The finest teleportation arrays in the Immortal Realm could at most span two immortal continents; they were incapable of transporting anyone across worlds.
These ten gates, built at immense cost in manpower and resources by the sect in imitation of the immortal artifact Ghost Gate Pass, were not merely hollow imitations. They could borrow a trace of Ghost Gate Pass's divine mystery, serving as portals between worlds to connect the Immortal Realm with the other nine lower realms, facilitating the movement of Crimson Flame Sect personnel and supplies!
Of course, every activation of a gate between worlds required vast resources, sacrificed to the gate spirit to make up for the depletion of her true body.
They could be Spirit Stones of any grade, gold and stone ores, heavenly treasures, or the flesh and corpses of demons and fiends—anything rich in spiritual energy would do. But the expense was enormous, nearly over a hundred times that of a top-tier teleportation array. That was why Shen Mo had captured the countless living beings of Bliss Island and thrown them onto Five Dragon Mountain to mine; otherwise, he simply could not afford such an expenditure!
Yet to Shen Mo, no price was too great.
Without these ten imitation gates, his plan could never have been smoothly carried out from the very beginning...
He was now a Formless True Lord. Without relying on the Forbidden Land, he could bring his disciples down to the lower realms through the method of descent. But the nine neighboring worlds he had chosen lay extraordinarily far from the Immortal Realm. A single round trip might take decades!
That was under the condition of employing wondrous methods to traverse between worlds through the unseen. If they directly flew beyond the nine heavens of the Immortal Realm and traveled through