Fragments of Xu Kai's memories still churned in his mind, and soon he noticed something.
"Lin Sheng?"
At the sight of this unfamiliar name, surprise flickered in his eyes. He knew everyone in Southern Qi worth paying attention to, and there seemed to be no such person among them.
Yet judging from these memory fragments, the empress of Southern Qi seemed to have been waiting all this time for this man to return.
His eyes narrowed in thought. Then he looked toward an older deputy general beside him. The man had joined Northern Yan's army decades ago and naturally knew a great deal.
He immediately asked.
"Wang Da, have you ever heard of someone called Lin Sheng?"
"Lin Sheng..."
The deputy general named Wang Da froze for a moment, apparently not expecting that name to come up suddenly. Then his body jolted, and his expression changed slightly.
"If I'm not mistaken, Marshal, you must mean Southern Qi's Imperial Son-in-law."
"He was the husband of Southern Qi's empress. Thirty years ago, he shot to fame, displaying unparalleled talent. In a remarkably short time, he entered the Supreme Grandmaster realm. His intervention was also the reason the two nations were ultimately unified. He was hailed as the greatest genius of all time."
"Oh?"
Zhou Yuanhu narrowed his eyes a little further, apparently surprised that the man had so many claims to fame. More than thirty years ago, he had still been a farmer scratching a living from the soil. He only knew that Northern Yan and Southern Qi had fought a great war, after which Southern Qi had unified the two nations. He knew little about what had happened among those at the top.
Especially after the subsequent twenty years of devastation wrought by the Spirit-Severing Calamity, many high-ranking cultivators had either