Chapter 329: Breaking the Skies

Over half a year, Su Che refined countless pills and purified numerous materials. The essence lost in this process was presumably stored somewhere by the Immortal Prison Pagoda.
There was no answer for now, but Su Che and Lao He guessed that it would become apparent when the time came.
One day, Su Che set off, ready to meet Tian Yin at the Wuji Gate. Before leaving the mountain gate, he had to use disguise magic to conceal his whereabouts.
Riding a precious flying sword, he could only travel 20,000 li per hour. Departing late at night, he arrived at the Wuji Gate the next morning.
In front of the Wuji Gate, Su Che sent a greeting letter as a Golden Core elder of the Tianxuan Sect. After waiting for a while, he successfully met Tian Yin.
In a meeting room in the outer affairs hall, Tian Yin appeared before Su Che. After two years, her cultivation level had not improved—she was still at the middle stage of the Golden Core.
“Late stage of the Golden Core…”
Tian Yin remembered that this unfamiliar face was actually Su Che in disguise. She was deeply moved and said softly, “You’ve finally surpassed me.”
Although Tian Yin was a reincarnated master, she could only sigh in frustration at Su Che’s almost excessive speed of cultivation.
Su Che transformed back to his true appearance and said directly, “Su Che has kept his appointment. What instructions do you have, senior sister?”
Swish!
Tian Yin waved her hand to create a barrier, as she intended to ask some very confidential questions.
Grateful for her help last time, Su Che took the initiative to say, “Senior sister, I’ll answer any questions truthfully as much as possible. Go ahead and ask.”
Two years ago, Su Che had made a vow to his inner demon—among the ten questions Tian Yin would ask, he had to choose three and answer them truthfully. But today, Su Che meant that there was no need to abide by that rule of choosing three. No matter how many questions Tian Yin asked—ten or thirty—he would answer whatever he could.
“Thank you,” Tian Yin said softly, sitting down across from Su Che and asking her first question, “Do you have the Mi Xian Flag?”
The first question was straightforward. Tian Yin herself was worried—would he keep his vow and answer truthfully?
“Yes!” Su Che nodded. He had already decided that aside from matters related to the Immortal Prison, he could reveal everything else.
“It really is you…”
Tian Yin’s expression showed slight excitement. She calmed herself down slightly before asking again, “After entering the Minor Mi Xian Realm, did you take out the Mi Xian Flag?”

“Yes.” Su Che nodded again and voluntarily recounted in detail some of the events that had taken place in the Mi Xian Realm, including that so-called saying, “When the command flag appears, Mi Xian unites; when the Witch God returns, he seizes fate once more,” as well as the possibility that he might go to the Mi Xian Realm again in a hundred years…
“When the command flag appears, Mi Xian unites; when the Witch God returns, he seizes fate once more…”
Tian Yin repeated this slogan softly, her expression extremely solemn.
Su Che curiously asked, “Senior sister, you keep asking about these things related to the Mi Xian Realm. Could it be that your rebirth is connected to this?”
Tian Yin nodded silently, giving an affirmative answer.
“Senior sister, we’re not enemies, are we?” Su Che asked cautiously.
To be honest, Su Che really didn’t want to be enemies with Tian Yin. But now that he had reached the later stage of the Golden Core cultivation level and was protected by precious defensive treasures, he wasn’t too afraid of her if a confrontation became inevitable.
“It’s hard to say right now…” Tian Yin gave him a weak look and said softly, “I also don’t want to be on your side.”
“That makes things easier!”
Su Che laughed. “Since neither of us wants to be enemies on our own, then we can sit down and negotiate everything properly. After all, I have no direct connection with the Witch Clan, so I can adjust my stance as I see fit. The key is for you to explain to me what mysteries lie behind this.”
Hearing Su Che say this, Tian Yin relaxed a bit and stood up. “Let’s go. We’ll leave Wu Ji Gate and talk in a different place.”
“Okay,” Su Che agreed without hesitation.
The two rode their magical treasures and flew out of Wu Ji Gate at a moderate pace. After traveling thousands of miles, guided by Tian Yin, they arrived at a remote mountain area and landed on the summit of a desolate mountain.
After confirming that there was no one around, Tian Yin asked again, “What changes occurred to the Mi Xian command flag after the sky trembled?”
“I don’t know,” Su Che said, shrugging. “I’ve always been very cautious about this. The Mi Xian command flag is kept in my personal magical treasure space and has never been taken out.”
“Could you take it out and show it to me?” Tian Yin asked, slightly nervous.
“Alright.”
Su Che hesitated for a moment but still took out the command flag from the Immortal Prison.
As soon as the triangular Mi Xian command flag appeared, it instantly emitted intense light and automatically grew to three zhang in length, showing a very strong reaction…
“Put it away,” Tian Yin said urgently, waving her hand.
Swish!
The Mi Xian command flag was put back into the Immortal Prison by Su Che, where it was suppressed by Lao Hei.

Su Che was also quite nervous, but he wasn’t surprised by these changes in the Mi Xian Flag, as he had indeed anticipated such a possibility earlier, which was why he hadn’t dared to take out the flag all along.
“You must have guessed that the great calamity to come within a hundred years will surely be related to the Witch Clan, right?” Tian Yin calmed herself down and asked again.
“Yes,” Su Che nodded in agreement, then countered, “Did I cause a huge problem with what happened in the Mi Xian Realm?”
“It depends on whose perspective you take,” Tian Yin said, her gaze extremely gentle, her voice and tone matching as well, even carrying a hint of sympathy. “From the perspective of the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm, you indeed caused a huge problem; but for the Witch Clan and countless cultivators in the Cultivation Realm, you are a great hero.”
“It’s that complicated?”
Su Che didn’t quite understand and asked, “Then, senior sister, whose side are you on?”
“Me?” Tian Yin was slightly stunned, showing a hint of conflict in her expression as she stammered, “I don’t know yet. I haven’t found an answer…”
Su Che didn’t press her and instead said with a smile, “I don’t have a fixed stance either, and I certainly don’t want to get into trouble. So I need your advice on this matter.”
“The problem is, you’ve already gotten into trouble and can’t escape it,” Tian Yin said immediately. “You’re the main culprit behind the recombination of the Greater and Lesser Mi Xian Realms. Just for that, the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm won’t forgive you.”
This time, it was Su Che who was clearly stunned. He quickly protested, “Can’t even an unintentional mistake be forgiven? How can those big shots in the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm be so petty?”
“It’s not a matter of being petty or not,” Tian Yin sighed. “The consequences of this matter are ten thousand times, even a hundred thousand times worse than what you can imagine!”
“So…?” Su Che’s expression darkened. “Will I suffer misfortune no matter if I ascend to the Spirit Realm or the Immortal Realm in the future?”
Tian Yin first nodded, then shook her head. “I’m not even sure if you’ll live long enough to reach the day of ascending to the Spirit Realm.”
“Don’t scare me. What exactly is going on? Can you tell me everything from start to finish?”
Su Che couldn’t help but feel anxious. If he had truly offended those big shots in the Spirit Realm or even the Immortal Realm, what future did he have left? How could he realize his dream of ascending to the Spirit Realm or the Immortal Realm and reaching the peak of power?
“Millions of years ago, there was only a distinction between the Immortal Realm and the Cultivation Realm—there was no Spirit Realm…”

Tianyin spoke softly and in detail: “The Witch Clan possesses extraordinary talents, yet due to the lack of an original spirit, they are trapped in the cultivation realm and can never reach the pinnacle of power. Later, by stealing original spirits and fortune, they finally ascended to the Immortal Realm and quickly built a massive force. With just tens of millions, they secured a place in the Immortal Realm, able to compete with countless true immortals.”

“You must know that there are still billions of Witch Clan members scattered across various planets in the cultivation realm. If they all ascended to the Immortal Realm, there would be no chance left for the immortals…”

“Thus, the immortals in the Immortal Realm combined their powers to divide the original cultivation realm into the Spirit Realm and the cultivation realm itself. This prevented the Witch Clan, still trapped in the cultivation realm, from stealing the original spirits of cultivators at the Lingxu stage or above, thus cutting off their possibility of ascending to the Immortal Realm. Of course, this also led to an era of declining cultivation power in the cultivation realm, with extremely scarce spiritual energy and resources, making the path of cultivation countless times harder than it was millions of years ago.”

“The return of the Witch God to seize fate again refers to the powerful members of the Witch Clan descending to the cultivation realm, using their immense power to break through the spatial crystal walls of the Spirit Realm, merging it back with the cultivation realm into its original state from millions of years ago…”

“In that case, not only would the billions of Witch Clan members on other planets have another chance to ascend to the Immortal Realm, but the lower-level cultivators in the cultivation realm would also gain more opportunities, more cultivation materials, and more paths to ascend…”

“However, in order to steal original spirits and fortune, the Witch Clan will undoubtedly kill countless high-level cultivators at the Lingxu stage or above. In the future, when they ascend to the Immortal Realm, who knows what kind of disasters they will bring to the immortals there…”

“That’s why you will become the number one sinner in the eyes of both the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm, yet also a great hero to the Witch Clan and the lower-class people in the cultivation realm.”

After hearing Tianyin’s explanation, Su Che was completely stunned, utterly shocked.

This situation was indeed countless times more serious than he had imagined before. The disaster he had caused was enormous—unimaginably so!

“The Witch Clan’s plan is to break through the spatial crystal walls of the Spirit Realm and merge it back with the cultivation realm…”

Su Che murmured in daze, “So, the ultimate result of the Witch God’s return is that the term ‘Spirit Realm’ will completely disappear, and it will revert to a single, unified cultivation realm?”

Wouldn’t the powerful cultivators of the Spirit Realm and the gods and Buddhas of the Immortal Realm hate him to death?

“It’s over, it’s over! After all this, the one who caused such a huge problem is me!” Su Che’s expression turned grim. At this moment, he felt his future was completely dark, with no hope left.

What other way is left when one becomes an enemy of everyone?
Lao He was also extremely worried and could only suggest, “Master, if all else fails, completely merge with that drop of the Witch Clan’s essence and turn into a Witch Clan member. Perhaps, joining the Witch Clan is the only path to survival.”
Become a Witch Clan member?
Su Che smiled bitterly and sighed to the sky, “But that’s not a path I’m willing to take!”