"Gong Qingshan, it is only right that your Imperial Remnant Manor cooperate. An innocent man becomes guilty by possessing a precious jade. Ten thousand years ago, your ancestors and those of the Eighteen Families Firms already knew how the Selection Inscription Stele and the Tortoise Shell Inscription resonated with each other, and they knew their connection to the Longevity Pill Manual. Yet they still separated the two, even producing another nine false Tortoise Shell Inscriptions. Was that not an attempt to reduce the danger, rather than your two sides parting ways? To reduce outsiders' attention on your Imperial Remnant Manor. Of course, at the time, no faction in the Jianghu had obtained the Jade Slip containing the Longevity Pill Manual from Dragon Mountain, so even if someone knew all this, they had no interest in your two sides' possessions for the time being," Ke Hongying said.
"Senior Ke, what exactly do you mean by that?" a Martial Realm representative asked curiously.
"It is very simple. The ancestors of Imperial Remnant Manor did this back then to guard against Demon Hall. Through those actions, they showed the Demon Hall Master of that time that Imperial Remnant Manor had no desire to pry into the Longevity Pill Manual," Ke Hongying said.
"How do you know all this? Is it true or not?" Zhang Yaozhen asked, staring at Ke Hongying.
"Was that really the case?" Zhen Heng also asked, somewhat puzzled.
Neither of them knew anything about this, nor did they know whether their higher-ups knew. In any case, the two of them were unaware, and no one had ever mentioned it to them.
However, they also noticed that the Jianghu figures seated there all looked somewhat puzzled. Clearly, apart from Ke Hongying, none of them really understood the crucial point.
Even Gong