Above the location marked on the Treasure Map, a ring of soft, luminous white light hovered silently. The halo slowly flowed and drifted, its hazy glow dyeing the surrounding trees with a faint white sheen.
This was the entrance to a secret realm!
Xiao Fan stood where he was, his brows tightly furrowed, still clinging to a shred of hope.
Unwilling to give up, he took out the Treasure Map again. His fingertips brushed over the mottled patterns on the paper as he carefully checked it, hoping to confirm the treasure's exact location once more.
But the instant his gaze fell upon the map, he suddenly discovered that, at some unknown time, a faint ink-colored arrow had quietly appeared on its surface. The arrow pointed straight ahead—directly at the white-glowing entrance to the secret realm before him.
At the sight of this, the hope in Xiao Fan's heart finally died!
He looked at the secret realm entrance, then at the arrow on the Treasure Map. The light in his eyes dimmed completely.
"Treasure Map, the treasure inside had better be worth the difficulty of finding it!"
Xiao Fan's tone was filled with helplessness.
The area marked by this Treasure Map had already been fraught with danger. After finally making it here, he had thought he could simply dig up the treasure. Never had he expected that, to obtain it, he would first have to clear a secret realm. This undoubtedly made things even harder.
Xiao Fan groaned inwardly.
If he went through all the trouble of clearing the secret realm, only to find no treasure at the treasure location in the end, Xiao Fan truly felt that he would break apart.
After all, this Treasure Map was never a guaranteed win. The treasure location was not one hundred percent certain