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"Then how did you know me?" Dracula asked.

“When Kaecilius died, I seized a fragment of his soul before it dissipated. His memories contained the Ancient One’s reports to the Clock Tower and the Heavenly Court, which mentioned you,” Xerath explained briefly.

Dracula had a headache; he didn't know whether to believe his own memories or Xerath's words.

"Who's chasing you? You brought them here?!" Dracula suddenly realized and asked.

Xerath understood; Dracula was already preparing to form an alliance with him, otherwise why would he ask this question?

"My enemies are the Ascended from Ancient Shurima. They killed me once and have now fallen back into slumber. Moreover, this area is not part of Ancient Shurima, so it won't be easy for them to cause trouble when they wake up. I will give you more detailed information later."

Xerath stood with his hands behind his back, surveying the ancient castle.

"Hmm... then I'll take you in for now." Dracula hadn't fully recovered yet.

"Thank you." Xerath didn't bother with pleasantries, coldly uttering a single sentence before drifting towards a location with a relatively high concentration of magic.

Dracula watched Xerath's retreating figure, licked his fangs, and tapped his head.

Do I really have a memory problem? No, wait... how come I don't feel anything is wrong with my memory?

No... I need to look up some information.

Wait... if my memory has been altered, the records should have been altered as well...

What should I do?

Dracula fell into deep thought, pondering how to prove which one was the truth.

Chapter 127 The First Phase Test of the Multiverse Teleportation Portal Begins (Bonus Chapter for Donations)

As Xerath said, there really isn't enough manpower on Earth to deal with Dracula right now. Everyone on the mystical side is incredibly busy, building schools and negotiating with various governments—they're basically busy from morning till night.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone on the mystical side is full of energy, playing for days and nights without sleep, it would be impossible to make such a fast progress.

"Phew, things are finally almost done." Li Xiaoyao stretched and pushed the documents on the table aside. He was the hardest worker among them, and he hadn't rested since he arrived on Earth.

"You've worked hard, but you might not have a moment to rest for a while," Zhao Ling'er said while helping to process the documents in front of her.

"Still can't sit still? What else is going on?" Li Xiaoyao felt that he couldn't keep going like this. His body was fine, but he needed to relax to relieve his mental fatigue.

“Only a small portion of the Hong Kong Temple Masters chose to join the Supernatural Response Force; the rest all wanted to join us. I asked them beforehand, and most of them wanted to come and be teachers with a more relaxed lifestyle,” Zhao Ling’er said. “As we promised, we have to accept most of the remaining people who are willing to come.”

This promise was made by the Hong Kong Temple Masters when they resolved to take revenge on Casillas.

Li Xiaoyao was horrified when he heard this. If the school were to accept more teachers, he would have to spend several more months just applying for resources and rearranging the curriculum.

We can't just give people RMB when they come in; we also need to provide them with resources from the cultivation world. At the very least, we need to set up a dedicated exchange channel; otherwise, it's not fair.

Seeing her husband like this, Zhao Ling'er suddenly smiled and reached out to hold his right hand.

"Don't worry, I'll handle this for you. I'll ask my mom and grandma if we can go through a fast track. Our Nuwa clan will soon have a batch of raw materials ready for harvest. Apart from the portion we'll use to build the blessed land, we can share some of the rest."

"That's wonderful, Ling'er, you are truly the best wife in the world!" Li Xiaoyao picked up Zhao Ling'er and spun her around twice.

"What are you doing? We're an old married couple, it wouldn't look good if someone saw us." Zhao Ling'er patted Li Xiaoyao's hand, saying this, but the smile on her face never faded.

"So what if they see it? Let them be envious." Li Xiaoyao whispered in Zhao Ling'er's ear, his arm around her waist.

"By the way, I can handle this for you, but there's one thing you absolutely have to do," Zhao Ling'er continued.

"what's up?"

"The multiverse teleportation array over at the Clock Tower is preparing for a trial run and has invited us to attend the trial run ceremony."

"Why me? There are so many people, why not just pick one? And wouldn't it be strange for me to go alone?"

"Silly boy, and why you?" Zhao Ling'er rolled her eyes at Li Xiaoyao. "Everyone started construction at the same time five hundred years ago. The clock tower is almost finished and has started trial operation, while our final blueprints haven't been finalized yet. Do you think they're in the mood to attend the ceremony?"

“My mother told me last time that several teachers who designed the grotto-heavens have been having meetings for several days recently, and they almost came to blows. Sometimes when they got really into a fight, even the Heavenly Emperor couldn’t stop them.”

Li Xiaoyao fell silent. He could imagine the feeling. The elders of his sect had been in a similar situation lately, arguing fiercely over more courses.

Moreover, some of these people are older and more experienced than him, and when they get angry, they give him a hard time saying anything.

Moreover, even if we want to say something, we don't know how to say it. It's not like we're arguing for personal gain. Everyone wants to do more work, so we can't criticize them.

"By the way, why did they suddenly start testing it? Didn't they say last time that the problems with world exploration hadn't been resolved yet?" Li Xiaoyao asked immediately afterward.

“The Eye of Agamotto.” Zhao Ling’er pointed out the key point. “Didn’t the Ancient One pass away? The Eye of Agamotto was given to the mage Kieran. It’s said that the people at the Clock Tower used the Eye of Agamotto as a result display.”

“Randomly select world coordinates, then use the Eye of Agamotto to look at the timeline after our selected world, and repeat this process. After hundreds of thousands of tests, we finally selected a suitable test world.”

"Where are the testers? I'm not going to be asked to bring them over, am I? We don't have any available personnel here."

Li Xiaoyao pondered for a moment and asked, he didn't want to attend a ceremony and be drafted into it, but there weren't enough people to begin with, even if those temple mages joined in, it still wouldn't be enough.

“What are you thinking? Recruiting men from us? They’d only be willing to fight.” Zhao Ling’er smiled. “Besides, there’s a slight problem with the world we discovered this time. After assessment, we found that anyone above the level of a low-level professional cannot enter. Considering other factors, we’ve decided to select three Ouroboros members this time: Frank, Vernon, and Fina.”

"Frank, Vernon, and Fina? They're all people I'm close to. What kind of candidates are they? I remember we agreed that after the construction was completed, the shares would be split 50/50," Li Xiaoyao asked, frowning.

Fina is a disciple of Morningstar mage Blaze, a true member of the Clock Tower's inner circle. Vernon is a druid who came from the Clock Tower's orphanage, and all their connections are with the Clock Tower. The only one who is slightly better off, Frank, is also closer to people from the Clock Tower.

"There's nothing we can do. It's a test, and they're mainly choosing the participants. Besides, our blessed land isn't finished yet. However, according to the report issued after the meeting between the Heavenly Emperor and Master Kilan, the energy obtained from the multiverse portal here will be used partly to maintain the portal and the rest to support the construction of the blessed land," Zhao Ling'er explained.

Li Xiaoyao is currently focusing her main energy on matters related to Earth, while she is keeping an eye on things in the cultivation world.

"Hmm, that's fair enough, but there's still one problem. We can't go to such a big ceremony empty-handed. What should we bring?"

Hearing this, Zhao Ling'er fell silent. Give her something? Give her nothing!

Everything has been arranged. If we're going to give something as a gift, it can only be something that China has, something useful for exploring the world... How about... a nuclear bomb? Just for self-defense?

While Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er were considering gifts, the three selected testers were taken to Hextech Research Institute for emergency training.

The three of them need to master, in a short period of time, the methods for forcibly leaving the world, the techniques for calculating and selecting the location of the energy extraction array, and some test-related standards.

Chapter 128 Sudden World Travel

"Energy extraction arrays can be set up on anything with a physical form, such as animals, plants, and buildings..."

Fina was reading a book thicker than her head quickly. The test opportunity was hard-won, and she couldn't let her teacher down.

"Fina!"

Startled by the sudden shout, Fina shuddered and looked up to find her teacher teleported right in front of her.

"Teacher? What brings you here? What's up?" Fina asked instinctively.

Blaze pulled her up abruptly. "The test world is experiencing a time oscillation, and the barriers have weakened significantly. Now is the best time to travel there. Take the book with you, and read it when you get there."

"Ah, okay."

As soon as Fina closed the book, Blaze teleported her through several blinks, directly leaving the clock tower on this level from Hextech Planet via a teleportation array. They had arrived on Hextech Planet in the Oort Cloud three days earlier with Li Xiaoyao and the others.

Outside this clock tower, the testing ceremony had not yet officially begun, but the testers were already setting off. There was nothing that could be done about it; no one could predict the tremors in the testing world, and increasing the success rate and reducing the danger were obviously much more important than a ceremony.

When Fina arrived inside the shuttle, Frank and Vernon were already waiting for her, each carrying a large stack of documents. None of them had finished studying them; they were all being rushed into the task.

“Go ahead, be careful on your journey. If you encounter any problems, turn back immediately. Don’t be stubborn or impulsive, and don’t follow my example.” Blaze patted Fina on the back and said, before turning to leave, he slipped a scroll into Fina’s hand.

Fina nodded, watching her teacher's retreating figure, and with the help of the staff beside her, put on all the disposable equipment.

*Sizzle* The shuttle cabin door opened, and the three testers entered the cabin one by one. After everyone had entered, the shuttle cabin performed a final self-check. Once the self-check was complete, the door locked, and the entire outer shell of the shuttle cabin lit up with various magical lights.

Boom! The shuttle ignited, and its speed began to increase rapidly, approaching the speed of light in just ten minutes.

Heimerdinger, Blaze, Li Xiaoyao, and the others watched the shuttle from a distance. The technology on it all came from the Clock Tower and the Heavenly Court's own research and development. It was all immature technology, and no one was very confident about it, but the exploration had to continue.

As the shuttle approached the multiverse portal, the portal began operating at full speed. The surrounding light was distorted by the portal, forming a black hole-like structure. The shuttle, once inside, wobbled and wobbled as it sailed on the ocean. Fortunately, nothing went wrong until it passed through the portal.

"Alright, stop looking. We'll succeed. They'll return safely." Heimerdinger patted Blaze on the shoulder.

Blaze nodded, loosening his grip on his hand, which was covered in marks from his fingernails. Li Xiaoyao silently offered his blessings to Fina and the other two, wishing them success.

Outside a predominantly blue, somewhat irregularly shaped planet, a sudden, distorted phenomenon, difficult for the planet's inhabitants to observe, abruptly appeared. As it vanished, a dilapidated spaceship emerged in the universe.

??"vomit!"

Inside the shuttle, the three of them groaned involuntarily; the "bumps" of the teleportation were too great, and they were all finding it hard to bear.

Despite feeling unwell, the three of them were not in the mood to pay attention to themselves. They were all constantly checking the control panel in front of them to see if there were any problems, and if so, to go back immediately.

"The power system is fine, and there's enough energy left for two more trips," Frank reported. He knew the least about magic, so the inspection he was assigned was the simplest.

"The magic defense shell is fine, the wear is within the expected range, the magic patterns are only slightly damaged, and the damaged parts are all repairable by me," Fina said. On the control panel in front of her, there were only a few yellow indicators, and the rest were green, which represented normal conditions.

"Our vital signs are normal. The vomiting is likely a reaction to the soul shock, but it's within our self-healing range, and we expect to fully recover within ten days." Vernon, as the team leader, was responsible for the safety of the three of them. "The escape pod is functioning normally and can be used at any time."

“In other words…” Fina looked at Vernon.

"That's right, we did it! You two! Welcome to a new world with me!" Vernon cheered loudly, raising his hands in the crowded control cabin.

Originally, this cabin was intended to be expanded, but this decision was rejected after research because it was uncertain whether the expanded space would collapse during the shuttle process.

"We are the vanguard! We are the explorers! We are the heroes! Ahhh! I'm so happy!" Fina shouted.

Frank, standing beside him, remained silent, but the barely suppressed smile on his face betrayed his excitement and trembling hands.

He thought that after the deaths of his wife and children, his life would be forever shrouded in the darkness of revenge, but the sudden appearance of the clock tower, the ouroboros, and this mission pulled him out of that abyss.

"Alright, alright, don't get excited yet. The core system is fine. Continue monitoring the other systems," Vernon advised.

This advanced technology-integrated shuttle definitely contains more than just the systems they just inspected. If categorized more precisely, there are over a thousand systems in total, many of which are related to detection and recording.

Every detail and every piece of information gathered during this journey was extremely important and of great value.

"The spatial oscillation recording system is functioning normally..."

"Magic positioning system is functioning normally..."

"Life concealment system normal. On my command, target the planet in front of you and prepare to enter orbit."

??"yes!"

"Orbit entry successful."

"There's a problem! The magical remote detection system is malfunctioning; we can only use the optical system to detect the planet now."

"It's alright, as long as nothing major happens. Frank, take a look at the videos and pictures taken by the optical system. I feel that this should be a technology-driven world. See if you can identify what stage this world is in, and also assess the probability that we have been discovered by the intelligent life above."

??"yes!"

"And Fina, don't repair the damaged system for now. Take a look at the environmental data I sent you and compare it with the database to see if we can survive normally on this planet."