Chapter 331: Anomalies in the Starry Sky

The guarantee Tianyin had just given soon ran into problems. Su Che had thought that entering the portal on Qiyuan Star would take him directly to the cultivation realm of some planet billions of miles away, from where he could exit through another portal. Unexpectedly, after a teleportation that lasted dozens of breaths, what he saw was a huge, seemingly desolate planet floating in the vast starry sky. At that moment, both of them were floating weightlessly in the universe. Confused, Su Che turned to ask her, only to see Tianyin also looking astonished—realizing that something must have gone wrong during the teleportation! “How is this possible? Where are we?” Tianyin murmured as she looked around the starry sky. “Senior sister, don’t worry. If I could bring you out, I can surely bring you back home,” Su Che said gently. Of course, his words sounded kind, but they were actually sarcastic. “I’m sorry. There must be a problem with the portal on the other side. The portal on Qiyuan Star has become a one-way teleportation to an unknown destination, so our landing point will definitely be off.” Tianyin said apologetically, “But I think the distance isn’t too great. It should take about ten days or half a month to reach our destination.” “It’s okay,” Su Che nodded with a smile. In truth, when faced with reality, he wouldn’t complain endlessly. He believed she wasn’t trying to trick him. After all, men should be more magnanimous—more composed in the face of problems and difficulties than women. Seeing that Su Che wasn’t angry, Tianyin blushed slightly and muttered, “It’s your fault too! Talking nonsense… bringing bad luck…” She must have remembered what Su Che had said earlier—that if they could never return to Qiyuan Star, she would have to accompany him for life as compensation… Up to now, the two still held hands in that intimate manner. Of course, if it weren’t for holding hands, they might have been separated by millions of miles due to the teleportation force. After all, this was a teleportation over billions of miles—any slight deviation could mean an enormous difference in distance. Faced with the girl’s quiet reproaches, Su Che wouldn’t foolishly argue. Instead, he gently tightened his grip on her hand before politely letting go first. After all, their relationship wasn’t yet at the stage of flirting, so everything should be kept in moderation.

Tianyin calmed her emotions and took out a star navigation compass from her storage ring. First, she needed to determine her current location to avoid getting lost in the vast starry sky. Su Che also took out his Star Emperor Compass, as the sect leader had once said that the star chart recorded in it covered hundreds of trillions of miles around Qiyuan Star. As long as they remained within this range, they couldn’t get lost.

Swish!

Su Che silently activated the navigation function of his Star Emperor Compass, and immediately a three-dimensional star chart appeared. The small red dot in the center of the map marked his current location.

Tianyin turned to take a look and realized that Su Che’s compass was more advanced. She then put away her own compass and whispered in his ear, “Find Wu Huang Star.”

“Wu Huang Star.”

Su Che sent a thought to his Star Emperor Compass, and immediately an image of a planet glowed within the three-dimensional star chart, indicating its location.

“It’s here!”

Su Che pointed at the map and said, “Based on the star chart, Wu Huang Star is about 130 million miles away from where we are now. At our fastest speed in space, it will take at least 40 days to reach there.”

There was no air resistance in space, so the flight speed was several times faster than on planets. If Su Che used his Star Emperor Compass, he could travel three million miles in a day. The two of them could take turns using the compass and resting, continuing their journey without pause.

Forty days or so wasn’t much of a challenge for cultivators.

Without further ado, Su Che enlarged the Star Emperor Compass to a diameter of several meters. The two of them sat cross-legged on it. At first, Su Che activated the compass to make them travel swiftly through space.

In the vast starry sky, even traveling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, it didn’t seem like progress was being made. It felt as though they were just little ants, crawling for a long time without moving far.

While traveling, they didn’t stop talking. Su Che asked, “Sister, the Wu Huang Star you want to take me to—judging from its name—it must be a planet dominated by the Wu tribe, right?”

“Yes,” Tianyin nodded. “There are no advanced creatures from the human, demon, or beast races on Wu Huang Star. Only the Huangli tribe of the Wu tribe lives there, which is also the closest gathering place of the Wu tribe to Qiyuan Star.”

After saying that, she explained further, “My original intention was for you to take the Mi Xian Order Flag to the Huangli tribe and seek their help. They should send a group of Wu tribe warriors to protect you so you can fight against those who came from the Spirit Realm. After all, as the master holder of the Mi Xian Realm, all Wu tribe members have the obligation to protect you.”

“Oh? It can be done this way too?”
Su Che felt delighted upon hearing this and couldn’t help but recall the visions he had seen through the Mi Xian Ling flag: Witch tribe warriors transformed into giants, capable of slaying powerful cultivators with a single slap…
With their help and protection, even if groups of elite cultivators came from the Spirit Realm, there would be nothing to fear.
However, Su Che soon realized that if he really did this, he would be completely on the opposing side of both the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm, forced to go to extremes and fight to the end.
Was this really the path he desired?
“Cultivation, cultivation… I’ve always thought I was on the path to immortality. Does it really have to mean becoming a Witch?” Su Che found it hard to let go of this mindset.
“Survival is the most important thing, master,” Lao He advised. “As long as you can stay alive, whether it’s as an immortal or a Witch, one day you’ll reach the pinnacle of power, and every creature will bow before you. Though the paths differ, the destination is the same!”
Su Che remained silent and reluctantly accepted Lao He’s reasoning.
It wasn’t surprising that Su Che was stubborn on this point. After all, achieving immortality was every cultivator’s ultimate dream and highest pursuit. Forcing a cultivator to completely change their mindset suddenly was indeed not easy.
In the starry sky, various natural dangers existed, such as auroral radiation, elemental magnetic storms, violent wind currents, and large areas of meteor showers.
Even with treasures like the Giant Sword for defense, it was still necessary to avoid these natural perils as much as possible, so the journey would take a few more days than Su Che had initially estimated.
After flying for over ten days, Su Che and his companion saw a huge green planet in the distance. It clearly wasn’t one of the desolate planets in the starry sky; it seemed to possess an abundance of spiritual energy.
“This planet is much smaller than Qi Yuan Star, but its concentration of natural spiritual energy seems far higher than that of Qi Yuan Star!”
Out of curiosity, Su Che activated the star map to check the name of this planet…
To his surprise, the star map didn’t list this planet at all.
“Could it be that the former Star Emperor missed it during his travels through the galaxy and failed to record it in the star map?” Su Che murmured.
“Possible,” Tian Yin nodded. “With countless stars in the vast sky, like sand grains in the desert, it’s quite normal for some to be overlooked.”

As she spoke, she took out her own star chart and continued, “This green planet is so close to Wu Huang Star. My star chart comes from Wu Huang Star itself, so it must have records of it.”
Logically, that made sense, but when they actually opened the star chart, they were shocked to find that this green planet was not listed there either.
“That’s impossible!”
Tian Yin said in astonishment, “It’s less than 100 million li away. If one stood on Wu Huang Star and looked at this planet, it would surely be the brightest object in the night sky. It can’t possibly not be recorded in the star chart!”
“Something serious has happened!”
Su Che narrowed his eyes slightly and analyzed, “Look, first, there was a problem with the portal on Wu Huang Star, causing our teleportation location to deviate by over 100 million li. Then, a huge planet of unknown origin appeared here in a very strange way. It’s reasonable to assume that something serious must have happened on Wu Huang Star!”
He made this guess based on a bold assumption: this green planet originally didn’t belong here; it must have been moved to this part of the galaxy by some force recently.
Moving a planet?
This speculation seemed rather exaggerated. Even an ordinary immortal in the immortal realm probably didn’t possess such power, right?
Though extremely curious, Su Che and Tian Yin didn’t dare approach this green planet rashly. Instead, they kept their distance and continued flying toward Wu Huang Star.
The further they flew, the heavier their hearts grew. The reason was that with only tens of millions of li left, they should have been able to see the faint light of Wu Huang Star by now. But the stars they saw were, according to the star chart, all hundreds of millions or even billions of li away—definitely not the nearby Wu Huang Star.
“Where has that faint light representing Wu Huang Star gone?”
Su Che and Tian Yin were deeply worried but had no choice but to keep flying in that direction. After all, without the portal on Wu Huang Star, how could they return to the Qi Yuan Star and the realm of cultivation?
After flying for another seven days, they should have been less than 30 million li away from Wu Huang Star, yet they still couldn’t see any sign of its light. Su Che and Tian Yin were almost certain that something serious had happened on Wu Huang Star. It was possible that the entire planet was covered by some force, preventing even light from passing through.
Still, they had to fly there to confirm it for sure…

After flying for a while longer, a streak of light came diagonally from the starry sky on the left front, resembling a meteor in the void, trailing a silver-white tail. As the distance shortened, Su Che and Tian Yin could see clearly that it was a sailless ship covered in silver-white paint, hundreds of zhang in length, flying at a speed more than three times that of the Star Emperor Compass. There was no doubt that they had encountered cultivators from another planet, and it was also evident that they were heading straight toward them. The opponent’s speed was much greater than theirs, so dodging or escaping was not a viable option. Su Che stopped activating the Star Emperor Compass and hovered motionless in the void, waiting silently for what would happen next. Whoosh whoosh whoosh… The sailless ship moved at incredible speed, arriving very quickly. When they were only a few thousand zhang apart, a domineering and deep voice rang out: “Who are you? Why have you come here?”