Eternal Holy Emperor
Chapter 353 - 314: Inter-city Teleportation (3rd Update)

Chapter 353: Chapter 314: Inter-city Teleportation (3rd Update)

Ye Chen wanted to travel to the Domain Lord Divine City of the Xiangyang Domain, which was situated in the heart of the Xiangyang Domain, at least tens of millions of miles away from Xia Valley City—an astonishingly vast distance.

Even for him, under the complete path of 10,000 Dao and suppression of the Heavenly Dao, his strength couldn’t be demonstrated as it could be in the Tiandu Continent, and it was impossible to shatter the void to enter the Space of Plane for high-speed traversal. It would take at least half a year to reach the Domain Lord Divine City.

Fortunately, Xia Valley City was also considered an extraordinary stronghold within the Xiangyang Domain, and such strongholds usually had Transmission Arrays to shuttle to other important cities.

The use of such arrays was certainly not free and required a certain fee. It wasn’t the mundane Gold Coins that were applicable only to mortals; for cultivators, the universal currency was Spirit Stones, the most practical currency in the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, acceptable wherever cultivators resided.

Many transactions between cultivators were conducted using Spirit Stones.

It’s worth mentioning that Spirit Stones are a type of mineral condensed from nature’s spiritual energy, or to be more precise, they are Divine Items formed from the materialization of spiritual energy, imbued with abundant nature’s spiritual energy, suitable for cultivation.

Even the materialized Spirit Stones were quite heavy; a Spirit Stone the size of a baby’s fist could weigh ten pounds, and the nature’s spiritual energy contained within it was enough to sustain a Demigod Strong One’s cultivation for half a month.

Naturally, the birth of Spirit Stones required a Spirit Vein and such Divine minerals were usually controlled by various major forces. Ordinary cultivators could only obtain a small portion of Spirit Stones and they were sold by weight.

To carry out inter-city traversals, the cost in Spirit Stones was required, and generally, it started at over a hundred pounds per person.

It was expensive, but that was just the cost, as the Transmission Array needed significant Liu Ang to maintain, monopolized by the leading powers of the ancient cities. One had to either possess absolute strength or the ability to fly across cities to avoid payment.

Generally speaking, within large domains like the Xiangyang Domain, which were not very prosperous, over ninety percent of the area remained undeveloped, part of the Barbaric wilderness, and distances between two ancient cities were at least tens of thousands of miles, with some barbaric regions even exceeding a million miles.

To traverse tens or hundreds of millions of miles, an ordinary Martial God would need at least three to four months, or even longer, and even a Divinity Transformation Expert would need more than half a month. Moreover, undeveloped Barbaric regions were filled with various dangers and Fierce Beasts roamed these areas.

Only the Supreme Powerhouses at the Saintly Treasure Realm, also known as Saints, could make such a crossing in two to three days.

Of course, for them, tens or hundreds of pounds of Spirit Stones were practically nothing.

Regrettably, upon his first arrival in the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, Ye Chen didn’t have many Spirit Stones on him. Watching Chenn Ruo following behind just like a little tail, his eyes lit up, but he asked awkwardly, "Miss Chenn Ruo, do you happen to have any Spirit Stones on you?"

"Spirit Stones?" Bright eyes blinked twice beneath her black robe, and Chenn Ruo crisply said, "You mean that worthless thing? I naturally have plenty of them."

Hearing her words would probably make many cultivators feel inferior to death, because Spirit Stones were precious resources for cultivation, only used in inter-city or inter-domain situations. Ordinary cultivators would be reluctant to spend them on other things, yet now it was being referred to as something worthless.

Seeing Chenn Ruo casually throw out a pile of Spirit Stones, sparkling with Divinity, resplendent, with pure nature’s spiritual energy overflowing, they were all top-grade spiritual stones, of the finest quality.

Usually, the Spirit Stones mined from a Spirit Vein could never be completely pure and would always contain various impurities, needing to be refined to extract their full purity, and even the rich spiritual energy they contained wouldn’t be entirely pure, sometimes containing some essence of nature’s elements.

Cultivators also had to be cautious when absorbing the energy from Spirit Stones, carefully purifying it while taking in the spiritual energy and discarding other impurities – the process was quite tedious.

The pile of Spirit Stones that Chenn Ruo subsequently threw out shone brilliantly, the spiritual energy they released was powerful, the stones themselves pure and concentrated, essentially the purest form of Spirit Stones that barely needed any refinement—ten pounds could be worth more than fifty pounds of ordinary Spirit Stones and could be absorbed directly without purification, indeed considered top-grade or even superior-quality Spirit Stones.

Their value was tenfold that of ordinary Spirit Stones.

And among that pile that resembled a little mountain, each stone was at least the size of an adult’s fist, with some as large as a basin, evident throughout. There were at least ten thousand pounds of Spirit Stones in front of them, their worth comparable to a hundred thousand pounds of ordinary Spirit Stones—a considerable fortune in the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms.

Ye Chen couldn’t help but take another look at the girl in front of him. These ten thousand pounds of superior-quality Spirit Stones were evidently just a small portion of what she possessed, casually given away, indicating that Chenn Ruo surely had more.

Who was this Chenn Ruo, to be in possession of so many superior-quality Spirit Stones?

He became increasingly convinced that this girl named Chenn Ruo must come from an extraordinary force, at least comparable to the Immortal Sacred Land of Red God Valley, and she was likely akin to a little princess within her clan, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to enter the heavily guarded Red God Valley and steal Divine Items.

As for whether she was a King-level figure, that was hard to say, as it could just be a Spell she was particularly skilled in.

Ye Chen waved his hand to create spatial ripples, concealing the fluctuations in this area, knowing that ten thousand pounds of superior-quality Spirit Stones could easily draw the attention of other cultivators in the city, and many would be envious, possibly leading to robbery and murder—troubles abound.

However, at this moment, a subtle ripple fluttered in Chenn Ruo’s eyes, although no one could perceive it.

Ye Chen’s expression remained unchanged as he casually took ten spirit stones, barely considered top-grade and the size of an adult’s fist, and then let Chenn Ruo keep them. Each of these spirit stones was also of a high grade, but at least they did not attract as much attention as the finest spirit stones, and they were only roughly equivalent to two hundred catties of ordinary spirit stones.

Ten were thus equivalent to two thousand catties of spirit stones.

Chenn Ruo blinked her clear, spring-like eyes and asked, "Don’t you want them? You can keep them; this young lady can get as many spirit stones as she wants."

Ye Chen shook his head and said, "This is enough for me. How many you have is your business. I can find spirit stones; you don’t have to worry about that."

"Can you survey heaven and earth?" the girl suddenly asked.

Ye Chen was slightly startled and glanced at the girl, but his expression remained unchanged. "I’ve learned a bit from following Master, but only barely."

The girl let out a long "Oh" and did not continue to inquire, simply following Ye Chen in silence, her expression hidden beneath the black robe.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the center of Xia Valley City, where there was a Great Formation for teleportation. Through this Transmission Array, it was possible to travel across cities, instantly crossing millions of miles.

Ye Chen led Chenn Ruo to the front of the Transmission Array, where there was a simple stone gate. This was an ancient gate, engraved with complex Dao Traces and Array Patterns, all of which were Void Traces and Ether Array Patterns used to construct a Space Channel.

Next to the Teleportation Gate, there were guards tasked with collecting spirit stones, all of whom were genuine Divinity Transformation Realm experts, and among them sat a Divinity Transformation Realm powerhouse, an absolute suppressor, deterring those with evil intentions.

"Please open the Teleportation Gate to Xiangyang City," Ye Chen said.

The guards couldn’t help but take another look at Ye Chen, as Xiangyang City was the Divine City of the Domain Lord, the central main city of the Xiangyang Domain, a distance of tens of millions of miles away. The amount of spirit stones required for the fee was naturally extraordinary, at least a thousand catties, quite valuable. They had not expected this delicate-looking young man in front of them to actually want to activate it.

Other cultivators nearby were also surprised, their gazes toward the young man and the black-robed girl behind him turning greedy and fervent.

However, at this moment, a pair of indifferent, icy eyes swept over them, causing them to shiver as if doused with a bucket of ice water, the chill seeping into their bones.

This was a warning from the Divinity Transformation Expert, the super expert guarding the Teleportation Gate, deterring these criminals.

"One thousand one hundred catties of spirit stones per person," the supreme expert of the Divinity Transformation Realm stepped forward and said.

Ye Chen handed over the ten or so spirit stones he had gotten from Miss Chenn Ruo. The spirit energy flickered, drawing the attention of the crowd, as the stones were indeed of high quality, albeit just barely top-grade.

The Divinity Transformation Super Expert couldn’t help but take another look at Ye Chen and Chenn Ruo. So young, yet able to produce such a large number of top-grade spirit stones, they were definitely extraordinary individuals, not to be offended.

He politely asked Ye Chen and Chenn Ruo to wait a moment and then personally activated the Teleportation Gate, throwing coordinates into the gate, which directly led to the main city of Xiangyang.

At this moment, Chenn Ruo couldn’t help but mutter, "This is wrong, there’s a slight error with the coordinates; it’ll be off by a thousand miles."

The super expert was startled, turning to look at Chenn Ruo. He hadn’t expected this mysterious black-robed person to notice; most people definitely wouldn’t. Ye Chen was also slightly surprised because he too had noticed the error but hadn’t expected Chenn Ruo to see it as well.

Chenn Ruo giggled, "This is my special talent."

Just a special talent? Ye Chen thought silently to himself.

The Teleportation Gate opened at that moment, revealing an ancient gate and a ring of dark, profound black holes – the transmission channels that could cover tens of millions of miles, allowing one to cross that distance in just a few hours.

"The Teleportation Gate is ready; you may enter and travel at any time," the super expert of the Divinity Transformation Realm said.

"Thank you," Ye Chen and Chenn Ruo stepped into the space within the Teleportation Gate.

Boom—

Just then, the world trembled, space shattered, and a dozen powerful figures broke through the void, descending upon this realm. At the forefront was the Red-scaled King and his followers.

The Red-scaled King, leading a group of strong ones, stood above the Heavenly Dome, looking down from on high, his voice echoing throughout the sky: "Little thief, we’ve finally found you!"

In an instant, the temperature of the world seemed to drop many times over.