However, history could never truly bury a historian.
Because they were researchers and chroniclers of history, but the one thing they were not was someone who had lived through it.
They picked up the scattered past from fragments and scraps of text, piecing together a grand tapestry of history. Thus, even if a historian truly died, they would only die within the history they had compiled.
The Zhao Xishi whose neck Shadow Cheng Shi had snapped was a substitute.
Any player who had managed to contend with Zhen Yi was no "mortal," especially Zhao Xishi, who had come from the History School.
The reason she had been driven out of the History School was that she had insisted on using the wisdom of later generations to fill in the gaps of history. In short, she wanted to fabricate history!
But the false history she created differed from the false history advocated by certain officials who stirred up trouble recklessly. She did not believe the history she compiled was false. In her eyes, history had always been a story written according to the will of later generations. She had merely added some seasonings colored by her own perspective to these dull stories, making them more "delicious."
Besides, with the History School's "authority," once these stories spread widely and became generally accepted, even if they were not true at first, they would eventually be passed down as truth.
In this way, history could become a resource controlled by Zhao Xishi rather than mere records, and the History School's power and prestige would rise another level as well.
In fact, the History School had always been doing this. The difference between Zhao Xishi's beliefs and the History School's current state was merely a question of whether there was more water or more rice