Chapter 292: Chaos

Su Che used the Shadow Stealth technique to travel hundreds of miles, aiming to reach Tianlao Mountain to cause some trouble for the several Yuan Ying ancestors of Lingyao Mountain.
By interrogating Lu Changqing, Su Che learned that Tianlao Mountain was not a regular cultivation site but a prison within Lingyao Mountain Sect used to hold serious criminals.
Some time ago, the seven major sects of the Chaos Faction frantically captured passing cultivators. Just in Lingyao Mountain alone, tens of thousands of independent cultivators and thousands of disciples from other sects were captured.
Most of them had already submitted to Lingyao Mountain. When chaos reached a certain level in the cultivation world, these people would be used as pawns to attack well-defended sects like Tianxuan Sect.
Apart from those who submitted, there were still thousands of stubborn ones who refused to yield and were imprisoned in Tianlao Mountain to be brainwashed gradually. At present, they surely harbored hatred or hostility toward Lingyao Mountain.
If they were released, the entire Lingyao Mountain Sect would surely fall into chaos. Su Che believed that only by hiding amidst the chaos could he survive these few days until the mountain protection formation was lifted, allowing him to escape.
Tianlao Mountain also had a protective barrier, but by disguising himself as any of the Golden Core elders imprisoned in the Immortal Prison, Su Che could pass through the barrier and enter.
Tianlao Mountain, towering thousands of feet high, stood before him. While other parts of the sect were brightly lit, this mountain was eerily silent, like a hellish place.
In the Immortal Prison, Lao He retrieved the topographic map of Tianlao Mountain from the memories of several Golden Core elders, combined them, and transformed it into an extremely detailed mental map, which he transmitted to Su Che. Thus, Su Che immediately lost his sense of unfamiliarity with Tianlao Mountain, feeling as familiar with it as he did with Mysterious Peak.
Continuing to use Shadow Stealth, Su Che climbed up along the mountain’s terrain, first arriving at the “Class B” prison area.
Tianlao Mountain had tens of thousands of prison cells, divided into three categories: Class C for cultivators in the Qi Cultivation stage, Class B for those in the Foundation Establishment stage, and Class A for those in the Golden Core stage.
Su Che planned to first open the Class B cells and release all the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage, then have them free the cultivators in Class C. He could also use the strength of these prisoners to deal with the guards on Tianlao Mountain.
After that, he would open the Class A cells and release the dozen or so Golden Core stage prisoners…

Cell Block B was located at the upper part of Tianlao Mountain. Normally, it was guarded by over a hundred disciple guards and six Golden Core elders on rotation. At this moment, there should be forty disciples and two Golden Core elders on duty.

Su Che still used his disguise technique to capture one of the guarding disciples first, transformed into his appearance, and went to one of the elders, pretending to have urgent matters to report. Using his Soul Seizing ability, he took control of that elder. Then, he transformed into the appearance of that elder and silently subdued the other one as well.

Both elders were only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm. With a single Soul Seizing attack, they weren’t just confused—they had their vital spirits shaken, causing them to faint immediately. Su Che could then easily capture them and put them into the Immortal Prison.

By now, Su Che had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, giving him a huge advantage over lower-level cultivators. If it were cultivators at the early stage of the Foundation Establishment realm, a single Soul Seizing attack could kill them outright by forcibly extracting their souls and taking them into the Immortal Prison.

Forcing the extraction of a soul meant taking their life directly! In fact, this was the true meaning of the Soul Seizing ability.

After that, Su Che, under the guise of one of the guarding elders, gathered the remaining thirty-nine disciples before him and said in a deep voice, “We need to be on high alert these next few days. All of you must…”

The disciples were listening attentively when suddenly everything went dark, and hundreds of ghost servants descended upon them…

From then on, they could only settle in the Immortal Prison and continue their cultivation there.

In the future, if the problem of spiritual energy in the Immortal Prison space could be resolved, Su Che might even allow them to establish their own sects and create another cultivation world—of course, one that would completely belong to Su Che.

Next, Su Che went to the control room of the prison block and opened all the doors of the cells in Block B, lifting all the sealing arrays.

The cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage imprisoned in those cells were surprised to find that the doors opened silently, allowing them to walk out.

Their vital energies were still sealed inside them, making them like ordinary people with strong physiques. As they stepped out of the cells, Su Che rushed over and, without saying a word, quickly lifted the seals on dozens of them, restoring their cultivation strength.

“Elder, what are you doing…?”

The rescued Foundation Establishment cultivators, seeing Su Che dressed in the robes of a senior from the Spirit Herb Mountain, were confused and couldn’t figure out his intentions.

Su Che didn’t bother to explain anything. He simply said, “Help the others lift the seals and restore their strength right away. Then, rescue all the prisoners at Cell Category C. The more people there are, the greater the chance of escaping.” Without saying any extra words, they weren’t fools—they naturally knew what to do next.

Whoosh…

The scene immediately turned chaotic as more and more cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage lifted their seals and regained their strength. Roughly counted, there were over a thousand of them. Meanwhile, Su Che had already slipped away quietly, continuing upward to reach the higher-level Cells Category A.

Using the same tactics as before, he quickly took care of the Golden Core stage elder guarding the area and set free the dozen or so Golden Core stage prisoners in the cells.

Mount Tianlao was in an uproar and chaos, like a major riot inside the prison. Of course, only Su Che knew that once these people scattered throughout the Lingyao Mountain sect, although they would cause some disturbance, it would be quickly suppressed. They would still inevitably be captured and forced back into the cells… It was certain—after all, Lingyao Mountain was a super sect. A few thousand prisoners mainly at the Foundation Establishment and Qi Cultivation stages couldn’t stir up much trouble.

Moreover, the mountain protection array was in a fully sealed state, preventing anyone from escaping during this time.

After that, Su Che used his teleportation skill to slip away quietly. The thousands of prisoners who had temporarily gained freedom rushed out of Mount Tianlao and scattered in all directions.

In less than fifteen minutes, alarm horns sounded everywhere within the Lingyao Mountain sect.

Woo woo woo…

The prisoners killed anyone they encountered and caused havoc everywhere, acting like madmen, trying to vent all their resentment from being imprisoned. When they faced opponents they couldn’t defeat, they would turn and flee. Or sometimes, a group of prisoners would team up to attack someone from Lingyao Mountain.

The chaos spread rapidly outward from Mount Tianlao as its center…

“Something’s wrong at Mount Tianlao!”

The four sect founders of Lingyao Mountain were still inspecting the other peaks one by one. Upon receiving the alarm, they hesitated not for a moment and immediately returned to Tiankui Star.

There was no doubt that the culprit had already sneaked into Mount Tianlao and caused this chaos. Continuing to inspect the other peaks was pointless. The four sect founders had to stay in the main hall, remotely directing the various elders in the sect to quell the chaos as quickly as possible.

Inside the main hall, the four sect founders gathered together. Upon seeing each other, they shook their heads silently—that guy was truly vicious, capable of coming up with such a scheme…

“It’s clear that this person knows a great deal about many matters within the sect,” said Patriarch Haotian, his brows deeply furrowed. “I really can’t figure out how he managed to do all this. Even if it were us trying to infiltrate other sects’ sacred areas, we wouldn’t be able to achieve such things.”
“Yes.”
Elder Hongyun said in a deep voice, “This person isn’t only highly skilled in cultivation but must also possess special abilities in other areas. Overall, he’s extremely troublesome and terrifying!”
The third elder, ‘Yuanyue’, was a female patriarch with a gentle temperament. She said, “In my opinion, since the losses aren’t too severe, we might as well let him go. If he stays inside the sect, who knows how many more problems he might cause?”
The other three patriarchs thought for a moment before shaking their heads. Patriarch Haotian said, “We can’t afford to lose face like this! If word gets out, how will Lingyao Mountain retain its dignity?”
“That’s right,” Chen Xu nodded. “With someone having infiltrated the sect and caused so much trouble, even if we can’t catch him, we should at least figure out his identity and pursue his sect for an explanation.”
It doesn’t matter if we can’t catch the monk; at least we can find out which sect he belongs to and seek justice later. Otherwise, we’ll lose all face and become a laughingstock in the cultivation world.
Patriarch Yuanyue shook her head in resignation—there was no argument.
The four patriarchs sat in the main hall, activating the surveillance function of the mountain protection array, using the mirrors around them to monitor every corner of the sect.
Soon after, orders were given. The elders stationed outside the hall would follow the four patriarchs’ instructions, leading their subordinates to various areas to capture the fugitives.
Lingyao Mountain’s sacred area covered nearly ten thousand miles. Capturing thousands of people in such a vast region wasn’t easy at all—unknown amounts of manpower and resources would be required.
If such invisible losses could be converted into spirit stones, it would likely leave a large sect penniless overnight.
…
On the other side, Su Che, the culprit, had already sneaked into a certain spirit herb garden.
So far, more than a dozen elders and nearly a hundred disciples from Lingyao Mountain were imprisoned in the Immortal Prison. By combining their memories, Su Che had become the person most familiar with Lingyao Mountain.
He already knew exactly where to hide for safety.
This herb garden covered nearly a hundred acres, with over a thousand thousand-year-old top-quality spirit herbs planted there. On average, there were only a dozen herbs per acre.
After all, spirit herbs aren’t crops that can be planted densely in rows—they need enough space to survive.

Su Che’s role at this moment was that of a disciple in the Foundation Establishment stage, tasked with guarding this herb garden. In addition, there were four more disciple servants and an elder in the Mid-Jin Dan stage who all took care of these over a thousand top-quality spiritual herbs. There were dozens of such excellent herb gardens throughout the Spirit Herb Mountain, showing just how astonishing the reserves of spiritual herbs were. A hundred acres wasn’t much—within Su Che’s mental perception, it was merely a tiny area. Looking at the over a thousand thousand-year-old top-quality spiritual herbs before him, Su Che secretly envied them: “How many spiritual pills of rank ten or above can be made from these herbs?” “Whatever the number!” Old Hei’s eyes had already turned red as he shouted loudly, “Steal them! Seize them! Pull them all out!”