"Elsa, you woke up?" Darren now realized that Elsa had already come to.
"Well, you must have been busy focusing on that marriage thing," Elsa grunted at him angrily.
Darren smiled at her and said, "That's nonsense. I'll put you down now. I'll explain later. By the way, this is Steven, and this is Stephan."
Darren put Elsa down and pointed at the two men to introduce them.
When they saw Elsa, they were shocked. She was so beautiful that they almost could not breathe.
"Hey." Darren coughed two times, and the two men were startled out of their dazed admiration.
"Ha-ha." They laughed embarrassingly and said, "Darren, you're so lucky, your girlfriend is so beautiful."
Elsa, slightly shy, nodded to them and smiled. "Hello, my name is Elsa Gongsun."
"Hello, Elsa." They both nodded back at her, returning the smile.
They were now formally introduced.
Along the way, Elsa often asked Darren how they came out and why Darren wanted to participate in the contest for marriage. Darren responded to her that they would talk about this later. Of course, she chose to believe him. He must have some special reasons!
Soon, they came to a transmission array.
This transmission array was a huge rotating metal object, shaped like a honeycomb with many individual grids in it. Each grid could accommodate about ten people.
Darren was somewhat surprised to see this huge transmission array. It was rather impressive that this thing had been made by a rule cultivator!
Darren tried to mobilize his Spirit Power to sense it for a while, and he saw endless complex rule lines that formed the transmission array. He couldn't even begin to understand how they worked!
"The rule cultivator that created the transmission array must have used the Spatial Rule with great depth. It's amazing." Darren was astounded.
"You four, where do you want to go? Hurry up!" a guard of the transmission array said, urging them impatiently.
In this place, at least ten thousand cultivators who wanted to go other places were waiting in line, so the guards were busy.
"We want to go to the Lotus Holy Land," Steven took the lead and said to the guards.
"Four people, ten ink stones, pay the money and you can go. Hurry up." The guard's face was blank. It was a monotonous job.
Ten ink stones were also a considerable expenditure for Steven and his friend. They could only get fifty ink stones a month as outer disciples, which was even less than the resources that some other geniuses outside the Holy Land had!
"I'll pay this time." Seeing the awkward air from the two young men, Darren went up to the guard and asked, "I only have superior spiritual herbs, can I use them?"
"Hum, yes, fifteen spiritual herbs." The guard snorted at him with disdain. Judging from Darren's attire, he was obviously a lowly cultivator. How could he afford fifteen spiritual herbs? He was just doing this beyond his means in order to be impressive!
Darren also noticed the contemptuous look, but he did not say anything. He took out twenty spiritual herbs and threw them over. "It's not easy to do such menial work. Five of them are a tip for you, you're welcome."
After that, Darren led his companions to the grid marked "Lotus Holy Land".
The guard was stunned. He only saw the boy bring out twenty spiritual herbs like a magician who had nothing in his hand to begin with! It was amazing. Even though he had said something rude to him, he had been given five precious spiritual herbs! It was more than enough for him to change his attitude towards them.
"Thank you, sir, take care!" The guard saluted at him in a ridiculous manner and activated the transmission array. He was overjoyed.
…
In a few seconds, Darren and his companions emerged from the other side of the transmission array. Before them rose a prosperous city, not too far away. It was the city he had been searching for.
"Darren, you've spent a lot of money for us. I'll pay you back after I return to our sect."
"If you insist, then that means you don't see me as a friend. I will have to rely on you yo become an outer disciple. Spending several herbs is not a big deal." Darren took out more than a hundred spiritual herbs and placed them in their surprised hands. He said, "Brothers, this little gift is a token of my regard. I hope you can help me."
"What!" Steven stared at the herbs, mouth falling open. After a simple wave of Darren's hand, more than a hundred superior spiritual herbs appeared! He could not believe it!
"Wow, Darren, you are a secretly rich man! The spiritual herbs are like cabbages for you, ha-ha." Stephan was more frank. He reached out and received the herbs.
"Stephan, why are you so casual about this..."
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