The shopkeeper approached Chen Ping and Gabriel with a price list and spoke respectfully.

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping first glanced at Gabrielle, and after seeing that she was still experimenting with the seasonings, he shook his head and then looked at the boss and said.

Chen Ping: "Boss, how much is it in total? Just tell me the amount."

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper immediately replied, "Yes, sir. I have a total of 3,582 bottles of seasonings in my shop. Since you want them all, I gave you a 10% discount. I rounded it down, so the total payment is 5.52 million gold coins."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping nodded, then took out his gold card and handed it to the shopkeeper, saying, "Okay, swipe it now."

The boss respectfully accepted the gold card. Sure enough, he hadn't misjudged the price; the man was certainly not short of money. In fact, the boss felt that even if he quoted several times the price, the man wouldn't care when paying.

But clearly, he's a conscientious businessman. The original price was already enough to make a profit, so it's always better to take advantage of a bargain, especially when it comes to someone you can't afford to offend.

Even if the other person doesn't care about that small amount of money, it's still wrong to deceive them; you might even lose your life because of it.

The boss quickly went to the counter with the gold card, swiped it on the card reader, and the machine announced that 5.52 million gold coins had been received.

After receiving the money, the boss picked up the gold card and the space bag containing the seasonings. These space bags were not valuable; one could buy one for 100 gold coins. Although they were not disposable, they were not much better. These space bags were very fragile and could be destroyed if one was not careful. Most importantly, they could not store items with high concentrations of divine power. After testing, they could not even hold a lower-level main artifact.

Therefore, many businessmen will prepare one or two things in case of unforeseen circumstances.

Boss: "Sir, here's your gold card and some seasonings."

After Chen Ping accepted the gold card and the spatial bag, he nodded to the boss and then woke up Gabriel, indicating that it was time for them to leave.

After receiving payment, the shop owner personally saw Chen Ping and Gabriel out of the store, thoughtfully reminding them to keep the items safe and inviting them to visit again if needed. Chen Ping and Gabriel left the shop satisfied.

......

After successfully purchasing seasonings and other necessary supplies, Gabriel and Chen Ping stayed on the island briefly before deciding to leave, as they planned to activate the abandoned sea area teleportation token in the ocean in case of any unexpected situations.

As the roar of the yacht's engine gradually subsided, the two jumped steadily onto the sea, and Chen Ping then stowed away the luxury yacht.

Chen Ping exchanged glances with Gabriel, and after confirming that everything was ready, Chen Ping took out the Abandoned Sea Teleportation Token and solemnly announced, "Then I will start activating the teleportation portal now."

Gabriel nodded seriously and replied, "Let's begin."

Upon seeing this, Chen Ping immediately activated the Abandoned Sea Teleportation Token. Instantly, he felt his demigod-level divine power being rapidly drained from his body. He couldn't help but cry out in alarm, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and mobilized his magical power to replenish it. Fortunately, magical power could also replace divine power to maintain the teleportation process.

Over the next few minutes, Chen Ping continuously channeled his mana into the token. The token absorbed the energy and began to flash with dazzling light, indicating that the portal was painstakingly taking shape. As the light intensified, a distorted spatial rift slowly appeared on the sea surface.

As the distorted spatial rift appeared, Chen Ping finally understood why the token was attracting so much energy—it was to break through space! This method of teleportation was truly unsafe.

Looking at the dark spatial rift, Chen Ping couldn't help but complain, "This is called a portal? It's clearly just a spatial rift."

Seeing this, Gabriel looked at Chen Ping with concern and asked, "How are you feeling now? Is there anything that's bothering you?"

Seeing Gabriel's worried little face, Chen Ping couldn't help but pinch it, and then laughed, "It's nothing. After all, it's a legitimate item, and there's nothing wrong with it. It just consumes a lot of divine power (magic power). It probably consumed about half of my divine power (magic power). You really are a big consumer of divine power (magic power)."

Gabriel's expression relaxed after hearing that nothing was wrong, and she stopped being so tense. She then looked at the Desolate Sea Teleportation Token and said, "Next time, I'll activate it. I have more divine power than you. At the current level of consumption, I can only use up a third of my divine power at most."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping rolled his eyes and said, "It doesn't matter who opens it, what's the difference? Divine power? Just use divine crystals, and it'll be restored quickly. Alright, stop overthinking, let's go in."

After saying that, Chen Ping took Gabriel's hand and they walked together toward the portal formed by the spatial rift. That's right, after absorbing half of Chen Ping's magic power, the spatial rift gradually took the shape of a portal.

This shows that the quality of this abandoned sea teleportation token is very high. After all, even a creation artifact could not create such a situation. Therefore, this token is likely to be of the forbidden level.

......

Suddenly, a dark portal appeared on the calm sea. Instantly, most of the surrounding seawater disappeared, leaving a huge crater on the flat sea surface. After a while, once the portal stabilized, the surging seawater filled the crater.

After a while, the seawater calmed down. Suddenly, two figures emerged from the black portal and stood quietly on the sea. The portal then began to dissipate after the figures appeared.

Chen Ping and Gabriel looked around curiously, only to find that it didn't seem much different from the outside world. But that was understandable, since it was an abandoned sea area, and it was possible that there was only one sea.

Gabriel: "It looks like there's nothing different here. Is this the Wasteland? Does it really have the origin of the rules that Brother Xiaosai mentioned? I can't sense it at all."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping chuckled and said, "There are so many abandoned sea areas; some must have been perfected, but the survival game developers later became dissatisfied and abandoned them. These kinds of sea areas are probably one of those cases."

Upon hearing this, Gabriel asked Chen Ping, "Are you sure?"

Chen Ping immediately shook his head and laughed, "I must be guessing. How would I know anything about such things?"

Gabriel rolled her eyes at his words, thinking, "You're just spouting nonsense."

Seeing this, Chen Ping couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Then he looked at the Desolate Sea Teleportation Token in his hand and found that it could still be used. That was fine; there were no restrictions.

Just then, a beam of light shot forward from the token, forming subtitles.

[Token: Ding, detection. This is sea area number 5923, a sea area mainly for raising low-level attribute beasts, which has been abandoned!]