Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 492 - 327: Celestial Ghost Transformation of the Golden Core, Dragon-Serpent War (Part 2)

"Hmm, that’s not a problem. I’ll arrive in a few days."

"The Tianxuan squad will be there in a week."

"We have four people on our side, and there’s a Celestial Immortal master active around here. I’ll ask to see if the master will join us."

"That would be great. If we can gather two or three Celestial Immortal masters, we might be able to directly seize Cai Pearl City."

Su Yu remained silent, quietly observing the communication among his fellow tribesmen in the regional channel.

In this scale of a race war, players are always present, with large numbers of races joining either the Dragon Race or Sea Snake Race camps.

For example, the Snake-man Race is naturally inclined towards the Sea Snake Race, while Human Race players, being from Earth’s Chinese tribe, are naturally inclined towards the Dragon Race.

Other player civilizations have no preference, joining whichever side offers a higher price or has a stronger power.

The Sea Snake Race, leveraging the advantages gained over the past decades and the resources seized after capturing the Cyan Dragon Palace, is more capable of offering higher prices, thus has an edge over the Dragon Race.

Among the dozen or so player civilizations mingling in the Cyan Immortal Domain, two-thirds joined the Sea Snake Race camp.

Su Yu was the first to arrive at Cai Pearl City, transforming into light smoke to scout the surroundings.

Cai Pearl City is built in the basin between four undersea mountain peaks, surrounded by stretches of undersea mountains and valleys. The formation of cracks in the terrain leads to fissures everywhere, with rich Spiritual Qi erupting from the cracks, attracting a large number of Spiritual Light Immortal Shells living in this sea region.

The Spiritual Light Immortal Shells are special shellfish that produce a type of Treasure Pearl called Spiritual Light Immortal Pearl.

These pearls condense from rich Spiritual Qi and can be refined to convert into pure Mana and cultivation, rare resources capable of directly enhancing cultivation.

Such treasures, deemed strategic resources, inevitably spark conflict between the two forces. As Su Yu browses the regional channel conversations, he sees that despite the Dragon Race calling in reinforcements from Dongsheng Shenzhou over the past few years, they had initiated three large-scale attacks but failed to capture Cai Pearl City.

"This looks good, let’s focus here."

Su Yu set his sights on Cai Pearl City, which had undergone expansions multiple times due to numerous attacks. Now, the city walls extend across four underwater mountain ridges, directly connecting the peaks as city walls, using them as the foundation to rebuild a more powerful City Defense Array.

Outside the city, after many battles, everything was left barren due to constant bombardments by various magic, while inside the city, the City Defense Array is perpetually operational, with city walls crowded with various grades of Divine Thunder Towers and war treasures.

Inside is a dense array of military camps; from outside, one can see countless Demon Soldiers training day and night.

"This Demon Army must be in the tens of millions, and all elite."

Su Yu circled the area, turned into light smoke and infiltrated underground, finding no flaws.

"Looks like a frontal assault is the only option."

After waiting outside the city for almost a week, he finally saw the arrival of the Dragon Race’s Demon Army.

There’s nothing noteworthy about the Demon Army; both sides are similar, the only difference is the Dragon Race has a sizable contingent of shrimp and crab soldiers and turtle generals, unique to the Dragon Race, not found in the Sea Snake Race.

Not a single one, which is quite miraculous.

The reason, which Su Yu knows well, is that before crossing, several races always appeared alongside the Dragon Race in novels and myths, namely the Turtle Prime Minister, shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and clam maidens.

In any mythological novel, these creatures always exist in the Dragon Palace with fixed positions.

This is because, during the Primordial Era, when the Dragon Race competed with the Sea Snake Race for dominance in the seas, the turtle, crab, shrimp, and clam races were the first to pledge allegiance to the Dragon Race.

To win their loyalty, the Ancestral Dragon swore an oath that these races would always be with the Dragon Race.

This is a Heavenly Dao vow etched into the bloodline and soul by the founding ancestors of these races.

Therefore, wherever they are, these races are steadfast followers of the Dragon Race.

The turtle manages Dragon Palace affairs, crabs serve as generals, shrimps as soldiers, and the clam race, skilled in service but not in combat, as maids.

After the Dragon Race army arrived, they camped a thousand kilometers away from Cai Pearl City, with camps stretching thousands of kilometers, their Demon Soldiers numbering in the billions.

But most are merely cannon fodder templates and ordinary template grunts, created using Secret Skills to form Demon Soldiers, with incomplete transformations, mostly retaining their demon form.

Half fish, half human, covered in scales, appearances varying wildly, neither armor nor weapons, most are bare-handed, a few refining bone spurs into bone spears.

These are pure cannon fodder, millions could die without heartache.

In this era of quantitative tribulations, the Heavenly Dao data refreshes Spirit Monsters endlessly, with enough time, billions can be transformed.

Su Yu’s gaze passed over the sprawling Demon Army covering untold miles of ocean, quickly spotting the major Heavenly Demon Generals at the rear.

In the center is a Celestial Immortal-level wild beast giant turtle, its colossal body, spanning over a hundred kilometers, untransformed, carrying a luxurious grand carriage where sits a youth in luxurious robes, named Ao Ying, commanding this Demon Army, with beautiful clam maidens serving by his side, and nearby stands a turtle general, level 286, wearing a turtle shell.

True Dragon Ao Ying (Myth): Level 346, Celestial Immortal, Dragon Race True Dragon.

Below True Dragon Ao Ying sit two tall figures and four somewhat shorter figures.

The tall figures are a Celestial Immortal crab general clad in golden armor called Crab Luo, level 336, a myth template.

On the other side is a five-meter-tall giant woman named Long Jin, level 342, a myth template, being the Celestial Immortal-level dragon whale.

Besides them, there is one Human Race player Celestial Immortal, one Celestial Eye People player Celestial Immortal, one Merfolk player Celestial Immortal, one Thunder God Race player Celestial Immortal.

Being Celestial Immortal top-tier combat power grants them some status, but as mercenaries, their positions are inferior to the direct Crab General and Dragon Whale.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The dull sounds of drums echoed through the seabed, this drum sound containing peculiar energy, causing the Qi and Blood of billions of Demon Soldiers to start boiling and agitating, with many demon generals and leaders shouting to control them.

At this moment, the turtle general bowed to True Dragon Ao Ying:

"Master, it’s time!"

Ao Ying looked up, a golden light shot from his head into the sky, transforming into a hundred-mile-long golden dragon, raising its head and roaring:

"Attack!"

With those words, billions of Demon Soldiers surged forward, no longer restrained, launching an assault on Cai Pearl City.

From above, countless black dots converged into waves, rushing towards the underwater city.

Behind the grand army lay numerous Flying Ships, on one of which stood dozens of human players, gazing at the dense sea of black dots below with mixed emotions:

"Each large-scale war presents risks and opportunities. The fall of every Demon Immortal nets at least ten thousand Immortal coins. If lucky, we can earn tens of thousands, each person could receive thousands, and capturing this city and earning great merit could lead to individual income in the tens of thousands."

"But besieging a Demon Immortal poses too high a risk; all of us combined can’t handle them, we need a Celestial Immortal-level expert to oversee."

"Yet Celestial Immortal-level experts look down on our meager strength, to them, we’re just burdens."

"Sigh!"

An hour later, the vanguard of the Demon Soldiers reached within ten miles of Cai Pearl City; the defenders on the city walls were already visible to the naked eye.

When the demon soldiers reached within a mile of the city, countless Divine Thunder Towers suspended Ice Soul Divine Thunder, dragging dazzling blue light, like billions of blue meteors falling towards the outside of the city.

"Boom!"

Billions of ice thunders erupted, fierce cold exploded, instantly freezing over a hundred kilometers of front-line into a hundred-kilometer-long ice wall, millions of demon soldiers immediately frozen within the ice wall.

In the underwater environment, apart from the Water Attribute, other attribute Divine Thunders are suppressed to their limits, their power less than one-tenth of normal, so underwater war treasures primarily use water, ice, and thunder attributes.

The ice wall stretched over a hundred kilometers, nearly a thousand meters high, two to three hundred meters thick; in a mortal realm, this would be an insurmountable barrier, but on such a battle-scale, it lasts less than ten seconds before being shattered by the continuously charging demon soldiers.