Chapter 915: Merging with the Dao
Su Che’s main avatar hovered in the starry skies of the Immortal Prison Universe, speaking as if to himself or declaring softly, “From today onward, no more spirit vessels are needed within the Immortal Prison! I am the master of this prison, and I will take control of everything myself…”
To this day, Lao He still didn’t understand what his master intended to do. Although it sounded like his status as a spirit vessel would be taken away, Lao He didn’t care about that at all. As long as his master could overcome this seemingly insurmountable crisis, even if it meant his own destruction and disappearance, it wouldn’t matter.
Su Che turned to look at Lao He and smiled gently. “Lao He, I intend to merge with the Dao and become the natural law of the Immortal Prison Universe. What do you think of this idea?”
“Huh?”
Lao He was stunned and stammered, “Merge with the Dao? Won’t that cause any harm to the master?”
Su Che shook his head and said softly, “In this situation, there’s no time to worry about such things… But don’t worry. Even if it fails, it will only be a waste of this main avatar.”
“Then let’s give it a try.” Lao He scratched his head, not really understanding the purpose of merging with the Dao.
Su Che closed his eyes, spreading his thoughts throughout the entire universe of the Immortal Prison layer. “In the name of the master of the Immortal Prison, I decree: I shall merge with the Dao for heaven and earth!”
“I shall merge with the Dao for heaven and earth!”
“I shall merge with the Dao for heaven and earth!”
“I shall merge with the Dao for heaven and earth!”
The entire interior of the Immortal Prison was filled with Su Che’s will. In just a few breaths, all the stars in the sky stopped rotating. All living beings and everything else froze in place, and the entire world fell into stillness.
Merging with the Dao!
Su Che had recently learned something from the outer universe. He made a prompt decision to fuse this main avatar with the natural law of the Immortal Prison—making himself the natural law itself.
By merging his thoughts with the laws of heaven and earth and his body with the universe, it meant that the Immortal Prison Pagoda would become Su Che’s main avatar, no longer just a mere magic artifact.
It sounded simple, but it was actually extremely complex and dangerous. After all, this was merely an idea with no prior experience to guide it. Full preparation and absolute certainty were required before attempting it.
And now, to escape this crisis and reclaim control of the Immortal Prison space from the spirit vessel Xue Yu, Su Che had no choice but to take a risky gamble like this.
Vum…
A spatial tremor swept through the Immortal Prison Universe. Su Che’s main avatar expanded ten thousand times, turning into a giant that towered sky-high. But this was not the transformation spell of the Witch Clan—it was a sign that this body was about to collapse. At that moment, another entirely different force of pressure acted on Su Che’s main avatar, clearly intended to stop him from doing what he was about to do.
“Xue Yu?”
The giant-like Su Che slowly raised his head and smiled softly. “Are you scared?”
Thousands of miles away in the starry sky, Xue Yu’s peerless beauty gradually manifested as she spoke gently, “Su Che, stop struggling needlessly. What you’re doing is meaningless.”
“If it’s meaningless, then why do you care what I do? You should be hiding in the shadows, laughing at me,” Su Che sneered. “Since you’ve shown up, trying to disrupt my pursuit of unity with the Dao, it proves you’re scared. It proves this method must work.”
“Su Che, stop resisting.”
Xue Yu showed her gentle side, her tone soft and her expression sincere. “My father, Yu Huang Tian, only needs your original body outside and this Immortal Prison Pagoda. If you agree to cooperate, I can promise to protect your main avatar, as well as all your relatives and friends from the Qin and Su families, including your close companions like Tian Yin and Ling Long.”
“You can still enjoy family time, life, and all the pleasures it has to offer. I can also persuade my father to preserve your cultivation strength. Through this main avatar, you’ll still become a top-tier warrior in the chaos years from now and continue to seek the chance to create your own universe.”
“Even better, I’m willing to stay by your side forever, just like before as the spirit of the Immortal Prison, taking care of you and supporting you. Isn’t that good?”
“Su Che, whether you believe it or not, I must say that since the day you obtained the Immortal Prison Pagoda, I’ve been watching you silently from here, experiencing every moment of your growth with you.”
“All these years, my thoughts have been focused solely on you. Though it seems like all of this was my father’s plan, seemingly designed to manipulate you, I’ve always existed within your mind, sharing your joys and sorrows, your happiness and pain. I know every change in your thoughts, clearly, and they also deeply influence me.”
“All of this that exists today was actually created by us working together. Lao Hei is the first auxiliary spirit we created together; every layer of the Immortal Prison was unlocked layer by layer under my guidance, through your efforts and my cooperation.”
“Su Che, I’m not lying to you. I’ve gotten used to being with you. In fact, it can be said that we’ve long been inseparable. How could I bear to watch you being killed by your father?”
“Similarly, I can’t bear to see all that we’ve created together destroyed just because of your disappearance, leaving everything back to nothing.”
At these words, Xue Yu pointed at the life-bearing planets in the starry sky: “If you keep resisting, you’ll truly lose everything—everything we’ve created together. I can’t bear it, Su Che. These aren’t just your achievements; they also embody my efforts, just like my own children. I don’t want to lose them, nor do I want to lose you.”
Xue Yu’s words were filled with deep affection, sincere and moving. Yet Su Che remained unmoved, even feeling annoyed.
“Watching over me silently, taking care of me, supporting me?”
Su Che sneered coldly, “Knowing these facts, all I can think is that you’re a venomous snake hiding in the darkest corners, ready to strike me with a fatal blow at the right moment. Inseparable from you? Haha, how disgusting does that sound to me?”
Lao Hei, who was usually sharp-tongued, silently sighed, still unable to accept it. The ‘self-awareness of the Immortal Prison’ that had been in communication with him all these years was actually Xue Yu before him.
To unlock each layer of the Immortal Prison Pagoda, aside from the master’s own will, the Immortal Prison’s consciousness would also provide various guidance and hints. Especially for the first three layers, their functions were automatically set based on the master’s most urgent need at that time.
So, it was her will after all.
“What the hell is going on? How could this happen?”
Lao Hei felt his head about to explode.
Buzz…
Within the Immortal Prison’s starry sky, two completely different forces continued to clash. Su Che’s massive body kept expanding and contracting, causing the entire universe to tremble as well.
Su Che wanted to merge with the Dao, but Xue Yu, using her power as an auxiliary spirit, was desperately trying to stop him. For now, the two forces seemed to cancel each other out, with no clear winner in sight.
Fortunately, time had stopped within the Immortal Prison, with everything frozen in place. After such a long time of entanglement, only a ten-thousandth of a moment had passed in the outside universe. The destructive power of Yu Huangtian was also clashing with the forces of the Heavenly Dao in the Immortal Spirit Universe, and for now, it couldn’t affect Su Che’s true body.
No matter how powerful Yu Huangtian was, he couldn’t intervene in the internal changes of the Immortal Prison Universe with his strength. After all, Su Che was the master of the Immortal Prison. At this moment, he couldn’t help his daughter Xue Yu in any way.
“Su Che, stop wasting your effort. I won’t agree to you merging with the Dao.”
Xue Yu tried to persuade him gently as much as possible, “For today, Father has prepared for hundreds of millions of years. Everything was within his plan. Now, his abilities are beyond imagination. No matter what, you can’t defeat him. Continuing to resist will only lead to your death. I can’t just watch you get destroyed… Listen to my advice and give up. With the Immortal Prison as this magical artifact, you’ve already achieved so much. Even without it, you haven’t lost everything. As long as you’re alive, there will be opportunities in the future.”
“You really know how to talk nonstop.”
Su Che’s face showed impatience. “All that chatter is really annoying! I don’t want to hear your voice anymore. So, you’d better find a place to sleep properly.”
As he spoke, he flipped his wrist and summoned a blue crystal from somewhere in the Immortal Prison space, then crushed it with a snap.
Xue Yu on the other side was stunned. Her virtual image began to flicker unstably, seemingly on the verge of disappearing at any moment.
“What’s this…?”
As the spirit of the artifact, Xue Yu immediately felt a sense of confusion in her thoughts. Just as Su Che had said, an overwhelming drowsiness struck her suddenly.
What was going on?
Only Su Che knew that this state of sleep was a curse spell planted in advance, one of the special treasures he had bought from Merchant Mord. This cursed power, once activated, could make someone sleep for a long time—depending on their cultivation level, it could keep an ordinary Chaos Traveler asleep for at least three days. However, its activation method was quite complex, belonging to a type of ambush tactic, and it was almost impossible to use against strong warriors like Chaos Travelers during a battle.
Xue Yu’s cultivation level wasn’t high; she wasn’t even an Immortal Lord. At this moment, she could only resist this cursed power as the spirit of the Immortal Prison, but it was uncertain whether she could hold on.
Xueyu realized the situation was bad, but she didn’t understand when she had been sabotaged by Su Che or Lao Hei. She was even more puzzled—since they didn’t even know where her true form was hidden, how could they manage to sabotage her?
“Don’t understand, do you?”
Su Che smiled and said, “I planted this curse power in Su Nianer’s body quietly ten thousand years ago. Not even Lao Hei knows about this, let alone you.”