Chapter 617: Vast Light Grand Thousand Mirror

The guard captain’s expression immediately turned respectful. "So it is a Martial Emperor. Might I ask where you and your party are headed, my lord?"

"The Guzhan Domain."

The guard took out a jade slip, scanned it briefly, and immediately said, "The Teleportation Array to the Guzhan Domain will open tomorrow morning. Please gather here then."

Jiuchen couldn’t help but ask, confused, "Aren’t these Teleportation Arrays opened on demand?"

Ye Xuan smiled. "Of course not. Building a Teleportation Array is extremely difficult, and they are easily damaged. For ease of maintenance, they usually have set dates for specific destinations. You can only use them on those dates."

"The dates are just one part of it. There are also status restrictions. If I’m not mistaken, for the Teleportation Array in Celestial Yang City, only a Tier Eight Martial Emperor has the right to teleport."

Su Xiuyi looked at Ye Xuan in surprise. What he had said was more or less spot on.

Jiuchen and the others were speechless. "You mean a Seventh-level Martial King can’t use it?"

Ye Xuan smiled slightly. "It’s not that a Tier Seven Martial King can’t teleport. They just have to wait in line and go through a review process. The procedures are just a bit more troublesome. Of course, people like Elder Dong, Elder Yao, and Master Lu Li should all have the right to teleport directly."

Elder Dong and the others were immediately surprised.

Ye Xuan explained with a smile, "Because on the Celestial Profound Continent, Soul Refiners, Alchemists, and Artifact Refiners all have certain privileges."

Only then did everyone understand.

Just then, a streak of light shot over from the distance, landing in front of them in an instant.

The man wore magnificent robes and gave Ye Xuan’s group a cold glance. The hair on everyone’s bodies stood on end, as if they were being stared down by a ferocious tiger. They felt a terrifying palpitation in their hearts.

The guard captain immediately showed a hint of reverence and stepped forward. "Ah, it is Lord Qing Lin."

"Open the Teleportation Array immediately. I’m going to the Imperial Capital," Qing Lin said coldly, turning his head.

"Yes, my lord."

The guard captain promptly led the middle-aged man in magnificent robes inside. Soon, a vast, invisible fluctuation emanated from within before gradually fading away.

Jiuchen and the others were stunned. "How could he teleport directly?"

Su Xiuyi said with a serious expression, "Don’t say another word. That man is likely a Tier Eight Second Layer Martial Emperor, some dignitary from the Luoshan Empire."

Everyone was flabbergasted and immediately shut their mouths.

There wasn’t a single Tier Eight Second Layer Martial Emperor in the entire Dream Realm Plain.

After a Martial Artist broke through to Martial King, every subsequent advancement of a single Layer would become incredibly difficult. This became even more pronounced upon reaching the Martial Emperor realm.

You could say that the later the stage, the greater the significance of a single Layer. It was like each Layer was a world of its own, bringing with it a completely different status and standing.

Jiuchen and the others all listened intently, silently committing this information to memory. Everything about the outside world was new and fascinating to them, but also completely unfamiliar.

「The next morning」

Ye Xuan’s group took the Teleportation Array and departed. The price of teleportation left Jiuchen and the others dumbfounded.

The Teleportation Array cost two hundred mid-grade Profound Stones per person, regardless of their cultivation level.

Two hundred mid-grade Profound Stones was equivalent to two hundred million Profound Coins. With over thirty people in their group, a single trip cost nearly seven billion.

This was equivalent to two or three decent Seventh-level King-rank weapons.

Of course, if calculated in Spirit Coins, this price wasn’t actually that expensive; it wasn’t something the group couldn’t afford. The key was that the Teleportation Array required payment in mid-grade Profound Stones. It didn’t accept lower-grade Profound Stones or Spirit Coins.

But in the Dream Realm Plain, mid-grade Profound Stones were an extremely scarce resource, which immediately made the cost seem extraordinary.

Thinking about the several teleportations they still had to make, Jiuchen and the others felt their hearts ache with the expense.

The students, in particular, could only smile wryly. Even though they weren’t the ones paying, the thought of spending so much on a single trip was enough to unnerve every student present.

’When we get to the Celestial Capital Prefecture, we have to cultivate hard and earn this money back as soon as possible,’ they all silently vowed.

「Over the next few days」

Ye Xuan’s group teleported from one city to another, from one region to the next. Ten days later, they had arrived in the Eastern Domain of the continent.

To avoid being tracked by Infinite Mountain, the group decided to travel the final leg of their journey to the Celestial Capital Prefecture aboard an Alchemy Flying Ship.

On the Alchemy Flying Ship, everyone was cultivating peacefully.

For the past three months, Ye Xuan had been consolidating his cultivation base. He hadn’t even had time to take stock of Wen Yanhui’s Storage Ring. Now, he finally had some rare free time and began to examine his gains.

As soon as Ye Xuan refined Wen Yanhui’s Storage Ring, he received a pleasant surprise. It turned out Storage Rings also had different grades. Wen Yanhui’s was undoubtedly a High Tier one. The space inside was far more vast than any of the Storage Rings Ye Xuan already possessed.

In fact, it was several times larger than his best one.

With this Storage Ring, Ye Xuan could consolidate many of his belongings into a single place.

Then, Ye Xuan began to take inventory of its contents.

There were numerous Spirit Medicines, Pills, materials, and other items, none of which were of a low grade.

In addition, there were even some secret manuals, including the one for the Golden River Great Handprint.

However, Ye Xuan tossed this manual aside.

First, the Golden River Great Handprint was a martial art from Infinite Mountain; if he cultivated it, he would be easily recognized. Second, to Ye Xuan, a mere High-Grade Profound Grade technique like the Golden River Great Handprint was hardly a heaven-defying Cultivation Technique.

In the end, there were three items in Wen Yanhui’s Storage Ring that satisfied Ye Xuan the most.

First, there was a pile of over one hundred Profound Stones. Each one was full and crystalline, about the size of a fist, and emanated a dense Profound Qi.

These were clearly upper-grade Profound Stones, a level higher than mid-grade ones.

A single upper-grade Profound Stone was worth a hundred million, and they were priceless on the market. Normally, only Martial Emperor experts or the upper echelons of major powers would possess them.

Second was a Tier Eight Spirit Medicine, which turned out to be the extremely rare Ancient Dragon Grass.

Finally, there was a fist-sized black ore.

The ore was glossy and pitch-black all over, with patterns like scattered stars. It was the legendary Tier Eight material, Starry Sky Secret Ore.

Besides these, there were also various mid-grade Profound Stones and Tier Seven Pills, with a total value in the tens of billions.

After organizing Wen Yanhui’s Storage Ring, Ye Xuan took out the Array Disc he had gotten from Liang Yu and examined it closely.

’It really is an Array Disc made of Mola Yuan Iron.’

A moment later, Ye Xuan was inwardly thrilled.

Mola Yuan Iron was a very special material for the Way of Arrays. It had extremely strong properties for engraving and activating array patterns, making it one of the absolute best materials for an Array Disc.

Furthermore, Mola Yuan Iron’s engravability was so strong that an Array Disc could hold array patterns as complex as a field of stars. It could also be repeatedly re-engraved, which was simply heaven-defying.

Even more incredibly, Mola Yuan Iron could memorize multiple sets of array patterns. In other words, a single Array Disc could be engraved with multiple Arrays at the same time.

Of course, only one could be activated at a time.

’With this Mola Yuan Iron Array Disc, I can set up multiple powerful Arrays at any time. My chances of survival have more than doubled.’

Ye Xuan struggled to calm his excitement.

A good Array Disc was simply too important for an Array Master.

After all, there were many situations where special circumstances prevented Array Masters from setting up an Array in advance. This was when the functions of Array Discs and array flags came into play.

However, ordinary Array Discs could only be engraved with simple Arrays, which often left Array Masters feeling helpless.

But a Mola Yuan Iron Array Disc was different. It could perfectly withstand and activate even an Eighth-Level Array without any issue.

For example, back in Ancient Yang City, if Elder Tianyi had possessed this Mola Yuan Iron Array Disc, he wouldn’t have needed to arrive early to engrave the Seven Star Earth Element Array. He could have simply engraved the seven Array Bases of the Array onto seven separate discs. Then, all he would have needed to do was throw them out to instantly form the Seven Star Earth Element Array.

This would not only have been much more convenient, eliminating the need to dispatch experts to guard the Array Bases, but he could also have retrieved the Array Discs at any time to reconfigure and redeploy them.

If that had been the case, it would have been a nearly impossible task for Ye Xuan to break Elder Tianyi’s Seven Star Earth Element Array.

After examining the Array Disc, Ye Xuan took out the bronze mirror he had taken from Liang Yu.

The bronze mirror felt heavy in his hand, and he couldn’t identify the material it was made from.

This shocked Ye Xuan. There weren’t many materials in this world that he couldn’t recognize.

Sending his Soul Sense into it, Ye Xuan immediately discovered that the bronze mirror was a type of Profound Treasure containing countless Restrictions.

These Restrictions were extremely complex. It took Ye Xuan half a month just to refine one-third of them.

HUM!

When he had refined one-third of the Restrictions, a hazy light burst forth from the bronze mirror. At the same time, a few large words appeared in Ye Xuan’s mind.

"Vast Light Grand Thousand Mirror!"

A feeling of vastness flooded Ye Xuan’s mind.

’Is this the bronze mirror’s name?’

Ye Xuan murmured to himself. After refining a third of it, he had gained some understanding of the bronze mirror’s effects.

Just as Liang Yu had demonstrated before, the bronze mirror could reflect all forms of energy attacks and block physical attacks.

The strength of its reflection and resistance was related to the Martial Artist’s own power.

Ye Xuan had never seen such a treasure before. His interest piqued, he immediately began to study the remaining Restrictions.

But after studying them for a long time, Ye Xuan discovered with some frustration that he was powerless against the remaining Restrictions with his current cultivation.

’This Vast Light Grand Thousand Mirror is definitely not a Seventh Grade Profound Treasure. It has to be at least Eighth Grade.’

Although Ye Xuan had only recently broken through to the Seventh Grade, he knew very well that there was no Seventh Grade Profound Treasure he would be unable to completely refine at his current level.