Chapter 408: Capturing the Illusion Demon

Lan Ling’s deadly threat was effortlessly dealt with by Fei Yun, an ordinary woman, using a method to drive away residual spirits from within her body. As a result, the Illusion Demon Sect truly no longer had any force capable of stopping Su Che.
Su Che definitely would not let go of that sect leader. This woman not only ruined his capture plan but also nearly cost him his life.
It was fine not to capture others, but he absolutely could not let her go.
Thus, with a serious expression and mimicking Lan Ling’s cold and elegant demeanor, Fei Yun led the dazed Su Che back to the sect leader’s sacred hall.
Inside the hall, the Illusion Demon Sect leader saw the return of the “Ancestor Lan Ling” through the protective array and mistook it for Ancestor Lan Ling capturing Su Che alive, successfully averting the sect’s destruction.
In fact, she never imagined that Ancestor Lan Ling, who possessed immortal powers, could be defeated by mere mortals, so she had no doubts at all. Without waiting for “Lan Ling” to give orders, she voluntarily activated the barrier, allowing Ancestor Lan Ling to bring Su Che into the sect leader’s hall.
Inside the hall, the Illusion Demon Sect leader along with the three Great Yuan Ying elders bowed deeply to “Lan Ling” as disciples and jointly praised, “Thank you, Ancestor Lan Ling, for averting disaster for our sect and successfully capturing the enemy leader…”
Before they could finish their congratulations, the Illusion Demon Sect leader suddenly plunged into utter darkness…
Su Che had unleashed his blinding divine power.
Next, over forty Yuan Ying subordinates were instantly set free. Coupled with Fei Yun’s slight release of her immortal energy to create a powerful restraining force, capturing the four women before them was extremely easy, without any suspense.
Especially Fei Yun’s immortal energy—Su Che had experienced it firsthand. Under such restraint, both he and Xiao Hei lost their ability to move, rendering them almost completely helpless.
After successfully capturing the four members of the Illusion Demon Sect and locking them in the Immortal Prison, Lao Hei immediately offered advice, “Master, since Fei Yun has such powerful abilities, let her help you deal with the messengers from the Spirit Realm.”
“Let’s ask her,” Su Che replied in his mind before asking Fei Yun, “Fei Yun, can you maintain the immortal energy within you for a long time?”
He asked this because if she could retain her immortal energy for a long time, it would undoubtedly have an immeasurable positive impact on her cultivation progress. He certainly wouldn’t let her waste such benefits just to help him fight enemies—that would be too selfish.
If she couldn’t maintain it for long, it could still be utilized to avoid unnecessary loss.
“No.”

Fei Yun replied softly, “After all, I am still just a mortal. I don’t have an immortal infant within me, so I can’t retain this immortal essence power for long—it keeps draining away at all times. I estimate it will be exhausted in at most three months.”
“As I thought,” Su Che thought to himself. “Without an immortal infant in the body, relying solely on one’s own meridians, it’s indeed impossible to keep that immortal essence for long. Logically, it should be like this.”
So, Su Che explained in detail how the messenger from the Spirit Realm would come down to deal with him in a few days and made a request, “I hope you can help me deal with him. Of course, this is extremely dangerous. If things go wrong, we might both…”
Before Su Che could finish, Fei Yun replied without hesitation, “I must get involved in this. Not just for you, but also for our sect. I am also part of the Tianxuan Sect. Since that person is using the safety of the Tianxuan Sect to threaten you, how can I just stand by and do nothing?”
“Okay, thank you,” Su Che nodded in gratitude.
By asking Fei Yun for help, Su Che wasn’t trying to save his own life. As she said, it was all for the safety of their sect. If it were just to save himself, Su Che could have simply left and hidden on Wu Huang Star—how much safer that would be! Would the messenger from the Spirit Realm dare to follow him to Wu Huang Star?
Not to mention he might not even know what Wu Huang Star was, and even if he did, he wouldn’t dare to go. A hundred of him combined wouldn’t dare to go and seek death!
However, Su Che considered another possibility and asked, “To kill me, the messenger from the Spirit Realm must unleash a powerful attack that exceeds the power level of the cultivation realm. But after one or two attacks, he will be punished by the laws of heaven and earth and sent back to the Spirit Realm. What about you? If you confront him, you’ll also need to unleash such power. What if you’re sent back to the Spirit Realm by those laws?”
“That won’t happen.”
Fei Yun smiled faintly, secretly pleased that Su Che cared so much about her. She replied, “If I release all my immortal essence power at once, I’ll become a mere mortal, at most a Golden Core cultivator. How could the laws of heaven and earth send someone as insignificant as me back to the Spirit Realm?”
“You’ve already reached the Golden Core stage?” Su Che was delighted to hear this.
Because her body was filled with immortal essence power from the Immortal Realm, giving off an unfathomably terrifying aura, Su Che couldn’t determine exactly how far her cultivation level had progressed.

“Yes,” Fei Yun nodded gently. “To become Lan Ling’s mortal avatar and bear her immortal essence and soul, one must at least be at the Golden Core stage. That’s why, two years ago, with the strong support of the Illusion Demon Sect, I successfully reached the Golden Core stage.”
At this point, she hesitated slightly before continuing, “Speaking of which, the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect has been fairly kind to me. For whatever reason, she has shown some degree of support. I’d like to ask her to spare her life—please don’t kill her, is that okay?”
“Okay.”
Su Che replied without hesitation. “I never intended to kill her anyway. I plan to turn her into one of my subordinates. Her thoughts, consciousness, memories, and so on will remain intact, allowing her to continue her cultivation path.”
“That’s good.”
Fei Yun had already seen Su Che capable of subjugating leaders of renowned cultivation sects like Tai Xu and Ten Thousand Ghosts from the Qi Yuan Star realm. So, it wasn’t surprising that he could also transform the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect. Meanwhile, Lao He was interrogating the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect in the Immortal Prison, and the most important questions had already been answered.
“Master, the Illusion Demon Sect does indeed possess a special treasure that can communicate with the Spirit Realm,” Lao He reported immediately. “But it’s not for communicating with that Spirit Realm envoy—it’s to maintain contact with the Illusion Demon Sect in the Spirit Realm.”
“Is there also an Illusion Demon Sect in the Spirit Realm?” Su Che asked curiously.
“Yes. The Illusion Demon Sect has existed for tens of thousands of years. During that time, over twenty patriarchs have ascended to the Spirit Realm, where they established their own branches. However, their strength is somewhat weaker, and they’re not very prominent.”
Lao He explained in detail, “This time, when the Spirit Realm planned to open a channel to the lower realms, only the Illusion Demon Sect from Qi Yuan Star was eligible to participate. Although they don’t have much say, it’s certain that no Spirit Realm envoy summoned the leaders of the seven major sects to discuss rewards or demands. That’s why the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect saw through our capture plan and suspected that Tai Xu had turned traitor. The so-called envoy’s summons were nothing but a trap…”
“I see,” Su Che nodded inwardly and asked, “So, has she reported these matters to the Illusion Demon Sect in the Spirit Realm?”
“Fortunately, not yet,” Lao He replied cheerfully. “It’s extremely difficult for the cultivation realm to send messages to the Spirit Realm. But conversely, it’s much easier for the Spirit Realm to send messages down. Usually, only when a patriarch from the Illusion Demon Sect in the Spirit Realm takes the initiative to contact the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect here can she report these matters by chance.”

“So, the secrets of the Immortal Prison Pagoda, and how Tai Xu, Wan Gui, and the others became my servants… these things, those in the Spirit Realm still don’t know?” Su Che was secretly pleased.
“Yes,” Lao He said with a smile. “In the past two days, the founder of the Illusion Demon Sect in the Spirit Realm hasn’t taken the initiative to contact the sect leader, so she hasn’t had time to report these matters yet. That jade statue that wretched woman crushed just now wasn’t some communication tool from the Spirit Realm at all—it was a distress signal sent to Lan Ling’s avatar.”
“I see. She’s still trying to play tricks.” Su Che felt relieved. If the secrets of the Immortal Prison Pagoda could be kept, that would truly be good news. It was indeed a turning point, like seeing light after darkness.
However, Su Che also worried about another possibility. He thought to himself, “It’s uncertain whether Lan Ling’s remaining soul can return to the Immortal Realm in time. After that battle just now, she knows quite a lot of my secrets. If she manages to send this information from the Immortal Realm to the Spirit Realm, I’ll still face the risk of my secrets being exposed…”
“May heaven protect us and prevent her remaining soul from returning to the Immortal Realm in time, so that it dissipates in the cultivation world.” Lao He joined his hands and prayed silently.
“May heaven protect us?”
Su Che murmured to himself, “I’m now in the same camp as the Witch Tribe and have embarked on a path that defies the heavens. Will heaven still protect me? But today, despite being in a desperate situation, I was saved by Fei Yun just in time. My luck is quite good—does that mean heaven still doesn’t want to get rid of me?”
Such profound questions truly couldn’t be understood by an ordinary person like himself.
Who can fathom heaven’s intentions?
Next, the four leaders of the Illusion Demon Sect were also sent to the fourth-floor Soul Slavery Space for transformation, becoming loyal subordinates of Su Che as well.
When she came out of the Immortal Prison and bowed deeply to her master, the first question Su Che asked was, “What exactly is the matter with those heavenly-level insiders the Illusion Demon Sect has planted in various sects?”
“Reporting to my master…” The leader of the Illusion Demon Sect replied respectfully, “There indeed are heavenly-level insiders, but they’re not as exaggerated as the outside world claims. Not every major sect has one.”

She explained in detail, “By ‘celestial-level insider,’ it doesn’t mean that the Illusion Demon Sect plans from the start to plant a candidate for such a role within other sects. Instead, it means that an insider within another sect continues to grow and rise through the ranks, and once they reach a sufficient position, that person is designated as the sect’s celestial-level insider… Of course, it must be admitted that the Illusion Demon Sect is indeed more skilled in this regard. The essence of the Path of Illusion lies precisely in blending the false with the true, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.”
“I see,” Su Che pondered for a moment before asking again, “So, is there any celestial-level insider of the Illusion Demon Sect within the Tianxuan Sect?”
“Yes!” replied the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect. “There indeed is one, and their status is quite high.”
“Who is it?” Su Che narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint appearing in them.
The leader of the Illusion Demon Sect whispered a name.
“Is it her?”
Su Che took a deep breath, slightly surprised. “It’s actually her!”