One Hundred Eighty-Three: The Ancient Teleportation Array

A dragon vein was an energy channel hidden beneath the mountains and earth. Its distribution and course followed certain patterns, and when several dragon veins coexisted in one place, their arrangement should have been all the more orderly.

Yet the cluster of dragon veins formed by the ninety-nine veins beneath Shi Lan and the others looked strangely awkward. It was as if those ninety-nine dragon veins had not originally belonged here, but had been forcibly drawn to this place.

Moreover, every dragon vein had a dragon's lair. Under normal circumstances, the earth's spiritual energy drawn in by a dragon vein would gather in its lair, giving rise to a spiritual land. But the lairs of these ninety-nine dragon veins had all dried up, without even a trace of spiritual energy.

With so many dragon veins gathered here, drawing in the earth's spiritual energy from more than a hundred thousand li around them, this place should have been blessed with extraordinary spiritual vitality. It ought to have been a first-rate spiritual land, capable of nurturing peerless elixirs and immortal roots. Yet now, even the most ordinary first-grade spiritual material could not grow here.

After giving the dragon veins a cursory look, Shi Lan felt that something was amiss, though for the moment she could not say what.

After pondering for a moment, Shi Lan descended from the sky, swept past the three Demon Kings, and entered the very center of the mountain range.

Cang Yue and the other Demon Kings followed Shi Lan's earlier instructions. They remained in the air, waiting quietly.

The Heavenly Eye opened wide between Shi Lan's brows. She swept over the sprawling mountain range inch by inch, trying to find some clues.

She moved at astonishing speed. With one step, she crossed nearly a hundred zhang; within