496: Chapter 496 Charge, Fatty! Go and verify that miracle that can change your destiny!

Su Chen's gaze swept across everyone's faces.

Finally, it landed on Hua Nongying.

He looked at her.

In those ink-black eyes, there wasn't a hint of ambiguity, not a trace of teasing, and none of his usual lazy banter.

There was only one thing that made the Sect Master of Hehuan Sect's heart skip a beat.

Scrutiny.

Cold and precise, like a craftsman weighing a tool to see if it was still fit for use.

Hua Nongying's heart rate spiraled out of control.

Instinctively, she wanted to curl her lips and use her practiced, charming smile to melt away the pressure.

But the moment the muscles at the corners of her mouth twitched, they were pinned in place by Su Chen's gaze, unable to move.

A thought clearly surfaced in her mind.

In the Lower Realm, beauty was her weapon, schemes were her armor, and the Hehuan Sect was her backing.

But here, in a city where even a Sweeping Auntie could slap her to death...

Those things were worthless.

“Sect Master Hua.”

Su Chen's voice was very calm.

Hua Nongying's back straightened instantly as she subconsciously set aside her hollow airs as a newly ascended Great Emperor; only pure respect remained in her tone.

“What are your orders, Young Master?”

“When you had your Breakthrough in the Immortal Passing Pool, how was it different from your past Cultivation?” Su Chen asked.

This question stunned everyone present.

Since their Ascension, their brains had been repeatedly hammered by the harsh reality of the Immortal Realm, leaving them no time to review the details of their Breakthrough.

A flicker of reminiscence passed through Hua Nongying's beautiful eyes as she thought back seriously for a moment.

Then, her expression changed.

In those charming fox-like eyes, a look of horror appeared that even she herself could hardly believe.

“In response to the Young Master,”

“after This humble servant's Awakening of the Flowing Fire Spirit Physique, while absorbing Immortal Qi in the Immortal Passing Pool...”

She paused, seemingly searching for a precise description.

“That feeling... it was like...”

“In the past, Cultivate was like taking an embroidery needle and carefully dripping water into a lake.”

“After the Awakening of the spirit physique, it was as if someone had directly overturned a celestial river and poured it forcefully into my body!”

“The speed was at least twenty times faster!”

Her voice began to tremble slightly; it was the shock of hindsight.

“Not only that!”

“The step from the Peak of the Quasi-Emperor to the realm of the Great Emperor for This humble servant...”

“had... almost no Bottleneck!”

“That Emperor's Dao chasm, which theoretically could stop countless Prodigies, seemed to not exist at all for me.”

“When the water boiled, the lid simply flew off on its own.”

She grew more excited as she spoke, her voice shaking.

It felt like studying hard for ten years for the college entrance exam, only to open the paper and find the question was 'what is 1+1'.

Absurd, yet incredibly real.

Su Chen nodded, his face wearing that standard “everything is under control” indifference.

He had guessed it long ago.

These spirit physique things were the trump cards of the chosen ones in the Lower Realm.

But in the Immortal Realm, they were likely just the starting hand everyone possessed.

“What will truly allow us to catch up to the locals here in the shortest time isn't a spirit physique.”

Su Chen raised a finger.

“It's the immortal body.”

The words “immortal body” were like two massive boulders crashing into the lake of everyone's hearts.

Jian Buping's brow twitched wildly.

Monk Jiese's prayer beads stopped.

The teacup in Qian Duoduo's hand hung in mid-air, forgotten on its way to his lips.

Su Chen looked around at everyone, and every word seemed squeezed from between his teeth, clear and heavy.

“So, my plan is simple.”

“I'm going to get an immortal body marrow core for everyone sitting here.”

“Let us all possess immortal bodies.”

His voice fell.

The entire private room fell into a deathly silence that could swallow the Soul.

This wasn't just quiet.

This was the System blankness after the brain crashed from the impact of a massive amount of information.

It was the daze of a Mortal who, after hearing a god say “I will grant you eternal life,” had even forgotten how to breathe.

Qian Duoduo's mouth slowly opened.

Bit by bit, it opened to a terrifying degree, enough to fit a unicorn's leg inside.

The cup of scalding immortal tea in his hand slipped through his stiff fingers.

“Clatter!”

The teacup shattered on the table, and the scalding tea splashed all over his pants.

He was completely oblivious.

Jian Buping's hand on his sword hilt suddenly tightened, veins bulging, and his knuckles let out a crisp “creak” from the excessive force.

His sword-heart was humming, trembling, and screaming!

That wasn't excitement.

It was telling him that his master might have heard the most outrageous hallucination of the century.

The monk Monk Jiese stood frozen on the spot.

That “amitabha” was stuck in his throat for a full three breaths, twisting and turning eighty-one times, but he just couldn't spit it out.

Finally, it turned into a short, dry gasp.

“...Hiss!”

Hua Nongying's reaction was the most complex.

In those calculating fox eyes, shock, absurdity, and a hint of a wild desire she didn't dare admit to were frantically intertwining and colliding!

An immortal body?

And fucking... one for everyone?!

Su Chen took in everyone's expressions; while he remained calm on the surface, his inner monologue was scrolling like a waterfall.

【Holy shit, looking at their expressions, do they think I've gone mad?】

【Good, this is exactly the effect I wanted!】

【immortal body marrow core—God knows what that thing is! But it doesn't matter!】

【I just got ten million Immortal Stones! The System has already adapted to the Immortal Realm mode! This means that as long as the diary I write is miserable enough and the emotional value is high enough, the rewards will definitely upgrade!】

【Now I'll boast and raise their expectations to the Peak, then later I'll write a “miserable” diary entry about how “I've grown white hair from worrying about getting immortal bodies for my subordinates”...】

【System, would you have the heart not to give me a grand prize?!】

【I'm not just making empty promises; I'm holding a product launch event in advance for future gains!】

“Bo... Boss...”

Qian Duoduo was finally the first to recover a shred of consciousness from his petrified state.

But his voice was trembling violently, as if something were clutching his throat.

“What... what you just said... is it true?”

He swallowed hard, his beady eyes filled with “my reason tells me this is nonsense, but my Soul wants to kneel and believe you”.

“We... we just ascended on our first day, and we'd even have to buy a plate of braised pork on credit...”

“And you just say... one for everyone...”

He stopped abruptly there.

Because Su Chen looked over, his gaze calm.

Su Chen didn't explain or reassure him. He simply turned his head and gave an order to Qian Duoduo, who was almost on his knees.

“Qian Duoduo, go downstairs right now.”

“Go find the manager of this Yingxian Restaurant and ask only one thing.”

“Where in Peng City can one obtain an immortal body marrow core.”

“Find out clearly and come back to tell me.”

Qian Duoduo was stunned.

He instantly understood Su Chen's meaning.

The boss wasn't joking with him.

The boss wasn't painting an unreachable pie in the sky.

The boss was letting him go down and verify it for himself—

whether this pie could actually be eaten!

“Yes!”

He almost roared the word.

In the next second, his plump body launched from the chair. Wiping cold sweat from his forehead and not even caring about his tea-soaked pants, he stumbled toward the door of the private room at a speed completely inconsistent with his build.

That back didn't look like a merchant's.

It looked more like a drowning man who had spotted the only life-saving straw on the shore.