By this point, Fang Yanxing had understood what Liu Changlin was about to say. A trace of surprise appeared on his face; clearly, he had not expected Liu Changlin to bring this matter up to Chen Chuan right away.
But after glancing at Chen Chuan again, he seemed to realize something and could not help nodding inwardly.
When Chen Chuan heard Liu Changlin mention this matter, he immediately asked Kaiyang about it. The response was that there were no relevant records in the database.
Although the Advisory Council's Five-Person Group possessed a certain degree of decision-making authority, their status was no different from that of the other advisors. Under normal circumstances, if valuable or important information came to light, the other advisors had to be informed. There was no reason to conceal it.
There was only one exception: items of a private or semi-private nature that possessed a certain practical function. Since they involved an advisor's personal privacy, they only needed to be reported upward to establish that such a thing existed, but were not disclosed publicly.
It seemed that this was what the other side was referring to.
Liu Changlin had no intention of keeping them in suspense. In his very next sentence, he explained the specific origins of the object.
"Eight hundred years ago, the Old National Religion captured and imprisoned an object from beyond the heavens. It had briefly fallen into the hands of the Zen Sect before that, but they had only obtained it recently and had no time to investigate it in depth.
"Over the following decades, the Old National Religion gradually figured out its specific function. Later, in the scriptures of the Xuan Sect, it was called 'Constant Life.'"
As he spoke, he also sent Chen Chuan some information through the World Token, displaying