Upgrading and Copying the Coordinates

The first to notice something amiss was a small town on the border of Northern Spirit Province.

That morning, the sky suddenly darkened without any warning.

Immediately afterwards, black rain began to fall.

Raindrops fall on the skin, carrying a biting chill, and gradually eroding spiritual energy.

Some cultivators sensed something was wrong, went outside the city and looked north, and were terrified.

The northern land has turned completely black.

The mountains, rivers, and cities were all covered with a layer of black frost.

All living beings, whether mortals or cultivators, even flowers, plants, and trees, turned into black stone statues, maintaining their postures before death.

"Run!"

The people in the town fled south in a frenzy.

But as they ran, some people's bodies stiffened, their skin turned to stone, and they collapsed to the ground, never to get up again.

Only a few with high cultivation levels and fast running speed managed to escape the border of Northern Spirit Province.

Even more terrifying, an invisible black barrier rose from the border of Northern Spirit Province.

Those who escaped a step too late crashed into the barrier with loud thuds, but could not get through.

Within the barrier, the black mist grew increasingly thick.

The screams and howls gradually subsided.

The entire Northern Spirit Province was like a giant tomb.

The escaped cultivator collapsed south of the border, trembling as he stared at the black barrier.

A living hell.

When the news reached Heaven-Soaring City, the entire Immortal Alliance was in an uproar.

"The entire Northern Spirit Province is gone?"

Zhang Jianchen stood before the map, staring at the location of Northern Spirit Province, his fingers trembling.

That's an entire state.

Hundreds of millions of living beings, countless cultivators, and the Dao Lord Hanzun and his Cold Abyss lineage.

It's gone just like that?

"Have Dao Lord Hanzun?" Zhang Jianchen asked in a deep voice.

An elder bowed and replied, "We can't get in touch. Communication talismans and arrays have all failed; the barrier has blocked all divine senses and means of communication."

"All I know is that before the incident, Hanzun led a group back to Cold Abyss, saying he was going to stabilize the earth's veins, and then there was no further news."

Zhang Jianchen slammed his fist on the table.

"No, we can't just leave it like this."

"Go, summon Sect Leader Li. Immediately."

Li Yunjing was in Flying Immortal Prefecture instructing on the inscription of earth vein runes when he received a message from Zhang Jianchen. He immediately took the teleportation array back to Heaven-Soaring City.

Upon entering the council hall, they saw Zhang Jianchen standing solemnly before the map. "Sect Leader Li, you've arrived."

Zhang Jianchen turned his head, his tone heavy. "Something has happened in Northern Spirit Province."

Li Yunjing's heart sank, and he quickly stepped forward.

After listening to Zhang Jianchen's story, he frowned.

"Has the catastrophe broken out ahead of schedule?"

Zhang Jianchen shook his head. "It seems so. Moreover, it started in Northern Spirit Province, with localized outbreaks, and that barrier is too strange, isolating everything. It doesn't seem to have formed naturally."

"Where is Dao Lord Hanzun?" Li Yunjing asked.

"He's at the Third Realm of Tribulation Transcendence. Even if his Tribulation Qi erupts, it shouldn't be so bad that not a single message can get out."

Zhang Jianchen sighed, "I'm also very puzzled. We can't get in touch with them at all now, and we have no idea what's going on inside."

Li Yunjing was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "I have a way to try."

Zhang Jianchen's eyes lit up. "Oh?"

"During the previous gathering of the Three Sovereigns, the three of us exchanged soul imprint coordinates," Li Yunjing said. "We can use these soul imprints for targeted teleportation."

"Really? That's wonderful!" Zhang Jianchen was both surprised and delighted.

But then he hesitated. "But that barrier... can teleportation pass through it?"

"It's hard to say," Li Yunjing shook his head. "We'll have to try."

"No matter what, we have to try, figure out the situation, and what you need. The Immortal Alliance will fully support you," Zhang Jianchen said immediately.

"No matter what, we have to find a way in to see what's going on. It would be best if we could rescue Hanzun."

"I understand." Li Yunjing did not delay and set off back to Luozhen Province that very day.

Upon returning to Luozhen Mountain, he went directly to the Heavenly Pivot Platform, where the teleportation array was located.

The teleportation array was originally level 9, capable of inter-state teleportation and highly stable, but it was still insufficient against the strange barrier of Northern Spirit Province.

"Upgrade." Li Yunjing checked the upgrade requirements.

[Teleportation Array: lv9]

[Required to upgrade to level 10: 100 Space Crystals, 10 Divine Pattern Gold Foils, 1 Earth Vein Core Stone, 3 Fragments of Spatial Dao Law.]

[Effect Preview:]

Spatial Anchoring: Can lock onto specific Soul Imprints and coordinates for fixed-point teleportation, ignoring weak-level spatial barriers.

Tribulation Qi Protection: Automatically forms a protective shield during teleportation, weakening the erosion of Tribulation Qi.

Double Capacity: The maximum number of people teleported at once is doubled, allowing it to withstand the full pressure of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator.

Li Yunjing glanced at it; although the materials were precious, fortunately, Luozhen Sect had a stockpile of them.

"Upgrade," he murmured to himself.

The entire teleportation array began to tremble, and the array patterns on the ground lit up one by one, then disappeared and rearranged.

The original nine-ring array patterns gradually extended to a tenth ring, becoming even more profound and precise.

At the heart of the formation, the core stone of the earth vein slowly sank in, connecting with the earth vein.

The fragments of the Spatial Dao Law melted, transforming into streams of light that merged into the array patterns.

The moment the tenth array pattern lit up completely, a soft spatial fluctuation erupted from the teleportation array.

[Teleportation array upgraded successfully: lv10]

Li Yunjing stepped forward, his fingertips tracing the array patterns. He could clearly feel that the array's compatibility with the space had increased several times over.

"Next, it's time to determine the coordinates." He sat cross-legged, Spirit Concentration inner vision. Deep within his sea of consciousness, three soul imprints floated silently.

One belonged to him, one to Dao Lord Xuanyuan, and one to Dao Lord Hanzun.

The three soul imprints are connected by faint threads of Dao principles.

Li Yunjing carefully touched the soul imprint of the Dao Lord Hanzun with his divine sense.

The soul imprint still retains the other party's aura and spatial markings.

What he needed to do was to accurately replicate this spatial imprint onto the base of the teleportation array.

It sounds simple, but it's extremely difficult to do.

A slight difference in spatial coordinates can lead to a huge discrepancy.

Even a slight deviation could transmit into spatial turbulence.

Moreover, the coordinates in Northern Spirit Province are already obscured due to the barrier interference.

On the first attempt, the spatial imprint distorted as soon as the divine sense touched the array base, and it failed.

The second time, the mark was only partially replicated before it was scattered by the spatial turbulence.

Li Yunjing was not discouraged. He stood up, walked to the core of the formation, and placed the Five Aggregates Cauldron at its center.

"Five Spirits Lord, help me stabilize this space."

"Alright," Five Spirits Lord's voice rang out.

The Five Aggregates Cauldron trembled slightly, and five-colored spiritual light spread out, enveloping the entire teleportation array.

The surrounding space instantly stabilized.

Li Yunjing sat down cross-legged again, Spirit Concentration and calming his spirit.

The divine sense once again drew out the spatial imprint within the soul seal, like the most exquisite sculptor meticulously replicating it into the Spatial Dao Law of the array base.

This time, things went much more smoothly.

Time passed little by little, and the world outside was also quietly changing.

Following Northern Spirit Province, strange phenomena also began to appear on the borders of other states.

The concentration of Tribulation Qi was rising steadily, with small beast tides breaking out from time to time, and sporadic incidents of cultivators going berserk.

People across the land are once again filled with unease and anxiety.

More and more cultivators, along with their families, flocked to Luozhen Province.

After all, everyone knows that Luozhen Province has the Luozhen Sect, the Gods' Hall, and the Earth Vein Barrier, making it the safest place in the entire Dao Realm.

The population of Luozhen City surged by 30% in a short period of time.

Public security, resettlement, food, housing... the pressure has increased sharply.

Mo Xuan was so busy he barely had time to breathe, and he came to Li Yunjing for instructions every day.

However, Li Yunjing remained at the Heavenly Pivot Platform, adjusting the teleportation array without taking a single step outside.