Chapter 1229: Starry Sky Teleportation Array

At the peak of Mount Wangxian, an unprecedented silver light bloomed, like a silver flower exploding, incredibly dazzling.

From the adjacent mountain, Yunhai, Qingping, and Shuixian – the three Divine Transformation cultivators who remained – watched this scene, hope appearing in their eyes.

In truth, they also yearned to explore the cosmic river of stars. After all, within the Immortal Sect, the Divine Transformation realm was already the pinnacle.

Moreover, with Chen Mobai activating the Boundary Gate this time, the danger level was significantly reduced compared to when Long Zhuo, Baiguang, and Ling Zun departed.

It could be said that this was the best opportunity in thousands of years for the Immortal Sect to leave Diyuan Star and head to the Daoist Sanctuary.

At this moment, the vast void power surging around the Five Peaks Immortal Mountains also began to converge towards Mount Wangxian, finally gathering at one point, revealing the slowly closing Boundary Gate at its very center.

Aside from Yunhai and the other Divine Transformation cultivators, nearly all of the Immortal Sect's Nascent Soul cultivators had come to the Five Peaks Immortal Mountains that day, to witness the departure of the four Divine Transformation cultivators together.

The last thing they saw was Chen Mobai's back as he stepped into the Boundary Gate.

This image was soon after included in the Immortal Sect's textbooks, titled: "Starry Sky Dao-Seeking Diagram."

It was used to inspire the Immortal Sect's people to possess an unceasing heart for seeking the Dao, for on the path of cultivation, there is no end.

Time flowed on.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years had passed!

On this day, in the sky above Zhuye Star, where spiritual energy had nearly withered, four powerful streaks of spiritual light streaked from the depths of the universe like stars. They swiftly collided with the world's primordial membrane, scattering sparks like meteors, and then descended onto the earth.

As they neared the earth's crust, the four spiritual lights brought their figures under control, hovering in mid-air.

Three men and one woman revealed themselves.

They were none other than Chen Mobai and the other three Divine Transformation cultivators of the Immortal Sect.

Although they had made as many preparations as possible when departing from Diyuan Star, the cosmic starfield was in perpetual flux. The electronic map Chen Mobai had purchased from the Boundary Gate was not the latest version, so after using the Boundary Gate for teleportation, there were still some slight deviations.

These slight deviations on the star map, however, caused them, these Divine Transformation cultivators, to spend a full twenty years to reach their destination.

Fortunately, Chen Mobai had previously downloaded a celestial navigation spell from the Boundary Gate's "Bookworm Study." It was precisely to cultivate this spell that he had delayed his departure from Diyuan Star for a year.

Once their direction was confirmed, they sped through the cosmos directly towards Zhuye Star.

Perhaps it was the effects of the Grand Dao of Saintly Virtue, for during these twenty years of travel, they encountered no major issues in the starry sky.

At most, there were a few meteor showers, energy ray bursts, or solar particle storms.

These cosmic disasters were fortunately small in scale, well within the scope of what they, as Divine Transformation cultivators, could withstand.

Qi Yuheng even turned misfortune into a blessing, using several cosmic disasters to temper his physique and successfully advancing to the mid-stage of Divine Transformation.

His speed of advancement could already be ranked among the top five in the history of the Immortal Sect.

And his rate of progress was roughly twice as fast as Chen Mobai's breakthrough from the early to late stages of Divine Transformation.

Furthermore, they were incredibly lucky to encounter a desolate planet mid-journey. Although it lacked spiritual energy and even a world's primordial membrane, it was a planet corrupted by demonic influence.

They paused and stayed on this planet for a while. After some archaeological investigation, they discovered that it had once harbored a cultivation civilization. However, with the passage of time, all spiritual veins and energy had been exhausted. The last cultivators, in a desperate attempt to save their civilization, extracted the planet's remaining spiritual veins to serve as a power furnace, using them to construct a fortress designed to fly into the cosmos.

Piloting this fortress, the last cultivators carried away the seeds of life and civilization from this planet, attempting to find another suitable planet in the cosmos to rebuild their home.

Regrettably, their attempt ultimately failed. Chen Mobai and his companions discovered the fallen fortress at the planet's magnetic North Pole, and the cultivators inside had long since turned into skeletons.

As for other resources, they too had decayed and weathered with the passage of time.

The only thing useful to Chen Mobai and his group was likely the fortress itself, which had shattered upon crashing.

It was forged from the most refined materials of the entire planet, some even of the sixth rank.

Moreover, the fortress's power furnace was remarkably still intact. It seemed to have been constructed using the planet's best and most resilient sixth-rank materials; only the spiritual veins originally extracted for it had completely dissipated.

Those from the Immortal Sect were not averse to these findings; Cheng Xuan's eyes even lit up. He specifically found some memory units within the fortress that seemed to store textual data, intending to figure out how to decrypt them and see if they could be restored.

Seeing Cheng Xuan's interest, Chen Mobai directly used his Dharma World to collect the fortress and its related fragments.

Afterward, they also remembered to check the planet's core. They hadn't held much hope, but unexpectedly, a part of the planetary core was still present.

Most of what was originally a complete piece had been cut away, but the very core where the demonic will resided remained.

It seemed the cultivators on this planet knew that demonic will was an undesirable thing, and even when fleeing, they hadn't considered taking it with them.

Chen Mobai and his group naturally accepted it with a smile.

However, since they didn't have the Boundary Gate with them, purifying the demonic will wouldn't earn them Dao Merit. Therefore, they merely left a void coordinate.

Chen Mobai intended to assess the situation once they arrived at the Xuánhú Daoist Sanctuary. If he couldn't handle it himself, he would simply post it on the Demonic Market platform.

Although this nameless planet now lacked any resources, as long as the demonic will remained, it was equivalent to a free Dao Merit. He figured cultivators from the Xuánhú Daoist Sanctuary would be willing to make the trip.

After leaving this planet, their subsequent journey through the starry sky was smooth sailing.

Upon descending onto Zhuye Star, Chen Mobai and his companions found the planet's sole remaining cultivation force. It was already an era of declining Dharma, and the highest cultivation level was merely Qi Refinement Layer 9. They knew absolutely nothing about the legendary cosmic teleportation array.

Chen Mobai used his Heaven-Calculating Orb to summarize all the textual records on the planet, finding scattered mentions related to ancient Qi practitioners and the cosmic teleportation array.

All pointed to a place named "Qinghuang Immortal Capital."

This was, according to ancient legends on Zhuye Star, where outer-realm immortals descended.

However, this place had vanished into the annals of Zhuye Star's history.

The divine senses of the four of them scoured every inch of the planet, from sky to earth, dozens of times, yet they couldn't locate Qinghuang Immortal Capital, let alone the cosmic teleportation array.

This situation implied it could only be located within a minor realm.

If it were a self-contained world, similar to a Dharma World, then Qinghuang Immortal Capital might have perished along with it.

Left with no other option, Chen Mobai had to resort to a crude method.

He traversed every part of the planet using the Void Escape Art. This evasion technique allowed him to sense nearby void realms that could be entered.

After wasting a full half-year on Zhuye Star, Chen Mobai finally found a deeply hidden minor realm within a valley.

Upon entering with the Void Escape Art, he discovered that there was actually a fifth-rank spiritual vein inside, and many cultivators were living there.

However, the highest cultivation level was only Nascent Soul.

After Chen Mobai displayed his Divine Transformation cultivation, the leading Nascent Soul cultivator, an elder named Guozhu, immediately disclosed all the information truthfully.

It turned out that after Zhuye Star entered the era of declining Dharma, the ten most powerful sects on the planet also tried to save themselves but ultimately found themselves powerless. One day, the most elite group of cultivators directly used top-grade spirit stones to board the cosmic teleportation array and fled to the Xuánhú Daoist Sanctuary.

These people, however, were the descendants of those left behind. The elite cultivators who departed had, before leaving, moved all of the planet's spiritual veins into this Qinghuang Immortal Capital. Afterward, to prolong the era of declining Dharma, they completely sealed off the minor realm, isolating it from the world to slow down the dissipation of spiritual energy, sustaining it until Chen Mobai's arrival.

After learning of Chen Mobai's purpose, the cultivators of Qinghuang Immortal Capital directly pleaded with him, wanting him to take them with him.

In response, Chen Mobai claimed to be short on funds, stating he didn't have enough spirit stones.

However, this statement ignited murderous intent among the local cultivators.

When leading Chen Mobai to the cosmic teleportation array, the elder Guozhu deliberately led him into the very center of Qinghuang Immortal Capital's formation, intending to use this top-tier sixth-rank formation to surround and kill Chen Mobai, then seize his top-grade spirit stones and leave this planet, which was already in an era of declining Dharma.

An ordinary Divine Transformation cultivator might indeed have been unable to contend with a sixth-rank grand formation. However, Chen Mobai was a sixth-rank formation master, and the highest cultivation level in Qinghuang Immortal Capital was only Nascent Soul, meaning they couldn't even unleash one-tenth or one-twelfth of the grand formation's power.

After Elder Guozhu's murderous intent was exposed, Chen Mobai sighed softly. Then, under the elder's astonished gaze, he effortlessly stepped out of the grand formation and, with a mere breath, turned all the cultivators who had surrounded him into ashes.

Having entered Qinghuang Immortal Capital, with Chen Mobai's skills as a top-tier Geomancer, nothing could be hidden from him.

There was also a TaiXu Temple here, naturally enshrining a TaiXu God statue. Chen Mobai offered three sticks of incense, then came to the courtyard behind the temple, which was where the cosmic teleportation array was located.

Evidently, this teleportation array was also part of Grand Ancestor TaiXu's business.

Just like in the Tianhe Realm, where the TaiXu Ethereal Palace monopolized the teleportation arrays across the Five Continents and Four Seas.

Chen Mobai saw at a glance that the underlying principles were the same.

However, the cosmic teleportation array's grade had reached peak sixth-rank. Even ordinary Void Refinement cultivators, though they might know the principles, would find it extremely difficult to set up.

Only those who had mastered the Grand Dao of the Void could accomplish it.

Like Xu Sijiu, for instance.

This cosmic teleportation array had clearly not been used for thousands of years. It was fortunate that Chen Mobai understood some of its principles, allowing him to successfully activate it without an instruction manual.

He also discovered that the so-called one hundred top-grade spirit stones were merely the cost for one cultivator's teleportation.

If all four of them, as Divine Transformation cultivators, were to use it, it would require four hundred top-grade spirit stones.

After entering and learning this, Qi Yuheng, quite gallantly, offered to stay behind, waiting for Chen Mobai to go to the Xuánhú Daoist Sanctuary, earn enough top-grade spirit stones, and then come back to pick him up.

Although they had brought two hundred top-grade spirit stones when they left, and each person also had considerable savings, their twenty-year journey through the starry sky had consumed a significant amount, leaving them with just over a hundred pieces.

Even if they used Qinghuang Immortal Capital's fifth-rank spiritual vein to recharge the spirit stones, they could at most gather two hundred pieces.

As soon as Qi Yuheng finished speaking, True Monarch Taohua glanced at Cheng Xuan, secretly transmitting a message that she didn't want to stay with Qi Yuheng and hoped he could help.

Cheng Xuan hesitated, thinking that since both he and Chen Mobai were from the Artifact Forging lineage, it would indeed be a bit much if they simply left together.

"Chunyang, then True Monarch Yuheng and I..."

Just as Cheng Xuan began to speak, Chen Mobai waved his hand, and immediately over two hundred glimmering top-grade spirit stones clinked down from his Dharma World, piling up on the various nodes of the teleportation array alongside those they had brought from the Immortal Sect.

After the Five Elements Sect discovered the large spirit stone mine in the Desolate Ruins, they excavated many top-grade spirit stones from its core. Besides those left with the Immortal Sect, Chen Mobai personally carried over a thousand pieces.

Now they came in handy.

Seeing the ground covered with top-grade spirit stones, Qi Yuheng and the other two gaped, their faces filled with shock.

"Th-th-these... where did they come from? So many!"

Chen Mobai casually made an excuse: "These are the savings left by the Divine Transformation ancestors of my Artifact Forging lineage in Yuping Minor Realm. I brought them all this time."

Upon hearing this, Qi Yuheng and Taohua thought to themselves that the Artifact Forging lineage truly lived up to its Purple Firmament heritage; its foundation was indeed profound, to have hidden away so many top-grade spirit stones.

Meanwhile, Cheng Xuan was thinking: "How come I didn't know our lineage had so many good things? Could they be buried under the Elixir Cauldron Jade Tree? It must be..."

Within Yuping Minor Realm, only the area around the Elixir Cauldron Jade Tree was not used for cultivating medicinal herbs and other spiritual plants.

After Cheng Xuan adjusted himself, deciding to be blissfully ignorant for once, he happily stepped into the cosmic teleportation array at Chen Mobai's beckoning.

Seeing this, Qi Yuheng and Taohua also followed him in.

After directing them to their positions, Chen Mobai activated the cosmic teleportation array, channeling his own power of the Grand Dao of the Void.

In an instant, a brilliant silver light pillar shot skyward from Qinghuang Immortal Capital, so powerful that even the realm barrier couldn't obstruct it.

All living beings on the planet saw this enormous light pillar, connecting heaven and earth.

Those nearby even saw four towering figures rising from the ground, ascending with the dazzling light pillar into the depths of the cosmos.

On the northernmost planet of the Xuánhú Daoist Sanctuary, a teleportation array that had long been dormant suddenly lit up today.

After a shimmering, silvery-grey light, four figures materialized out of thin air.

"We've arrived!"

Chen Mobai was the first to step out of the cosmic teleportation array, gazing with some emotion at this planet, abundant in spiritual energy and fragrant with the calls of birds and the scent of flowers.