"Really?" Huang Xiao asked in astonishment when he heard Jiang Deng's words. "Go fetch the Deputy Sect Master, Liu Wangtai-Liu Wangtai and the others."
Once everyone had arrived and heard the news Jiang Deng had just received, they all found it rather hard to believe.
"How does everyone know about it now?" Liu Wangtai asked. "There shouldn't be many people who know this secret, should there?"
"Could one of us have let it slip by accident?" Ke Zhenyi's heart tightened. "I hope Senior Ren won't hold it against us."
"If he meant to hold it against us, he probably would have come long ago," Huo Lian said. "This definitely has nothing to do with us. Besides, even if it did leak out, it wouldn't be anything serious."
"It really is a little strange for rumors of the Iron Key to appear so suddenly," Huang Xiao said.
"What's strange about that?" Huo Lian said with a smile. "The Silver Keys have caused such an uproar since they appeared. Is it really anything unusual for the matter of the Iron Key to be dug up? It may date back a long way, but there should still be quite a few sects that know about it. It's perfectly normal for some information to leak out from them. Add in people with ulterior motives stirring up the wind and waves, and this is what it becomes."
"Deputy Sect Master Huo is right, but these people have gone mad, every last one of them," Ke Zhenyi sighed. "Don't they know there's only one genuine Iron Key in the world?"
"It isn't madness. It's greed," Liu Wangtai said. "Every one of them will think the key they get is real and everyone else's is fake. It's greed at work."
Huang Xiao had not expected rumors of