Chapter 550: Several Rewards

After hearing the mysterious old man’s explanation, Su Che finally understood. After being punished by the Heavenly Dao, the surviving parts of the Sky-Devouring Rat consisted of its Domain, Heart, and Bones of the Demigod. Among these, both the Heart and the Bones of the Demigod had recognized him as their successor, but the most important—its Domain—had not. Thus, when the Sky-Devouring Rat was saved by Forging Star, it created these three survival games to test itself; and the strange space he was in now was its Domain—Domain that swallows heaven and earth, one’s own realm!

However, Su Che thought, “Since the Sky-Devouring Rat has revived, and most of its Bones of the Demigod are still with me, do I need to retrieve them to rebuild its body?” Of course, though he thought this, he wouldn’t say it out loud.

At that moment, the mysterious old man, the Sky-Devouring Rat, spoke again, “Su Che, since you have passed my test and officially become my successor, you can now receive my series of rewards. First, you can state what reward you desire—anything I possess, I will give to you!”

“Thank you for your generosity, senior!”
Feeling the sincerity in his tone, which didn’t seem like an empty promise, Su Che was secretly pleased and said, “Firstly, I hope to gain more time for cultivation within the Time Wheel—preferably over a thousand years.”

At a ratio of one to a hundred, a thousand years of cultivation within the Time Wheel would only equate to ten years in the outside world. With this thousand years, Su Che was confident that not only would his cultivation level reach at least the mid-stage of Refining Void, but the World of Immortal Prison would also undergo tremendous changes.

After all, the flow of time in the World of Immortal Prison matched his own thoughts. If he spent a thousand years in the Time Wheel, the world would also experience a thousand years. Just imagine—how many experts at the Divine Transformation stage, or even Refining Void stage, would appear in the World of Immortal Prison after a thousand years?

Moreover, with hundreds of billions of beings cultivating the Path of Shadows, how much Shadow Soul energy would that provide? With the nourishment of this energy, Su Che believed that after a thousand years, the strength of his original spirit would at least reach the level of Tribulation Crossing, though his true energy cultivation level would surely lag behind, as progress couldn’t be that fast.

Spending a thousand years cultivating in the Time Wheel was Su Che’s first and most important request. It was just unknown whether the Sky-Devouring Rat would agree.

“Sure!”

The Sky-Devouring Rat replied promptly, “The fastest time flow rate of the Time Wheel under my control is one to one hundred—ten years in the outside world equals a thousand years inside the wheel… Well, go on with your other requests.”
With his most important wish fulfilled, Su Che suppressed his excitement and said calmly, “I also need the essence or soul of a senior alchemist who can craft high-grade pills. I wonder if you have one?”
He needed the soul or essence of a high-level alchemist capable of creating pills of all grades from the ‘Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow’ series, to be given to the third layer of the Immortal Prison for consumption and integration. This way, the third layer would gain the ability to produce high-grade pills, allowing Su Che’s cultivation speed to reach an ideal state.
He made this request because Su Che had long noticed that in previous games, after the cultivation practitioners died, their essences were devoured by some force—likely by this very Sky-Devouring Rat. If it hadn’t fully digested those essences yet, he might be able to obtain one.
“I do!”
The Sky-Devouring Rat’s reply was as straightforward as ever. In an instant, a complete essence appeared before Su Che.
It was the essence of a powerful Mahayana practitioner from the Spirit Realm, who was also a top-tier alchemist specializing in pill cultivation.
“Perfect!”
Su Che’s joy was indescribable. He quickly placed this essence into the Immortal Prison and handed it over to Lao He right away, asking him to send it to the third layer for consumption and integration…
After that, Su Che asked, “Senior, are all my subordinates dead?”
He wasn’t referring only to Heng Yi and Lin Feng but also to the over sixty Nascent Soul slaves who had been taken by the Sky-Devouring Rat earlier.
“Not dead!”
With the Sky-Devouring Rat’s reply, nearly seventy subordinates, including Heng Yi and Lin Feng, appeared unharmed before Su Che.
Out of loyalty, since Su Che was the heir of the Sky-Devouring Rat, it wouldn’t truly kill his subordinates either.
Whoosh!
Without wasting time, Su Che immediately put Heng Yi and the others into the Immortal Prison.
“Any other requests?” the Sky-Devouring Rat pressed.
“I also need a stone with many names—such as Substitute Divine Stone, Grafted Divine Stone, etc.”
As he spoke, Su Che waved his hand to create a water mirror, showing what the stone looked like.
This stone was one of the requirements to unlock the fifth layer of the Immortal Prison and was considered by Su Che and Lao He to be the most difficult part.
“No!”

The Sky-Devouring Rat shook its head and said, “Things like this were abundant in the era I lived in, in the Immortal Realm. Even if I stepped on one, I wouldn’t bother to pick it up. But nowadays, there are probably few left in the Immortal Realm, and even rarer in the mortal world. I guess you’ll have to go to the Spirit Realm to find them.”
“I must go to the Spirit Realm…”
Su Che nodded silently. Although, after the Witch Clan broke through the Heavenly Barrier, the Spirit Realm would gradually merge with the Cultivation Realm, it would still take over forty years. For now, it was still acceptable to use the term “Spirit Realm” temporarily.
“It seems an trip to the Spirit Realm is inevitable.”
Su Che made a silent decision.
At this moment, the Sky-Devouring Rat could tell from Su Che’s expression that he had no other special requests, so it took the initiative to say, “One last reward for you—teaching you how to wield true destructive power!”
Su Che understood what it meant by “destructive power”—it was the Power of Destruction he had named.
Speaking of which, his own invented Power of Destruction Fist had only a very rudimentary control over such power, not even comparable to the destructive red light emitted from that Wild God Rat’s eyes.
If he could now receive direct instruction from the Sky-Devouring Rat, that would be excellent. The Power of Destruction would then become his strongest offensive technique.
Whoosh!
High in the sky, a thread-thin beam of light shot out from the center of the Sky-Devouring Rat’s huge head, instantly crossing spatial distances to pierce into Su Che’s mind.
In the Immortal Prison, Old Black, who was constantly guarding Su Che’s soul, immediately realized that this beam of light carried no harm and was likely a transmission of a cultivation technique, so he boldly accepted it.
“It’s indeed the way to master destructive power!” Su Che exclaimed joyfully in his heart.
Although this method of destruction wasn’t one of the major techniques of the Immortal Realm, it was the most primitive and ancient fundamental force in the universe. To some extent, it could rival the top dozen major techniques.
Su Che could already envision that if he truly mastered this method of destruction using the thousand years within the Time Celestial Wheel and combined it with all the Demon God Bones, the power of his Power of Destruction would be terrifying. Even at the Refining Void stage, he could easily kill experts at the Tribulation stage…
“And with that powerful Amethyst Long Sword, even against a peak Mahayana-stage opponent, he would have a chance to fight back.”

Su Che was almost eager to start his thousand-year cultivation right away, but he still asked, “Elder, did you really release those three survivors just now?”
“That’s right!”
Tun Tian Shu’s tone turned cold as he said proudly, “I know there are grudges and feuds between you all, and I also know they targeted you because they wanted some treasure in your possession. But as my successor, you must have the courage and ability to solve your own problems. I won’t help you get rid of those three; you’ll have to rely on your own strength.”
Tun Tian Shu’s cold tone was clearly due to a misunderstanding—he thought Su Che wanted to use his strength to solve the problem for him.
“That’s not it,” Su Che quickly explained. “Elder, you’ve misunderstood. I don’t want them to die at someone else’s hands. On the contrary, those over sixty Mahayana cultivators had deep-seated hatred toward me. I wish I could kill them all myself—I really don’t want to rely on others to avenge me.”
“Hmm, that’s not bad,” Tun Tian Shu’s tone softened, and the expression on his huge head improved significantly. He nodded and said, “If I had known this, I really shouldn’t have killed so many of them. I should have left more so you could avenge yourself personally.”
“Now that it’s happened, there’s nothing to change,” Su Che sighed softly. “I just hope these three can be left for me to deal with myself.”
In fact, another reason Su Che wanted to spare the lives of Princess Xueyu and the others to handle them personally was that Princess Xueyu had once said that the great disaster back then wasn’t simply caused by over a hundred Mahayana cultivators—it hid deeper secrets…
In other words, there were even more hidden culprits behind this incident, and Su Che was determined to bring them to light.
In short, anyone related to that disaster that destroyed their homeland had to die!
After discussing these trivial matters, Tun Tian Shu didn’t waste any more time. He immediately transported Su Che and Tian Yin inside the Time Wheel. From start to finish, he never mentioned those Demon God Bones at all. It seemed his resurrection this time no longer required those bones…
Inside the Time Wheel, a thousand years of continuous cultivation was about to begin.

This time, the treatment was clearly different—it was no longer that empty, semi-circular enclosed space, but rather a magnificent fairy garden with pavilions, towers, bridges over streams, a bamboo grove, a clear pond, and even a few small animals that resembled white rabbits but were even cuter, hopping around on the grass…
The environment was so beautiful it was truly refreshing.
Tianyin also benefited from Su Che’s presence and would spend a full thousand years in this garden accompanying him in his cultivation.
Of course, the so-called “benefit” was just a joke; in reality, to improve her strength, Tianyin only needed to return to the Witch Clan and reclaim her status as a great witch, so that her soul could reappear in this world.
Tianyin, a great witch of her generation, was renowned even in the fairy realm, with no one daring to offend her.