The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Chapter 1753 - 1752: Country Bumpkin

Once the last member of the Business Alliance took their place, the Teleportation Array slowly opened.Golden light descended from the sky, forming a cylindrical pillar that enveloped the ground.

At first, Tang Rao was still wondering why he'd never managed to find the way to the Central Island, and why using Divine Stones to shuttle around had been completely useless. Turned out, going to the Central Island could only be done through a specialized Teleportation Array. Thinking back on his previous recklessness, he couldn't help regretting it.

"Step on one by one, the ones in front go first, the ones behind follow up. The Teleportation Array has a time limit—if you're late and the Array shuts down, you can only blame the people in front for wasting your chance."

There were quite a lot of members in the Business Alliance. For easier management, they'd even set up an internal management group, and the ones handling order right now were exactly these people, which also made them the ones most annoyed.

As order administrators, they had to make sure everyone got through the Teleportation Array so they could all go in together. If the people in front wasted their time, it was basically wasting the administrators' own time, so naturally these admins weren't in any great mood.

Very quickly, several rings of people at the front were all carried away by the Teleportation Array, and when it was Tang Rao's turn to step onto the Array, he still hadn't quite recovered his wits.

"This Teleportation Array is really high-end. I felt爽歪歪 the moment I stepped on. This speed is way faster than what I had before."

In the blink of an eye, their feet were already planted on the soil of the Central Island.

"This is the Central Island?"

"I've seen plenty in my years, but spending money to build everything so dazzlingly luxurious, gold and jade everywhere you look, a place where just one glance is enough to make your eyes go blind with envy—this is the first time I've ever seen something like this!"

Tang Rao had thought that once they got off the Teleportation Array, he'd be the only one who hadn't seen the world and would be a bit shocked. He hadn't expected the others to react even more exaggeratedly than he did.

"Look at you lot, like you've never seen the world. But when I first came here, I reacted just like you. That's exactly why everyone who's been to the Central Island can't help longing for it afterward."

Luckily, an old hand who'd been to the Central Island before started explaining things to the newbies around him, and only then did these little rookies calm down a bit.

"Don't be so nervous. After you've been here a few more times, it'll become nothing special."

Family Head Liu had been to the Central Island several times. He, too, envied those who could live here, but over time, he'd gradually come to accept reality.

People like them, living on the other islands, might get to come here occasionally for business, but thinking about living on the Central Island long-term was pure fantasy.

"Family Head Liu, seeing how calm you are, you must've been here a lot, huh?"

Tang Rao leaned lightly against Family Head Liu's shoulder and quietly tried to fish for some information from him.

"I've been here several times. Each time I only got one day. Now that the North Island's relationship with the Central Island is fairly harmonious, the Central Inspection has given us a time extension. People from other islands only get one day for academic exchange; ours has been extended to three."

Three days?

On his very first trip to the Central Island, Tang Rao was already enjoying such high-level treatment. Getting two extra days all of a sudden—those two extra days were enough for him to do a lot.

"Seems unbelievable, right? And let me tell you, we only use one day for academic exchange. The remaining two days you can arrange however you like. That's a privilege only our Business Alliance gets."

Family Head Liu explained to Tang Rao, and Tang Rao suddenly felt that his impulsive decision to join the Business Alliance had been absolutely spot-on.

"Hey, since you're so familiar with the Central Island, tell me what special places there are here, so I can specifically go check them out in the last two days and broaden my horizons."

Tang Rao got along quite well with the Tang Family Master; those others wanted to get some information out of Family Head Liu, but that was harder than ascending to the heavens. Tang Rao just tried his luck casually, and Family Head Liu directly laid out everything he knew, down to the last detail.

The Central Island was the wealthiest island in the entire Divine Realm. In the eyes of outsiders, it was an extremely mysterious existence; those who had been there envied the abundant lives of the Central Island people.

Family Head Liu told Tang Rao that everyone living on the Central Island was proud of their affluence.

They never worried about their houses not being able to keep out wind and rain, nor did they ever worry about starving to death on the streets one day. The only thing they feared was that one day, they'd be bored because they had nothing to do.

The Central Island people's mindset and awareness were just too high. Living among such high-quality people for a long time, Tang Rao's own character and outlook might improve quite a bit.

"Stop staring around here. The embassy has long finished preparations to receive us. They've set up food, lodging, and venues for exchange. It's not good to keep them waiting."

Family Head Liu timely reminded everyone to snap out of it. They weren't here just to gawk at buildings and broaden their horizons; doing more academic exchange was far more important than satisfying their eyes.

"We almost messed up the main business. The Central Island giving us so many special favors is already a huge show of respect. We can't take an inch and ask for a mile just because they're treating us well and start acting like they don't matter."

Most importantly, they absolutely couldn't let the Central Island feel that they were arrogant. Otherwise, in the future, even if they wanted to give the North Island Business Alliance some preferential treatment, they'd have no reason to do so.

When they went to the other islands for academic exchange, they went straight to the Island Master Mansion. Only here on the Central Island did they not have the qualification to go to the Island Master Mansion, and were instead invited to the embassy.

They had to remember this was the Central Island. Even if they were only staying at the embassy and conducting exchanges there, they were already more than satisfied.

"Welcome to the Central Island for academic exchange!"

The people of the Central Island had been waiting there for quite a while.

Between the North Island and the Central Island, apart from the massive gap in architecture, there was also a huge difference in overall quality.

The embassy alone had at least a hundred people just for the welcoming lineup.

The total population of the Central Island wasn't much larger than that of the North Island, yet they could still send out a huge group to run a welcome ceremony. If this were the North Island, forget a welcome ceremony—just finding ten people to do reception would be hard enough.

"Wow, am I seeing this right? Every single one of them is a late-stage High God. These late-stage High Gods are actually willing to stand here and welcome us? Alliance Leader, pinch me and tell me this isn't real!"

Someone began doubting what he was seeing with his own eyes. Even after being pinched and feeling the pain, it still didn't feel all that real.

The odds of powerful people coming out to greet a bunch of average cultivators on the North Island were vanishingly small; for that to happen on the Central Island was even more unimaginable.

"I think the Central Island people are just really polite. Look at how long we've been here—we've been wandering around like we're touring a grand view garden, basically a bunch of country bumpkins. But look at them: they never once looked down on us and are even receiving us with the highest ceremony. It's making me feel a bit embarrassed!"