Huo Yuhao met the Third Prince in secret late at night. Was this the distortion of human nature...
Ahem. Fine, Huo Yuhao had come on business.
The Third Prince rose and led Huo Yuhao into the secret chamber beneath the Side Hall. It had to be said, as expected of a secret chamber in the imperial palace, it looked lavish, with furnishings like a soft bed and the like.
As for why a Side Hall in the imperial palace had a secret chamber, that was actually very normal, because a secret chamber's main purpose was to let soul masters cut themselves off from the outside world and devote themselves fully to cultivation.
Until, ten thousand years ago, a Secret Chamber Douluo appeared, causing the purpose of secret chambers to undergo a tiny, rather unfortunate change.
It was not as if successive Sun Moon Emperors no longer needed to cultivate. After reviewing memorials and handling trivial affairs in the Side Hall, they could cultivate nearby in the Side Hall's secret chamber, avoiding disturbance from outsiders.
The reason they chose to cultivate in a secret chamber was because many soul masters would suddenly feel the sensation of a breakthrough during cultivation. In order not to miss the chance, they would push through in one go and complete the breakthrough directly.
If an outsider disturbed their cultivation at such a time, they might miss the chance to break through, and the next time they wanted to feel that sensation again, who knew when it would be.
The higher-level a soul master was, the longer the interval between such breakthrough sensations, and if they missed one, they might never get a second chance in this life.
Low- and mid-level soul masters could cultivate together, even directly inside multi-person dormitories.
But high-level soul masters often