Cultivation: But Not a Game
Chapter 393 - 289: Victory in Battle, Ranked 11th on the Peerless Ranking
Jiang Muyun waved his large sleeve, and five-colored radiance shot up into the sky, forming a five-colored ring behind his head, with a shadow faintly visible within the ring.
"Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Line!"
Countless rays of colorful light flew out from the ring, rushing like a torrential downpour.
Su Yu naturally wouldn’t dodge; he didn’t even summon the Cyan Cloud Cover, instead swinging the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe like a meteor to meet the oncoming Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Line. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
The battle-hardened true form swayed slightly, and countless Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Lines shattered, instantly erupting with dense damage on his body, each only about two to three hundred, totaling just over a hundred thousand.
"A drop in the ocean!"
"What strong physique!"
Jiang Muyun’s heart skipped, quite alarmed.
This Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Line not only possessed immense power but also extraordinary penetration capability, able to nearly cause full eruptions even against a super BOSS over level two hundred.
But here, its effect was diminished by at least 75%, barely breaking through the defense.
"Let’s try this move."
He reached out with a virtual grip, gathering a thousand Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Lines into one, transforming into a thick colored light column that struck down like lightning.
The next instant, the Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe slashed down face-to-face, the two immensely powerful forces collided head-on, and the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Line column was directly split into two, falling left and right into the earth, causing the heavens and earth to shake, with countless stones blasted into the air by turbulent waves.
A giant true form flashed behind Jiang Muyun, the divine axe slashing fiercely, six giant arms swinging repeatedly, dense fists raining down like a torrential downpour.
"Bang bang bang!!"
Jiang Muyun’s protective five-colored cloud ring unfolded, motionless as countless fists battered it, though the five colors of the ring visibly paled at an eye-discernible speed.
"What terrifying attack!"
Jiang Muyun reached out with a grasp, merging the five-colored divine radiance into a towering giant sword sweeping horizontally.
"Showing off one’s skill before an expert!"
The Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe met directly, with a loud "clang," and the five-colored divine sword shattered into pieces.
"Explode!"
The unified five-colored divine radiance exploded with a roar, engulfing the battle-hardened true form, and when Su Yu emerged from the chaos, he saw Jiang Muyun had flown thousands of meters in the air, distancing himself, the five-colored ring behind his head swelling by a hundredfold, its shadow becoming solid, Jiang Muyun’s true form overlooking him, expressionless without joy or sorrow, calmly saying:
"Your strength is indeed very powerful, even the supreme forbidden technique couldn’t break your defense. I acknowledge your strength."
"But the game ends here. Next is one of my strongest techniques. With this power, all forbidden and divine techniques will increase tenfold in power. Let’s see how you withstand it."
After speaking, he pointed down, and Su Yu instantly felt a chilling sensation:
"Damn, this is so much like the Celestial Eye People in the Wind God Tower who can wield Immortal Power!"
Su Yu’s heart surged with alarms, preparing rigorously.
With Jiang Muyun stretching his hand to point down, the figure within the ring similarly pointed down, and a familiar Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light blasted down.
Su Yu reflexively lifted the axe across his front, the extinction divine light flashed, with a thunderous "clang," and a force that surpassed the previous tenfold blasted the battle-hardened true form to slide back mid-air by seven or eight meters.
"Hmm... Very strong!"
"But not Immortal Power!"
Su Yu relaxed, as long as it’s not Immortal Power there’s no problem, that truly cannot be resisted.
"So, this is your strongest technique? If it’s only this, you won’t be my opponent."
Jiang Muyun’s eyebrows twitched, a trace of anger appearing on his face, lightly shouting:
"Boastful words, survive first and speak later!"
The true form’s giant arms embraced lightly, an intimidating pressure rapidly expanding, startling the surrounding spectators to back even further.
"Now it’s starting to look like something."
Su Yu looked up at the rapidly gathering thousand Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, smiling slightly, with a thought:
"Law of Heaven and Earth!"
In an instant, a mighty and unparalleled force surged from within Su Yu, like a volcanic eruption, his physical body rapidly expanded, in a blink swelling dozens of times, transforming into a two hundred-zhang tall four-headed eight-armed Demon God standing between heaven and earth.
A thousand divine rays like a meteor shower descended from the sky, fiercely nailing towards the true form of the four-headed eight-armed Demon God.
Previously, a single ray could knock the battle-hardened true form flying seven or eight meters, but when faced with the Law of Heaven and Earth’s tenfold attributes, it was as if countless divine rays exploded upon it, not budging the Demon God’s true form an inch.
Occasionally, a ray slipped through, descended from the sky, blasting into the earth, instantly causing ground collapses and mountain falls, directly altering the terrain.
"No skill, only numbers!"
Relying solely on straightforward and genuine physique and strength, taking head-on the supreme forbidden technique with enhanced tenfold power—Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Line.
"How is this possible?"
His strongest attack wave still couldn’t do anything to Su Yu, Jiang Muyun was clearly somewhat shocked, stubbornly refusing to believe, once again urging the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light to form a divine sword to strike down, met by the equally enhanced Heaven-Splitting Divine Axe.
Actually, attacks like these Su Yu could dodge, having plenty of power and speed to land a pre-emptive strike rendering Jiang Muyun powerless to retaliate, given the opponent’s pure magic approach without any melee capability.
But since it’s a challenge, it should make the opponent concede willingly, taking Jiang Muyun’s strongest technique head-on, then defeating him.
Connecting Jiang Muyun’s two major moves, Su Yu charged forward again for another fierce beating.
The dense fists pummeled down, the divine axe slashed wildly, all blocked by the Protective Divine Light with its tenfold enhanced defense.
Jiang Muyun continuously employed various Taoist and forbidden techniques, but they were all forcefully broken by him.
"This move doesn’t work, I must rely on external force."
With a flash of divine light, Jiang Muyun disappeared and reappeared over ten kilometers away. He reached out, grabbed a scroll, and flung it out. It quickly unrolled and transformed into a painting over ten kilometers long, suspended in the air, with the true body standing atop the scroll.
Su Yu took a closer look, and the painting depicted a hellish scene, filled with various fierce ghosts and demons surrounding ten central ghost deities.
"This is the Ten Ghost Deities Map, please advise!"
Su Yu grinned, realizing he couldn’t win against forbidden techniques, so he resorted to magical artifacts.
"As you wish!"
His arms raised an axe, which came crashing down, a pitch-black axe energy slicing through the air.
Jiang Muyun pointed down with his hand, and the scroll instantly melded into the void. Numerous fierce ghosts and demons turned tangible, rushing towards him, while the ten central ghost deities revealed their true forms, appearing as ten template entities, belonging to ghost deity bosses ranging from level 200 to 290.
These ghost deity bosses immediately commanded numerous fierce ghosts, preparing to set up the Tenfold Hell Formation, centered around the ten ghost deities.
"Quite interesting!"
"But since you’ve called upon magical artifacts for help, I might as well do the same."
Su Yu gestured, and the Sea-Suppressing Pearl appeared in his hand. He gently tossed it into the air, where it flew up, trailing a bright blue light, and fell, the descending blue arc quickly expanded to form a light gate, from which emerged Vast Sea, face obscured by a veil, holding a ball of blue light.
The Sea-Suppressing Pearl was his natal treasure, and having Vast Sea, the spirit of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, fight for him wasn’t against the rules.
Upon appearing, Vast Sea lightly tossed the innate water thunder in his hand, its brilliance crashing into the formation. The next second, the extremely violent primordial water and innate Gui Water Elite exploded with a roar, instantly engulfing the Ten Ghost Deities Map.
However, by this time, the Tenfold Hell Formation had already taken shape, linking the powers of all ghosts and deities into one, barely resisting the first wave of the innate water thunder explosion.
Jiang Muyun stood in the air under the light curtain, saying gravely:
"My Tenfold Hell Formation combines the power of all ghost deities, and only a Celestial Immortal could break it."
Su Yu smiled faintly:
"That might not be true!"
Seconds after the first wave of the innate water thunder explosion, the innate Gui Water Elite regenerated and exploded again, freezing everything in its path.
Relentlessly repeating, everlasting and inexhaustible.
With Vast Sea’s current strength, the first wave of innate water thunder explosion reached as high as 1 billion, followed by 40 repetitive waves, each wave exploding at 120 million, totaling 4.8 billion. After damage reduction, it was still 2.9 billion.
By merely the fifth repetition, Jiang Muyun’s expression had changed.
"How is it not over yet?"
On the eighth explosion, the Tenfold Hell Formation was torn apart, the shockwaves engulfing everything, instantly clearing out the millions of fierce ghosts within, leaving only the ten over level 200 deities.
"I concede!"
Su Yu smiled slightly and gestured to Vast Sea, who waved his long sleeve and opened a hundred-foot-high azure light gate, through which the remaining innate Gui Water Elite retreated, disappearing into the gate.
She nodded to Su Yu, turned, and transformed into a blue light, flying back into the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.
Jiang Muyun reached out to retrieve the Ten Ghost Deities Map, clasping his hands in respect towards Su Yu, and said in a solemn voice:
"I lost, you are indeed stronger than me."
Just as his words fell, both Su Yu and Jiang Muyun felt a sudden sensation, looking up to see a trail of light across the sky, quickly sketching out a scroll with three ancient seal characters.
"Peerless Ranking!"
Centered around them, everyone within a thousand kilometers could see it.
The scroll slowly unfurled, revealing dozens of golden glittering names, deeply imprinted like brands in the memories of all who saw the Peerless Ranking, hard to forget.
Suddenly, everyone felt a sense of awareness and looked towards Su Yu, seeing countless small streams of light rising from him and flying towards the Peerless Ranking, forming a new name—Su Yu.
This new name entered the Peerless Ranking, occupying a prominent position, while the original position of Jiang Muyun moved back one rank, and all subsequent positions followed, until...
No one was pushed out of the Peerless Ranking, as there were already several empty slots, the Peerless Ranking’s 72 spots not being fully occupied.
Su Yu: Daoist of Xuanzhen Immortal Sect, 28 years old, established an extraordinary Immortal Foundation of time battle prowess, ranked as the eleventh on the Human Race’s Peerless Ranking.
Battle record for ranking: Challenged the original eleventh-ranked Daoist of the Wuji Immortal Palace, Jiang Muyun, in the Human Race’s Peerless Ranking, and obtained multiple victories. After confirming the battle records to be true, the Immortal Treasure Peerless Ranking captured his aura into the ranking, allowing him to enjoy the Human Race’s fate.
"Congratulations!"
Jiang Muyun, not enraged by his displacement, curiously asked:
"Your physique is so powerful, and you know the Law of Heaven and Earth, are you proficient in body refining?"
Su Yu came back to his senses, withdrew his gaze from the notification panel, and shook his head, saying:
"To be precise, I’m proficient in both Taoist techniques and swordsmanship. I’ve comprehended Sword Intent, and my Taoist techniques are also very powerful."
Jiang Muyun, surprised, said:
"How can you master so many systems at once?"
Su Yu shrugged and said:
"Perhaps I have a natural talent for it."
Jiang Muyun opened his mouth, speechless for a moment.
At their level, they must be able to make a significant impact against peers to be considered proficient, not just casually practice swordsmanship and be called proficient.