Wei Tai-shang smiled, stroking his beard as he went along with the suggestion. "What else is there to speculate about? Since Luo Tai-shang also thinks that's how it is, then..."
"What's this?" I pointed toward a metal box in the distance. Countless sealing runes seemed to be carved across it, but before I could bring it over, Luo Xingzi had already snatched it up and begun examining it from every angle. "There's still some energy left in it. It seems this must have been a box for storing Dao Tribulation Crystals. But a box like this should have been more than sufficient to keep a Dao Tribulation Crystal from being lost. This thing also shows no signs of external attack, so how could it..."
"Perhaps one of the elders of the Divine Illusion Palace opened it, which brought the Dao Tribulation here?" Wei Tai-shang was clearly surprised as well. He walked over and tried to take the box, but Luo Xingzi refused to hand it over, leaving him awkwardly holding out his hand. He could neither smile nor stop smiling.
I glanced at the Grand Elder of the Divine Illusion Palace and the other elders present, and immediately noticed that one elder's face had gone deathly pale. It seemed quite likely that he had a guilty conscience. This box probably hadn't been used to hold a Dao Tribulation Crystal Core. Judging by the dense runes covering it, it looked more like something used to seal a phantom entity or some tremendously powerful existence. As for the box used to store the Dao Tribulation Crystal, it had probably been destroyed long ago.
So I immediately said, "This box was probably used to imprison the Dao Tribulation, wasn't it? The Divine Illusion Palace locked the Dao Tribulation in a cage and brought