Chapter 3082: Exorbitant Teleportation Fees

Busan City, where the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations are located, is a ring-shaped structure formed by nine great halls linked together in a circle.

Precisely because of this, the ring-shaped building has nine entrances, which are at the same time the main doors of the nine great halls.

"These nine great halls are where Busan City’s All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations are situated... Inside each of these nine halls, there are nine All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations, each corresponding to a different heaven plane."

"Nine great halls, that makes eighty-one All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations, exactly corresponding to the eighty-one heavens, including our ’Spiritual Heaven’."

After stepping into the air from the plaza, Bruno Fortin looked at the ring-shaped building formed by the nine great halls behind the plaza and explained it to Wyatt Barnes.

Although Wyatt Barnes had arrived at Busan City more than ten months ago, he had never come over to this side, only moving about elsewhere.

"Including our Spiritual Heaven?"

Wyatt Barnes was taken aback. "This place is Spiritual Heaven... Setting up an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation here that transmits to Spiritual Heaven doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it?"

"Of course it makes sense."

Bruno Fortin said, "People who come to Busan City can use the Transportation Formation corresponding to Spiritual Heaven to choose to teleport to any place within Spiritual Heaven."

"Of course, just as I said before, it can only be precise down to a regional unit like the territory of Mystic Abyss Mansion within South Heaven’s Borderlands where we are now."

Bruno Fortin continued.

"So that means... the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations set up in the other sixth-grade Immortal Manors within South Heaven’s Borderlands can also teleport people into the territory of our Mystic Abyss Mansion?"

Wyatt Barnes’ eyes lit up.

"Naturally."

Bruno Fortin nodded. "But very few people do that... Even Immortal Sovereign experts rarely indulge in such extravagance."

"Besides, with the speed of an Immortal Sovereign, let alone going from one sixth-grade Immortal Manor to another within South Heaven’s Borderlands, even if they made a full circuit of the entire South Heaven’s Borderlands, setting foot in every corner, it wouldn’t take them very long."

Bruno Fortin said.

"Very few people do it? Extravagant?"

Wyatt Barnes was stunned again. "Using these All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations... costs a lot of Immortal Crystals?"

"Naturally."

Facing Wyatt Barnes’ question, Bruno Fortin timely cleared his doubts. "Every time an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation is activated, it consumes one hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals... Once you step into an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation, no matter which heaven plane you teleport to, no matter what destination, the Immortal Crystal consumption is the same."

"And that is only the basic consumption of the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation."

"In addition, every time an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation is activated, the guardian stationed by the power that laid the formation at the formation’s location will charge a fee from those who use it... Take Busan City’s All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations for example: the guardians of Mystic Abyss Mansion will charge each immortal who uses an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals, under the pretext of ’formation maintenance fees’."

Bruno Fortin finished in one breath.

As Bruno Fortin’s words fell, Wyatt Barnes was undoubtedly shocked.

"Each activation consumes one hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals? And on top of that, each person has to pay the guardians of Mystic Abyss Mansion ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals?"

"Doesn’t that mean... for each person who wants to use an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation, it costs a total of a hundred and ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals?"

Wyatt Barnes looked at Bruno Fortin, his face filled with astonishment.

He had known that using the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations for teleportation required paying a hefty price, but he hadn’t expected the price to be this enormous.

A hundred and ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals.

You have to know, a hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals is enough to buy a typical King Grade Immortal Artifact almost anywhere.

A hundred and ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals, in some major places, can even buy a pretty good offensive King Grade Immortal Artifact.

"That depends on how many people teleport together... If only one person is teleporting, naturally it costs a hundred and ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals, but if two people teleport together, averaged out, each person only needs to spend sixty thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals."

"Every activation of an All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formation, whether it teleports one person or two, consumes one hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals."

Bruno Fortin said.

"So what you mean is... the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations can also be used by two people at the same time, teleporting together?"

Wyatt Barnes’ eyes lit up.

If that was the case, it was indeed much more cost-effective.

A hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals, shared by two people, each paying fifty thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals.

In addition, each person has to give the power that laid the All-Heavens Plane Transportation Formations ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals, making a total of sixty thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals per person.

"Mm."

Bruno Fortin nodded.

"Then can three people use it together?"

Wyatt Barnes asked again.

If three people could use it together and teleport together, then the hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals would be split among three people, and each would only need to pay a bit over thirty thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals.

"Within the territory of Mystic Abyss Mansion, the multiverse teleportation arrays can take at most two people at a time... That’s because the array masters who set up the multiverse teleportation arrays in Mystic Abyss Mansion are limited in ability."

Bruno Fortin said, "In those larger regions, the array masters are generally more capable. The multiverse teleportation arrays they lay down can even be used by three people, four people, or even more at once, and every activation still costs a hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals."

Wyatt Barnes suddenly understood.

So the number of people a multiverse teleportation array can send at once is actually tied to the skill of the array master who sets it up.

At the same time, Wyatt Barnes recalled the three assassins from the Blood Skeleton Clan who had come before:

"Each teleportation costs a hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals... Those assassins from the Blood Skeleton Clan, although they can use the multiverse teleportation array to directly transfer into Mystic Abyss Mansion’s territory, definitely wouldn’t choose to do so, since the price is too steep."

"Setting aside that earlier First-Yuan Immortal King–level assassin and that Sixth-Hex Immortal King–level assassin... even that later Ninth-Palace Immortal King–level assassin probably wouldn’t be willing to spend that kind of cost to teleport directly into Mystic Abyss Mansion’s territory."

"Besides, with that Ninth-Palace Immortal King–level assassin’s speed, even if he travels here personally, it wouldn’t take him that long to reach the territory of Mystic Abyss Mansion."

A Ninth-Palace Immortal King, while extremely powerful, is also extremely fast.

Especially after having experienced the speed granted when the ’Wind Shadow Air-Evasion Talisman’ given by Sect Leader Liam Davidson of the Embracing Simplicity Immortal Sect was attached to him, Wyatt Barnes now had a new understanding of the speed of Immortal Sovereign–level experts.

In the past, although he had twice briefly possessed cultivation and Divine Sense comparable to an ordinary Immortal Sovereign by using a consumable Emperor Grade Immortal Artifact, his speed was far inferior to that of a true Immortal Sovereign, and even worse than that of some powerful Immortal Kings.

For example, that Ninth-Palace Immortal King assassin from the Blood Skeleton Clan—even if he temporarily had cultivation comparable to an ordinary Immortal Sovereign by relying on that consumable Emperor Grade Immortal Artifact, his speed still would not match the assassin’s.

For no other reason than this: the profundities he had comprehended in his Law Rule were far too lacking!

"Many people look for others to teleport with to a given multiverse plane, because that way they can share the hundred thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals transmission fee."

By the time Bruno Fortin finished speaking, he and Wyatt Barnes had arrived before one of the great halls within the ring-shaped complex.

"The multiverse teleportation array leading to Jade Emperor Heaven is inside this hall."

Landing from midair, Bruno Fortin looked at the grand hall ahead and spoke to Wyatt Barnes.

Wyatt Barnes nodded, while carefully sizing up the hall before him.

This hall was different from those splendid, gilded halls he had seen before. Its interior could even be described as rough, giving off a primitive, retro feeling.

As soon as one reached the hall entrance, one could see quite a few people standing outside. Whenever they spotted someone heading alone toward the hall, they would hurry up to strike up a conversation:

"Brother, are you heading to Cloud Heaven? If so, we can teleport together... we’ll land first wherever you want to go. How’s that sound?"

"Friend, where are you planning to teleport to? If you’re going to Black Mysterious Heaven, we can teleport together... as long as you’re willing to have us land first where I want to go, besides the ten thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals you’ll need to pay for yourself, you only need to pay another thirty thousand Top-grade Immortal Crystals. How about it?"

"Sir, are you heading to Dallas Hayden?"

...

When Wyatt Barnes and Bruno Fortin entered the hall, similar voices could still faintly be heard from outside at the hall entrance.

Of course, once they stepped inside, those voices became much softer.

And inside the hall, there was no sound of anyone trying to chat people up.

Clearly, such behavior was forbidden within the hall.

After entering the hall, Wyatt Barnes glanced around to his left and right, and immediately saw figures standing in each corner of the hall like spears planted upright.

Among these people were middle-aged men and old men, all wearing dark cyan long robes, with a cloud pattern embroidered on their chests, and the characters ’Mystic Abyss’ written atop the cloud.

Though they stood motionless, their heads occasionally turned left and right, sharp gazes sweeping across all parts of the hall.

"These people... are all from Mystic Abyss Mansion?"

Wyatt Barnes asked Bruno Fortin.

"Yes."

Bruno Fortin nodded. "In halls like this, there are usually around twenty people from Mystic Abyss Mansion... nine of them each oversee a multiverse teleportation array, responsible for receiving and sending people. The others are there to maintain order."

Wyatt Barnes understood and easily realized that the ten he had just noticed were the ones maintaining order in the hall.

"Outside, there are so many people trying to chat others up to form groups to teleport to some multiverse plane, but here, not a single person is doing that, all because of their presence... and of course, because of the rules here."

Bruno Fortin continued, "Once someone tries to chat people up inside the hall, they’ll be thrown out by Mystic Abyss Mansion’s people, and for a whole year they won’t be allowed to set foot here again... if they still want to teleport, they’ll have to go outside Busan City and use some other multiverse teleportation array."

His words, without question, further confirmed Wyatt Barnes’s guess.

Inside the hall, such solicitation behavior was indeed prohibited.