Chapter 1490 - 1066: Sea God
Trapped Snake Island was as bustling as ever, but beneath this hubbub, there surged an unsettling undercurrent.
Business people are particularly sensitive to the state of affairs, especially those who can enter and exit Trapped Snake Island; they are not ordinary merchants. Backed by various major sect family forces, they realized a reshuffle would occur in the Wilderness World when the mass failure of Otherworld Teleportation Arrays, including the Ascension of the Black Tortoise, began.
However, no one expected the turmoil to come so quickly!
In Wanbao City, where the number of demon cultivators exceeds a million, due to a new regulation, nine out of the ten courtyards were put up for sale overnight. House prices, initially high, plummeted repeatedly, and many disregarded the great demon beasts roaming in broad daylight and promptly teleported away.
A major city that stands among the best takes many years of accumulation to build, yet its collapse is incredibly swift.
Many firms also began to mobilize their personnel; after all, it would be unwise to cling to a single tree. In case the Wilderness indeed descends into chaos, besides keeping branches here to assess whether to continue their operations, the core forces naturally need to root themselves in familiar Otherworlds in advance.
Thus, the cultivators applying to use the Otherworld Teleportation Array from the Demon Realm Alliance headquarters grew more numerous!
While Jiang Yuan was sitting and drinking tea, he encountered two groups of demon cultivators wanting to teleport to Xing’an Star, among which were three evil cultivators. Ha, guarding the only teleportation array, catching evil cultivators was just a side task?
The only trouble was being stretched too thin.
Although all eight avatars had been given work, system upgrades relied on Conch Island; "scanning" the teleportation array here also depended on the system, and he as the main body couldn’t be split into two.
This was just the beginning; in the future, more demon cultivators would leave from here.
If they were all checked, it meant being completely tied here, with other matters only squeezed in between; if not, evil cultivators could escape, taking a large amount of loot, which would be a loss for the Wilderness World!
"How about I ask City Lord Yuan to bring the Heart Mirror over to oversee the teleportation array?" After much consideration, Jiang Yuan discussed with Du Li: "The Mirror of Evil is with the Mist Dragon.
Firstly, his Qihan Mountain has a mixed crowd, and it’s vital to distinguish between good and bad;
Secondly, although the Mirror of Evil is excellent, it is somewhat too meticulous, requiring every incident to be shown before judging guilt. Those wishing to teleport away from the Wilderness are in a hurry, without the patience to wait that long.
Better use City Lord Yuan’s Heart Mirror here, concealing its effectiveness, and it’s fast. If anyone has a problem, just find an excuse to detain them without alerting others."
Du Li bowed, "Sir, your plan is comprehensive. However, that Heart Mirror, being a Divine Artifact, I didn’t understand well during the last loan; besides, there are too many demon cultivators teleporting away, and among them might be those harboring malicious intent.
Better directly invite City Lord Yuan over; let her manage the Heart Mirror and verify the incoming and outgoing cultivators, while staying here to prevent certain treacherous rascals from causing trouble."
"That’s good, since this is about oversight, I’ll ask around to see who at the small courtyard is free to come and have some tea."
Jiang Yuan sent out the message, and soon received a response.
Yuan Man came over with Little Rabbit Demon Feng Ling, and after setting up the Heart Mirror, she both oversaw operations and took the opportunity to teach Feng Ling cultivation techniques; Ling Di revealed its true form, proudly squatting in front of the teleportation array, its Tribulation Crossing Realm Great Demon Beast’s aura released, sternly watching the demon cultivators coming and going;
Gao Yi and other former Demon Realm Alliance members all returned to support the occasion, assisting in handling relocation procedures.
The news quickly disseminated; hearing that there were more than two senior Tribulation Crossing Realm experts overseeing, the ordinary demon cultivators genuinely wanting to relocate felt inexplicably reassured; yet those Commerce Association old foxes wanting to feign escape grew uncertain, for a while hesitating to come for departure registration.
Except when gathering hundreds of demon cultivators to go to the New World, or apprehending evil cultivators, Jiang Yuan needed to personally handle matters; he finally got rid of this big mass of chores.
Just after teleporting back to Conch Island, a new prompt flashed in his vision—
[Side Quest: Human Support Plan]
[Task 6: Find 100 suitable mortals for cultivation in the Human World, transmit Demon Suppression Scripture (100/100) completed. Reward: Acceleration Card +10 issued]
[Task 15: Find 200 suitable mortals for cultivation in the Human World, transmit Demon Suppression Scripture (19/200). Reward: Choose Your Own Gift Package +10]
"Truly my good disciple, Wan Mingchuan handles affairs indeed swiftly!" He examined carefully, thinking that his chief disciple had found a blissful spot in the Human World, teaching at least thirty or forty individuals at once.
Task 6, which had been hanging for a long time, was finally completed, and the rewarded acceleration cards came at a perfect time.
The accelerator couldn’t be used on the Celestial River Ship. We’ll see if the acceleration card would work.
If it couldn’t be used either, besides the rewarded building materials gift package, we’d better use the workshop’s acceleration to produce more seagull feed. Feeding sea gulls heavily might bring back a few special materials needed for quests.
Strolling to the nautical log table, Jiang Yuansheng first selected, then opened the storage bag to select the acceleration card.
It could indeed be used!
[Celestial River Ship sailing acceleration...]
Just heard a "Whizz!", he looked up to see the waves churn on the sea, ten Celestial River Ships like arrows from a bow racing into the port;
As soon as they docked, fully automated harvesting took the spoils in, and the ten Celestial River Ships "Whizz" followed the previously set routes out to sea again; in less than five seconds, "Whizz" they returned.
The benefit was that a variety of basic supplies and special materials went batch by batch into the warehouse; the downside was the quick wear on the Celestial River Ships, so he had to hurry and speed up the workshop, quickly repairing the damaged Celestial River Ships.