Chapter 673: Receiving Spoils (Part 2)

As the master of the Immortal Prison, once Su Che determined the functions of the seventh layer, within just a dozen breaths, the Immortal Prison Pagoda provided the requirements to unlock it.
“Four conditions!”
Lao He listed them one by one: “The first is the need for a natural divine artifact that possesses the ability to contain and integrate various power attributes.”
“There are two requirements here. First, it must be a natural divine artifact, not a magic weapon created artificially. Second, this artifact must be able to hold and merge countless different power attributes from the world without any conflicts.”
“Understood.”
Su Che replied in his mind, “Since we’re borrowing the power of all beings in the Immortal Prison world, there must be different species and various power attributes. Such a large-scale gathering and integration certainly cannot allow for conflicts or rejections.”
“The second condition!”
Lao He continued, “Your physical body, meridians, Yuan Ying, brain domain… in short, every aspect must have a tolerance capacity that can withstand a hundredfold increase. This is the most difficult part.”
Borrowing the power of all beings in the Immortal Prison world temporarily—even if each being only contributes one percent of their power—what kind of scale would that amount to when combined with trillions of beings?
What kind of physique would be needed to withstand such an extreme sudden increase?
Skin, bones, internal organs—all fall under physical enhancement. If the tolerance is insufficient, one would be crushed, shattered, and reduced to pulp by the sudden hundredfold increase. As for the Yuan Ying, it should now be called an Immortal Infant.
Even an Immortal Infant, under normal circumstances, doesn’t possess abnormally high elasticity to expand by a hundred times. For Su Che now, even doubling its capacity is nothing but a fantasy. The Yuan Ying isn’t some elastic ball that can take in a little extra air without issue.
The capacity of a cultivator’s Yuan Ying or Immortal Infant remains fixed at different cultivation levels. At the Human-Immortal level, the amount of Immortal Essence it can hold is limited. If one tries to force in several times that amount, is it still considered a Human-Immortal?
If it could be manipulated arbitrarily, why would there be distinctions between Human-Immortals, Earth-Immortals, Sky-Immortals, and so on?
The meridians have slightly better tolerance, with some degree of elasticity, but it’s still far from a hundredfold increase.
As for the most fragile brain domain, needless to say—forcing too much Yuan Spirit power in could cause the head to explode, with brain matter splattering everywhere, which isn’t a pleasant sight…

If it weren’t for the Immortal Prison, if its existence didn’t hold infinite possibilities, Su Che’s idea could be considered nothing but delusional—utterly unachievable. If a person, even an immortal, could effortlessly wield a power a hundred times greater than their true strength, wouldn’t the world descend into chaos? Those with ambitions, those demonic tyrants, would have long used such methods to conquer the world. Physical body, meridians, primordial embryo, brain domain… Each one must meet the condition of a hundredfold enhancement. It’s clear that Su Che has a long and arduous road ahead if he wants to fulfill this wish. What a self-destructive life goal! “The third condition!” Lao He curled his lips in a strange expression, overwhelmed by the terrifying second condition: “The third condition is relatively more realistic. The laws of the Immortal Prison world need to be more mature and refined before it’s possible to temporarily borrow the powers of all beings within it…” “What?” Lao He put it simply, but Su Che was confused and quickly asked, “Are there any specific methods to make the laws of the Immortal Prison world more mature and refined? I have no idea at all.” “The method is simple!” Lao He replied, “The more beings there are in the Immortal Prison world, the more naturally the laws of the universe will improve. Our ‘laws of the universe’ are like a baby—they also need to grow slowly. And the ‘nutrients’ needed for their growth are, of course, numerous beings—the more, the better.” Su Che still wasn’t fully understanding and asked again, “To what extent and in what proportion must there be beings to meet the third condition?” “At least half of the current twenty-plus thousand uninhabited planets need to be populated.” Lao He explained in detail, “By ‘populated,’ I mean ones full of vitality. You can’t just throw a person on a planet and call it an ‘inhabited planet.’ That won’t do!” “Of course not,” Su Che thought to himself with a smile. “Just one person on a planet? Haha, I’m not that delusional.” “Fifty billion intelligent beings living on a planet is the minimum ecological standard. Add in even larger numbers of lower-level creatures, and it can barely be considered ‘full of vitality.’” Lao He muttered, “That means 10,000 planets, each with fifty billion beings—this number is quite daunting…”

The planets within the cosmic space of the first layer of the Immortal Prison are all roughly the size of Qiyuan Star. With five billion intelligent beings living on them, it’s not really crowded at all—one could say the land is vast and sparsely populated, with each household having a large tract of land to themselves.

The intelligent beings mentioned by Su Che and Lao He refer to advanced creatures with a level of intelligence comparable to humans; lower-level insects, fish, birds, beasts, and livestock do not count.

In that case, making any planet teeming with life is an incredibly massive project. If it had to be accomplished step by step, even Su Che would die before seeing it through.

The only feasible solution is to purchase those small worlds that have already been formed for many years from other immortals. These worlds already contain sufficient numbers of various creatures and an extremely complete ecological environment.

Then, using the power of the Heavenly Dao in the Immortal Prison, these purchased small worlds—space treasures of the Immortal Artifact level—can be directly merged with an uninhabited planet. In this way, those creatures can be relocated unnoticed, without disrupting their normal lives.

“I understand!” Su Che nodded and said, “This actually aligns with my original plan to ‘purchase a large number of small worlds,’ allowing us to achieve two goals at once.”

Lao He continued, “We’ve already met the fourth condition for unlocking the seventh layer of the Immortal Prison, which is the most straightforward one—my strength must also reach the Tribulation Phase. There’s no need to elaborate on that. After all calculations, the second condition is still the hardest to fulfill!”

“Yes,” Su Che nodded in response. “The second condition is the hardest, as it depends entirely on whether my physical condition can meet the requirements of the Immortal Prison.”

“Take your time,” Lao He sighed. “Since you’ve set such a grand goal for yourself, there’s no need to rush. It depends on luck and opportunity…”

At the mention of “opportunity,” both Lao He and Su Che froze!

Opportunity?

At that moment, they thought: Could it be that the so-called great opportunity obtained by entering the Immortal Demon Battlefield is something predestined?

“It really is unpredictable…” After pondering for a long time, both Su Che and Lao He seemed to gain some kind of insight.

Next, they calmed themselves down and continued to collect the other treasures left behind by Lin Jiu.

The second space treasure was specifically used for growing immortal-grade spiritual herbs and other creatures that grow in a static manner. This treasure didn’t have many complex features—it was simply a portable cultivation space. Compared to the world of the Immortal Prison, the difference was that Lin Jiu’s cultivation space was filled with immortal energy, providing a more advanced growth environment.

From the outside, it is a fairy artifact in the shape of a flower basket, with exquisite design and a strong feminine vibe.
Su Che said, “When we go to the Immortal Realm in the future, if we collect more precious immortal herbs, we’ll need a cultivation space like this. For now, let’s just leave it here.”
Although it is a mid-grade immortal artifact, the Immortal Prison Pagoda can still devour and merge it. However, at present, merging it is meaningless—it would only ruin its already perfect and excellent cultivation environment.
After all, the Immortal Prison World is still in the ‘ mortal realm’ stage, with no high-level energies like immortal spirit energy existing. In the future, once it develops to a certain extent, a higher-dimensional space will surely be created to separate the immortal and mortal realms, and there might even be detailed divisions such as the Spirit Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Monster Realm.
That’s for later. Now, let’s talk about Lin Jiu’s third spatial artifact—the world of creatures he keeps.
This artifact is also of mid-grade immortal artifact status. Its external form is a painting of countless mountains and rivers, which Lin Jiu named “Record of All Living Beings.”
Though it’s just a small scroll, its internal space contains over 70 million square miles of land, equivalent to the size of seven Qi Yuan Stars, with nearly 100 billion intelligent beings.
Lin Jiu invested a great deal of effort in cultivating this small world. Of course, it didn’t grow naturally bit by bit; instead, it was formed by merging more than a dozen small worlds acquired from other immortals over time.
“100 billion intelligent beings!”
Su Che said happily, “If we take them all and divide them into twenty groups, we’ll have twenty vibrant worlds of living beings—quite a good first step!”
“But first, we need to deal with those three celestial immortals,” Lao He reminded.
“That’s easy,” Su Che said casually. “I’ve already thought of a way to deal with them—try to capture them alive, and if that fails, kill them.”
Among the 100 billion beings in the Record of All Living Beings, the only ones who could pose a threat or obstruction to Su Che were those three celestial immortals. Rather than being Lin Jiu’s loyal subordinates, they were more like his disciples, with no direct connection to the Immortal Realm’s Sealing Hall and no inherent duties.
According to Lin Jiu, the three celestial immortals were two at the early stage of celestial immortals and one at the middle stage.
Those two at the early stage were two major realms and six minor levels higher than Su Che, who was at the early stage of human-immortal. They were barely at the level of soul enslavement.
Therefore, Su Che wanted to capture them alive as much as possible and turn them into his own true immortal subordinates.

There is a situation that favors Su Che: for now, these three disciples only know that their master, Lin Jiu, is fighting a life-or-death battle with someone, with an uncertain outcome, and they don’t yet know that Lin Jiu has died. This is because the black pill given to Su Che by Meng Luo is extremely sinister—it almost instantly took down Lin Jiu, leaving him no time to inform his three disciples in his personal space before dying. Su Che’s plan to deal with this is to trick them out one by one and deal with them separately!