Ye Yun sped along, his massive divine sense sweeping across a thousand li around without restraint, and he quickly located Hei Yi and the others.
"Master?"
Hei Yi and Ye Yun shared a special connection, but when Ye Yun appeared before Hei Yi, he still felt a sense of disbelief.
"What's wrong? You don't recognize me anymore?" Ye Yun understood Hei Yi's reaction. It was truly because his current self had changed so drastically from before his tribulation, and his aura had undergone a complete transformation.
"Tsk tsk tsk... kid, with your looks, you'd make a fortune as a male courtesan. Although you're a bit old, being a retainer for those noble ladies wouldn't be bad either," Xue Daoguang ran out, taking a look at Ye Yun and expressing his satisfaction.
"Get lost," Ye Yun said with annoyance, then turned to look at Zhang Youqin.
"Senior, do you know the origin of the Heavenly Demon Emperor?" Ye Yun was very curious.
"We don't know either. We ran into that guy Da Yan not long after we entered," Zhang Youqin said helplessly. He was now dressed up, looking somewhat like an immortal, and like Xue Daoguang, he was a monk with nine scars.
Ye Yun felt a bit disappointed but not surprised. The Heavenly Demon Emperor was far in the central region. Besides spending a huge price using a teleportation array, it would take at least ten to half a month just to travel there.
"Master..."
Hei Yi saw Ye Yun hesitating.
Ye Yun knew that this guy wanted to stay in the demon realm because his strength could grow by leaps and bounds by devouring demonic energy in the demon realm.
"Little friend, how should I arrange these juniors of mine? They've been exposed to demonic energy since birth, and they have no cultivation yet. Their physical bodies are also very weak and can't withstand the impact of traversing through black holes," Zhao Youqin said to Ye Yun at this moment. Although these people had powerful divine senses, their cultivation was inferior to Zhang Junbao's, and their physical bodies barely reached the level of a third-grade demon.
In three hours, if it weren't for Zhao Youqin and Hei Yi, these people would have struggled to escape the valley's thousand-li range.
"We'll decide when we reach the node. If it doesn't work out, let them develop here! We'll send food and other supplies directly from Earth then." Ye Yun grabbed with one hand, and the long sword within his dantian instantly flew out and enlarged infinitely.
"Sword Control Art!" Seeing Ye Yun perform this move again, Xue Daoguang and Zhao Youqin were filled with envy.
"Stop standing there foolishly and get on. How can you travel like this? It takes too long," Ye Yun said from the tip of the sword, looking at the stunned crowd and urging them on.
The crowd then came to their senses and jumped onto the flying sword, looking at the sword beneath their feet with curiosity.
The long sword was now over a hundred zhang long, enough to accommodate over a thousand people, but it consumed a lot of true essence.
"Damn it, kid, didn't you just advance to Golden Core? How is your true essence so terrifying?" Xue Daoguang couldn't help but exclaim as he felt the true essence attached to the sword.
"That's why I told you to stop talking nonsense and play games in the Heavenly Dao more often. Your strength in the game can become your real-world strength then," Ye Yun complained. He suspected this monk only entered the game to look at beautiful women because Ye Yun never felt like he was playing seriously.
"I know that. I'm just damn poor! Working hard for two days, either helping this person find a chicken or that person kill a duck, and now I pitifully only have two gold coins." Xue Daoguang was full of complaints when it came to the game.
"Um... little friend, could you also get us one of those game rings later? Don't worry, you are our benefactor, and we will definitely obey you and follow you," Zhao Youqin asked Ye Yun expectantly after hearing their conversation.
"Alright! Hei Yi, go back and ask Zhou Ningdong for a batch of 'Heavenly Dao Rings' and arrange for some more food to be sent over." Hearing Zhao Youqin's words, Ye Yun immediately took off his Sumeru Ring and handed it to Hei Yi. For Ye Yun, these people were a group of very useful laborers, such as guarding spatial nodes to prevent demons from entering the human world.
Well, the most important thing was that they could grow energy pills for Ye Yun.
Thinking of an extra ninety-nine thousand energy pills a month made Ye Yun feel great. Those things were not just food for humanity's future.
Hei Yi took the Sumeru Ring and left first.
"Little friend, why don't you lend me some gold coins?" Xue Daoguang asked Ye Yun with a fawning expression.
"Where are you?"
"Newbie village, Granny Li's pharmacy."
...
"Scram!"
Ye Yun cursed the old pervert internally and ignored him.
In the game, except for the initial face-to-face agreements, communication was not possible between different interfaces, let alone trading. Otherwise, Mo Li would have been constantly complaining to Ye Yun.
Besides, if he had the money to lend to this guy, he might as well cultivate his top-tier hidden profession in China, the 'Sword Immortal,' as he could at least use it without any psychological burden.
As Ye Yun controlled the flying sword, his mind was constantly calculating. He was thinking about the future arrangements for these humans.
Besides growing energy pills for him, Ye Yun's main concern was how to extract more benefits from them and stimulate the local economy and consumption.
Half an hour later, Ye Yun finally returned to the spatial node.
However, Ye Yun did not get too close, as a towering beam of light was shining not far from the black hole.
"Is this... a long-distance teleportation array?" Xue Daoguang and Zhang Youqin looked at each other in shock at the dao script within the beam of light.
"Can you two stop being so surprised? The current problem is whether the other party is friend or foe?" Ye Yun frowned, looking at the teleportation array not far from the black hole, feeling a little displeased.
Ye Yun had intended to settle these natives in this place. What if this kind of situation happened frequently in the future?
"Heh heh, little friend, rest assured, this teleportation array is covered with dao script, not demonic script, so the person teleporting over must be one of our Daoist lineage," Xue Daoguang said with a smile, looking at Ye Yun's expression.
"Judging by the dao script of this array, it seems to be a unidirectional, one-time teleportation array. Moreover, such long-distance teleportation requires incredibly powerful energy. Ordinary people would never be able to use it," Zhao Youqin nodded and reassured him, looking at the teleportation array.
"Then why are you two more nervous than I am?" Ye Yun said speechlessly, looking at the one person and one shadow cowering behind him.
"This is excitement. I wonder if the person teleporting over will be an old acquaintance," Xue Daoguang said sheepishly.
Fine, no matter what, they could always find a good reason for their cowardice. Southern Sect's Three Patriarchs? Heh heh.
At Ye Yun's signal, the people on the flying sword slowly disembarked. The light of the teleportation array gradually dimmed, and a white-bearded old man appeared in the sky. He held a scroll in his hand and looked down at the vast wilderness. Only when he saw Ye Yun did his eyes settle, and he continuously conjured calculations with his left hand.
Ye Yun was dumbfounded.
However, Xue Daoguang and Zhao Youqin behind Ye Yun's back turned red upon seeing the old man, reaching a state of ecstasy. They immediately put Ye Yun aside and bowed respectfully to the old man.
"Junior disciples of the Southern Sect, third generation, pay respects to our Ancestor!"
"Disciples under Cui Xuanzi pay respects to our Ancestor."
However, their kneeling seemed to have not attracted the old man's attention. The old man had been staring at Ye Yun since his appearance. When Ye Yun was almost provoked into drawing his sword, the old man casually said.
"Young man, I am here to help you."