Space and time shifted.
When Li Ze appeared beside King Yuchi again, they were already standing on a small asteroid several kilometers wide outside Yulan Continent.
"Li Ze, Miaohe Secret Realm lies outside Human Territory, very far from the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield. Even an F-class spaceship would take nearly fifty years to reach it. So I'll take you there by Divine Kingdom Teleportation."
Thinking Li Ze might not know what Divine Kingdom Teleportation was, King Yuchi explained it to him.
"When you traveled from Lanlong Star to the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield, you used Divine Kingdom Teleportation. The Teleportation Channel you entered connected a Divine Kingdom to the outside world."
"But the channel between Lanlong Star and the Outer Domain Battlefield is permanent. The farther apart its endpoints are, the more it costs to build. Even a short-range permanent channel costs tens of thousands of Hun Yuan units! A long-range one might cost millions, or even tens of millions. Only the universe's great powers can afford them."
"Those permanent channels let people cross distances of hundreds of millions of light-years—or farther—in an instant."
"Besides building permanent channels," King Yuchi said with a smile at the attentive Li Ze, "a Divine Kingdom can also perform a one-time teleportation!"
"If you leave a Divine Power Token somewhere in the universe to serve as a coordinate, you can open a Teleportation Channel from within your Divine Kingdom and travel there once."
"That costs less. But... you have to open a new channel every time, and the cost varies with the distance."
"One Divine Kingdom Teleportation from the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield to Miaohe Secret Realm, where your grandmaster lives, costs four hundred Hun Yuan units."
King Yuchi's mouth twitched. Things were better now that he had become a King-level Immortal, but in