They reached the end of the tunnel again. Ji Chenxue put away the necklace. Everyone stopped in their tracks. At the end of the tunnel was a huge glowing eye. It was a Ghost Eye Demon Eye. This was the teleportation portal of Shenguang Technologies.
But no one dared to act rashly. No one knew where this teleportation portal led to.
Ling Xingqi suddenly drew her battle sword and walked up slowly. Then, she raised the sword and pointed it at the teleportation portal. A strange scene occurred. The blade of the sword emitted rings of light just like Ji Chenxue's necklace.
Ling Xingqi turned her head and said, "You can go in!"
It would be a lie to say that the others were not envious. Ji Chenxue could not help but ask, "This sword of yours should be an inheritance too, right?"
Ling Xingqi hesitated, but nodded. "It can distinguish the purest Shenguang Technologies energy."
Ding Meng could not help but ask, "You received the inheritance of the Grand General, right?"
Ling Xingqi's expression was cold. "There's something you might not know."
Ding Meng said, "Please speak!"
Ling Xingqi said, "Princess Ariel's inheritance is not the true orthodox one!"
Ding Meng sighed. "I understand. Everyone probably thinks that the inheritance they received is the most orthodox one!"
Ling Xingqi did not reply. She was the first to enter the teleportation portal.
Jun Ling said coldly, "Looks like her prejudice against you is extraordinarily strong!"
Ding Meng smiled bitterly. "If you had killed more than ten elders in her family, she would probably hate you even more."
Jun Ling pursed her lips and jumped into the teleportation portal as well.
Since Ling Xingqi dared to take the lead, the others did not hesitate and followed suit.
After a series of flashes of white light, Ding Meng's vision returned to normal. Before he could observe his surroundings, he realized that all the girls had looks of disbelief on their faces. The reason was simple. Everyone saw the blue sky above them again.
The scene in front of them was like this. There was a huge lake in the distance. The lake was formed by a waterfall that was hundreds of meters high. Everyone was standing on the grass beside the waterfall at the top of the mountain.
There was a small island in the middle of the vast lake. Sixteen towering sacred trees formed a circle on the island, faintly forming a Tai Chi Eight Trigrams pattern. In the center was a stone array, engraved with all kinds of runic patterns.
"What is this place?" Liang Yiran was really curious. "Have we been sent back to the surface?"
Liang Yi smiled bitterly and said, "That can't be. After going in such a big circle, you're just playing such a joke on us?"
Jun Ling raised his hand to cover his eyebrows and looked into the distance. "They should have returned to the ground."
Ling Xingqi frowned and didn't say anything. It was hard to tell whether this place was an illusion or a subspace, because everything was real and there were almost no flaws.
While all the girls were discussing, Ding Meng's expression was extremely ugly.
Ji Chenxue quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
Ding Meng said expressionlessly, "I've been here before!"
"Ah?" The girls were shocked.
Even Ling Xingqi couldn't help but ask, "What the hell is this place?"
Ding Meng stared at the small island in the middle of the lake. "This is Rainforest Planet No.5, outside of the Fertile Chalk System's large star vortex. It was the place where Lin Fei plotted to replace Wen Yang as the head of state all those years ago. It was on the small island in the center, and I witnessed everything."
Everyone was shocked, and even Ling Xingqi was no exception. The amount of information in these words was simply too much.
Ji Chenxue said, "Are you sure?"
Ding Meng nodded. "But this isn't Rainforest Planet No.5!"
Everyone was confused again. You're saying yes one moment and no the next, what are you trying to do?
Ding Meng smiled bitterly. "I really don't know how to explain it to you. From what I've seen, this place is exactly the same as Rainforest Planet No.5, but there are no energy fluctuations here, no Demons or Leopards in the forest behind, and no spaceports in the distance. This proves that this place is just a similarity in the terrain, and not the real Rainforest Planet No.5."
Ji Chenxue agreed. "The distance between the Sacred Planet's underground and the Rainforest Planet's large star vortex in the Fertile Chalk System is at least ten light years. The teleportation array in the underground passage just now doesn't have enough energy to support such a long distance."
Ling Xingqi also nodded. "And it's extremely accurate. Only my Starbow Corporation's large Qujing Base can do this."
Liang Yiran shook her head. "I'm confused by what you're saying, but this place isn't an illusion. Look at these flowers and plants, they're all real."
Ling Xingqi pondered and said, "It might be a subspace!"
Liang Yi retorted, "Everyone has an anti-gravity backpack, and subspace is at most the size of a room. But this place is so big, how could it be a subspace?"
Ling Xingqi said in a low voice, "But if there's enough energy from Shenguang Technology, it won't be difficult to do this."
Ji Chenxue also voiced his opinion. "Miss Ling, forgive me for being blunt, but your premise is that there's enough energy from Shenguang. You should know how large a subspace would be if there's enough energy."
Ling Xingqi was silent. How could she not understand?
Besides, she was also someone who had done a lot of work in the Fertile Chalk System. Back then, she had wrapped the energy crystals of Planet Poison Dragon in a large engineering ship, but it couldn't be made into a subspace. It wasn't that they didn't have the technology, but that they didn't have the energy.
Just imagine, to make a subspace on the scale of a planet like Rainforest Planet No.5, even if it was Shenguang Technology's energy, what kind of power would it take to do that?
This was beyond everyone's imagination.
No wonder Suo Mansha and Lu Xiaoyun were so secretive and refused to reveal the details of the mission. It turned out that there were such bizarre things in this underground world.
"Let's go down and take a look!" Ding Meng suggested.
Five out of the six of them were martial artists of Shenguang. Flying to the island in the middle of the lake was not a problem. Liang Yiran was just an ordinary warrior, so Ding Meng had to carry her down on his back.
The sacred tree and the Eight Trigrams diagram were no stranger to them. The only thing that remained was the mysterious existence of the stone formation in the center.
Once he sensed that Ling Xingqi was operating the origin, Ding Meng decisively stopped her. "Don't inject energy. The consequences will be severe!"
Ling Xingqi was puzzled. "Why?"
Ding Meng couldn't help but recount the situation when Wen Yang had injected energy into the head of state.
Ling Xingqi said, "Is this the three-in-one confinement device of the Devouring Sector's sacred lake, Shenguang Technology's space jump, and Demons' imprisonment?"
Ding Meng shook his head. "In theory, that's the only explanation, but in reality, no one knows for sure."
Liang Yiran walked around the stone formation once, then raised her hand decisively. "I know what this is."
"Oh?" Everyone was surprised again.
Ding Meng didn't believe her. "How do you know?"
Liang Yiran said seriously, "After Mo Mo and I got married, we would visit Master Lang from time to time. Brother Pei Xing once talked to us about this formation. The Federation's special patrol fleet often sees all sorts of strange phenomena in outer space. Master Lang is sure that this is an incredibly powerful space-time teleportation matrix."
Master Lang Dun was an academic authority, and Du Pei Xing was the commander of the fleet. Naturally, he had a deep understanding of cosmic astronomy.
Liang Yiran said, "Brother Pei Xing once said that many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations left behind traces of teleportation matrices in outer space. Because the distance they traveled was too far, often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of light-years, the energy required was too great. After the teleportation matrices were activated, the traces left behind might not disappear for thousands of years. Hence, starship radars could often capture relevant images in the dust of various large nebulas. Brother Pei Xing once saw this, and Master Lang Dun did a lot of research. I'm sure that this stone formation is the prototype of a teleportation matrix."
Ling Xingqi said, "Okay, even if it is, this formation is a rune engraved on the stone and not a trace of energy. How do you explain this?"
Liang Yiran slapped her forehead. "Sorry, I'm too inexperienced to explain the real reason behind this."
"What do you think?"
Ling Xingqi looked at Ding Meng. Even if she was hostile to Ding Meng, she had to admit that Ding Meng was the strongest person in this group with the Divine Light energy.
Ding Meng also had a thoughtful look on his face. "I don't think this matter is that simple. The information we've collected is too little, so we can't jump to conclusions so easily."
Ling Xingqi was a little dissatisfied. "You might as well not have said anything."
Jun Ling suddenly opened his mouth. "Boss, according to what you said, when Lin Fei harmed Wen Yang back then, he did something in this formation beforehand and used the power of the Demons to tamper with it. That's why Wen Yang was so unlucky. Now, we have four Chosen Ones here. If we combine our powers, can we infuse this stone with energy?"
"Absolutely not!" Ling Xingqi and Ji Chenxue objected at the same time.
Jun Ling was stunned. "Why?"
Ji Chenxue smiled bitterly. "Little sister, you don't know this, but the space-time teleportation matrix is different from normal teleportation matrices. It can teleport tens of thousands of light-years, so it needs to open up a large-scale space-time tunnel. The amount of energy required is astronomical. Even if the interstellar fleet of the Federal Empire worked together, they might not be able to create such a large-scale wormhole. This isn't because of the Chosen Ones, but because of the level of civilization."
Ling Xingqi also nodded. "Miss Ji's words make sense. It's fine if our infusion doesn't work, but we're afraid of backlash or being devoured."
Jun Ling was a little irritated. "Then doesn't that mean we can't do anything here?"
Ding Meng also looked at the stone carving. "I have a feeling that it's not as simple as a space-time teleportation matrix. It's more like a hint. It appeared in the Fertile Chalk System before, so why is it here too? What's the connection between the two?"
Jun Ling spoke again, pointing at the surrounding trees. "Boss, when you were on planet 5, these Holy Trees appeared with Magic Eyes. But now, they don't have any energy at all. Since they're Holy Trees, they should be able to react to high-level energy."
Ding Meng and the others' eyes lit up. This girl's reminder was right. Whether it was Holy Light energy or Demons energy, the appearance of the Holy Trees here must be useful.
Ding Meng stretched out his index finger, summoning the Holy Light Singularity. He flicked it lightly, and the singularity quickly shot toward the Holy Trees at 12 o 'clock.
The Holy Spirits were indeed activated, producing Holy Light Eyes. Moreover, the sixteen Holy Trees lit up in a clockwise manner. The most unbelievable scene finally appeared.