Chapter 224: Seizing the Treasure

“Ah…”
Cangqiu was like a mad tiger, filled with rage and frustration. Though he possessed two powerful divine abilities, he couldn’t unleash them.
Su Che’s Soul-Consuming Blue Light gave him a speed advantage—within a hundred feet, it left no chance for Cangqiu to use his powers. Beyond that distance, Cangqiu’s abilities could no longer reach Su Che.
After struggling for so long, he was on the verge of exploding with anger.
On the other side, Yunya was equally anxious, yet he still couldn’t break free from theNetherworld Ghost Emperor’s pursuit.
For them, not only had they offended the Tianxuan Sect, but their hopes of obtaining the treasure also seemed dashed—just as that “Yao Ling Dong Tian” had said: losing both the wife and the soldiers!
Without the treasure and forced to abandon their own sacred lands, fleeing into the wilderness—what use was it? How could they not be desperate?
But as Su Che had warned earlier, everything that needed to be said had been said, and everything that needed to be done had been done. It was too late to regret now!
“The situation is lost!”
Yunya sighed inwardly, the first to think of escaping.
Cui Lingzi, still fighting against Shui Yue, thought the same.
Only Cangqiu, blinded by greed and fury, refused to give up. At this moment, he even stopped using his powers and charged forward like a brute, braving the Soul-Consuming Blue Light.
“Fight head-on?”
Su Che sneered inwardly. In close combat, the Power of Destruction wouldn’t fear him!
The closer the distance, the stronger the Power of Destruction became.
Back on the Battle Arena, a single punch at point-blank range had shattered Jin Chong’s body into dozens of pieces…
Su Che gathered his vital energy, ready to deliver a devastating blow—when suddenly…
Pfft!
A strange sound came from the three-legged pill furnace, like a balloon being punctured, with a clear hissing sound. Then, the furnace was quickly sucked into the bronze gourd.
“Great!”
Su Che was overjoyed. “That furnace has finally been subdued!”
“No!”
Cangqiu, who had rushed forward, cried out in despair. His eyes were filled with utter hopelessness—it felt as though Su Che had taken away what should have belonged to him.
Driven mad by greed, he was completely lost in obsession.
Swish!
The huge pill furnace was swallowed by the bronze gourd’s internal space and suppressed. Su Che immediately felt relieved, both physically and mentally.
It was finally done!
Destruction!
Turning sharply, Su Che, who had been suppressed to the extreme, rushed forward in an instant and delivered a devastating punch to Cangqiu.

This punch consumed two-thirds of his life force at once, representing the most ferocious and insane punch he had ever unleashed since mastering Destruction. With this punch, he aimed to release all the frustration, anger, and anxiety he had accumulated earlier!
“Earthly Killing Domination!”
Cang Qiu, driven mad, abandoned all thoughts and threw another punch, with only one purpose in mind: kill Su Che and reclaim his treasure.
The two vastly different punching forces collided, and the outcome was immediate.
Boom!
With a series of cracking sounds, Cang Qiu’s bones on one side were shattered, and his right arm turned into a mess of flesh.
Su Che also suffered greatly—the impact forced his upper body backward, and blood was about to gush out…
But Su Che held back the blood, lowered his head sharply, and with a thrust, a blood arrow infused with a trace of Destruction energy pierced straight into Cang Qiu’s abdomen.
Bang!
As blood flowed in from the front and out from the back, a bloody hole appeared in Cang Qiu’s lower back, with intestines splattering everywhere in a grotesque sight—among them was even a golden little sphere.
“A Golden Elixir?”
The onlookers exclaimed in unison.
Cang Qiu’s Golden Elixir had been blasted out by Su Che’s blood arrow.
“You…”
Cang Qiu, bleeding from all seven orifices, was not yet dead but resembled a vengeful spirit. Pointing at Su Che, his eyes were filled with resentment…
“Don’t worry, you won’t die!”
At this moment, Su Che’s condition wasn’t much better either—he looked like a dried-up zombie emerging from a tomb, with less than one-fifth of his life force left. He relied solely on his own true energy and the vitality of the Immortal Prison to continue fighting.
Whoosh!
With a swift wave of his hand, Su Che used his energy-grabbing technique to snatch the Golden Elixir before it fell, rushed forward, and stuffed it back into Cang Qiu’s stomach.
“I won’t let you die! It’s impossible even if you want to!”
Su Che growled like a zombie.
Swish!
Cang Qiu, now completely unable to fight, was grabbed by Su Che and thrown into the Immortal Prison.
“Lao Hei, heal him. Don’t let him die,” Su Che ordered in his mind. “I want him to become the first Golden Elixir prisoner of the Immortal Prison.”
“Let’s give it a try, master,” Lao Hei nodded reluctantly.
Saving him wasn’t difficult—with enough vitality to sustain him, as long as he wasn’t completely dead, he could keep living. But the Golden Elixir that had already been blasted out—could it really work even if stuffed back in?
With the Golden Elixir outside his body, his dantian and qi sea were completely shattered. Even if he survived, he would be useless.
Lao Hei had no idea whether his cultivation could be restored.

At this moment, the onlookers all thought Cangqiu was dead, his body already packed into Qiankun Bag by Su Che. Now, when it came to capturing people in public, Su Che no longer needed to act secretly or hide it like before. Any magical artifact capable of holding living beings could do this, and as the eldest disciple of Tianxuan Sect, it was entirely normal for him to possess such a spatial treasure—he didn’t need to explain anything to anyone. “Cangqiu is dead?” Yunya, who was fighting against the Ghost Emperor, and Cuilingzi, who was battling Shuiyue, were both in shock. The only thought that came to mind was “escape.” In a one-on-one situation, even the Ghost Emperor and Shuiyue couldn’t stop them, as their strengths were roughly equal, and they didn’t have Su Che’s supernatural abilities to completely immobilize opponents. Su Che also couldn’t stop them—firstly, because the distance was too great, and secondly, due to the heavy drain on his mental energy and vital energy, he simply didn’t have the extra strength to chase after them. Whoosh! Whoosh! Two streaks of light vanished instantly… “Let them escape then.” Su Che waved his hand, calling back the Ghost Emperor, and immediately took several elixirs himself. “Great! The eldest disciple has won!” Over a hundred disciples of Tianxuan Sect began cheering. Before this, they had all been extremely anxious, fearing Su Che might be overwhelmed and suffer a heavy defeat. Su Che gathered all the members of the Immortal Prison Team and landed with Shuiyue. The disciples of Tianxuan Sect spontaneously gathered around, maintaining the Tutian Fumo Formation to protect their eldest disciple closely. Su Che sat cross-legged on the ground and said to Shuiyue, “I need to rest for a while. Please wait a moment.” Shuiyue nodded silently—she knew full well that the battle just now had been extremely difficult for him and that he indeed needed to rest properly. In fact, Su Che had already taken the elixirs, so his condition was fine, and he didn’t really need rest. His meditation now was for two matters related to the Immortal Prison. First, he needed to check what kind of thing that three-legged pill furnace actually was. Second, he had to figure out when the Nether Ghost Emperor had learned that move, “Heavenly Ghost Soul Gathering.” Inside the Immortal Prison, Lao He controlled the bronze treasure gourd and spat out the pill furnace again. As soon as it reappeared, it started acting up once more. Whoosh! It transformed back into a three-legged golden crow, trying to fly into the sky. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the normal world but the Immortal Prison realm—where could it escape to? “Come back!” Lao He held the bronze treasure gourd and made a gesture toward the flying golden crow. Whoosh!

The Three-Legged Golden Crow was forcibly drawn back by an irresistible force.
In the Immortal Prison realm, our abilities could be amplified a hundredfold, while the enemy’s abilities would be suppressed by the same factor—this applied equally to prisoners and magical treasures.
Bang!
The suppressive power of the Bronze Treasure Gourd slammed the Three-Legged Golden Crow to the ground, instantly reverting it to its furnace form.
Huh…
A torrent of heavenly fire erupted from the furnace, rushing toward Lao Hei.
“Great! Whatever comes, I’ll take it—all the more, the better!”
Lao Hei was carefree and unbothered; all the incoming heavenly fire was absorbed by the Bronze Treasure Gourd.
As the rulers of the Immortal Prison, Su Che and Lao Hei could tell that the furnace was burning with endless Golden Crow heavenly fire—this was truly a massive blaze!
“If this furnace lacks an artifact spirit, it still possesses its own consciousness…”
Su Che knew well that subduing such a spiritual treasure wasn’t easy; brute force alone wouldn’t work.
The original Bronze Gourd had been able to recreate an artifact spirit so easily because its original spirit was nearly destroyed.
Bang!
Lao Hei threw a punch at the furnace, aiming to “remove” it.
The furnace trembled violently, as if struggling desperately.
“Lao Hei, don’t be so rough. Try to communicate with it,” Su Che thought with a smile. Of course, he also understood that Lao Hei was acting aggressively out of revenge for the furnace’s stubborn resistance earlier, which had caused him a lot of trouble.
Lao Hei nodded and immediately sent out a mental wave.
Vum…
The furnace emitted a vibrating sound, clearly responding.
After a while, Lao Hei reported, “Master, this thing is also an ancient artifact, having slept underground for countless years. Its consciousness has just awakened, and it doesn’t seem very intelligent—it’s hostile toward everyone.”
Su Che nodded silently, thinking, “No matter who it is, after being buried underground for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, their consciousness can’t be normal upon waking.”
“But one thing is certain…” Lao Hei continued, “It’s a top-tier spiritual treasure!”
“As expected, a top-tier spiritual treasure.”
Su Che was overjoyed and quickly asked, “How are you sure?”
“It just said itself—it’s only one rank lower than our Bronze Treasure Gourd. It told me not to underestimate it or insult it.”

“Haha, really? Quite proud of one’s self-esteem…” Su Che thought to himself with a smile. “Well then, communicate well with it and try to subdue it using gentle tactics. I won’t get involved in this matter.”
“Sure, master,” Old Black replied readily. “Just wait to hear good news.”
Having obtained a top-quality spiritual treasure-grade pill furnace, Su Che was overjoyed. His thoughts then turned to the second floor of the Immortal Prison, where he planned to have a good talk with today’s hero, the Nether Ghost Emperor…