Lin Mu knew that giving people every answer immediately would actually weaken his disguise.
Someone who explained everything too clearly invited investigation. An ancient expert who had been missing for more than one hundred thousand years could reasonably possess secrets and refuse to explain them.
He could even make his return sound inconvenient.
Perhaps he had entered the Mad Demon Depths in search of an inheritance. Perhaps he had found an ancient method that allowed him to preserve his life through stasis. Perhaps the strange array left behind by the Mad Demon had sustained him for all these years.
Every explanation had a foundation in reality and that was what made the identity so useful.
Lin Mu had personally seen the effects of the Mad Demon's methods. He had seen the compressed spatial layers, the vitality crystal, the ancient arrays and the experimental remnants that had survived for countless years.
