Elder Wu Seeks Reinforcements

According to Elder Mingde's memories, leaving this world required finding a teleportation array that led out.

Most of the small palaces Elder Mingde had broken into contained similar teleportation platforms.

At first, Elder Mingde had not known where those platforms led.

But after spending nearly a thousand years in this world, he knew his chances of finding the Fire Origin were slim.

He had also searched a vast area over those thousand years without finding an exit.

At last, Elder Mingde thought of the platforms in the palaces. He decided to try one. Perhaps it was the way out.

Elder Mingde had guessed right. When he stepped onto one of the platforms and activated its teleportation array, he reappeared above the Boundless Sea.

Activating these arrays was simple, too. Enough Immortal Essence Power—or a large quantity of Immortal Crystals—would start them.

So if Qin Huaian wanted to leave this world, he had to break through the protective array around a palace with a teleportation platform.

Nor could Qin Huaian simply seek out the palaces Elder Mingde had entered.

For one thing, this world was immense, and arrivals were teleported to random locations. Finding those palaces would be difficult.

For another, the arrays could repair themselves after being broken.

Elder Mingde had once returned to a palace whose array he had broken. By the time he got back, the array had been restored to its original state.

Thus, if Qin Huaian could not break an array, or if the palace beyond it had no teleportation platform, he would have no way to leave this world.

Qin Huaian was currently at the Golden Immortal Realm. In theory, the highest level of array mastery he could deduce was that of a Fifth-Order Immortal Array Master.

Qin Huaian did not linger. Palaces like this