Chapter 731: Teleportation Hub

The Electric Blast Orb's power isn't actually that strong; the explosion merely triggered a chain reaction in the tomb, making the scene look especially spectacular.

Lei En swept the air in a circle, confirming no one was left behind, then turned and left.

He directly activated the Void Spirit Gate to open a teleportation portal, appearing a hundred li northward. The Void Spirit Gate can be opened only five times a day; it's his sole long‑range teleportation method and is rarely used, saved for crucial moments.

Emerging from the portal, Lei En immediately grasped Thunder God's Hammer, smashing the void and entering the Etheric Plane.

After traversing several hundred li in the Etheric Plane and confirming no enemies were tracking him, Lei En returned to the Prime Material Plane and continued flying at high altitude.

This time he concealed his form, slowed his speed, and reduced his flight activity to the lowest level.

He opened his phone interface while flying.

The energy in his soul power pool rose to one‑quarter!

The over three thousand undead in this tomb converted into more than eight hundred energy units, several times the amount the Thundercast Celestial Soldiers gathered in the Dark Realm over the past three days.

"Not bad, not bad!"

Lei En felt very satisfied; the adventure was worthwhile, and he could create six or seven more clones.

However, just a hundred li after taking off, he spotted signs of undead activity on the ground. His Spirit‑Link Eye tracked the traces, quickly locating their gathering spot—a massive tomb excavated from underground, larger than the previous one.

"At least it can absorb a thousand energy units."

Lei En shook his head, suppressing the urge to act.

If a single undead tomb is eliminated, the Cataclysmic Legion might treat it as an accident; with two tombs destroyed in succession, anyone could infer his movement direction from the timing and trajectory, pointing toward the polar glaciers north of the New Continent.

The teleportation hub is that important; doing this would be a loss.

To avoid detection by the undead, Lei En cautiously rose higher, then slipped through the void, taking a detour via the Etheric Plane.

If the Etheric Plane weren't so directionless, it would be easy to get lost; Lei En even considered staying entirely within it to make the journey.

Straight north.

After that, Lei En discovered three undead tombs, all bypassed via the Etheric Plane.

After seven or eight hours of flight, by afternoon Lei En finally crossed the Carond Icefield from the narrowest part of the New Continent's northwest corner.

An endless sea stretched before his eyes.

A relentless storm roared in the sky; each gust of cold wind cut the prismatic shield like a blade. To the south, the coastline was perpetual wasteland, where almost no life could survive such extreme cold, and even the undead had vanished.

Lei En exhaled a puff of ice shrapnel, looked up at the sun, and felt no warmth at all.

"At least minus sixty degrees."

He thought to himself.

The polar glaciers of Ai Lun E Si, in a previous life, corresponded to the Arctic, but the conditions were even harsher than the real Arctic.

The phone interface displayed an ancient map drawn by an elven explorer of the previous epoch, roughly outlining the shape of the New Continent and several northern islands. The islands lie across the sea from the continent; in winter the sea freezes, allowing direct landing on the nearer islands from the ice.

Sword Bay Town sits on one of those islands, but it's still far from his current position.

Lei En changed course, soaring eastward over the sea.

While flying, his thoughts drifted to some interesting points. At the very beginning of his arrival in Ai Lun E Si's world, he realized that the Prime Material Plane was actually a planet, a fact corroborated by numerous observations and maps.

For example, distant ships are first seen by their masts, and from high altitude one can perceive the curvature of the horizon.

There is another most striking geographical proof.

The Elf Kingdom Aoroan lies in the western Old Continent, yet sailing westward from Aoroan can reach the New Continent!

In the early Third Epoch, the first discoverer of the New Continent was an elven explorer.

Later the elves colonized the New Continent, starting from its eastern coast, while the dwarves did the opposite. The dwarves' route matches the current Aurien Empire's passage to the New Continent, landing on its western coast.

One went east, the other west; the two races landed on opposite shores and divided the New Continent.

By the end of the epoch, the Abyss first invaded the New Continent; after the "Great Earthquake," the two major races withdrew, each retreating from the east and west back to the Old Continent.

In short, all this proves the Prime Material Plane is a planet.

But it is clearly much larger than Earth.

Lei En cannot estimate how many times larger the Prime Material Plane is than Earth; this world of ubiquitous extraordinary power contains many unknown regions.

For instance, the "Falling Star Ocean" east of the New Continent is about half the size of the "Wu Jin Zhi Hai" that stretches between the two continents, yet its danger is no less than that of Wu Jin Zhi Hai, perhaps even greater.

Wu Jin Zhi Hai's peril stems from the divine realms of the "Great Vortex" and the "Lord of Sea and Storm," whereas the source of danger in the Falling Star Ocean remains unknown.

The Falling Star Ocean completely separates the New Continent from Aoroan; even at its narrowest, it spans tens of thousands of li.

Teleporting across the Falling Star Ocean would vanish without a trace.

The only way through is by sailing across the sea storm, while avoiding a mysterious triangular zone within the Falling Star Ocean; otherwise the outcome is no different from teleportation.

This also makes the elves' counter‑offensive on the New Continent far harder than for humans.

Over two thousand years have passed in the New Epoch; humanity has risen, and the Elf Kingdom has gradually revived. Today human nations have established several bases and cities along the New Continent's western coast; on the eastern coast, only the blood elves cling to survival on Vengeance Island, receiving no aid from the elves.

It's not that the elves don't want to, but that they can't.

Regarding this situation, Lei En actually welcomes it; otherwise he wouldn't have the chance to seize the best‑situated Aibolaken region and Shield Island on the eastern coast.

As long as the teleportation hub is built, it can radiate across the entire New Continent.

Thus this venture is bound to succeed.

Lei En flew along the northern coastline until night fell, spotting a massive island—but it wasn't the one he was looking for.

He continued eastward for thousands of li, and finally reached his destination.

A large island about a hundred li from the continent loomed ahead, its strait strewn with endless floating ice that reflected silvery moonlight. Lei En descended onto the island, searched along the shore, and soon found the spot he sought.

Sword Bay Town!

It sits on the island's southern coast, featuring a bay cut into the land that resembles a straight, long sword—hence the name.

Steep cliffs on both sides of the bay block the cold wind, creating a low valley with a milder climate where some flora and fauna can survive. Millennia ago, a cold‑adapted human branch migrated here and built a town.

Lei En flew to the bay's base and discovered a ruin of buildings covered in ice and snow.

His Soul Eye scanned several times but found no living creature.

Jianwan Town was only a landmark; he did not descend, but followed the directions of the Weizelan Wizards who had helped build Fu Kong Cheng, flying toward the east of Jianwan Town.

Soon, he found a spot beneath an ice cliff.

Lei En stood in front of the ice cliff, and the All-Seeing Eye pierced through, revealing a massive cavern behind the thick ice layer.

After confirming there were no dangers or traps, he opened a random door and entered the ice cavern.

The ice cavern's diameter exceeded a hundred meters and its height over forty meters; massive rune arrays were etched on the floor, and the surrounding ice walls were lined with magic that concealed fluctuations, but since no one maintained them, the energy was depleted and they had ceased operating.

For more than twenty years, Mo Du nobles and Weizelan Wizards used this teleportation array to send countless resources and materials from an unnamed island off Mo Du's coast here, and then onward to Shield Island.

However, everything they did was part of a Catastrophe Legion and Dead Knot Seal conspiracy.

Deeper behind the scenes, the Corrupted Lich that originated from Augulevi Master had every step of the plan arranged from the start, like a puppet on strings, trapped without realizing it, ending in a futile effort.

Including this teleportation relay station, it was the same.

Lei En even suspected that Master Lu Yin's ability to locate this transcontinental teleportation point was also covertly guided by the Corrupted Lich.

That meant the Catastrophe Legion and Dead Knot Seal also controlled this place.

Lei En found no traces of undead activity in the ice cavern, nor any undead aura, which was somewhat illogical.

The Catastrophe Legion would not allow others to control such a crucial location.

"Could they have deliberately left a flaw to lure others in?" Lei En wondered, increasingly convinced it was possible.

Nevertheless, trap or not, he had never intended to reuse this ice cavern.

"You set a trap, I can too."

Lei En took a silver ingot from the Nebula Ring, melted it into liquid, infused a trace of spiritual power to leave a spiritual imprint, then tossed it into the midair of the ice cavern; with a thought, it cracked with a 'pop' into countless silver shards, like celestial maidens scattering blossoms, falling evenly.

Each fragment of metal was as tiny as dust; upon landing it merged with the ice and snow, vanishing in an instant.

If anyone entered the ice cavern, they would inevitably step on these ubiquitous silver fragments; the change in contact would allow Lei En to instantly sense the metal waypoint's movement.

Afterward, Lei En teleported out of the ice cavern.

He headed north, but to ensure the teleportation point could link the two continents, he did not go far from Jianwan Town; about ten li outside the town he chose a spot that appeared unremarkable, its ground completely covered in ice and snow.

Yet beneath the ice layer lay a naturally formed cavern, as if it had existed for billions of years.

Lei En discovered this by chance; unless others also possessed the All-Seeing Eye to see through hundreds of meters of ice, they would never find this place.

He entered the cavern through a random door; in the darkness his hand vanished, and the air was extremely humid.

Pop!

A burst of light ignited, illuminating this space that had never seen a creature.

The irregular cavern spanned several thousand square meters, massive rock pillars supporting the dome, and countless icicles of varying sizes hung from the ceiling, like an ice forest.

"This is it!"

Lei En was very satisfied with this cavern; its location was sufficiently hidden and its area ample.

He immediately began renovations.

He floated midair, his head nearly touching the dome; electric light glowed deep within Lei En's eyes, and after two seconds a thick, straight electric beam shot out from his eyes.

Sizzle!

The electric beam from the Eye Demon Elder originally had five rings; he upgraded it to seven, linked it with the 'Blue' hue of the Rainbow Light Principle, and amplified it through six thunder elemental forms, making its power incomprehensibly great.

Lei En floated and spun once.

The electric beam swept across, like the sharpest blade in the world, severing the ice pillars hanging from the dome at the roots, causing hundreds of pillars to crash down.

Lei En flashed to the ground, deploying a mind-force field.

The falling ice pillars entered the field and instantly hovered, none striking the ground to cause tremors. With a thought, hundreds of pillars seemed grasped by an invisible hand, compressed into powder, then spread flat over the uneven floor.

Repeating this dozens of times, the cavern's dome was cleared.

The originally rugged floor was covered with a layer of several meters thick broken ice; Lei En still used the mind-force field to compact the ice surface, then employed a freezing ray to reconsolidate it into a hard, smooth sheet.

Some earthen slopes and rocks that rose above the ice were also leveled by him.

The cavern's surrounding walls were similarly chiseled.

After half a day of work, the cavern became more spacious; this was only a preliminary overhaul, with plans to install rune arrays that conceal magical fluctuations and further constructions, turning the cavern into a powerful yet hidden secret base.

"That's all for now."

Lei En stood in the middle of the cavern, taking a mithril plate from the Nebula Ring.

In just over two hours, he assembled the pre‑cast mithril plates, fine‑tuned them several times, and fully fused them into one.

Finally, Lei En produced an Astral Crystal Pillar.

The Astral Crystal Pillar is the crucial core of a long‑range teleportation array, extremely rare and valuable; he had been collecting them at Mo Du's market, and in three years only acquired this one, paying fifty thousand Gold Shields for it.

Considering the array's importance, it could become the teleportation hub of his New Continent; relying solely on the Astral Crystal Pillar in Glamorgan Castle would no longer suffice.

Thus he did not hesitate to take out this Astral Crystal Pillar.

Lei En placed the Astral Crystal Pillar at the center of the teleportation array, suspended about three meters above the ground, then embedded twelve Arcane Crystals into the corner recesses, inhaled deeply, injected spiritual power from afar, and triggered the array's activation runes.

A hum.

The teleportation array responded instantly, flashes of light flickered as mysterious energy coursed through the runes and engravings, eventually flowing into the Astral Crystal Pillar; the gem radiated dazzling light, the surrounding space warped, and a light gate opened.

The first activation of an ultra‑long‑range teleportation array is always especially slow.

After a few minutes the light gate expanded to several meters high, still growing; Lei En, not wanting to waste energy, halted its expansion and quickly stabilized it into a teleportation gate.

"Success!"

Lei En saw, on the opposite side of the gate, a Thundercast Celestial Soldier identical to himself, stepped across, and returned to Glamorgan Castle.

(End of chapter)