Chapter 381 - 369: Teleportation Repair

Chapter 381: Chapter 369: Teleportation Repair

Early on the morning of his second day back in Mist Forest Marketplace, Li Yuan concluded his daily meditation in his stone house.

A panel popped up.

[Divine Sense Condensation (Green): Permanence Conditions Met]

[Divine Sense Condensation (Green) has become a Permanent Trait]

The spectral image of the Soul Condensing Pill in the equipment slot vanished, leaving the space empty.

The instant it became permanent, the five Divine Sense Lines resonated together, briefly and violently. After the resonance, the sharpness and solidity of the Divine Sense Lines’ tips were permanently enhanced.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.

The speed at which his Divine Sense condensed was twenty percent faster than before. This meant the interval between releasing Divine Sense attacks in battle was shorter, and the pressure of controlling multiple lines simultaneously was also less.

More important was the stun effect.

He flicked one Divine Sense Line lightly toward the tabletop. When the tip of the Divine Sense Line struck the table, an extremely brief mental shockwave spread out from the point of contact. If the target had been a Cultivator, this shockwave would cause a momentary lapse of consciousness in their Sea of Divine Sense for about half a breath.

Half a breath.

Enough time for him to execute a Void-Rending Slash.

Li Yuan retracted his Divine Sense Line, stood up, and walked out of the stone house.

The marketplace’s expansion project was still underway. During his absence, personnel from the Wang and Ji families had been steadily carrying out the work according to the pre-arranged plan. In the southern expansion area, the foundation had been laid and rammed, and the walls were more than halfway built. Progress on the eastern side was slightly slower, but the divisions for the shops had already been marked out.

Li Yuan spent two days inspecting all the construction sites. He added several Investigation Arrays and Breath-Sensing Arrays at key nodes. After confirming there were no blind spots in the defensive coverage, he handed the remaining work over to Ji Wenchuan.

「On the third night, at Midnight.」

Li Yuan took four materials out of his storage pouch and laid them on the table to inspect one by one.

Space Crystal Stone, obtained from the White Mirror Marketplace auction, of superior quality.

Spatial-type Array Stones, purchased from Yunyang Marketplace, three pieces.

Spirit-conducting Copper Sheets, purchased in the same batch, twelve pieces.

Spiritual Power Adhesive, self-refined, sealed in a jade bottle, enough to repair two Teleportation Arrays.

All the materials needed to repair the hidden teleportation node were ready.

Li Yuan put the materials back into his storage pouch, activated all three layers of his concealment, and left the marketplace.

「Two hours later, at the limestone plateau.」

The plateau, shrouded in thick fog, was deathly silent. Underfoot, the heavily weathered limestone glinted with a cold, grayish-white light in the night, pocked with solutional pits and devoid of any Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Li Yuan executed the Earth Escape Technique and slowly sank into the ground.

Passing through the loose layer of dissolved rock was effortless. At a depth of twenty-five zhang, the abnormally dense rock barrier once again appeared in his perception.

He increased his Spiritual Power output and chiseled through the two-zhang-thick dense rock layer, inch by inch, entering the cavity below.

The cavity was unchanged. It was a small space, two zhang square, with smooth walls. In the center stood a quiet, circular stone platform three chi in diameter. Most of the Array Patterns on the platform’s surface had cracked and peeled off; only a small, remnant patch at its core retained a faint trace of Spiritual Power.

Li Yuan crouched down, took the materials out of his storage pouch one by one, and arranged them on the ground beside the stone platform in the order he would use them for the repairs.

All five of his Divine Sense Lines spread out.

The first and second Divine Sense Lines were responsible for investigation. He fully released the spatial perception of the Teleportation Stone, and every detail of the remaining Array Patterns on the platform’s surface—their structure, path, and the specifications of the Spiritual Power interfaces—was projected into his mind with perfect clarity.

The third Divine Sense Line began the cleanup. It stripped away the residue of the old, cracked Array Patterns one by one, revealing the original Spiritual Power channels on the stone platform’s base. The channels were mostly clogged. Li Yuan injected the Spiritual Power Adhesive into them to slowly dissolve and clear the blockages.

The knowledge about spatial folding and Teleportation Array structure from the *Commentaries on Tier Three Array Theory* became crucial at this moment. The Array Patterns of a Teleportation Array weren’t simple planar engravings. They were divided into three layers, each involving spatial folding at different depths.

The first layer was the Spiritual Power conduction layer.

Li Yuan used the spirit-conducting copper sheets to fill the breaks and fixed them with the Spiritual Power Adhesive. His Divine Sense Line precisely controlled the alignment between the copper sheets and the original Array Patterns. The margin of error could not exceed a single sliver, or the Spiritual Power would become turbulent during conduction.

The second layer was the spatial positioning layer.

Li Yuan used Spiritual Power to precisely chisel out three slots for the Array Stones inside the platform, then embedded the spatial-type Array Stones one by one. With each one he placed, he had to use the Teleportation Stone’s spatial perception to repeatedly calibrate the Array Stone’s orientation, ensuring its spatial-sensing surface was perfectly aligned with the Array Pattern’s positioning circuit.

The third layer was the spatial folding layer.

This layer was the core of the Teleportation Array, and also the most severely damaged part.

The Array Patterns of the spatial folding layer weren’t on a physical plane, but were instead carved into the spatial interlayer created by the folding. The skeleton of this folded structure had completely collapsed, and the original Array Patterns had vanished entirely along with it.

Rebuilding a complete spatial folding structure from scratch required Tier Three Array mastery. Li Yuan’s current skill level was still a ways off.

But he had the Void-Rending Slash.

The essence of the Void-Rending Slash was to create a fissure in space. The essence of spatial folding, on the other hand, was to bend and fix space along a specific direction.

Fissures were destruction; folding was shaping. The two seemed to be opposites, but at a fundamental level, they both manipulated the same thing: the structure of space.

In the process of cultivating the Void-Rending Slash, Li Yuan had accumulated a great deal of practical experience in manipulating spatial structure. He knew how to precisely control a fissure’s direction, depth, and duration, and he also knew how space healed itself after a fissure dissipated.

The healing process itself was a form of micro-spatial folding.

He decided to use a creative method to rebuild the folded structure.

His fifth Divine Sense Line focused all its energy and created an extremely tiny fissure in the space above the stone platform. The instant the fissure formed, he immediately used the Teleportation Stone’s spatial perception to lock onto the edges of space on both sides of the fissure. Then, before it could dissipate, he used Spiritual Power to squeeze the two edges inward, forcing the space to bend along the fissure’s direction.

The fissure dissipated.

The space healed itself while in its bent state. The healed spatial structure retained its curved shape, forming a micro-spatial fold.

It worked.

Li Yuan used this fissure-suturing technique to rebuild the skeleton of the folded structure, one small segment at a time. Each operation was extremely precise and consumed a massive amount of mental energy, but the results were far better than he had anticipated.

The folded structure created by fissure-suturing wasn’t as refined as the original, but it had the advantage of being stable. As the fissure healed, space’s own repair mechanisms naturally reinforced the folded structure, making it even more robust than one that had been artificially carved.

Repairing the third layer took the longest—a full four hours.

When the final segment of the folded skeleton was complete, Li Yuan took the Space Crystal Stone from its jade box and embedded it in the Array Hub’s slot at the center of the stone platform.

The moment the Crystal Stone slid into its slot, the rippling spatial patterns flowing within it resonated with the Array Patterns. The three layers of the array structure lit up simultaneously with an extremely faint glow. Spiritual Power flowed in from the first conduction layer, was distributed by the second positioning layer, and finally converged in the third folding layer.

Spatial fluctuations slowly rippled out above the stone platform, stable and even.

Li Yuan stood up and took a step back.

The Teleportation Array’s basic functions had been restored.

He injected a stream of Spiritual Power to test its activation.

The glow of the Array Patterns softened from faint to gentle, and the spatial fluctuations on the platform’s surface gradually intensified. The spatial perception from the Teleportation Stone sent back a clear signal: the Array was searching outward for connectable teleportation nodes.

A few breaths later, two faint responses appeared in his perception.

One was in the direction of Yunzhou. The signal was extremely blurry and intermittent; the node on the other end seemed to be dormant or semi-damaged.

The other was to the southwest, in the direction of Liangzhou. The signal was relatively clear, but its strength wasn’t high.

But this was enough.

A Profound Nether Sect teleportation node, dormant for several hundred years, had reawakened.

Li Yuan deactivated the Array, returning the stone platform to a dormant state. The light from the Array Patterns slowly faded, and the spatial fluctuations subsided.

He used the Earth Escape Technique to pass back through the dense rock barrier and return to the surface.

The thick fog still blanketed the limestone plateau. All was silent.

Li Yuan stood at the edge of the plateau for a moment, gazing toward the southwest.