Chapter 337: The More You Know, The Faster You Die (1)
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Chapter 337: The More You Know, The Faster You Die (1)
Su Yu no longer concerned himself with the matter involving the willpower texts.
He was returning to the research center.
Chen Yong followed behind him silently. After a while, when they were finally far away from the others, he softly said, "I guess we have officially fallen out with them today."
Su Yu looked at his martial uncle and said, "Martial Uncle, do you think that we need to keep holding back?"
"We're not holding back. We are really weaker than them."
Chen Yong sighed.
Su Yu nodded. He said, "I know. But if we remain silent, they will keep pushing. If this continues, we won't have any future. With Zheng Yuming seriously injured and the single character faction occupied, this is the best chance for us to make a counterattack."
Chen Yong stayed silent for a long while before saying, "But we need to at least wait until your grandteacher is back before counterattacking."
At the mention of his grandteacher, Su Yu asked gloomily, "Why is grandteacher not back yet?"
Without the support of a Mountainsea cultivator, he felt extremely unsafe.
"It's your teacher's fault!" Chen Yong said, "A new race has appeared in the Allheaven Battlefield. Nobody knows where that race can be found. Your grandteacher is looking for that new race all over the Allheaven Battlefield so nobody knows his exact location. And we can't even contact him through communicators since a realm tunnel stands between us. Your teacher was the one who had instigated your grandteacher to leave. He might have stayed in the academy otherwise."
After giving Su Yu a simple explanation of what Bai Feng had done, Chen Yong asked, "Were you telling the truth about the Soul Devouring Art?"
"Yeah." Su Yu nodded, "I wouldn't have dared to announce it so publicly otherwise. I only hope that they will refrain themselves for fear of courting more trouble. After all, the single character faction is not the only faction in the academy. Martial Uncle, they don't seem that scary. Although they are strong, I feel like the other factions are not weak either. They can't exactly do anything they want in the academy."
He felt like there was no need for them to be overly worried about the single character faction. It wasn't like they were the ones running the academy.
Chen Yong hesitated slightly before deciding to be frank, "You're wrong. Yes, the single character faction is not running our academy. But in many other academies, their principals are actually from the single character faction. The single character faction does not exist only in our academy. But it exists in the entire Human Realm." The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.
Chen Yong sighed, "Similarly, the multiple character faction does not refer only to the one in our academy. Over the past decade, the multiple character faction has declined to the point where we have less than a thousand members. I doubt we even have more than 500 members left across the entire Human Realm. As for the single character faction, they have over 10,000 members just in our academy alone."
Su Yu frowned, "Other factions are able to exist just fine. Some factions are even smaller than us. Why must the single character faction target us?"
From what his martial uncle had said, the entire single character faction of humanity was against them. But why?
Chen Yong sank into silence. Su Yu frowned. Was there an even bigger reason that could not be spoken about?
After a short silence, Chen Yong said, "Go back to the research center first. We'll call your teacher out before we continue this conversation."
"Alright."
...
A few minutes later, the two arrived at the research center.
When Bai Feng was dragged out of the laboratory, he was completely confused. Just what was happening this time?
"Senior Brother, why are you here?"
"..."
Chen Yong looked at Bai Feng with sympathy. As Su Yu's teacher, this fellow was actually the last to know about what had happened today.
Su Yu hurriedly said, "Teacher, I earned a lot of money today! I earned thousands of merit points!"
Bai Feng's eyes lit up. More money?
But his face soon sank as he asked, "How did you earn it? Who did you scam this time?"
"..."
Su Yu was rendered speechless. He explained, "I didn't scam anyone. I fought in a few matches and lost."
Bai Feng asked blankly, "So you were fighting in fixed matches?"
He then nodded, "Well done! Back then, your teacher used to fight in fixed matches too. During my time in the top 100, a few fellows bribed me to help increase their ranks. But you can't really earn much doing this. Who bribed you? How much did they pay you?"
This was...a dark piece of history.
Beside him, Chen Yong's face fell as he scolded, "You actually fought fixed matches back then?"
Chen Yong nodded. After thinking about it, he continued the conversation through voice transmission, "The multiple character faction is not targeted due to ideals. It isn't due to resources either. It is due to a personal grudge."
"Personal grudge?"
"Yeah. It's related to the fifth principal. Su Yu, you should be aware about the fifth principal's death, right?"
Su Yu nodded.
"Back then, a total of three Invincible experts had perished. You're also aware of that, right?"
Su Yu nodded again.
"Two of them were from the myriad races while the other was a human. That human came from Great Zhou. He was the younger brother of Great Zhou King. During the time of his death, he had just entered the Invincible Realm. His son...is the current principal of the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy.
"Back then, the fifth principal had not requested the help of any Invincible experts for his advancement. He was too arrogant. He believed that he could affirm his dao all by himself. He only brought a group of passionate cultural researchers not to help him, but to observe the process of dao affirmation.
"Alas, it ended in a disaster. Not only has the multiple character faction suffered a calamity, many of the helpers perished as well.
"The Great Zhou King had not said anything, but that person from the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy had never gotten along well with the fifth principal. Do you think he can accept the fact that his father had perished while helping the fifth principal?
"Since then, the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy started suppressing the multiple character faction. The Great Zhou King remained silent while the prefect of Great Zhou said nothing as well. Because of that, the people of Great Zhou viewed that as a tacit approval to start suppressing the multiple character faction.
"Subsequently, those from the other prefectures followed along. Some did it for benefits, some did it for a sense of unity, some did it to fawn on the Great Zhou King, and some did it because they hated the fifth principal.
"That coupled with the decline of the multiple character faction and numerous other factors have resulted in the current situation where the multiple character faction is being suppressed in the entire Human Realm.
"And that's not the biggest issue. The fifth principal once left a set of data behind. The data concerns the advancement of cultural researchers into the Eternal Realm. Additionally, the fifth principal had also left a Divine Character behind. The principal from Great Zhou insisted that since his father had perished while aiding the fifth principal, all those things belong to him. That was the price for his father's life. He requested access to the data..."
Su Yu couldn't help but say, "That...should be fine, right? After all, those people have perished while helping the fifth principal."
He had not imagined that there would be such a story behind the hostility between the two factions.
Su Yu had not thought too much about the three dead Invincible experts when Bai Feng mentioned it previously. But things seemed to be much more complicated than he had imagined. One of them was actually a human.
Chen Yong smiled bitterly, "Yes, we should. But...we don't have the data."
"What?"
"Yes. We don't have it. The fifth principal had two students. One was Martial Uncle Liu Wenyan and the other was our teacher, your grandteacher. The Divine Character was given to Martial Uncle. Everyone claimed that the data had been given to us. But...that wasn't the case."
Chen Yong sighed, "Teacher has been looking for the data. He has even checked everything he has multiple times, but the fifth principal's data is nowhere to be found. But nobody believes us. Everyone thinks that your teacher is unwilling to share. And it's obvious why that would offend everyone.
"From then on, with Great Zhou as the leader, the single character faction started targeting us and the entire multiple character faction. You have been wondering why the multiple character faction was so easily suppressed despite having some surviving experts back then? This is the reason. There is no way for them to do anything out of guilt. Things still weren't that bad when those experts were still alive. But as more and more died, things became harder for us."
Su Yu frowned, "Martial Uncle, just let them search us then. Since we don't have the data, how are we supposed to give them what they want?"
"That won't work. They will only believe what they want to believe. It doesn't matter what we say. Also, the single character faction has immense prestige and power. Since they are only suppressing us instead of actually coming after us directly, what can we do?"
Bai Feng gloomily said, "So there is still a hidden story like this? I was wondering why those Skysoar cultivators from Great Zhou looked at me like I was their sworn enemy back when I visited the Allheaven Battlefield. Senior Brother, why hadn't you told me earlier?"
Chen Yong rolled his eyes, "What's the point of talking about that? Strictly speaking, we really can't say or do anything. If we really have the data, we are more than willing to share. But we really don't have the data."
Bai Feng cautiously asked, "Senior Brother, maybe Teacher hid the data away?"
"Piss off!" Chen Yong cursed.
He glared at Bai Feng and said, "How would Teacher do that? We really don't have the data. If we really have it, some people would have found out about it by now. But we really don't have it. Do you really think that nobody else is interested in the data left behind by someone on the cusp of reaching the Invincible Realm? Both the Knowledge Seeking Realm and War Shrine are curious as well.
"Nobody was able to find anything. But...Teacher said that the data might really exist."
"What do you mean?"
Chen Yong exhaled, "Teacher said that some of Grandteacher's belongings have gone missing. But Grandteacher used to stay in the Heart Cultivating Pavilion. He had even set up a formation before leaving. Nobody should be able to enter and steal his belongings...
"There was simply no way for Teacher to convince the others of the truth. Some things were missing, so the data might be one of the missing things. But we really don’t have the data. Nobody knows if Grandteacher himself had removed the data. It has been so many years. There is no way for us to find out the truth.
"There is a possibility that someone had entered Grandteacher's dwelling back then and stolen the data. We have no choice but to become the scapegoat."
"Someone took the data in advance? What do you mean? With Grandteacher's strength, apart from Invincible experts, who can sneak through his formation?" Right after saying that, Bai Feng's expression changed.
Su Yu's expression also changed. He finally understood. No wonder Hong Tan had never talked about it all these years. No wonder he had prevented Chen Yong from talking about it. Who was capable of stealing from the fifth principal?
Invincible! If the missing data really existed, then an Invincible expert had definitely arrived before everyone else and took the data. But how was that person so sure that the fifth principal would perish?
That person had to be sure to be the first to arrive at the fifth principal's place. One ought to know that the fifth principal's remains had been brought back by Great Xia King himself shortly after his death. Thus, the thief had clearly known about the fifth principal's death even before the Great Xia King returned. All three of them sank into silence.
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Chapter 337: The More You Know, The Faster You Die (1)
Su Yu no longer concerned himself with the matter involving the willpower texts.
He was returning to the research center.
Chen Yong followed behind him silently. After a while, when they were finally far away from the others, he softly said, "I guess we have officially fallen out with them today."
Su Yu looked at his martial uncle and said, "Martial Uncle, do you think that we need to keep holding back?"
"We're not holding back. We are really weaker than them."
Chen Yong sighed.
Su Yu nodded. He said, "I know. But if we remain silent, they will keep pushing. If this continues, we won't have any future. With Zheng Yuming seriously injured and the single character faction occupied, this is the best chance for us to make a counterattack."
Chen Yong stayed silent for a long while before saying, "But we need to at least wait until your grandteacher is back before counterattacking."
At the mention of his grandteacher, Su Yu asked gloomily, "Why is grandteacher not back yet?"
Without the support of a Mountainsea cultivator, he felt extremely unsafe.
"It's your teacher's fault!" Chen Yong said, "A new race has appeared in the Allheaven Battlefield. Nobody knows where that race can be found. Your grandteacher is looking for that new race all over the Allheaven Battlefield so nobody knows his exact location. And we can't even contact him through communicators since a realm tunnel stands between us. Your teacher was the one who had instigated your grandteacher to leave. He might have stayed in the academy otherwise."
After giving Su Yu a simple explanation of what Bai Feng had done, Chen Yong asked, "Were you telling the truth about the Soul Devouring Art?"
"Yeah." Su Yu nodded, "I wouldn't have dared to announce it so publicly otherwise. I only hope that they will refrain themselves for fear of courting more trouble. After all, the single character faction is not the only faction in the academy. Martial Uncle, they don't seem that scary. Although they are strong, I feel like the other factions are not weak either. They can't exactly do anything they want in the academy."
He felt like there was no need for them to be overly worried about the single character faction. It wasn't like they were the ones running the academy.
Chen Yong hesitated slightly before deciding to be frank, "You're wrong. Yes, the single character faction is not running our academy. But in many other academies, their principals are actually from the single character faction. The single character faction does not exist only in our academy. But it exists in the entire Human Realm." The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.
Chen Yong sighed, "Similarly, the multiple character faction does not refer only to the one in our academy. Over the past decade, the multiple character faction has declined to the point where we have less than a thousand members. I doubt we even have more than 500 members left across the entire Human Realm. As for the single character faction, they have over 10,000 members just in our academy alone."
Su Yu frowned, "Other factions are able to exist just fine. Some factions are even smaller than us. Why must the single character faction target us?"
From what his martial uncle had said, the entire single character faction of humanity was against them. But why?
Chen Yong sank into silence. Su Yu frowned. Was there an even bigger reason that could not be spoken about?
After a short silence, Chen Yong said, "Go back to the research center first. We'll call your teacher out before we continue this conversation."
"Alright."
...
A few minutes later, the two arrived at the research center.
When Bai Feng was dragged out of the laboratory, he was completely confused. Just what was happening this time?
"Senior Brother, why are you here?"
"..."
Chen Yong looked at Bai Feng with sympathy. As Su Yu's teacher, this fellow was actually the last to know about what had happened today.
Su Yu hurriedly said, "Teacher, I earned a lot of money today! I earned thousands of merit points!"
Bai Feng's eyes lit up. More money?
But his face soon sank as he asked, "How did you earn it? Who did you scam this time?"
"..."
Su Yu was rendered speechless. He explained, "I didn't scam anyone. I fought in a few matches and lost."
Bai Feng asked blankly, "So you were fighting in fixed matches?"
He then nodded, "Well done! Back then, your teacher used to fight in fixed matches too. During my time in the top 100, a few fellows bribed me to help increase their ranks. But you can't really earn much doing this. Who bribed you? How much did they pay you?"
This was...a dark piece of history.
Beside him, Chen Yong's face fell as he scolded, "You actually fought fixed matches back then?"
Chen Yong nodded. After thinking about it, he continued the conversation through voice transmission, "The multiple character faction is not targeted due to ideals. It isn't due to resources either. It is due to a personal grudge."
"Personal grudge?"
"Yeah. It's related to the fifth principal. Su Yu, you should be aware about the fifth principal's death, right?"
Su Yu nodded.
"Back then, a total of three Invincible experts had perished. You're also aware of that, right?"
Su Yu nodded again.
"Two of them were from the myriad races while the other was a human. That human came from Great Zhou. He was the younger brother of Great Zhou King. During the time of his death, he had just entered the Invincible Realm. His son...is the current principal of the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy.
"Back then, the fifth principal had not requested the help of any Invincible experts for his advancement. He was too arrogant. He believed that he could affirm his dao all by himself. He only brought a group of passionate cultural researchers not to help him, but to observe the process of dao affirmation.
"Alas, it ended in a disaster. Not only has the multiple character faction suffered a calamity, many of the helpers perished as well.
"The Great Zhou King had not said anything, but that person from the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy had never gotten along well with the fifth principal. Do you think he can accept the fact that his father had perished while helping the fifth principal?
"Since then, the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy started suppressing the multiple character faction. The Great Zhou King remained silent while the prefect of Great Zhou said nothing as well. Because of that, the people of Great Zhou viewed that as a tacit approval to start suppressing the multiple character faction.
"Subsequently, those from the other prefectures followed along. Some did it for benefits, some did it for a sense of unity, some did it to fawn on the Great Zhou King, and some did it because they hated the fifth principal.
"That coupled with the decline of the multiple character faction and numerous other factors have resulted in the current situation where the multiple character faction is being suppressed in the entire Human Realm.
"And that's not the biggest issue. The fifth principal once left a set of data behind. The data concerns the advancement of cultural researchers into the Eternal Realm. Additionally, the fifth principal had also left a Divine Character behind. The principal from Great Zhou insisted that since his father had perished while aiding the fifth principal, all those things belong to him. That was the price for his father's life. He requested access to the data..."
Su Yu couldn't help but say, "That...should be fine, right? After all, those people have perished while helping the fifth principal."
He had not imagined that there would be such a story behind the hostility between the two factions.
Su Yu had not thought too much about the three dead Invincible experts when Bai Feng mentioned it previously. But things seemed to be much more complicated than he had imagined. One of them was actually a human.
Chen Yong smiled bitterly, "Yes, we should. But...we don't have the data."
"What?"
"Yes. We don't have it. The fifth principal had two students. One was Martial Uncle Liu Wenyan and the other was our teacher, your grandteacher. The Divine Character was given to Martial Uncle. Everyone claimed that the data had been given to us. But...that wasn't the case."
Chen Yong sighed, "Teacher has been looking for the data. He has even checked everything he has multiple times, but the fifth principal's data is nowhere to be found. But nobody believes us. Everyone thinks that your teacher is unwilling to share. And it's obvious why that would offend everyone.
"From then on, with Great Zhou as the leader, the single character faction started targeting us and the entire multiple character faction. You have been wondering why the multiple character faction was so easily suppressed despite having some surviving experts back then? This is the reason. There is no way for them to do anything out of guilt. Things still weren't that bad when those experts were still alive. But as more and more died, things became harder for us."
Su Yu frowned, "Martial Uncle, just let them search us then. Since we don't have the data, how are we supposed to give them what they want?"
"That won't work. They will only believe what they want to believe. It doesn't matter what we say. Also, the single character faction has immense prestige and power. Since they are only suppressing us instead of actually coming after us directly, what can we do?"
Bai Feng gloomily said, "So there is still a hidden story like this? I was wondering why those Skysoar cultivators from Great Zhou looked at me like I was their sworn enemy back when I visited the Allheaven Battlefield. Senior Brother, why hadn't you told me earlier?"
Chen Yong rolled his eyes, "What's the point of talking about that? Strictly speaking, we really can't say or do anything. If we really have the data, we are more than willing to share. But we really don't have the data."
Bai Feng cautiously asked, "Senior Brother, maybe Teacher hid the data away?"
"Piss off!" Chen Yong cursed.
He glared at Bai Feng and said, "How would Teacher do that? We really don't have the data. If we really have it, some people would have found out about it by now. But we really don't have it. Do you really think that nobody else is interested in the data left behind by someone on the cusp of reaching the Invincible Realm? Both the Knowledge Seeking Realm and War Shrine are curious as well.
"Nobody was able to find anything. But...Teacher said that the data might really exist."
"What do you mean?"
Chen Yong exhaled, "Teacher said that some of Grandteacher's belongings have gone missing. But Grandteacher used to stay in the Heart Cultivating Pavilion. He had even set up a formation before leaving. Nobody should be able to enter and steal his belongings...
"There was simply no way for Teacher to convince the others of the truth. Some things were missing, so the data might be one of the missing things. But we really don’t have the data. Nobody knows if Grandteacher himself had removed the data. It has been so many years. There is no way for us to find out the truth.
"There is a possibility that someone had entered Grandteacher's dwelling back then and stolen the data. We have no choice but to become the scapegoat."
"Someone took the data in advance? What do you mean? With Grandteacher's strength, apart from Invincible experts, who can sneak through his formation?" Right after saying that, Bai Feng's expression changed.
Su Yu's expression also changed. He finally understood. No wonder Hong Tan had never talked about it all these years. No wonder he had prevented Chen Yong from talking about it. Who was capable of stealing from the fifth principal?
Invincible! If the missing data really existed, then an Invincible expert had definitely arrived before everyone else and took the data. But how was that person so sure that the fifth principal would perish?
That person had to be sure to be the first to arrive at the fifth principal's place. One ought to know that the fifth principal's remains had been brought back by Great Xia King himself shortly after his death. Thus, the thief had clearly known about the fifth principal's death even before the Great Xia King returned. All three of them sank into silence.
Chapter 337: The More You Know, The Faster You Die 1 Su Yu no longer concerned himself with the matter involving the willpower texts. He was returning to the research center. Chen Yong followed behind him silently. After a while, when they were finally far away from the others, he softly said, "I guess we have officially fallen out with them today." Su Yu looked at his martial uncle and said, "Martial Uncle, do you think that we need to keep holding back?" "We're not holding back. We are really weaker than them." Chen Yong sighed. Su Yu nodded. He said, "I know. But if we remain silent, they will keep pushing. If this continues, we won't have any future. With Zheng Yuming seriously injured and the single character faction occupied, this is the best chance for us to make a counterattack." Chen Yong stayed silent for a long while before saying, "But we need to at least wait until your grandteacher is back before counterattacking." At the mention of his grandteacher, Su Yu asked gloomily, "Why is grandteacher not back yet?" Without the support of a Mountainsea cultivator, he felt extremely unsafe. "It's your teacher's fault!" Chen Yong said, "A new race has appeared in the Allheaven Battlefield. Nobody knows where that race can be found. Your grandteacher is looking for that new race all over the Allheaven Battlefield so nobody knows his exact location. And we can't even contact him through communicators since a realm tunnel stands between us. Your teacher was the one who had instigated your grandteacher to leave. He might have stayed in the academy otherwise." After giving Su Yu a simple explanation of what Bai Feng had done, Chen Yong asked, "Were you telling the truth about the Soul Devouring Art?" "Yeah." Su Yu nodded, "I wouldn't have dared to announce it so publicly otherwise. I only hope that they will refrain themselves for fear of courting more trouble. After all, the single character faction is not the only faction in the academy. Martial Uncle, they don't seem that scary. Although they are strong, I feel like the other factions are not weak either. They can't exactly do anything they want in the academy." He felt like there was no need for them to be overly worried about the single character faction. It wasn't like they were the ones running the academy. Chen Yong hesitated slightly before deciding to be frank, "You're wrong. Yes, the single character faction is not running our academy. But in many other academies, their principals are actually from the single character faction. The single character faction does not exist only in our academy. But it exists in the entire Human Realm." The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.Chen Yong sighed, "Similarly, the multiple character faction does not refer only to the one in our academy. Over the past decade, the multiple character faction has declined to the point where we have less than a thousand members. I doubt we even have more than 500 members left across the entire Human Realm. As for the single character faction, they have over 10,000 members just in our academy alone." Su Yu frowned, "Other factions are able to exist just fine. Some factions are even smaller than us. Why must the single character faction target us?" From what his martial uncle had said, the entire single character faction of humanity was against them. But why? Chen Yong sank into silence. Su Yu frowned. Was there an even bigger reason that could not be spoken about? After a short silence, Chen Yong said, "Go back to the research center first. We'll call your teacher out before we continue this conversation." "Alright." ... A few minutes later, the two arrived at the research center. When Bai Feng was dragged out of the laboratory, he was completely confused. Just what was happening this time? "Senior Brother, why are you here?" "..." Chen Yong looked at Bai Feng with sympathy. As Su Yu's teacher, this fellow was actually the last to know about what had happened today. Su Yu hurriedly said, "Teacher, I earned a lot of money today! I earned thousands of merit points!" Bai Feng's eyes lit up. More money? But his face soon sank as he asked, "How did you earn it? Who did you scam this time?" "..." Su Yu was rendered speechless. He explained, "I didn't scam anyone. I fought in a few matches and lost." Bai Feng asked blankly, "So you were fighting in fixed matches?" He then nodded, "Well done! Back then, your teacher used to fight in fixed matches too. During my time in the top 100, a few fellows bribed me to help increase their ranks. But you can't really earn much doing this. Who bribed you? How much did they pay you?" This was...a dark piece of history. Beside him, Chen Yong's face fell as he scolded, "You actually fought fixed matches back then?" Chen Yong nodded. After thinking about it, he continued the conversation through voice transmission, "The multiple character faction is not targeted due to ideals. It isn't due to resources either. It is due to a personal grudge." "Personal grudge?" "Yeah. It's related to the fifth principal. Su Yu, you should be aware about the fifth principal's death, right?" Su Yu nodded. "Back then, a total of three Invincible experts had perished. You're also aware of that, right?" Su Yu nodded again. "Two of them were from the myriad races while the other was a human. That human came from Great Zhou. He was the younger brother of Great Zhou King. During the time of his death, he had just entered the Invincible Realm. His son...is the current principal of the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy. "Back then, the fifth principal had not requested the help of any Invincible experts for his advancement. He was too arrogant. He believed that he could affirm his dao all by himself. He only brought a group of passionate cultural researchers not to help him, but to observe the process of dao affirmation. "Alas, it ended in a disaster. Not only has the multiple character faction suffered a calamity, many of the helpers perished as well. "The Great Zhou King had not said anything, but that person from the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy had never gotten along well with the fifth principal. Do you think he can accept the fact that his father had perished while helping the fifth principal? "Since then, the Great Zhou Cultural Research Academy started suppressing the multiple character faction. The Great Zhou King remained silent while the prefect of Great Zhou said nothing as well. Because of that, the people of Great Zhou viewed that as a tacit approval to start suppressing the multiple character faction. "Subsequently, those from the other prefectures followed along. Some did it for benefits, some did it for a sense of unity, some did it to fawn on the Great Zhou King, and some did it because they hated the fifth principal. "That coupled with the decline of the multiple character faction and numerous other factors have resulted in the current situation where the multiple character faction is being suppressed in the entire Human Realm. "And that's not the biggest issue. The fifth principal once left a set of data behind. The data concerns the advancement of cultural researchers into the Eternal Realm. Additionally, the fifth principal had also left a Divine Character behind. The principal from Great Zhou insisted that since his father had perished while aiding the fifth principal, all those things belong to him. That was the price for his father's life. He requested access to the data..." Su Yu couldn't help but say, "That...should be fine, right? After all, those people have perished while helping the fifth principal." He had not imagined that there would be such a story behind the hostility between the two factions. Su Yu had not thought too much about the three dead Invincible experts when Bai Feng mentioned it previously. But things seemed to be much more complicated than he had imagined. One of them was actually a human. Chen Yong smiled bitterly, "Yes, we should. But...we don't have the data." "What?" "Yes. We don't have it. The fifth principal had two students. One was Martial Uncle Liu Wenyan and the other was our teacher, your grandteacher. The Divine Character was given to Martial Uncle. Everyone claimed that the data had been given to us. But...that wasn't the case." Chen Yong sighed, "Teacher has been looking for the data. He has even checked everything he has multiple times, but the fifth principal's data is nowhere to be found. But nobody believes us. Everyone thinks that your teacher is unwilling to share. And it's obvious why that would offend everyone. "From then on, with Great Zhou as the leader, the single character faction started targeting us and the entire multiple character faction. You have been wondering why the multiple character faction was so easily suppressed despite having some surviving experts back then? This is the reason. There is no way for them to do anything out of guilt. Things still weren't that bad when those experts were still alive. But as more and more died, things became harder for us." Su Yu frowned, "Martial Uncle, just let them search us then. Since we don't have the data, how are we supposed to give them what they want?" "That won't work. They will only believe what they want to believe. It doesn't matter what we say. Also, the single character faction has immense prestige and power. Since they are only suppressing us instead of actually coming after us directly, what can we do?" Bai Feng gloomily said, "So there is still a hidden story like this? I was wondering why those Skysoar cultivators from Great Zhou looked at me like I was their sworn enemy back when I visited the Allheaven Battlefield. Senior Brother, why hadn't you told me earlier?" Chen Yong rolled his eyes, "What's the point of talking about that? Strictly speaking, we really can't say or do anything. If we really have the data, we are more than willing to share. But we really don't have the data." Bai Feng cautiously asked, "Senior Brother, maybe Teacher hid the data away?" "Piss off!" Chen Yong cursed. He glared at Bai Feng and said, "How would Teacher do that? We really don't have the data. If we really have it, some people would have found out about it by now. But we really don't have it. Do you really think that nobody else is interested in the data left behind by someone on the cusp of reaching the Invincible Realm? Both the Knowledge Seeking Realm and War Shrine are curious as well. "Nobody was able to find anything. But...Teacher said that the data might really exist." "What do you mean?" Chen Yong exhaled, "Teacher said that some of Grandteacher's belongings have gone missing. But Grandteacher used to stay in the Heart Cultivating Pavilion. He had even set up a formation before leaving. Nobody should be able to enter and steal his belongings... "There was simply no way for Teacher to convince the others of the truth. Some things were missing, so the data might be one of the missing things. But we really don't have the data. Nobody knows if Grandteacher himself had removed the data. It has been so many years. There is no way for us to find out the truth. "There is a possibility that someone had entered Grandteacher's dwelling back then and stolen the data. We have no choice but to become the scapegoat." "Someone took the data in advance? What do you mean? With Grandteacher's strength, apart from Invincible experts, who can sneak through his formation?" Right after saying that, Bai Feng's expression changed. Su Yu's expression also changed. He finally understood. No wonder Hong Tan had never talked about it all these years. No wonder he had prevented Chen Yong from talking about it. Who was capable of stealing from the fifth principal? Invincible! If the missing data really existed, then an Invincible expert had definitely arrived before everyone else and took the data. But how was that person so sure that the fifth principal would perish? That person had to be sure to be the first to arrive at the fifth principal's place. One ought to know that the fifth principal's remains had been brought back by Great Xia King himself shortly after his death. Thus, the thief had clearly known about the fifth principal's death even before the Great Xia King returned. All three of them sank into silence.
