The next day, an astonishing rumor spread among the countless martial heroes near Fuzhou Prefecture!
It was said that the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual—the very manual that had allowed Lin Yuantu to master seventy-two sword techniques and become invincible in the martial world—had surfaced the night before at the Lin family's old residence on Xiangyang Alley in Fuzhou City!
In no time, all kinds of news began spreading wildly through the martial world from Fuzhou Prefecture. The entire realm of martial artists was stirred into action, and countless people started making their way to Fuzhou Prefecture of their own accord.
And so?
In just two or three days, a tavern outside Fuzhou City was already packed with more than a hundred martial artists!
Among them, a martial-world "know-it-all" had blended into the crowd. He was already regaling the martial artists who had rushed to Fuzhou Prefecture after catching wind of the news with a vivid, immersive account of what was happening in the city:
"You folks probably haven't heard yet, have you?"
"Around midnight two nights ago, something strange happened at the Lin family's old residence on Xiangyang Alley in Fuzhou City!"
"Yue Lingshan, the Huashan Sect's 'Twin Swords, Startling Rainbow,' and Lu Dayou, the 'White Cloud Swordsman,' somehow got word of it and snuck into the Lin family's old residence in the dead of night. In the end, they managed to find the original copy of the long-missing Evil-Repelling Sword Manual, written on a Buddhist kasaya!"
"Good heavens! It was the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual!"
"Back in the day, Lord Yuantu used those seventy-two Evil-Repelling sword techniques to defeat every opponent from both the righteous and unorthodox factions. Even Changqingzi, head of the Qingcheng Sect and famed as the greatest swordsman of his time, fell to the Evil-Repelling sword techniques and