Chapter 447: Extreme Arrogance

Lao Hei’s loud voice echoed throughout the sky and earth. His arrogance, recklessness, brutality, and roughness were such that even if Su Che tried deliberately to imitate them, it would be hard to replicate.
“Those guys are flying really fast. We just teleported straight into the Patriarch’s Hall—only ahead of them by a step.”
Inside the Patriarch’s Hall, Su Che said to Yu Qing and Tian Yin.
At that moment, Lao Hei was controlling a Sacred Demon Puppet to manage the entire protective array of the mountain, while Su Che and the others needed to discuss the situation temporarily.
“You two go,” Yu Qing said softly.
He said this because the interstellar portal originally hidden near the Wuji Gate had already been moved by Su Che inside this Patriarch’s Hall. In fact, Su Che and Tian Yin could use this portal to travel to the Wu Huang Star Region, which was trillions of miles away, at any time. Once there, even fourteen cultivators at the Lingxu stage, or even 140 or 1,400 of them, would be nothing but easy prey.
But the problem was that Yu Qing had already said he wouldn’t leave Qiyuan Star at this stage. He still needed to use the protective arrays of the dozen or so super sects already set up on Qiyuan Star to reopen—even frequently—to try to get in touch with most of his primordial spirits scattered in the Spirit Realm and that life treasure of his…
What Su Che and Tian Yin couldn’t understand was why, with Qiyuan Star in such a dire situation, constantly facing threats from the Spirit Realm, he still had the audacity to stay there. Could he really fight against those powerful cultivators from the Spirit Realm alone?
But Yu Qing refused to explain these doubts, so Su Che and Tian Yin didn’t dare ask further.
What Yu Qing meant was this: if Su Che and Tian Yin left Qiyuan Star via the portal, he would destroy it completely, preventing those from the Spirit Realm from tracking them and thus sparing them further worries.
This had been the original plan—during the mass migration, if the Spirit Realm suddenly opened a passage to the lower realms, it would be time for Su Che and the others to truly say goodbye to Qiyuan Star.
However, Su Che had other ideas. He said, “There are only fourteen of them. I think we still have a chance to deal with them. That’s why I left a message for them, deliberately guiding them here.”

Yu Qing and Tian Yin already knew that Su Che possessed unique methods to enslave others. Clearly, he now harbored even greater greed, targeting the fourteen cultivators at the Lingxu stage outside, intending to capture them alive and turn them into his powerful subordinates.
“Your ambition is truly immense,” Yu Qing said with a smile as he shook his head. “I was wondering why they could summon Tianxuan Sect so quickly. It turns out you deliberately left a message…”
Tian Yin also gave Su Che a slight glare. That jade talisman with the message was purely Su Che’s impulsive idea—he hadn’t consulted Yu Qing or Tian Yin at all.
“I know it’s extremely difficult, almost impossible, to capture all fourteen of them,” Su Che said softly. “But if it’s just two or three, or even three or five, it should still be possible, right?”
“I don’t know.”
Yu Qing shook his head firmly. “If we confront them head-on, I couldn’t handle even one of them. All I can do is ensure they can’t find me.”
Tian Yin also shook her head and replied softly, “I don’t have any good solutions either. After all, they’re at the Lingxu stage—there’s a huge gap in strength.”
Su Che smiled silently. Though he didn’t say it outright, his expression clearly implied: You two are reincarnations of ancient powers. If you don’t have powerful life-preserving abilities, that would be strange.
Su Che believed that even if Yu Qing and Tian Yin each fought a Lingxu cultivator head-on, it would still be them who won in the end!
“Alright, I’ll figure this out on my own. You two just need to assist me as much as possible,” Su Che said with a smile.
“Don’t be too greedy. You must know your limits,” Yu Qing said, nodding but still offering a gentle reminder. “Originally, you could have left calmly. If greed leads to an uncontrollable situation, it will be too late to regret it.”
“I understand.”
Although Su Che appeared cheerful and relaxed on the surface, he wasn’t the slightest bit arrogant. What he kept to himself was: This isn’t greed—it’s concern. Searching for treasures in the Spirit Realm and the Witch Clan’s rebellion—these two tasks are all on my shoulders. One mistake, and I’ll die without even a proper burial… To survive, I must seize every opportunity to strengthen myself. Only then will I have a chance when disaster strikes…

Su Che was well aware that no matter how fast he trained, he would not be able to compete with the powerful figures in the Spirit Realm and Immortal Realm in the next few hundred years, let alone against the Witch Clan. For now, the only shortcut was to enslave powerful cultivators and make them his subordinates, relying on their strength to protect himself.

Anyway, Yu Qing and Tian Yin agreed with Su Che’s idea and were willing to take the risk to cooperate with him. It could be said that it was already extremely rare for friends to reach such a level of trust.

Next, Tian Yin would take control of Tianxuan Sect’s mountain protection array. Su Che retrieved the Sacred Demon Puppet controlled by Lao He back to Immortal Prison. Then, together with Yu Qing, they flew away from the sect’s leadership peak and arrived directly in front of the mountain protection array, facing off against the fourteen Cultivators at the Void Refinement stage across a semi-transparent defensive barrier.

It was this very semi-transparent defensive barrier that had held off those powerful Cultivators for nearly fifteen minutes. So far, the mountain protection array remained extremely stable, showing no signs of breaking.

Tianxuan Sect’s mountain protection array had been enhanced by the Ancient Town Mountain Talisman, increasing its defensive power by 40%. Under normal circumstances, as long as there were enough spirit stones, it could withstand even the combined attacks of hundreds of thousands of cultivators from two or three super sects.

Today, the combined strength of those fourteen Cultivators at the Void Refinement stage was certainly not comparable to that of hundreds of thousands from two or three super sects in the cultivation world. However, because their attacks were more concentrated, more penetrating, and their magical techniques more advanced, they posed a significant threat to this defensive barrier.

The Cultivators attacking the barrier stopped temporarily when they saw Su Che and Yu Qing finally showing up, wanting to hear what these two Nascent Soul cultivators had to say.

At a glance, they recognized Su Che and Yu Qing as the ones responsible for causing the spatial collapse at the entrance to the lower realm earlier.

The hundred-member team from the Spirit Realm had almost been wiped out because of these two Nascent Soul cultivators, leaving only these fourteen of them. Such an outcome was still hard for them to believe even now. However, due to the suddenness of the incident and the tight schedule, they hadn’t had time to express their feelings yet.

“Was it you who used tricks to destroy the passage to the lower realm just now?” asked the bearded cultivator first.

Whether the defensive barrier of the mountain protection array could block sound depended on the will of Su Che and the others. At this moment, it must be in an enabling state for smooth communication between the two sides.

“That’s right!”

Su Che deliberately showed an arrogant expression and retorted mockingly, “You lot are quite lucky to be able to squeeze through even the smallest gap… I wonder if you still have the luck to return to the Spirit Realm.”
“You ignorant youngsters!”
The bearded cultivator first roared loudly, then softened his tone slightly: “Even if you possess some special skills, you’re still low-level cultivators in the cultivation world. Haven’t you thought about what kind of miserable fate awaits you if you ascend to the Spirit Realm someday?”
“What fate?” Su Che smiled indifferently. “Nothing more than becoming rats hunted by everyone, or being wanted and unable to move freely?”
“It’s good that you understand.”
The bearded cultivator’s gaze was sharp, his aura of strength almost penetrating through the defensive barrier. He said gravely, “I advise you to stop in time, repent, and cooperate with us to uncover everything that’s happened on Qi Yuan Star…”
Before he could finish, Su Che impatiently waved his hand to interrupt, “Enough! Stop playing these tricks! With that space collapse just now, many of you must have died, right? People shouldn’t die in vain, right?”
Su Che sneered, “Once we fall into your hands, our value will be completely exploited. In the end, it’s still a dead end. So, it’s a fight to the death between us. No more nonsense—show what you’ve got. I don’t believe that just because a dozen of you managed to escape by luck, you can break through my Tianxuan Sect’s protective formation.”
“Your so-called mountain-protection formation—even if we don’t attack, how long can it last?” The bearded cultivator refused to back down and replied with a psychological tactic of his own, “I guess ten days or half a month. By then, your spirit stones will probably be exhausted, right?”
“Spirit stones?” Su Che laughed scornfully. “I’ve already used those to pave the ground. There are so many of them that I’m struggling to find a way to use them up.”
“Hmph…”
The bearded cultivator sneered twice, thinking it was just the other party stubbornly clinging to denial. But he never expected Su Che’s words to be true—the mountain-protection formation could remain fully activated for thousands of years without issue.
To this day, the fourteen bearded cultivators still didn’t understand what exactly had happened on Qi Yuan Star. On their journey to Tianxuan Sect earlier, they had witnessed that eerie, desolate wasteland—a post-apocalyptic scene devoid of any living beings. Although they couldn’t guess the specific reason, they all knew that capturing these two Yuan Ying-level youngsters would give them all the answers.

Although they verbally referred to them as “the younger generation,” in reality, none of them dared to underestimate Su Che and the others. Those who could destroy the passage to the lower world were by no means ordinary people!
Deep in their hearts, they all admitted that if it were them, they would never have the ability to destroy a spatial passage permitted by the laws of heaven and earth…
As for Su Che, the reason he wasted words with them must surely be for some ulterior motive. At this moment, he pointed at the defensive barrier in front of him with an extremely arrogant tone, “Come on, keep at it! Just this thin layer of transparent barrier—you so-called Cultivators at the Void Refining stage still can’t break it. Aren’t you just a bunch of useless idiots?”
“Come on! I’ll just stand here waiting, neither fleeing nor avoiding. I simply don’t believe that you bunch of losers can break the protective formation I personally set up!”
Utterly arrogant and wildly overconfident!
The bearded cultivator and the others were furious—just a young cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, relying on a single defensive barrier, dared to insult more than a dozen Cultivators at the Void Refining stage in every possible way. This was truly…
Attack!
Boom!
The fourteen Cultivators at the Void Refining stage simultaneously unleashed their most powerful offensive techniques, focusing their attacks on one point of the defensive barrier.
From the bearded cultivator’s perspective, that point was straight for Su Che’s head…