Isn't This a Game? Why Are You All Cultivating for Real!

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: Prosperous Scenery Tower

Song Jiulai turned to look at Xu Qingchuan.

As he stared at her, his whole worldview shaken, she said, "Who said we can’t use Magic Treasures?"

Xu Qingchuan: "?"

’Aren’t they forbidden as soon as you enter?’

’None of them could summon their Magic Treasures!’

However, there was no time for any more secrets to be explained.

Just then, the Secret Realm’s small world began to collapse. Over on the other side, Xiao Yushu and the others, who had just managed to break through the barrier, rushed over and had only managed to say, "Brother Qingchuan, we’re here to help you—"

Before they could even finish their sentence, they felt the space begin to tremble.

’This isn’t what it’s like when you’re about to be teleported.’

Seeing the space collapsing, Tao Yitian’s expression changed. "This small world is collapsing! Has the Secret Realm Fragment been found?"

"How is that possible!"

The other two cried out in alarm, looking at Xu Qingchuan and Song Jiulai, the only two people flying in the main courtyard.

Meanwhile, Song Jiulai tilted her head. As Little Cui transformed into honey, a silvery-white, shimmering object was faintly visible within it.

Song Jiulai didn’t need to think to know it was definitely something good.

Xu Qingchuan saw it too.

He acted almost without thinking, a long saber formed from raging flames materializing out of thin air to slash at Song Jiulai.

Song Jiulai ducked her head to dodge and retaliated with a Palm Thunder strike. "Brother Tiegen, why are you so shameless? Doesn’t everything have to follow the principle of first come, first served?"

Despite her words, her feet moved without the slightest hesitation, dropping into the pool of honey.

The honey was an extension of her Magic Treasure, so it was harmless to her.

Unfortunately, the other few had also noticed her actions.

"The Fragment!"

"It’s the Fragment!"

"Don’t let her get it!!"

Without a second thought, Tao Yitian and the others attacked Song Jiulai.

All sorts of Cultivation Techniques were unleashed at Song Jiulai. A fierce wind carrying a torrential downpour formed a terrifying, dark tornado that swept toward her, adding even more unstable fluctuations to the already collapsing small world.

Song Jiulai was caught by the gale and forced to land several zhang away from the Fragment.

The spatial fluctuations grew more and more intense.

If one wasn’t prepared when the small world collapsed, they could easily be kicked out of the Moonlight Secret Realm.

Gales raged and thunderstorms struck, leaving Song Jiulai completely drenched.

Her lips were also a little pale.

’Just a few side effects from the overly intense battle. It’s no big deal!’

Xu Qingchuan stared at Song Jiulai and said viciously, "The Fragment shouldn’t be yours!"

Although Song Jiulai had no idea what this "Fragment" was...

...she knew these people wouldn’t let the matter drop.

Unfortunately for them, she had never been one for reasoning.

And she had no morals.

’Besides, this is something I beat out of it myself!’

"I, your ancestor, will show you what it means to be a cheater—"

Boasting was one thing, but Song Jiulai wasted no time. She openly pulled out Elixir Pills, inhaling a breath to replenish her Spiritual Energy, and unleashed a dozen Palm Thunder bolts in a continuous stream of lightning at Xiao Yushu and the others.

Then, she summoned seven huge Ice Blades and sent them all flying toward Xu Qingchuan.

Such a dense barrage of attacks left her head spinning, even though she was chugging pills to keep up.

Song Jiulai popped a Fourth-rank Blood Replenishing Pill and a Qi Replenishing Pill at the same time to stop the dizziness in her head, then launched several large Fireballs at them.

’If one Cultivation Technique isn’t enough, then chain them together.’

This frenzied and undisguised assault forced Xiao Yushu and the others to retreat.

They stared, dumbfounded and in utter disbelief, at the way Song Jiulai was consuming pills as if they were candy.

"Impossible! Where is she getting those Spiritual Medicines?"

’The Jiezidai can’t be opened, and Magic Treasures can’t be used.’

’Can she just hide her pills in thin air?’

But this was the opportunity she needed. Song Jiulai plunged deep into the honey and snatched the fragment.

Her hand easily reached in and touched something icy cold.

As the object fell into Song Jiulai’s hand, the others grew frantic. Just as Xu Qingchuan was about to attack again, he suddenly sensed that the spatial fluctuations were wrong.

Silvery moonlight descended, and his pupils shrank.

’It’s the Moonlight Space.’

’If he attacks now, he’ll be dragged into a separate space to duel Song Jiulai.’

’She managed to single-handedly take down the Secret Realm’s final mastermind. In a world where we’re on equal footing, am I really confident I can win?’

Thinking about his own decreased Level, Xu Qingchuan hesitated for a moment. He didn’t continue his attack, and in that instant, his chance was gone forever.

The others also saw the fluctuations of the Moonlight Space. On the verge of being teleported, they exchanged glances and ultimately chose not to challenge her.

But their eyes were filled with unwillingness to concede.

"BOOM—"

A stream of light shot into Song Jiulai’s mind. Before she could even react, the space around her completely disintegrated.

Everything shattered into pieces, then gradually dissolved until the world fell silent, returning to oblivion.

***

"PTOO."

When Song Jiulai woke up, she found it a little hard to breathe.

She sat up, and with a great splash, she realized she was surfacing from water. She spat out a huge mouthful.

’I almost suffocated.’

She looked around. Beneath the moonlight, the surface of a lake shimmered.

She was in a lake.

The calm surface, illuminated by the moon, created a tranquil atmosphere. Not even the chirping of insects could be heard, making the scenery feel quiet and profound.

She had emerged from the lake.

"Where is this place?"

Song Jiulai used a simple Water Technique to dry the water off her body.

The system said, "I don’t know, but we haven’t left the Secret Realm. We’ve probably just moved to a different small world."

’If we’d left the Secret Realm, the scenery wouldn’t look like this.’

Her condition hadn’t recovered even after changing small worlds. Song Jiulai was still a bit dizzy—a side effect of excessive fighting. Even with the help of pills, she still had to suffer a little.

"That... fragment I just grabbed, what was it?"

The fragment was something Song Jiulai didn’t know about when she entered, but it seemed that group of Cultivators did.

And now, there was something new in her mind.

Her cultivation had dropped back to Early-stage Foundation Establishment. Within the Sea of Consciousness she had opened up, a diamond-shaped fragment floated quietly, spinning slowly.

As if it knew Song Jiulai had noticed it, before she could react, a series of lifelike scenes suddenly unfolded before her eyes.

"Why has such a curse befallen our Yunzhou Continent?"

"As long as the No Emperor Sect stands, Yunzhou will never know peace."

"Is the Empress dead? Where did she die?"

"She died at the very end."

In those scenes, a series of blurry faces spoke words that were hard to comprehend.

’I can understand the words, but they don’t sound like things a person would say.’

Perhaps their cultivation was too high, because Song Jiulai couldn’t see their faces clearly at all.

After the scenes finished playing, she stood there, stunned.

Three seconds later, she and the system spoke at the same time: "Riddle-tellers, get out of the Yunzhou Continent!"

Evidently, the fragment truly was just a fragment, and the information it provided was completely disjointed.

The only thing Song Jiulai recognized was the No Emperor Sect.

She had gotten information about it from Mu Qiu—or rather, the system had told her.

The No Emperor Sect was a hidden sect that had been completely wiped out.

This new information clearly showed that the traces of the No Emperor Sect’s existence had indeed been forcibly erased.

It proved that the No Emperor Sect had truly existed in the past.

And then there was this Empress...

Just as Song Jiulai was about to ask the system how the other players were doing after three days, the fragment exploded. It reformed, swirling into a small model of a main building that now appeared in her Sea of Consciousness.

Song Jiulai’s breath suddenly grew ragged.

[Flowers Blooming Tower].

This name popped into Song Jiulai’s mind.

It sounded like a beautiful name, and the aura emanating from the Magic Treasure indicated that it was a genuine Earth Grade Magic Treasure.

An Earth Grade Magic Treasure can be directly linked to one’s mind.

Only after linking with it could she find out what this thing was.

’There are no side effects from binding an Earth Grade Magic Treasure, and since it’s a reward from the Secret Realm, it should be something good, right?’

’A Magic Treasure!’

She was currently without a Magic Treasure; her only Combat Magical Treasure had just been used up.

Fortunately, the system also scanned it and then said, "No problem. Go ahead and use it."