"You know about the Hidden Lantern?"
Xiao Chen was delighted.
The advancement mission would not be released for another three days, so Xiao Chen had no way of learning the specifics of the Hidden Lantern yet.
Thus, he asked Zhu Wei, treating a dead horse as though it were still alive, hoping to coax some information out of him.
He had not held much hope at first. Who would have thought Zhu Wei actually seemed to know!
Of course, Xiao Chen's question had not been entirely a shot in the dark!
According to Qin Wuji, the place where the Hidden Lantern lay was connected to a peerless demon.
Even when Xiao Chen pressed him, Qin Wuji had not revealed the exact nature of that connection.
Originally, under the rules, Qin Wuji was not supposed to provide participants with any information before the mission was released.
He had made an exception solely because Xiao Chen's performance had been outrageously outstanding. By slaying demons and vanquishing fiends, he had made extraordinary contributions to the Azure Dragon Domain!
There was never absolute fairness in the world. In every age and every realm, those who stood out received preferential treatment.
"The Hidden Lantern? Of course I know! It's the clan treasure our Fire Demon Clan has guarded for generations. Over the past hundred thousand years, countless ambitious, insatiably greedy people from the Ten Thousand Dynasties like you have come to seize it. Our Fire Demon Clan slaughtered them all, flayed their skins, gouged out their hearts, and devoured every last scrap. To think that after all these endless years, you still dare come surging back!"
Zhu Wei was furious. Flames burned fiercely in his pupils, white vapor kept jetting from his nostrils, and his voice abruptly rose.
"A clan treasure the Fire Demon Clan