Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 207 - 118: Red Tide Bloodbath

"The Red Tide is here!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Someone shouted, and Su Yu, who was chatting with Luo Qingchan on the city wall, immediately turned around. In the distance, where the sea met the sky, a furious crimson surge, part-cloud and part-wave, appeared tens of meters above the sea surface, rolling in.

Although this phenomenon is called the Rage Sea Red Tide, it’s not actually a tidal wave but resembles a mass of cloud and mist.

However, the cloud and mist rolled in like a tide, with an unparalleled momentum, sweeping in more terrifying than a tsunami.

The furious waves quickly surged toward the shore. As the distance closed, Su Yu, with his keen vision, could already see various Red Tide Spirits rushing within the rolling Red Tide.

These Red Tide Spirits are the amalgamation of all the creatures that died in previous years, including common leveling spirits, other races, native cultivators, and even players who perished in the Red Tide. The lost spirits and Red Tide Essence combined to form spirits identical to the players, possessing the cultivation methods practiced.

The creatures engulfed by the Red Tide are trapped within it, either slaughtering each other or gaining strength as they devour more beings along with the tide.

Even an ordinary creature, constantly engulfed by the tide, if it survives, can become a Level 100+ monster after several Red Tide eruptions.

As the Red Tide approached, Su Yu summoned the Thunderbolt around himself and whispered to Luo Qingchan:

"Let’s not separate later. Unite to slay the approaching spirits, and after the tide ends, we’ll pursue them back."

Luo Qingchan similarly summoned two Tier Nine Flying Swords around herself, her eyebrows raised with a playful smile:

"Let’s see who kills more."

Su Yu flicked his sword blade with his finger and smiled:

"Let’s try it then."

He reached out and grabbed Ao Run, tossing it into the air. With a flash of cyan light and a long dragon’s roar, a 200-meter-long flood dragon soared into the sky, startling nearby players, some almost reacting defensively.

Fortunately, this flood dragon was released under everyone’s watch, and surrounding players knew it was his spirit pet.

"Later, don’t run around. Just hold the wall."

Just as he finished advising, the rolling Red Tide surged over, and the dense crimson cloud swept across the city in an instant. The world darkened suddenly, and all eyes saw crimson. Everyone was shrouded in a layer of blood light. Su Yu felt a sharp pain all over and immediately opened the panel, discovering a negative debuff on him.

"Red Tide Bloodflame: While within the Rage Sea Red Tide, disregard of physical strength and defense strength, reduces 20 points of Qi and Blood, 20 points of Mana, 20 points of Stamina, 50 points of Magical Treasure Defense per second."

This debuff ignored defense strength and physical body, so even with Su Yu’s body strength over eight thousand, he continuously lost health.

Furthermore, even summoning defense treasures couldn’t exempt it; activating defense treasures resulted in simultaneous health and treasure defense loss, making it unavoidable.

Fortunately, Su Yu’s Qi and Blood were strong, with a health pool of seven hundred thousand like a BOSS, making this health loss negligible.

After the Red Tide, various Red Tide Spirits wrapped within the tide appeared, directly facing them was a group of strange fish floating in the tide, about level seventy, covered in a layer of crimson flame, swimming as if in water, ramming towards the city wall.

Under the order of their leader, the Rage Tide Gang players immediately retaliated, bombarding them with various Flying Swords, Magical Treasures, and Magic. Many spirits were blasted, but few were killed.

Su Yu urged the Thunderbolt to charge into the Red Tide, slicing through a dozen spirits back and forth, only to find his damage efficiency drastically reduced.

Normally, level seventy spirits had only twenty to thirty thousand health, which he could shred with his output in one sweep.

But these spirits required double the usual output to kill.

A closer look at the notification revealed that these spirits came with a buff, reducing 50% of the damage, only Divine Thunder, Pure Yang True Fire, and Buddhist Skills could deal full damage.

"Damn, it’s really blood counter to ordinary players!"

No wonder this phenomenon was so powerful, causing significant losses every outbreak. Regular small guilds and teams couldn’t withstand the Red Tide’s impact.

Luckily, their strength far surpassed ordinary players. Even with a 50% reduction, it only took two more swords to kill, still easily dispatching them.

Their attacks were too fierce, and with Ao Run’s considerable strength, a single dragon could intercept a large area, quickly slaughtering the incoming spirits. However, more spirits continuously surged from the depths of the Red Tide, no longer limited to sea race spirits, but including various strange creatures, including land animals, sometimes with a few human-like spirits with *** names mixed inside.

These were all left by players who died in the Red Tide over the years, with varying strength.

The weaker ones were worse than spirits, while the stronger ones were comparable to a BOSS.

This section of the wall was easily defended by the two experts, but other areas didn’t have it so easy.

After all, the Rage Tide Gang was a small guild with a few experts, mostly ordinary players with average cultivation and treasures. Some did poorly, still using Tier Four Treasures, which was like scratching when hitting seventy or eighty level spirits.

Not to mention spirits could reduce 50% of the damage, resulting in even lower output.

They relied on grouping together and the Divine Thunder Tower in the city to barely resist.

"Boom!"

A Red Copper North Pole Immortal Thunder exploded into a group of human-like spirits, its terrifying power instantly obliterating the lower level spirits. Then, two flying swords intertwined, transforming into a Sword Qi vortex, sweeping through, dispersing the remaining spirits into red smoke.

The so-called spirits were the souls of dead spirits, condensed from hostile energy, essentially lacking a physical body.

Thus, physical attacks are weakened by 50%, and only magic can inflict full damage.

With many spirits already dead, only a level 96 mini-boss was left. Su Yu enclosed it with two swords, furiously striking back and forth, and even grabbed two strands of Sword Qi with his bare hands and flung them out. They wrapped around the boss like a scarf, grinding it until it quickly dissipated into smoke.

"Hmm!"

Su Yu noticed with sharp eyes that there were spoils from the boss’s death. A sword light circled back, and upon opening it, he found a few materials and a spiritual essence.

Grade Four Essence: Formed by the fusion of a living soul’s spirit with Heaven and Earth Essence Qi upon death, it can be integrated into a flying sword treasure to enhance its power, increasing its cap to four tiers.

"Average!"

The item was great, but it was of no use to him.

This thing could only upgrade a Tier Three Flying Sword Treasure to Tier Four, something he wouldn’t be using now.

However, it could be sold for money at the price of a Tier Four treasure.

"If only a Grade Seven Essence could drop, I could directly upgrade the Cyan Cloud Cover or two flying swords to Tier Seven."

The Red Tide was indeed dangerous, but it wasn’t all peril; there were many benefits too. This essence was one of the biggest benefits in the Red Tide, each piece equivalent to a corresponding flying sword treasure.

Moreover, slaying spirits within the Red Tide could also yield good deeds or merits.

But usually, normal spirits don’t yield merits; only bosses or ancient spirits that have lived in the Red Tide for a long time and have slain a great number of souls will drop merits.

Su Yu had accumulated 17 points of merit from killing thousands of spirits since the beginning.

Although it’s not much, compared to grinding tens of thousands of spirits a day without gaining any merit at all, it’s countless times better.

"Boom!"

A loud explosion came from the south of the city, followed by someone shouting loudly:

"A few skilled players, come quickly to the northeast corner, there’s a tough boss here."

Su Yu’s eyes lit up, and he immediately communicated with Luo Qingchan:

"Let’s go check it out."

They were in the east of the city, just a few steps to the city northeast, where a group of Red Flame Flying Centipedes of over ninety levels hovered over the city wall, central to which coiled a level 125 Red Flame Centipede Spirit. It was engulfed in red flames that seamlessly joined to form a fire cloud covering over a dozen acres.

Various flying sword treasures and spells were hurled into the fire cloud like clay oxen into the sea; the fire cloud rolled, continuously spewing thick pillars of red flames towards the players on the city wall.

Occasionally, demon thunder would fall and explode. Some players with insufficient power struggled to resist the demon thunder. If a series of flame pillars struck, they quickly broke through the defense, and a sweep of red flame would turn them into flying ash.

Then, a large concentration of red light would form an identical red shadow of the deceased player, rising and joining the Red Tide army.

This thing was like a necromancer, reviving the dead as enemies instantly.

Fortunately, by now, many had arrived from other directions, and the newly formed spirits were killed before they could act. More flying sword treasures blasted towards the sky’s fire cloud.

Su Yu contemplated briefly, fearing that his dual swords might get stuck in the fire cloud without being of use, so he summoned the Wind-Fire Vajra Wheel and flung it out, transforming it into a giant metal wheel with a diameter of a hundred meters, slicing into the fire cloud.

The power of a Tier Seven Treasure was immense, easily slicing through the fire cloud.

Luo Qingchan, on the other hand, didn’t have his concern. How could a mere level 100+ boss possibly trap a Tier Nine Immortal Sword?

Two streams of light pierced into the fire cloud, the extreme sharp edges cutting it open and preventing it from closing. Soon, it shattered, revealing the Red Flame Flying Centipede inside.

Su Yu drove his treasure, the giant wheel spun rapidly, descending to slice a Red Flame Flying Centipede into two segments.

Other players swarmed to strike the drowning enemy, various treasures smashing in and scattering the fire cloud completely. A number of Red Flame Flying Centipedes were killed and fell. Soon, only the boss remained, repeatedly struck by two Tier Nine Immortal Swords, its hard shell as fragile as tofu.

In a flurry of attacks, the boss didn’t last half a minute before being chopped into two and fell.

The spoils exploded into six parts. Su Yu received one part, but it only contained a Centipede Pearl, which wasn’t worth much.

"Boom!"

Not two minutes after the boss was down, another loud explosion came from the south of the city, the channel was buzzing, and another boss had appeared.

Su Yu and Luo Qingchan immediately moved over, furiously attacking a level 127 Vortex Fire Turtle.

Turtles were already high in defense and health. With a 50% damage reduction, even with Luo Qingchan wielding two Tier Nine Immortal Swords, it took three minutes to cut it down.

For the rest of the time, the two roamed the city wall of Rage Tide City, heading wherever a boss appeared.

There were so many people that they didn’t get much loot, but there was no lack of cultivation points and Dao deeds. Each brought in about twenty points, ten of them totaling two hundred points, and with the abundance of bosses in this Red Tide, more than ten bosses could appear in an hour, it was a massive haul, making them feel ecstatic.

The Red Tide generally lasted for about a month, staying in one location for around two to three days. Putting in some effort to earn three to four thousand Dao deeds was within reach.