39: Chapter 39: Blood Jade Spider, Teleportation Array, Great Teleportation Token!

In the Cultivation World, Spiritual Veins are divided into two types: one provides a place for cultivation, such as where major Schools and Families are located.

The other type is the Spiritual Vein that produces Spirit Stones of various grades, also known as a Spirit Stone mineral vein.

Generally speaking, these two types of Spiritual Veins—one might even say most of them—are interdependent.

If one type of Spiritual Vein exists, the other will also be present.

However, there are special cases; for example, Biling Island, which appears in the future, is one such instance.

And currently, the Spirit Stone mineral vein where the Ancient Teleportation Array is located is also like this.

That is why that Ancient Teleportation Array has remained undiscovered until now.

This is because, aside from the miner Disciples extracting Ore, there are only one or two guards, primarily Foundation Establishment Stage Disciples or stewards.

Even the Cultivators mining Spirit Stones are not considered true School Disciples; after all, anyone with even a little status or sufficient Aptitude would not come to such a place to mine Spirit Stones.

Were it not for the ability to Cultivate within the mineral vein, almost no Disciple would be willing to take on such a bitter and tiring task.

Cultivating in this Spirit Stone mineral vein is superior to many other cultivation locations.

After all, the Spiritual Qi contained within this mineral vein is quite dense.

Even so, the heavy daily mining tasks make it a miserable experience for many Disciples responsible for the extraction.

Consequently, the time available for cultivation is extremely limited, but occasionally, Disciples do mine special and valuable Materials from the vein.

For this very reason, Disciples go missing within the mineral vein from time to time.

Most of them disappear while searching for useful and valuable Materials in the vein, hoping to exchange them for enough Spirit Stones after leaving or to refine them into some powerful Magical Artifact or treasure.

Of the Disciples who go missing in this mineral vein, sixty percent have ended up in the belly of a Yao Beast, or perhaps demon insect would be more appropriate.

"Blood Jade Spider!"

This is a demon insect that is infinitely close to the Core Formation Stage; once encountered, there is no chance of survival.

After all, the Disciples who come here to mine Spirit Stones are only at the Qi Refinement Stage, so they have absolutely no hope of survival.

Emperor Yue of the Black Fiend Cult was also once a Foundation Establishment Stage Disciple serving as a supervising steward in this mineral vein.

By chance, he stumbled upon the Ancient Teleportation Array deep within the mineral vein, only to be discovered and pursued by the Blood Jade Spider. Ultimately, he narrowly escaped through a secret passage, obtaining a mysterious half of a Magic Treasure and part of a Legacy.

From then on, he never returned to his Sect. Instead, he secretly founded the Black Fiend Cult and used the obtained Legacy to condense a Golden Core, becoming a Core Formation Stage Cultivator.

Zhao Changsheng discovered these events from the notes left behind by Emperor Yue.

He also learned of the secret passage that leads to the Ancient Teleportation Array deep within the mineral vein.

As for why no one in the original plot discovered this in Emperor Yue's belongings, it remains unknown.

Regardless, Zhao Changsheng knew, so he chose to head to that secret passage in the mineral vein to find the Ancient Teleportation Array.

As for whether to repair it or not, there was no need for much consideration for the time being.

What needed to be considered now was finding the Teleportation Array and then obtaining the Blood Jade Spider, the great teleportation token, and a series of other treasures.

Once these were obtained, there would be an opportunity to go to the Chaotic Star Sea in the future.

Although he possessed a Heavenly Spiritual Root Aptitude and was highly valued by his Sect, he had no absolute certainty of surviving the upcoming Demonic Path invasion.

Under these circumstances, the only way to survive was to go to the Chaotic Star Sea.

Even though the Reverse Star Alliance would appear in the Chaotic Star Sea in the future and cause great chaos, at least for now, there wouldn't be any major problems or significant trouble.

He just needed to find any island where he could settle down and then he could Cultivate until he successfully reached Core Formation or even condensed a Nascent Soul.

If he could successfully condense a Nascent Soul, then with the various means at his disposal, he would basically have the ability to protect himself in the Cultivation World.

However, condensing a Nascent Soul is no easy task; at the very least, he would need to obtain the nine-bend spirit ginseng from the Void Heaven Palace and the spirit stabilizing pill from the Falling Cloud Sect. Only then would he have sufficient confidence.

Therefore, he still had many things to do. For now, finding the Ancient Teleportation Array and taking the great teleportation token to the Chaotic Star Sea to save his life was the priority.

Without this secret passage, entering the mineral vein would be almost impossible.

This is because such Spirit Stone mineral veins have powerful protective Formations; wishing to enter silently is complete fantasy.

Fortunately, Emperor Yue left behind his own intended plan, though now, only Zhao Changsheng would help him realize it... After spending nearly half a month, Zhao Changsheng successfully arrived at the vicinity of the mineral vein.

Then, following the map's instructions, he entered the secret passage of the Spirit Stone mineral vein.

Not only was this secret passage extremely narrow, but without the Earth Evasion Technique or related Talismans, trying to find and enter it would be a complete joke.

This was because it was nearly a hundred meters deep; one had to dive more than a hundred meters underground to discover and enter it.

After entering, it was also incredibly narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time.

To avoid detection, Zhao Changsheng did not dare use Spells to widen the passage, so he could only venture deeper into the mineral vein bit by bit, searching for the location of the Ancient Teleportation Array.

Half a day later, Zhao Changsheng had passed through several caves of various sizes, but still hadn't found the location of the Ancient Teleportation Array.

It wasn't until the sound of crunching and gnawing reached his ears that he stopped. He looked toward the source of the sound, then completely restrained all of his aura before cautiously walking toward it.

Before long, he saw a white spider about three or four zhang in size, using its terrifying fangs to gnaw on a corpse. The corpse had already been eaten into pieces, no longer resembling a human at all.

It could be said that the death was quite miserable.

However, these were not the most important things. What caught his eye most was a hexagonal Teleportation Array next to the white spider, and beside the array was a five-colored skeleton suspended in mid-air, holding a blue token in its hand.

Seeing all this, Zhao Changsheng showed a look of relief, and a smile uncontrollably emerged on his face.

After working so hard, struggling for so long, and paying such a price, he had finally achieved his wish and seen these things.

He could be said to be happier now than ever before, even more so than when he learned he had a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

But even in his joy, he did not forget that the trouble had not yet been resolved.

That trouble was the man-eating Blood Jade Spider; Zhao Changsheng was still quite wary of this spider.