When they were gone, Zhen Huilan said, frowning, “Lu Kang, things like this have been happening a lot recently, right?”

With a bitter smile, Lu Kang nodded. “Yeah, a few other powerful sects also refused to pay us spirit stones after arriving in the city via the teleportation portal you’ve established for us.”

After a brief pause, she said, “I have a suggestion for you, considering Cai Lan isn’t here to keep order. From now on, turn this teleportation portal off and tell people that it’s broken. And since you don’t have some of the spiritual materials needed, you won’t be able to fix it within a short period of time.”

Lu Kang seemed to be in a very difficult situation as he said, “But if we do that, we might offend the foreigners who want to come to our realm through our portal. Our head also thought about shutting the portal down. However, he was afraid that if we did, foreign experts would seek trouble with him in the future.”

Zhen Huilan sighed. “You need to survive the imminent calamity first. It’s hard to say if there will...