"No one else? Did they abandon me and run off, or were they drawn away by something else?" Kang Wuhen muttered at the answer, suspicion stirring within him. After a moment's thought, however, he cautiously asked the old monk another question:
"May I ask, Senior, how exactly did High Person Jialan arrange all this back then?"
"It seems you still harbor some doubts about this old monk, benefactor. Very well, I shall give you a general explanation." The old monk smiled faintly and began explaining at an unhurried pace:
"As a Nascent Soul cultivator, High Person Jialan had an extraordinarily long lifespan of over a thousand years. Even so, the day would inevitably come when his lifespan ran out and his allotted time reached its end.
"Having finally cultivated to the Nascent Soul realm, how could my original self bear to abandon everything just like that, fall back into the cycle of reincarnation, and become an ordinary person for who knew how many lifetimes?
"Fortunately, the greatest difference between a nascent soul and a golden core is that Liberation by Violence allows the primordial spirit to retain a spark of true awareness and actively seek rebirth, pursuing the possibility of awakening its past-life memories in the next life.
"Thus, before undergoing Liberation by Violence, High Person Jialan prepared this Secret Realm for his reincarnated self.
"Whether it is myself within this Secret Realm, the maps scattered throughout it, or the other hidden items, all were intended to guide his reincarnation here, so that every treasure he once cherished could be handed over to his reincarnated self."
"Then what about the Jialan Keys? How could High Person Jialan be certain his reincarnation would enter this Secret Realm?" Kang Wuhen could not help asking again.
"It is quite simple. Since the High