The Teleportation Array within Bozhou Prefectural City was among the oldest batch of Ancient Teleportation Arrays. The nearest arrays were roughly ten days' travel away, and Bozhou's Ancient Teleportation Array occupied a crucial intermediate node.
Thus, tens of thousands of martial artists passed through Bozhou City's Ancient Teleportation Array every day. At times, they even had to queue for one or two shichen before they could teleport.
The congestion caused by Bozhou's Ancient Teleportation Array having been shut down for two and a half days had yet to ease.
Yet just as countless martial artists, especially merchant caravans, were growing frantic enough to breathe fire, the Bozhou captain guarding the Ancient Teleportation Array suddenly raised a command talisman and shouted.
"By urgent order of the Prefectural Governor, the grand Teleportation Array is to be closed immediately! By urgent order of the Prefectural Governor, the grand Teleportation Array is to be closed immediately!"
In an instant, the three thousand merchants and martial artists who had just entered the grand Teleportation Array to await teleportation were driven out by the county soldiers on guard.
Light flashed, and less than two days after it had been unsealed, Bozhou's Ancient Teleportation Array was shut down once more.
This drove the merchants and martial artists expelled from the Teleportation Array, as well as those still waiting in line, into a towering rage.
The merchants with even a little backing in particular immediately began roaring.
"Closing the grand Teleportation Array again? Does Bozhou's Prefectural Governor still want his post? Believe it or not, once I return, I'll have my Duke submit a memorial impeaching him!"
"What is the meaning of this? Are you treating us like monkeys? We finally queued for half the day, we were just about to reach the front, and now it's closed