Kuai Hongji said calmly, "It's all industry jargon. You're not supposed to understand it."
Lin Yi's already gaping mouth opened even wider.
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What kind of fucking jargon was that? How could jargon be that plain!
Kuai Hongji added, "The utterly vulgar is utterly refined, and the utterly refined is utterly vulgar. That's how it works."
"Then who's Xiao Huang? Do we have an informant outside the school?" Lin Yi looked surprised, struck by a sense of just how deep their resources ran.
"We don't have an informant," Kuai Hongji denied outright. "I made Xiao Huang up. I told you, it's all industry jargon. An incomprehensible threat accompanied by the Time Council's exclusive seal-it's hard not to believe it."
Lin Yi sobered inwardly. So the Mystical Runes Kuai Hongji had inscribed at the end were the so-called Time Council's seal?!
That certainly lent it plenty of credibility!
But-
"The existence of the 'Time Council' is getting more and more mysterious," Lin Yi muttered. "Even I'm starting to feel like it's real. Did Liangzi really make it all up himself?"
"Yes," Kuai Hongji said. "But you need to understand that when a symbol that has traversed the flow of time is invested with historical significance, future significance, and cultural meaning, whether what it represents ever truly existed no longer matters."
"It exists, whether in the past, present, or future, even if he-is all alone."
"As long as Wei Liang is here, the Time Council is here."
Lin Yi felt a slight tremor run through him as he listened. It felt as though Wei Liang was about to be mythologized.
Could it turn out that not only had the Time Council become real, but even the Honorific Title "Celestial Worthy Wei Liang of Fortune and Life" had become a divine