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"I'll tell you the truth. What happened at the Skanda Temple last time involved the Long-Haired Remnants... Do you think the Governor and the others were the only ones who wanted to bury it? Great Chu considers this matter deeply taboo. Unless forced to, they would never make it public."
Boom! Tang Changsheng's words exploded like a bomb in Cui Zhengfei's mind, turning his entire view of the world upside down.
Even Liang Ge was shaken. He had never imagined any of this.
Tang Changsheng sighed softly. If he had not needed to, he would not have said it. For some people, the blow was too great...
When someone who firmly believed in fairness and justice suddenly discovered that those things were nothing but distant illusions, and that the world really ran on weighing gains against losses...
Idealists often dashed themselves to death against the wall of reality!
Of course, anyone who saw reality clearly and still held fast to his ideals was more remarkable still. In ancient times, such a person would have had the makings of a Great Confucian.
As for whether Cui Zhengfei could get through this, or whether he would become bitter and cynical, his edges worn smooth until he turned slippery? Tang Changsheng had no idea.
But Tang Changsheng had no desire to play at molding a young man here.
Now that he had made a preliminary test of the Reversing Sun and Moon Heavenly Mechanism Formation's power, he had no wish to delay any longer.
After making sure those two would not act recklessly again and putting a few more arrangements in place, he crossed over to the "Immortal Realm."
By then, the Patrol Inspector's Temple was completely built. It had not yet been consecrated, but everything inside