This was a monk with a rotund, corpulent figure, looking rather greasy. He wore a monk's robe draped with a kasaya, and at this moment, he was sitting on a chair, humming a little tune, sipping wine, and taking big bites of roasted meat.
Wasn't this Monk Bu’er, the disciple of Da Xing the Wandering Monk?
What was he doing here?
Thinking carefully, Gu Qingfeng suddenly remembered. Back when he met Da Xing the Wandering Monk at Yixiantian, it seemed the monk had also mentioned he would come to the Qianji Celestial Domain to find Da Fuzi.
With this in mind, Gu Qingfeng scanned Yunjue Temple again but found no trace of Da Xing the Wandering Monk.
Who knew where that old bald donkey Da Xing had gone off to again.
Without further thought, Gu Qingfeng directly flashed into appearance.
His sudden appearance was no small matter; it scared Monk Bu’er, who was drinking from a large bowl and eating meat in big mouthfuls, half to death.
"You...
Imperial Venerable!"
When Monk Bu’er saw Gu Qingfeng, he was utterly dumbfounded, standing there stunned as if he had seen a ghost, at a complete loss. After a long while, when he finally regained his senses, disregarding his shock, he hurriedly cupped his hands in salute, trembling as he said, "This humble one...
was unaware of Your Imperial Venerable's esteemed arrival, I beg...
Your Imperial Venerable's forgiveness..."
"You're living quite the comfortable little life," Gu Qingfeng said directly, sitting down. He eyed the wild game roasted to a bright red on the table and asked, "What delicacy is this you're roasting?"
"Reporting to Your Imperial Venerable, it's no delicacy, just... just a very ordinary wild crane."
"You certainly know how to eat well."
Gu Qingfeng tore off a piece of meat and tasted it, nodding in approval. "Not bad, the flavor is truly excellent."
"If Your Imperial Venerable likes it, this humble one... can roast another one for you right now."
"No need. Get up, I have questions for you."
After Monk Bu’er stood up, he hurriedly poured wine for Gu Qingfeng, saying cautiously, "What does Your Imperial Venerable wish to ask this humble one?"
"Have you seen Da Fu... no, have you seen the Prophet of Yunjue Temple?"
"No!"
Monk Bu’er replied honestly. "When this humble one and my Master arrived in the Qianji Celestial Domain a few years ago, that Buddhist Dao Prophet seemed... to have already left long ago."
"Is that so?"
Gu Qingfeng lowered his head in contemplation, drinking his wine, and asked, "What about your Master, Da Xing?"
"This humble one also doesn't know where my Master has gone. He instructed me to wait here for you."
"Da Xing told you to wait here for me?"
Gu Qingfeng was puzzled. "Wait for me to do what?"
"My Master didn't say. He only told me to wait here for you, saying you must go find him."
"Where is your Master now?"
"Reporting to Your Imperial Venerable, this humble one doesn't know."
"You don't even know where Da Xing is, yet you want me to go find him?"
"Please follow me, Your Imperial Venerable."
Gu Qingfeng didn't know what trick Da Xing the Wandering Monk was playing. He followed Monk Bu’er into a secret chamber. The chamber was empty except for Monk Bu’er raising his hand and forming a hand seal. In the next instant, a brilliant light blossomed in the center of the chamber, forming a mysterious water mirror.
This was an array.
And a Teleportation Array at that.
Gu Qingfeng examined it. This Teleportation Array was quite old, dating back at least a million years. However, it seemed to have been repaired later, and not long ago at that—likely by Da Xing the Wandering Monk.
"Your Imperial Venerable, my Master said... as long as you enter this Teleportation Array... you can find him."
"Where does this thing lead?"
"This humble one doesn't know. I haven't entered it either. Ever since my Master left, I've been waiting here for you, Your Imperial Venerable."
Gu Qingfeng sent out his Divine Sense to probe the array. He discovered it was no ordinary Teleportation Array; not only did it contain numerous spatial divine abilities, but it also seemed to utilize spatial laws.
Using such methods to set up a Teleportation Array not only indicated the person who arranged it was extraordinary but also suggested the destination was likely anything but ordinary.
Typically, most Teleportation Arrays connected different locations within the same World. It wasn't that they couldn't connect two different Worlds, but doing so required simultaneously breaching the spatial barriers of both Worlds.
To breach the spatial barriers of two Worlds, one first needed permission from the World Lords of both Worlds. If a World had no World Lord, it was still a complex undertaking requiring massive human and material resources—not something one person could accomplish alone.
And that was just for setting up an array between Worlds. Building one between Heavenly Domains was an even more monumental project, taking at least several thousand, if not tens of thousands, of years to complete.
Even after completion, such arrays were highly unstable. If a major natural storm struck one World, or spatial turbulence erupted in a Heavenly Domain, tens of thousands of years of effort could be wiped out in an instant.
There was also the most serious problem.
The farther a Teleportation Array transmitted, the greater the risk. If something went wrong, falling into spatial turbulence was a very real possibility.
This was precisely why Teleportation Arrays were rarely seen between the Myriad Heavens and Worlds and across Heavenly Domains.
Gu Qingfeng observed the Teleportation Array in the secret chamber. He found it quite peculiar. It didn't breach the spatial barriers of any World, nor did it breach those of any Heavenly Domain. In other words, it wasn't transmitting to a specific World or Heavenly Domain. Yet, it didn't seem like it was merely transmitting within this Flower-Bird World either.
The more Gu Qingfeng observed, the more profound the Teleportation Array seemed. Probing it with his Divine Sense for a while yielded no clear understanding; it felt bottomless.
After some thought, Gu Qingfeng couldn't be bothered to investigate further. He asked, "What does your Master want with me?"
"This... this humble one isn't too clear. My Master didn't say. He only said you should go find him."
"Did your Master transmit through this thing?"
"Yes."
Gu Qingfeng said nothing more, hesitating over whether to enter and take a look.
To be honest.
Under normal circumstances, Gu Qingfeng rarely used Teleportation Arrays, especially ancient and mysterious ones like this. He had some lingering trauma regarding them, having suffered quite a few losses from Teleportation Arrays back in the Primordial Era.
Back then, hunted by the Three Thousand Great Daos, Gu Qingfeng had jumped into any Teleportation Array he encountered to survive, only to nearly fail to emerge several times.
That's right—fail to emerge.
With those ancient Teleportation Arrays, once you jumped in, you had no idea where you'd end up.
It could be Hell, the Abyss, or even more mysterious and bizarre places—there was always a surprise waiting for you.
That wasn't the important part.
The important part was that those ancient Teleportation Arrays, whether from the Ancient Era, the Archaic Era, or even more distant times—who knew how many years they'd endured—were mostly highly unstable. Jumping in, they might suddenly fail or collapse, triggering spatial turbulence. Getting injured was a minor concern; the real fear was falling into those irregular, abandoned, and desolate spaces. Then you'd truly be in a situation where heaven wouldn't answer your cries and earth wouldn't respond to your pleas, lost inside, unable to live or die, with no way out.