Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Truth?
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The loyal audience of the Anti-Forgery Expert has always been split evenly between die-hard fans and rational followers. While the rational ones remained untouched by the radiance of the Hundred Flowers Saintess, calmly considering the plausibility of the matter, the die-hards erupted immediately.
“What do you mean impossible? When has the Anti-Forgery Master ever been proven wrong?”
“Exactly! If he says it, there must be a reason. Just wait for the evidence, stop interrupting!”
“I’ve never liked that so-called Hundred Flowers Saintess. She knows how important blooming is for us plants—it’s our way of reproducing—yet she always fiddles with our reproductive organs, who knows how much pollen she’s collected? And she puts on that high and pure act, makes me want to spray her right in the face.”
“That ‘purity’ was all orchestrated by her PR team! Who knows what she’s really like? Anyone who carries around reproductive organs all day can’t be all that innocent, yet she has the nerve to talk about respecting life and reproduction…”
“And about her last interview, didn’t you think her words about Sang Hongye were ambiguous? I never saw her praise Sang Hongye; it was clearly subtle shade.”
The two factions squared off, but the Anti-Forgery Expert quickly activated mute and ban features to stabilize the scene and continued his analysis.
“Now, let’s look at my breakdown.”
He played a video clip showing Sang Hongye training in the Boundless Wood Realm, highlighting several senior students chasing and cornering her.
“The footage is certified by the God of Truth and can be used as evidence. Take a look at these people—mainly humans, with some fairyfolk—this is the most typical line-up for Bishop Qi Ning’s faction. They’re all carrying image-blurring artifacts. You might say single-use artifacts are common in the Boundless Wood Realm, used by over half the participants, so I can’t make conclusions based on that alone.
But if we remove the artifacts’ disguise, and search their appearances to identify them, then trace their records posted on Starlight, we find they’re all backup logistics for the Hundred Flowers Saintess, followers not yet officially recognized. They’re about to graduate from advanced high school and are eager to earn her approval for internship opportunities. Logically, they shouldn’t waste their time targeting an elementary student.”
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“The lowest among them is at Star Level Three, and the highest has reached Void Level Advanced. Sang Hongye at the time was only at Heavenly Level, still far from her peak. The gap in strength was vast; one side could gain nothing from the other. They mostly used binding spells on Sang Hongye, and after binding her, they’d idly poke at ant nests nearby. Their behavior and expressions showed a careless attitude towards Sang Hongye, but also that they were enduring something.
What made them waste their time on Sang Hongye? Here’s a detail.”
The Anti-Forgery Expert zoomed in on a corner and used an audio deciphering feature. A fairyfolk girl was whispering to the obvious human team captain: “This task is so boring, and it can’t even be acknowledged openly. Is there any point?”
“Though her complaint was stopped by the captain, from this we can see they’re carrying out a task. Who issued it? And since Sang Hongye, as a special class student, has anti-tracking privileges in the Boundless Wood Realm, who found her after her location was masked and sent her enemies the message?”
Someone couldn’t help interjecting, “Who cares who it was? Plenty of people look down on Sang Hongye, but it’s definitely not the Hundred Flowers Saintess!”
The Anti-Forgery Expert muted him and circled other details in the footage. “No interruptions before Q&A time. Look here, here, and here—every spot Sang Hongye was cornered, there’s a White Jade Lingsiao Flower. In the Boundless Wood Realm, these flowers aren’t rare, but they mostly grow in the Hundred Flowers Valley, rarely in other hunting grounds, especially the Giant Wood Forest. Who brought them here? I think some of you already know.”
“When the Hundred Flowers Saintess was in middle grade, she created a White Jade Lingsiao Net in the Boundless Wood Realm, using the flower’s dormant traits to track a cross-border hidden parasite. She also took away the mother plant controlling White Jade Lingsiao Flowers in the realm, and to this day, a new mother hasn’t been born. This was her most famous battle before becoming Saintess, though she owes much to her ever-present strategist.”
He zoomed in on the human team captain, highlighting the floral pattern on his collar and used disguise removal. “Look at this emblem. After removing the disguise, it’s a White Jade Lingsiao Flower, the red stamen at its heart proves it’s the mother plant itself. Undoubtedly, it came from the Hundred Flowers Saintess.”
Someone weakly protested, “Maybe it was borrowed? The Saintess is known for her generosity…”
The Anti-Forgery Expert smirked and activated mute. “If this doesn’t prove the Saintess was targeting Sang Hongye, let’s analyze her latest interview, which you mentioned earlier.”
He played the newest interview, dissecting every word to uncover the Saintess’s true intentions, and concluded, “In summary, the Hundred Flowers Saintess seems to defend Sang Hongye, but in reality, she’s nailing her to the pillar of shame. Has no one here studied the art of language?”
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Someone nodded repeatedly. “I knew the Saintess’s words were off—it’s praise in form, but criticism in essence. She made those unfamiliar with Sang Hongye see her as arrogant, vain, ignorant, stealing others’ fortunes. The age part was an obvious sleight of hand. But when I pointed out the ambiguity, her followers drowned me out and banned me from entering her Starlight.”
Someone struggled, “You’re not a mind-reading worm in her brain, how can you be sure your interpretation reflects her true thoughts? The ones who chased Sang Hongye in the Boundless Wood Realm weren’t necessarily sent by her, maybe someone else acted under her name.” The more he spoke, the more convinced he became, nodding vigorously, “It must be internal power shifts—the Saintess and Sang Hongye are both just pawns.”
Everyone looked at him as if he were an imbecile.
“Don’t believe me?” The pink-and-blue little octopus’s halo flashed between pink and orange, its tentacles swirling through the air, pulling out bubbles containing collected footage. “I have even more direct evidence. But, this episode ends here. Tune in tomorrow for ‘Behind the Scenes of Recent Hot Topic Figure Sang Hongye—Part Two.’” With no regard for viewers’ tipping or pleas, he closed the stream, kicking everyone out of the live room.
News about the Hundred Flowers Saintess travels fast. As soon as the Anti-Forgery Expert mentioned her title, her associates learned of it, and because she cared deeply about Sang Hongye, the information—including a portal to the expert’s livestream—was immediately sent to her.
At that moment, the Hundred Flowers Saintess was in the interstellar city of the Chief, Face-to-Face with the Empty Saint.
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