Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 179 - 93: Cave Profound Qi Capturing Skill

Chapter 179: Chapter 93: Cave Profound Qi Capturing Skill

"I told you, how could that even be possible."

"By the way, where are you now, when are you coming back?"

"I’m not coming back for now, just laying low outside for a bit."

"That’s fine, you’re not aware, the Celestial God Association is going crazy. They’re not only searching for you everywhere, but people are also staking out at return points and resurrection points in nearby cities 24/7. They’ve even issued a bounty: finding your location and confirming the coordinates earns 10 gold, and killing you once gets a reward of 1000 gold with no upper limit. They want to completely block you out."

"I’m really looking forward to it!"

Su Yu shrugged after hanging up the communication.

"Keep leveling up."

He trained non-stop for a few days. During a break, he had a sudden thought and transformed into a Celestial Ghost, sneaking into the refresh pool as light smoke.

The refresh pool had returned to its original state by then, continuously spawning monsters.

These monsters completely ignored the Celestial Ghost, allowing him to penetrate deep into the spawn point, only noticing him when he got near the Five-Colored Divine Ox, but still not attacking him.

Seeing this, Su Yu was intrigued and suddenly changed back to his true form from the Celestial Ghost, yet these spawned monsters still didn’t attack him, passing by without any reaction.

"Is it because of the Heavenly Heart or some other reason?"

The Five-Colored Divine Ox sensed his presence, lazily lifted an eyelid to glance at him, and then closed its eyes again, but Su Yu could see its eyelids twitching.

He clasped his hands in a respectful salute:

"Brother Dao, long time no see!"

The Five-Colored Divine Ox lifted its eyelid and said in a buzzing voice:

"This is no place for you to be."

Su Yu smiled slightly, just not being driven away was a good start. He reached into his arms, rummaged for a while, then took out a net bag of Five-Colored Spirit Fish and handed it over, smiling as he said:

"Recently, I’ve been living next door to Brother Dao, specially came to visit, just a small token, nothing much."

The Five-Colored Divine Ox snorted, turned its head, and continued to sleep.

Su Yu chuckled, placed the net bag of Five-Colored Spirit Fish down, and withdrew with clasped fists.

Leaving the refresh pool, Su Yu resumed his leveling journey.

In the following days, every so often, in between leveling, Su Yu would bring a net bag of Five-Colored Spirit Fish to the refresh pool to chat with the Five-Colored Divine Ox. Although the Five-Colored Divine Ox always ignored him, he could clearly feel its attitude softening each time.

The bag of Five-Colored Spirit Fish played a crucial role.

This stuff is a Spiritual Object born from innate spiritual beings, containing a trace of innate Qi. Players who eat it can enhance their physique and strength cap, and for demon beasts, it’s a supreme delicacy no one can refuse.

Having taken so many Five-Colored Spirit Fish from him, the Five-Colored Divine Ox couldn’t maintain a hard attitude even if it wanted to.

Unknowingly, a month passed, and after being bribed by such sugar-coated bullets more than a dozen times, the Five-Colored Divine Ox’s attitude finally changed.

By the sixth time, it would occasionally reply with a few words.

By the twelfth time, it would even turn around when seeing him come, initiating conversation.

A month later, on the seventeenth visit, they were so familiar with each other, they could chat like brothers.

Su Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, a pile of flames burned before him, roasting a demon tiger with mouth-watering aroma. As he flipped it, he asked:

"Mr. Niu, are you going to stay here forever, never able to leave?"

Ao Run didn’t avoid it this time, lying in Su Yu’s arms, eating Spirit Fruit and drinking wine.

The Five-Colored Divine Ox had shrunk many times over, lying next to the fire like an elephant, holding a Five-Colored Spirit Fish in one hand tossing it into its mouth, and pouring a bottle of Thousand-Day Drunk into its mouth with the other, looking quite leisurely.

"If I want to leave, I can do so anytime, just need to find another Guardian to replace me."

"Oh!"

"Does Mr. Niu have any interest in checking out the outside world?"

The Five-Colored Divine Ox shook its head:

"I feel comfortable staying here, I don’t want to go out."

"That’s such a pity, the outside is much more exciting than staying here, with more and better delicacies, Mr. Niu seems to be missing out."

The Five-Colored Divine Ox lifted an eyelid and gave him a glance, showing a strange smile on the cow face:

"Kid, are you trying to trick me into going out?"

Su Yu gestured dismissively, with a righteous expression:

"Mr. Niu, saying that hurts my feelings, I sincerely want to invite you to experience the wonders of the outside world."

"I don’t believe it."

He spread his hands, looking regretful:

"Then forget it."

"Come on, let’s drink some more!"

In the subsequent days, Su Yu didn’t continue with this topic, but instead talked about his experiences in the other world and some interesting stories he’d heard from elsewhere.

As expected, this piqued the Five-Colored Divine Ox’s interest.

However, his attitude remained resolute; he simply refused to leave here.

Su Yu wasn’t bothered; as long as there was interest, it was fine. His current stance was for now; who could say about the future? He couldn’t believe he’d never manage to convince him.

It’s worth mentioning that because he was wanted by the Celestial God Association, the task he previously took to help the Cyan Bamboo Association was now impossible to complete.

But it wasn’t that he didn’t want to go; the Celestial God Association’s blockade couldn’t hold him. However, once the Cyan Bamboo Association learned of his grudge with the Celestial God Association, they immediately told him he didn’t need to come; the task was considered completed, and they gave him a travel expense of 50 gold.

Getting money for doing nothing—of course, he wouldn’t refuse such a good deal.

But this good fortune lasted only until the interference from the Celestial God Association couldn’t let him stay any longer after he’d been squatting here for two whole months.

After two months since the Celestial God Association failed to destroy the demon pool, they finally recovered from this major defeat and started handling him, the main culprit.

First, they doubled the bounty, and then gradually, guild experts infiltrated the demon lair to look for his traces and scout the situation inside. While Su Yu leveled up, he occasionally spotted them. The sightings became more frequent, and eventually, they blatantly revealed themselves inside the demon lair, watching him.

He certainly couldn’t stay any longer.

Su Yu suspected that one day a group of experts would suddenly rush in and slice him up.

If several Sword Immortals tried a surprise attack, even the Five-Colored Divine Ox couldn’t save him in time.

"It’s time to leave."

"It’s just a shame to leave this leveling haven."

Su Yu opened the panel. After two months of frenzied slaughter, he had accumulated a total of 1,085 million slaughter experience and 1,300 Dao contribution points, combined with the previous remaining points, a total of 1,741 Dao contribution points.

On average, he could accumulate up to 18 million slaughter experience per day, extraordinarily high.

"Before leaving, let’s enhance everything I can."

First was the Qi Refining Heart Skill, which required consuming 13,750 slaughter experience and 500 Dao contribution points to upgrade to the sixtieth level.

The sixtieth level of the Cave Profound Spiritual Inspiration Scripture, Qi and Blood +6000, Mana +12000, Magic Power +6000, Mana recovery +24 points/second, and derived a Dao technique—Cave Profound Qi Capturing Skill.

Cave Profound Qi Capturing Skill: Uses mana to condense a grappling hand to seize the enemy, each Heart Skill level adds +150 power, each Heart Skill level adds +100 meters casting distance, requires 1,500 mana to condense, and consumes additional mana per level +10/second.

Soon after, invisible ripples spread across the panel, altering the attributes of the newly derived Grapple technique.

Cave Profound Qi Capturing Skill: Uses mana to condense a grappling hand to seize the enemy, each Heart Skill level adds +300 power, each Heart Skill level adds +200 meters casting distance, requires 1,500 mana to condense, and consumes additional mana per level +10/second.

Su Yu’s mind flickered, he extended his hand upward into the sky, causing primordial energy to swiftly gather into a pure white energy hand, spanning ten acres in size. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

He mimicked a grab, and the enormous energy hand followed suit.

With a reverse sweep, the energy hand swept up several nearby Wolf Demons, clutched them tightly, and instantly inflicted several tens of thousands of damage.

As the grappling hand released, the palm opened, and a lump of meat slipped out.

"The power isn’t bad."

"But the mana consumption is a bit high."

Condensing the grappling hand requires 1,500 mana, and each second in battle consumes mana, ten points per level. With sixty levels of Qi Refining Heart Skill, it’s 600 mana per second, and most players can’t last more than ten seconds.

Fortunately, Su Yu’s Supreme Dragon Transformation Immortal Bone provided an additional... it now has a mana cap of 60,000, surpassing even Loose Immortals in mana. He could sustain this high mana consumption.

With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the grappling hand, focusing his gaze on the panel, browsing back and forth between the Thunder Skill and the Celestial Ghost Transformation, and finally chose to enhance the Celestial Ghost Transformation.

The sixtieth level of the Celestial Ghost Transformation Skill requires 270,000,000 slaughter experience and 750 Dao contribution points to upgrade to the seventieth level.

Seventieth level Celestial Ghost Transformation: Qi and Blood +140,000, Mana +28,000, Physique +4,200, Strength +7,000, Speed +2,800 km/h, Abilities: Celestial Ghost Body, Five Elements Escape Skill, Reality-Illusion Conversion, Geng Metal Divine Thunder, Wood God Thunder, Gui Water Divine Thunder, Binghuo Divine Thunder, Earth God Thunder.

The seventieth level of the Celestial Ghost Transformation did not derive a new ability.

Next, Su Yu glanced at the 575,000,000 slaughter experience and 1,000 Dao contribution points needed to raise to the eightieth level. The slaughter experience was adequate, but he lacked Dao contribution points.

After all, over these past two months, he’d been squatting in a corner of the demon lair, leveling up. Though small bosses occasionally appeared in the demon pool, most charged out immediately, with few running into the corner.

But it was no big deal; his strength was already improving rapidly.

Closing the panel, Su Yu looked up, flipping the bird at the Celestial God Association players hidden somewhere after changing positions, stowed away Ao Run, plunged into the water pool, then transformed into a Celestial Ghost before slipping like smoke into the earth and stone.

"I can’t stay here any longer, and the task can’t be completed. It’s better to transfer back to the Sect through Chixiao Sword Peak."

"No, I can’t go to the Chixiao Sword Vein; they must be lying in wait there."

Su Yu suddenly remembered boasting earlier that he was a Xuanzhen Immortal Sect disciple, and they were surely guarding against him teleporting away from there.

"Either switch to a different place to level up or find another spot to transfer back to the Sect."

"There’s no point in going back to the Sect now; I still have to come out again later."

"Then let’s pick a place beyond the Celestial God Association’s reach."

He concentrated for a moment, listing off several places in his mind.

The main forces of the Celestial God Association were in the Endless Forest and Chixiao Sword Vein, including the Cangshui River Domain. Considering the guild’s numerous Loose Immortals with vast networks, they might even influence farther regions, such as around the Yuanjiang River, but only to a limited extent.

If he fled farther away, they couldn’t possibly reach him.

"A place farther away...."

Su Yu had already formulated an idea.

Changing his direction, he submerged deeper towards a desired destination.