Chapter 802: Tomb Stone Coffin

Everything in the shop was normal, but Su Che and Lao Hei were indeed right—several years ago, the ancient old woman had arrived and had been waiting in the shop.
By a lake in the shop’s space, the small building where the ancient old woman lived was temporarily set up there, still bearing the signboard of “Cang Ji Ancient Artifacts.”
When Su Che first arrived at Haoyuan Tian Shi, the ancient old woman seemed like an unfathomably powerful being in his eyes. Now, he realized she was only at the later stage of the Da Luo Jin Xian realm.
Dinglingling…
Su Che entered Cang Ji Ancient Artifacts. The ancient artifacts inside were still displayed on the shelves, seemingly unchanged.
“In the blink of an eye, you’ve reached the middle stage of Xuan Xian. Your progress is truly remarkable.”
The ancient old woman came out from the back room and nodded at Su Che.
It was less than two thousand years since he had ascended from a human immortal to the middle stage of Xuan Xian—undoubtedly astonishing. But the ancient old woman thought it was normal for him to be able to do what even Immortal Lords couldn’t revive ancient artifacts.
Unbeknownst to her, Su Che was not only at the middle stage of Xuan Xian but had already reached the later stage of Jin Xian. With a hundredfold enhancement, he even possessed the strength to confront a Sixth Heaven Immortal Emperor head-on.
“Ancient Old Woman, I’m sorry for making you wait.”
Su Che still treated this old woman with the same respect as before. He always did this toward anyone who had helped him along his journey.
“It wasn’t long—just a few years,” the ancient old woman said lightly, waving her hand. “Your growth rate is truly pleasing.”
For her, the stronger Su Che became, the better.
Without wasting words, Su Che asked directly, “Ancient Old Woman, shall we set off now?”
“If you have no other matters, that would be ideal,” the ancient old woman nodded.
“Then let’s go.”
Su Che knew that the ancient old woman had held onto a obsession for over 100 million years. As the time approached, her anticipation and anxiety intertwined—a feeling that others could hardly understand.
The ancient old woman stored “Cang Ji Ancient Artifacts” in her personal space and left the shop with Su Che, flying away from Haoyuan Tian Shi.
This time, Su Che took Fei Yun back to the Immortal Prison and left behind several soul slaves at the later stage of Jin Xian to guard the shop.
The reason was that Fei Yun didn’t want to stay in the shop—seeing Su Che only once every hundred or two hundred years was better than returning to the Immortal Prison. In the Immortal Prison world, at least she could feel, mentally, that he was always with her…

As they flew, at first, the old woman deliberately controlled the flight speed, taking care of Su Che, who was in the middle stage of the Xuanxian realm. Unexpectedly, not far from Haoyuan Tian Shi, Su Che’s speed soared rapidly, reaching the normal speed of the late stage of the Daluo Jinxian realm before stabilizing.

The old woman said nothing, but it was clear that this wasn’t his ultimate speed. She couldn’t help but marvel inwardly: this young man truly had many secrets.

The news of the emergence from the Immortal Lord’s Treasure Vault had already spread like wildfire throughout the immortal realm. However, only a very few people knew Su Che’s name; most only knew of a supremely mysterious “Lord Arbiter.”

Thus, the old woman knew quite little about Su Che.

A few hours later, guided by the old woman, the two flew into a continuous range of mountains. It seemed this was roughly the destination.

“So close?”

Su Che was used to long journeys, so a few hours’ flight distance was like walking to the doorstep in the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Noticing Su Che’s curiosity, the old woman took the initiative to explain, “It’s because it’s so close that I chose to open Cangji Ancient Artifacts in Haoyuan Tian Shi.”

“I see,” Su Che nodded.

Deep in the mountains, they landed on the slope of a high mountain. The old woman floated into the crown of an ancient tree and moved a dozen branches one after another. With a series of clicks, a huge rock beneath the tree slowly shifted sideways, revealing a deep tunnel.

“A highly sophisticated concealment formation.”

Su Che nodded in thought. This concealment formation could even deceive his own and Lao Hei’s detection abilities. Despite a tunnel clearly existing nearby, their spiritual senses couldn’t detect it even when penetrating deep underground.

Entering the tunnel, the old woman casually activated a mechanism, and the rock above slowly closed, restoring the concealment formation. Undoubtedly, some secret hidden here had existed for hundreds of millions of years.

The terrain of the immortal realm was just like this—unchanged for hundreds of billions or even trillions of years, unlike mortal planets, which changed drastically every few thousand years.

Following the winding tunnel deeper into the mountain, they reached a small stone chamber.

The chamber was empty except for a compass-shaped teleportation formation carved into the ground.

Directed teleportation!

By now, Su Che had vast experience. At a glance, he realized this was a fixed teleportation formation with an extremely special activation method—like a password with tens of thousands of digits. Even if an immortal emperor found this place, it would be impossible to crack such a complex password setup.

If it can’t be cracked, the teleportation array won’t be able to start properly; if forced to start, it will self-destruct. It’s clear that the ancient woman went to great lengths to keep her secret.
Click, click, click, click…
The ancient woman moved swiftly, inputting extremely complex character codes on the compass-shaped teleportation array. Only a immortal’s memory could retain them so firmly, never to be forgotten.
This process lasted nearly fifteen minutes. Finally, she had to use her own immortal essence and blood traits to activate the array properly.
“Quite complicated,” Su Che thought to himself.
Buzz…
The teleportation array activated, and the two disappeared inside the stone chamber.
After the transfer, the thousands of characters on the array randomly rearranged themselves. The next time it was activated, they would have to be reset again.
After a dozen breaths, Su Che and the others arrived in an underground cave.
“Thirty million li underground,” the ancient woman murmured. “This is it.”
It was less of an underground cave and more of a tomb. Su Che saw a stone coffin, fifty zhang long and over ten zhang wide. Someone sleeping inside such a large coffin surely wasn’t an ordinary person.
The grayish-green coffin had no excessive decorations—simple, solemn, yet capable of blocking Su Che’s spiritual perception. Clearly, its material was extraordinary.
Seeing the coffin, Su Che guessed something and asked softly, “Ancient woman, do you want to revive a being? A being as ancient as the ancient artifacts?”
The predecessor of the ancient artifacts—those primordial magical treasures—and a being as ancient as them… could it be an ancient demon god?
If so, this would be quite troublesome!
Defying the will of heaven was outright rebellion.
“That’s right. He was once an ancient demon god, but he was also my lover.”
The ancient woman lit an oil lamp. Its small flame could illuminate the entire cave. Of course, this lamp was also an immortal artifact.
“An ancient demon god was your lover?”
Su Che was puzzled and asked, “Given your age, how could you have known such an ancient demon god?”
Eons ago, all ancient demon gods had been eliminated by the will of heaven. How could the ancient woman, who was hundreds of millions of years old, have had a romantic relationship with one of them?
Unless…
Su Che suddenly understood: “Unless the ancient woman is also the reincarnation of one of those ancient demon gods.”
“Did you guess it?”

The ancient old woman turned slowly and said in a soft voice, “In my past life, I was also an ancient demon god, and he was my husband… Simply put, when heaven’s punishment came, he used all his life force to cast a secret spell, crossing time and space to send my soul millions of years into the future, where I was reborn as a human—this life of mine.”
“He died, and I remained alive, but what’s the point of living like this?”
Her words were calm, yet her eyes held deep sorrow. “If it weren’t for hope, if reviving him weren’t a source of comfort and belief, I really wouldn’t have any interest in this world.”
“Crossing time and space to be reborn as a human…”
Su Che frowned slightly, thinking to himself, “It’s possible that the old couple were among those less powerful ancient demon gods, so heaven’s punishment wasn’t severe enough for them to escape by crossing time and space. But now that the old woman has been reborn as a human, she poses no threat to heaven anymore, so heaven turns a blind eye and stops troubling her.”
“But if I were to revive her husband, wouldn’t that be outright defiance against heaven? That would be…”
Su Che realized the seriousness of this matter. Regardless of whether he had the ability to revive an ancient demon god, the first question was: Was it even possible?
The old woman also understood the stakes and said, “I’m not asking you to truly revive him. I only hope you can bring him back in some other form, just like reviving ancient artifacts. Even if he becomes extremely weak, even if he’s no longer who he used to be, I can still raise him as my own child…”
“I understand, I understand…”
Su Che nodded and sat down in a corner. “Old woman, let me think this through.”
“Okay,” she nodded gently, staring blankly at the stone coffin.
Her husband was dead. Even if a body remained, his soul had long vanished.
Even if Su Che used the power of the Heavenly Prison to infuse life back into that body, which had once suffered heaven’s punishment, and insert a new soul, it would no longer be the same person.
It was like the difference between an ancient treasure and an ancient artifact.
Of course, the old woman surely understood all this. She just wanted a source of spiritual comfort. Just as a mother can endure everything strongly even after her husband dies, as long as her child is still alive.
For the sake of her husband and her child, all she sought was a spiritual anchor to give her life more meaning.

After thinking silently for a while, Su Che raised his head and asked, “Grandma Gu, I want to know how you and your husband were able to avoid the punishment of the Heavenly Dao and preserve your soul?”
In other words, under the punishment of the Heavenly Dao, even the twelve most powerful Ancestral Witches died—so how could you still be able to reincarnate your soul?
This was extremely important. Su Che wanted to understand the will of heaven as thoroughly as possible before deciding whether he could do this or not. If not, he would have no choice but to apologize to Grandma Gu. Since heaven had been so kind to him, Su Che really had no reason to go against its will or do anything against it.
Grandma Gu replied softly, “It’s because my husband had prophetic abilities. Even before the Heavenly Dao imposed its punishment, he had predicted our fate and made many preparations in advance, which allowed him to secure a sliver of hope for me.”
“Prophetic abilities?” Su Che was intrigued.
“Great!” Lao He shouted inside the Immortal Prison, “The prophetic function of the eighth layer of the Immortal Prison finally has an explanation!”