Chapter 536: In the Dense Forest

If Su Che’s Destruction Fists could inflict severe injuries on opponents across two levels of cultivation, what effect would they have on Snow Jade Immortal, whose cultivation was sealed and who could only wield the power of a late Yuan Ying stage?

Faced with over 300 Destruction Fist attacks rushing at her like a tsunami, Snow Jade Immortal did not dare underestimate them. She immediately activated a top-tier Dao artifact defensive barrier and erected two dark blue water mirrors in front of and behind her.

The first few dozen Destruction Fist attacks that reached the front water mirror did not explode, as if they hadn’t touched anything. Then, these attacks passed through the back water mirror and exploded dozens of feet behind Snow Jade Immortal with a loud roar.

“Space Refraction Art?” Su Che instantly realized that the two water mirrors created by Snow Jade Immortal were essentially two interconnected portals with teleportation properties. His Destruction Fist attacks entered through the front portal and exited through the back, without touching Snow Jade Immortal, who was trapped between them.

“It seems this woman is highly skilled in space-related divine arts. Even if they’re not ultimate Dao arts, they’re certainly not ordinary ones,” Su Che thought. Using his mental power, he remotely controlled the subsequent Destruction Fist attacks, causing them to explode automatically just before they penetrated the water mirrors.

Without needing to touch anything, Su Che could remotely trigger explosions of his Destruction Force within hundreds of feet.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

Dozens of powerful explosions successfully shattered the water mirror in front of Snow Jade Immortal, thereby breaking her Space Refraction Art.

Boom! Boom! Boom…

The last batch of Destruction Fist attacks hit Snow Jade Immortal’s Dao artifact defensive barrier. Though the massive explosions and shockwaves failed to break through her defense immediately, they forced her to retreat repeatedly, requiring her to exert all her strength to avoid being sent flying.

Although this exchange didn’t injure her, it forced her to retreat nearly a hundred feet. It wasn’t a humiliating defeat, but it certainly wasn’t impressive either.

With both sides trading blows, Su Che managed to turn the tide slightly and learned that his opponent was highly proficient in space-related divine spells, meaning he needed to be cautious in that area.

After that strike, Su Che didn’t persist further but headed in the direction she had mentioned earlier. Snow Jade Fairy followed from a distance, calm and unbothered by the minor incident that had just happened.

After walking for a while, she suddenly asked, “Tian Yu, you must have obtained a Survival Order by now, right?”
Snow Jade Fairy believed that given Su Che’s overall capabilities, nearly a dozen hours had passed—there was no way he could have come away empty-handed.
Su Che remained silent, thereby acknowledging it. Snow Jade Fairy didn’t press further, likely planning something in her mind.

Twenty minutes later, after traveling about four hundred li, Su Che indeed saw a dense forest in the distance. The edge of this forest had an unusual shape, with mist lingering in the air. Even those who didn’t understand array formations could sense something odd about it.

“Not bad!” Su Che thought to himself. “If I passed by here, I would definitely go in to explore. Snow Jade Fairy wasn’t lying about this.”

“Of course not!” Lao He sneered. “She just wants you to encounter danger so she can strike when the chance arises.”

Su Che was aware of this as well, so he stopped discussing it further. After all, one had to take things as they came—this survival game demanded constant confrontation with death, and true safety was impossible.

Once inside the forest, Snow Jade Fairy, hidden behind the trees, appeared and disappeared intermittently—in Lao He’s words, like a female ghost.

The situation could be seen as Su Che being haunted by a female ghost, stuck in a troublesome predicament.

Although the forest wasn’t very large, Su Che felt like he had been walking for a long time without reaching its center. He realized this was likely due to a natural array that functioned like a maze, causing him to take many unnecessary detours.

So, Su Che asked Lao He to use a water mirror in the Immortal Prison to show those of his subordinates who understood array formations the scenes inside the forest, hoping they could find the correct path.

Yet, this natural array was extremely sophisticated, not belonging to the level of formations common in the cultivation world. It was at least at the level of array formations in the Spirit Realm. Even the so-called array masters in the Immortal Prison couldn’t decipher it.

“This is going to be embarrassing…”
Lao He muttered under his breath, meaning that Snow Jade Fairy behind him would end up laughing at him.

At this point, how could the Snow Jade Fairy fail to realize that Su Che lacked sufficient expertise in array formations and could not decipher this array at all? She simply smiled lightly, having understood one of Su Che’s weaknesses.
“Go left!”
Fortunately, she didn’t say anything mocking to embarrass Su Che. Instead, she transmitted a message giving directions: “I know this array. If you’re willing to trust me, then move in the direction I indicate.”
Su Che nodded silently and walked dozens of steps to the left as she suggested. Then he heard the Snow Jade Fairy’s voice again from behind: “Turn right ten steps, then go left again…”
In this way, guided by the Snow Jade Fairy, it took just a little over a moment before they indeed reached the center of the dense forest.
In the center of the forest was an open area about a thousand zhang in diameter. Right at the very center stood a huge stone coffin. The coffin was ten zhang long and four zhang wide—surely large enough to hold a giant.
“A stone coffin? Could there be a Survival Order inside?”
Su Che immediately wondered, “Lao Hei, can you see inside the coffin?”
If it were just ordinary stone, Lao Hei’s detection ability could penetrate nearly a thousand zhang of solid rock, so the thickness of the coffin shouldn’t pose a problem for him.
Yet the answer was: unable to see through!
“This stone seems ordinary, but I don’t know what kind of energy it contains that can block my detection ability. I can’t see inside at all.”
Lao Hei’s tone was filled with helplessness. In the private domain controlled by the mysterious old man, his once-prideful detection ability often hit walls. The more critical the situation, the less useful it was to his master, which filled Lao Hei with shame.
“So, whether there’s a Survival Order inside or not, this coffin itself is extremely unusual.” Su Che nodded inwardly. “I definitely have to open it and take a look…”
Of course, he couldn’t take the risk himself. He had to summon a scapegoat from the Immortal Prison to open the coffin, while he stayed far away, over a hundred zhang away.
A Soul Slave at the Golden Core stage emerged from the Immortal Prison and followed Su Che’s instructions, heading toward the coffin. The first few dozen zhang went normally, but once he got within fifty zhang, the Golden Core Slave’s expression changed drastically—his face turned pale, and his expression was one of extreme terror.
“Ah…”
Suddenly, a scream like that of a ghost burst from his mouth. It was clearly a scream born from extreme fear, not from physical pain.

As a cultivator, he was already unafraid of ghosts and monsters. Moreover, being a soul slave, he was willing to face death to fulfill Su Che’s orders. If he wasn’t afraid of death, what could scare him so much? Su Che tensed up instantly, entering a state of high alert…