The little thatched cottage Zhang Biyun entered was called "Childhood Retreat." It was a Magic Treasure-type illusion realm. Using the gleaming golden key as a medium was all it took to guide the user's Divine Soul inside.
Clearly, Zhang Biyun and the Golden-Haired Hou had indeed been close friends for years before entering the Secret Realm. Otherwise, they would never have shared such a private method of communicating through their Divine Souls, much less named the Magic Treasure illusion realm "Childhood Retreat."
Zhang Biyun floated outside the cottage, looking astonished. "You've died twice too?! And didn't you say you weren't leaving the Dragon Palace for now?"
"Ugh, I had some bad luck. It's a long story." The Golden-Haired Hou was powerfully built, and the pair of horns on his head looked formidable. However, his physical form looked extremely indistinct within the illusion realm, flickering in and out of sight like a ghost hidden in dense fog. "I originally planned to stay in the Dragon Palace. I was even considering giving up on the opportunity at the Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion... but annoyingly enough, right after you told me the Bizarre Disappearance Case had started up again that day, things went wrong at the Dragon Palace too...!"
"What went wrong?"
"The True Dragon came back...!" The Golden-Haired Hou sounded rather speechless. "There was a Heavenly Dao Proclamation saying the True Dragon had returned from its travels. If us sneaky thieves hiding in the Dragon Palace didn't leave immediately, we might die horrible deaths. Everyone in the Dragon Palace got chased out, myself included. And on the way back to the Nine Fortunate Destiny Peaks, people kept dying, wasting plenty of revival chances. I died twice too...!"
Quick-witted as ever, Zhang Biyun instantly caught the key point. "You mean that once Travelers