142: Chapter 142 Immortal Emperor's Treasure Vault
Upper Realm, Thirty-Three Heavens, Lingxiao Immortal Palace.
"Whew..."
A long wind, mixed with thick blood scent and Immortal Qi, blew across the dilapidated white jade square.
The Immortal Emperor's corpse had already been kicked down to the Mortal Realm by Lin Que. On that Nine Dragon Imperial Throne, which symbolized the highest power of this Major Thousand Worlds, a youth in snow-white clothes sat lazily.
Lin Que propped his chin with one hand, while the other was casually rested on the hilt of the **[true immortal artifact: world meteor]**.
He said nothing, just quietly looking down below.
On the square, the hundred thousand strong army of the Immortal Slaying Pavilion riding Purple-Gold Immortal Demon Dragons, as well as the Thirty-Six Ancestors, Su Qingyu, and others, all maintained a kneeling posture on one knee.
No one dared to speak and disturb this new Dominator who had just defied heaven and slaughtered the emperor.
They were waiting, waiting for Lin Que to issue new Laws for this Universe.
"All of you, rise. The ground is cold."
After a long time, Lin Que's calm and slightly lazy voice finally echoed slowly above the Thirty-Three Heavens.
"Thank you, Lord!!"
The hundred thousand soldiers stood up in unison, the clatter of their armor plates sounding exceptionally deafening in this silent Immortal Palace.
"Qingyu, Old Chen."
Lin Que slightly raised his hand.
"Your subordinate is here!" The two immediately stepped forward, their eyes flashing with irrepressible excitement.
"Pass down the order for the army to rest where they are. Thoroughly clean this Thirty-Three Heavens for me. Those surrendering Immortal soldiers—those willing to work, incorporate them into the Labor Camp; those unwilling, send them directly to Reincarnation."
Lin Que's gaze swept across the depths of the Lingxiao Palace, a sharp light flashing in his heterochromatic eyes:
"Furthermore, that old fellow, the Immortal Emperor, ruled for millions of years; he couldn't possibly have only this little wealth on the surface. Dig out his old nest for me."
"As you command!"
Seeing the army begin to take over the Immortal Palace in an orderly manner, Lin Que finally closed his eyes again.
Having just forcibly taken the Immortal Emperor's suicidal [Heavenly Dao Punishment Sword], although he absorbed a massive amount of Luck through the System's anti-formatting and broke through to the **[Great Perfection of Soul Transformation]** in one go...
...his twenty-five million jin **Dark Gold Demon God Body** also bore a tremendous load.
Lin Que silently operated the **Blood Scripture**.
Purple-gold blood flowed slowly within his body like a deep-sea undercurrent, nourishing every inch of the Dark Gold Bones cracked by the high pressure.
He was in no hurry to charge towards the so-called "Void Returning Realm."
Because his path was the path of the **inner heaven and earth**.
As long as that Small Universe with a radius of a hundred thousand miles within his Dantian continued to expand and perfect itself, his combat power would grow endlessly. External Realm divisions had long since lost their meaning to him.
"System, don't rest. This Lingxiao Immortal Palace is too big. Relying on them to search with their Divine Sense alone, who knows how long it will take. Scan it for me and see where the Immortal Emperor hid his private treasury."
Lin Que naturally issued the command in his mind.
[Command received! Detecting current environment as the core control hub of the Major Thousand Worlds (Lingxiao Immortal Palace)!]
[Analysis: This area contains a large number of High-dimensional Space Folding Formations and Hidden Dimension Fragments.]
[Logic reorganization initiated—'Deep disk scan and forced display of hidden files' mode!]
[Operation 1: Forcibly strip the Immortal Emperor's residual Heavenly Dao disguise code! Execute full-disk dead-angle-free perspective!]
[Operation 2: Locate high-energy reaction sources! Discovered a 'Subspace Treasury' independent of the Thirty-Three Heavens!]
[Operation 3: Crack the password lock! Forcibly overwrite the Immortal Emperor's 'Blood-drop Divine Soul Authentication' with the host's 'Inner Heaven and Earth World Tree Iris Authentication'!]
"Ding! The Immortal Emperor's ultimate private treasury has opened its doors for you! Please proceed to extract the spoils, Host!"
"Buzz!"
The moment the System prompt finished.
Behind the Nine Dragon Imperial Throne where Lin Que sat, that huge jade wall carved with the Primordial Star Map suddenly emitted a violent mechanical roar!
Immediately after, the jade wall slowly split from the middle, revealing a deep space-time tunnel emitting terrifying Immortal Qi fluctuations!
"This is... the Immortal Emperor's treasury?!"
The Chen Family Old Ancestor, who had just finished leading the cleanup of the hall, saw the tunnel appearing out of thin air, and his beard curled up in shock.
They had just scanned hundreds of times with their Peak Nascent Soul Divine Sense without finding any clues, yet the Lord sat in his chair without moving and made the treasury open its own door?!
"Let's go in and pick up some goods."
Lin Que stood up, carrying the jie yun blade, and led the way into the tunnel. Su Qingyu and the Chen Family Old Ancestor quickly followed with a team of elites.
Passing through the short space-time corridor.
When everyone's vision suddenly cleared, they were all completely shocked by the sight before them.
This was not an ordinary treasury at all, but a "Small World" forcibly compressed into a Sumeru Space!
In the sky, a full one hundred and eight sealed top-grade Immortal Veins floated, like sleeping golden dragons.
On the ground, mountains of hundred-thousand-year-old Immortal Spiritual Plants, shimmering Immortal Gold Ores, and countless Primordial Great Demon Inner Cores sealed in crystal pillars practically blinded everyone's eyes!
"This... how many Dragon Cavalry units could this arm..."
The Chen Family Old Ancestor swallowed hard, feeling like he had never seen so much money in his life.
"Don't act like you've never seen the world."
Lin Que glanced at the mountain of wealth with extreme indifference.
If it were before, he might have been moved.
But now, possessing a hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth, these dead objects were just numbers to him.
"Old Chen, inventory these Immortal Veins and pills, and distribute them to the hundred thousand brothers based on their military merits. I don't like hoarding dead money; resources that can be converted into combat power are good resources."
Lin Que waved his hand, setting the tone with extreme dominance:
"Tell the soldiers to use them freely! Once they're used up, I'll take you to plunder other worlds!"
"The Lord is wise!!"
The Chen Family Old Ancestor trembled with excitement. With such a commander who viewed wealth as dirt and was extremely generous to his subordinates, how could the hundred thousand soldiers not fight to the death?
Lin Que didn't bother with his subordinates who were frantically moving items in the treasury.
His sharp heterochromatic eyes directly penetrated this space, locking onto an extremely inconspicuous corner in the deepest part of the treasury.
There, a black stone platform without any luster or even Spiritual Qi fluctuations floated.
And on the stone platform, a bizarre Jade Slip, pitch-black and neither metal nor jade, lay quietly.
"This thing... does not belong to the Heavenly Dao Laws of this Universe."
Lin Que frowned slightly; the fifth [Leaf of Order] of the World Tree within him actually produced a very slight sense of repulsion towards this Jade Slip.
He slowly stepped forward, reached out his right hand that glowed with a warm luster, and grabbed the black Jade Slip.
The moment Lin Que's fingers touched the Jade Slip!
"Zzzzt—"
From within the Jade Slip, a piercing static sound suddenly erupted, as if crossing endless star seas and dimensions!
Following that.
A voice—extremely cold, grand, and so high above that it froze one's Soul—boomed directly in Lin Que's mind!
"Caretaker of Pasture No. 33. Why have your life signs disappeared?"
"There are still five hundred years until the 'Harvest Period' of this era. Have those Lower Realm livestock in the pasture been fattened up?"
Just two short sentences.
Yet they were like a ten-thousand-ton nuclear bomb dropped onto a calm lake!
Su Qingyu and the Chen Family Old Ancestor, who were still counting treasures in the distance, couldn't hear the voice in the Jade Slip, but they were horrified to find that the temperature of the entire treasury dropped to the freezing point in an instant!
An unprecedented, terrifyingly intense gravity and killing intent erupted from Lin Que's body!
"Pasture? Caretaker? Lower Realm livestock?"
Lin Que stared intently at the black Jade Slip in his hand, the purple-gold demon flames deep in his eyes beginning to flicker frantically.
He finally understood why the Immortal Emperor of this Universe was so arrogant yet appeared somewhat weak.
It turned out that these so-called Nine Heavens and Thirty-Three Heavens, this "Immortal Realm" that countless Lower Realm Cultivators had fought to ascend to for millions of years...
...in the eyes of higher-dimensional existences, was nothing but a damn "breeding farm"!
The Immortal Emperor was merely a dog they kept here, a security guard responsible for watching over "Pasture No. 33"!
And the ten billion living beings of the Central Continent, as well as all the Immortals in this Upper Realm, were all livestock waiting to be "harvested"!
"Zzzzt... Detecting life fluctuations of a non-caretaker."
The cold voice within the Jade Slip seemed to notice the anomaly, its tone instantly becoming filled with absolute contempt that transcended the Universe:
"Ant. You actually dared to kill the caretaker appointed by the great 'Star Sea Realm'."
"Since the pasture is out of control, there is no need for its existence. Within thirty years, the Star Sea Cleansing Fleet will descend. Every grain of dust in this Universe will be erased."
This was a condescending death notice.
It didn't ask for reasons, didn't ask who you were. You broke my farm, so I'll burn the entire farm along with the livestock inside.
Facing this terrifying threat from a higher dimension, facing this desperate truth enough to make any Cultivator's Dao Heart collapse.
Lin Que was silent for three full breaths.
Then.
He suddenly began to laugh softly.
The laughter was light at first, then grew louder and louder, finally turning into an extremely wild and arrogant primordial demonic sound that shook the entire Subspace Treasury!
"Hahahaha!!! Cleansing fleet? Erase the Universe?"
Lin Que suddenly clenched his right fist!
Twenty-five million jin of Dark Gold Extreme Realm Power, combined with the world pressure of the hundred-thousand-mile inner heaven and earth, erupted in his palm!
"Crack!"
That black Jade Slip, claimed to be made of Star Sea Secret Gold and indestructible, was directly crushed into dust by Lin Que's brutal grip!
In the final 0.1 seconds before the slight cross-Realm mental connection within the Jade Slip was about to break.
Lin Que's lazy, cold, yet extremely domineering voice, which showed he didn't care if he tore a hole in the sky, was fiercely transmitted through that unknown dimensional waveband:
"The dog you kept has been slaughtered by me."
"This crappy farm of yours, I've taken it over too."
"Thirty years is too long; I'm afraid I can't wait."
"Wash your necks and wait."
"I will lead this group of 'livestock' to your Star Sea personally and eat your flesh!!!"