Chapter 69

Here, Ren Amamiya put down his pen.

There's no word limit for daily diaries; as long as you record them properly every day, that's enough.

But today's diary entry was slightly different.

Some black ink appeared beneath the diary text.

【Achievement unlocked: Found the diary】

【Congratulations! Received special reward: Accumulation.】

【Accumulation: Can accumulate draw attempts; the more accumulated, the higher the chance of obtaining higher-quality rewards.】

"Not a bad feature."

"To get better rewards, just accumulate more—like merging lower-tier chests into higher-tier ones."

Ren Amamiya didn't dislike this feature.

But clearly, no need for accumulation during the testing phase.

Just draw directly.

The summoned wheel began to spin, its indicator pointing toward a single spot.

【Lord of Secrets】

【Obtained Sequence 9 Elixir: "Apprentice"】

A vial containing a special pinkish solution.

"Another elixir reward."

He reached out and picked up the vial on the desk.

After glancing at it, he pulled a 500-yuan coin from his pocket.

"Drinking the Apprentice elixir now won't cause me any problems."

The flipped coin landed in his palm—heads.

"Looks like it's fine."

"Probably because 'Unbound' is just too powerful."

Confirming this, Ren Amamiya immediately pulled out the cork, tilted his head back, and drank straight from the bottle.

The elixir tasted sticky and thick—worse than the previous "Fortune Teller" elixir.

Hmm, it's becoming more like snot.

"If drinking elixirs carries such high risk, why can't they at least taste better?"

Even after drinking the elixir, Ren Amamiya still complained slightly about its taste.

Of course, this was an extremely trivial complaint.

For non-exceptional beings without the 'Unbound' trait, the risks of consuming elixirs are far greater than imagined.

Especially when Mr. Kaguya Sigong is corrupted, consuming the "Apprentice" elixir causes one to hear his murmurs—a voice that is fatal to an exceptional being already unstable from elixir ingestion.

Thus, the Path of the Door is one of the three most dangerous paths of the Lord of Secrets.

But for Ren Amamiya, who possesses the 'Unbound' trait, walking an additional elixir path has absolutely no effect.

Especially on the Sequence path, the Door Path, the Fool Path, and the Error Path are adjacent paths.

To become the Lord of Secrets, one must ultimately master the unique powers of all adjacent paths.

Originally, choosing one path and fully walking it, then absorbing the uniqueness and a Sequence One exceptional trait from an adjacent path was sufficient.

Of course, one could also begin by choosing all three paths of the Lord of Secrets from the start.

But such a method is no different from seeking death.

At least ordinary exceptional beings who touch any other sequence's elixir at low Sequences inevitably face loss of control over their own power.

Only Ren Amamiya, with the 'Unbound' trait, can ignore the basic rules of the Sequence path and walk multiple paths.

Ren Amamiya looked at the bottle in his hand and smiled.

"Turns out there aren't that many loopholes to exploit."

"Because I met Kaguya Sigong and agreed to mutual benefit, is this just a normal reward?"

Today's draw reward proves it all.

Today's reward is nearly identical to yesterday's—meaning the diary also has certain limitations.

"Mutual benefit isn't that easy to achieve."

"It seems the diary judges how much impact I have on its holder, and that determines the quality of the draw reward."

"The diary has no easy loopholes."

"I wonder if Kaguya has also tried testing the draw system."

Ren Amamiya thought for a moment and pulled out his phone.

【Ren Amamiya: How about you?】

【Kaguya Sigong: …A bottle of strong liquor.】

【Ren Amamiya: Hard to exploit loopholes, isn't it?】

【Ren Amamiya: Next time, don't try to exploit loopholes—our ideas may already be guarded by the diary's rules.】

【Kaguya Sigong: Pity.】

Kaguya Sigong put down her phone and stared at the bottle of strong liquor on the table, feeling only regret.

"The diary is hard to exploit."

"I'm like this; Ren must be the same."

"What a pity to waste one draw."

But Kaguya Sigong did not regret it.

This answer was actually crucial — it proved there probably weren't any loopholes to exploit in the diary's rules.

Knowing this, he could save up any future Choujiangji Society chances that came his way.

By saving up enough, he could also see what high-level rewards a certain number of chances might yield.

The Ice-Ice Fruit was a perfectly fine first reward.

Kaguya Sigong wasn't the greedy sort — he knew that sometimes not being greedy was the best call.

Otherwise, what he lost might be far more.

PS: New book here, please feed it data