Chapter 825: The Great Luo Realm
Surrounded by numerous Immortal Emperors, the six Demon Emperors still tried to resist, but Su Che used the spatial power of the Immortal Lord’s Treasury to bind them in place, preventing them from moving. They could only stand there like fixed targets, enduring the relentless bombardment from the Immortal Emperors.
It was a feast of torment—attacking such flesh targets was extremely satisfying, and many Immortal Emperors exclaimed in delight. In just a few dozen breaths, they lay on the ground, barely alive and completely unable to resist.
Of course, being barely alive was only temporary. For Immortal or Demon Emperors, as long as given a little time to recover, they would regain their strength. External injuries were nothing; it was the severe damage to their primordial souls, demonic essences, and fundamental powers that truly dealt fatal blows.
All six Demon Emperors were captured alive and sent to the Immortal Prison. Su Che thanked Immortal Emperors like Guang Zhong and Di Qiu, sending them back to the auction hall, including Hei Luo and Guang Yu who had just arrived.
In Auction Halls 1 through 7, the auctioning of various treasures continued. This was because the process was extremely complicated—each item’s bidding could take months or even a whole year to complete.
Each time the Immortal Emperors made bids, they presented an overwhelming number of items of diverse types. Just counting, calculating, and estimating their values took a lot of time. It was estimated that it would take another two hundred years before everything in the Immortal Lord’s Treasury could be sold.
Fortunately, for immortals, it was entirely normal for a trading event to last hundreds of years. Everyone was accustomed to this, and no one cared about the time involved.
Thus, under Su Che’s special arrangement, Hei Luo and Guang Yu, though late, could still reap significant gains.
Su Che didn’t need to worry about the auctions—they were handled by those soul slaves disguised in his appearance across the various auction halls. Now, he could focus on dealing with the six captured Demon Emperors.
With an abundance of Imperial Essence Fruits, there was no need to use the Origin Demon Clan for cultivation at the moment. The best way to deal with them was undoubtedly soul enslavement.
However, the weakest of the six Demon Emperors was still at the seventh heaven realm. Given Su Che’s current level of cultivation, he couldn’t enslave them directly; he first had to lower their cultivation levels by several stages.
So, Su Che sent these six temporarily defenseless Demon Emperors to the Creation Divine Tree. With a hissing sound, several vines from the tree pierced into their foreheads, beginning to drain their primordial magical energy.
The six Demon Emperors let out agonized screams but could not break free, looking extremely painful. In less than half an hour, more than half of their primal magic had been absorbed and temporarily stored in the Tree of Fate. As a result, all six Demon Emperors’ strengths dropped from the Seventh or Eighth Heavens to the Second Heaven level. With his cultivation at the late Golden Immortal stage, Su Che could bridge two major realms and barely carry out soul transformation on them. It would not take long before, once Su Che reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, his control over soul slaves would improve significantly. The Tree of Fate could also return their primal magic, allowing their strengths to recover to the Seventh or Eighth Heavens. By now, the Immortal Prison Pagoda had been opened to its eighth layer, and the functions of the other layers were also gradually improving. Their usage was already quite flexible—any such trick could be implemented if one could think of it. After more than half an hour, all six Demon Emperors were fully enslaved, and Su Che now had six subordinates at the level of Demon Emperors. If he used them to perform soul teleportation in the Origin Demon Realm, he could instantly travel millions of miles each time. It seemed that as long as the Nine Great Demon Ancestors did not intervene, no matter how many Demon Emperors there were, they could not trap him. After completing this, Su Che said to the Tree of Fate, “Next, my ultimate opponent will be some powerful beings from outside universes. I guess their power attributes are similar to those of the Origin Demons. I hope you can develop an energy attribute that can completely counter them, as the power of chaos is not very effective against them.” Perhaps because the ancestors of the Origin Demons came from other universes in the Chaos Realm, they had evolved strong adaptability and resistance to chaos energy after traveling long distances in that realm. The power of Chaos Fist was extremely effective against the true immortals or ancient demon gods of this universe, but it was somewhat inadequate against the Origin Demons. For now, Su Che could only resist Origin magic but lacked a powerful countermeasure through attribute suppression. Of course, this required relying on the Tree of Fate’s energy transformation function. The Tree of Fate’s telepathic voice sounded grave: “Master, I must say this is extremely difficult. Even the laws of the great universe worlds have failed to create an energy that can fully counter the Origin Demons. That’s why foreign invaders might be able to destroy this universe.” “Yes,” Su Che nodded inwardly. “That’s exactly the case.”
Lao He had a sudden insight and immediately reminded him, “Perhaps, in our universe, there truly doesn’t exist any energy attribute that can truly counter the Origin Demons. Such energy can only be found in other universes within the Chaos Realm.” “It’s possible!” Su Che nodded firmly in agreement. “No matter how powerful the Heavenly Dao is, it can’t leave this universe. It can only rely on me to go to other universes in search of a way to defeat our enemies.” If an universe is seen as a body, then the Heavenly Dao is its soul. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. If the Heavenly Dao of this universe were to go to another universe, it would be akin to an act of soul theft, which the Heavenly Dao of other universes would neither accept nor tolerate. This arduous task could only be entrusted to Su Che, because, as the owner of the Immortal Prison, he was, in name, the Heavenly Dao’s own son. How could a son ignore his mother in distress? With this understanding, Su Che realized that the reason he had been able to grow at an unimaginable speed was because the power of the Heavenly Dao in the greater universe was secretly helping and supporting him. It was like a mother calling out affectionately, “My child, grow up quickly! Your mother is in trouble and needs your help…” “Actually, I’m not some savior. What I should do is leave home, go out to find a cure, and return to save my mother who is dying from illness.” There was no nobility, no greatness—this was simply what a son should do and must do. It was that simple. It was only at this moment that Su Che truly understood everything. What more was there to say? He had to hurry up and cultivate! His doppelgänger in the Time Wheel of the Immortal Prison World accelerated cultivation at a rate of one to two thousand times normal, while Su Che’s true body also trained tirelessly in the Immortal Lord’s Treasury. One after another, Emperor Yuan Fruits were consumed, with pure soul energy continuously nourishing his primordial spirit. He gave it his all. Having understood his mission and everything else, Su Che no longer faced any barriers to cultivation on a spiritual level, because the laws of the greater universe hadn’t imposed any obstacles on him at all. Without bottlenecks or barriers, Su Che’s cultivation became extremely simple—only his primordial spirit’s strength needed to match his cultivation level! In the eight auction halls, Emperor-level milkers were also working hard, sending mana crystals infused with Immortal Essence to Su Che, which were then transformed into Emperor Yuan Fruits hanging on the Tree of Fate.
Time flowed slowly, and before long, a hundred years passed. Su Che’s cultivation had reached the peak of the late Golden Immortal stage. One day…
“Unseal, two avatars!”
At Su Che’s command, the forces of the Heavenly Dao in the Immortal Prison simultaneously lifted the seals on the two avatars.
Swish! Swish!
The two avatars, also at the late Golden Immortal stage, merged into Su Che’s main body. Then, using the three great arts of the Heavenly Dao—Great Avatar Technique, Great Devouring Technique, and Great Fusion Technique—they were absorbed and integrated into his main body.
Huhuhuhu…
Su Che’s cultivation level rose steadily, reaching an extreme, a pinnacle…
Boom!
It was as if an invisible bubble inside him burst, causing a fundamental transformation in his internal energy world. It was as though a gate to a larger, deeper, and more stable world had opened.
The Great Luo Heavenly Realm!
If the original internal energy world was a bounded territorial realm, then now it had become an endless, boundless heavenly realm.
His immortal essence also became denser and purer. The power that could be unleashed from the same amount of immortal essence was likely more than ten times that of the late Golden Immortal stage.
In the Great Luo Heavenly Realm, both form and spirit reached a higher state. His primordial spirit ascended to a higher realm, free from the constraints of life and death, thus gaining a truly infinite lifespan.
This was the Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Having successfully reached the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal, one would normally pause cultivation to stabilize their level. But Su Che didn’t need to go through such trouble—he could stabilize and advance his cultivation simultaneously.
“Continue unsealing!”
At his command, another ten avatars had their seals lifted and merged into his main body.
The Great Luo body could effortlessly integrate ten avatars at once!
In less than five years, Su Che integrated all 100 late Golden Immortal avatars. Along the way, he consumed dozens of Imperial Essence Fruits from the Seventh Heaven realm to enrich his internal energy world in the Great Luo Heavenly Realm.
As a result, his cultivation level at the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal became quite stable, and he took a significant step forward toward the middle stage.
Continue cultivating!
Still using the method of avatar fusion, Su Che created another avatar, slightly weaker than his main body but barely at the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal. He sent it into the Time Wheel, had it consume Imperial Essence Fruits, and accelerate its cultivation.
The cultivation process in the Great Luo realm was significantly longer compared to the Golden Immortal stage. While one year passed in the outside world, two thousand years passed inside the Time Wheel. For an avatar to reach the same level as its main body, it would take about eight or nine years in the outside world.
It takes eight or nine years to create one clone, and nearly a thousand years to accumulate a hundred clones. Su Che estimated that if those hundred clones, all at the early stage of Da Luo Jin Xian, were merged with the main body, it should be possible to advance to the middle stage of Da Luo Jin Xian.
But the problem is that clones can only improve the cultivation level of the immortal essence, while the strength of the original spirit mainly depends on the main body for improvement. This means that the growth rate of the original spirit becomes a bottleneck.
“Relying solely on the Path of Shadows to enhance the original spirit can no longer keep up with the pace of progress.”
Su Che thought to Lao He, “We need to come up with other methods as well, taking multiple approaches simultaneously…”