Chapter 819: Unexpected Turn of Events

Four Immortal Emperors at the Seventh Heaven realm, plus Su Che whose strength was unknown, engaged in a fierce battle for over a minute, creating tremendous noise, yet none of them were injured.

In fact, both sides were struggling. Ao Jiang knew that if this continued, it would be impossible to capture Hei Luo. After all, it was already extremely difficult for three Immortal Emperors at the same realm to take down another, let alone with Su Che adding to the chaos.

The task assigned by the Dragon Emperor Immortal Lord might not be achievable.

Similarly, Su Che was also worried: If this dragged on, when would it end? While we were locked in combat here, could someone else go to the Tai Yao Sect and steal the Heavy Light Remains we needed?

Despite their concerns, both sides had no choice but to persevere, as neither was willing to compromise.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

Another half-minute passed. Su Che had unleashed at least ten thousand Chaos Fist attacks and felt exhausted. Just then, the stalemate finally changed.

A figure suddenly appeared in mid-air—tall, muscular, dressed in black, with a mask covering his face.

It was that beast-like masked man!

Su Che’s heart tightened. “He’s one of Yu Huang Tian’s men. He definitely isn’t here to help me. Chances are, he’s here to assist Ao Jiang’s three dragons in capturing Hei Luo.”

Lao Hei also said, “This guy is far stronger than an Immortal Emperor at the Seventh Heaven realm. Our attacks can’t even touch him.”

On the other side, Hei Luo felt chilled. He immediately sent a message to Su Che, “Arbitrator, if things go wrong, I’ll have to escape.”

“Hmm, run if you have to!” Su Che replied. “I promised you I’d take you to the Immortal Lord’s treasure vault. I’ll keep that promise! As long as you stay alive, we can communicate again in the future.”

“Okay!”

Hei Luo responded. In truth, there was nothing else he could do.

But then, something that surprised Su Che and Hei Luo greatly happened.

The masked man charged forward and threw a punch—not at Su Che or Hei Luo, but at Ao Jiang.

Boom!

That punch was far more powerful than Su Che’s current Chaos Fist attacks.

Ao Jiang’s defensive barriers were clearly not as strong as Su Che’s Heavenly Protection. His pale golden defensive barrier was shattered by the punch, sending him flying.

It was unclear whether Ao Jiang was injured. He stabilized himself a thousand feet away and shouted in confusion, “Who are you? How dare you defy the Dragon Emperor Immortal Lord?”

The masked man didn’t answer. He rushed over to another of the Dragon Emperor’s guards and delivered another powerful punch.

Thus, Su Che became a bystander, filled with astonishment: “The people of the Dragon Emperor and those of Yu Huang Tian are not on the same side? Even Ao Jiang doesn’t know this masked strongman… What’s going on here?”
“I’m confused too,” Lao He scratched his forehead, his mind full of questions: “How could Yu Huang Tian send someone to help you?”
“Yes.”
Su Che thought to himself, “Even if someone does come to help me, it should be sent by the Holy Mother or the Evil Emperor. How could it be someone from Yu Huang Tian? What exactly are those Immortal Lords up to?”
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Ao Jiang was about to rush over to stop the masked strongman, but halfway there, he was blocked by three golden spears that appeared out of thin air.
“That invisible person who once attacked me!” Su Che shouted in his mind. “He’s here too.”
“Who the hell are you?”
Ao Jiang roared again, but all he got in response were more swishing sounds and three more golden spears.
Whoosh!
One of the spears pierced through his defense barrier and struck his chest. Ao Jiang let out a muffled groan and was immediately injured.
It was clear that the invisible person sent by Yu Huang Tian and the masked strongman were far more powerful than the Immortal Emperors of the Seventh Heaven.
Only then did Su Che realize that the last time they attacked him, they had held back and not used their full strength—they really didn’t intend to kill him, but only to provoke Yu Qing.
As he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a woman’s voice in his ear. She said, “Leave this to us. You go and do your own thing.”
It was that invisible person. Her tone was cold, but Su Che could tell she had no ill intentions toward him.
“Thank you!”
Still unable to determine her exact location, Su Che could only bow to the air before using teleportation to leave the battlefield and fly toward the direction of the Tai Yao Sect.
The fact that people from Yu Huang Tian would help him left Su Che utterly puzzled.
“Yu Huang Tian has always been my top enemy in my imagination. It’s already good enough that they didn’t send someone to assassinate me. How could they possibly help me instead?”
Just as Lao He said, Su Che also felt completely confused!
“Never mind. Since I can’t figure it out, I’ll stop thinking about it. I’ll focus on getting the Remains of Heavy Light and strengthening my own power.”
The distance of tens of thousands of miles was covered in the blink of an eye. In front of the Tai Yao Sect’s entrance, Su Che encountered another unexpected person—the Immortal Emperor Guang Yi, whom he had met once before in the Heaven’s Will Void.
The top Immortal Emperor under the Holy Mother, at the Ninth Heaven level, and also the oldest Immortal Emperor in the immortal realm.
“Immortal Emperor Guang Yi,” Su Che hurried over to pay his respects.

With her hair tied up high and dressed in a colorful skirt, Guangyi smiled gently and said, “Go ahead. With me here, no one can take away what you desire.”
“Thank you, Emperor Guangyi.”
Su Che didn’t bother to think further or ask more questions. Without pause, he instantly passed through the barrier at the entrance of the Taiyao Sect.
Less than half an hour later, in the main hall of the Taiyao Sect, Sect Master Wen Zhao and the four supreme elders were still anxiously discussing something.
Today’s events had filled them with great concern for the sect’s safety, as none of the immortal emperors were someone they could offend. Moreover, that Dragon Emperor Hei Luo was a criminal of the dragon race, even under the pursuit of the Dragon Emperor Immortal Lord.
Amidst the towering waves, the tiny boat of the Taiyao Sect could easily be shattered to pieces!
Swish!
Inside the Taiyao Sect, no one could stop Su Che. In just a few breaths, he had landed in front of the main hall.
Wen Zhao and the others were shocked at first. Only after recognizing Su Che did they feel slightly relieved.
“Elder!” The five of them hurriedly came out to greet him.
Su Che nodded with a smile, calm and composed.
He had to appear so composed in front of them. Otherwise, if he seemed hurried or panicked, it would only increase their fear and tension.
“It’s okay now.”
Su Che said gently, “Don’t worry. No matter what happens, it won’t affect your Taiyao Sect. This matter has nothing to do with you. Even an immortal lord or emperor wouldn’t vent their anger on you.”
“Thank you, Elder.”
Only then did Wen Zhao and the others relax somewhat.
After that, Su Che was led to the most central and heavily guarded cultivation hall of the Taiyao Sect. In reality, it was just a seemingly ordinary small building.
Wen Zhao explained, “The so-called cultivation hall is actually built using an entire skull from a demon god’s remains, with hardly any changes made. We simply covered it with a layer of building structure.”
Su Che looked at the small building and asked in a deep voice, “What’s the time flow ratio inside?”
“It can be adjusted up to one to five hundred,” Wen Zhao replied. “But each activation requires a large amount of immortal crystals. Therefore, it’s only used for a few key disciples being trained by the sect.”
Su Che nodded lightly. He didn’t need further explanation to realize that this cultivation hall consumed too many immortal crystals. It could only be useful for lower-level disciples. It would be of little use to Golden Immortals or Great Luo Golden Immortals.

A time flow rate of one to five hundred—one year outside equals five hundred years inside. It sounds quite reasonable, but for cultivators at the Golden Immortal level and above, each stage of advancement requires millions of years, tens of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions of years of cultivation. If one relies on the Cultivation Sanctuary to shorten this time, the amount of Immortal Crystals consumed is beyond what a sect like Taiyao Sect can afford.

“Just one skull was used. So, most of the bones are still intact, right?” Su Che asked again.

“More or less,” Wen Zhao replied cautiously. “Also, the few of us used some of the Demon God’s bones to craft a few magical artifacts. Their power isn’t very strong, but they can barely be considered top-tier Immortal Weapons. I estimate that about seven-tenths of the remaining Demon God’s bones are still there.”

“Seven-tenths is quite good,” Su Che said, fairly satisfied.

Inside a cave behind the Cultivation Sanctuary, Su Che saw the remains of the Demon God Chongguang. The skeletal structure was largely intact, showing that Taiyao Sect had preserved it well. Only the skull, the entire right arm, and the left palm were missing—so about seventy percent of the bones remained.

“What’s that?” Su Che asked, noticing a dense dark mass hidden within the chestbone framework. It looked like a round black stone attached to the chestbone, covering the area where the heart should be.

“I’m not sure either,” Wen Zhao replied. “I can only guess it might be Chongguang’s heart, turned into an extremely hard fossil. I’ve tried various methods but couldn’t cut it away.”

Su Che raised his eyebrows, thinking to himself, “Even at the later stages of the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, with top-tier magical weapons, the cutting power is already quite impressive. If that can’t even break this fossil, there must be some mystery within it.”

“Well, I’ll take these remains,” Su Che said with a smile.

“Please, Lord Immortal,” Wen Zhao bowed in respect.

Whoosh!

The nearly seventy-zhang-long remains of the Demon God were taken into Su Che’s Immortal Prison. If Chongguang’s skull were still there, his skeleton would surely be over a hundred zhang in length.

Next, as per the request of Wen Zhao and the others, Su Che left behind some precious materials and various cultivation resources—things he had promised earlier.

From the Immortal Lord’s treasure vault, Su Che had seized the personal wealth of eight hundred Immortal Emperors. What he took out today was just a drop in the ocean, insignificant.

By the time Wen Zhao and the others respectfully saw Su Che off at the mountain entrance, good news also came from Lao Hei.

“Master, Chongguang truly deserves to be called the second-greatest deity of time after Zhuo Jiu Yin. The primordial power of time contained in his remains is extremely substantial. After absorbing and integrating it, your ability to travel through time has reached up to a hundred years in either direction.”
“A hundred years in either direction” means: up to a hundred years back in time and up to a hundred years into the future.
“Hasn’t that heart fossil of his been integrated yet?” Su Che asked.
“That’s another good news,” the old man replied with a laugh. “From my tests, that heart fossil appears to be part of Chongguang the Demon God’s time domain. If it’s integrated with our Immortal Prison’s Time Wheel, the control over time flow will be quite remarkable.”