Mysticism Can't Save the Unlucky, and Spending Can't Change Fate
Lu Ping quickly shook his head, banishing the absurd idea from his mind.
With a great calamity imminent in this world, there is no way he can remain uninvolved.
What if he was hiding in a secret realm in seclusion, and the aftermath of a great battle wiped him and the realm away? That would be a truly humiliating death.
Lu Ping chose A.
[You chose A.]
You patted the Crow-Crow's head, put Storage Ring on it, and plunged into the secret realm.
[When the disciples of the Desire Sea Pavilion explored the secret realm, they established a rule that they must evacuate within three days in order to save their lives.]
[But you don't have that concern at all.]
Even if Crow-Crow messes things up inside, at most it'll just lose some of its essence and be resurrected.
[You sit firmly on your Cloud Boat, communicating with the Crow-Crow telepathically, watching it begin its thorough sweep through the secret realm.]
[However, as the Crow-Crow' vision continued to be transmitted back, your heart grew colder and colder.]
Looking around, the entire secret realm was filled with barren mountains and ruins; one might not even be able to find ten spiritual herbs in a day.
This place is even more shabby than the Grotto-Heaven inside the Little Toad's belly!
[Where's the promised Spirit Transformation realm?!]
[I finally got a gold card, but it turns out to be a bare, unfinished house inside?!]
[Crow-Crow searched inside for half a month.]
[You only allowed Crow-Crow to leave with the spoils after the secret realm began to show signs of instability.]
[After all the items were converted into cash, their total value was only a few million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and there were no particularly valuable items.]
[You are now worth nearly a hundred million, and you're a master alchemist who can earn millions from a single batch of pills.]
[This meager income, and it'll take another half a month to recover—it's practically a complete loss!]
[The only consolation is that those few dozen medicinal herbs, dug up with soil still attached, have slightly enriched Little Toad's Medicine Garden.]
You're somewhat unwilling to accept this.
[This secret realm must be too low-level; the next one will definitely yield a huge reward!]
[The Cloud Boat continues its journey.]
[A dozen days later, another Spirit Transformation realm appeared in the sky above a desolate wasteland ahead.]
[Think of Hua Yunzhen, she only meets one every two months. You meet a second one in just one month!]
You're incredibly lucky!
[You sent Crow-Crow in again.]
This time, the poverty in this secret realm is even more openly acknowledged than the last one.
[The Crow-Crow wandered around inside for nine days but didn't find anything of high value.]
[Unwilling to return empty-handed, you send Crow-Crow deeper into the secret realm to see if they can uncover any hidden compartments or the core of cave abode.]
[On the tenth day at noon, your heart suddenly skipped a beat.]
Without any warning, the portal in front of you, along with the surrounding space, shattered like a broken mirror, piece by piece.
The secret realm has collapsed.
[The spiritual connection between you and the Crow-Crow has suddenly been severed.]
[A moment later, within your Dantian, a wisp of flame re-condensed into a Fire Crow Seed.]
[Without even touching a hair, you, the pilot who was just resurrected a little over a month ago, have once again gloriously fallen.]
[On the Cloud Boat, you fell silent.]
[The secret realms of this Domain of Chaos are randomly located, randomly ranked, and their loot is random; even the timing of their collapse is completely random.]
[How is this different from scratch-off lottery tickets in my past life?]
[Hua Yunzhen led over a hundred disciples, killing two birds with one stone along the way. The hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones they won were enough for their subordinates to share.]
[You, a dignified Spirit Transformation Divine Lord and a grandmaster alchemist with tens of millions in assets, actually come here to compete with unorthodox Rogue Cultivators for these ten or twenty yuan scratch-off lottery tickets.]
[What back garden? Your back garden isn't even that far back!]
[Instead of running around the world trying your luck, you could stay in your cave abode and refine pills; the profits would be more than ten times higher.]
[Options pop up.]
[A: Cut your losses! Gamblers never recover. Fly to the nearest main city and take the Teleportation Array back to the Azure Dragon Domain immediately.]
[B: Let's try again! I was just unlucky last time, the next dungeon will definitely drop a divine artifact!]
[C: In a fit of rage, you spit at the collapsing Void, pull out your notebook, and write a "Complaint Letter Regarding the Shoddy Construction of the Domain of Chaos Realm's Illegal Secret Realm." You decide to go to the Black Market Nü Zhi City and find 100,000 Rogue Cultivators to crowdfund the development of a "Secret Realm Dianping APP," where you'll give every broken-down secret realm a one-star review and extort 3.2 million from the spirit of the secret realm for emotional distress!]
Lu Ping looked at the text on the screen and could only sigh.
Luck won't save you from bad luck, and spending money won't change your fate.
Little B, let's stop playing.
His time is so precious, he really can't linger here for too long.
Lu Ping decisively chose A.
[You chose A.]
[You've given up on the idea of getting rich by grinding random dungeons.]
Without the Crow-Crow raven, you must pilot the Cloud Boat yourself, determine your direction, and fly towards the nearest major city.
[Ten days later, you arrive at Ox Ridge City and go directly to the Mystic Nether Pavilion.]
[You obediently took out 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and bought Teleportation Jade Talisman to Black Nether City.]
[If I had known I would still have to pay this toll today, why did I try to save that 500,000 in Nü Zhi City?]
[You stand on the battle platform, calculating the time cost of this journey and the expense of resurrecting the Crow-Crow, and feel another pang of heartache.]
[Huh, after all this commotion, the pain of parting that Jiang Mutian caused has vanished.]
[Lu, a Dao of Alchemy Spirit Transformation Divine Lord and Grandmaster of Alchemy, never engages in unprofitable transactions!]
[As the teleportation White Light flashed, you left the Domain of Chaos.]
[You transferred from Black Nether City and returned to Qingyang City.]
[A year has passed since you left Qingyang City for the Domain of Chaos.]
[You always keep something in reserve, and you even try to suppress your cultivation level to the Qi Refining Stage.]
[However, Shen Yuerong gave you an unforgettable lesson before.]
The most perfect disguise is when one's cultivation level matches their actions.
[Otherwise, if someone with Qi Refining cultivation were to produce top-grade Pills, their deception would be exposed the moment they made a move.]
[So you pretended to be Nascent Soul Immortal in Doushu City, but in Nü Zhi City you were a Nascent Spirit Transformation Alchemy Master.]
[You arrived in Qingyang City and controlled your cultivation to the Nascent Soul Realm.]
You have arrived at the Azure Dragon Merchant Association.
[It's time to recoup your investment, plus interest, of the 3.5 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones you spent a year ago.]
You arrived at that familiar private room with practiced ease.
[After a while, footsteps could be heard outside the private room.]
Hearing those footsteps, your eyes darkened slightly. Something's not right...