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"Clang!"
"Clang!"
With the bells tolling throughout the sect, countless disciples from Qingyuan City converged on the massive square in front of the mountain gate.
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Lin Chen and Bai Yunfei mixed in with the crowd, responding with smiles to greetings from others yet engaged in little conversation.
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With the expedition imminent, the majority were quite excited, as exploring such undeveloped Secret Realms provided many opportunities to acquire valuable items—items that were difficult to obtain with their strength in the outside world.
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If luck was on their side and they obtained high-level valuable items, by turning them over to the sect, they could exchange them for a huge amount of cultivation resources, or even some special objects to aid their cultivation, enhancing their strength or even their realm.
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Certainly, there were risks, but what venture is without risk?
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