"Flood Dragon King, you even knew this place was merely a secret realm?" Yuan Rong's expression shifted with uncertainty and shock.
Whether it was the Flood Dragon Clan or the ghosts Song Wen had encountered earlier in the Ghost Domain, they were all living beings within the Kunxu Secret Realm.
By all reason, these creatures had been trapped within this secret realm, like frogs at the bottom of a well. They should have known nothing of the outside world and regarded this small patch of heaven and earth before them as the entirety of the universe.
"What I know far exceeds what you imagine." The Flood Dragon King put on an unfathomable air.
At that moment, Song Wen spoke blandly.
"Perhaps, before us, the Flood Dragon King encountered other human cultivators. After all, tens of thousands of cultivators entered the secret realm before we did."
At these words, Yuan Rong and the other four immediately brightened slightly.
This explanation was indeed reasonable.
At once, the Flood Dragon King's "mysterious and unfathomable" image vanished without a trace.
The Flood Dragon King's dark-gold vertical pupils suddenly shifted as it cast Song Wen a gloomy glance.
"Have you decided? Are you willing to help me open the stone doors to the inner hall?"
As the only person present proficient in formations, Yuan Rong did not answer immediately. Instead, he frowned in contemplation.
He stared at the tightly shut doors of the inner hall, then glanced at the stone platform before them before suddenly speaking.
"Flood Dragon King, since you claim not to know what treasures lie within the inner hall, you can at least tell us what treasures were in this outer hall, can't you? I presume the treasure in that jade bottle on the stone platform was taken by you?"
"There is