About half a month after Lu Baitian and his companion left, rumors and gossip suddenly began spreading through the Taixuan Sect.
A group of disciples who had gone mad went around the Inner Sect City proclaiming that a Sheng Family genius had bullied Wu Jue, only to be killed in return.
The matter of Wu Jue killing fellow disciples had already caused a huge uproar. Now that these disciples were revealing another version of events, how could it not draw criticism?
Even though that group of disciples was quickly brought under control, the news still spread fast.
After some busybody disciples investigated, it turned out that the crazed disciples had been witnesses who testified that Wu Jue had killed his fellow sect members. Yet now they had gone mad and revealed a version different from their previous statements, which made people unable to help thinking in the direction of a conspiracy.
Some suspected that the people behind Wu Jue had made a move. Others suspected that these people had been unable to withstand the psychological pressure, so they pretended to be mad and played the fool while revealing the truth. Some went even further, believing they had previously been poisoned by the Sheng Family and had no choice but to lie, and now that the poison had taken effect and driven them mad, they used their last shred of reason to speak the truth.
Opinions flew in every direction, and Wu Jue once again became the focus of attention throughout the Taixuan Sect.
The matter grew so huge that even Ye Lan and Zhen Qin from the branch sect came to find Gu An, afraid he would get dragged into it.
"The Sheng Family really is ruthless. They actually poisoned people. Tsk, tsk, even the branch sect is talking about