Chapter 266

"This time, the Radiant Dawn Tower Secret Realm isn't too far from Yonglu Mountain. The elder from Founding Peak said anyone interested could sign up, and the sect would take its disciples there by flying boat. But the secret realm is notoriously unpredictable. Sometimes it vanishes after three or four days; sometimes it stays for two or three months. Whether we make it in depends on fate."

Chen Zui had little interest in gifts from a secret realm, but the thought of challenging the tower had him itching to try. "I'm going! What about you two?"

"I can go too," Wen Xu said with a nod.

Bian Chunchou clapped his hands. "Of course we're going together! We hardly ever get a chance to leave the sect. It'd be such a waste not to take a look." He was happy to take things as they came. Even if he failed to win "Emperor Zhao Xia's" favor, challenging the tower with his friends would still be fun. His senior sister had told him that every floor posed a different challenge, and the secret realm adjusted those challenges to each cultivator. It was practically an immersive, custom-built amusement park.

Admission was free, and there were even little prizes. When he thought of it that way, even drawing a "Thanks for trying" would be a fantastic bargain.

"I'm not asking for rare treasures or a complete collection of cultivation techniques. A few spirit-food recipes would be enough. They don't even have to be fancy—just the most ordinary ones. Braised fish or four-joy meatballs would be even better!"

Aboard the flying boat, Bian Chunchou began dreaming up gifts the kindly secret-realm deity might tailor just for him. "Hey, do you think the deity would hear me if I made a wish inside the tower?"

Wen