Chapter 403: Chapter 296: Ancient Teleportation Array, Dragon Remains, and Future Plans

"Such a powerful illusion."

And it wasn’t even specifically aimed at him; it was merely a passive effect.

If one’s will and six senses weren’t strong enough, they would truly believe this was an immortal mansion and rush toward it, only to end up diving right into the mouth of this spiral monster.

After assessing it, Su Yu asked Qingchan beside him:

"Should we kill it?"

Qingchan examined the snow-white spiral monster and shook his head:

"Let it go, such high-level spiral monsters are rare. Let’s spare it."

Su Yu glanced at the spiral monster’s appearance, which indeed was very beautiful and appealing to girls, and nodded:

"Fine, then let’s spare it."

Anyway, there are few things at the bottom of the sea, but plenty of high-level monsters above level 200.

The two of them and a dragon skirted around it from a distance and continued pushing forward.

Two hours later, they crossed another underwater mountain range, entering a valley where a giant sea anemone, spanning over thirty kilometers, was settled. Countless tentacles, each dozens of meters thick and four or five kilometers long, stretched out colorfully like an underwater forest.

This creature was even higher level than the snow-white spiral monster, with a level of 265, but it only had a terrifying template.

Moreover, it was extremely fierce. They were discovered immediately after crossing the mountain peak, and countless tentacles lashed out like overwhelming missiles.

Ao Run was caught off guard and seized by hundreds of tentacles, dragged forcibly towards the center of the sea anemone. The thirty-kilometer-diameter body closed up, wrapping the dragon over ten kilometers long within it.

"Damn, take it down!"

Su Yu shimmered, showing four heads and eight arms, wielding the Celestial Axe Slashing the Sky, which descended like a meteor. The thick body of the sea anemone was instantly cleaved open by the divine axe, dragging a crack over a thousand meters long as it descended. Through the crack, one could see the green dragon inside being bitten by numerous tentacles, with explosive Gui Water Divine Thunder and Meridian Cold Tide, amidst broken and frozen tentacles and ice shards.

Qingchan manipulated two Tier Ten Flying Swords hovering around the sea anemone, spinning and slashing back and forth. The sword light easily tore open the body of the resilient BOSS, soon reducing the closed sea anemone to a tattered state.

The two of them charged in, sweeping their axe and Sword Qi, cutting through the tentacles.

Their flying swords and treasures were too powerful, and the sea anemone, being just a large creature, didn’t have much inherent strength.

Even without their help, the creature might not have been able to handle Ao Run.

Two minutes later, Ao Run broke free, enraged, and unleashed a sect-level forbidden skill—Xuanming Singular Qi Unbounded Kun Thunder Net, gathering over ten thousand Xuanming Singular Qi Unbounded Divine Thunders to explode, instantly flooding a radius of hundreds of kilometers with terrifying Xuanming Cold Qi.

Seven minutes later, the cold dissipated, and the sea anemone was gone, leaving only frozen flesh fragments and a field of undigested spirit monster remains beneath the corpse.

Besides that, beneath the body of the super sea anemone, there was a crack, and inside it was a Spirit Vein.

Qingchan disdainfully examined the Spirit Vein entwined by tentacles, saying:

"The level of spiritual power here should be less than level four, right?"

Su Yu nodded:

"Definitely not, otherwise it wouldn’t be just at this level."

The so-called level of spiritual power is a conventional classification agreed upon by all forces for the level of Spirit Veins, corresponding to realms of cultivation.

A First-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Foundation Establishment cultivation.

A Second-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Foundation Establishment Loose Immortal Cultivation.

A Third-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Golden Core Earth Immortal Cultivation.

A Fourth-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Primordial Spirit Celestial Immortal Cultivation.

A Fifth-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to True Immortal Cultivation.

A Sixth-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Profound Immortal Cultivation.

And so on, a Seventh-tier Spirit Vein corresponds to Golden Immortal Cultivation.

The current concentration of spiritual Qi in Su Yu’s Sea-Suppressing Pearl is at Sixth-tier, corresponding to Profound Immortal Cultivation, which means the Sea Suppressing Realm can now accommodate at most one Profound Immortal cultivating inside, indicating that the potential of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl is also going to...

No, to be precise, the potential of the Sea-Suppressing Pearl should exceed Sixth-tier because the current Sea-Suppressing Pearl is not in its complete state.

Su Yu jumped into the Spirit Vein and spun around once; there was nothing but emptiness inside.

"Let’s go."

They continued on their journey, encountering super BOSSes dwelling on Spirit Veins from time to time, with varying strength, ranging from the weakest at only two hundred and twenty or thirty levels to the highest at two hundred and eighty-nine, with bodies extending tens of kilometers like plateaus.

After roaming for more than half a month and traveling over two million kilometers, they finally arrived in front of a giant artificial platform under the sea.

The platform had a diameter of over a hundred kilometers and a height of ten kilometers, carved from a single piece of mountain rock, with nine colossal stone pillars with diameters of over a thousand meters surrounding it. Atop this massive platform lay the True Dragon remains over thirty kilometers long, with a level of 294 and a legendary template.

The two of them and a dragon hovered in the air above the Teleportation Array, Su Yu’s gaze sweeping over the massive True Dragon and platform, as well as the surrounding dense remains of mystical beasts, especially the completely fractured dragon bones of the over thirty kilometers long True Dragon remains, showing a look of horror:

"The enemies actually pursued along the Teleportation Array?"

He seemed to think of something and turned to ask:

"Are these your parents?"

Ao Run shook his head:

"These are not my parents; they are the clan members guarding the Teleportation Array here for the Dragon Palace."

"Moreover, these mystical beasts were not the enemies; they were subordinates of this clan member, just killed by a remote strike from the enemy."

"Killed by a remote strike?"

Su Yu was utterly shocked:

"Even a Celestial Immortal can’t do this, right? At least a True Immortal would be required. Given the strength of the Dragon Race and the vast distance, even a True Immortal would find it difficult to accomplish this."

Su Yu looked at the gigantic ancient teleportation array and couldn’t help but smack his lips, asking:

"How long has it been since the Dragon Palace was destroyed?"

Ao Run recalled a bit and said:

"Seventeen years."

"Hmm, that long, are the enemies who destroyed the Qingcang Dragon Palace still around?"

"I don’t know."

Su Yu thought for a moment, reached out to open the Sea Suppressing Realm Gate, summoned the Vast Sea, and pointed at the enormous platform’s ancient teleportation array, asking:

"Do you have a way to activate this array?"

The Vast Sea, seeing such a massive array, immediately became interested, waved his sleeves to sweep the dragon remains aside, and continuously sent beams of light into the array. Soon, the thick patterns of the array began to light up.

After spending almost half an hour inspecting the ancient teleportation array, the Vast Sea nodded and said:

"The array still works, and I can activate it, but the spiritual power consumption is very high."

"However, I discovered the other end of the array seems unstable; there’s a chance of drifting into a space rift during teleportation."

"That’s probably because the array on the other end is damaged."

Su Yu pinched his chin, thought for a while, and said solemnly to Ao Run:

"No need to rush, our strength isn’t strong enough yet. Let’s wait a few more years; by then, we’ll be stronger, and the Vast Sea’s strength will have improved further, which should increase stability."

Ao Run nodded and said:

"Anyway, the Dragon Palace is already gone, it’s better to wait until we’re stronger to go."

"Alright, let’s go."

Su Yu marked the location on the map, then returned with Qingchan and Ao Run.

They changed direction and continued leveling up while heading back.

A year and two months later, Su Yu returned to Ten Thousand Poison Island after spending a few months under the sea and immediately convened an internal meeting of the guild executives to formulate a five-year development plan.

The plan had one purpose: from now on, the guild would start expanding.

Plan one: Starting now, whether it’s the main base on Ten Thousand Poison Island or the Endless Forest Branch, both will start expanding and recruiting, with a target of 1 million new recruits each year, ending with over 6 million guild members in five years.

Plan two: Invest resources to rapidly cultivate the guild’s loose immortal experts.

That’s right, Su Yu disliked recruiting outside loose immortals; their strength varied, and they often acted arrogantly.

Spending money to hire such people is not as good as cultivating their own people.

The inspiration gained from cultivating family members was used to select a group of elite veterans from the guild. After swearing a heart demon oath of loyalty to Su Yu, they could receive a standard resource package to enhance their strength.

This included a profound-level Five Elements Scripture, a Purple Mansion Immortal Spirit Fruit, a barrel of Jade Nectar, a large number of mid to low-level heavenly materials and earthly treasures to boost attributes, three Tier Seven Treasures, twenty Tier Six cannon fodder, and then two years of closed-door cultivation in the Sea Suppressing Realm to accumulate cultivation points and progress in their Dao Foundation.

Each session would be carefully cultivating 100-300 people per year.

To ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, Su Yu used the power of origin accumulated over the past two years on the Millennium Vermilion Fruit tree, evolving two new Purple Mansion Immortal Spirit Fruit trees in the same way.

After the meeting, Thousand Star Hall quietly expanded rapidly.

Having made the plan, Su Yu remained low-key, taking his wife to the underground world for frenzied leveling up.

A large number of high-level spirit monsters provided abundant cultivation points and progress, and numerous 200+ level bosses offered high-level prizes, occasionally yielding rare items with good luck. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Every half year of intense leveling would be followed by a visit back home, when a large number of guild members would cross tribulations.

Time flew by.

Two years later, the three Purple Mansion Immortal Spirit trees fully matured again, producing a total of 108 fruits, enough for 108 elite members to use.

After consuming the fruits, they each crossed their tribulations, with only 14 unlucky ones failing the second-tier heavenly tribulation, while the other 94 successfully passed, all reaching sixth-grade Dao Foundation, achieving the brink of mid-grade Dao Foundation.

Another three years passed, and the origin power that the Sea-Suppressing Pearl had gathered during these years was all used to advance the Millennium Vermilion Fruit, resulting in 9 Purple Mansion Immortal Spirit Fruit trees.

A total of 216 fruits from 6 trees produced 185 new loose immortals.

Along with the guild’s existing loose immortals, the first five-year plan concluded with over five hundred loose immortals in Thousand Star Hall.

Nearly half were guild members who successfully crossed tribulations on their own after accumulating enough, with a fairly high success rate because the guild offered benefits; all who crossed tribulations received a transcension gift pack, including a Tier Seven Treasure and ten Tier Six cannon fodder, plus numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures to enhance attributes.

Aside from the Purple Mansion Immortal Spirit Fruit and Jade Nectar, everything else was included.

Though not as successful as the carefully cultivated ones, they were definitely much stronger than ordinary loose cultivators, and even with a lower-grade Dao Foundation, they were still loose immortals, enjoying elevated status and treatment.

Notably, besides ordinary members crossing tribulations, many key guild members also crossed tribulations in these five years, including Gu Zhiqiu, Chu Xiaoyu, Shi Ning, Zhuang Zhuo, and Meng Chen, who all successfully passed their heavenly tribulations.

All achieved mid-grade Dao Foundation, with no one reaching high-grade.

The most deeply accumulated Gu Zhiqiu only reached fourth-grade Dao Foundation, and Chu Xiaoyu also achieved fourth grade, while the other brothers were fifth grade.

Besides Gu Zhiqiu feeling a bit regretful, the others were quite satisfied.

With the first five-year plan concluded, not only were many experts born, but the guild members also numbered over five million, slightly fewer than expected.

Then Su Yu convened another internal meeting to begin formulating a second five-year plan.

The second five-year plan no longer involved silent development; expansion could now begin.

The first step was to conquer all major guild powers within a 5 million kilometer radius center on Ten Thousand Poison Island, excluding Jinjiao Island.

The second step was to eliminate concerns for the surroundings and then start waging war against the two major guild alliances of the Feixing Islands. He aimed to challenge two at once, defeat these two guild alliances, and become the sole overlord of the Blue Mountain Archipelago in the entire East Sea.