 500 meters high.
Celestial Star Divine General (Unparalleled): Divine General, Level 199, Feixing Sect’s Secret Skill-forged Divine General.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 0, Mana 2 million, Attack Power 200,000, Speed 0, Magic: Celestial Star Mountain Shifting Divine Power Skill, True Body of the Celestial Star Divine General, Celestial Star Divine Thunder, Celestial Star Demon Slaying Skill, Demon-Subduing Vajra Palm, Five Peaks True Form Divine Gang Spell.
Magical Treasure: Celestial Star Divine Armor (Tier Eight), Celestial Star Battle Blade (Tier Eight)
"Impressive!"
The protection of eight Divine Generals, each a step away from Level 200, along with an Earth Immortal, was the secret behind a millennia-old undefeated city. This defensive power, combined with the gathering of tens of millions of players inside the city, meant that even four or five super BOSSes over Level 200 wouldn’t be able to breach Feixing City.
The eight Divine Generals formed and immediately swung their battle blades downward, cutting across with blade lights several kilometers long, shattering any Red Tide Essence they touched.
Reaching out to grasp the void, the starlight amassed into a powerful celestial thunderbolt, instantly clearing a thousand-meter-diameter area.
"Five Peaks True Form Divine Gang Spell!"
Mana gathered, and a colossal phantom mountain descended from the sky, crashing outside the city. In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled, eliminating at least a hundred thousand Red Tide Essences in a second.
The eight Divine Generals unleashed their skills, instantly clearing vast areas outside Feixing City.
"So powerful!"
With the Divine Generals taking action, the oppressive aura brought by the overwhelming Red Tide vanished, and the players became active once more, pointing and discussing the outside view.
Some powerful and daring players had already started banding together to prepare to hunt the Red Tide Spirits outside.
Su Yu also felt eager to move and said to Luo Qingchan:
"Let’s go too."
"Let’s go!"
The Jade Sinking Ship soared into the sky, flying out of the city along with groups of players. The nearby Red Tide Spirits were actually being crushed by the even larger number of players. Su Yu and his group followed along, flying a thousand kilometers without seeing a single monster shadow.
"Unbelievable!"
The two of them flew more than two thousand kilometers away from Feixing City. As the many players spread out, some Red Tide Essences began trickling through.
"What difficulty?"
In reality, there were more people than monsters, making the actual difficulty negligible, at least for the first two days.
The two of them flew nearly five thousand kilometers away from Feixing City, finding few people around. Suspended in the air, Luo Qingchan released two Tier Nine Flying Swords, while Su Yu unleashed the Wind and Fire Fan, conjuring a massive, hundreds-of-meters-tall flame tornado to frantically hunt down the Red Tide Spirits.
From then on, it was dull monster-hunting time. The two held their ground, blocking all the Red Tide Essences swarming into their area. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Most were ordinary essences, with the occasional appearance of a BOSS, sometimes none for an entire hour—considerably less than during their time at Rage Tide Island.
The first day yielded almost no gains, with a total bounty of less than a hundred points in experience and cultivation combined.
The difficulty of the Red Tide increased on the second day, with a rise in BOSS numbers, accumulating just over two hundred points after a day of effort.
For two consecutive days, no big BOSS appeared.
But on the third day, Su Yu suddenly felt a tightness in his chest during the level-up grind as if the air had solidified.
"What terrifying pressure!"
"A super BOSS is coming."
Luo Qingchan reacted even quicker, immediately retracting his swords and retreating with the Jade Sinking Ship.
During their retreat, warnings of a super BOSS were already being broadcast in the regional channel, and teams were starting to prepare for withdrawal.
They quickly returned to Feixing City, surrounded by countless players’ flying ships streaming into the city like homing swallows.
An hour later, most players had withdrawn, and the Red Tide Essences they had pushed out before began to surround them again, denser and stronger on average.
"Roar!"
A sound like a steam whistle suddenly echoed, and the densely packed Red Tide Essences parted. A Vast Sea Dragon Whale, as large as an island, floated toward us from the depths of the Red Tide.
Vast Sea Dragon Whale (Legendary): Demon King, Level 256, Deep Sea Dragon Whale Essence.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 260 million, Mana 300,000, Attack Power 1,300,000, Speed 1,200 km/h, Skills: ???
"Roar!"
Another deafening dragon roar came from the Red Tide, and another massive creature, not inferior in size to the Vast Sea Dragon Whale, flew over from a few hundred kilometers away.
Eight Desolates Dragon Turtle (Legendary): Demon King, Level 260, Eight Desolates Dragon Turtle Essence.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 240 million, Mana 600,000, Attack Power 1,500,000, Speed 1,100 km/h, Skills: ???
Normally rare super BOSSes over a hundred levels are now appearing one after another.
Without any hesitation or communication, the two Demon Kings roared upon their arrival, and the densely packed Red Tide Essences launched an attack on Feixing City.
The two Demon Kings were not idle either, their enormous bodies directly charging at the city.
No need for any other methods, just their nearly ten-kilometer body size crashing in was more powerful than any magic or divine techniques.
Back then, that nameless ancient demon shattered Rage Tide City with a single palm, and these two Demon Kings could do the same, even more ruthlessly. After all, their bodies are bigger than Rage Tide City itself, and if they pressed down, the entire city would be flattened.
The two giant beasts moved slowly, but each hit made the City Defense Barrier tremble violently, the sturdy inverted light bowl constantly rippling.
Fortunately, at this time, the Star-Pointing Daoist had already taken action, revealing his Earth Immortal Dharma Body seated in the center of the city, firmly suppressing the City Defense Array and blocking the two super BOSSes.
Eight Divine Generals simultaneously took action, their thousand-foot-long giant blades sweeping back and forth, shattering the essences into nothingness wherever they went.
Whenever a BOSS approached, the thousand-foot blade descended with infinite Celestial Star Thunder.
The two super BOSSes changed position after prolonged attacks on the City Defense Barrier bore no result, crashing towards the Celestial Star Divine Generals instead.
The Divine Generals immediately activated the Five Peaks True Form Divine Gang Spell, borrowing the power of the divine mountains to enhance themselves. When the thousand-foot blade slashed down, a ten-thousand-foot giant peak’s phantom pressed down with it.
"Boom!"
The mountain peak’s phantom shattered, the vast seven to eight kilometer-long body of the Vast Sea Dragon Whale dipped, erupting with an extremely ferocious shockwave as if a meteor strike, causing the nearby Red Tide Essences to dissipate instantly like candles in the wind.
A terrifying damage of over a million erupted, but against the Vast Sea Dragon Whale’s more than 200 million health, it was like a drop in the ocean.
On the other side, the Eight Desolates Dragon Turtle was similarly struck by another Divine General’s slash, its large turtle head withdrawing into its shell.
The next second, it sprang out like lightning, fiercely crashing into the Celestial Star Divine General, but was blocked by the barrier of the grand array.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The two super BOSSes kept crashing, and the deafening booms never ceased, causing all ears to ache painfully.
No one dared to go out now, with tens of millions of eyes fixed on those two super BOSSes outside the light curtain, watching their health continuously decreasing, only to rise back up again.
The life recovery and defense of these two super BOSSes were outrageously high. The Celestial Star Divine Generals’ normal attack dealt 200,000 damage, but after the physical defense of the Vast Sea Dragon Whale, it inflicted less than 80,000 actual damage.
The defense of the other Eight Desolates Dragon Turtle was even more outrageous; the 200,000 damage slash resulted in just over 30,000 damage, indicating its defense strength was as high as 170,000.
Su Yu now had an armor penetration of +5, able to ignore 50% of defense strength, meaning his attack would need to exceed 85,000 to break the defense.
At this stage, it’s completely impossible, so even if this BOSS were low on health right before him, he couldn’t hurt it one bit.
Luo Qingchan, on the other hand, can do it. She wields a Tier Nine Immortal Sword with armor penetration +10, her Condensing Sword into Silk technique far from mastery but already proficient, with a minimum armor penetration of +13, enough to break the defense.
But breaking defense is one thing, challenging the BOSS is another.
With her current power, she still cannot challenge this BOSS. Forget facing the BOSS directly, she can’t even withstand the aftermath.
The deafening collisions continued non-stop for over two hours, yet the BOSS remained vigorous, their health full.
However, many surrounding small monster essences had terrible luck, with an unknown number being annihilated by the shockwaves.
This situation persisted for four to five hours, with both sides still at a stalemate. But by this time, some people grew impatient, arriving at the edge of the defense barrier to launch flying swords or magical treasures beyond the barrier, besieging successive Red Tide BOSSes arriving.
Over several hours, around five to six hundred BOSSes of varying sizes had gathered, with several dozen top-level BOSSes over level 170.
Yet Su Yu and Luo Qingchan remained still, not because they weren’t interested, but because there were too many people.
Feixing City had gathered tens of millions of players; even five to six hundred BOSSes weren’t enough to go around.
Su Yu ground his teeth slightly, asking in a low voice:
"Most of the BOSSes have gathered here now. Seeing the situation, these two super BOSSes can neither take the city, nor can the city likely counter-attack effectively. Should we leave the city and enter the Red Tide to hunt BOSSes?"
From these past days’ experience, they had gained some understanding of the Red Tide’s essence flow. As long as they didn’t encounter a super BOSS, survival wasn’t a problem.
With tens of millions of players in Feixing City, they had attracted most of the area’s super BOSSes and top-level BOSSes, making it highly unlikely they would encounter a top-level BOSS outside.
Luo Qingchan hesitated slightly, then nodded:
"Let’s go!"
The Jade Sinking Ship immediately turned around, flying towards the side opposite the two super BOSSes.
