Chapter 445: The Passage to the Lower World

Five more days passed, and the grand migration plan of Qi Yuan Star was still in its final stages. Many cultivators had completed their tasks, bringing along large amounts of vegetation and minerals, which Su Che had stored in the Immortal Prison.

Those cultivators who hadn’t undergone soul transformation could not be released from the Immortal Prison once they entered it.

By rough estimation, there were still 13 million cultivators on Qi Yuan Star, busy with their respective tasks. Once all of them entered the Immortal Prison, Su Che would finally be able to leave Qi Yuan Star.

But that morning, Su Che and the Yuan Ying-stage cultivators suddenly noticed that the once-stable celestial energy had become chaotic. Strange roaring sounds could be faintly heard in the sky, though they didn’t resemble thunder. The sky darkened rapidly, with strange lights flickering within it…

“What kind of celestial anomaly is this?”

As Su Che pondered, he heard Tian Yin beside him say, “It’s bad— the passage to the lower world is about to open!”

“Did they figure it out?”

Su Che’s expression tightened, but he wasn’t overly surprised. After all, he and his many Yuan Ying-stage subordinates weren’t foolish. They had never underestimated the powerful cultivators of the Spirit Realm, so they had anticipated this possibility and made thorough preparations.

Swish swish swish…

Without doubt about Tian Yin’s judgment, Su Che immediately sent hundreds of communication spirit talismans in succession. Soon, his hundreds of Yuan Ying-stage subordinates would receive the messages and act according to the previously agreed steps…

After finishing these tasks, Su Che asked in a deep voice, “Tian Yin, how long do you think it will take before the passage to the lower world is fully open?”

“It’s hard to say,” Tian Yin replied softly, shaking her head. “It depends on how much effort the Spirit Realm puts in. But I’m sure it will take at least three hours for the spatial turbulence in the passage to stabilize.”

“Three hours…” Su Che nodded slowly.

Su Che knew a bit about this matter. Opening a formal passage to the lower world was not an easy task even for the powerful cultivators in the Spirit Realm; it couldn’t be set up in just a few moments. Moreover, after the passage was opened, one had to wait until the spatial turbulence inside stabilized before teleportation could take place. Otherwise, even if one had high cultivation skills and wasn’t torn apart by the spatial forces, they might be transported to some unknown other dimension, possibly never able to return to the Spirit Realm in their lifetime.

Fifteen minutes later, Su Che first received a message from Yu Qing, which read: “Meeting at the Spirit Medicine Mountain.”

With little time to spare, Su Che and Tian Yin rushed to the Spirit Medicine Mountain. Outside the main hall of the sect leader, they saw Yu Qing.

In the square outside the main hall, the giant stone pillar that controlled the vast illusion array still stood, with the Demon Illusion Sect Leader still seated atop it.

“Master, I’m sorry. It must have been a flaw in my maintenance of the array that allowed the Spirit Realm to detect us…” As soon as he saw Su Che, the Demon Illusion Sect Leader sent a message filled with guilt.

“It’s not your fault. You’ve done very well. Those in the Spirit Realm shouldn’t be underestimated; it’s not surprising they detected us,” Su Che replied gently. “You’ve worked hard all this time.”

After comforting her a bit, Su Che turned to Yu Qing and said, “Senior Yu Qing, the passage to the lower world is about to open. Will your plan work?”

Yu Qing nodded with a smile. “It will surely make them pay a heavy price, but it’s impossible to stop them all. Many will still manage to descend to the lower world.”

“Good!”

Su Che nodded firmly. “As long as they pay a price, that’s enough. At least it shows them that although the ants in the cultivation world are weak, they can still bite back.”

Without further ado, the plan that Su Che and the others had prepared long ago was put into action.

First, the hundreds of Yuan Ying-level subordinates who had received Su Che’s message each sent out hundreds of teleportation talismans. Their Jin Dan-level cultivators, upon receiving the message, immediately packed all their Zhu Ji and Lian Qi-level subordinates into their magical treasure spaces and rushed to the nearest pre-agreed meeting point at the fastest possible speed.

At each meeting point, there was a Yuan Ying-level cultivator waiting. Once all the Jin Dan-level cultivators arrived, they were also taken into their own magical treasure spaces.

Just like this, everything was interconnected and working in perfect harmony. From the moment Su Che sent out the message, in just one hour, all 13 million cultivators were withdrawn, leaving only a few hundred Yuan Ying cultivators on the land of Qi Yuan Star. These Yuan Ying cultivators could head to Ling Yao Mountain at any time to meet up with Su Che and enter the Immortal Prison. However, before that, they had another task to complete—setting up a formation! Relying on the original vast illusion formation that covered Qi Yuan Star, with slight modifications in certain areas, it transformed into another extraordinary formation with unique effects. Its purpose was unknown for now; they just needed to follow Yu Qing’s instructions. Another hour passed, and the few hundred Yuan Ying cultivators completed their tasks and rushed to Ling Yao Mountain in time, where Su Che took them into the Immortal Prison. By now, only Su Che, Tian Yin, and Yu Qing remained on Qi Yuan Star. At this point, Yu Qing had already determined the location of the exit to the lower world through the vast formation and said to Su Che, “The exit to the lower world has taken shape within the territory of the Holy Demon Sect. We must go there immediately.” “Let’s go!” Su Che raised his hand, summoned the huge stone pillar, dozens of feet tall and embedded with top-grade spirit stones, and brought it into the Immortal Prison. Together with Tian Yin and Yu Qing, he rushed to the territory of the Holy Demon Sect right away. Every second counted! To teach the people in the Spirit World a harsh lesson, they had to make the most of every moment. Su Che rode a top-grade Dao weapon, a flying sword, and flew at full speed, as fast as lightning. In less than fifteen minutes, he arrived at the territory of the Holy Demon Sect. As expected, the area was completely dark, with the entire sky resembling a huge dark gray rock that could fall at any moment. Amid this oppressive sky, a strange deep blue portal had formed, with faint lightning and whirlwinds inside—signs of unstable spatial turbulence. This deep blue portal was the exit connecting the Spirit World to the Cultivation World. The three of them arrived right below the exit and, with a loud rumble, brought out the stone pillar again and placed it on the ground. This thick stone pillar, embedded with 9,999 top-grade spirit stones, which had once been the core of the vast illusion formation, had now become a super powerful weapon. Buzz… Nearly ten thousand top-grade spirit stones on the pillar began to glow simultaneously—the other special formation set up by Yu Qing had taken effect.

At this moment, the original Immense Illusion Array had completely failed, revealing the true state of Qi Yuan Star—a desolate and ruined world—finally exposed to some people in the Spirit Realm.
Inside the Ling Tian Jun’s residence in the Spirit Realm, in front of the Sky-Penetrating Mirror, a large group of Heavenly Lords in the Tribulation Phase had gathered, along with over a dozen masterminds at the Mahayana Phase.
“How did this happen?”
“How could Qi Yuan Star turn into such a state?”
Even though these powerful cultivators had witnessed countless epic scenes, they were all utterly astonished. They never expected that in just a few months, Qi Yuan Star, once prosperous, would become a completely desolate world.
With the entire planet in this state, was it even possible that the treasure they had long sought after still remained on it?
Beyond shock, these powerful figures were also deeply disappointed and frustrated.
On Qi Yuan Star, Yu Qing, who had just activated a special grand array, looked up at the exit to the lower world in the sky, a faint smile on his lips as he said softly, “The timing is perfect.”
At that very moment, the lightning and whirlwinds inside the exit to the lower world had completely vanished, indicating that the spatial turbulence within the passage had stabilized entirely.
Under such circumstances, it was possible that in the next instant, a large number of powerful cultivators from the Spirit Realm might pour out of it…
The passage to the lower world was now fully open, and those from the Spirit Realm could descend at any time. Why hadn’t Yu Qing yet unleashed his powerful weapons?
“No rush, no rush. Wait a little longer…”
Yu Qing murmured to himself, silently calculating the time based on his intuition.
No one could predict when a large number of experts from the Spirit Realm would emerge from the passage, as no one could see what was inside.
If Yu Qing used his tactics too early, it would be a waste and wouldn’t harm them at all; if he used them too late and they rushed out in large numbers, Su Che and the others would surely be in a very difficult situation…
At this point, the success or failure of everything depended solely on his intuition.
But who could really rely on intuition? Generally speaking, few people dared to entrust their fate entirely to someone else’s intuition.
But Su Che dared!
In this regard, Su Che had almost blind trust in Yu Qing: He trusted Yu Qing to handle things, so he just left it to him.
The three of them were speechless, standing under the stone pillar, waiting silently…
The exit to the lower world above them was now completely stable, ready at any moment…
“Good!”
Yu Qing suddenly shouted loudly, slapping the stone pillar in front of him three times.
Vroom…

The entire stone pillar emitted a dazzling white light, and a thick column of white light shot upward, piercing straight into the exit to the lower realm above. The energy from the protective arrays of twelve super sects within hundreds of thousands of miles was fully released at this moment through this special stone pillar. Whoosh! The white light column plunged into the passage to the lower realm, and soon after, the stone pillar in front of Su Che and the others collapsed with a loud noise, turning completely into a pile of dust. Even the nearly ten thousand high-quality spirit stones embedded in it were shattered due to the depletion of energy. Meanwhile, the protective mountain arrays of those twelve super sects also dimmed instantly, almost completely depleted of energy and rendered useless. However, those twelve super sects were already deserted and in ruins; their so-called protective mountain arrays had lost their purpose of protecting the sects. This event marked the end of their existence—a final conclusion…