Twenty-seven days have passed since Dana has begun closed-cultivation within the Volcano, during this time she has made great gains within her strength.
Absorbing the cores in addition to eating the fire attributed spirit herbs assisted Dana in raising her cultivation already to the Fourth Rank of Xiantian, ensuring that even if she were to come across Ninth Xiantian Ranked Cultivator she wouldn't necessarily be at a disadvantage at all.
However, Dana still felt this wasn't enough to assure her safety within the Secret Realm, as the geniuses at the Ninth Rank of Xiantian are fully capable in fighting those with higher cultivation than themselves as a result of their martial skills, attribute talent and so on thus they are much stronger than the average 9th Xiantian Cultivator, therefore, Dana couldn't guarantee in being able to kill all of them without revealing her true nature, as even if one of them managed to escape, she would be doomed to be on the run constantly, with not even her human form being safe anymore.
This means she will be basically banished from human society, something which Dana didn't particularly want to experience, as she has already witnessed the benefits on being able to live as both human and beast, thus she didn't want to give this up at all.
Not to mention there may be at least one core formation cultivator present, as Dana originally stated that there will unlikely be any core formation cultivator as there are currently none with that sort of talent within the Sects of the Xinghai Continent, but this doesn't mean a Tier 4 or Tier 5 sect applies to this factor, as a core formation genius can be among them whilst fulfilling the requirements to enter within the Secret Realm.
Before Dana speculated this as one of the requirements of being able to enter the Secret Realm is having a bone age under twenty-five, which not even the sects within the Xinghai Continent can control, as they have no authority of the Secret Realm at all and only send their disciple within to receive potential benefits towards their cultivation, in addition to the chance of one of the disciples managing to receive a inheritance there, which will allow them to bring back rare martial skills, in doing so benefiting their respective sects greatly.
As most of the inheritances have been completed before by other disciples, most of the martial skills within the Secret Realm are shared freely within the sects which disciples have previously completed these inheritances, therefore not many of them can be considered rare, but this doesn't matter to Dana who will go looking for any benefits she can receive in the Secret Realm.
There are also many inheritances which have not been completed, with even the disciples of Tier 4 and Tier 5 sects failing, thus this is the true reasoning why some strong disciples now and then can be found from their respective sects to enter the secret realm as their purpose is to try and gain these inheritances, so they can return to their sects and receive great merits for doing so!
As Chao Sung has passed the bone age, Dana previously thought it was highly unlikely that a Core Formation Cultivator will enter the Secret Realm, but as there is still a chance one may appear from the stronger sects, there is always a possibility of one being present, which could cause potential problems for Dana which at the moment does not possess the capabilities of confronting such an expert.
So, even though Dana was pleased with her gains in spending her time within the Volcano, she still didn't allow herself to relax at all, as even with the current strength she possesses there are still many unknown dangers within the secret realm...
Another benefit Dana received in eating those fire attributed herbs, is that her Fire Qi has gotten purer, thus in doing so making her Fire Attributed attacks stronger, which at the moment only applied towards her bloodline skills as she had no martial skills of the fire attribute available to her at the moment.
Whilst Dana was lost within her thoughts, her stomach once again rumbled signifying she is once again hungry.
Although, Dana had been within closed-door cultivation within the past month, she still went out occasionally to hunt for some beasts to sate her hunger, as even though the spirit herbs counted as food, and satisfied her bodily needs, that still couldn't stop a glutton such as Dana which can't go without eating a sizable amount of meat for a short amount of time, so she hunted quite a number of spirit beasts by now during her 'meal' breaks between cultivation sessions.
As the Blaze Wyrms spent all of their time down here, there was obviously a food source present, with there being a stable eco-system containing many fire-attributed spirit beasts that live within the depths of the volcano.
In fact for the first week of her living within the volcano these beasts celebrated that the number one predator within the volcano has disappeared for the past week, only to take back this thought as an even more terrifying beast has replaced them, with none of the beasts it set its sight on being able to escape its wrath.
This caused many fierce spirit beasts to desperately hide for their dear lives every time Dana went on the prowl, deeply afraid that Dana targeted them next!
Dana was actually very disappointed she found no more treasures hoarded by any of the spirit beasts here, but this could be expected as primarily only the smartest and strongest beasts kept treasures, which apart from the Blaze Wyrm's within this place none possessed the capabilities in doing so, not to mention Dragons were one of the primary beings which loved treasures, as many spirit beasts would discard 'shiny' treasures thinking that they are useless as they cannot eat them, crushing Dana's hopes of finding a suitable treasure hoard to steal...
However, thinking there was a Lightning Flood Dragon within the Xinghai Continent caused Dana to grin with a greedy smile, as she began thinking of all the treasures which a Ranked 9 Core Formation Spirit beast much possess...
Drooling over such thoughts, Dana was interrupted by the system which finally informed of what it promised within the last twenty-seven days of hard cultivation...
[Host, as last time the system wanted you to focus within your cultivation rather than the next reward of the system for promoting cultivation levels as at the moment this reward will not be instantly beneficial towards you, and may, in fact, distracted you within the past month causing you to waste your time on something else rather than cultivating... the system was originally planning on giving to you but became greatly worried about your recent addiction.]
Thinking back to what the system is talking about, what addiction?
Is there anything in this world which can stop her from cultivating?
She didn't think so...
Believing the system to be overexaggerating, she questioned.
"Hey, you must be overreacting about this thing, like what could possibly disrupt my attention from cultivating? Just show it to me already."
[Alright Host, if you say so... The next feature you unlocked is a technique... to search for precious treasures...]
As the system voice sounded Dana suddenly spaced out upon thinking of such a marvellous technique, Dana started to daydream about gathering all the treasures around the Xinghai as she put them within a large pile in front of her whilst she rolled her draconic body merily within the treasres.
The system once again interrupted Dana.
[See Host, you have already spaced out... The system already reveals this system as it could prove of major importance towards any cultivator of a technique overtime which can improve giving you a sense of direction towards treasure, this is a priceless technique any cultivator would kill for. It will direct you towards the most precious treasures, making you instinctively know the direction of it. Over time, it will improve making you able to search for treasures at a further distance, here is the technique but host I hope you don't get to carried away with it... The system is only giving it to you now as it may prove incredibly useful within the Secret Realm.]
Upon receiving the technique, Dana immediately activated it, following the guidance of the technique, she soon found out how marvellous it is...
The technique gives her what is like a sixth sense, allowing her to know the general direction of heavenly treasures, in addition to roughly gauging how precious they are... this technique will allow her to find the best resources within the Secret Realm, without missing a thing.
Obviously, there were some demerits as you had a limited distance in which the technique can be used, but it will still improve over time, making Dana even more excited about the future.
Thanking the system profusely of the technique, Dana soon hunted for the most precious treasures within the volcano, soon finding numerous rare spirit herbs which would have taken her months of searching around the entire volcano to find normally, in addition to her not even being able to discover some of the extremely well-hidden ones.
Dana quickly put all of these herbs within her space ring, as she decided not to use them at the moment.
Delighted at the success of the technique, Dana decided to leave the volcano and head towards the entrance of the Secret Realm, were many sects have gathered their disciples in preparing to send into.
Listening to the system she didn't get to carried away with the technique, and turned into her Frost Wyvern Form flying towards the location were the opening of the Secret Realm takes place.
A dangerous glint appeared within Dana's eyes as she thought back to Princess Hui Ying' scheme...
'It seems being in the Secret Realm gives me an opportunity to pay you back towards all the trouble you've caused me...'