"The other two also looked familiar."
"They've been to the Imperial Palace."
"They were elders who came from Tongling Island with the Great Qi Great Ancestor. However, during Emperor Tai Zong's reign, the three families they belonged to were purged, and every member of those clans was executed."
Mo Qingying continued:
"No written records of that purge were left behind."
"I was young at the time."
"I only knew that it had happened."
"I don't know the details."
"I suspect it may have been to conceal certain secrets of Tongling Island, as well as the whereabouts of the Ancestor Emperor."
"Emperor Tai Zong was my uncle."
"He was also the Ancestor Emperor's eldest son."
"He was already an adult when he entered this world from Tongling Island. He took part in the entire establishment of Great Qi, so he should have known every secret."
As for why Emperor Tai Zong had erased what happened back then,
Mo Qingying was also baffled.
She wasn't the only one.
The entire Great Qi Imperial Court, whether the old nobles in the Capital City or the local aristocratic clans, was extremely curious.
Unfortunately,
all the information had been erased.
Every clue had been wiped away completely.
Not a trace remained.
Every clan that had participated in the founding of Great Qi had been executed. The top aristocratic clans of today had only been middle-ranking families that followed orders back then; they had no access to any core secrets at all.
Even so,
many clans' elders and ancestors had also died mysterious deaths.
What exactly were they trying to conceal?
The three strange humans, who were suspected to be connected to events from six hundred years ago, finally managed to leave the volcano after two or three hours of arduous climbing.
After stopping to