Master Lan felt there was one possibility: perhaps when the two sides entered this place, they had coexisted in peace.
Then, for some unknown reason, a great battle had suddenly erupted. In the end, some drastic upheaval had occurred, forcing them to leave in haste.
Yet when the victorious side later wished to enter again, they had no way to do so.
Thus, the gruesome scene here had been preserved. But when she gave this conclusion, Elder Hao's expression turned unsightly as well.
This result essentially meant that the final victors should have been the race of "Soul Crystal Buds," because the "Soul Prison Clan" would certainly have known how to reenter this place.
Moreover, the statue of the Second Ancestor was still there. This could only mean that those unable to enter this place knew absolutely nothing about how to get in.
As for why the two sides had gone to war, that was not something the three of them could guess. Even this final conjecture was not something any of them could be certain of.
After all, these were the only clues they could obtain here. The entire territory of the underground clan outside had been utterly ravaged by foreign cultivators, leaving them unable to find more clues to support and confirm their conclusion.
And if such a result had truly occurred, it meant that even the Second Ancestor had been powerless to stop it. That was an extremely bad conclusion.
Yet it was also the conclusion they found most likely. At once, Elder Hao's heart sank lower and lower...
The ancestral instruction left behind by the Third Ancestor had been intended to let the "Soul Suppression Palace" return to its roots and acknowledge its ancestors. But the situation now was no longer merely a matter of whether