Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 295 - 205: Shattered Domain, Evil Dragon Fire Beast
Inside the towering pillar of fire is pure high temperature, with a strong attraction pulling people inside.
Su Yu steadied himself and slowly flew toward the center. Less than half a minute later, he suddenly felt a familiar energy rushing at him, and he immediately prepared himself. Then he saw a familiar blazing flame crash against the Cyan Cloud Cover and bounce off.
He instinctively stretched out his hand and used the Little All Heaven Cloud Forbidden Skill, refining it in one stroke.
"854 now."
There should be quite a few blazing flames in here, as most of the ones swirling around the towering pillar of fire outside have escaped from within.
However, inside, he couldn’t see, so he couldn’t clearly locate these blazing flames and could only try his luck in finding them.
He rapidly descended, collecting the blazing spiritual lights he encountered along the way. The speed at which the defense power of the Cyan Cloud Cover was consumed visibly increased, going from twelve thousand initially to thirteen thousand, fifteen thousand, eighteen thousand, until it reached twenty thousand by the time he descended to the bottom.
20,000 minus 3,000 and then halved, 8,500 per second, still within his tolerance range.
The mana conversion rate of the Cyan Cloud Cover is 300 points, requiring only 28 points of mana to replenish 8,500, while his mana recovery alone is 110 per second. Just the basic mana regeneration can sustain a defense loss of 33,000.
He continued diving for an unknown duration until he suddenly felt lighter, with the temperature soaring nearly double, along with changes in the laws of nature. Su Yu understood that he had crossed the shattered void beneath the fiery vortex at the bottom of the towering pillar of fire, entering another realm that emitted this pillar.
"Environmental damage has reached 36,000, absurd."
He saw a scene of transparent blazing white, where everything seemed distorted. These pure and terrifying flames twisted the space, flooding the entire world like seawater.
But unexpectedly, he could see in here, just not very far—only two to three kilometers at most.
In this blazing white transparent world, blazing spiritual lights sporadically appeared, dancing and weaving around like spirit snakes in this ocean-like gaseous liquid. Occasionally, he saw layers of substantial ripples spreading out in the distance. When the ripples passed over Su Yu, he felt a momentary gasp, his heart racing.
"Don’t approach."
Without needing to see with his own eyes, Su Yu was a hundred percent sure that the owner of this aura was definitely a super BOSS over level 200.
He pondered briefly, then swam toward the opposite direction of the ripples.
Four hours after Su Yu entered this fractured domain, three Loose Immortal Horned Demon People arrived. They circled the towering pillar of fire but only found a distant human squad and couldn’t locate their target. The leader of the Horned Demon People, Qilike, decisively pointed toward the towering pillar of fire and said:
"He’s definitely inside, let’s go in."
"Go."
The three Loose Immortal Horned Demon People plunged in without hesitation.
Watching the three disappear, the humans aboard the distant flying ship looked at each other, with some showing concern:
"The captain is still inside, we have to find a way to inform him."
"No way, the captain has already entered another domain, we can’t communicate through the team channel."
"Then let’s go in and notify the captain."
"We’ll just go in to notify and then come out, it’s only a few minutes, our flying ship can withstand it."
"Alright then."
Several people decisively steered the flying ship toward the towering pillar of fire, but they didn’t rush straight in. Instead, they flew along the edge of the pillar and descended, eventually entering the fiery vortex at the bottom.
The fiery vortex sat at the entrance of the broken void, and their flying ship entered another domain within a minute.
"No, the foundational laws of this world are incomplete, space is unstable, interference is too great, we can’t communicate through the team channel."
"Then use the area channel."
"Okay."
"Attention, three Loose Immortal Horned Demon People have entered this domain."
"Attention, three Loose Immortal Horned Demon People have entered this domain."
...
The reminders repeated three times in the area channel of this fractured domain, and Su Yu quickly noticed them while exploring the bottom. His first thought was that the Loose Immortal Horned Demon Person he previously defeated had brought reinforcements.
However, he wasn’t too worried. The place was vast, the environmental suppression was harsh, and even the perception range of a Loose Immortal wasn’t very far. Just three people would find it difficult to locate him.
Even if they did find him, he wasn’t afraid. If necessary, he could transform into a dragon and eliminate them.
This fractured domain was extremely vast, and Su Yu wandered around aimlessly while casually collecting blazing flames along the way.
The more of these, the better. If he genuinely couldn’t find other opportunities, the collected blazing flames alone would be worthwhile.
"Crunch!"
After wandering aimlessly for nearly an hour, Su Yu suddenly heard a strange sound ahead, like something being gnawed upon.
This was extremely rare in this world, and he immediately flew toward the source of the sound.
A few minutes later, he saw a giant golden crystal hanging in the void ahead. The thing was droplet-shaped, two to three kilometers long, with an irregular pitted surface, quietly hanging in this ocean-like world of flame.
The sound came from a long monster coiled around the droplet crystal, resembling a combination of a crocodile and a snake, with a crocodile-like head featuring a single horn, a serpent-like body that was fiery red, and many crystalline nodules resembling scales on its surface. It looked very similar to a true dragon, but it wasn’t one.
This thing was at least four kilometers long, with four claws embracing the droplet crystal, opening its toothy mouth to gnaw, causing golden stars to scatter without melting, resembling stars falling into space.
No need to ask; it was evident that this droplet-shaped golden crystal was certainly a treasure, perhaps a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure within this domain.
However, what surprised him was that he could not see the attributes of the golden crystal, so he was unsure of what it was.
But this creature that looked like a dragon could see it, as it was a rule monster, its true name was Evil Dragon Fire Beast.
Evil Dragon Fire Beast (Peerless): Level 187, a monstrous creature born from the twisted power of laws and the power of death.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 14.8 million, Mana 150,000, Attack Power 5.2 million, Speed 6000 kilometers/hour, Magic: All Fire Methods (Fire Element Law), Binghuo Divine Thunder (Fire Element Law), Fire Escape (Fire Element Law), Extreme Yin Fiend True Fire Prohibition (Mysterious, Fire Element Law), Fire Element Law Utilization.
"Goodness, the attack power is too fierce."
Although this was a rule monster similar to the earlier Flame Spirit, this one’s strength far exceeded the Flame Spirit. Without a powerful move, it was impossible to defeat in a short time.
If it couldn’t be defeated quickly, he would die, no exceptions, unless he transformed into a dragon.
But using this powerful move, which could only be used once a month here, seemed a bit of a waste to him.
After all, this realm wasn’t fully explored, who knew if there would be better treasures later? If used too early, he might only be able to stare helplessly at better things later.
But he was reluctant to just leave it, as his strong sixth sense hinted that this golden crystal was definitely a top-tier treasure.
"Do I really have to transform into a dragon?"
"Using dragon transformation on just this one target seems too wasteful."
Su Yu pinched his chin, momentarily undecided.
"No, that’s not right."
"It seems I might be able to kill it."
After hesitating for over ten seconds, Su Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, recalling an eighth-level accessory, Flame Shelter, from the last rule monster. This granted Flame Law Protection immunity to flame damage below Celestial Immortal level, with 50% damage reduction at Celestial Immortal level, lasting for 30 seconds.
"The law level of this BOSS surely doesn’t reach Celestial Immortal, activate it and be invincible for 30 seconds."
"During this time, I’ll go all out and might have a chance to take it down forcefully."
Su Yu quickly took stock of his current means.
"Innate Water Thunder will be significantly weakened in this flame realm and is practically useless, so I have to rely on Swordsmanship."
"Start by condensing 7000 Sword Qi here to set up the Samsara Sword Array."
"Then unleash Hundred Eyes Divine Light for defense breaking and immobilization. If that doesn’t work, follow it up with Wind God’s Order, then activate Cyan Gang and Thunder Gang from Purple Thunder with Thunder-controlling Divine Power, increasing damage by 100%, then combine the two swords and unleash them with the sword array."
"The power of a single Sword Qi is 40% of my maximum attack, and my current Sword Control attack power is 32,800, 40% of that is 13,120."
"Uh...."
Su Yu pondered for a moment, deciding not to set up the Samsara Sword Array.
After careful consideration, he realized that while Sword Qi damage was not bad, it seemed ineffective.
The BOSS level was too high, with a very strong physique, Sword Qi damage seemed unable to break through its defense.
If it were a normal BOSS there wouldn’t be this issue, but a rule monster with the Power of Law can exempt all armor-breaking, without which how could Sword Qi with 13,000 attack break through defenses?
A level 187 BOSS’s physique surely exceeds 30,000, combining two swords will break through defenses, but Sword Qi certainly wouldn’t.
Don’t rely on the Sky-breaking Immortal Bone, as the Immortal Bone’s Law of Space armor penetration only applies to physical attacks, i.e., attacks from the flying sword itself.
But Sword Qi, strictly speaking, is a combination of physical and magical, not benefiting from flying sword armor-piercing bonus, only Swordsmanship realm and Geng Metal Sword Fiend’s properties enhance Sword Qi sharpness.
Thus, don’t expect to grind a BOSS to death with massive Sword Qi, it’s excellent for PKs and clearing small mobs or mini-bosses.
Additionally, it’s worth mentioning that flying swords and Swordsmanship realms have armor-piercing properties, and BOSS can counter armor-piercing in its own ways.
The common method is to build up physique, generally, 10,000 points in physique grant 1 point of armor-piercing and penetration resistance.
If a BOSS has 30,000 physique, it has 3 points of resistance, meaning it can ignore 3 points of armor-piercing or penetration.
Additionally, physique-derived armor-piercing resistance isn’t limitless, theoretically 1 million physique grants 100 armor-piercing resistance, but this resistance only acts as defense, negating enemy armor-piercing at most.
For example, if the enemy has 10 points armor-piercing, having 10 or 100 armor-piercing resistance results in no extra damage reduction.
Based on the above, the only viable strategy is merging the two swords, with his current cultivation and Swordsmanship realm, it could last about seventeen or eighteen seconds.
"The base attack of a single flying sword is 32,800, activating flying sword with spells +100%, single flying sword attack is then 65,600, dual sword fusion results in 130,000 times 2 equals 260,000."
"Assuming BOSS physique is 30,000, output is 230,000, ten strikes per second equals 2,300,000 burst damage in ten seconds."
But this is only theoretical burst damage; the rule monster’s fire shield granted by Power of Law boasts formidable defense.
Moreover, the fire shield is just a basic fire spell with a super-fast cooldown of just a few seconds.
Given this BOSS’s hit points, surviving until the second fire shield is no problem at all.
"Hm?"
"This isn’t right, though."
"Even though Sword Qi can’t harm the BOSS’s main body, it can destroy the fire shield. The fire shield doesn’t have such high defensive strength."
"Almost misunderstood."
