Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 658: Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation

However, today her attention wasn't on such matters. She was genuinely curious about what the ultra-long-distance teleportation array Tang San had been working on was like. Since most of her abilities centered around controlling space, nothing intrigued her more.

Tang San's guidance regarding the mysteries of space was completely different from what the Peacock Great Demon King had taught her. It was not that the latter’s teachings were useless, but Tang San offered her a different perspective on a higher level, involving laws and concepts of the whole cosmos.

The two of them walked deeper into the cave, and due to the dim lighting, Mei Gongzi could only vaguely see dark golden patterns on the ground.

"Once we start, you must follow my instructions to the letter. I'll guide you in controlling the array. Throughout the process, you must keep your mind steady and avoid any intense mental fluctuations; otherwise, you’ll impact the teleportation."

"Where are we teleporting to?"

Tang San showed her a point on a map. "This will be the first target, somewhere near Black Dragon City. I can’t pinpoint the exact place, but this is more or less the general area. Once we get there, we'll set up a relay station, which will allow for accurate teleportation in the future. After that, we'll teleport to the Ancestral Court."

"Alright." Mei Gongzi didn't ask further; she knew experiencing it firsthand would be more effective than asking questions.

Tang San asked, "Are you ready? I'm about to start."

"Ready," Mei Gongzi nodded, retracting her divine consciousness and bloodline aura, fully attuning herself to the surrounding spatial fluctuations.

Tang San raised his right hand, and with a flash of light in his palm, a mass of rainbow-colored flames suddenly flared up, swirling into a vortex. The air instantly became scorching hot, but under Tang San's control, most of the heat was contained within the vortex.

The Rainbow Skyfire Liquid had the power to incinerate anything; its temperature was nothing short of a burning star, yet Tang San kept it under control. Within the vortex of Rainbow Skyfire Liquid, a faint golden light began to appear.

As soon as that light emerged, Mei Gongzi felt as though everything around her had become illusionary, and the surroundings started to distort. The dark golden patterns on the ground suddenly lit up.

Only now could she truly see how intricate those dark golden patterns were. The light revealed a massive array over thirty meters in diameter and with a structure so complex it gave Mei Gongzi a headache.

It wasn’t just the complexity of the array; the surrounding light was so distorted that even now, Mei Gongzi couldn't fully make out what anything around her was. She had a very peculiar sensation from the space energy around her—it seemed that the surrounding space was slowly being compressed. Massive space energy was converging here, and space was being folded into multiple layers that seemed to fuse with each other in a very peculiar way.

As the array grew brighter, Mei Gongzi felt the space around her starting to vibrate..

"This is what I call spatial vibration. See, you may call this a teleportation array, but it’s more of an actual leap through space. It's similar in terms of ultimate effect to the teleportation ability of the Peacock Demon bloodline, but that one can only occur within the range of vision or the area covered by spiritual power or divine consciousness; in other words, it has to be either a well-known fixed position or a position within the limits of direct perception.

"By contrast, the core principle of this array is resonant frequency. By making space vibrate, we can cause a special kind of spatial fracture, and the forces involved will effectively fling us through it to a much farther location. Since this is our first teleportation and we don't have a corresponding anchor point on the other side, I can only send us in a direction and estimate the destination based on the amount of energy used.

"Now, when the process begins, use your divine consciousness to protect us and merge with the surrounding space as much as possible. During the leap, focus your divine consciousness inward; don’t try to sense the outside too much, just wrap it around our bodies. Of course, before that, we'll inject our spatial power together. Channel your space-attribute bloodline power into the Spacetime Beacon, and I'll control it."

Mei Gongzi listened carefully to every word he said. As a god-level space manipulator, she had always thought that her understanding of space—or rather, the Peacock Demon clan's understanding of space—was at the highest level on this plane. That was not technically wrong, but ever since receiving Tang San's guidance, she realized how far she still was from truly grasping the essence of space.

A faint silver glow appeared as her bloodline power was activated, and the platinum Peacock Crown reappeared on Mei Gongzi's forehead. The space energy around her naturally flowed toward her, gathering like rivers converging into the sea, toward the Spacetime Beacon in Tang San's hand.

After two months of steady cultivation, Mei Gongzi saw that her cultivation level was rising, and at an incredibly fast pace. She now understood the importance of the tribulation that Tang San had mentioned. The baptism of the tribulation had not only let her break through, but also cleansed her body and mind from within. She had undergone a dramatic transformation in her most fundamental aspects; she was more attuned to the world, yet at the same time above it. She was one of the very, very few true masters of this world—the Avatar of Space, one of the most beloved children of the plane.

So when Mei Gongzi infused her bloodline power into the array, the activation speed of the entire array instantly increased significantly.

Tang San no longer needed to infuse much of his own power; he simply controlled the Spacetime Beacon carefully.

As the amount of Rainbow Skyfire Liquid increased, the refinement of the Spacetime Beacon also went faster. Of course, this level of refinement could not elevate the Spacetime Beacon to the level of a transcendent divine item. That would require Tang San's spiritual power to fully transform into divine consciousness and then slowly nurture the Spacetime Beacon. It would take a long, long time.

Even so, the Spacetime Beacon could already be considered a divine item, and a powerful one at that.

The silver radiance formed a semicircular light shield, enveloping the entire array and illuminating everything around it. The space energy fluctuations were incredibly powerful, yet they were limited to the confines of the light shield.

For Tang San, a simple teleportation array was a trivial matter. He had created plenty of them. But he needed more than just a basic teleportation; he needed to ensure that the array remained stable and usable over the long term, making concealment particularly important.

This was especially the case in the Ancestral Court—as proven last time, any and all Emperors would immediately detect a sudden and intense spatial fluctuation. There would be no hiding at all, and the location of the teleportation array would be discovered immediately, rendering it unusable for future attempts.

Therefore, one of the main challenges Tang San faced in his research was concealing the array.

And he had indeed found a way. He used the Spacetime Beacon to distort both space and time around them, forming a twisted spacetime that isolated the massive spatial fluctuations within. When the teleportation occurred, the energy used to cause these distortions would become part of the spatial resonance. The time lag would mask the spatial disturbance until it disappeared, making the teleportation impossible to detect until it was already done. And unless an Emperor happened to be nearby at that exact moment, it would also be nearly impossible for anyone to sense where the teleportation had taken place.

"Be careful," Tang San warned her again. The next moment, a faint golden aura flowed out from the Spacetime Beacon in his hand. As this golden aura emerged, Tang San visibly began to struggle to move, and the surrounding air seemed to grow thick and viscous.

Even though they were only a short distance apart, Mei Gongzi could no longer see Tang San clearly.