Lin Su did not forcibly whitewash the matter. Instead, he planted a concept of time and made a deft conversion.
Back then, the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom had indeed suffered a Demonic Calamity, and the Chess Saint had indeed quelled it through the Dao of Chess, transforming it into a Buddhist nation.
He had truly given the common people a thousand years of peace.
This was recognition of the Chess Saint's achievements.
As for the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom a thousand years later, he used a phrase: "returning in force"!
That phrase set things straight at their source.
The Devil Race had not been left over from that time. They had returned in force.
You could not question the clearing of the borders and founding of the nation back then simply because devils had returned in force today!
This helped the Chess Saint wash away the stain upon him. It severed the Chess Saint from the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom's present descent into devilry.
If that were all, this proclamation would at most have been an exceptionally polished piece of whitewashing.
Yet it was not merely that...
It also clearly defined today's Southeast Buddhist Kingdom: transformed once more into a devil domain!
It struck the most forceful pose possible for a Sage: strip the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom's imperial house of its legitimacy!
It further defined the three nations' siege: the remaining Demonic Calamity would be jointly eradicated by Great Cang, Nanyang, and the Western Heaven!
With that, the three nations' siege of the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom—a military action that had always drawn both praise and condemnation—received endorsement from a Sage at the very highest level!
Those students who had carried the Chess Saint's banner in defense of the Dao instantly became a laughingstock...
The Chess Saint naturally saw everything clearly. "The place where