Help?
Min Tang had recounted the past in such detail. He must have had a reason.
The answer sprang from Luo Chen's lips without a second thought.
"Does it have something to do with that nameless space?"
Min Tang nodded. "Exactly. The Immortal World Ruins aren't easy to enter, even if they're only a fragment. To get in, you need a key!"
Luo Chen frowned slightly. "A key?"
His gaze fell on the teacup before him. "Your sect has Fallen Immortal Buds, so you must have gone in more than once. Surely you have a key!"
Min Tang acknowledged it, then waved a hand in qualification.
"We do have a key, but it isn't entirely in my hands."
"Oh? How so?" Curiosity showed on Luo Chen's face.
Min Tang sighed and told him another story from those years.
After the Immortal World Fragment appeared, all the surviving forces nearby had rushed inside. They had found only a few keys.
At the time, the Ethereal Spirit Palace had been badly weakened. Seizing a key alone was out of the question.
So the Ethereal Spirit Palace had joined forces with two others to win one.
The three factions had then agreed to send people to duel every thousand years. The victor would hold the right to use the key for the time being.
Over ten thousand years, one of the three forces that had once stood shoulder to shoulder had declined until it could no longer take part.
Now only the Ethereal Spirit Palace of Tail Tooth Mountain and the Flying Star Gate of Flying Star Sea remained to contest the key.
In recent years, as both sects recovered their strength and each produced an Integrated Body Great Venerate like Min Tang, the duels had grown fiercer still.
As Luo Chen listened,