Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 168 - 84: Twin Swords Decapitate, Top-grade Equipment Immortal Spirit Stone

Chapter 168: Chapter 84: Twin Swords Decapitate, Top-grade Equipment Immortal Spirit Stone

Su Yu directly shared the attributes of the Five Elements Stone:

"Tier Six."

Ding Lingyu shrugged and said:

"I use a Tier Seven, just with slightly worse attributes. Since you’re still using a Tier Six, I’ll give this one to you."

Su Yu shook his head and said:

"That’s not how it works. Since we’re teaming up, the loot should follow the team’s rules."

Ding Lingyu nodded at this:

"Alright, let’s go by the rules. The starting price for a Tier Seven Magical Treasure is 1000 gold, and for equipment, it’s usually 500 gold. I’ll start at 500 gold."

Su Yu immediately bid:

"550 gold."

"P"

"???"

Ding Lingyu laughed and said:

"I’ll pass."

Su Yu smiled:

"If that’s the case, I’ll humbly accept."

He equipped the Immortal Spirit Stone, replacing the Five Elements Stone, and a new slot indeed opened in the Magical Treasure slot, increasing from four to five.

In the newly opened slot, he considered between the Profound Light Mirror, Nine Orifice Treasure Pearl, and Floating Light Saber and finally decided to re-equip the Nine Orifice Treasure Pearl.

"Nice, a bit stronger now."

He now has five Magical Treasure slots equipped with the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, Cyan Cloud Cover, Four Symbols Star Soul Banner, Profound Light Mirror, and Dragon Scale Flying Ship. A flying Magical Treasure also occupies a slot.

After closing the Magical Treasure slot, Su Yu checked the notification panel, which showed a notification for killing Xi Muchuan.

"Notification: Killed Xi Muchuan, gained 7 points of Celestial Dao Good Deeds."

"Notification: Killed Li Xinyu, gained 1 point of Celestial Dao Good Deeds."

"Hmm? Not only did I not lose merit, but I actually gained good deeds!"

"How much evil had this bastard done?"

Previously, Su Yu mixed in the Thousand Feather Association for a year and only accumulated 1 point of good deeds. Now, with the rewards from these two, he has a total of 9 points.

This indicates that Xi Muchuan and his henchmen were not good people, with negative merit on their own, and quite a bit of evil deeds, so killing them was equivalent to acting on behalf of heaven, rewarding good deeds instead of losing merit.

Understanding merit is about knowing the distinction between good deeds and evil deeds.

Simply put, doing good earns you good deeds, while doing bad earns you evil deeds.

But the standards of good and evil are not explained by normal human morality, but need to be interpreted from the absolutely rational perspective of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao’s view of good and evil is not the same as human’s, as for the Heavenly Dao, human good and evil are too insignificant. So for daily survival activities, killing for food typically does not lead to either good deeds or evil deeds.

For conflicts between players leading to killing, it generally does not result in either. Only acts of unwarranted malice not essential for survival earn evil deeds.

Just like Xi Muchuan, Su Yu’s leveling here did not affect him, but he still maliciously wanted them dead, which is evil.

When burdened with evil deeds, killing in retaliation not only doesn’t accrue evil deeds but also rewards good deeds.

Additionally, players who level up by killing countless monsters don’t gain evil deeds as monsters are considered creations of the Heavenly Dao’s rules.

Good deeds and evil deeds are rare, and many players may never accumulate even one point of either in their lifetime.

Their purpose doesn’t relate much to ordinary players.

This is because a core function of good deeds and evil deeds relates to transcending tribulations, something most ordinary players won’t encounter as they never reach celestial tribulation.

Good deeds and evil deeds don’t lessen the power of a celestial tribulation but can reduce its difficulty.

If you have high good deeds, you’ll likely encounter an easier tribulation, and with enough preparation, the success rate is high.

If you have high evil deeds, you’ll definitely face a difficult tribulation, and no matter how prepared you are, you’ll likely turn to ashes under its horror.

Nine points of good deeds aren’t much, but it’s a good start, and in the future, he might strive to accumulate more, making future tribulations easier to handle.

......

Once everyone left, Su Yu and his group descended again to continue leveling here.

This place is fantastic, a leveling treasure trove; in one day, they could accumulate nearly twenty million kill experience—simply exhilarating.

The task of exterminating the demon town they had initially received was long forgotten compared to the thrill of earning over ten million kill experience a day.

Yes, Su Yu earned double experience due to his talent, leading to twenty million kill experiences—Lan Yiyi and others only earned over ten million a day normally.

But even ten million was substantial, a fortune they had never experienced—they relished it, even Ding Lingyu hadn’t had it this joyful even in the guild.

Su Yu decided to stay here for a while, at least six months or so, to see if he could gather ninety billion kill experience and enough Dao practices to cultivate an Immortal Bone first.

After entering a sect, the next step would be to consider the tribulation process.

Though the tribulation was still far off, to pass it, he needed to cultivate all his methods such as Qi Refining Heart Skill, Sword Formulas, Celestial Ghost Transformation Skill, Red Copper North Pole Immortal Thunder to full level 100, and also practice other methods if needed later.

For his future prospects, he should also aim to learn a sect-level Qi Refining Heart Skill from Xuankong Lineage and at least a profound level basic Sword Formulas.

The sect-level Heart Skill and Sword Formulas will compress levels, with exorbitant experience required to increase to level 100, necessitating lengthy accumulation of practice points and Dao experience.

The top-level Sword Formulas cultivation requires extremely high innate attributes, meaning he needs to cultivate two or three Immortal Bones to gather sufficient innate attributes.

Overall, he expects to need to accumulate hundreds of billions, even a trillion practice points and hundreds of thousands of Dao experiences to reach perfection.

Even without considering serendipitous encounters, it might take him decades to accumulate at his rate.

Thus, opportunities like this to rapidly gain practice points and Dao experience must not be missed.

In the central square of Demon Suppression City located thousands of kilometers away, Xi Muchuan’s figure slowly solidified and eventually formed completely. It was the same Xi Muchuan who had been beheaded by Su Yu.

Upon revival, he immediately checked his equipment and Magical Treasure slots, and his face changed:

"Damn!"

"My equipment, my treasures."

"Su Yu, I’ll make you pay!"

He immediately opened his communication device and sent a message to a contact labeled ’Brother-in-law’:

"Brother-in-law, someone killed me."

After a while, the contact replied:

"What did you do now? Whom did you provoke?"

"I didn’t provoke anyone this time. I discovered a Cave of Ten Thousand Demons in the Demon Country and allied with some teams to destroy it. But another team not only objected but also falsely accused me, which I tolerated. But I didn’t expect that man to kill me outright; he’s very strong."

No response from the other side.

After waiting impatiently, the other side finally sent a three-word reply:

"I don’t believe!"

"....."

"I know how you are. Did you try to clear the field forcefully and hit a wall?"

"I’ve told you repeatedly not to cause trouble outside under our guild’s name. Though our Celestial God Association is strong, I’m just the vice president and can’t clean up all your messes."

"No, really, if you don’t believe me, ask Li Xinyu and the others."

"Hmph, they’re the same as you; can their words be trusted?"

"Brother-in-law! Will you help me or not?"

"Help you with what? Bully others? No way!"

With that, the communication was cut off.

"Damn!"

Unwilling to give up, he sent another message:

"Brother-in-law, there’s a newly emerged Cave of Ten Thousand Demons there; I’ve checked, and it seems the guardian demon beast hasn’t formed yet."

"Tell me more."

...

Su Yu and his group, unconcerned and unaware of Xi Muchuan’s post-revival actions, didn’t even bother to think about it. Such a rabble posed no threat to them.

That is unless they could enlist a Loose Immortal.

But a Loose Immortal wouldn’t act on something like this.

Loose Immortals operated on a different level. Whether leveling or exploring, the places they went weren’t accessible to low-tier players, and interactions were minimal.

Generally speaking, unless they foolishly provoked a Loose Immortal expert, they wouldn’t act against them.

Even in guilds, Loose Immortal experts wouldn’t intervene in disputes between guild members and outside players.

With such a large guild containing tens of thousands of members, conflicts happen nearly daily—handling them all would be impossible.

The only exception is if the issue at hand involves interests too tempting for a Loose Immortal to resist.

But the conflict between them and Xi Muchuan wasn’t significant enough to draw the interest of a Loose Immortal.

Thus, Su Yu and his companions felt no danger, staying outside the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, occupying part of the canyon, and focusing on feverish grinding.