Chapter 179: The Teleportation Array

Feng Ke'er originally thought that constructing a teleportation array would not take much time.
Unexpectedly, she buried herself in painstaking work and spent a full twenty-three days to open the very first teleportation array connecting Qingqiu Peak to the outside world!
Moreover, the fact that she was able to finish it within twenty-three days was largely thanks to the spatial orb:
First, the spatial orb served as an extremely powerful laboratory. Many core technologies were tested and fine-tuned right inside it.
Second, the accelerated time flow drastically shortened the engineering time.
The contribution of the Master of Tongtian was also indelible. Because had she not comprehended a fraction of the third tier of the Heaven-Earth Great Shift technique passed down by the venerable elder—even with the inheritance of the *Supreme Heaven Canon*—Feng Ke'er could never have built a teleportation array that she herself considered near-perfect. Well, she admitted that she had a bit of a perfectionist streak deep down.
In fact, Feng Ke'er had spent only eleven days getting this teleportation array to work. However, after testing it back and forth about twenty times, she found the state of the array extremely unstable, frequently spitting sparks left and right. Furthermore, being inside the teleportation array was not much better than falling into a spinning washing machine.
Could a teleportation array really be like this?
Whenever she thought about Hu Li having to use this broken contraption to travel in and out in the future, she felt deeply uneasy and hurriedly searched her mind for relevant records in the *Supreme Heaven Canon*.
Who would have thought that during this search, she would accidentally discover that the incantation for the third tier of the Heaven-Earth Great Shift technique imparted by the Master of Tongtian had somehow been unsealed.
The Heaven-Earth Great Shift was an utterly marvelous treasure: the first tier was the Teleportation Art; the second tier was the Object-Moving Art.
What about this third tier?
The incantation for the third tier was extremely abstruse and difficult to understand, as well as quite tongue-twisting. After stumbling through it three times, Feng Ke'er finally deciphered its general meaning—it seemed that the third tier of the Heaven-Earth Great Shift was a secret method for creating spacetime tunnels!
In other words, once she thoroughly comprehended the cultivation method of the third tier's Heaven-Earth Great Shift, she could ignore the time restriction set by the primordial god Pangu and shuttle freely through the past and future? Roar-ho!
Just thinking about it made her so excited that she immediately drilled into the spatial orb, went into seclusion to study it, and completely forgot all about that teleportation array.
Unfortunately, the incantation for the third tier was too profound. She had no idea how much time passed, but Feng Ke'er still only understood it vaguely.
Having studied cultivation on her own for many years, she naturally knew the reason for this—her current realm was insufficient, preventing her from grasping the deeper meanings within. Thus, she had hit a bottleneck.
At this point, even if she sat herself to death inside the spatial orb, it would be of no use.
Therefore, putting it aside temporarily was her wisest choice.
"There will be plenty of time in the future," Feng Ke'er shook her head and sighed softly. Calculating the time, ten days had already passed outside.
Rubbing the center of her brow as she walked out of the spatial orb, she couldn't help freezing the moment she saw the teleportation array she had built earlier—was a spacetime tunnel not also a form of teleportation array? A teleportation array that connected different times and spaces!
It was just that the teleportation array before her eyes connected two different spatial layers within the same time stream, making it much simpler compared to a spacetime tunnel.
Thinking along these lines, when she looked at the teleportation array again, she spotted numerous flaws.
Just like that, correcting, patching, debugging... Two more days passed unconsciously, and Feng Ke'er was finally satisfied.
Meanwhile, Hu Li had also successfully completed the land-clearing task he had set for himself.
Without even pausing to rest, he hastily cast a dust-removal spell on himself and flew up to the mountain peak with a beaming face: "Master—"
Feng Ke'er happened to be looking for the first passenger for the teleportation array. Hearing his voice, without another word, she pushed him straight toward the teleportation entrance: "Step up and press your identity jade token right here."

Hu Li opened his mouth to refuse, but caught sight of her bloodshot eyes, which caused him to swallow all the words on the tip of his tongue. Submissively, he took out his identity jade token and, following instructions, pressed it against the top of a half-man-tall black stone pillar on his right.
In an instant, the apex of the black stone pillar emitted a blinding white light that made it impossible for him to keep his eyes open.
"Aah," Hu Li instinctively shielded his forehead with his hand while simultaneously stepping back to avoid it.
Who would have known that his foot would suddenly slip...
"Li—" Feng Ke'er reached out to steady him, but unfortunately it was too late. Of the word "Careful," she only managed to utter the first syllable. Hu Li's figure was swallowed entirely by the white light emitted by the teleportation pillar.
Oh, damn it all! Feng Ke'er only then came to her senses, realizing what a foolish thing she had just done—was there any need to be in such a rush? How much time could explaining a few precautions have possibly wasted?
That was a fox she had just pushed in, right?
She stroked her forehead and hurriedly teleported to the other end of the array. For she knew that this damn fox's pettiness could sometimes be no larger than a needle's eye.
Why bother teleporting? Wasn't there a ready-made teleportation array? Well, teleportation arrays actually had their limitations. First, they could only perform one teleportation task at a time. Once activated, both teleportation pillars would automatically lock down. Until the current teleportation task was completed, no new one could be initiated; second, they could carry a maximum of ten people at once.
Coming back to the matter at hand. Hu Li only felt a blur before his eyes, followed by a slip of his foot, and his entire body suddenly tipped backward. Amidst his daze, he heard his master's startled cry: "Li—"
It must have been "Careful," right? Heh, who would have thought his master could have such a flustered moment.
However, the speed of the teleportation array was truly fast. He had no control over his body whatsoever, feeling only that he was soaring away with a whoosh.
Uh-oh! Having never ridden a conveyor belt before, his heart leaped straight up into his throat.
Right at that moment, his waist tightened abruptly, and the next instant, he seemed to have fallen into a warm and soft embrace.
So fragrant. Even more fragrant than the cluster-daisies in Barrier Sea.
Beside his ears, the wind roared.
The fox couldn't help drifting into a trance, as if he had returned to Barrier Sea, drunkenly dozing among the cluster-daisies, listening to the wind whispering through the pine forest...
"Hu Li, are you alright?" Feng Ke'er looked suspiciously at the person in her arms. Could he really be this dizzy? She had tested it no less than ten times; the improved teleportation array was clearly very stable, and its comfort level was comparable to a modern elevator. Of course, the speeds of the two were worlds apart.
The pine-wave forest vanished.
The cluster-daisies flapped their wings and flew away.
Hu Li opened his eyes, his focus landing upon his master's peach-blossom face. He froze briefly, but quickly let out a startled cry of "Ah" and bolted backward like a frightened beast for a dozen paces.
"Where is this? Where?" He looked around awkwardly.
Feng Ke'er walked over to the black teleportation pillar, retrieved Hu Li's identity jade token, and laughed out loud: "Don't worry, you're still in Central Spirit Continent. Fox, my teleportation array is finished!"
"Congratulations, Master!" Hu Li cupped his hands repeatedly, offering lavish and loud congratulations.
"Well? Fast enough, isn't it?" Feng Ke'er tossed the identity jade token back to him.
"Fast. Too fast, it was practically in the blink of an eye." Hu Li performed a graceful acrobatic catch, gripping it with both hands. "Mhm, I want to ride it again." With that, he dashed toward the stone pillar like a whirlwind, pressed his identity token against the top of the pillar, and activated the conveyor.
A flash of white light, and he vanished without a trace.

"Hey..." Feng Ke'er originally wanted to stop him, but upon second thought, she held back—with her sharp vision, how could she possibly have missed this fellow's awkwardness!
Lowering her head to look at her own two arms, she couldn't help shaking her head with a self-deprecating chuckle: Heaven could bear witness that she truly hadn't meant to take advantage of him.
Back then, she had just rushed over to this side of the teleportation exit, catching the exact moment when a flash of white light spat out a silvery figure. She hadn't overthought it at all and had simply lunged forward to catch him.
She had only wrapped her arm around his waist, after all.
This wasn't feudal society; men and women of this era were entirely bold and uninhibited, knowing nothing of such boundaries as "keeping males and females apart"... Ah, pfft, what was she thinking? He was clearly a nine-tailed silver fox! He wasn't even human, so what boundaries was there to keep?
Feng Ke'er shook her head vigorously: Mhm, it must have been because she hadn't slept for several days that her mind was full of such random nonsense.
The mere mention of the word "sleep" brought a wave of exhaustion washing over her. Yawning continuously, she teleported back to the mountain peak.
As a result, the moment she planted her feet, Feng Ke'er was nearly struck squarely by a flurry of flying rock fragments. With a flick of her flowing sleeve, she batted them all away, and when she looked closely, she saw Hu Li wielding his twin Heaven-Piercing Claws, furiously digging into the eastern rock wall.
Rock chips flew like a floral shower, and within moments, he had gouged a massive cave out of the rock face.
"Fox, what on earth are you doing?" Her sleepiness instantly vanished by more than half. Feng Ke'er leaped up onto the rock wall, looking down from above at the humanoid gopher. He had only been hugged around the waist, and she hadn't done it on purpose. There was no need for him to go crazy, was there?
Hu Li raised his sweat-slicked jade face—no, muddy monkey face—and smiled, saying: "I saw that Master's eyes were full of bloodshot veins; you must not have closed your eyes at all because of this teleportation array. It was also my negligence—the wind on the mountain is strong and it's no place to sleep. How can we manage without a cave dwelling? Master, wait just a moment, the dwelling will be dug out very soon." With that, he swung his arms again, his limbs spinning like wheels as he furiously resumed digging.
Digging a cave dwelling! Feng Ke'er's eyelids twitched violently: "Fox, you're an immortal already, why are you still digging with your claws?" Those Heaven-Piercing Claws of yours are your natal immortal treasure, aren't they? Using a pair of lower-grade immortal artifacts to dig out a cave dwelling? A single grand handprint could have solved the matter; was all this really necessary? Fortunately, the outer perimeter of our Qingqiu Peak is wrapped in three layers of barriers and ten layers of restrictions. Otherwise, if word got out, it would make people laugh their heads off.
Hu Li didn't even lift an eyelid. While digging away with a huff and a puff, he replied: "Cave dwellings opened up with magical power—how could they ever be as comfortable as one dug out by hand?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Ke'er turned into a statue.
Hu Li hadn't spoken idly. A cave dwelling dug out by hand truly was comfortable. When Feng Ke'er woke up, it was already noon of the following day.
She rolled over to sit up, looking around the spacious and comfortable new cave dwelling. After a long moment, she began vigorously rubbing her cheeks while muttering to herself: "No, no, I must have misunderstood... He's clearly a fox. A fox is a fox. Even after taking human form, he's still a fox. Mhm, I'm his master, and he's my natal guardian beast, which is why he's trying to please me as his master. That's right, it must be that!"
Leaping off the stone couch, she walked straight out of the cave dwelling.
She had to admit that the spot Hu Li had chosen for this cave dwelling was excellent. This was the highest point of Qingqiu Peak. Standing on the clearing in front of the cave, the entire situation of the peak was visible at a glance.
Oh, what were those? Feng Ke'er narrowed her eyes and looked down the mountain: the small patch of mixed woods at the foot of the mountain had vanished, replaced by two large, flat, and spacious spiritual fields.
Meanwhile, that group of red-haired, long-tailed monkeys, wearing various skirts made of tree bark and straw around their waists, were working orderly within the fields. If one ignored their high-swishing long tails, viewed from afar, they were no different from working farmers.
In the middle of the two spiritual fields stood a large blue boulder, upon which stood a slender silver figure. That was Hu Li.
As if sensing her gaze, he raised his head, looked far up toward the mountain peak, and flashed a wide grin.
Under the sunlight, those two rows of snow-white, neat teeth gleamed brightly. Feng Ke'er blinked her eyes and turned back into the cave dwelling. Ah, the pills she had promised to refine for him hadn't been refined yet. Tomorrow would mark the end of the one-month period... Sigh, she had better get to alchemy first.