Chapter 435: Migrant Worker in the Refinement Void Stage
Lin Feng explained in detail, “The main reason why I’ve been in charge of this matter is that the star region under my father’s control in the Spirit Realm corresponds exactly to the region where Qi Yuan Star in the Cultivation Realm is located.”
“That means those cultivators at the Divine Transformation stage who ascend from Qi Yuan Star will end up in my father’s jurisdiction. Minor sects and factions in the Spirit Realm, such as the Tai Yi Gate, Illusion Demon Sect, and Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect, are all under my father’s control. So, the task of maintaining communication with Qi Yuan Star falls on me—this is what they call ‘those near the water get the moonlight first.’”
“Corresponding spaces?”
Su Che mostly understood and asked, “So, if I cultivate to the Divine Transformation stage and ascend to the Spirit Realm, I’ll also end up in your Lin family’s territory to survive, right?”
“Absolutely,” Lin Feng replied. “In the Spirit Realm, control over long-distance interstellar portals is extremely strict. Without proper reason, even cultivators at the Refinement Void stage cannot use the portals to leave their original territories.”
“I see,” Su Che thought to himself. “It seems the survival mode in the Spirit Realm isn’t as free as in the Cultivation Realm. After ascending, once you enter a certain heavenly monarch’s territory, it’s hard to leave. I guess I’ll have to pay tributes or taxes to that monarch’s family or faction on a regular basis…”
After that, Su Che asked many more questions about the Spirit Realm. It wasn’t until Lin Feng’s injuries were completely healed that Su Che assigned him a task: to travel around Qi Yuan Star and appear wherever the migration tasks were most difficult.
What a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators couldn’t accomplish, he, at the Refinement Void stage, could do easily.
Lin Feng even had the ability, like the Witch Clan elders, to dig out the entire spiritual vein underground at the Tai Yi Gate, store it in his magic artifact space, and then send it to Su Che’s Immortal Prison.
This time, when Lin Feng descended to the mortal world, he brought with him two top-tier Dao artifacts—one for attack and one for defense. Of course, Su Che wouldn’t confiscate them, because for now, only he could fully utilize their power. If used by someone else, it would be a waste.
Leaving the offensive artifact aside, what Su Che valued most and was most pleased about was the defensive artifact—the Mountain and River Cauldron.
As an ultimate Dao artifact, the internal space of the Mountain and River Cauldron spans 50,000 square li, more than enough to accommodate several countries in the mortal world. Moreover, at present, its absorption capacity far exceeds that of the Immortal Prison by nearly a hundred times. Su Che controls the Immortal Prison to absorb external objects, with the size of those objects limited to no more than 100 zhang; whereas, under Lin Feng’s control, the Mountain and River Cauldron can directly absorb a mountain 1,000 zhang high, showing an astonishing absorption capacity. Su Che isn’t troubled by this, as the Immortal Prison is still in the growth stage. Although its current absorption capacity is insufficient, it will surely surpass the Mountain and River Cauldron in the future—there’s no doubt about it. With Lin Feng as a powerful helper, the overall progress of the relocation plan can be increased by at least 30%. More importantly, many items that couldn’t be moved before can now be directly transferred into the Immortal Prison. For example, for a city with unique local characteristics, Su Che and his team could only give up in the past, as it was impossible to move an entire city into the Immortal Prison. But now, with Lin Feng and his Mountain and River Cauldron, this problem is solved. Lin Feng only needs to use his divine powers to divide a city into several parts, then extract each part entirely from the ground and store it in the Mountain and River Cauldron. For him, it takes less than an hour to capture the largest imperial capital in the mortal world; then, it takes just a few dozen breaths to fly to another city, continue cutting and excavating, and store it in the Mountain and River Cauldron… In a day, at least 20 cities can be captured, and in three months, nearly 2,000 cities. This is still because, constrained by the laws of heaven and earth, he dares not unleash his true cultivation strength; otherwise, this number could be increased by dozens of times. Although 2,000 cities are just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire Qi Yuan Star, at least the most distinctive and significant cities can be preserved in the Immortal Prison. When the capacity of the Mountain and River Cauldron reaches its limit, Su Che can transfer Lin Feng and the Cauldron into the Immortal Prison as well, and then have Lin Feng arrange those cities in the most logical layout across different locations in the Immortal Prison world. “The efficiency of Cultivators at the Refining Void stage is not even comparable to that of hundreds of Cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage,” Old He muttered more than once. “Master, it would be great if a few more envoys at the Refining Void stage came from the Spirit Realm. Capture them all and turn them into your servants—that would be truly satisfying!” Su Che merely grunted in response, too lazy to engage in further conversation with him.
Just one Wind-Beast is already a headache; what else can one do besides fleeing if more appear? More than a month passed in this way, until one day, news came from the demon tribe asking Su Che whether the floating city in the starry sky should also be relocated. At the mention of the floating city, Su Che immediately remembered another matter. Back then, when he followed Zi Xiao to the floating city for the Yuan Ying stage trade fair, Su Che was still at the Jin Dan stage. Inside the Treasures Pavilion of the Ling Xiao Tower, he obtained a blood-red fragment—actually a fragment of the bones of the ancient demon god, Sky-Devouring Rat. That day, the owner of the Treasures Pavilion, an old monkey at the late Jin Dan stage, had said that once Su Che reached the Yuan Ying stage, he would take him to a dangerous place to collect more of those blood-red fragments… After reaching the Yuan Ying stage, Su Che had been constantly on the move, too busy to think about it, until today’s mention of the floating city reminded him. “The bone fragments of the Sky-Devouring Rat can strengthen my physique and enhance the power of my Destruction Art. If I can combine thousands, even tens of thousands of them, my Destruction Art will surely become my strongest offensive technique, far more powerful than top-tier attack artifacts…” Without delay, Su Che set off. He didn’t need any teleportation arrays; instead, he soared straight into the sky, leaving the atmosphere of Qi Yuan Star to enter the starry expanse. In just twenty minutes, he was back on the floating city, standing in front of the owner of the Treasures Pavilion. “Li Qi, at your service, Master Tian Yu,” the old monkey quickly stood up and introduced himself. By now, Su Che’s name was supreme in the cultivation world of Qi Yuan Star, unmatched by anyone. Although a cultivator like Li Qi at the Jin Dan stage didn’t know that the great demons at the Demon Infant stage in his own tribe had already become Su Che’s loyal subordinates, he understood that all the thousands of sects in the cultivation world of Qi Yuan Star had to unconditionally obey any order given by Master Tian Yu. With just one word from him, hundreds of billions of beings on the entire planet could be forced to leave Qi Yuan Star—who else in the history of cultivation could do such a thing? A young man of just thirty years old had completely taken control of the cultivation world of Qi Yuan Star invisibly. Such a thing would be unbelievable if not witnessed with one’s own eyes. Seeing Su Che again today, the old monkey Li Qi no longer dared to act mysteriously as before. Standing in front of Su Che now, he had to be honest and respectful.
Otherwise, there would be no need for Su Che to feel dissatisfied—Lord Peacock, who rules the Floating City, would not spare him easily.