Chapter 169: Space Teleportation to Wanbao Tower; Many Novelties Seen in the Secret Realm [Make-up for Yesterday]

Fang Longye looked at the beaming Ao Ying and teased, "After all this trouble, your gains are far greater than mine, your master."

Ao Ying smiled embarrassedly, "I am merely basking in Master's glory!"

Fang Longye shook his head; in truth, he did not mind it at all.

Although he had not comprehended a time-related divine ability like Ao Ying had, with the swirling insights into the Dao of Time within his heart, he was not far from that step.

It could be said that the divine ability concerning the Dao of Time had already taken a rough shape in his mind; it only lacked a slight opportunity and a few realizations.

Fang Longye waved his hand and said, "The timing of your emergence from seclusion is quite opportune. You have caught up just as the Wanbao Tower on this Penglai Xiandao is opening."

"Wanbao Tower?"

"That's right. This Wanbao Tower is a trading platform established by several powers on Penglai Xiandao," Qingli explained. "Because many powers act as guarantors, it is considered fair and just."

Fang Longye and Qingli had not just been holed up in the rented Grotto-Heaven for the past six months or more, burying themselves in cultivation.

They had also gathered quite a bit of information.

For instance, this grand event of the Wanbao Tower.

Wanbao Tower—judging by the name, one might think it is a tower, like some jade palace or an Xianfang city.

But in reality, it belongs to a realm space opened up by human effort, and it is quite mysterious and unfathomable.

It can be considered a Secret Realm created by human hands.

It is not open to the public on ordinary days; it only manifests for sixty years every Yuanhui.

It can be said to be the most renowned scenic spot in the vast territory surrounding the Xianfang where they are located.

Not to mention the immortals and gods from other parts of Penglai Xiandao who flock to it, it also has quite a reputation throughout the entire East Sea cultivation world outside of Penglai.

"Then this servant must see it for herself." Ao Ying had not recalled it at first, only feeling that it sounded familiar.

Hearing Qingli's explanation, she remembered that she had heard this name when she was a guest in the East Sea during her youth.

She just had never come here to see it~

……

Thus, having stayed in this Xianfang for another three months or so, Fang Longye and his two servants concealed their appearances and wandered through this Xianfang again and again, looking and observing.

Buying and buying all along the way.

They spent quite a bit, mainly purchasing items unearthed from various ancient ruins.

However, although they did not lose out anywhere,

they were never able to pick up a big bargain like they did from that horse-faced True Immortal.

On this day.

Fang Longye and his party of three left the rented Grotto-Heaven and arrived at a platform area where cultivators were extremely dense.

On a platform shaped like a compass with a diameter of ten thousand zhang, countless True Immortal cultivators, and even no small number of Golden Immortal cultivators, were coming and going.

Fang Longye's party also followed the crowd and entered.

An invisible protective force enveloped their bodies.

Fang Longye's heart stirred, and a wisp of Dharma power flew out, only to dissipate without a trace less than a zhang away from his body.

Sensing it slightly, he discovered that the power of this protective Dharma Restriction was closely connected to the entire platform.

Unless one could shatter this platform in a single blow, one did not need to fear even an attack at the Taiyi level with this layer of Restriction power.

Moreover, he could also sense a vast and boundless power, like the origin of heaven and earth, wandering within this platform.

And in Fang Longye's eyes, perhaps only the incarnation of that Ancient Buddha Randeng could surpass this quality of power.

It was clear that this platform was likely the work of a Great Luo.

A Space Teleportation Array was engraved upon it~

Fang Longye was not surprised; after all, this was Penglai Xiandao, where the solidity of space far exceeded the outside world.

While it was not easy to break the space here, it also presented a state of stagnation, which had a considerable impact on the speed at which immortals and gods could fly.

Previously, the three of them had spent quite a lot of time traveling all the way here.

Penglai Xiandao was not small. In a situation where one could not tear through space to teleport on their own, taking a Space Teleportation Array was a quite good choice.

Otherwise, if one really encountered some urgent matter, by the time they walked all the way there, the opportunity would have long since passed.

Take the Wanbao Tower, for example.

It does not drift aimlessly in the void; it has a specifically fixed location for opening.

It is neither too far nor too near from this Xianfang.

If Fang Longye and his party really had to travel there on their own, even knowing the location, it would take them more than half a year.

Fang Longye felt that some money still had to be spent.

He spent ten merit gold coins to obtain a Passage Jade Token from a cultivator stationed at this platform.

They arrived at the core of this platform, where the Space Teleportation Array was truly located.

The core area was no more than a hundred zhang in diameter, and countless tiny runes emitted five-colored light, illuminating this hundred-zhang radius in a hazy glow.

Surrounding this hundred-zhang Space Teleportation Array were eight White Jade Pillars, each a zhang in diameter and over ten zhang high.

They were carved with dragons and phoenixes, colorful and magnificent.

After looking around, they followed the flow of people to a payment altar not far away.

There was no one presiding over it.

Fang Longye imitated the steps he had observed earlier, first taking out ten merit gold coins and placing them on this altar, which was only three feet wide and long, and then his consciousness entered the altar.

What appeared in his mind were tiny specks of faint light, like stars in the sky; those were various spatial coordinates.

According to the transmitted information, he input the name "Wanbao Tower" with his mind, and immediately, one of the faint lights shone brilliantly.

Then a piece of information surged forth, causing Fang Longye's heart to ache instantly.

Three hundred merit gold coins per person! He gritted his teeth, deposited nine hundred merit gold coins onto the payment altar, and watched as the small altar before him swallowed them up like a glutton.

Then, after a breath of time, the platform emitted a ray of spirit light, which submerged into the Passage Jade Token in Fang Longye's hand.

Fang Longye activated the Jade Command, and three runes were branded onto the backs of the hands of the three of them, master and servants.

Thus, the fee was considered paid in full.

"Damn it, truly black-hearted. They understand service fees even better than I, a transmigrator, do!"

Fang Longye rubbed the Passage Jade Token, which had already completed its mission in his hand, and cursed inwardly.

Ten merit gold coins to get a Jade Command to gain the qualification to go near the Space Teleportation Array, and another ten merit gold coins as a service fee for the toll.

What is called exorbitant taxes and levies? He had truly witnessed it!

Looking at the various cultivators coming and going, Fang Longye's eyes turned red instantly, as if he saw countless mountains of gold and silver.

Even robbing money isn't this fast! Wouldn't this force in charge of the Space Teleportation Array be making a fortune?

After a long while, as the rune brand on the back of his hand began to heat up slightly and the Passage Jade Token in his hand trembled slightly, Fang Longye knew it was finally their turn.

The three, master and servants, strolled to the front of the Space Teleportation Array shrouded in five-colored light, and according to the information in the rune brand, input their Dharma power into the rune brand.

Instantly, the rune brand on the back of his hand began to emit a faint spirit light, shrouding the three of them.

Subsequently, Fang Longye, along with Qingli and Ao Ying, entered the array without any obstruction.

Then, one after another, the group of fellow cultivators gathered.

The eight jade pillars surrounding the Space Teleportation Array immediately emitted boundless radiance.

A phantom image of an Eight Trigrams diagram then derived, with five-colored light circulating.

A blur before his eyes, and before he could have any reaction, it had already returned to normal, only the world had changed.

……

It was the same Space Teleportation Array with five-colored light, and the same eight jade pillars around it, but the environment and scenery outside of this had completely changed.

Looking around, it was a cave cliff grotto, with mottled moss marks, lush and green.

Fang Longye knew that this was the place where the Secret Realm of Wanbao Tower had manifested in the world.

Watching the cultivators of varying cultivation levels walk directly out of the Space Teleportation Array, Fang Longye, along with Qingli and Ao Ying, naturally followed them out.

As they exited this Space Teleportation Array, the rune brand on the back of his hand instantly turned into specks of spirit light and dissipated completely.

However, Fang Longye did not care about these. It was only because he had already sensed a special fluctuation.

The location from which the fluctuation came was about hundreds of thousands of miles away from this place.

Fang Longye understood that this should be the fluctuation emitted by the manifestation of that Wanbao Tower.

Without hesitation, he left the cave cliff and, following this special fluctuation, flew towards the northwest direction.

Along this journey, the various immortals and gods encountered were not few in number.

Even, he successively encountered three or four cultivators of the Golden Immortal Realm.

They were all here for the Wanbao Tower.

Speaking deeply when the acquaintance is shallow is naturally a great taboo.

Moreover, they were complete strangers.

Fang Longye was here to see such a secret realm and scenic spot, not to make friends.

Therefore, even if he encountered people trying to strike up a conversation on the way, he maintained a distant posture very politely, which naturally made people tactfully retreat.

Not long after.

The three of them, Fang Longye and his servants, finally arrived within a ten-thousand-mile radius of the junction between the Secret Realm of Wanbao Tower and the present world.

He did not see any scenery; no jade buildings, Xianfang, or cities existed.

There were even no signs at all; it could be said that everything around was plain and unremarkable.

But just then, in the dark of his mind, a choice appeared—whether to enter the Wanbao Tower.

The three of them, Fang Longye, naturally chose to enter.

Immediately, three Blue Stone Tokens emerged from the void and landed in the hands of the three of them, master and servants, one for each.

Smiling at each other, the three of them, master and servants, immediately entered the secret realm space of 'Wanbao Tower' together.

……

The moment he entered, Fang Longye's thinking suddenly became very strange, as if the concepts of time and space had disappeared from his mind.

His own consciousness fell into a strange feeling, unaware of the flow of time, unaware of the universe and the six directions.

Before he could even think, he realized that he had already withdrawn from that magical state.

What reflected before his eyes was a huge palace.

This palace was over a thousand feet in length and width, white jade in color throughout, empty, and exceptionally cold and lonely.

Except for the three of them, master and servants, there was no one else.

Fang Longye curiously sensed the surroundings, not caring about the danger that might be contained within.

Besides the lack of primordial spirit warning, it was also because he clearly perceived that as long as he exerted a little force, he could leave this palace.

And reappear on the outside Penglai Xiandao.

And just when the three of them, Fang Longye, holding the Blue Stone Tokens, appeared in the center of this huge palace.

A piece of information appeared within the tokens, which was sensed by Fang Longye and his servants respectively, and they learned the situation of this palace.

Looking at the token in his hand engraved with the two Dao characters 'Wanbao', Fang Longye circulated his Dharma power and input it directly into the token.

Instantly, thousands of Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors appeared, each illusory treasure mirror being over a zhang in size, spreading throughout this palace.

In these Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors, the images of countless treasures appeared.

With his primordial spirit power probing into a Spirit Light Treasure Mirror, Fang Longye immediately sensed the various detailed information of the treasures within the Spirit Light Treasure Mirror.

Including efficacy, usage methods, auction prices,... and so on.

Fang Longye smiled and began to quickly sense and receive the information within these Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors.

After a short while, having fully understood the information on the treasures contained within these Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors, Fang Longye sighed with emotion: "It is truly worthy of being a Secret Realm on Penglai Xiandao!"

Indeed, it is extraordinary.

Within it, there is no lack of things he can make use of.

He came to the right place! While he was sighing with emotion, new Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors appeared in the palace from time to time.

Fang Longye understood that this was because other cultivators had begun acting as sellers.

Steadying his mind, he kept an eye on the newly appeared Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors while checking the auction status of some treasures he had marked.

Furthermore, he activated the Blue Stone Token in his hand.

Boom—

A Black Dao Platform rose from within the palace, and he placed some of the good things he had on hand onto it, preparing to sell them to earn some price difference.

For instance, various levels of divine pills produced by the Refining Immortal Pot, spiritual spring water that accompanied the Creation Purifying World Bead, and he even unsparingly put up two 'Yin-Yang Creation Pills'.

These were all treasures he did not lack himself.

This is the significance of Wanbao Tower, allowing the cultivators who enter to exchange what they have for what they need without any concerns.

"As expected, the figures behind this Wanbao Tower are not so simple."

Fang Longye lowered his eyelids, squinted his eyes, and thought to himself, "It seems that behind this Wanbao Tower, there is at least an existence of the Great Luo Realm standing by and paying attention!"

This was because he discovered that as long as a treasure was placed on the Black Dao Platform, the platform would automatically display all kinds of information about the treasure without the seller needing to input it.

It even made evaluations.

Even for the 'Ten Thousand Spirit Pill' produced by the Refining Immortal Pot, an exclusive specialty of Fang Longye's, it clearly and accurately stated the raw materials.

"However, it is indeed quite convenient."

He did not see any personnel like auctioneers; it was entirely a self-service platform.

One only needs to input the reserve price of the treasure and the time.

As well as the acceptable maximum buyout price.

And that's it~

Fang Longye even discovered that as he raised his seller's platform, a Spirit Light Treasure Mirror concerning his own items for sale would also appear in the palace.

Learned something~ Fang Longye blinked his eyes and thought to himself.

He immediately turned his head and said to the two women, Qingli and Ao Ying: "If you have anything you want to buy or sell, just go ahead and operate it."

In fact, if the token had not sensed their own intentions and choices, the three of them should have each had their own palace.

Qingli and Ao Ying nodded, indicating they understood.

Time passed, and more than half a month went by; the Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors appearing in the palace became increasingly numerous.

Fortunately, Fang Longye could use the token in his hand to delete them according to his own will. Plus, the palace itself could also perform Size Manipulation.

It did not result in a scene where the Spirit Light Treasure Mirrors crowded the space and overflowed.

Picking and choosing, Fang Longye bought quite a few things beneficial to his own cultivation.

There was no lack of items specifically for nourishing and refining a Grotto-Heaven.

For example, five small five-colored mountain peaks; that was a complete set of exotic treasures imitating the Five Sacred Mountains.

Named Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks.

They specialize in suppressing Grotto-Heavens.

Although, for Fang Longye, it seemed to be a superfluous act.

Relying solely on the characteristic of the Grotto-Heaven itself that came from the 'Dinghai Divine Pearl', he could avoid such concerns before the Great Thousand World.

However, adding an extra layer of insurance is still good! Anyway, just by the various Dharma essences contained within the 'Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks', Fang Longye felt it could not be considered a waste.

……

Buying and selling; if one looked solely at the flow of goods, Fang Longye's income and expenditures were not insignificant.

Consequently, it immediately triggered a mechanism, and a streak of Divine Light appeared, gorgeous and beautiful.

The surrounding scene also began to sway and undergo changes.

Beside his ears, a Dao sound that reached far and wide resonated, penetrating deep into his mind: "Welcome to the Wanbao Tower Treasure Competition Dharma Assembly."

(End of this chapter)