This is a cultivation game, but the operation is bad

Chapter 212 The mastermind's shrewd move, the big boss of the third district: Double happiness!

Jiang Liu was a little confused after being teleported to the seabed of the Immortal Spirit Sea.

Although it was on the deep seabed, the feeling was no different from that on land.

Vision, senses, skin moisture, spiritual energy concentration, and even breathing are all unobstructed, without any stuffiness or blockage.

But right.

What's with that -1-1 icon in the top left corner of the buff bar?!
[Fun Mechanism of This Event: Oxygen Level]

Oxygen level: 995/1000

[Note: The maximum oxygen level is 500 for the Foundation Establishment stage and 1000 for the Golden Core stage. When the oxygen level is depleted, you need to go to the sea to restore it; otherwise, you will lose 1 spirit stone per second or 1% of your life force per second.]

Jiang Liu: “.”

An activity where even breathing costs money!
I thought the event shop was the last big hit by the developers, but I never expected they had another trick up their sleeve!
Fun mechanic—Oxygen level: Deplete 1 spirit stone per second when oxygen level is depleted!

Here's a joke: Foundation Establishment cultivators can only hold their breath in the deep sea for 500 seconds, while Golden Core cultivators can only hold their breath in the deep sea for 1000 seconds, which is a whopping 16 minutes!

I am a Golden Core cultivator with a combat power of 12 billion. With a single sword strike, I can sweep across hundreds of meters of ground and destroy a city within a few hours.

However, I can only hold my breath for 16 minutes.

What kind of hellish joke is this?
Bengbu is speechless, truly speechless! This isn't just the developers fleecing us; they're insulting the Golden Core players!

Jiang Liu, his face dark, suppressed his speechlessness and stopped looking at the steadily declining oxygen level. Instead, he turned his gaze to the mini-map in the upper right corner.

He opened the mini-map, and a golden dot of light caught his eye, which cheered him up a little.

The area shown on the minimap is within a radius of 100 li (approximately 50 kilometers). Gold dots represent rare materials, and silver dots represent local treasures.

This golden spot means there is a rare and precious material within a hundred miles of him!
Alright, it's only a matter of how much money it costs if it deducts 1 spirit stone per second for a day. I can break even by picking up just one rare material.

"Why is this golden dot moving?"

Jiang Liu stared at the golden dot on the minimap for two seconds, then frowned slightly. Could it be that a player landed and picked up the treasure directly?

That won't do! This thing has to be mine. He'll take it even from players in Zone 4!

set off!

Having pinpointed the location of the precious materials, Jiang Liu adopted a superhuman posture as he traversed the deep, cold seabed. This posture minimized water resistance, allowing him to move at a speed comparable to running on land.

Even when your feet leave the seabed and you float and fly in the deep sea, you still don't need to use wings, which is different from being on land.

On land, wings are necessary for any flight.

Haha, it's absurd that a Golden Core cultivator like me can't fly and must rely on wings to do so.

If you won't let me fly on my own, then sell me some awesome wings!
After traveling about several dozen miles, we soon arrived at the coordinates of the Heavenly Materials.

Upon arriving at the location, Jiang Liu stopped and looked around. When he saw the surging water, his eyes lit up.

I didn't see any players, but I did see a shark.

Name: Saber-toothed Shark

Race: Demon

[Realm: Great Perfection of Foundation Building]

This is a black shark that is over thirty meters long, with two large, curved teeth in its mouth that are over ten meters long, making it look extremely ferocious and terrifying.

The saber-toothed shark is spinning in place, and the golden dot shown on the minimap is also spinning in place!

Treasure hunting in the deep sea?

Slaying demons and searching for treasure, right?
"Five elements in one line!"

Jiang Liu flipped his hand and took out the Meteor Fall. The firelight on the Meteor Fall intertwined with the cold seawater, creating a hissing white vapor.

A five-colored sword aura, over three hundred meters long, swept across the sea, splitting it in two and briefly creating a waterless area.

Swish!
The Five Elements One Line Sword moves with incredible speed, covering hundreds of meters in a flash!

but.

It cleaved through the air!
Jiang Liu: “????”

When Jiang Liu saw the saber-toothed shark easily dodge the Five Elements Line, he was completely stunned, as if he had witnessed something incomprehensible, his face full of bewilderment.

Even Golden Core cultivators struggle to dodge the Five Elements Line, so why was it evaded by a mere Foundation Establishment demon beast?
Because the developers gave it a cheat code!

The Five Elements Line is an extremely thin horizontal line. Just as the sword was about to strike the saber-toothed shark, the shark suddenly moved several meters downwards in a straight line that was invisible to the naked eye!
Just like a helicopter, the saber-toothed shark's massive body suddenly came to a stop, and then moved straight down, making an irregular movement that is not typical of living creatures!
It's roughly the effect of a texture being moved down.

"Ouch, what the fuck?"

Jiang Liu was stunned for two seconds, then laughed at him, thinking that this demon had a strong will to survive. At this moment, he was completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem.

With a casual gesture, he slashed out with two more lines of the Five Elements, one horizontal and one vertical.

Swish!

Two lines of five elements overlapped in a cross shape, cutting through the seawater and reaching within inches of the saber-toothed shark in the blink of an eye.

next second.

The saber-toothed shark shifted its position again, its massive body, over thirty meters long, moving diagonally upwards, effortlessly dodging the two sword strikes.

Jiang Liu: “????”

How can you dodge that?

"Five Spirit Sword Formation!"

Five flying swords shot towards the saber-toothed shark like deep-sea missiles!

Then, something unbelievable happened.

It was as if an invisible hand was dragging the saber-toothed shark, its massive body frantically dodging the attacks of the Five Elements Sword Formation with irregular movements.

This scene is exactly the same as dragging an icon on a computer screen with a mouse.

Five flying swords slashed hundreds of times, but not a single one landed!

At this moment, Jiang Liu finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

It was supposed to be a minor demon that could be easily killed, yet it was impossible to hit! "Bloodthirsty Sword Formation!"

Jiang Liu refused to believe in evil and threw out twelve more flying swords, a total of seventeen swords that cut the seawater into countless pieces, causing the water to surge wildly and even create swirling eddies!
Seventeen sword strikes are enough to kill a late-stage Golden Core cultivator!

But they couldn't touch a single hair on the living monster!
No wonder they're good at planning; what normal person could come up with such a brain-dead concept?

"Awesome, I'm impressed, I understand now."

Jiang Liu was speechless as he withdrew the Five Elements Sword Formation and the Bloodthirsty Sword Formation, and then took out a Water Prison Talisman from his backpack and threw it out.

A talisman burst forth from the water, forming a giant water prison that trapped the saber-toothed shark inside.

A comical scene unfolded: the saber-toothed shark, which had been darting around everywhere, suddenly froze in the water prison, completely still, as if frozen in place, extremely docile.

Haha, you've got some real talent for planning this!
He was so angry at the sight that he laughed. So, my two sword formations are no match for a broken talisman?
It's really not as good as it seems, since this talisman costs 1000 spirit stones.
"Damn, luckily I bought a lot, otherwise it would have been a real problem."

Jiang Liu, his face darkening, hacked the frozen saber-toothed shark to death. Its corpse vanished into nothingness, and several pieces of debris slowly sank, some of which shimmered with golden light.

You have obtained 1 Profound-Rank Demon Core, 1 Profound-Rank Demon Blood, and the rare material—Immortal River Copper Sand.

When the system notification sounded in his mind, the frustration he had just felt vanished in an instant.

Demon core and demon blood, great! I can refine the Heart-Destroying Pill again!
The first rare material is in hand!

He opened his backpack with a delighted expression and looked inside.

【Copper Sand of the Fairy River】

[Rank: Celestial Material]

[Brief Introduction: A grain of sand in the Heavenly River]

【Purpose: To activate the character collection】

Jiang Liu: “.”

6. I was wondering why the organizers were so generous this time. It turns out the free "treasures of nature" they were giving away were actually sand dredged from the river!
You think you can just scoop up a grain of sand from the Milky Way and throw it into the mortal world for us to fight over and play with?
Fine, you think you're so high and mighty, but one day I'll stuff this grain of sand into the planner's mouth!

Jiang Liu muttered a few complaints to himself, then opened the mini-map and saw a silver dot on the edge of the map.

Placing one rare and precious material every hundred miles is a reasonable density.

Next item, let's go!
He was initially worried that hundreds of millions of players would dispose of all the rare and precious materials upon landing, but after managing to obtain one rare material, he was less worried.

Even he had to rely on event items to obtain rare and precious materials, let alone other players.

The rare and precious materials are inside the bodies of monsters at the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection stage, and you still need to use event items to attack the monsters. These two factors immediately filter out most of the players.
wrong.

That's 99% of the players from Zone 4!

Players in Zone 3 are highly skilled and wealthy, so wouldn't it be easy for them to obtain rare and precious materials?

Oh no, another bad start!

After careful consideration, Jiang Liu felt a surge of impatience and quickened his pace towards the next treasure location.

A few minutes later.

As soon as he arrived at the location of the treasure, a dazzling bolt of lightning suddenly flashed in front of him. The power of lightning surged across a thousand meters of sea, and even the thin, snake-like strands of electricity touched him.

Who's frying fish?
Jiang Liu was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized that there was actually a black tinge mixed in with the current flowing in the deep sea.

This is a demonic thunder!

A player from server 3!
He was startled, raised an eyebrow, and leaped past the lightning bolt, swooping down towards it.

When he arrived at the specific coordinates, he was about to take out his Meteor Fall to slay the demons when he stopped.

Dozens of meters directly in front, a player with golden hair was holding a treasure that emitted a silver glow, his face full of joy.

Not a player from the third region, but someone who loves... what was it again?

Jiang Liu was slightly taken aback when he saw that familiar figure. After a second's pause, he suddenly burst out laughing for some reason.

"who is it?!"

Edward was admiring the treasure with great satisfaction when he suddenly sensed a presence approaching. Startled, he abruptly turned his head to look.

That one glance almost scared him out of his wits.

Damn it, it's that big demon king again!

When he saw Jiang Liu wave at him with a bright smile, his face instantly turned green, his joy vanished, and even the hand holding the treasure trembled.

How did I run into him again?
Why is it him again!
I run into him at every event, is this game even playable anymore?
I'm quitting the game!
Meeting an acquaintance in the vast ocean put Jiang Liu in a great mood. He walked over with a smile, raised his hand in greeting, and said, "Hello, long time no see."

He was interrupted before he could finish speaking.

"Stop, I understand."

Edward's lips twitched, and with a look of despair, he handed over the treasure, cautiously asking, "I used three Water Prison Talismans to get this treasure. Will you reimburse me?"

Ok?
How dare they ask me for money?

You're a player who's fallen to the demonic path, and I'm a player who's on the righteous path. I'm already being lenient by not slaying demons and monsters, yet you dare to ask me for money? You've got some nerve, haven't you?

Jiang Liu thought to himself, but since he had just gotten a treasure for free, he was in a good mood and didn't bother to care about the details.

"Here, consider it a purchase. I, Jiang, never resort to robbery."

Jiang Liu casually tossed out four Water Prison Talismans, then snatched the Earth Treasure.

One Earth Treasure can be sold for 1000 Spirit Stones.
Edward's hands were trembling as he held the four water prison talismans.

"Farewell, see you again!"

Without saying a word, he turned around and was about to flee a thousand miles away.

Just then, a burst of joyful laughter suddenly came from the surroundings.

"Jiang Liu, hahaha, finally we got it! Holy crap! That bastard who stole our loan is here too!"

"Hahaha, double happiness!"

(End of this chapter)