Chapter 426: Scaring You to Death

After pondering for a moment, Yu Qing reminded him, “Although I don’t know your detailed plans, I can be sure that even completing just one-third of this task will give those in the Spirit Realm an excuse to open a passage to the lower world and send a large number of experts to punish you. If you don’t have extraordinary means, it will undoubtedly be an impossible task.”

Su Che nodded and said with a frown, “Yes. For me, other things are manageable, but the hardest part is bringing hundreds of billions of beings into my magic artifact’s space. This process will surely be extremely complicated and time-consuming. During that time, those in the Spirit Realm might discover us. Perhaps, before I can gather all those beings, they’ll already open the passage to the lower world…”

“Do you think that’s the hardest part?”

Unexpectedly, Yu Qing had a different view: “I think that’s not the problem. The real question is whether you have the ability to sustain so many beings.”

Su Che understood the meaning behind Yu Qing’s question.

Think about it—hundreds of billions of beings, hundreds of billions of mouths. Even if it were possible to transfer them all to the magic artifact’s space unnoticed, how could they be fed?

What would they eat? What would they drink? Where would they live? What if they got sick? Where would they farm, do business, or engage in production? Could the personal wealth accumulated by ordinary people over a lifetime be taken with them? How could villages, cities, tribes, and nations, along with their existing social civilizations, be rebuilt?

And so on…

Basic needs like food, drink, shelter, clothing, and transportation—if not properly arranged, these would also be a devastating disaster for those beings.

Generally speaking, even the internal space of top-tier magic artifacts can only temporarily accommodate a large number of beings, but it still lacks the conditions for them to live comfortably and reproduce over generations. This is because the internal space of mortal magic artifacts cannot create a fully suitable ecological environment. Planting large amounts of crops would be difficult, and there aren’t enough natural resources to be exploited for production…

In short, there are too many impossibilities and unrealistic factors. In the history of the cultivation world, no super sect has ever managed to settle the people of an entire nation in a magic artifact’s space for long-term survival and development.

It’s impossible! Absolutely unfeasible. There’s never been such a precedent in the cultivation world.

But at this moment, Su Che replied seriously, “I have that ability!”

“Are you sure?” Yu Qing was quite surprised.

“Yes, I possess this ability,” Su Che nodded seriously once again.
The reason Su Che dared to make such a guarantee was not only because the Immortal Prison World already had a perfect natural environment and vast lands spanning millions of miles, but also because he had taken control of over three thousand cultivation sects of various sizes, totaling roughly twenty million cultivators.
For cultivators, basic needs such as food, drink, and shelter were not issues at all. Moreover, they could use a variety of divine spells to quickly solve various problems in daily life for countless beings.
Without even mentioning those with high cultivation levels, just five cultivators in the Qi Cultivation stage—each specializing in the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—could use their basic spells to help thousands of ordinary people cultivate tens of thousands of acres of farmland, build hundreds of houses, and cure various diseases in a short time…
Five cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage could help tens of thousands of people solve their survival problems in a short time; five at the Golden Core stage could take care of hundreds of thousands of people; and five at the Nascent Soul stage could care for millions of commoners…
With twenty million cultivators working together, they could easily take care of hundreds of millions of ordinary beings.
Moreover, as the rulers of the Immortal Prison Space, Su Che and Lao He could accomplish many things with just a thought.
If a mountain was needed, a thought would make a thousand-foot-high mountain rise from the ground; if a river was needed, another thought would create a river spanning thousands of miles in an instant…
Su Che was fully confident that as long as he was within his Immortal Prison Space, there was no such thing as “impossible.” Even if hundreds of millions of beings entered the Immortal Prison at once, he would not let them starve, freeze, or die of disease.
Of course, it was undeniable that he and Lao He would be extremely busy in the years following the mass migration. But creating a world entirely of their own, no matter how busy it got, was something they were willing and ought to do—it would be the ultimate spiritual pleasure.
A vast world inhabited by hundreds of millions of beings, completely belonging to me—what an achievement that would be!
After a moment, Yu Qing put down his teacup and spoke slowly, “If you truly have the ability to take on this responsibility, I do have a way to help you.”
“Oh?” Su Che asked curiously, “In what way?”

“If you have enough spirit stones, I can construct a massive illusion array on Qi Yuan Star—just an illusion array that will prevent the people in the Spirit Realm from seeing the true movements of Qi Yuan Star,” Yu Qing said with a faint smile. “All they can see are the illusions we prepared in advance.”
“Another massive illusion array?” Su Che asked. “Were you very skilled in array formations in your past life?”
“I can’t say I was skilled; I only knew a few ancient array formations that have long been lost,” Yu Qing replied modestly, though his inherent arrogance grew stronger. “Even in the Immortal Realm, few people can still set up such arrays.”
“That’s great. If you can help me set up such an array, it will solve the most troublesome problem for me.”
Su Che was overjoyed. If he could use this massive illusion array to deceive the Spirit Realm’s scouts, he could effortlessly capture hundreds of billions of beings, streamline many processes, and accelerate progress by several times.
“The prerequisite is that you need to provide me with enough spirit stones—a vast amount. If I tell you the number, it might scare you to death,” Yu Qing said with a strange smile.
“Haha…”
Su Che laughed heartily. “The spirit stones I have might not be many. But if I laid them all out in front of you, I think that would scare you to death too.”
In the Immortal Prison, Lao He muttered softly, “Well, scare each other to death and perish together…”
Constructing a massive illusion array that could cover the entire Qi Yuan Star would definitely require an enormous amount of spirit stones. Fortunately, Su Che owned all the spirit stone mines on Wu Huang Star, more than enough to sustain such an array.
After joking around, Lao He spoke seriously, “Master, this Yu Qing is truly your lucky star, always able to help you greatly… Of course, you can also help him a lot. At least he won’t have to struggle to obtain the protective mountain arrays of those five other super sects.”
“Yes,” Su Che thought to himself. “Since the first day I entered the cultivation world, Senior Yu Qing has been my benefactor… That’s why the thing I fear most is ending up completely opposed to him one day. Just imagine—having to fight him to the death would be such an irony, such a tragedy…”
With everything settled, Su Che finally relaxed and casually asked, “Senior Yu Qing, when did you successfully achieve the Infant Stage?”
“You must know about the incident where I was chased into the Dong Ming Sea by two Yuan Ying elders from Tian Xin Pavilion, right?” Yu Qing countered.

“I know,” Su Che replied. “The spies of Tianxuanzong have reported this.”
“It was after successfully nurturing the embryo in the Dongming Sea that she regained some of her memories and awakened several divine powers,” Yu Qing said slowly while sipping tea. “Of course, they’re not ordinary mortal powers, but great Dao arts from the immortal realm.”
Mentioning the great Dao arts, Su Che asked, “The Great Collapse Divine Power you awakened first must also be one of those great Dao arts, right?”
“Yes,” Yu Qing nodded.
After asking these questions, Su Che didn’t dare to inquire further about other matters. After all, everyone has their own secrets and doesn’t like others to pry in—Su Che was no exception.
The two chatted casually for a while longer, and finally Su Che asked, “Do you still plan to return to Tianxuanzong?”
Yu Qing shook his head and said indifferently, “There’s no point in going back. Just take care of Linglong for me, and that will be enough… Oh, and I must thank you for avenging Linglong’s murder of her mother.”
“Do we not need to exchange thanks between us?” Su Che waved his hand.
An hour later, Su Che and Yu Qing left Xuansha Sect, but they didn’t fly together. Instead, they parted ways to prepare for setting up the Immense Illusion Array.
To construct such a massive array, not only spirit stones were needed, but also a large amount of other materials. Most of these materials could be found in the Immortal Prison, of course, from Wuhuang Star.
There were also many lower-grade materials. Back on Wuhuang Star, Su Che had been too lazy to mine them, so he would need to collect them in large quantities on Qiyuan Star.
The two agreed to meet half a month later in front of the entrance of Lingyao Mountain, using that place as the center to radiate outward and set up the array.
…
Meanwhile, in the Spirit Realm…
Linfeng Shaojun, through some secret technique, already had a brand-new body—even his physique and appearance were exactly the same as those of his former body, which had been destroyed, with no differences at all.
“Ah…”
“Ah…”
“Ah…”
The screams came from Linfeng’s mouth. What kind of torture could make a great cultivator at the Lingxu stage scream incessantly, with each cry more agonizing than the last?
Deep within the core of a crimson-colored planet owned by the Lin family, Linfeng was in a huge cave filled with bloodish dark light. A large mass of red smoke surrounded his body.
It was this very smoke that continuously corroded his flesh, penetrated his bones, devoured his meridians, burned his soul, and tore at his mind…
The pain caused by this seemingly ordinary mass of blood mist was beyond comparison to all the tortures in the world put together.

The flesh was constantly damaged by the blood mist; the skin would soon corrode completely, revealing strange blue-white bones. Yet at the same time, new flesh would keep growing, perpetuating this endless and agonizing process.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang…
This was because Lin Feng now had an extremely strange heart—a purplish-black heart. It was twice the size of a normal heart and covered in sharp spikes. Most terrifying of all was the fact that right in the center of the heart lay a grotesquely ugly ghostly face, which seemed to grin viciously with each powerful beat.
“Tian Yu, wait for me! Ah… two months left, just two months… Ah…”
Cries of pain were interspersed with heart-wrenching roars.