Before long, the enormous cross-planar teleportation array in the center of the plaza lit up with dazzling radiance.
Anita, together with the other graduates who shared her fate, stepped onto the teleportation array with complicated emotions and heavy footsteps.
The light swallowed their figures, taking with it everything they had left at the Academy, whether glory or regret.
Benjamin watched expressionlessly as the light of the teleportation array gradually dimmed until it vanished completely.
He neither sighed nor offered any judgment. He simply turned around calmly, transformed into a streak of light, and returned directly to the core laboratory of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
Some roads, once chosen, had to be walked alone.
Some prices could only be borne alone as well.
Upon returning to the laboratory, he first inspected the large Alchemy array that had been continuously operating for several years.
At the center of the array, the mass of originally dark-red red gold had undergone repeated tempering and purification. It had now become an incomparably pure aggregate of immortal concepts, like flowing crimson clouds at sunset.
Benjamin could feel the profound and warm aura emanating from that mass of rosy light merely by drawing slightly closer.
"The progress is good. In another two years, it will be completely finished." Benjamin nodded in satisfaction, full of anticipation for the final result.
Two years passed in a flash amid focused waiting and research.
When the array finally ceased operating and the crimson glow at its center stabilized, emanating flawless and consummate Dao Rhyme, Benjamin knew the time had come.
He carefully wrapped it in his spiritual power and closely examined this pure immortal concept, refined through a vast amount of gold and countless painstaking efforts.
After confirming that its quality was flawless, he separated roughly two-thirds of it and cautiously