Xin Yao: "Brother, you're not bold enough to actually want to snatch a rare treasure from the gods, are you?!"
Lu Chen chuckled. "Not that. If the gods have their eye on something, what do mortals like us have to fight them with?"
"Then what did you mean by saying it would actually be easier?"
Xin Yao was the sort who would break the casserole and question it to the bottom.
Lu Chen reminded her, "Have you forgotten the ultimate purpose of this mission?"
"Break through the defenses and open the secret realm. What about it?" Xin Yao blurted out, then suddenly came to her senses. "You mean..."
Lu Chen nodded and said no more.
This mission had never said they had to obtain the rare treasure.
In other words, whether they took the rare treasure or not was not the key to this secret realm mission.
Opening the secret realm was.
And in a secret realm like this, aside from that rare treasure, it must surely have nurtured quite a few accompanying heavenly treasures.
At worst, they could split the proceeds seventy-thirty with this deity.
—The rare treasure would go to Them, and the secret realm to him.
Wouldn't that leave everyone happy?
But the most urgent matter now was to first confirm whether a deity had truly intervened. If it really was a god, then they needed to find out which god it was.
And so, it became a contest of connections once more.
With Lord God of Wealth and Plague Great Emperor Haotian, two Orthodox Gods of the Heavenly Court above Third Rank, backing him...
Ordinary deities probably would not refuse to show some respect, would they?
Thus, Lu Chen planned to observe the situation after arriving and get a grasp of the details first.
Then he