Eternal Temptation: Awakening Sinful Desires

"I knew it." Asher muttered under his breath before asking in an amused voice. "So, what's the risk?"

"Like any other secret realm, you will have to face dangers beyond your comprehension to collect those special items." Arianna explained with a serious expression on her face. "However, compared to the other realms, this one is much more dangerous. Not only do you have to face powerful beasts and fight them off, but there will also be other cultivators from different continents battling each other for those special items."

"Other Continents? So it's not limited to just this continent?" Asher asked with curiosity evident in his tone as he leaned forward towards his grandmother, who was sitting opposite him while Aria rubbed her head against his neck.

If that's true, then the scale of this secret realm will be much bigger than the ones he has heard of. He could understand the reason behind this realm being more dangerous than other ones because of that.

After all, when cultivators from different areas come together in one place, they will obviously start fighting amongst themselves over limited resources.

And it won't be hard to guess that each and every one of those cultivators would be very strong since they were selected to enter this realm.

Not only that, since there would be people from different continents, they wouldn't care about offending or killing someone who came from another continent as long as they managed to get their hands on those special items.

In the end, when it comes to power, nothing else matters except being stronger than your opponent and having the ability to kill them before you get killed by them first.

And unfortunately, most cultivators were selfish, and they only cared about themselves and their own goals. This led to a lot of conflicts between them whenever there was a rare resource or treasure involved in anything.

Aria, who was listening to all the talk, stopped hugging Asher's neck for a moment, looked at Arianna with slight hesitation, and then asked, "Is it Bloody Banquet?"

The moment she said that, Olivia, Lysandra, Rias, and Katrina, who knew about the Bloody Banquet, tensed up while looking at Arianna with worried expressions.

But Arianna just smiled and nodded her head before replying to Aria. "Good job remembering it. Yes. It's indeed that Bloody Banquet."

Asher noticed how tense everyone got after hearing about the Bloody Banquet, which made him wonder what was so dangerous about it. So, looking at his mother, he asked her. "Mom, what is the Bloody Banquet? You all are acting as if it's a very bad place."

"It's not like it's a bad place per se." Aria started explaining with a sigh. "It's just that there are high chances that a cultivator won't survive inside this secret realm if they are careless."

"I mean, every cultivator has to be careful in any situation if they wish to survive," Asher shrugged his shoulders while saying as if it were obvious for anyone to know.

"That's true, but in this case, there is no margin for error," Lysandra spoke after looking at his carefree attitude. "Because everyone inside this secret realm will try their best to kill any competition in their way, making sure that they won't have any problems getting those special items when the time comes. They won't care whether you had anything to do with them or not. The moment you meet someone inside, you are already marked as their prey."

"And you can't escape from the realm as long as the time isn't up, as you need the appropriate token to leave earlier than that." Olivia added with a worried look on her face. "That means you will be all alone and have to defend yourselves against all those people who wish to kill you. That's where the name Bloody Banquet comes from since it's like a banquet filled with bloodshed and death."

Hearing their explanation, Asher was both surprised and excited because this meant that there would be plenty of strong opponents for him to fight against and test his skills.

After all, getting stronger doesn't just mean reaching higher realms in cultivation. They also need experience fighting against others who are in the same or higher realm than you.

But seeing the worried looks on everyone's faces, Asher decided not to show his excitement and instead asked them something else. "How long are we talking here? How much time do we have to spend inside?"

"Five years... That secret realm remains open for five years, but in the outside world it would be only a year." Aria said with a hint of sadness in her voice as she thought of the possibility of spending a year without seeing Asher. 'And if I count the time by the Mystic Starry Realm's time flow, it would be thirty years. Ahh... I don't want him to go.'

Hearing her answer, Asher frowned because five years was a long time for anything. Not to mention that it would be hard for many to stay alive inside such a place with so much danger surrounding them.

Just then, Arianna interrupted his thoughts and said, "Don't think that you can stay together even if you enter in a group. You will all get separated and thrown into different places inside the realm, which means that everyone will have to fight on their own before they can regroup."

"Wait... Are you telling me that we can't stay together?" Asher asked with surprise evident in his tone.

Then he looked at all his girls, and worry crept over his face when he realized that it would be very difficult for his girls to survive alone inside such a dangerous secret realm, where they didn't have any idea about what awaited them inside.

"That's what I just told you." Arianna said while looking at everyone present here with a serious expression before continuing. "But the benefits are also great if you are able to live through the deadly dangers present in it."