Taicang Star.
A gigantic Teleportation Array stood there, its surging radiance shooting straight into the heavens.
A full ten Top-grade Spirit Crystals were embedded around the Teleportation Array.
Light flowed across the Spirit Crystals as they continuously supplied the array with pure, immense spiritual energy.
Almost every hour, the array would flare with brilliant light, and figures of cultivators with immortal bearing would appear one after another.
Once the light faded, the figures swiftly rose into the air, either in groups of three or five or on their own, flying rapidly into the distance.
Of course, quite a few flying boats bearing the insignias of various merchant associations also hovered in the skies around the Teleportation Array.
From time to time, cultivators would land aboard those flying boats.
Once a flying boat had gathered enough passengers, it would depart amid thunderous air-tearing roars, flying into the distance.
In the vast starry sky, Taicang Star was merely an insignificant little star.
But that was only in comparison to the boundless universe as a whole.
In truth, Taicang Star was somewhat larger than Su Shi'er's homeworld, Azure Star.
Azure Star, however, brimmed with life everywhere.
Taicang Star, on the other hand, was steeped in desolation and decay.
Not a trace of spiritual energy existed here, leaving every cultivator who arrived deeply uncomfortable.
The Teleportation Array jointly established by the major merchant associations of Bai Zhang Market lay several hundred li from the outermost formation of the Ancient God Ruins.
It was not that they did not want to place the array closer to the Ancient God Ruins. Rather, even before the ruins' formation had been activated by the many cultivators, the faintest residual ripples already radiated considerable pressure.
Moreover, while cultivators from all sides were attempting to break the formation, conflicts were