The people at that table were persuaded too. "Then let's sign up as well!"
"That's more like it. Even if you want to play it safe, we can just look for spirit herbs and medicines around the outskirts."
After that, Mo Chen sat quietly to one side, picking out useful information from their conversation, even as the waiter refilled his tea again and again.
And so, after sitting in the teahouse for more than two hours, Mo Chen finally gained a more concrete understanding of the Half-Limit Secret Realm he had been hearing about so often lately.
Legend had it that the Half-Limit Secret Realm had not originally been a dangerous place, but the private territory of a man called High Person Longyan.
According to the tales, this had been so long ago that even the Immortal Alliance had yet to be established.
High Person Longyan's cultivation had been extraordinarily high. He had reached the perfected Spirit Transformation stage, a mere half-step from ascension, and possessed such overwhelming strength that suppressing several others at his level was no trouble at all.
Yet High Person Longyan had been fiercely arrogant, relying on his talent and looking down on others. He had claimed a vast, uninhabited stretch of land in the north as his own and laid down Array Formations.
He had declared, "All who enter or leave must pay a hefty fee. Those who disobey shall be slain."
High Person Longyan had carved those words onto an enormous Dark Jade Stele. Even today, that Dark Jade Stele, weathered by tens of thousands of years, could still be seen at the boundary of the Half-Limit Secret Realm.
When Mo Chen heard this part, he could not help clicking his tongue.
Someone at perfected Spirit Transformation—just how terrifying would that be?
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