After pondering briefly, Su Shi'er asked:
"Since the Divine Race acted to erase all information related to the Ancient Gods from the Cultivation World, how did you—or rather, the so-called secret treasure of your Ren Family—come to possess such information?"
Ren Lingrong had clearly prepared for Su Shi'er's question long ago.
Without hesitation, she said, "Among the many seniors who died cultivating the Ancient God's Law back then, one was an ancestor of my Ren Family."
"After our ancestor died, a wisp of his lingering thought escaped through a special secret technique. That was how information regarding the Ancient God Ruins was brought back to the Lineage. As for the others, our ancestor did not dare make any claims. But at the place where he perished, he personally used a secret technique to leave behind the Ancient God Cultivation Method and many precious cultivation resources."
"However, the Ren Family had already declined by then and was steadily going downhill. The Divine Race moved frequently, and their actions against the Ancient Gods had not ceased. The entire Ren Family simply lacked the power to investigate the Ancient God Ruins."
"Our ancestor's lingering thought was also afraid of being detected by the Divine Race and bringing down an even greater calamity. Thus, he entrusted that lingering thought to a special Magical Treasure. Before the thought dissipated, he left within it information concerning the Ancient God Ruins."
"And the means our ancestor used to preserve that information were exceptionally ingenious. The Ren Family passed down that special Magical Treasure as a supreme treasure through generation after generation, yet instead forgot the message it was truly meant to convey."
By the end of her account, Ren Lingrong wore a deeply wistful expression as well.
Even she herself had initially only found it strange. It