Severin smiled and extended his hand toward Heidi. “You tter me, Miss Heidi. Your team’s overall


    strength is much greater than mine, and we’re of the same attainment level too. It would be more


    urate to say that we will have to look out for each other during this expedition.”


    Heidi chuckled upon hearing that. “You’re being too modest! I firmly believe that yourbat ability far


    exceeds mine despite our simr attainment levels. I also have faith that you, as an alchemist, will


    make a breakthrough to level one royal saint.”


    Severin did not anticipate her to be such a smooth talker. She grinned and replied, “Don’t worry. We’re


    all from the same sect, so it’s only natural for us to look out for one another in there. Let’s all have each


    other’s back and remain vignt.”


    Heidi then produced a flying sword. She erged it and hopped on with her team before ascending into


    the air. Meanwhile, Severin took out his flying sword and got on with 1,200 of his team members.


    “This will be my first time entering the Paradise Secret Realm. You should know the way even though


    you’ve never been there, so I’ll just follow your lead,” Severin said with a smile. He still had no clue


    where


    the realm was located.


    Heidi chuckled. “You were so busy refining pills that you didn’t have the time to find out more about the


    realm. Luckily, it’s very straightforward. We’re heading the right way, so we only need to keep flying


    forward. It’s still early, and there’s still about a week until the realm opens. Given our current pace, we


    can probably reach our destination in four days.”


    Heidi then paused before adding politely, “But as a precaution, we’ll have to forgo the luxury of


    N?velDrama.Org owns this text.


    amodation and sleep on the mountaintops these next few nights.”


    She frowned when she heard that and questioned, “Why? I’m pretty sure the sect can afford lodging.


    Or


    is it because our group is toorge and there might not be enough rooms avable if we’re toote to a


    hotel inside the city.”


    Heidi smiled as she exined, “There are multiple reasons, and these are all based on our experience.


    Firstly, as you mentioned, we are arge group, and finding amodation will be very challenging.


    Staying separately makes it difficult to manage the entire group and streamline our departure the next


    day.”


    After a brief pause, Heidi continued, “Secondly, we might attract unwanted attention because we’re


    traveling in arge group. There’s a chance we might run into rogues or bandits along the way, as we


    did


    before. They don’t pose any real threat to us, but they might feelpelled to engage us in a fight. The


    previous thousand–strong team had their numbers shed by several hundred, and it was toote for


    the


    realm with lesser numbers.”


    Severin expressed his surprise. “I didn’t think those rogues would be bold enough to challenge our


    sect’s people to a fight. Aren’t they afraid of first–tier sects like ours?”


    Heidi smiled and replied, “We don’t usually face such situations because we’re first–tier sects, but


    some second–tier sects that have Paradise Secret Realm tokens may be ambushed during their


    journey. The realm contains many highly–coveted spiritual herbs and sought–after treasures.”


    She’s eyes sparkled upon hearing the word ‘treasure‘. “Hehe, could you tell us more about the


    spiritual herbs inside the Paradise Secret Realm? I wonder what could be so attractive to those people


    that they wouldn’t even think twice about going on such a perilous journey.


    Severin and Diane shared augh when they saw She’s money–grubbing attitude.