Chapter 86: Losing Money Until Becoming a Cave Heaven Starts with Bestowing Opportunities

White light flashed, and several cultivators were moved out of a wooden tower nearly two zhang tall.

They stood in the misty peach blossom forest, looking at the wooden tower’s tightly shut doors. Only the three paper slips pasted to its surface swayed gently in the white fog.

Now that the opportunity was in hand, even the white paper they had originally found sinister seemed warm and familiar.

“Immortal Fate Tower, Immortal Fate Tower. Before coming here, I heard there was a miraculous wooden tower somewhere in the wilderness. If you entered it, you could obtain opportunities.

“I didn’t believe it at first. But I never expected the rumors to actually be true. You really can get opportunities from here.”

One cultivator sighed leisurely.

The group had learned by chance that there was such a wooden tower here, and since the destination they were exploring this time happened to be nearby, they had invited one another to enter the secret realm together and seek opportunities.

“I wonder what opportunities you Fellow Daoists obtained? I only got a few spiritual herbs of average appearance. They’re probably worth a few dozen, maybe a hundred or so spirit stones.”

Someone asked curiously.

“About the same, about the same. I also got a few spiritual herbs.”

“Same here, same here. My luck was a little better. I also picked up one talisman.”

The others laughed it off and casually stated the opportunities they had received inside the wooden tower.

But the irrepressible radiance on their faces, along with those overflowing smiles, made it clear that what they had truly obtained was far more than what they said.

“Looks like our fate with this Immortal Fate Tower wasn’t deep enough.

“I heard someone once obtained a second-rank spiritual herb from here, as well as cultivation methods and ritual implements. It really makes a person envious.”

“I wonder where this wooden tower came from, how many treasures are inside it, and why it only appears in this peach blossom forest.”

“Perhaps it was an idle move casually laid down by some mighty senior, or perhaps the wooden tower is an ancient exotic treasure, bestowing opportunities upon us as it toys with the mortal world.”

“Heh, why bother with all that? As long as we can obtain opportunities, that’s enough.

“Those questions of tracing origins are not something Qi Refining independent cultivators like us can manage. If you’re truly curious about that sort of thing, you might not even understand how you died.”

“True.”

Everyone responded in unison.

For independent cultivators like them, with low cultivation and average talent, even obtaining a few spiritual herbs in ordinary times might require paying no small price.

As for cultivation methods, they had to go through many trials on the edge of life and death before they even qualified to exchange for them.

So, being able to safely obtain opportunities that had previously been difficult to acquire left everyone thoroughly satisfied.

“I heard there’s a secret realm near the wooden tower, and many treasures have spread out from inside it. Should we go explore it while we’re here?”

“Forget it. Who knows how many cultivators stronger than us have died in that secret realm? Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator from Black Jade Tower perished inside. Now it’s also protected by a restriction. Do you think your life is too long?”

“Exactly. Getting these opportunities is already a huge gain. Don’t be too greedy and throw your life away.”

Everyone dissuaded the cultivator who wanted to explore the secret realm, then left contentedly with the things they had obtained from the wooden tower.

“You’re all making huge profits, while I’m the only one who’s already lost so much I’ve gone all the way to Grandma’s house!”

Lu Yuan’s divine sense watched the many departing cultivators, his heart filled with sorrow.

Inside the stone cave, more than ten spiritual energy light orbs burst apart in an instant, turning into a fine, continuous spiritual rain that all became water leaking into the cave abode.

“Although I received many light orb rewards, and the Treasure-Seeking Tower obtained quite a bit of treasure aura, what I lost were opportunities countless cultivators dream of!”

A loss, a loss. Losing money until becoming a cave heaven began with bestowing opportunities.

As more and more cultivators entered the Treasure-Seeking Tower, rumors about being able to obtain opportunities from it spread without legs.

After all, with so many mouths, it was impossible to stop them all completely. There would always be someone who leaked the news. Gradually, the number of cultivators who knew about it would naturally grow.

Lu Yuan was happy to see this. Who would ever complain about having too many rewards?

Only the Treasure-Seeking Tower had it hard. Every day, it had to face an endless stream of cultivators, and there were no treasures that gave it any pleasant surprises.

Gradually, the Treasure-Seeking Tower developed a bit of a temper. Its wooden legs retracted, and the wooden house stayed as steady as a boulder, unwilling to come out and receive guests no matter what.

Helpless, Lu Yuan could only use his divine sense to take out the Mirage Yin Pearl sunk at the bottom of the lake and tempt the Treasure-Seeking Tower with it.

He used the Mirage Yin Pearl as bait and proposed a condition: after it received a certain number of cultivators, he would place the Mirage Yin Pearl inside the tower for one hour.

The more cultivators it received, the longer it would be placed inside.

How could the simp tower, which yearned day and night for the Mirage Yin Pearl, withstand such a great temptation? Its two legs clacked a few times, and it arrived in the peach blossom forest.

Its doors opened wide, looking as if it would let any cultivator enter.

Seeing the Treasure-Seeking Tower so devoted to its work, Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

Now this was what you called a true phoenix among towers.

What Yihong Tower, Hundred Flowers Tower, Leaning Green Tower? None of them could compare to our Treasure-Seeking Tower!

As more and more cultivators entered, someone naturally discovered the pattern behind obtaining opportunities.

After receiving opportunities, all cultivators lingered in the peach blossom forest, wanting to continue their fate with it, but the wooden tower heartlessly blocked them outside.

After someone happened to leave and then enter the peach blossom forest again, they discovered they could enter the wooden tower once more.

Once this was confirmed, cultivators began going in and out repeatedly, continuously obtaining opportunities.

Of course, under these circumstances, the light orb rewards appearing inside the cave abode grew smaller and smaller. Naturally, the opportunities also only became fewer and fewer. After too many times, their fate with it even ended entirely.

There were also meticulous cultivators who discovered that after bringing demonic beasts and weird entities into the wooden tower, the demonic beasts and weird entities might also obtain opportunities.

Immediately, people began bringing the demonic beasts and weird entities they raised into the wooden tower with them, or casually catching a few low-level demonic beasts from the wilderness and placing them inside the wooden tower to fleece it.

Lu Yuan even saw one insect cultivator slap an azure-black jar outside the wooden tower. In an instant, thousands upon thousands of poisonous insects flew out from inside, blotting out the sky before finally covering the insect cultivator’s body.

Are you farming bugs here?!

Lu Yuan did not know whether to laugh or cry.

However, he did not deliberately target this sort of cultivator either. In any case, the opportunities were decided by the light orbs inside the cave abode. How much they could get depended entirely on a single sentence from him.

There were even cases where the demonic beasts and weird entities raised by cultivators obtained opportunities exceeding those of the cultivators themselves.

Lu Yuan saw one cultivator bringing a little girl in red into the wooden tower. After they entered, the opportunities the little girl obtained far surpassed the cultivator’s.

He noticed that when she received several opportunities, the little girl in red’s eyes revealed a vicious, resentful look. She secretly swallowed a Snow Condensing Fruit and a jade slip that recorded a sinister, poisonous cultivation method.

After they came outside the wooden tower, what she truly handed over to her master was only a small portion. But that cultivator did not notice anything strange at all. He was even extremely satisfied that his weird entity had obtained an extra decent opportunity.

After putting the spiritual herbs into his storage bag, the cultivator then stored the blank-eyed little girl in red inside a piece of bloodstained swaddling cloth.

Now this was a little interesting…

Seeing the little girl in red secretly swallow the spiritual herb and cultivation method, as well as the contrast between her gaze inside and outside the tower, Lu Yuan suddenly found it fascinating and mentally filled in all sorts of plotlines.

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