"What conspiracy? This was plainly an overt plot.
The founding ancestors of our four sects discovered this Jialan Secret Realm together, using three secret keys left behind by Jialan True Person all those years ago. It was only because the fourth key remained missing that they could never truly open it.
If we don't want to give up on this secret realm, we'd best send our disciples inside to compete with them. Otherwise, once the three Demonic Path sects gain control of the realm and strip it of every resource and treasure, they'll only grow stronger.
Besides, the secret keys were left by Jialan True Person. Perhaps he left his legacy in this Secret Realm as well. Surely I needn't tell you how precious the legacy of a nascent soul True Person would be," the elderly woman in green said slowly.
"Fellow Daoist Qing is right. Whether this is a conspiracy or an overt plot, we absolutely cannot abandon this secret realm lightly.
Even setting aside the possibility of Jialan True Person's legacy, we cannot afford to miss out if there are so much as one or two nascent soul treasures inside. After all, who knows whether one of those treasures might hold a tremendous opportunity to form a nascent soul?" Patriarch Lie Guang of the Setting Sun Sect was suddenly jolted into awareness and nodded repeatedly.
At these words, the other three also perked up. But after a moment's thought, Heaven Toad Ancestor still said hesitantly:
"I truly never imagined that the fourth secret key would fall into the Demonic Path's hands. Together with our sect's key, which has remained in the custody of that traitor surnamed Yao, that gives them two keys.
But there's something I don't understand. How did they know the other two keys were with