Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 510 - 333: Earth Longevity Fruit, Karmic Power_2

This mineral deposit is so close to Youchao City that even if the Dragon Race takes it, they wouldn’t be able to resist the nearby experts of the Sea Snake Race.

Unless the Dragon Race can capture Youchao City, this stronghold will be abandoned by the Sea Snake Race without needing an attack.

But the defense of Youchao City.....

The sixth-tier City Defense Array is stationed year-round by a Profound Immortal, multiple True Immortals, and dozens of Celestial Immortals, along with a long-distance Teleportation Array directly connected to Dragon Castle, anytime receiving support from multiple Profound Immortals of the Sea Snake Race. With the current strength of the Dragon Race, it’s impossible to breach.

A few Celestial Immortals alone cannot capture it, and if more come, Youchao City will quickly send reinforcements, plus even if captured, it cannot be defended, making it entirely useless.

Yet Su Yu chooses this stronghold taking advantage of being under the radar. He’s not truly aiming to capture the stronghold, he just needs to eliminate the stationed Celestial Immortal.

If he attacks alone, the stationed Sea Snake Demon Immortals won’t immediately seek help. He can quickly unleash the Primordial Spirit of the Ancient Dragon, strike swiftly, and then leave; even the Profound Immortals of Youchao City won’t have time to support.

Of course, another significant reason for choosing this place is its proximity.

Other suitable locations are too far from Dragon Castle, making it cumbersome.

An intangible light smoke crosses the Xuanming Cold Iron mine zone over twenty thousand kilometers wide, swiftly arriving at the stronghold location.

A giant underwater peak, flattened at the mountainside, with a circular city built on top, covered by an inverted light bowl formed by a fourth-tier high-grade City Defense Array.

Beneath the mountain lies an abyssal canyon, heaps of mined Xuanming Cold Iron piled up into mountains, continuously harvested and transported by monsters, then refined in the city, filling its corners, with large mounds at all four corners.

"Coming early is not as good as coming timely, so much Xuanming Cold Iron is worth quite a bit."

The wisp of smoke silently flies towards the city, merging into the city’s foundation below.

Inside the city, a large flying ship over a thousand meters long hovers above a warehouse, overseers whip monsters of the Aquatic Race in humanoid form, urging them to transport goods, moving boxes of refined Xuanming Cold Iron onto the flying ship.

At the flying ship’s bow, some Snake-men players sit on the deck, chatting idly.

"Hey, have you guys heard? Recently, Cai Pearl City was attacked by the Dragon Race, and reportedly six or seven Celestial Immortals fell."

"So many Celestial Immortal experts died, is it real?"

A green-haired Snake-man confidently said:

"It’s true, about ten Celestial Immortals and over a billion Demon Soldiers attacked from the Dragon Race. There was a very powerful one; if not for Lord Yujun arriving, Cai Pearl City might have been breached."

"The Dragon Race is getting increasingly reckless lately. I wonder when Snake Castle will come with a large wave to breach Dragon Castle."

"That’s no easy task. Last time, they breached Qincang Dragon Palace by exploiting the advantage of a surprise attack, along with Dragon King Qincang not being in the palace, otherwise, it would’ve been near impossible. This time, Dragon King Qincang has stayed in Dragon Castle the entire time, never leaving; few dragons from Dongsheng Shenzhou Dragon Palace ever venture out. With three Profound Immortal level true dragons stationed, even with the Sea Snake Race’s strength, breaching Dragon Castle is impossible."

"Indeed, currently both sides are limited to sub-True Immortal level battles, slowly killing off each other’s experts until one side can’t continue."

"So Cai Pearl City took a big hit this time."

"Certainly, but it’s not a big deal. Compared to the Dragon Race, we are at an advantage, besides the high-level outcomes have little to do with us; we just need to make money."

"I’ve bet everything on this batch of Xuanming Cold Iron; when shipped to Snake Castle, I’ll make a fortune....."

"What’s wrong with you?"

The green-haired Snake-man saw his comrade across with his mouth agape, asking oddly:

The next moment, upon realizing something, he spun around and gasped with mouth wide open too.

"Roar!"

The sudden earth-shaking dragon roar sent tremors throughout the city. From merchants on the flying ship to overseers swinging their whips, to the whipped miners, all were dumbfounded, staring at the center of the city where a red dragon appeared.

"Damn, why is there a true dragon in the city?"

Many looked up, bewildered by the intact City Defense Array:

"The Defense Array isn’t breached?"

"Bang!"

The central tower of the city suddenly exploded, a Sea Snake Demon Immortal over eighty kilometers long, at level 302, shot out from the debris, with sharp fangs aiming to bite the red dragon.

"Primordial Spirit of Ancient Dragon!"

The Taishang Dragon Transformation unleashed a powerful move with all attributes *10, swiping the attacking Sea Snake Demon Immortal with a single claw, sending them crashing back into the city, its massive body rolling through countless buildings, smashing them.

"Kill!"

The red dragon lunged forward, pinning the Sea Snake Demon Immortal down with all four claws, jaws wide as it bit down fiercely.

-900 million.

With claws curling and the dragon’s fingers shimmering coldly, effortlessly piercing through the snake scales as hard as divine iron, into the flesh, four claws pulled hard, unleashing four damage spikes of up to four billion each.

"Shift Stars and Poles!"

A myriad of stars descended upon this sea domain, the red dragon’s whiskers ablaze, with Flame Law and Life Law surging. With a dragon claw extending, a finger pointed down as a billion stars converged at the tip, aiming at the Sea Snake Demon Immortal:

"Deprive Life!"

A ripple from the fingertip radiated, swiftly washing over the Sea Snake Demon Immortal, reaching the tail in a blink, then quickly returned from the tail, like a flood washing over, wave by wave dispersing the immortal light on the Sea Snake Demon Immortal, its vitality rapidly extinguishing within the snake body, snake scales washed to an ashen gray.

Absolutely overwhelming attributes, rendering this Sea Snake Demon Immortal powerless to resist.

A ring of light gathered from the snake’s tail to the dragon’s fingertip, morphing into a brilliant glimmer, representing a full ten thousand years of life.

The Power of Heavenly Dao coursed back and forth, each round stripping ten thousand years of life. After eight rounds, the glimmer had already condensed into a sphere....

"Hmm?"

At this moment, Su Yu had an epiphany. The developed fruit could choose to solidify, either into an Earth Longevity Fruit or a Heaven Longevity Fruit.

Whether Earth Longevity Fruit or Heaven Longevity Fruit, both were condensed from a full 82,500 years of lifespan.

But Earth Longevity Fruit has only partial effects on entities like Ancestor Erosion Moon, whose normal lifespan has already expired, while the Heaven Longevity Fruit can prolong the lifespan of even Golden Immortals.

The price for solidifying the Earth Longevity Fruit involves retribution with the Sea Snake Race.

The price for solidifying the Heaven Longevity Fruit is an increase in evil karma +1.

"Hiss, terrifying...."

Su Yu unhesitatingly opts for solidifying the Earth Longevity Fruit.

Dares not solidify the Heaven Longevity Fruit, even if its effects are ten times greater.

What is karma?

It’s hard to describe with words, but every cultivator knows that karma is best avoided, especially now with the arrival of a new calamity. At this time, touching karma would easily lead to becoming cannon fodder and perishing in the great disaster.

Though Su Yu has methods to eliminate karma, avoiding karma is still better.

His method for eliminating karma is simple too; consuming one heaven’s heart can erase one point of evil karma.

Indeed, the purpose of the heaven’s hearts accumulated by Su Yu throughout his cultivation till now is to eradicate karma, whether evil or good.

Currently, he has accumulated 5 heaven’s hearts in total, able to eliminate 5 points of karma.

The Merit Golden Wheel can eliminate retribution.

Heaven’s Heart can eradicate karma.

Upon accumulating sufficient merit and heaven’s hearts, one can remain detached from retribution and karma, becoming a blessed immortal.

Accumulating heaven’s hearts is so arduous, Su Yu surely won’t waste any for a single Heaven Longevity Fruit.

Once all lifespan was stripped away, this newly ascended Sea Snake Demon Immortal utterly perished, not even its primordial spirit remained, turning to ashes and vanishing.

And it only took 38 seconds, with the additional 20 Ancient Dragon Bloodlines doubling the duration of Ancient Dragon Primordial Spirit from the original 60 seconds to 120 seconds, leaving ample time.

The massive body of the red dragon rose, and with a thought, boundless flames surged forth, transforming into a torrential blaze flowing outwards, flooding every inch of the city in an instant.

The seawater within the city couldn’t extinguish the flames kindled by the flame law, incinerating mountains and boiling seas.

Less than ten seconds later, countless monsters within the city were instantly annihilated by celestial fire.

"Bang!"

The dragon’s tail, dozens of kilometers long, swept across, shattering countless buildings.

A claw struck heavily, and the array foundation cracked, the City Defense Array violently shook, then collapsed with a boom.

One hour later, three Snake-man Celestial Immortals arrived to find nothing but a shattered city and empty warehouses.