As they spoke, a red-robed guard at the door scolded, "This is a restricted teleportation area. Do not make noise!"
Sun Yongcai hurriedly said to the guard, "We are cultivators from the Spiritual Mountain Sect, we wish to go to Spiritual Mountain."
The guard in red paused and scanned them from head to toe. Just as he was about to speak, an oily voice came from the side. "Oh, it's a few cultivators from the Spiritual Mountain Sect. Master is here. Come come come, please come in."
Sun Yongcai and the others were stunned, but then they saw a guard in a blue robe appear out of nowhere. He had a smile on his face and was very respectful.
They looked at each other, realising something. Xiaobao was overjoyed, blurting out, "Is Young Master here already?"
The guard smiled and said, "Are you Master Li's Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers?"
Everyone was still panicking but now they calmed down. Ouyang Nan laughed heartily. "Junior Brother Chengfeng still has a way!"
Li Chengfeng used his connections to intimidate the officials and guards in charge of this place. Naturally, everything was settled.
As for the approval …
Although this place was strictly controlled, all places in the world, as long as it was personally managed by someone, there would be room for exceptions.
Although Xiaobao and the rest did not have the approval, they were brought into the teleportation area after showing their talismans.
The sky had just begun to brighten by this time. The group of people didn't have the time to look around the Da Qi Kingdom's most famous and important place. Instead, they followed the blue-robed guard to the Gale Tower. As soon as they entered the tower, they saw a familiar figure sitting in the middle of the hall. He was eating some fruits while looking at them with a smile.
"Young Master!"
"Senior Brother!"
Xiaobao and Han Tianxing were the most excited, shouting in unison. Ouyang Nan laughed and punched Li Chengfeng's shoulder. "Good job!
You're a member of Hidden Sword Court after all! "
Li Chengfeng nodded at them and said in a low voice, "We shouldn't stay here any longer, we'll leave now!"
Ouyang Nan quickly nodded. "Yes, yes, we'll go now!"
Along the way, everyone had been through many trials and tribulations. They were bathed in blood and sacrificed a lot. This kind of pain and sorrow was so heavy that they did not even want to think about it. They only wanted to complete their mission immediately and return to the Spiritual Mountain Sect to obtain the qualifications for the assessment. They did not want those who died for them to die in vain.
Li Chengfeng said, "Everyone, follow me!"
Li Chengfeng and Yuehan looked at each other, his gaze gentle. In front of everyone, he could not show too much so he smiled, as if to say: Look, I'm back.
Yuehan smiled sweetly at Li Chengfeng too. However, when Li Chengfeng turned to lead the group away, the smile on Yuehan's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a solemn and cold expression.
The Divine Capital's teleportation area was not very different from the Spiritual Mountain Sect's teleportation point. It was just that the scale of the area was much larger. Each teleportation formation was built in a tower, and the base of the tower was extremely huge. At a glance, it was the size of a football field. The ground of the first level was densely packed with formation patterns, and in the middle of each formation pattern was a formation core. These densely packed formation patterns passed through these formation cores, and when powers were gathered there, they could teleport 10 people to the same place 10,000 lis away at the same time.
Teleporting ten people at once was the limit of the array. Every time they teleported, the array had to be repaired for eight hours. Li Chengfeng looked up and saw that the interior of the teleportation tower had a spiral structure. The four walls of the tower spiraled upwards, leaving a circular skylight at the top of the tower, like an inverted cone.
At the center of the tower was an extremely long stone pillar. Two words were engraved on the top of the stone pillar: Divine Capital!
In the middle was densely packed with patterns, engraved with a large, complicated array. Around the center of the array were nine spirit crystals the size of pigeon eggs, glowing in azure blue.
After Li Chengfeng and the rest walked to the array eye of the teleportation array, not long after, the spirit crystals on the stone pillar started to glow. Immediately after, the array patterns on the ground started to emit a blue glow. This glow quickly grew brighter and brighter. Li Chengfeng and the rest instinctively closed their eyes. After the glow dimmed, they realized that their surroundings were still the same, but the two words engraved on the stone pillar in the middle of the array had changed to: Jun 'an.
As soon as they finished the teleportation, the gate of the Transmitting Tower opened with a loud bang. A beautiful maid greeted them with a smile, "Welcome to Lin 'an, dear cultivators … Oh, you are the cultivators of Spirited Mountain!
You're so early today!
The sun hasn't even risen yet! "
Li Chengfeng and the rest felt dizzy. The teleportation had already ended. It looked easy but the huge amount of manpower and resources required was unimaginable.
However, Li Chengfeng was not in the mood to appreciate Daqi's wealth and power. He quickly led the group out of Jun 'an City's teleportation area. After renting a few horses from a nearby station, the group rushed to Spiritual Mountain without stopping.
Along the way, they did not speak at all. Everyone gritted their teeth and hurried on.
Even the injured were gritting their teeth and holding on. Qu Tongqiu and Zhao Yibai, who were the worst off, were afraid that they would be left behind. Even though they were so tired that their bones were about to fall apart, they still held on tightly to the horses' necks and refused to let go. They were like burlap sacks being carried by the horses.
The journey from Jun 'an to Spiritual Mountain was more than one thousand and three hundred li. When they came, it took them three days to travel with their families. Now, they had light carriages and only changed horses three times at a public road station. Then, without rest or sleep, they reached Spiritual Mountain in two days and one night.
When they reached the foot of Spiritual Mountain Sect, they heard the sound of a bell.
Although Ouyang Nan was a cultivator who had worked hard for many years, he was exhausted and dispirited. When he heard the sound, he gasped, "Oh no!
It's the Sunset Bell!
Quick, it's too late!
The bell has ended, registration is over! "
Li Chengfeng's hair stood on end. Without waiting for the horse to stop, he leapt off and sprinted towards Mount Wen Tian.
Ouyang Nan followed closely behind, and the two of them sprinted away. Sun Yongcai subconsciously got off his horse and wanted to follow, but after taking two steps, he stopped and stood there motionless, as if he had lost something.
As Li Chengfeng sprinted, he yelled to Ouyang Nan, "Senior Brother, how many times does the Sunset Bell ring? How much longer until it ends?"
Ouyang Nan said, "Nine rings in the morning and eighteen rings in the evening!
We just heard the first ring … "
Before he could finish, another bell rang. Li Chengfeng estimated that the interval was at most five breaths, which was less than half a minute. That meant they had less than ten minutes.
The land of the Spiritual Mountain Sect was huge. If one were to ascend the mountain from the entrance, they would have to walk to Mount Wen Tian.
Li Chengfeng said, "Senior Brother, I won't make it like this, I'll go first!"
Ouyang Nan nodded. The flowers and trees around him quickly formed a giant hand, grabbing at Li Chengfeng and throwing him away like a shot put. In the blink of an eye, he became a tiny black dot in the sky.