Chapter 671: Receiving the Spoils (Part 1)

“Your death is related to Monro. For him, killing you must have been an easy task.”
Su Che said to Lin Jiu’s soul, “There was almost no process involved. I asked him to help me kill you, and that’s how you died.”
“Monro? It’s really him…”
Lin Jiu’s soul trembled with disturbance.
By speaking with Lin Jiu, Su Che certainly wasn’t aiming to declare his victory from a position of superiority; he had another purpose. Now was the time to reveal it.
“Lin Jiu, you are already dead. Your inheritance will become my spoils.”
Su Che continued, “I’m giving you a chance to cooperate with me willingly so that you can receive your inheritance smoothly. In return, I’ll allow you to be reborn. Otherwise, I’ll torment your soul in this underworld for billions of years, ensuring you never escape or be reborn, ultimately leading to complete destruction.”
At this point, Su Che heightened his tone, “I hope you won’t act impulsively and will carefully weigh the pros and cons.”
In fact, Su Che wasn’t deceiving Lin Jiu—he truly was giving him a chance. Even without his cooperation, Lao Hei’s mind-reading skills could retrieve all memories from Lin Jiu’s soul. He could learn everything about receiving his inheritance and the dangers involved.
The difference lay between voluntary cooperation and forced compliance—the treatment would be vastly different.
Giving him a chance was a sign of respect from Su Che toward his opponent.
After hearing Su Che’s words, Lin Jiu’s soul remained silent for a long time, as Su Che had said, he was weighing the options.
Although retaining the ability to be reborn didn’t mean true death, losing all memories from past lives and starting anew as a different person could be seen as death as well. It was a matter of perspective.
Of course, as a Xuanxian, Lin Jiu knew Su Che wasn’t lying—he truly was giving him a chance. Otherwise, Su Che could have used soul-searching spells to extract all relevant memories from his soul.
“If I refuse, my soul will suffer for billions of years, never to be reborn, until ultimate destruction…”
Lin Jiu also understood that Su Che could do what he said—he found such things effortless.
“Enough. I accept my loss. Since I’ve already failed, why continue to suffer?”

Lin Jiu wasn’t an impulsive fool; he quickly made a wise choice.
“Alright, they’re yours!”
Finally, Lin Jiu’s soul transmitted these words to Su Che.
Next, Lin Jiu cooperatively revealed everything he needed to say. Lao He confirmed through telepathy that he wasn’t lying nor hiding much—just some minor details that weren’t as comprehensive as he thought.
With everything that needed to be known now obtained, Su Che and Lao He returned to Lin Jiu’s corpse on the first floor of the Immortal Prison—time to claim the loot.
Lin Jiu had three storage spaces: one was a mid-tier Immortal Artifact-grade storage ring, used to hold his personal possessions—mainly Immortal Artifacts, Immortal Crystals, Immortal Pills, various crafting materials, and numerous treasures that didn’t require special storage conditions.
The second was a breeding space, dedicated to cultivating Immortal-grade spiritual herbs and other creatures that grew in a static manner.
The third was a living beings’ space—a miniature world with an extremely complete ecosystem. Its land area alone covered over 70 million square miles, equivalent to seven Qi Yuan Stars in size.
Within this living beings’ space, there were hundreds of millions of ordinary creatures of all kinds, with humans accounting for about one-tenth of them.
In the Immortal Realm, there were also numerous ordinary creatures, but they lived within the personal spaces of immortals, essentially serving as domesticated livestock.
The Immortal Realm was a high-dimensional cultivation space, a sacred place for countless true immortals to practice. But for ordinary creatures, the omnipresent Immortal Energy there was like deadly poison—just one breath could be fatal.
This was because the energy contained in Immortal Energy was extremely powerful; ordinary bodies would be corroded to ashes and unable to withstand it.
Thus, the ordinary creatures in the Immortal Realm were all “domesticated” by immortals out of personal interest. They created a self-sufficient ecosystem in their own spaces, standing as rulers over these creatures, even using the various nations and races in their private worlds as pawns to engage in conflicts, merely for a bit of entertainment in their immensely long lives.
Therefore, a very common transaction in the Immortal Realm existed: trading worlds!
For example: “I have a small world I’ve been managing for 100,000 years, with 10 billion creatures in it. How about I sell you 500,000 Immortal Crystals?”
Trading worlds!

For Su Che, this was indeed quite good news. The Immortal Prison had only reached its sixth layer, yet it already had over 20,000 suitable planets for habitation. Next, they would gradually unlock the seventh layer corresponding to the Tribulation Period, and the eighth layer corresponding to the Mahayana Period… By then, there would be billions, even trillions of planets in the universe of the first layer of the Immortal Prison, possibly even more… All these planets were in a desolate state, severely lacking in living beings, and would remain unused for tens of thousands of years. Su Che and Lao He had been worried about this issue. Since there were small worlds in the Immortal Realm where countless living beings could be freely bought and “raised,” they could be used to increase vitality in the first layer of the Immortal Prison. Su Che always had an ideal: to gather the strength of all living beings in the Immortal Prison so that his combat power could soar by a hundred or a thousand times during battles, allowing him to annihilate his enemies in one strike! In other words, the more living beings there were in the Immortal Prison, the better! So, the solution was to earn money desperately and buy as many small worlds as possible. As for “buying and selling small worlds,” that could wait—something to be done once they went to the Immortal Realm in the future. For now, it wasn’t too difficult for Su Che to take back the first two spatial treasures from Lin Jiu. Only his living-being space required extra caution. Inside that small world, three Heavenly Immortal-level subordinates were temporarily staying there. To take back that small world, he had to deal with these three Heavenly Immortals first—try to subdue them or enslave their souls; if that failed, he would have no choice but to destroy them! Lao He removed a dark golden storage ring from Lin Jiu’s left hand. This was his first storage space: a mid-tier Immortal Artifact-level Qiankun Ring. Muttering to himself, Lao He said, “According to Lin Jiu’s instructions, this ring has three layers of restrictions. The first is a defensive restriction that prevents other immortals from intruding indiscreetly. Even if the ring falls into someone else’s hands for some reason, without breaking this first restriction, it cannot be opened. The second is a counterattack restriction. If someone tries to force their way past the first defensive restriction using their spiritual energy, the second counterattack restriction will launch soul attacks to harm their spiritual essence and damage their soul. The third is a self-destruction restriction. Once the first two offensive and defensive restrictions fail, the third restriction will activate, automatically destroying the internal storage space—preferring to lose all treasures rather than letting the enemy benefit.”

At this point, Lao He muttered, “A mere ring, and such a fuss over it. This Lin Jiu is really petty.”
Su Che smiled to himself: “If it were me, I’d do the same.”
“The same thing, if we do it, that’s called being cautious,” Lao He laughed stubbornly.