"Your nephew was under orders to lie low around Cloudstride City in the Equal Sea Domain and gather demon troops when I happened to discover that the Immortal Alliance was hunting someone..."
"I found these things where he had hidden his possessions and began trying to cultivate them..."
"Then the Immortal Alliance's people came knocking, and your nephew had no choice but to retreat..."
After considerable persuasion, Li Chen finally convinced Fairy Zhang Hua that he really had encountered a stroke of fortune overseas, obtaining a sacred scripture-level cultivation method written by a human Grand Confucian, and had benefited enough from cultivating it to become a king.
After hearing him out, Fairy Zhang Hua even speculated, "That Grand Confucian must have been at peak Nascent Soul cultivation and perished after failing to break through to sage rank."
This was not because she was foolish, but because she lacked sufficient information and naturally had no way to judge what was true.
Most worldly understanding worked this way. Once led astray, it galloped down the wrong road, and not even nine oxen could drag it back.
Here, Li Chen had deliberately planted a clue: the seemingly mysterious Grand Confucian was actually his own true identity, Li Chen, the Puppet Dao Master of the Vast Sea Domain!
Hu Ze did not know Li Chen's identity, so mistaking him for a Grand Confucian from the Righteous Qi Continent was perfectly reasonable.
But if Fairy Zhang Hua possessed enough influence within the Immortal Alliance, she could investigate and discover that the person its members had been dealing with was actually Li Chen.
And if she traced the matter back to Li Chen, she could also learn that the original Analects and Three Hundred Tang Poems had both originated among his subordinates.
With this grafting of