Chapter 916: The Situation Reverses

“How could this happen?”
Xue Yu struggled hard to stay awake, but the overwhelming drowsiness was too strong. “How could you think of doing this in advance… to Su Nian’er…”
Overwhelmed by sleepiness, she spoke slurredly.
“Don’t treat me as a fool. Do you really think I couldn’t figure out some things?”
Su Che replied with a cold laugh, “Ten thousand years ago, Yu Huangtian used my relatives to force me into chaos ahead of time. That’s when I realized that Su Nian’er and the so-called Snow Jade Fairy were both pawns he had planted in advance. On the surface, you two sisters seem like unimportant figures, but it makes me suspect that every move Yu Huangtian makes must have a deeper purpose—it’s never just a random act of boredom.”
“Why was Su Nian’er able to obtain the Immortal Prison Pagoda first in her past life? And why did she become my cousin after reincarnation?”
“Don’t these doubts deserve my careful consideration? To be honest, I once used the gentlest soul-searching technique to quietly probe Nian’er’s thoughts, without causing her any harm.”
“Although I found no answers in her memories and still can’t decipher the mysteries behind it, it doesn’t stop me from taking precautions against her. As her brother, I won’t deliberately harm her, but one must always be cautious. Any unknown factor in my Immortal Prison must be guarded against—even if it’s just the most insignificant ant.”
“Just now, when you two so-called sisters merged back into their true forms, you inadvertently brought this curse power into your physical body, without even realizing it.”
At this point, Su Che smiled arrogantly, “It’s for this reason that I’m confident enough to challenge your father, Yu Huangtian. It will be far harder for him to take me down than he thinks!”
“I, Su Che, may not have outstanding innate talents, nor am I particularly good at scheming. But I can be more cautious than anyone else—extra careful, extremely cautious… That’s why I’ve survived to this day.”
“I see.”
Xue Yu slowly closed her eyes, murmuring, “My father and I underestimated you after all. But Su Che, you must know that my advice just now was sincere. You can’t possibly win…”
Before she could finish, her illusory image dimmed and vanished suddenly.
Huhuhuhu…

Within the starry sky, the force that had suppressed Su Che vanished, and his body suddenly swelled dozens of times in size.
“The Ninth Layer of the Immortal Prison—merging the self with the Dao!”
Su Che roared as his body expanded to its extreme, reaching an astonishing height of millions of feet. Then, with a loud explosion, he transformed into an intangible force that dispersed and merged throughout the entire universe.
“I am the universe; I merge my self with the Dao.”
From now on, the Immortal Prison is me, and I am the Immortal Prison—no distinction between them, united as one.
Su Che merged his main avatar with the Immortal Prison. As its master, how could some mere spirit within it still hold any significance?
Of course not!
Boom…
The Ninth Layer of the Immortal Prison opened, and the cosmic space of that layer began to expand once again—this being the final expansion of the Immortal Prison Pagoda’s interior. After this, any further expansion would have to wait until the day Su Che created a new universe in chaos.
This expansion would last over ten days, expected to increase the size by more than a thousand times. Yet even at a thousand times larger, it would still be like a child compared to a true vast universe.
Xue Yu fell into slumber, and control over all nine layers of the Immortal Prison returned to Su Che’s hands, including the Soul Subjugation Space of the fourth layer.
Swish!
Outside the Immortal Prison, bat-winged and Vajra-like humanoid statues suddenly opened their eyes. Without a word, the two combined their forces and rushed high into the sky, launching a fierce attack on Yu Huangtian.
Boom!
They delivered a full-force strike from afar, their combined energies hitting Yu Huangtian’s Divine Demon Dao realm from tens of thousands of miles away.
“Huh?”
Unaware of what was happening inside the Immortal Prison, Yu Huangtian’s Divine Demon Dao realm, which was already battling against the forces of the Divine Spirit Universe Dao, was suddenly torn apart.
“What’s going on?”
No matter how powerful Yu Huangtian was, he dared not underestimate these two top-tier chaos warriors—Bat Wing and Vajra. Swish! He retracted his forces, shrinking his Divine Demon Dao realm to a radius of a hundred feet and dodging tens of thousands of miles away to save himself first, leaving no time to pursue Su Che.
“What happened to Xue Yu?”
Yu Huangtian immediately sensed that the telepathic connection with his daughter Xue Yu was intermittent, faint, and seemingly on the verge of completely breaking off.
“Xue Yu!”
“Xue Yu…”
He called repeatedly, but received no response. Yu Huangtian’s heart tightened—how could he not realize that something terrible must have happened to Xue Yu?

Tens of thousands of years ago, assigning Xueyu to be the spirit guardian of the Immortal Prison Pagoda was the most crucial part of the entire plan—indeed, the top priority. If anything went wrong and Su Che regained control of the Immortal Prison Pagoda, forceful attack would be the only option.
The difficulty of such an attack was beyond Yu Huangtian’s estimation. Not to mention anything else, just Su Che’s group of soul slaves already gave him a huge headache.
It was already known that among Su Che’s soul slaves were two top-tier Chaos warriors—Batwing Vajra—and five ordinary Chaos travelers, along with three powerful helpers: Tianyin, Lao Hei, and Xiao Hei.
On his side, however, he only had nine subordinates of the Nine Demon Ancestors.
The problem was that once the Nine Demon Ancestors arrived in the Immortal Realm, deities like the Holy Mother, the Evil Emperor, and the Witch God surely wouldn’t stand idly by—they would also show up.
In terms of numbers, he had no advantage at all.
At this moment, Yu Huangtian couldn’t figure out how Su Che could turn the situation around or what force he used to suppress Xueyu.
“Yu Huangtian!”
Standing on Xiao Hei’s shoulder, Su Che shouted loudly, “I told you—your flaw is being too arrogant. You always think you can predict everything and won’t make any mistakes. But even the wisest can make a mistake; there are always things they can’t anticipate. You underestimate me too much!”
“What’s happened to Xueyu?”
Yu Huangtian asked in a gloomy tone.
“Your ‘good daughter’ talked too much and is a bit tired now…” Su Che sneered coldly. “I advised her to take a nap to recover her strength. She’s very obedient—she’s sleeping soundly right now.”
While speaking, Su Che’s main avatar had already achieved unity with the Dao, regaining control of the first eight layers inside the Immortal Prison Pagoda. The ninth layer had only just opened a few moments ago and had not yet formed a substantial spatial domain.
At this moment, Su Che’s mind was searching deep within the Immortal Prison space for Xueyu’s true form. Even if she was asleep, he had to identify and eliminate this threat as soon as possible.
Boom! Boom! Boom…
Batwing Vajra followed closely behind Yu Huangtian, unleashing one after another of his most powerful attack techniques, never giving him a chance to get close to his master.
Although they were at hundreds of thousands of miles in the air, the shockwaves generated by the battle between these powerful warriors still reached the land of the Immortal Realm below.
It was as if the end of the world had arrived—mountains and rivers within hundreds of millions of miles were shattered, everything destroyed. In just a few moments, countless lower-ranked immortals lost their lives. Only those with a cultivation level of at least Golden Immortal could escape this disaster zone in time.

This is also a form of helplessness. Despite Su Che’s kind heart, he couldn’t care for them at this moment. Moreover, if Yu Huang Tian seized the Immortal Prison, no being in the entire Immortal Spirit Universe would survive—those immortals who just died were nothing compared to that.

Swish swish swish…

Su Che released five more Soul Slaves at the Chaos Traveler level from the Immortal Prison, along with Tian Yin and Lao Hei’s puppet bodies, as well as the support and assistance of the Heavenly Dao forces of the Immortal Spirit Universe. Additionally, his own thousand-fold power enhancement returned.

The strongest faction, the strongest power—everything was back!

With so many people, couldn’t they take down Yu Huang Tian?

In the entire chaos, the cultivation strength of any individual is ultimately limited. In Su Che’s eyes, the two strongest people he had ever met were the Snake Woman and God Merchant Mord. In the future, Xiao Hei should also be able to reach such a level.

No matter how strong Yu Huang Tian was, could he surpass them?

With his powerful team of eleven, even if they couldn’t defeat the Snake Woman head-on, they could surely protect themselves. Thus, Su Che was almost certain that Yu Huang Tian’s attempt to capture him had failed.

Now, with the situation reversed, the question became whether his group could actually take him down and eliminate this ultimate opponent once and for all.

“Yu Huang Tian, it must be said that your dream, planned over countless years, has shattered! In a little while, your daughter Xue Yu will also fall into my hands…”

Su Che said coldly in a victor’s tone, “Do you plan to escape now, or do you want to negotiate terms with me?”

As he spoke, Bat Wing Vajra paused his attack but joined forces with the others, surrounding Yu Huang Tian in the center. Whether they talked or not, it was impossible for him to escape easily.

However, everyone knew deep down that killing him was highly unlikely. At such a high level, truly eliminating someone was beyond imagination.

Logically speaking, even if the dozen or so Immortal Lords in this universe joined forces to kill the Witch God, their success rate would be less than 30%.

Surrounded and silent, Yu Huang Tian asked in a low voice after a long while, “I want to know where the mistake lies.”

“Firstly, it’s because of Su Nianer. I made some adjustments to her in advance, but that’s not the most important factor.”

Su Che was willing to explain, “You really don’t understand the true meaning of merging with the Dao, because you’ve never had any experience in this area.”

Su Che pointed at the sky: “Fifteen minutes ago, I didn’t understand either. It’s just taught me a lot, and now I understand… Yu Huangtian, you betrayed it, stopped respecting it, and now you must pay the price for that.”
“To merge with the Way?” Yu Huangtian looked solemn, deep in thought.
He was originally the finest seed created by the Heavenly Way. The Heavenly Way had placed great hopes on him; in fact, he had even had the chance to merge with the Way and take complete control of this universe. But since Yu Huangtian didn’t want to share fate with this already declining realm of immortals, he rejected that chance. As Su Che said, he didn’t understand the true meaning of merging with the Way.
Unbeknownst to him, amidst all his calculations and plans, the biggest oversight was right here!
Su Che smiled again and said, “Now, it’s not me who wants to fight to the death with you—it’s the heavens. You betrayed them and now try to destroy them. Do you know? They are utterly disappointed and filled with hatred toward you. Next, you will suffer the harshest heavenly punishment ever. And we will seize the opportunity amidst that punishment to find your weakness, kill you, destroy you, and end you!”
Lao He, controlling the puppet body to represent the Heavenly Way, added, “You damned bastard, traitor, beast!”