Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 279 - 189: Annihilating the Celestial Demon from Beyond, Mother Tome of the Five Elements Sutra
The crisp voice of Qingchan rang out:
"Alright!"
The red dragon raised its head, and its dragon whiskers burned, casting the blood-red world into sudden darkness, as countless stars lit up.
The red dragon raised its claw and pressed forward, an invisible ripple spread across heaven and earth, causing the Celestial Demon to pause. Then the dragon claw pressed toward the Celestial Demon, speaking in human tongue:
"Shift stars, imprison!"
The Celestial Demon, who was performing the supreme secret demonic art, could not move, even its breath and strength were compressed within, unable to release.
"Make your move!"
Qingchan soared into the sky, but instead of using the Nine Heavens Capital Seal Sealing Talisman, she summoned two flying swords that shot into the sky. With a point of her finger, a luminescent human phantom appeared behind her, swinging its sword down.
"Taishang Capital Seal Purple Mansion Forbidden God Skill!"
The two ninth-rank Immortal Swords, Thunder Marsh and Blue Depths, crisscrossed, their blades leaving substantial light filaments in the air, interweaving like lightning around the extradimensional Celestial Demon. Those light filaments materialized instantly, transforming into a cocoon of light that bound the extradimensional Celestial Demon tightly, rendering it immobile.
Su Yu glanced at Qingchan in surprise, able to forcibly seal a level 199 extradimensional Celestial Demon with her cultivation was certainly an unparalleled forbidden skill.
"They’re the same."
His Star-shifting and Swapping could borrow the Power of the Heavenly Dao, capable of holding even a Celestial Immortal in place for an instant, but not for long.
Qingchan’s Taishang Capital Seal Purple Mansion Forbidden God Skill and the Nine Heavens Capital Seal Sealing Talisman had the same effect of sealing the extradimensional Celestial Demon, which was enough for him to unleash a major move to eliminate this extradimensional Celestial Demon.
The red dragon took a deep breath and extended its claw:
"Shift stars, celestial onset of death!"
The sky suddenly lit up with stars, an indescribable power exploded, and the red dragon shuddered fiercely, its aura drastically weakening.
Su Yu knew that by forcibly invoking the Celestial Dao Divine Skill and borrowing the power of the Heavenly Dao he suffered a slight backlash, not only did the red dragon’s power severely diminish, but its transformation duration was cut in half, originally lasting nearly six minutes, now it could only last about three.
However, his backlash was minor; the extradimensional Celestial Demon targeted by the Celestial Dao Divine Skill was in worse shape. When the world’s stars brightened, the blood clouds within a hundred kilometers around the extradimensional Celestial Demon and the summoned Blood Demon and Blood God Child instantly collapsed into nothingness. The extradimensional Celestial Demon’s true body shuddered violently, its formed body disintegrating into a mass of tangible demonic light, revealing its true form.
The revealed true form of the extradimensional Celestial Demon shook violently, with intense negative emotions leaking out, causing the light cocoon to tremble strongly.
"Celestial Dao Divine Skill, who exactly are you?"
The red dragon lifted its eyes, the twin dragon eyes burned like two blazing suns, cold and merciless like the Heavenly Dao itself, and it spoke once more:
"Shift stars, shift lodges!"
As these words left its mouth, heaven and earth fell silent, everyone involuntarily displayed a look of terror.
"Hehe..."
The sealed extradimensional Celestial Demon trembled violently, emitting a strange sound. With the descent of the Heavenly Dao’s power, the trembling extradimensional Celestial Demon along with the light cocoon exploded at the same time.
Like a cosmic explosion, countless black lights burst out in all directions.
"Huh?"
The red dragon looked up, immediately shouting:
"Everyone, intercept all ultimate Heart Demon thoughts."
As the words fell, the red dragon could no longer maintain its form and collapsed.
"The backlash from this move is this large?"
Heaven initiates killing intent, shifting stars and changing lodges.
Earth initiates killing intent, dragons and snakes rise to the land.
Human initiates killing intent, heaven and earth overturn.
Sky and man together initiate, all transformations set their foundation.
This was a deeper application of the Celestial Dao Divine Skill, able to borrow the power of the Heavenly Dao with extremely exaggerated power.
After half of it was used, the true dragon incarnation instantly collapsed, this was still the first time.
And the extradimensional Celestial Demon suffered more, its true form was instantly annihilated, disintegrating into countless ultimate Heart Demon thoughts.
These Heart Demon thoughts were formed by the extradimensional Celestial Demon using the Ultimate Heart Demon Curse to kill True Spirits, the number it killed equaled the number of Heart Demon thoughts. As long as a single thought remained, once the extradimensional Celestial Demon recovered, it could be reborn on these thoughts.
"Seal the Grotto Heaven’s gates, everyone intercept the Heart Demon thoughts, no one is allowed to leave the Grotto Heaven."
The second brother and his wife immediately issued orders in the guild channel, gathering the remaining ninety thousand guild members to start sweeping the Grotto Heaven to exterminate Heart Demon thoughts.
Fortunately, the Grotto Heaven wasn’t very large, and these Heart Demon thoughts weren’t the Ultimate Heart Demon Curse, just single thoughts that any magic could easily destroy.
After recovering his senses, Su Yu looked at his subordinates scouring the mountains and fields, relieved that the guild was now numerous; if it had still been in the past with only a few thousand people, it would have been troublesome.
After resting for a while, he too joined the extermination ranks, scouring the mountains and fields to find the Heart Demon thoughts hidden in every corner of the Grotto Heaven.
This was relatively easy because thoughts couldn’t exist out of thin air, they had to rely on creatures, so they just needed to find the beings within the Grotto Heaven.
Every living creature, from various Spirit Beasts to ants and insects, could potentially host Heart Demon thoughts.
Large Spirit Beasts could conceal Heart Demon thoughts, but these Spirit Beasts were marked for death, regardless of whether they were parasitized; they were killed first and questions asked later.
Small creatures like ants and insects, though numerous and difficult to find, were too small to conceal the power of a Heart Demon thought.
A forest clearing suddenly revealed an ant entirely engulfed in Demonic Qi, unmistakably.
Ninety thousand people methodically searched, razing the entire Grotto Heaven over and over, no Heart Demon thought could escape.
When the last Heart Demon thought was found and killed, countless streams of light converged into a light orb of spoils.
"Completely wiped out."
Su Yu collected the spoils light orb and opened it, finding six pieces of loot inside.
Ultimate Heart Demon Curse: Supreme secret art of the extradimensional Celestial Demon, capable of condensing ultimate heart demons to parasitize on targets. Once mature heart demons are reclaimed, they can rob the target’s flesh and soul to strengthen itself.
Celestial Demon Escape Skill: Transform into demonic light and escape.
Five Elements Divine Gang: Condense Power of the Five Elements to form the Five Elements Divine Gang, capable of attack and defense.
Earth Yellow Sand Ban: Mana condenses into a whirlwind of yellow sand that strikes the target, slowing enemies by 30% within the sand ban.
Supreme Demon Embryo: When a Celestial Demon falls, their True Spirit transforms into a demon embryo, capable of parasitizing living beings to birth a new Celestial Demon.
Five Elements Scripture (Mysterious): The complete Five Elements Scripture, contains Five Elements Thunder Skill, Five Elements Escape Skill, Five Elements Forbidden Skill, and sect-defining Five Elements Reincarnation Divine Light Ban.
Su Yu’s gaze first fell on the Five Elements Scripture but was greatly disappointed upon closer inspection.
"This is not the original."
He pondered for a moment, then shared the spoils with the guild leaders to examine, saying:
"I’ll hold on to this first; we’ll distribute it later."
Then he approached the Five Elements Divine Peaks, placed his hand on the Sect Defense Array’s light screen, drew out the Cyan Gang Sword, and slashed down with a Void-Splitting Great Divine Skill, creating a gap in the light screen.
Unexpectedly, even though he activated the power of destruction, the Sect Defense Array did not collapse as he imagined, only tearing open a slit.
"Five Elements Rotation?"
He felt he had found the reason.
No time to verify the truth of his guess, he immediately entered the Five Elements Sect, heading straight for the five Divine Peaks.
The Five Elements Sect was empty at this time; he had free reign and quickly found the core of the Five Elements Rotation Array, then shut them down one by one.
An incense-stick’s time later, the array was disabled, the defensive barrier vanished, and the Five Elements Sect appeared before them.
"We did it."
"We’ve occupied Grotto Heaven."
"The guild leader is amazing."
Tens of thousands of guild members cheered, their voices echoing throughout Grotto Heaven.
Just then, Second Brother suddenly raised an eyebrow, leapt towards Fire Spirit Peak, and stopped a figure, half-smiling as he asked:
"Mr. Li, there’s no need for you to trouble yourself further." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
The one stopped was a Loose Immortal, found making sneaky moves and looking somewhat embarrassed, chuckling as he said:
"Is that so, very well then."
Su Yu glanced at the person, expressionless as he withdrew his gaze, and transmitted to Second Brother:
"Second Brother, you and Sister-in-law settle the final payments with them and see them off."
"Alright!"
Shortly after, Second Brother and Sister-in-law went forward to discuss, some agreed and left straightforwardly, while some frequently glanced at the Five Elements Sect’s gates, showing hesitation and reluctance.
But seeing the thousands of watchful eyes around, and Su Yu flying towards the center of the Five Elements Sect, they eventually had to leave.
After sending off a few people, Su Huan commented in the channel:
"Note down those few who were uncooperative, blacklist them from the guild, and exclude them from future benefits."
Inside the Five Elements Sect, Su Yu and Qingchan, along with several guild leaders, appeared on a stump-like platform between the five peaks, everyone curiously looking around this sect’s main base.
Qe Dongyang wiped his face, sighing with emotion:
"I never imagined old Qe would have the chance to take down a legitimate sect like the Feixing Sect in this lifetime, it’s incredible."
Someone nearby laughed:
"You’re overthinking it; we didn’t take it down, the Celestial Demon did."
"But we eliminated the Celestial Demon, so it’s equivalent to us taking it down."
"If you think so, then sure."
"I wonder what’s left in this Five Elements Sect."
"We’ll know after the guild leader finishes assessing."
Someone looked up, just as Su Yu entered the Ancestral Hall of the Five Elements Sect.
He pushed the door open and entered; the hall was empty, with nothing inside.
Su Yu recalled that scene from his family sect, clasped his hands, and spoke solemnly to the empty hall:
"I invite the ancestors of the Five Elements Sect!"
Still no response.
Su Yu paused for a moment, then strode into the depths of the hall, discovering a plain gray cushion with two ancient jade pieces on it; one inscribed with the four large characters ’Five Elements Scripture,’ the other with the five characters ’Little Five Elements Scripture.’
"Is it so simple?"
He stepped forward and picked up the ancient jade, eyes falling on it, and a panel popped up.
Five Elements Scripture (Mysterious): Original, the Five Elements Sect’s heritage tome, contains all Five Elements arts, Five Elements Thunder Skill, Five Elements Escape Skill, Five Elements Forbidden Skill, Five Elements Rotation Divine Light Ban, Five Elements Divine Gang, and other methods.
Attributes: Original of the Five Elements Scripture, can separate up to 10 copies of the Five Elements Scripture daily for others to practice.
Attributes: This is the original of the Five Elements Scripture, allowing the establishment of sects and the teaching of disciples.
"It truly is the Five Elements Scripture."
He then picked up the other piece of ancient jade.
Little Five Elements Scripture (Advanced): Original, the Five Elements Sect’s heritage tome, contains all Five Elements arts, Five Elements Thunder Skill, Five Elements Forbidden Skill.
Attributes: Original of the Little Five Elements Scripture, can separate up to 10 copies of the Little Five Elements Scripture daily for others to practice.
Attributes: This is the original of the Little Five Elements Scripture, allowing the establishment of sects and the teaching of disciples.
"One is a high-level Daoist method for core disciples, the other a general Daoist method for ordinary disciples, everything is now ready."
Su Yu immediately stored the ancient jade; he had obtained one of the three most valuable treasures in Grotto Heaven.
Besides this original, the other two most valuable treasures in Grotto Heaven were the Five Elements Sect’s main gate and the secret realm itself.
