Formation
"I also heard the young master used his saber to cut up a mountain in half and almost destroyed the sky with a single slash."
Lu Zhen's ears twitched when he heard this. "The news travelled truly too fast; however, the news seemed to be half-truth and half-lie mixed in," he mused to himself.
Since the news only travelled by ears and mouth, naturally, the news would deviate as they travelled further and further, almost becoming unrecognisable by the time it reached far enough.
After all, everyone comes up with a different conclusion as they hear the news, and then they spread it to their own news with a different interpretation. In turn, the person who hears the news will make another interpretation about it, making the information more and more unrecognisable by the time it reaches far and wide.
It was a universal thing. Unless one can send concise information, the information will become more and more twisted as time passes.