Chapter 215: Preparing The Arrays - 215
Before any of the beasts could react to the sudden appearance of the stone stele, a figure appeared in front of it as if he had teleported.
He seemed to have the figure of a human or a humanoid creature. However, his race was unable to be determined as he was covered in black cloth that did not expose a single inch of his skin.
The humanoid creature reached out what seemed to be a hand and rubbed the stele as he appeared to read the contents.
By now, the beasts in the room had all comprehended what had happened, but none had spoken or even moved.
Although he had never been seen before, his aura was undeniably there. The man in front of the stele was the mysterious being that created the city.
The entire room was so silent that a single breath would seem like a loud roar. Only the sound of the humanoid beings hand rubbing against the stone stele was heard.
"Yes. Yes I see. So that's what I was missing." The man said to himself.
He was speaking in the beast's universal language, or english, in a dry voice that gave off a sinister feeling.
He had been learning the art of arrays through personal testing and had worked on an array that could teleport through space. He was nearly finished with it, but he was missing a few more parts.
Unfortunately, he was struggling immensely to understand those remaining parts. While success was almost guaranteed, the time it had taken him was annoying him.
Luckily, the answer literally fell from the sky.
"It's slightly different from mine, and it probably works much better as well." The man continued. "And these must be coordinates. It appears we will be busy for the next few days." The man said. The last sentence was said with the intention of talking to the beasts within the room.
Only once he finished looking at the stone stele did he turn around and directly address the leaders of the beast races.
"I will not force you to collaborate with me as I am sure I can do anything myself, but if you are interested in the exploration of a new area, perhaps a new world, then you will meet me 50 miles west of here in two days." The man, or beast, said before disappearing into the shadows below him as if he was ink.
A minute after he left, the beasts let out a breath. They all needed to think seriously about the man's words. If what he said was true, then the beast world would undergo huge changes and those that didn't participate would be left in the dust.
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Two days later, both Tian Ren and the mysterious man had finished setting up the arrays. Their speeds were eerily similar to each other.
As he had some insider information, Tian Ren brought a bunch of materials in order to build more teleportation arrays once they got to the worlds. Before exploring, their first goal would be to set up teleportation arrays linking every other one of the first ten planets together. They would continue to do so as they went to further planets.
Although it may be possible for a void traversing cultivator to set up a teleportation array, it would be very difficult and time consuming, and the finished product would be very inferior.
Therefore, Tian Ren, the sole space shattering cultivator of the heavenborns, needed to set up every single array. A simple calculation let him know that 99 arrays needed to be built before he was finished. 90 leading to other planets, and 9 leading back to the heaven world.
He simply sighed and teleported to the first world with a legion of soul formation heavenborns.
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On the beast world, the mysterious man stood on top of a hill as he stared at the army of beasts in front of him.
As he had expected, each and every single race had sent at least a hundred beasts. The most powerful races had sent tens of thousands.
"While I must say I appreciate your enthusiasm, we do not have an infinite number of spatial stones." The man said.
His words were said lightly, but they reached the ears of every single person there.
"Until we find more space stone mines, we will need to limit the number of people using the teleportation arrays. The only people entering will be me and the beasts at the soul formation realm and above."
"Those of you that fit that description can come inside and have a talk with me." He said as he turned around and walked into a building he had built over the last two days.
It housed every single teleportation array he had created. The building was square as if it was a warehouse and two floors tall. The only material it was made out of was high grade iron.
As he finally entered, around a thousand people stepped out from the ranks of the beast armies. Although there were more soul formation and above beasts, some had to stay behind to defend their territories.
Luckily for their peace of mind, the leaders of each of the beast races had made a temporary agreement that would stop the leaders from attacking other races' bases.
The main way that was done was by sending the leader of each race with the mysterious man.
As the near thousand beasts walked through the doors, they were greeted by a large, empty, white room with only two doors and a platform halfway up the far wall.
On that platform stood the mysterious man.
"20 void traversing cultivators. Very good." He said as he took in their numbers.
"The first thing we will do is send in a test subject to see exactly what is on the other side of these teleportation arrays, although I do have a fairly good idea as to what that is." The man spoke.
The beasts tensed up, worrying that they would be chosen, but the man raised his hand and continued.
"I have already gathered my test subjects. Come out children." He said loudly.
From each of the two doors, five young beasts came in, totaling ten. Disgustingly enough, each of the children were spiders.
Chapter 216: Exploration of the New Worlds - 216
Despite seeing many different races throughout their entire lives, the spider race was by far one of the few stuck in the beasts memory.
They were known for their cruel and downright disgusting methods. Examples were using corpses as incubation grounds, eating their own children, and generally depriving any area they were in of any sort of clean feeling.
A thousand years ago, the spider race was jointly exiled from the main area of any part of the beast world and pushed to a dangerous and desolate area by a combined army of many races.
That was how much the spider race was hated.
However, despite everything, the mysterious man called members of the spider race children.
While they knew that there was a 0% chance he was a member of the spider race as the spider race gave off an instinctively disgusting feeling, they still felt less reverence for the mysterious man after seeing him so affectionate with spiders.
As the beasts watched in silence, the mysterious man put his hand on the wall behind him and the wall, as well as the balcony, disappeared.
The mysterious man remained floating in the air before slowly lowering himself down. He then proceeded to walk forward.
In front of him were ten blue colored arrays with so many intricacies that it gave most of the beasts a slight headache.
Without words being shared, the ten spiders walked onto different arrays and stood still in the center.
"This will be the first demonstration of the teleportation arrays." He said as he sent a bit of Qi into the arrays.
They shone a space-like blue and the spiders disappeared in an instant. Turning back around, the mysterious man continued to speak.
"When they come back, they will inform us of what is on the other side. That way, the risk will be minimized."
Although the arrays couldn't be built by anybody, they could be activated by anyone above the nascent soul realm with permission of the owner. They could also simply overpower the owners Qi in the array, but in this instance it was naturally impossible.
After a minute passed, the arrays once again shone. The spiders once again appeared.
They didn't speak, but they seemed to have the ability to telepathically communicate with the mysterious man.
"Alright then, you ten are free to go." He said as he turned around once more, facing the beasts.
"As expected, an entirely new world, or should I say worlds, are on the other side." He stated.
For the first time since the spiders walked in, the beasts reacted. They remained silent, but the interest on their faces was obvious.
"Only the ten strongest will come with me into the first array. I will build nine arrays there and we will come back afterwards. As for the rest of you, enjoy the rooms in the building. I expect you all to stay here until business is finished." He said.
Soon, the ten strongest people were picked out. Each of them were in the void traversing realm.
A lion, a tiger, a bear, a shark, a whale, a dolphin, and four large birds of different colors. The weakest was in the 5th level of the void traversing realm, while the strongest were at the 9th level.
They entered the array and disappeared with a glow. As they were gone, the remaining people awkwardly stood around.
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In around 2 days, Tian Ren had finished setting up the nine arrays he needed to set up. Although all of them were nonfunctional as he had yet to build other arrays to connect them to, the first part was finished.
WIthout resting a moment, Tian Ren brought the heavenborns that had built a structure around the arrays while he was creating them and headed back to the heavenborn world.
On the other side of the galaxy, the beasts had just finished up the building around the arrays and the mysterious man had just finished up with the last array.
"You may be feeling some sort of fatigue, although I doubt it, but we must keep going until the starting process is done. I have an eerie feeling that we aren't the only ones exploring new worlds." The mysterious man said before he brought the beasts back through the teleportation array.
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After 17 days, a day shorter than predicted due to the increased mastery of spatial arrays, both planets had finished putting arrays on the ten planets.
The next part was likely to be much more time consuming. They would have to spend a long time exploring the planet to continue forward.
The planet's sizes were no joke.
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It took an entire three thousand years for the heavenborns to finish taking over the first ten planets. In that time much had changed, but the ambition to explore had never died down.
From the heaven world, more than the heavenborns began exploring and taking over land.
With a couple of treaties and agreements of peace, the beasts and supreme beasts of the heaven world had explored the worlds separately but on peaceful terms.
As for the beast world, similar changes had taken place. The supreme beasts that usually secluded themselves from the world as they belonged to no race had gotten wind of the other planets.
Despite having the title of supreme in front of their names, the supreme beasts could only be said to be inferior to the current beasts.
When their order of giving up the arrays didn't scare the beasts of the city away, they formed a very temporary alliance and charged in through the front gate.
They made it about a thousand feet into the city before an array activated and an unknown creature in black cloth appeared in the sky.
In an instant, a darkness seemed to envelop everything. A minute later, the darkness was removed, allowing anyone to see, and the supreme beasts had disappeared.
A couple years later, an alliance that seemed to be one member short and limping came back, negotiating a peace treaty in order to explore the new worlds.
Still wary of the feeling he had, the mysterious man agreed.
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