The Seven Stars Market affair had concluded perfectly.
This move achieved multiple objectives at once.
With the Zhuyuan Great Emperor having set the precedent, subsequent Celestial Court immortals coming to purchase enlightenment opportunities wouldn't be so reserved.
That's right—he no longer planned to help others achieve enlightenment for free; he was going to charge fees!
Even though he had already extracted ten times the rest time during the activation of [Balanced Work and Rest], that didn't prevent him from collecting additional fees.
This was his exclusive business, and he held pricing authority.
He could already imagine the continuous flow of rest time that would follow!
There was no rush; he could let this develop gradually.
Su Yuan now turned his attention to the Primordial Isle.
Ahead stretched a long chain, forming a passageway approximately ten miles in diameter centered around it.Su Yuan attempted spatial teleportation using his spatial law, but unsurprisingly, it failed.
He didn't rush to use his special ability.
He began walking slowly forward.
After traversing some distance, a sword energy suddenly surged from the ocean of sword energy outside the channel, rushing into the passageway and attacking Su Yuan.
Su Yuan was startled and quickly dodged.
The sword energy weakened upon entering the channel, dropping from its original Mixed-origin Great Luo Golden Immortal level to early Great Luo stage.
Su Yuan easily avoided it.
The sword energy missed Su Yuan and flew directly into the channel wall below, then disappeared back into the ocean of sword energy, restoring its terrifying Mixed-origin Great Luo Golden Immortal power.
Understanding the pattern, Su Yuan immediately increased his speed.
After just a hundred miles, two more sword energies attacked from different directions.
Su Yuan again dodged them effortlessly.
Along the way, he discovered that short-distance spatial teleportation using spatial law was also permitted.
This dramatically increased his speed.
Next, four sword energies attacked.
Su Yuan passed through them easily.
After a thousand miles, over a thousand sword energies rapidly crisscrossed through the channel, even faintly forming some kind of sword formation.
Su Yuan saw through the formation's trajectory, instantly dismantled it, and passed through the formation's range.
"Quite interesting!"
Su Yuan looked back at the sword formation behind him.
"This Primordial Isle was clearly artificially created. What exactly lies at its peak?"
Su Yuan gazed curiously into the distance once more.
Meanwhile.
On the other two passageways.
The elite cultivators from immortal and demon realms who had obtained slots were rushing through their channels at full speed.
Whether in the demon realm channel or immortal realm channel, everyone appeared to be in a competitive sprinting state.
Because the person who completed the channel crossing in the shortest time within the same batch would receive an opportunity!
They had all entered at essentially the same time, so naturally they had to compete against each other!
Within the immortal realm channel, three individuals moved fastest, leading the pack.
One wore snow-white robes, held a gleaming blue sword, and rode on sword light, speeding through the channel.
He was employing the famously renowned Great Divine Ability of Sword Light Transforming into Rainbow!
To his left, a white tiger ran wildly, golden light blossoming beneath its feet—this was the Great Divine Ability of Earth-Skimming Golden Light.
To his right, a divine bird with blue feathers had blue streams of light swirling around it—this was the divine beast Wind Wing. Each time the Wind Wing spread its wings, it covered ninety thousand miles, employing the Great Divine Ability of Kunpeng's Breath!
The three immortals competed for the lead position, constantly overtaking one another.
"Sword Immortal Wine, you should stop competing! Your Sword Light Transforming into Rainbow lacks staying power—your speed simply isn't enough!" the white tiger called to the white-robed man ahead.
"White Soldier, you'd be better off becoming my mount! Together we'd move faster! Later we can each rely on our own abilities!" Sword Immortal Wine said with a laugh.
"Sword Immortal Wine, that's not fair—you have the fastest burst speed, so you'd definitely have the advantage!" the white tiger retorted disdainfully.
He turned to look at the Wind Wing divine bird on the other side and asked, "Wind Spirit Immortal, what about you and me joining forces?"
The Wind Wing divine bird shook its head: "Let's each rely on our own abilities!"
The white tiger fell silent at this.
Sword Immortal Wine instead spoke up: "On the demon realm side, there's a Nai Luo Demon Emperor who follows the Time Great Dao—his speed might surpass ours!"
"Him? Hehe, time law already has great powers who've proven the Dao. Why is he still comprehending time law?" The white tiger dismissed this contemptuously.
Sword Immortal Wine shook his head: "You shouldn't say that. Entering the Primordial Isle means he can still choose other paths. It's not impossible for him to break through to great power status. If he obtains this opportunity, that would be problematic. The demon realm gaining another great power mastering time law—you know how terrifying that would be!"
White Soldier frowned in contemplation. Indeed, as Sword Immortal Wine said, the threat of time law was truly immense. Even if it didn't reach the Mixed-origin level, time law at the edge of Mixed-origin would still be extremely fearsome. Among great powers, few mastered time law.
The Zhuyuan Great Emperor was one such example, and consequently, his combat power was exceptionally formidable.
Sword Immortal Wine seemed to detect the white tiger's wavering and immediately said: "How about this—you and I join forces. We'll obtain that opportunity together, ensuring it remains with the immortal realm side rather than being taken by the demon realm. If that opportunity can be shared, I'll definitely share it with you!"
Hearing this, the white tiger fell into deep thought.
The three continued racing through the channel, constantly dodging the attacks that periodically erupted within.
Their speed was so tremendous that they could easily evade attacks before they landed, pulling far ahead of those behind them.
Seeing this situation, the Wind Wing divine bird sensed trouble.
If that foolish white tiger agreed, her chance would be gone.
"In that case, let's all three join forces!" the Wind Wing divine bird proposed.
"Oh?" Sword Immortal Wine was surprised—he hadn't expected Wind Spirit Immortal to break the deadlock first.
The white tiger also looked at Wind Spirit in astonishment.
The Wind Wing divine bird rolled her eyes at the white tiger—what was there to be surprised about? If he hadn't seemed ready to agree, she wouldn't have proposed this idea. She believed her own speed was actually the fastest.
The Wind Wing's proposal was quickly accepted.
Thus the three moved closer together, forming a Three Powers Formation.
Their speeds all increased simultaneously.
Earth-Skimming Golden Light, Sword Light Transforming into Rainbow, and Kunpeng's Breath—these three Great Divine Abilities, coordinated among three experts, complemented each other perfectly, instantly boosting their speed by fifty percent.
Though their speed increased by fifty percent, their forward progress actually doubled because evasion time decreased. Sometimes they didn't need to slow down to avoid attacks, so their advancement speed increased significantly.
On the other side, in the demon realm channel.
Nai Luo Demon Emperor walked alone at the forefront, moving like a sinister wind racing forward.
When sword energy attacked him, it would fall into time deceleration before getting close, never reaching Nai Luo.
Meanwhile, Nai Luo himself was enveloped in a law domain of time acceleration, increasing his escape speed by more than tenfold!
He was highly confident about winning the opportunity reward for first place in the channel speed competition.
However, he soon learned about the situation in the immortal realm channel. Demon realm observers stationed at the channel entrance could directly see the scene ahead in the channel, confirming the progress of immortal realm cultivators.
According to the information received, the three powerful immortals had already joined forces, which made Nai Luo Demon Emperor's expression turn grave.
"It seems I'll have to go all out. In the later stages, the speed of three joined forces might surpass mine!"
Nai Luo wasn't foolish—he could assess the situation clearly.
Seeing this development, he couldn't hold back anymore. He unleashed his time law, increasing his speed further.
"Time Like Wind!"
Nai Luo Demon Emperor revealed his wind law!
Wind and time laws coordinated with each other, boosting his speed once again!
Other demon cultivators following far behind witnessed this scene with astonishment.
"Nai Luo Demon Emperor's wind law has actually reached the Mixed-origin Golden Immortal level!"
"He hid this so well!"
"Now the first opportunity should be secured by Nai Luo Demon Emperor!"
Nai Luo Demon Emperor felt extremely confident. He had begun comprehending wind law over tens of billions of years ago precisely for this channel speed competition reward. As long as he could obtain this reward, those tens of billions of years of arduous cultivation would be worth it!
Wind law! Time law!
Two laws that both provided astonishing speed enhancement were enough to secure him the first place position!
Whether immortal realm or demon realm cultivators, all were striving desperately forward. Their speeds had reached the ultimate velocity below Mixed-origin Great Luo level—essentially, within the three realms, almost no one could move faster than them.
In the netherworld channel.
Su Yuan continued moving forward slowly.
Each time he passed a node, he would stop briefly to examine the mysteries of those sword formations.
In his Dao Comprehension State, Su Yuan comprehended these sword formations extremely quickly.
He discovered that these sword formation combinations contained multiple law mysteries. What appeared to be simple sword formations actually involved numerous laws.
Such formations were rare in the three realms because cultivators typically mastered one or two laws, rarely cultivating multiple laws to equally profound levels. Usually they focused on one main law while using others as supplements for formations.
These sword formations were different—they had no main law but distributed emphasis equally among various laws.
This formation concept was uncommon, yet all the channel's sword formations followed this pattern.
After studying them for some time, Su Yuan found they didn't align with his cultivation path, so he stopped examining them further.
He looked toward the channel's end and said with exasperation: "Continuing to run like this is too troublesome. I'll just teleport directly!"
The channel restricted spatial teleportation.
But he sensed that his special ability shouldn't be limited.
Thus, he activated his ability [World Traveler] and initiated instant teleportation.
In an instant, he traversed the latter half of the channel distance, directly appearing at the channel's end.