Chapter 675: Guangqi’s Properties

Yuanping reduced his cultivation level to the early stage of a Heavenly Immortal. After undergoing soul transformation, he became Su Che’s loyal servant. Although he still remembered killing his master, he no longer felt any hatred—this was the most terrifying aspect of soul slavery.
Strictly speaking, this was somewhat cruel, but it was far better than killing him. In any case, Su Che couldn’t afford to leave any hidden threats that might cause them trouble time and again.
The Records of All Living Beings was sent back to the first layer of the Immortal Prison. In the coming period, its internal space would gradually merge with twenty uninhabited planets. Trillions of beings would only faintly notice slight changes in the stars and sky, but it wouldn’t affect their lives at all.
This task was entirely handled by Lao Hei and the Heavenly Dao forces of the Immortal Prison, so Su Che didn’t need to worry about it.
All of Lin Jiu’s properties had been taken over. Next was Guangqi’s turn.
At that moment, Guangqi’s corpse floated in a section of the starry sky on the first layer of the Immortal Prison, while a fragment of his soul entered the Netherworld of Ghosts.
After being killed by Lin Jiu, this fragment of his soul was hastily stored somewhere in the world of living beings. Though it still retained memories from his life, unfortunately, since his soul had left his body and his original spirit had dissipated, his mastery of great Dao techniques and immortal spells also vanished.
“A complete waste!”
Lao Hei looked at Guangqi’s corpse and shook his head in regret. “It’s a shame—those two great Dao techniques were wasted.”
Su Che also felt it was a great loss, but since things had already happened, dwelling on it was pointless. More sighs wouldn’t help at all.
In the Netherworld of Ghosts, using the same methods as against Lin Jiu, Su Che obtained all the information he needed from Guangqi’s soul. His personal belongings also fell into Su Che’s hands effortlessly.
It must be said that Lin Jiu and Guangqi were truly good brothers, like twins, with countless similarities. Both had three spatial treasures used for storing treasures, growing immortal herbs, and raising living beings.
The only difference was that Guangqi had only one top-grade immortal artifact, one less than Lin Jiu. However, the other special treasure he possessed, the “Azure Dragon Barrier-Piercing Aurora,” was far more powerful than an ordinary top-grade immortal artifact.
As for the middle-grade and lower-grade immortal artifacts, he had three fewer than Lin Jiu, but their total value was roughly the same.
In total, Su Che obtained from Lin Jiu and Guangqi one special treasure, three top-grade immortal artifacts, eleven middle-grade immortal artifacts, and twenty-eight lower-grade immortal artifacts.

Su Che’s current cultivation level as a human-immortal only allows him to use lower-grade immortal artifacts, yet he doesn’t need as many as twenty-eight. Selling the extra artifacts would be a waste, so it’s better to wait until others in the Immortal Prison achieve immortality and let them use them instead.
In a few decades, those slaves at the Mahayana stage will be able to ascend to immortality. By then, they can handle errands and minor tasks for him in the Immortal Realm…
As for immortal crystals, he obtained another three million lower-grade crystals from Guangqi, bringing the total, including those from Lin Jiu, to five million three hundred thousand. These will definitely be used to purchase living world fragments once they reach the Immortal Realm. The number of middle-grade and high-grade immortal crystals is too small, so they must be reserved for other purposes.
As for the other trivial gains, Su Che didn’t bother to pay attention. He told Lao He to sort them out carefully—keep what his people could use, and sell the rest as immortal crystals once they reached the Immortal Realm…
In the Netherworld of Ghosts, Lin Jiu and Guangqi, those fellow souls in misfortune, were allowed to reunite thanks to Su Che’s special favor. There must be much to talk about between the two brothers.
“I never expected to see you in hell again,” Guangqi said through telepathy, his voice tinged with a sad smile. “And even less expected it to happen so soon!”
“You died a step before me, but I arrived a step before you,” Lin Jiu replied with a bitter smile, his words carrying deep meaning.
“I lost!”
Guangqi sighed heavily. “I completely lost to him.”
“Brother Guangqi, is this fate?” Lin Jiu asked softly. “I can’t quite understand it.”
“I understand it!”
Guangqi glanced around the vast emptiness of the Netherworld of Ghosts. “All I know is that our future is in his hands. His decisions are, for us, nothing short of fate!”
“Brother Guangqi, are you saying…” Lin Jiu seemed to grasp something.
“Yes,” Guangqi replied. “I can sense that this is his realm—truly his, not just some ordinary magic artifact space.”
“I see!”
Lin Jiu, who had also been a supreme immortal for millions of years, suddenly understood. “So, he is the successor of fate?”
“Perhaps.”
Guangqi was filled with emotion. “Losing to him isn’t unjust at all. Once he grows further, none of us will even be his opponents.”
Lin Jiu remained silent for a while before saying, “Brother Guangqi, I should apologize to you.”
“Haha, apologies are useless!”

Guangqi smiled and said, “If there’s an afterlife, if it’s possible to be brothers again, next time, it will be my turn to kill you.”
“Good!”
Lin Jiu also smiled and said, “Next time, it’s your turn to kill me.”
“Agreed!”
The two brothers laughed together, though their laughter was merely a mental fluctuation.
After hearing their conversation, Su Che said to Lao He, “We can fulfill their wish. In the next life, let them be twin brothers.”
Lao He found this idea interesting and chuckled, “Then I can act as fate, arranging for them to turn on each other when they grow up, so that Guangqi can kill Lin Jiu?”
“Let it happen naturally. Don’t interfere with their lives.”
Su Che wasn’t joking about this. He said seriously, “The will of fate in the Immortal Prison World doesn’t treat anyone’s life as a game.”
“Alright, alright!”
Lao He scratched his head and muttered, “Sigh, I’ve become evil again.”
Then Su Che smiled and said, “Yes, sometimes I really can’t understand how such a sacred treasure as the Immortal Prison could give birth to a malicious, shameless, despicable, cunning, vicious, and treacherous spirit like you.”
Lao He didn’t care at all and laughed, “Look at you, you’ve listed all my strengths. Isn’t that exactly the purpose of my existence?”
Su Che snorted coldly twice…
After joking around for a while, the master and servant resumed discussing serious matters.
Guangqi wasn’t very interested in raising spiritual beings. His spiritual realm contained only over a billion intelligent beings, which were sufficient to populate two uninhabited planets in the Immortal Prison.
In his spiritual realm, there were no celestial-level subordinates or disciples to cause trouble for Su Che, but there seemed to be another kind of potential danger.
Why “potential” danger?
Because even Guangqi himself wasn’t sure whether that thing, if it continued to exist, would bring fortune or disaster…
Guangqi had set up a forbidden zone in his spiritual realm that no one was allowed to enter. The over a billion beings he raised didn’t dare approach this forbidden area.
It was quite interesting—those hundred million beings living in this small world didn’t know their master was a powerful Xuanxian, nor did they realize their living environment was merely a confined, captive space.
This small world was called the “Guangqi Continent,” with an internal area of about three million square li, roughly the size of three Qiyuan Stars.

In fact, it can be seen as a microcosm of the cultivation world in the mortal realm. Among over a billion living beings, cultivators account for 20%, which is a quite high proportion. Such a ratio only exists in the private spaces of true immortals in the immortal realm; in any real mortal world, no cultivation planet could have such a figure.

Within this small world, there are mortal nations and cultivation sects, with all kinds of social systems present as well. Of course, there are also some mythological stories about those who achieve immortality through spiritual cultivation. To become immortals, the two billion cultivators living here strive tirelessly, competing fiercely for the limited resources and opportunities on the Guangqi Continent.

Speaking of which, Guangqi is quite a benevolent ruler. He usually does not interfere too much with their way of life but merely observes the stories that unfold in this world as a form of entertainment.

The two billion cultivators on the Guangqi Continent all know that there is a forbidden area in the central region of the southern part of the continent, called the “Death Gobi,” covering an area of about five thousand li square. Any living being who enters the Death Gobi will be horrified to find that their vital energy rapidly diminishes the further they go inside. No defensive measures can stop this deadly process.

Over the years, many cultivators have tried to explore this forbidden area and uncover its secrets, hoping that there might be great opportunities hidden within. Yet, the outcome has always been death or failure—a mystery that remains unsolved on the Guangqi Continent.

In fact, the “Death Gobi” was created by Guangqi himself. Forty thousand years ago, by chance, he found an oval fossil ten zhang tall in a desolate place in the immortal realm, which resembled the egg of some giant creature. To his astonishment, this giant egg had the terrifying ability to devour vital energy. As a Xuanxian, he tried every possible method but could not stop this devouring force.

After some thought, he placed the egg in his personal space for living beings and created the Death Gobi as a forbidden area, hoping that among the two billion cultivators on the Guangqi Continent, someone would follow the will of heaven and uncover the secrets of this egg.

At the same time, Guangqi also searched everywhere in the immortal realm for information related to this giant egg, but after forty thousand years, he found nothing. Even the few highly knowledgeable Daluo Jinxian he could reach out to knew nothing about it.

The more this was the case, the more it proved that this egg was extraordinary and by no means ordinary.

This thing gives off an extremely dangerous aura, yet Guangqi is reluctant to get rid of it and can only store it in the Realm of Living Beings, constantly monitoring its changes. To this day, all of Guangqi’s possessions have fallen into Su Che’s hands, so this unpredictable element of fortune and misfortune has also been passed on to him. “It devours the vitality of countless species, not even the Xuanxian are exempt…” “Such a dangerous thing—should it be thrown away?” This was the first thought that crossed Su Che’s mind…