Jade Forest Matron said that back when True Venerable Qu was still in the Nascent Soul Realm, he had already mastered a pseudo-divine ability of time.
There were records that could be checked of True Immortal Qu slaying an Out-of-Body Realm Remnant Soul in Cangwu.
If you did not believe it, you could go ask the Lingyun Sect!
Then, if even a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator could master a minor divine ability of time, was it so hard for Houde Realm to produce a stunningly brilliant Nascent Soul Realm cultivator?
The mighty upper realm of Houde could hardly be inferior to a mere Lower Realm like Cangwu, could it?
Several Nascent Soul Realm cultivators of the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had died from an excessively fast flow of time, but who could prove they had definitely died at the hands of a True Venerable?
A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator who knew a minor divine ability of time could do the same!
At the end of the day, the culprit's relevant aura had been erased, so Jade Forest Matron's words could not be counted as utterly unreasonable sophistry.
As for why the culprit, a mere Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, could erase his aura so thoroughly... could he not have had a True Venerable by his side?
There was a very high chance that the reason the other party had done this was to frame True Venerable Qu!
As an instructor of the Book Pavilion, Jade Forest True Immortal not only understood Righteous Qi, she also had some command of argumentative techniques like "White Horse is Not a Horse."
There was no need to deliberately explain many things that were hard to explain. Just steer them straight toward conspiracy theories.
Readers' imaginations... cultivators' imaginations were far bigger than anything you could think of,