The Secret Realm was filled with dangers. Not to mention the mutant beasts and poisonous insects, just the fights among martial artists for resources could make the journey to the Secret Realm a situation of nine deaths and one life.
Martial Artists compete for time, for resources, for cultivation techniques, and even their usual cultivation is a struggle to seize primordial qi from the heavens and the earth.
Since it's a struggle, there are victories and defeats.
Winning means stepping toward the next realm, striving to obtain more longevity and greater power from the heavens.
If you lose, then everything is over, and life and path are extinguished.
If it were anyone else, including his eight disciples, he wouldn't say much, but Zhong Lin...
This was like a hen that lays golden eggs; the slightest injury would cause him heartache.
