Chapter 461: Swapping Stars’ Positions

The ordinary days on Witch Yellow Star continued for another two years after that. One day, what Su Che had predicted and feared so much indeed happened.
Boom…
That afternoon, all living beings on Witch Yellow Star were startled, including Su Che and many Witch Tribe warriors.
A strange roar echoed between heaven and earth. The sound didn’t originate from a single place but seemed like the groan of the entire planet.
In the next moment, the earth began to shake violently.
No! To be precise, the entire Witch Yellow Star was trembling…
Was it a massive earthquake across the planet?
Though it resembled an earthquake, Su Che knew that an earthquake couldn’t occur on a planet guarded by the Witch Tribe, as every warrior possessed the power to move mountains and fill seas, capable of eliminating natural disasters like earthquakes in advance.
If it wasn’t an earthquake, then what?
Even the elders of the Witch Yellow Tribe didn’t know the true answer, aside from Tian Yin.
“Sigh…”
Tian Yin sighed softly, “They really resorted to this tactic.”
“Which tactic?” Su Che asked.
“The Star Swap Array!” Tian Yin replied in a deep voice. “Even in the Immortal Realm, it requires hundreds of thousands of true immortals to activate once. Its purpose is to swap the positions of two planets of nearly equal size and mass.”
“Swap stars’ positions?”
Though prepared, Su Che was still stunned upon hearing such an incredible move. “You mean they’ll move Witch Yellow Star to another location, while a planet of similar size to Witch Yellow Star will be moved here in this starry realm?”
“Yes!” Tian Yin nodded firmly. “Positions reversed—stars swapped.”
“Will Witch Yellow Star be directly moved into the Immortal Realm?” Su Che pressed urgently.
“That’s impossible. The laws of heaven and earth don’t allow it. The spatial crystal barrier between the Immortal Realm and the mortal realms wouldn’t permit such desecration,” Tian Yin replied. “I think the most likely outcome is that Witch Yellow Star will swap places with a planet in the Spirit Realm. After all, the Spirit Realm and the Cultivation Realm were originally one; it was only the immortals of the Immortal Realm who divided them into two. But in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, they’re both mortal realms.”
“Well, even if it’s just moved to the Spirit Realm, that’s still too extreme…”

Su Che didn’t know how to describe it, for such a earth-shattering feat truly exceeded the imagination of an ordinary person like him. Could a planet as huge as Witch Yellow Star really be moved just by giving an order?
Tian Yin could sense Su Che’s astonishment and disbelief, so she gently took his left hand and said softly, “For some powerful figures in the Immortal Realm, this isn’t even anything special. They simply don’t feel like getting their hands dirty, which is why they order hundreds of thousands of lower-ranked immortals to work together to set up a formation. In fact, moving a planet, destroying one, or refining one is nothing but a trivial task for someone with the power level of the Witch God—something that can be done in the blink of an eye.”
“Done in the blink of an eye?” Su Che stood there in shock, murmuring, “If it’s that simple, any one of them could just kill me with a finger. Why go through all this trouble?”
“The Immortal Realm also has its own rules. Even those at the peak of power keep each other in check.”
Tian Yin patiently explained and soothed him gently, “It should be said that each of them possesses the power to completely destroy the cultivation world. Without checks and balances, they could kill and act recklessly at will. How could countless beings survive? Each level has its own set of rules. Right now, you’re not yet at the level where they would consider punishing you.”
“Good, good,” Su Che said with a strangely odd smile, his words equally peculiar. “Since I don’t have that qualification, I feel honored…”
Though he said this, many doubts suddenly arose in Su Che’s mind. For example: If the immortals in the Immortal Realm clearly had the ability to move an entire planet, why wait until now to do it?
Why not move Qi Yuan Star to the Spirit Realm right after the heavens trembled, and then order the powerful cultivators there to take complete control of it? Wouldn’t that solve everything?
Also, if they had such power, why not simply destroy themselves and take away the Mi Xian Realm from them? That would be easier than moving an entire planet, right?
It was clearly a task that could be solved with just a little effort, so why go to such great lengths, only to end up struggling for no reward…
Could it be that the immortals in the Immortal Realm were all fools?
Of course, Su Che knew no one could be a fool. There must be some reasons he still couldn’t understand.
Tian Yin’s past life was that of an ancient great shaman—she probably knew the answers to these questions. But now was clearly not the time to ask her.

Amidst the earth-shaking roar, Su Che transmitted a message, asking, “Their real intention in doing this isn’t to truly send Wu Huang Star to the Spirit Realm; it’s to force us to leave Wu Huang Star, right?”
“Yes,” Tian Yin nodded. “The Star Shift Array can’t take effect immediately, giving us plenty of time to leave Wu Huang Star. Of course, that’s also their ultimate goal—to drive you away… I guess once we leave Wu Huang Star, the array will naturally cease.”
“Well, since they insist on playing a cat-and-mouse game with me, and as the mouse with no choice, the only option left is to run.”
Su Che sighed softly, “It’s really annoying to keep running and fleeing. This feeling is truly awful…”
Tian Yin nodded silently, for it was also an inevitable situation—no matter how much was said, it was useless.
“Then let’s go.”
Su Che cheered himself up and said with a smile, “Fortunately, two years ago, I anticipated that the peaceful days on Wu Huang Star wouldn’t last long, so I was prepared in advance.”
As he spoke, Su Che waved his hand, summoning several doppelgängers identical to himself from the Immortal Prison. All of them were at the mid-stage Yuan Ying level, with identical spiritual energy fluctuations.
“A few Su Ches fleeing from different directions on Wu Huang Star—this should at least confuse them to some extent and even divide their forces, right?” Su Che asked with a smile.
Tian Yin nodded gently and replied via message, “It will be somewhat useful, but as for the fate of these four doppelgängers…”
“It’s fine. They’re all people who deserve to die,” Su Che replied in return. “I’ve prepared many such scapegoats and taken various measures in advance. Even if captured, their souls will dissipate, preventing any secrets related to me from being revealed.”
At that, Su Che laughed self-mockingly, “But almost all the secrets about me are already known to the Spirit Realm and the Immortal Realm, so there seems to be nothing to worry about.”
Boom…
Wu Huang Star continued to shake violently, its tremors unknown to last until the spatial energy required for the Star Shift was sufficient.
Leaving Wu Huang Star didn’t require packing anything—one could leave at any time. A few breaths later, five Su Ches, indistinguishable from the real one, flew out of Wu Huang Star from different locations and fled swiftly through the stars.
It was easy to imagine that if there were pursuers lurking in the stars outside Wu Huang Star, they would have to chase them separately.

But what surprised Su Che greatly was that from the fourth level of the Immortal Prison, it could be learned that those five avatars had each flown tens of thousands of miles without encountering any interference. Could those lurking outside easily distinguish between them and the real ones?
There was no time to think further, because even Tian Yin wasn’t sure whether Wu Huangxing would really be moved to the Spirit Realm, nor was she sure if he might be taken away in the next moment.
If they really ended up in the Spirit Realm, things would be terrible—what awaited them would be a large number of beings in the Tribulation Phase and Mahayana Phase, their true forms, not mere projections.
Go!
The real Su Che and Tian Yin hid inside a magic artifact, carried by Fei Yun. Then, using a combination of advanced invisibility and teleportation techniques, Fei Yun broke through the Five Elements Barrier and began continuous teleportations through the endless starry sky, remaining invisible.
This method would inevitably consume a great deal of the Immortal Essence power left in her body, but there was no other choice—survival came first, and she couldn’t afford to worry about the loss.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh…
Fei Yun, remaining invisible, kept teleporting nonstop, with no specific direction or goal—just to get as far away from Wu Huangxing as possible.
During the teleportations, Fei Yun felt extremely depressed, a deep sorrow weighing on her heart. Yet she hid it well, so Su Che and Tian Yin didn’t notice.
That moment was the first time in eight years that Su Che, Tian Yin, and Fei Yun—one man and three women—had met and stood together…
Over these eight years, even though Fei Yun had left the Immortal Prison once or twice, it was always because she hadn’t seen Su Che for too long and missed him greatly, prompting her to ask to come out and see him.
Considering that her Immortal Essence power would constantly drain outside the prison, each meeting was extremely brief, and she only spent time alone with Su Che, never meeting Tian Yin.
To escape this situation, they relied on Fei Yun’s advanced invisibility technique, and inevitably, the three of them ended up together.
Though they only exchanged a few words in a hurry, Fei Yun without hesitation put Su Che and Tian Yin into the magic artifact’s space and vanished immediately. Yes, it was only during those brief moments seeing them together that Fei Yun clearly felt her heart tremble, overwhelmed with sorrow…
“Has she been by his side outside all these eight years?”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh…

With aimless teleportation combined with advanced invisibility techniques, Fei Yun’s figure was completely invisible in the starry sky, unless there was a top-tier immortal from the Immortal Realm capable of seeing through such profound magic. Suddenly, a crystal-clear droplet appeared in the dim starry sky and soon hovered motionless, seemingly destined to remain there forever. The tiny droplet seemed to be someone’s tear…