The officials were not stupid.
If they couldn't get the information from one returnee, then they would approach the second returnee and dug various information from them. Some specific information was indeed only known to one returnee, but if they were only asking about some general information, there was no problem in asking other returnees about it.
One of them was the fact that most of these returnees used to be rank 7 before they came back to this world after their 'deaths.'
So reaching rank 7 seemed to be something that would definitely happen for these returnees and it was nothing special.
The officials were already prepared.
The moment these patterns appeared one by one in the sky, they understood that these returnees should have reached the peak of their previous strength and will slowly improve on their own.
As for whether they knew the path forward…
These returnees never said anything.
