The culprit behind the rumors wouldn't be found anytime soon, so Immortal Fairy Responding Heaven set the matter aside and prepared to tell them something Immortal Fairy Everlasting didn't know.
"Jinghong, step outside for a moment. If you hear what I'm about to tell them, your life may be in danger."
"Yes, Master." Jinghong was very obedient and left the ancient ring's minor world.
"And you too, young Lu Yang. You should also—"
"You mean the matter of the other me? Lu Yang already knows about that," said Immortal Fairy Everlasting. She didn't think Lu Yang needed to leave.
Immortal Fairy Responding Heaven came to her senses. "That's right, you must already know. If you didn't, you wouldn't have been attacked by the Annihilation Immortal twice."
"Since you've already met Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi, and young Lu Yang is at the early stage of Spirit Transformation, he must have survived the tribulation and seen the immortal thought I left behind. I assume you already know what happened between Everlasting's fall and the founding of the Spark Dynasty."
"There's no need for me to repeat that part, then. I'll start with the dynasty's final years."
"After we thought we'd successfully brought you back to life, we realized from our interactions that the one we'd revived wasn't all of you. It was the version of you from when your Annihilation Dao Fruit was still in its embryonic stage. Still, bringing you back at all was a good thing, so we didn't think much of it. We even told you about many things that had happened after we became immortals."
"That version of you was just like the real you: extraordinarily gifted, with an astonishing cultivation speed. Before long, she survived the Immortal Tribulation and attained the Annihilation Dao Fruit. She gave