Chapter 278: Qi Luck

There are a total of over five hundred stone pillars on this large array, of which about thirty percent are damaged.

However, only forty-nine Space Stones were used to activate the teleportation channel.

It is evident that this large array is not so simple, but rather possesses more complex functions that have not yet been revealed.

Xu Chen still has nearly one hundred and ninety Space Stones left, and he decides to activate a few more stone pillars to observe the results.

He carefully counted them; the entire large array has a total of five hundred and twelve stone pillars, divided into three circles, forming a structure that appears chaotic but is actually very regular.

Forty-nine of them were used to start the teleportation channel, and among the remaining four hundred plus, over one hundred are already damaged—either broken, their Ancient Rune lines destroyed, or the gaps for embedding the Space Crystal cracked and unusable.

However, these stone pillars do not have to be activated in a fixed structure; instead, they have a function of a Self-Repairing Array. Once a stone pillar at a certain node is damaged, the energy light and shadow conducted by the activated stone pillars will bypass the damaged one and connect with another intact stone pillar.

Therefore, during the testing process, Xu Chen became increasingly curious and interested in this array, using his Divine Sense to memorize the entire structure and changes of the Altar, and even all the line runes on the stone pillars, recording them all into the Jade Slip he carried with him.

"Daoist Friend Xu, look quickly, a door has appeared behind you!"

Suddenly, Wang Daolin reminded him loudly, full of surprise.

Xu Chen turned his head, and sure enough, several dozen zhang away behind him, another illusory channel ten zhang in size had appeared on the Altar.

He walked in front of the channel, full of confusion and curiosity, and probed it with his Divine Sense, only to find it pitch black and filled with a cold, gloomy aura, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss; the feeling it gave him was extremely similar to the aura of Minghuang.

This channel is much smaller in scale than the previous one and appeared at the edge, so it does not look like the main channel.

Could it be that this Teleportation Array can lead to different places?

If that is truly the case, it is really hard to say whether one can return to the Mortal World through the Teleportation Array.

He instantly recalled the Teleportation Array inside the Di Gong of that abandoned Ancient City.

Could it be that these Teleportation Arrays can also connect to each other?

The more Xu Chen thought about it, the more he felt his speculation was somewhat reliable.

Because, synthesizing the various information obtained from the Wind Clan and the Earth Clan, the Ancient Human Race built a large number of large cities in Minghuang, and the distance between each city must have been vast; no one knows how big the entire Minghuang is, but the distance he has traveled adds up to at least several million li.

And it is very reasonable for this place, as a teleportation channel connecting to the Mortal World, to be linked with these distant cities.

After all, the people in these cities might also need to travel frequently between the Mortal World and the Underworld; it is impossible for them to fly back and forth tens or hundreds of thousands of li every time.

Judging by the aura, if his speculation is correct, this newly appeared channel most likely connects to a Teleportation Array in some abandoned city in Minghuang.

"Could it be the Di Gong we went to before?"

Xu Chen rubbed his chin and pondered for a long time.

Although he had ten thousand restless thoughts, he ultimately suppressed them all by force.

Curiosity always kills quickly.

If he teleported over and it wasn't that Di Gong, but rather some Nether Beast nest, or if he simply couldn't come back, then it would be no different from courting death.

Because the Space Stones embedded in the stone pillars could be pried off, Xu Chen was not worried about a lack of Space Stones, so he continued to install crystals to test other channels.

However, no new channels appeared for a long time afterward; in most cases, the array seemed to have been activated successfully, but it could not open a space channel. According to Xu Chen's judgment, it was likely that the Teleportation Array on the other side was completely destroyed.

Xu Chen naturally pried the embedded Space Stones back off from these stone pillars that could not open a channel. By prying and filling like this, Xu Chen spent nearly an hour slowly testing almost all the stone pillars. Until only a few were left at the end, another channel appeared again, but the moment this channel opened, a thick white fog rolled in.

He didn't even need to release his Divine Sense to clearly see several huge, mountain-like piles of rubble outside the channel.

"Haha, Daoist Friend Xu, the channel to the Fog Zone has been found!"

Wang Daolin couldn't help but cheer with joy.

Xu Chen also instantly felt much more relaxed.

With this teleportation channel opened, as long as True Monarch Guiling proceeds smoothly, he should soon be able to bring Fourth Senior Brother and the other two to find this place, so that everyone can leave here without a single one missing.

As for where the space channel in the center of the Teleportation Array leads, there is no use thinking too much about it for now, but he believes the situation will only get better, not worse, and it will definitely get closer and closer to the Mortal World; after all, this Teleportation Array was originally the channel for the Ancient Human Race to return to the Mortal World.

Next was a long wait.

Neither of them dared to go out, so they could only sit on the Altar and study the Teleportation Array.

Although Wang Daolin's character is not good, he is very talkative.

As long as Xu Chen asked about something, he would answer in great detail as long as he knew it. Moreover, he actually knew quite a bit about Teleportation Array knowledge, especially some knowledge about large arrays that even Yuqing Hall did not possess. Therefore, through their slow exchange, Xu Chen also felt he had benefited a great deal, learned much new knowledge, and naturally increased his experience.

If it weren't for his character issues, this guy would truly be worth making friends with.

Xu Chen sighed in his heart occasionally.

Compared to the strength of Yuqing Hall, the Spirit Treasure Temple of the Qingcheng Mountain Daoist Field can be ranked third among the Immortal Sects of Shenzhou. The Supreme Great Elder Ning Feng Zi is in the mid-stage of the Shenling Realm, and there are six other Spirit Realm Great Cultivators in the sect, over fifty Elders in the Danyuan Realm, and over ten thousand other disciples in the Zhenyuan Realm and Kaiyuan Realm. It is a top-tier Immortal Sect, and if they stomped their feet, the entire Shenzhou Immortal World would tremble.

For a scavenger cultivator like Xu Chen who came from an orphanage, such a wealthy and powerful sect was almost the same as the legendary True Immortal sects; he could not imagine how rich and powerful they were.

Wang Daolin can also be considered a genius cultivator; he reached Foundation Establishment at twenty, Golden Core at thirty-five, and entered the Danyuan Late Stage at seventy. However, his realm stopped completely after that because of a lack of resources. He had never obtained a Spirit Transformation Pill, and Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure like Blood God Grass were even more out of the question.

In order to obtain the Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure to assist in Spirit Transformation, he had to travel everywhere to search and explore some ancient ruins. The cultivators of Qingcheng Mountain naturally knew about the changes in the Taiyuan Sect of the Song Kingdom, and there were some unknown secrets that could not be spread. But as an Elder in the Danyuan Realm, Wang Daolin still had the right to know and understand, so he decided to try his luck at Yelang Ancient City.

The result was tragic; he didn't find the clues for Spirit Transformation, but instead fell headlong into a strange Teleportation Array and was swept into this Minghuang territory, where he had been trapped for fifty years.

Now, although he still looks like a middle-aged man, he is actually nearly two hundred years old.

The best time for a Danyuan Realm cultivator to break through has already passed.

What makes him most depressed is that due to the lack of Spirit Qi nourishment over these fifty years, coupled with the erosion of Underworld Qi, his realm has already dropped to the early stage of the Danyuan Realm.

Even though Xu Chen provided Divine Blood Paste and some Spirit Stones for replenishment this time, his cultivation is still a long way from his peak, and he cannot even reach the mid-stage of the Danyuan Realm.

To completely restore his cultivation and realm, even with sufficient resources, it would take at least ten years.

As for Spirit Transformation, that hope is even more remote.

The internal disciples of Yuqing Hall are caught in a mess of intense competition.

The Spirit Treasure Temple has an even larger foundation, and the competition among disciples is even more fierce.

Not to mention the True Spirit Realm disciples fighting for Golden Core resources, even these Golden Core Elders, because there are so many of them, often fight until their faces are red and their necks are thick over some resources, and tearing off their masks to fight also happens from time to time.

The Danyuan Realm is supposed to be the top powerhouse in the world, but the Spirit Treasure Temple actually has over fifty of them.

No matter how good something is, once there is too much of it, it is definitely not worth anything.

Therefore, Wang Daolin, this worthless Golden Core Elder, was very ostracized in the entire Qingcheng Daoist Field because his personality was somewhat cunning and his character was not very good, so he was somewhat depressed and frustrated.

Now that he has met Xu Chen, who is humble and eager to learn, Wang Daolin seems to have found someone to confide in, or even a soulmate, and he talks endlessly about the stories of the Qingcheng Daoist Field, the Spirit Treasure Temple, and many Shenzhou Immortal Sects, which Xu Chen finds quite fascinating to listen to.

Xu Chen does not know how large the Divine Continent is, and it is even more impossible to count exactly how many Immortal Sects there are.

But Wang Daolin could speak about it with great expertise, explaining the situation of almost all the large Immortal Sects in the Divine Continent clearly.

Of course, what he spoke of was the situation from fifty years ago.

But even so, this information was absolutely considered rare news for Xu Chen.

Golden Core is easy, Spirit Transformation is difficult.

In these fifty years, the Divine Continent might have gained several hundred Golden Core cultivators, but it is extremely difficult for even a few Spirit Realm Great Cultivators to appear.

During the narration, Wang Daolin also seemed to intentionally or unintentionally ask Xu Chen about some matters regarding Minghuang, especially heaven and earth wonders like Space Stone and Divine Blood Paste that simply cannot be seen in the Mortal World.

Regarding these questions, Xu Chen did not hide anything and provided relatively detailed answers about the origins of these items.

It seemed simple for him to obtain these things, but in reality, it was extremely difficult; if it weren't for Youtong the Demon Lord escorting him all the way to the Minghuang Boundary, even if ten or eight Shenling Realm Great Cultivators came, this journey could have been abandoned halfway at any time.

Furthermore, wanting to go deep into the depths of Minghuang from the Minghuang Boundary to find human tribes like the Feng clan and the Tu clan is an almost impossible task.

Only after experiencing this journey to Minghuang did he realize that being able to encounter the Feng clan and Feng Feiyi back then was simply the good fortune earned for him by the ancestors of the Taiyuan Sect burning incense for eighteen generations.

Anyone else would not have succeeded.

Therefore, he occasionally still wonders if he is being specially looked after by some Dao Ancestor in the heavens to be able to be alive and kicking until today.

(End of this chapter)