Why did the history they believed in and recorded...
Have to have actually happened?
That was indeed a question.
In fact, Jiang Qiao had also suspected that those people's history was flawed. After all, there had been gaps in it...
But that was also the problem. Endless suspicion without evidence would do no good.
It would leave you unable to do anything at all.
So, ordinarily...
As long as the logic more or less held together, you could keep investigating despite a few questionable points, resolve those doubts, and seek evidence to prove that logic—or find contradictions that made no sense and overturn the whole thing.
Just like now.
Moon Laurel's account conflicted with the records of the Great Qi world.
That called for careful consideration.
"Are you saying there was something wrong with their founding emperor?" Jiang Qiao asked.
The history of the Great Qi world...
Began with that mysterious Ancestor Emperor.
He had been immensely powerful.
He had established all sorts of rules, creating and maintaining the "Void Realm," a Supernatural Space that intersected with reality yet remained independent of it.
He had also spread a cultivation system.
And given Vicious Ghosts the consciousness of living humans.
But...
A careful examination of all the historical records passed down in Great Qi would reveal that every one had been reviewed by the Ancestor Emperor. And the second emperor's slaughter of the highest-ranking nobles was shrouded in mystery as well.
Clearly...
They had been trying to hide something.
"That founding emperor you mentioned might have been one of the survivors of that group back then. As for those so-called subjects of Great Qi, they were merely selected test subjects," Moon Laurel said calmly.
"It's hard to say whether the slaughter of the highest-ranking nobles ever happened at all."
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