Chapter 162 - 160: Secret Realm
After five days in the forest, Li Pan and the Wang Family had been fighting every day, from which she had learned a great deal of battle experience. This forest was a spontaneously emerging Secret Realm, extremely dangerous, but indeed replete with valuable items.
Currently, it was for public use; entering alone would require a significant fee, and 40% of the medicinal materials and Crystal Cores gathered had to be surrendered.
The generosity was due to the extreme danger inside; the high rate of casualties made it necessary to charge entry fees to alleviate the public finance crisis and to ensure that more people could eat their fill. Having money was essential to buy food and medicinal materials.
Additionally, they needed better Spiritual Medicine for refining potions. Noble families controlled potion making but were also required to contribute a portion of their potions to the public, a share intended for ordinary soldiers. After all, one cannot cook without rice.
Allowing powerful families to enter by themselves, firstly, collected money, and secondly, secured some Spiritual Medicine for potion making—a win-win situation.
The Wang Family had made a significant sacrifice for Li Pan, collaborating with other families to learn potion making and offering some of their resources for exchange, though Grandpa Wang never mentioned it, not even to the Base Commander, who also kept silent about his suspicions to Li Pan and Xue Dong.
Xue Dong had his guesses, but he didn’t know what resources were involved.
This excursion to the Secret Realm nearly exhausted the Wang Family’s liquid assets; if they failed to acquire better Spiritual Medicine, they would suffer a huge loss.
The spiritual medicines previously accumulated at home had all been used by Li Pan for refining high-level potions. Fortunately, she did not disappoint, successfully producing high-level potions for preservation, offering some security for the family’s disciples.
Li Pan sat exhausted on the ground, unable to lift her arms, yet she uttered not a single complaint.