"Good, good, good! Niu Boyi, Niu Boyi!"
Lu Chen gave him a thumbs-up and casually buttered up the old fellow.
He opened the [Secret Realm] section on the screen. A string of missions instantly popped up, densely filling his entire field of vision:
--A-rank Secret Realm: Ruins of the Little Pure-Void Hall.
--S-rank Secret Realm: City in the Ear.
--S-rank Secret Realm: Sea of Calamity.
--SS-rank Secret Realm: Thunder Marsh Return to Ruin.
At a glance, nearly all of them were S-rank missions or above.
Lu Chen narrowed his eyes. "Sir, secret realm missions... are they just about entering secret realms to explore and seize treasures?"
"Most of them are. Otherwise, where do you think all those heavenly treasures and earthly herbs on the market come from? Most are dug out of secret realms." Yu Feng spoke unhurriedly. "Of course, some secret realms are ancient ruins, with plenty of opportunities hidden inside. As for the rest, you can think of them as—higher-level demon and monster instances."
Lu Chen nodded, his gaze settling on the oddly named secret realm. "'City in the Ear'... what does that name mean?"
He casually opened its details.
[S-rank Secret Realm: City in the Ear]
[Secret Realm Background: Xie Min of Eastern Huai has a secret realm growing within her ear. It contains the Fifth Grade heavenly treasure, "Ear-Soul Grass," and opens every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.]
[Mission Notes: Enter the secret realm and collect spirit herbs for submission. Each stalk earns one million in cash and three hundred military merit points.]
"A secret realm... grew inside someone's ear?"
Lu Chen stared at it in a daze, finding it incredibly novel.
"Kid, you really haven't seen much, have you?" Yu Feng laughed. "Secret realms aren't picky about where they