Within the secret realm, the small street city lay at the foot of the mountain. It had grown a little livelier now, as though several more people had arrived in the past few days.
Any cultivator who had survived until now would have reaped considerable gains, unless their luck was exceptionally terrible.
Outside the pavilion, Prefect Wang was waiting as well. Ye Jingcheng greeted him, then followed him up the mountain.
Unlike ordinary cultivators, who lived at the mountain's foot, Nascent Soul True Lords had opened up palaces upon the mountain.
This both displayed a True Lord's status and made it easier for Nascent Soul Cultivators to keep watch over the entire secret realm.
This was, after all, a Fifth-Order Secret Realm. If cultivators from other sects had infiltrated it and another encirclement occurred, the Righteous Path Sect's losses on this journey through the Earth Immortal Realm might rise by quite a bit.
Naturally, the Righteous Path Sect would not tolerate such a situation.
The only thing Ye Jingcheng was curious about was which immortal sect—or perhaps cultivators from another realm—had obtained that mysterious treasure medicine deep within the Upper Immortal Realm.
Curiosity was curiosity, though. Ye Jingcheng knew his own limits and would not rashly ask about it.
Before long, the two arrived halfway up the mountain.
At that moment, boundless white mist shrouded the mountain.
The mist surged and rolled ceaselessly in the fierce wind, making the otherwise ordinary mountain appear particularly majestic and magnificent.
Its spiritual pressure was also far from weak. It was likely a Fifth Order Formation as well.
Ye Jingcheng could not help becoming even more cautious.
"Daoyou Qian Chen, there is no need to be so nervous. This time, the sect should be giving you an additional reward!" Prefect Wang said with a