Over the past decade and more, Chen Lin had collected three Nightmare Realm Items in total.
They were a patterned silver button, a Gray Striped Stone over a foot long and two inches wide, and a painting of a stunningly beautiful woman.
Together with the Wooden Carving he had won while gambling for treasures in Baishuang City, they gave him access to four scenarios.
However, the Wooden Carving's scenario posed little danger and had already been explored almost completely. He had even entered it himself once. There really was nothing worthwhile inside, and even the useless things could not be brought out.
Presumably, that was precisely why the Tianyun Sect had offered it as a gambling prize.
The scenarios corresponding to the three items he obtained afterward were all extremely dangerous.
After acquiring them, Chen Lin had found many elderly cultivators to send inside, but every one had vanished like a stone sinking into the sea. To speed up the exploration, he had even taken out three Nightmare Coins and asked Luo Xiaoyu to find three particularly capable elderly cultivators, each taking a coin into one of the three scenarios. None had returned.
He had few Nightmare Coins left, and not many Xianji Stones either. He had yet to find substitutes, and he only had one Road Guide, so he had invested no more resources, merely asking Luo Xiaoyu to keep finding elderly cultivators and leave the exploration to chance.
He had already given up hope, yet unexpectedly, someone had returned this time.
"Where is he?"
Chen Lin turned to Luo Xiaoyu and asked.
"At the estate outside the city. He suffered some injuries and is receiving treatment."
Chen Lin's expression shifted slightly. "There aren't any signs of Nightmare Transformation, are there?"
The dangers of exploring the Nightmare Realm were