Scheming

Hmph. He was nothing like that dragon Cheng Wei. Cheng Wei didn't have a shred of the dignity befitting a powerful senior, whether in how he treated people or how he conducted himself.

Scheming

"Wen Xu-Xu, what are you looking at?"

Since arriving at the Heaven-Shattering Sword Sect, Wen Xu had received quite a few welcome gifts on account of his seniority. Most were Spirit Stones, though there were some strange magical artifacts too. Zhi Lianshan, for instance, had given him a treasure-seeking compass aboard the flying vessel. It had no use for now, but was said to be invaluable when exploring secret realms.

"A generous gift." Wen Xu weighed the jade bottle in his hand. He had thought it contained pills or something of the sort. Who could have guessed it held a small secret realm? It covered little more than two acres, but he had just tested it, and the spiritual energy inside was twice as dense as outside.

In other words, if he cultivated in this little secret realm from now on, he could progress twice as fast as before.

Man-made secret realms needed spiritual energy to sustain them, though. If Wen Xu wanted to use it for cultivation over the long term, he would have to be ready to burn through Spirit Stones.

"What? Someone gave you an entire secret realm?" Bian Chunchou broke off in shock. "Can... can we accept that?" What if it was a sugar-coated cannonball?

"Mm. It was a gift from a friend of my master's."

Bian Chunchou relaxed at once. "Oh, then it's fine." A friend of the Divine Dragon was bound to mean well. And so generous, too! He could weep with envy.

Wen Xu: Once again, he had discovered just how blindly his friend trusted his master.

"This jade