The Teleportation Array

The principle of special training is "fixed anchor point" and then fixed-point teleportation.

Previously, Calodi was able to use teleportation arrays to connect various rooms in the dark, which can be considered a manifestation of fixed-point teleportation arrays. Therefore, Yu Xing seized upon this experience and started training from the simplest methods.

Of course, even the simplest things are difficult for Calodi. It took Calodi two days to complete the task of locating the kitchen with charcoal.

He used charcoal as the core of the array and drew a very large magic circle on the ground. The pattern was particularly complicated, and it was obvious that there were a lot of redundant elements. Since it was an experiment, he had not yet thought about simplifying it.

Even so, it failed five or six times.

During this time, Calodi's spirits visibly weakened. Drawing any array would consume his mental energy, let alone such complex lines. Fortunately, every time he was about to faint, Yu Xing would use the power of the curse to help him regain his vitality.

This process, when described, is actually quite bizarre.

Calodi himself felt a mixture of pain and pleasure. Only he himself knew how painful it was to have his mental energy depleted. When Yu Xing's curse power wrapped around him like spider silk, his mental energy would gush out from the spring like a clear spring, replenishing it.

However, the replenished spiritual energy carried with it a feeling of coldness and death.

Calodi knew that this was probably a characteristic of "Yuri's " power; perhaps Yuri's specialty was causing death?

He could feel that, in the alternation of depletion and abundance, his mental strength was not only becoming more and more resilient, but also expanding in scope, enough to match the progress he had made while trapped in the hotel for several years.

The side effect is that his emotions become very negative, with a faint sense of death mixed with despair, pain, and sorrow, making him feel like he's going to become depressed.

The next night, Calodi had a dream in which he was in a dark abyss. He looked up and saw light, and wanted to walk toward the light, but was horrified to find that he could not move at all.

Streams of foul-smelling, sticky blood flowed through his veins and into his heart. Only then did he belatedly lower his head and realize that he was a tree, his feet—his roots—deeply embedded in the rotting soil, inextricably linked to the filth around him.

After Calodi was startled awake, he suspected that the dream meant something, so he told Yu Xing about the dream's contents.

Yu Xing was able to figure out what was going on. The curse power from the Ghost Tree was too strong. He used it to help Calodi train his mental power, so naturally a kind of pollution would be transmitted through his mind.

Fortunately, his control over the power of the curse is now several times better than before, and he has a way to remove this contamination from Calodi's mental energy.

Yu Xing spent another day meticulously extracting all the contamination from Calodi's mental energy back into his own body. He then discovered the pattern, and for the next month, his and Calodi's special training focused on this.

He kept changing the items connected to a certain place, making Calodi try to build a teleportation array. Every two days of trying, he would take a day off to remove the contamination.

Such high-intensity training isn't always available. Aside from eating and sleeping, Calodi can also go shopping outside the hotel—as long as he can complete the teleportation array for a certain item within two days.

Yu Xing knew that this matter couldn't be rushed, so in his spare time while training Calodi, he would go out and explore, getting to know the small city where the hotel was located.

The city has an unremarkable name, which is transliterated as Dral. It is under the rule of a country called Fida in this world. In general, it is somewhat similar to England in the real world, but it is more open.

The church of the Goddess of Thought that he saw last time was not the only deity worshipped in this city. In Dral alone, there are three churches dedicated to three different gods.

But overall, the Goddess of Thought has the largest number of believers.

Regardless of which god it is, their followers, apart from their unwavering faith, are no different from normal people. At least during the month that Yu Xing was in, no serious incidents related to faith occurred.

After spending time with the town, Yu Xing found it to be quite a livable place.

Another two weeks later, Calodi successfully located Dead Silent Island by the lingering scent on the hotel door.

That's why people with spatial powers are so few and precious; this is almost something only a system could do... inter-world teleportation.

Of course, location is one thing, but being able to actually teleport is another. After Calodi located the Dead Silent Island, he designed a magic circle to simplify the patterns and maintain stability. If the patterns were still as complex and redundant as before, and the teleportation circle could be activated once, Calodi would be drained dry.

Literally, to absorb.

Spiritual energy depleted, life force drained, turning from a living person into a flat, dried-up mass.

This process will take about half a month.

Yu Xing has been in the world where the hotel is located for two months.

The longer he had time, the less anxious he became, because he hadn't properly processed and adapted to the curse of the Ghost Tree he had absorbed from the ground. It was like having ingredients but not knowing how to make a delicious dish; even though he knew what he could do, he was still too inexperienced.

During these two months, Yu Xing finally had time to hone her abilities, completely mastering the power of the curse without any superficiality.

To the others in the hotel, his appearance had changed as the curse had settled.

Yu Xing, who was already over 1.8 meters tall, grew a little taller, breaking his record of not having changed in appearance for many years. His muscles became more toned, and his facial features became more defined.

For a while, his eyes felt a faint stinging sensation. After a few days of this, one morning when Yu Xing got up and looked in the mirror, he suddenly discovered that his pupils had turned a deep blue, with a faint tinge of transparent white, like a layer of ice on a deep blue lake.

The instant he saw this layer of "ice," Yu Xing also saw a chaotic fragment of images. Familiar faces flashed by almost instantly, disappearing without a trace before he could even make out what they were.

But he recognized them; they were all his teammates in the video... Was what had just happened some kind of prophecy?

Or is it a kind of perception that transcends time and space?

Without a doubt, his eyes have "evolved" under the influence of the curse, much like the immortality and resurrection he developed after leaving the laboratory.

When she didn't want to "see" anything, Yu Xing tried to restore the color of her eyes to their original state. After trying for a long time, she could only barely turn them into a deep blue. This was only because the power of the curse gathered in her eyes to help cover it up. The deep blue and white were so intense that even the black of the curse itself could not be completely neutralized.

But once he actively seeks to see something, or when he suddenly has some kind of Spiritual Sense that makes him see something, his eyes will instantly turn back to a deep blue, and it will take him one or two hours to close them again.

Fortunately, in the world where the hotel was located, different eye colors were perfectly normal, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He only thought that he would have to pay attention to these eyes when he returned to the real world.

Time just kept passing by.

On the second day of his third month at the hotel, Calodi succeeded.

"I finally got the teleportation array working." Calodi looked exhausted, with dark circles under his eyes that rivaled those of a panda. He was both tired and excited, and immediately called Yu Xing over to show her his work.

The lingering aura on the gate was moved by Yu Xing to her room, so the teleportation array was also established in the room. This teleportation array was completely drawn with blood, and the faint smell of blood made people feel that they dared not look directly at it.

The array's lines and patterns possess a unique beauty amidst their eeriness, and the blood seems to flow along the lines as if it were alive.

In short, it's a terrifying thing.

Calodi looked at it, then felt a chill run down his spine. His initial excitement faded, and he took two steps back. "Ahem... I checked it. It's quite stable. If you have nothing else to do, you can try it out. I think I drew a two-way teleportation system, and the blood used is yours, so you have full access."

When he was drawing the magic circle, he asked Yu Xing for a bucket of blood. Anyway, for people like them who had experienced strange events, shedding a little blood was nothing and they didn't feel any psychological pressure.

"Well done." Even before getting close, Yu Xing could already sense the immense and indescribable energy emanating from the teleportation array. Knowing how hard Calodi had worked, he sincerely praised him.

However, this is not the end. He has only opened the teleportation array to Dead Silent Island. Next, he still needs to bring back things from the real world from Dead Silent Island —any items left behind on the island during their mission will do. Then, he will trouble Calodi to continue making a magic circle from the hotel to the real world.

Calodi knew this, but at least he could get some rest for the next few days.

"I'll give it a try now. The flow of time is uncertain, and I don't know how long it will take to come back, but as long as I'm safe, I will definitely return." Yu Xing was also tired of staying in this world, and the thought of the ruins of Dead Silent Island made her a little excited.