Lin Mu smiled faintly and gestured for them to begin. "Let us exchange what we learned. I will start."
He recounted his conversation with Old Man Jeon in detail.
He spoke of the fall of the Butterfly Kingdom, the centuries long decay that preceded it, the succession crisis born from an unnaturally long reign, and the eventual war that allowed neighboring powers to carve the kingdom apart.
He explained the current state of the former capital, now a joint economic city under shared control, and the reassurance that the teleportation array there was still intact.
As he spoke, Daoist Chu nodded along, occasionally closing his eyes as if aligning Lin Mu's words with his own findings.
"That aligns with what I heard as well," Daoist Chu said once Lin Mu finished. "The administrative office had records, though they were incomplete and poorly maintained. Still, the essentials match. The kingdom fell due to internal strife and external opportunism."
