As people began to pay their tolls and pass through the teleportation array, the remaining crowd could no longer hold back, each hurriedly paying their own fees. After all, each moment they lingered increased their peril.
White Bone True Master tossed a jade bottle forward, his voice grave, "This contains Deity Transformation Spirit Essence, suitable for a fellow daoist who has depleted his resources to rebuild this teleportation array. It is right that we compensate."
Chu Xuan nodded with a smile, "Very well, True Master. Proceed quickly, and I shall certainly thank you in person someday."
White Bone True Master's mouth twitched.
A personal thank you someday, huh? Well, if you don't, you'll be the loser.
Without hesitation, he stepped into the glowing portal and disappeared.
Chu Xuan turned to the rest, still smiling, "If you have Deity Transformation spiritual items, one item will suffice for passage. If not, you'll need to offer more valuable treasures."
The rest cursed White Bone True Master under their breath.
That old trickster had to pull out the Spirit Essence, now where are we supposed to find Deity Transformation level items? 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
But it was too late to complain. One by one, people like Zhong Tianshuo and Tie Jun opened their treasuries wide, begrudgingly pulling out their cherished treasures to compensate Chu Xuan for the teleportation array's repair. Some, who had exhausted their stores fighting the corpse demons, painfully surrendered treasures they had hoarded for years.
Chu Xuan collected three bottles of the Spirit Essence, along with other top-grade magical treasures, Nascent Soul-level elixirs, and lower-grade spiritual weapons and Deity Transformation elixirs. Not only did he recoup his losses for rebuilding the array, but he also turned a substantial profit, especially with the three bottles of Spirit Essence which significantly aided his chances of advancing to Deity Transformation—a certainty of success with a few more such items, propelling him into the ranks of major cultivators with a thousand more years to his life.
Soon, everyone had entered the teleportation array. Chu Xuan's formations around the area were nearly destroyed by the invading corpse demons. He recalled Hu, Long, Two Arms, Four Arms, and all but a few first-tier Corpse Kings into the Heavenly Corpse Tower and the Sky-Shielding Umbrella.
As he watched the swarms of ordinary corpse demons and powerful greater corpse demons converge from all directions, he smiled faintly and stepped into the teleportation array himself. His last command before leaving was for the remaining Corpse Kings to destroy the teleportation array, to prevent the corpse demons from possibly using it to escape the Eight Extremes Palace.
With a hum, the world spun around him. A whirlwind of bizarre and dazzling sights assaulted his brain, the disorienting sensation of teleportation enough to make even the most steadfast warriors lose consciousness.
Despite his struggle to maintain consciousness through the intense dizziness of teleportation, Chu Xuan managed to deduce from the duration of his disorientation that he had been transported well beyond the South Three Rings Sea region—the farther the teleportation, the longer the disorientation lasted.
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Suddenly, a sensation of weightlessness overwhelmed him, and instead of landing on solid ground, Chu Xuan found himself plummeting towards the earth. Looking down, he noticed the islands below appeared minuscule. Initially, he thought his vision was impaired, but a closer inspection revealed he was actually high in the sky.
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