Chen Feng had never heard of the "disgrace" Xue Bufan spoke of.
It was a piece of news circulated only within the Dark Department.
Ancient Spirit Cliff had spent nearly six hundred years deciphering the history and writing of the Later Demon Race. Then, after the dragons changed their stance and humanity came into contact with the Later Demon Race, the Later Demon Race naturally sent over primers for their own language.
Then something awkward happened.
Seventy percent of Ancient Spirit Cliff's interpretations were wrong.
Ancient Spirit Cliff could not really be blamed for this. The Later Demon Race had left behind very few ruins to begin with, and even less material.
Moreover, as social living beings that had arisen later, the Later Demon Race and humanity truly thought alike in certain respects.
—No one had ever heard of an immortal's cave abode deliberately leaving primers and dictionaries behind for later "fated individuals," either.
Following that same line of thought, when the Later Demon Race orderly withdrew from Divine Land, they left behind a great deal of supplies for later civilizations—but forgot to leave a primer. This resulted in enormous deviations when Ancient Spirit Cliff deciphered the Later Demon Race's writing.
No one in the Immortal Alliance blamed Ancient Spirit Cliff, because deciphering an unfamiliar script was terrifyingly difficult in the first place.
But many of Ancient Spirit Cliff's core cultivators considered it a disgrace to their sect.
To decipher an "unfamiliar" script, the most important method was still to find a path from the "concrete" to the "abstract."
If there was a living person proficient in an unfamiliar language who could point at a concrete object and tell researchers how that object was written, then the researchers could easily establish a database for the script. They could search those