Chapter 774: Two Methods

Apart from the matters within the Immortal Prison, Su Che never stopped cultivating. He consumed one of the over 2,000 Golden Immortal-level Immortal Baby Fruits from the Fate Divine Tree every half month.

As his realm improved, the difficulty of cultivation grew greater, and the duration required also extended. It took 6,000 Immortal Immortal Fruits to advance from Heavenly Immortal to Immortal Immortal, while at least 8,000 Golden Immortal Fruits were needed to go from Immortal Immortal to Golden Immortal.

With only over 2,000 fruits available, maximizing their effectiveness could at most help Su Che rapidly reach the mid-stage of Immortal Immortal. Thus, the interval between consuming each fruit, which was originally ten days, was extended to half a month to ensure no waste.

Where could he find another 6,000 Golden Immortal-level prisoners? Without the special favor of some immortal lord, it was almost an impossible task.

Even though Su Che had the ability to easily kill Golden Immortals, he wouldn’t kill innocents for his own cultivation. Under normal circumstances, how could one determine who deserved death, who was guilty, or who was utterly evil?

“Do I have to meet every Golden Immortal, capture them, interrogate them in the Immortal Prison, release those innocent, and keep the guilty?”

Such an action would itself be a sin, so Su Che couldn’t do that.

He would take his time and wait for opportunities…

Consuming two Immortal Baby Fruits per month meant over 20 per year. In less than a hundred years, the Immortal Baby Fruits would be exhausted, and Su Che would reach the mid-stage of Immortal Immortal.

During the advancement process, he might encounter minor realm barriers, but the master of the Immortal Prison would shatter them with a kick, allowing him to overcome them effortlessly.

As always, nothing was qualified to hinder Su Che’s growth. In terms of existence form and soul state, he was already the ruler of a universe, having reached the pinnacle—there was no further limit.

With a 100-fold enhancement at mid-stage Immortal Immortal, it was no problem to defeat those in the early stage of Great Luo Golden Immortal. But since the Immortal Baby Fruits were gone, to boost his strength in the short term, Su Che had to focus on two other aspects.

One was to find ways to further increase his resistance after the enhancement. If his current resistance was only 400 times, it could be raised to 500 times, 800 times, or even 1,000 times…

Among the six key aspects—mental essence, flesh, meridians, bones, internal organs, and Immortal Baby—his bones, infused with the Bones of the Demon God, had the highest resistance.

As his cultivation grew stronger, the power of the Demon God hidden within his bones was gradually unleashed, continuously strengthening his bones. So far, he should have a resistance capacity of 2,000 times.

Next is the mental essence within the brain domain. There is already the Immortal Prison guarding it, coupled with endless pure soul energy, so Su Che’s mental essence strength always far exceeds that of his Immortal Essence cultivation level. This is the endless benefit brought by the Path of Shadows. Of course, the greater the benefits, the greater the debt owed to the “Divine Ancestor of Shadows,” which must be repaid sooner or later. The methods for strengthening flesh, meridians, and internal organs rely on the energy transformed by the Fate Divine Tree. Although such methods exist, they are quite slow, and like cultivation, it’s a process that can’t be rushed. More effort should be put into this area next. The same goes for strengthening the Immortal Infant—its resilience and flexibility have always been enhanced by consuming Immortal Infant Fruits to allow it to bear greater loads. But now that all the Immortal Infant Fruits are used up, can a better method be found to significantly strengthen it? At present, the Immortal Infant’s endurance is definitely the lowest, acting as a bottleneck. If this issue can be improved, achieving a 500-fold enhancement overall shouldn’t be a problem. Thus, Su Che left the Haoyuan Heavenly Market once again, entrusting the store’s affairs to Zhuo Feng, Fei Yun, and Yuan Yuan, and set out to travel through the Immortal Realm in search of opportunities. With his strength capable of matching that of a mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal, along with a large group of late-stage Golden Immortal soul slaves, and avoiding encounters with Immortal Emperor-level figures, there’s little to worry about in terms of safety. Su Che is even considering whether to visit the Barbaric Immortal Domain to see his fiancée, Sister Tianyin. During his travels, another task needs to be carried out: the second method to enhance combat power—crafting a powerful special magical artifact! Over the years, he has extracted skills from over ten thousand Heavenly Immortal death prisoners, more than eight thousand Mysterious Immortal death prisoners, and over two thousand Golden Immortal death prisoners. Besides the accumulation and integration of the three thousand great paths, there are also skills such as alchemy, artifact crafting, and formation magic. Just taking artifact crafting as an example, Su Che already possesses a master-level skill in this field, which is almost impossible to achieve at the Mysterious Immortal cultivation level. According to the normal rules of the Immortal Realm, only Heavenly Immortals have the ability to craft immortal artifacts. Their crafting skills can be rated as beginner-level, Mysterious Immortals at intermediate level, Golden Immortals at advanced level, Great Luo Golden Immortals at master level, and only Immortal Emperors can reach master-level craftsmanship. However, Su Che’s master-level crafting skills only exist at the theoretical level; it’s absolutely impossible for him to create a top-tier immortal artifact.

Because, in addition to theory, one also needs corresponding cultivation at the Xian Yuan level, a certain degree of understanding of a certain great path, the strength to control top-tier immortal artifacts, and so on. Of course, it requires an extremely long time and effort, as well as at least a furnace of at least the level of a top-tier immortal artifact…

Crafting a top-tier immortal artifact is beyond imagination—even an immortal emperor with a lower rank, like Feng Lin, who is at the fifth heaven level, finds it difficult to achieve. For her, it’s more cost-effective to spend a large sum of money to buy one from an immortal emperor at the eighth or ninth heaven level rather than trying to craft one herself.

Moreover, even if Su Che had a top-tier immortal artifact in his hands, he wouldn’t have the ability to control it due to insufficient cultivation—there’s no shortcut.

However, for special artifacts like ancient treasures, Su Che can control them using his own Chaos power, such as the attacking artifact, the Purple Crystal Long Blade. Therefore…

“I once promised a wealthy man that I would help it grow continuously, gradually ascending to the level of an elite Dao artifact, a top-tier Dao artifact, and even reaching the level of an immortal artifact… I’ve always remembered this promise but never acted on it, just waiting for this day.”

Su Che had made up his mind: “I want to turn this wealthy man’s asset into a special artifact similar to an ancient treasure, with the characteristics of the Immortal Prison. I also want to use it to create an impregnable defense in the immortal realm, combined with defensive Dao techniques like the Great Defense Art and the Great Golden Body Art, to protect my safety. At the same time, it should have some offensive capabilities, like the mountain-shaped artifact owned by Jin Xu, which can be thrown at people.”

“Not only to hit people, but it can also be used in conjunction with the Qian Yuan Xuan Formation to trap people,” Lao He suggested. “It can just right the defensive shortcomings of the Qian Yuan Xuan Formation.”

“That’s exactly right,” Su Che thought to himself.

Lao He added, “We have plenty of immortal crystals, and the necessary materials can be bought all over the world. But as for how to create such a special artifact, which function of the Immortal Prison do you plan to use?”

“Use everything that’s useful!” Su Che replied. “My ambitions are huge—I even want to create a congenital artifact or a Chaos Supreme Treasure… Do you think that’s unrealistic?”

“I’ve never thought about such things,” Lao He scratched his forehead, indirectly admitting that it was indeed a bit unrealistic.

What is a congenital artifact? What is a Chaos Supreme Treasure?

It’s not even certain whether the Immortal Sovereign possesses such treasures—can we create them?

“The Immortal Sovereign might not be able to, but I might.”

Su Che guessed what Lao He was thinking: “Just like those anti-demon pills, they can’t make them. It’s only because I have the Immortal Prison!”
“Well, you’re quite impressive.” Lao He started talking nonsense again: “By the way, help me craft a Chaos-level chair so I don’t have to sit on the ground like a barbarian all day.”
From that day on, Su Che traveled throughout the Immortal Realm for a full hundred years. During this time, he also sent messages to Lan Ling, asking her to take him to the Cloud Immortal Realm where they stayed for over ten years, acquiring many top-tier materials that could be used to amass great wealth.
However, the truly supreme refining materials couldn’t be bought with Immortal Crystals. Su Che planned to wait until the next Immortal Lord found an opportunity to purchase anti-demon pills and ask him to accept supreme refining materials as payment.
As for another opportunity that could enhance endurance, it remained elusive, extremely unlikely to be found.
“Could it be that the next opportunity isn’t in the Earthly Immortal Realm or the Cloud Immortal Realm, but in the Barbaric Immortal Realm, which I’ve never been to?”
Su Che finally decided: to go to the Barbaric Immortal Realm and meet Tian Yin. Maybe there would be other gains as well.
Lao He then started teasing him: “It’s not that I’m criticizing you, master, but you’ve been in the Immortal Realm for quite some time now. You go to see your wife yet still think about other gains… Strange. Why do I smell a hint of a wolf’s heart and lungs?”
“Stop mocking me.”
Su Che replied seriously, “If I went to see Tian Yin when my strength is too low, I’m worried I might cause her trouble due to certain circumstances. Besides, as a man, being weaker than one’s own woman and always needing her protection and care is quite uncomfortable psychologically. To be honest, it’s a bit early to see her now.”
“Also, since I know Tian Yin has the strength of a top-tier shaman, she won’t face any danger within the shaman clan, so I’m not worried and don’t rush to see her.”
“Basically, those are the two reasons.”
“Hmm,” Lao He nodded. “The reasons do hold up. But as the one who knows you best, I know that to some extent, you do have a bit of a wolf’s heart and lungs. So don’t try to justify yourself in front of me.”
“Maybe.”
Su Che smiled, though it was a bit bitter.
A woman’s figure flashed before his eyes. Compared to those fairies, she could only be considered a village girl. Every time he returned home, he could hear her joyful calls.
“Brother…”
She had started calling him that since he was very young, when he was dirty and constantly blowing his nose…
Barbaric County.

After flying for over a year, using long-distance teleportation arrays more than a dozen times along the way, I finally arrived here. It’s a region abandoned by all immortals; reportedly larger than the Earthly Immortals’ Realm, and also a place not covered by the cloud-covered lands of the Cloud Immortals’ Realm, which are entirely composed of liquid spiritual energy. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth here is extremely thin, making it truly unsuitable for immortals to cultivate. The Witch Clan doesn’t need to absorb spiritual energy, so they chose this place and claimed it for themselves. Aside from the Witch Clan, it’s also a realm inhabited by numerous barbarian tribes, exotic beasts, and wandering true immortals. This is truly a place with no rules—survival of the fittest, brutal hunting—nothing but an expanded version of the Evil Emperor’s realm of punishment.