Chapter 664: Fire Overcomes Wood

Su Che, afflicted by woodification, lay flat on the ground, completely unable to move. Clearly, if he couldn’t break free from this situation in time, by the time Lin Jiu and Guang Qi broke through the formation, he would be captured alive—there would be no way to turn things around.
Su Che could neither speak nor see, but he carefully recalled that moment, trying to figure out what kind of power Guang Qi had used—whether it was some kind of supreme art.
Normally, someone like Su Che, with his Immortal level strength, would be doomed if attacked by a Xuanxian’s power, even if it wasn’t a supreme art—there would be no way to escape. Yet, with the Immortal Prison at his disposal, Su Che wasn’t overly panicked.
Firstly, though his vision and consciousness were restricted, Lao Hei’s detection abilities remained intact. He could confirm that Lin Jiu and the other were still trapped inside the formation and wouldn’t be able to break free anytime soon.
“The Qianyuan Dual-Pole Xuan Formation is after all a top-tier formation created by peak warriors—it’s not easy to break…”
Lao Hei remained calm and offered advice: “Master, what has afflicted you is a wood-based power. Fire can overcome wood. Perhaps those mutated spiritual flames from the three layers of the Fire Realm can reverse this woodification.”
“Good!”
Su Che thought to himself, “It just so happens there are tens of thousands of Immortal-grade mutated spiritual flames in the Fire Realm—maybe they’ll work!”
He had obtained 500 Immortal-grade spiritual flames from the spirit of the furnace vessel back then. Over the past fifty days, the ruler of the Fire Realm had been busy using these 500 to create over 40,000 mutated spiritual flames.
Lao Hei’s reasoning made sense. Using fire to overcome wood might indeed reverse the woodification.
However, caution was still needed. It wasn’t certain that the spiritual flames created by the Immortal Prison wouldn’t harm Su Che, as his true body wasn’t inside the prison and thus wasn’t protected by its laws.
The dark green woodification rays emitted by Guang Qi continued to shine. Lao Hei drew some of these rays into the Immortal Prison and sent them to the three layers of the Fire Realm, instructing the ruler of the Fire Realm to quickly find a spiritual flame capable of counteracting these rays.
Once the woodification rays entered the three layers of the Fire Realm, they immediately transformed into a tangible aurora, floating in the void of the realm.

The Lord of the Fire Realm carefully analyzed the wooden nature of this aurora, attempting to contact it with various spiritual flames in hopes of finding one that could completely suppress it. However, this required a process and time—something that couldn’t be accomplished quickly. Some mutated spiritual flames hadn’t even truly come into contact with the aurora; they had only entered its radiation range, causing the normally lively flames to become stiff or dim, indicating… Old Black had already entered the third layer of the Fire Realm in his true form and now said in a low voice, “A wooden aurora entering the Fire Realm should suffer severe attribute suppression, yet it still manages to emit such power. This shows that this kind of aurora is far from ordinary!” “It doesn’t matter!” The Lord of the Fire Realm seemed full of confidence. “Among the tens of thousands of immortal-grade mutated spiritual flames, there must be one that can suppress it! Once I find that flame, I’m sure I can help our master eliminate this wooden state.” Old Black nodded and urged, “Hurry up! Our master doesn’t have much time to wait.” “Understood!” The black flames surrounding the Lord of the Fire Realm surged several feet in height… Although Su Che’s mental power was confined within his body due to the wooden state, preventing him from observing the outside world, everything inside the Immortal Prison remained unaffected. Thus, Su Che was fully aware of all of Old Black and the Lord of the Fire Realm’s actions. Su Che remained silent and didn’t urge the Lord of the Fire Realm like Old Black did. For subordinates like the Emperor of the Netherworld and the Lord of the Fire Realm, Su Che trusted them second only to Old Black, so many words were unnecessary. While lying flat on the ground and waiting patiently, Lin Jiu and Guang Qi were also doing their utmost to break through the killing arrays and maze traps they faced. Although the Crystal Stone Giant was the control core of the entire Qianyuan Dual-Pole Mystery Array, it was in a semi-locked state due to the loss of Su Che’s control, causing the array’s spiritual variability to drop to its lowest level. Lin Jiu could clearly tell that the power of the Yellow Wind Soul-Annihilating Killing Array had diminished significantly. As long as he destroyed all those dozen or so tornado columns, he could easily find the array’s exit. Though deadly, the killing array was much easier to crack than a maze trap—this was a situation they had anticipated thirty days earlier. They had predicted that Su Che would seize this opportunity related to elixirs and even gain complete control over the mystery array, and he would surely use the array’s power to deal with them.

So, they deliberately pretended to be separated from each other and fell into different maze illusions, aiming to lure Su Che into creating a killing formation to deal with one of them. It’s easy to guess that Su Che would surely choose Lin Jiu as his top target for elimination—everyone was aware of the irreconcilable conflict between Su Che and Lin Jiu. Thus, their roles were divided: Lin Jiu would handle the killing formation, while Guang Qi would look for an opportunity to ambush Su Che! If they succeeded in ambushing the controller of the entire formation, its power would surely drop to its lowest level. Then, Lin Jiu could find a way out of the killing formation, break free, rescue Guang Qi from the maze, and finally capture Su Che alive… This was a plan that Lin Jiu and the others had long devised, and Su Che indeed fell for it, being successfully ambushed by Guang Qi. The key now was whether they could break free before Su Che regained his mobility… Bang! Bang! Bang… Lin Jiu’s Great Defense Technique and Great Slash Technique unleashed their full power, destroying seven tornado columns in succession. Only five wind columns remained within the Yellow Wind Killing Formation that could still pose a threat to him. “Haha, great!” At the same time, Lin Jiu didn’t forget to put psychological pressure on Su Che, shouting loudly, “I’ve already sensed the location of the exit. It won’t take half a minute for me to break free and capture you alive. Tian Yu, it’s still not too late for you to stop me now.” Su Che could hear his shouts, and Lao He could clearly hear them as well. He once again urged the Lord of the Fire Realm inside the third layer of the Immortal Prison, “Did you hear that? That bastard is about to escape. Can you even do anything?” The Lord of the Fire Realm remained silent. Under his control, countless mutated spiritual flames rushed at the Woodified Aurora. Whenever it determined that certain flames weren’t effective in suppressing it, they would be withdrawn promptly. So far, six types of spiritual flames had been found capable of resisting the Woodified Extreme Fire, but their effects weren’t very satisfactory and didn’t achieve complete suppression. They could only be used as backups and set aside for now. Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh… The Lord of the Fire Realm was quite efficient. In just a few dozen breaths, he had tried more than 20,000 types of spiritual flames, with over 10,000 still left untested. Among all the immortal-grade spiritual flames, the Chaos Demon Annihilation Flame was considered the highest in rank, but it wasn’t a natural counter to the Woodified Aurora, and its suppressive effect was even worse than that of the six mutated flames already identified. As the saying goes, one thing defeats another—just because something is of the highest rank doesn’t mean it’s the most suitable.

Back then, inside the Swallowing Heaven Realm of the Heaven-Devouring Rat, Su Che wanted to use spiritual fire to counter the black tentacles of the Dark Demon Beard Beast, so he had to search through millions of types of spiritual fire to find one that could counter it. This took Su Che several hours, but fortunately, he finally found it, creating a miraculous effect that turned the situation around. Today, Su Che’s life depends entirely on whether the Lord of the Fire Realm can quickly find another type of counter spiritual fire. Every second counts! Both the Lord of the Fire Realm in the Immortal Prison and Lin Jiu in the battle formation are giving it their all to gain the upper hand…