Everyone Has a Watch to Wear

It took less than half an hour, giving Lou Feng no chance to seize on anything and throw a tantrum. Ji Jue simply pushed open a door from Puna Bantu and arrived directly at New Spring's residence.

An Airship journey that would have taken more than a day was crossed in an instant. The convenience of the Sky Rail was absurdly overpowered—so long as a teleportation point had been unlocked on the map and a beacon set, distance was practically nonexistent.

Yet it differed from the Star Core Association's method of teleportation.

For a long time, the Star Core Association's impression on the outside world had consisted of nothing but being miserly money-grubbers and slacking off.

Both involved spatial teleportation, but to maximize cost-effectiveness and save the most effort, the Star Core Association's teleportation services usually relied on ley lines. Put simply, they treated ley lines as fiber-optic cables, saving more than ninety percent of the work needed for teleportation.

The drawback was that it could easily be restricted and countered. The advantage was the same.

So long as there were flaws, difficulties, and restrictions, it would forever be your good neighbor and good partner. Perhaps that was also the survival strategy they had adopted.

Indeed, Chosen Ones of the Eternal Gate were just too, too, too, too, too damn rare... One in ten thousand was nowhere near enough, and the training cycle was far, far, far too long. In the same amount of time, Chosen Ones with the same talent might ride the wind and waves on the paths of Ascension or the Waste Ruins, reaching Transcendence directly, while in the domains of the Eternal Gate, they might still be going in circles at the Metamorphosis Rank.

That was the Eternal Gate's inherent flaw.

Or rather, the Eternal Gate's