"No vacant rooms?"
"Yes, my lord, please see. From the seventeenth to the twenty-fifth floors, every cultivation room is occupied."
The Record Keeper flipped open the register, displaying the entry-and-exit records and expiration dates for every room. "Beginning each year on the Bing Fire Day in July, the quality of the Sunlight Radiance and Moonlight Radiance within Moon Gazing Tower soars by a section. During this period, some cultivation rooms below the twentieth floor that normally require only minor merit to open instead require great merit.
"One great merit lasts anywhere from sixty-odd days to over a hundred days. To avoid failing to secure one after leaving, those who do get one generally reserve two or even three periods at once."
"I vaguely remember..."
"What did you say, my lord?"
"Nothing."
Liang Qu leafed through the records in the register, his brow faintly furrowed.
He vaguely recalled what Meng Qiang had said when he first ascended the tower. At the time, Meng Qiang had indeed mentioned that the cultivation rooms in Moon Gazing Tower were hard to snatch up every Bing Fire Day. Liang Qu had originally wondered why there were vacancies in November, never expecting the rush to last for several months. He had missed the boat.
Moon Gazing Tower was the ideal place for his breakthrough.
First, it was safe enough.
Including his Master, there were three True Image cultivators at home. Safe as it was, it could not ward off every risk. What if spies from an enemy state sacrificed themselves and self-detonated? They would not even need to enter the house—one blast from afar, one shockwave, and if it made him suffer qi deviation while in seclusion, how dangerous would that be?
Moon Gazing Tower was different.
A whole pack of True Image cultivators hunkered down