"I know all of this. I could guess some of it too."
"What matters is whether you can tell me something I don't know."
Ignoring Chen Qiang's sigh, Chen Changsheng went straight to the heart of the matter.
Faced with Chen Changsheng's attitude, Chen Qiang nodded. "Fine. Then I'll tell you something you don't know."
"Jiang Shan's entire family being slaughtered back then was actually a misunderstanding."
"To be precise, the mastermind never intended to use such a lowly, and unbelievably stupid, method."
"Everything happened because a Prefect at the time acted on his own initiative to claim credit."
"How did you know?"
"Because the mastermind was the founder of Outer Heavens."
"Interesting. Go on."
The corners of Chen Changsheng's lips rose slightly, because he realized he was close to uncovering the truth.
"It was precisely because the mastermind back then was the founder of Outer Heavens that I was able to use that connection to uncover many things."
"After learning that Jiang Shan had been killed, the founder of Outer Heavens was furious, and that idiotic Prefect was naturally wiped out as well."
"And then?"
"If it was only a misunderstanding, I don't believe you would have needed to hide away in fear."
Facing Chen Changsheng's question, Chen Qiang said calmly, "A hundred thousand years ago, news in the Greenwood Epoch was not so cut off."
"After Jiang Shan left, I discovered that many things in the Greenwood Epoch had changed."
"Many high-level cultivators who had been long famous vanished without a trace, and many basic cultivation techniques were slightly altered."
"Those alterations would not cause cultivators to suffer cultivation deviation, but they would prevent them from becoming Immortal King Realm experts."
"And then?"
"If that was all, it shouldn't have been enough to make you hide, should it?"