Chapter 337: So What If I Bite You?

Next, Tai Wu wielded a precious flying sword, moving swiftly through the starry sky at a speed slightly faster than Su Che’s use of the Star Emperor Compass.
Jugu Fu shrank to the size of sand grains and perched on Tai Wu’s shoulder. In this way, it was as if Su Che and Tian Yin had disappeared, perhaps allowing them to escape the pursuit and entanglement of Yan Gu and the others.
Inside Jugu Fu’s countless palaces, Su Che and Tian Yin each chose an extremely comfortable and luxurious room to rest for a few days. After flying through the vast starry sky for a month, they were quite exhausted mentally.
In the room, Su Che took out soft silk bedding from the Immortal Prison and prepared the bed. Before going to sleep, he dreamed of the future: once the Immortal Prison had the ability to enslave souls, he could command thousands of Yuan Ying cultivators, or even powerful cultivators at the Hua Shen or Lian Xu stages, to fight in his place and sweep through enemy camps…
However, less than four hours after falling asleep, he was awakened by the spirit of Jugu Fu: “Master, someone has stopped Tai Wu.”
Oh?
Su Che quickly got up and used Jugu Fu’s vision ability to see everything happening outside.
At that moment, Tai Wu had stopped flying. A few hundred feet ahead, five figures hovered in the air—all Yuan Ying cultivators, three in the middle stage and two in the late stage. Yan Gu, who had suffered a great loss a few days ago, was among them.
Clearly, Yan Gu had gathered four strong cultivators to search for Su Che and Tian Yin. Now that they encountered Tai Wu, who was tasked with blocking off star regions, they surely intended to stop him and question him.
“Fellow cultivators, why are you stopping me?” Tai Wu spoke up.
“May I ask your name and where you come from?” asked a senior cultivator in the late Yuan Ying stage with a smile.
After all, Tai Wu was also at the Yuan Ying stage, so the other party’s tone was naturally much more polite. If he were at the Jin Dan stage, he would surely face a domineering shout like Yan Gu’s: “Who are you? State your name!”
“My Dao name is Tai Wu. I come from the distant Jia Luo Star and am heading to Sen Yu Star…” Tai Wu used a prepared excuse and countered, “May I ask which cultivation realm in the nearby star regions do you all come from?”
The so-called “Jia Luo Star” and “Sen Yu Star” were two planets chosen earlier from the star map. Their route happened to pass by Wu Huang Star, making this explanation quite reasonable.

Through questioning Yan Lin, Su Che and Tai Wu had already learned that the several cultivation planets in this nearby star region were quite close to each other, so the Yuan Ying cultivators from these planets often visited one another to exchange knowledge and resources. In contrast, Qi Yuan Star seemed extremely isolated—within hundreds of millions of miles, it was the only cultivation planet in that area.

“Jia Luo Star…”

The senior Yuan Ying cultivator who had asked the questions earlier appeared very young, with upward-slanting phoenix eyes. He exuded an elegant demeanor mixed with a sense of authority. He examined Tai Wu carefully, seemingly pondering something…

Su Che sent images of those people to the Immortal Prison for Yan Lin to identify them. It turned out that the man was the leader of the Netherworld Sect; the other senior Yuan Ying cultivator beside him was the current leader of another powerful demonic sect in the cultivation world of Mu Lan Star—the Unyielding Holy Words Sect.

The leader of the Netherworld Sect and the leader of the Unyielding Holy Words Sect exchanged a few words through telepathy. They saw nothing suspicious about Tai Wu and assumed he was just an ordinary passerby.

Thus, the leader of the Netherworld Sect said in a deep voice, “Fellow cultivator Tai Wu, there have been some issues on Wu Huang Star recently. By order of the ancestors of the Spirit World, we have sealed off this star region. Unfortunately, we ask you to stay away from Wu Huang Star and take a detour.”

“A detour?”

Tai Wu pretended to frown and thought for a moment before nodding in agreement. “Alright, it’s just a few extra days. No big problem.”

Normally, since Tai Wu had agreed to take a detour, both sides should have said goodbye friendly and gone their separate ways. Unexpectedly, Yan Gu started causing trouble again.

“Fellow cultivator Tai Wu, why are you covering your entire body with an aura of energy?” Yan Gu was irritable and in a bad mood, speaking in a harsh tone right away. “Could it be that you’re hiding something shady?”

It turned out that Tai Wu didn’t want them to detect the massive treasure hidden on his shoulder, so he used his true qi to create a barrier around himself, preventing Yan Gu’s spiritual senses from penetrating. With just the naked eye, it was impossible to see a treasure as small as a grain of sand.

After all, no matter how small the treasure became, its spiritual energy characteristics as a top-grade dao artifact couldn’t be hidden from the powerful spiritual senses of Yuan Ying cultivators. Moreover, the treasure contained an enormous amount of space—almost no storage ring in the world could hold it—so it could only attach itself to Tai Wu in this way.

Facing Yan Gu’s suspicion, Tai Wu replied calmly, “Your claim of something ‘shady’ is a bit excessive. But surely I have my own secrets, which is why I’m covering my body with energy. Who in this world doesn’t have secrets?”

Yan Gu snorted coldly, turned to the Leader of the Netherworld Sect, and said, “Senior Leader, we’ve been ordered to seal off this star region. Anyone suspicious should be thoroughly questioned. Moreover, Junior Brother Yan Lin is trapped, so we must do everything possible to rescue him—no mistakes allowed!”
The Leader of the Netherworld Sect nodded gently and turned to Tai Wu, saying, “Fellow Tai Wu, I have no interest in your personal secrets. But given the special circumstances today, I ask that you open up your energy barrier and be as open and honest as we are. Is that request too much?”
Tai Wu frowned, temporarily at a loss for words. To be honest, the request wasn’t excessive. But once his energy barrier was lifted, the existence of the wealthy man would surely not escape their spiritual detection. The powerful spiritual energy of a top-tier Dao artifact wasn’t something that could be easily concealed with a simple disguise.
“Fellow Tai Wu, if you refuse to cooperate, I’m sorry, but don’t blame us for being unreasonable. It’s our duty, and we can’t afford any mistakes,” the Leader of the Netherworld Sect pressed further.
Su Che immediately sent a message to Tai Wu: “Delay for about ten breaths, then activate the energy barrier again.”
After that, Su Che rushed to Tian Yin’s room and woke her up from her rest as well.
With everything ready, Tai Wu said to the five Yuan Ying cultivators from Mulan Star led by the Leader of the Netherworld Sect, “Very well, then I’ll lift the energy barrier and cooperate with your inspection duties.”
“Thank you,” the Leader of the Netherworld Sect nodded.
The energy barrier was immediately removed, and Yan Gu’s spiritual sense rushed over. As soon as it touched Tai Wu, his expression changed drastically. Pointing at Tai Wu’s left shoulder, he shouted, “That palace-like Dao artifact is on his shoulder!”
Indeed, it was detected in an instant—no chance of luck at all.
Swish!
Su Che and Tian Yin appeared from inside the Wealthy Man’s Palace. Together with Tai Wu, the three of them stood on the Star Emperor Compass. Meanwhile, the Wealthy Man had shrunk to the size of a palm, hanging above their heads. A defensive barrier emitted golden light, enveloping Su Che and the others.
“It’s them! They’re the ones!” Yan Gu pointed at Su Che, extremely excited. “It’s these two youngsters, each possessing a top-tier Dao artifact. Their methods are extremely cunning—they schemed and captured Junior Brother Yan Lin.”
“Why not admit that you fled in panic, ignoring your brotherly bonds and using him as a shield?”
As soon as Su Che appeared, he deceitfully framed Yan Gu, casting a huge blame upon him.
Of course, whether the leader of the Netherworld Sect would believe it was another matter.
“Nonsense!”

Yan Gu’s face turned pale with anger as he pointed at Su Che and shouted furiously, “You brat! Even at the brink of death, do you still dare to frame me?”
“Younger brother Yan Gu, calm down,” said the leader of You Ming. With his sharp insight, how could he believe Su Che’s one-sided words? Besides, if Yan Gu were truly such a despicable person, he wouldn’t be so desperate to summon reinforcements and try every means to save Yan Lin.
Su Che smiled calmly, clearly implying, “Even if I do frame you, what can you do to me?”
“Fellow Tai Wu, how do you explain this?”
The leader of You Ming looked at Tai Wu and asked such a question. This showed that he thought Tai Wu had the cultivation level of Yuan Ying and should be an elder or mentor to Su Che and the others. But to his surprise…
Tai Wu first bowed respectfully to Su Che, then said to the leader of You Ming, “There’s no need for any explanation. I can only warn you that if you provoke my master, your fate will be extremely tragic. Even if someone from the Spirit Realm backs you, it won’t protect your lives and possessions.”
“What?”
The five people across were stunned. They never expected that Tai Wu, who had the cultivation level of Yuan Ying, would call Su Che “master”!
With such a proud cultivation level, how could he humbly call someone else his master? Such a thing would never happen on Mu Lan Star!
Then they thought about the two young people, each possessing a top-grade Dao artifact…
Thus, the leader of You Ming and the others concluded that Su Che must belong to some extremely powerful cultivation family on some other cultivation planet—one powerful enough to treat Yuan Ying cultivators as servants and give top-grade Dao artifacts to their younger members.
If such a powerful force truly existed, offending them would mean no absolute safety, even with the Spirit Realm as a backing. After all, the ancestors of the Spirit Realm could only convey messages or orders through certain special means and couldn’t descend to fight directly…
Tai Wu showed a disdainful expression and continued, “My master happened to be here and encountered two foolish guys from the You Ming Sect of Mu Lan Star. They coveted treasures and tried to kill and steal them. My master fought back and captured one of them as punishment—already showing great mercy. If you still refuse to repent and keep causing trouble, just wait for the day your families and sects are destroyed!”
His words were bold and quite intimidating.
As the saying goes, the world is full of wonders. The leader of You Ming didn’t dare deny that in this vast universe, there truly existed some family or sect with overwhelming power.

For example, a certain cultivation planet has long been completely unified by a certain family, with hundreds of Yuan Ying cultivators gathered together to serve that family’s cause… Who would dare say such a situation doesn’t exist? If one provokes such a faction and their army attacks, even the ancient ancestors of the Spirit Realm can only watch helplessly, utterly helpless. Once one thinks of these possibilities, not to mention the leader of the Netherworld Sect, even the Immortal Sect Master who has come here as an observer would be cautious and not act rashly…