It had taken just three days!
Annie had claimed she was having people work through the night to print them, but in reality, she had simply conjured and copied them herself. All ten thousand unedited, original copies of the Evil-Exorcising Sword Manual had finally sold out.
That's right, the very first edition of the Evil-Exorcising Sword Manual had sold that well!
And so!
The thousands of martial artists who had gathered in Fuzhou Prefecture scattered almost instantly. Most of them were gone, and no one mentioned the Lin Family or the Fuwei Escort Agency anymore. Even Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng Sect, who had originally claimed he would avenge his master, Changqingzi, had taken his disciples and slipped away early, leaving Fuzhou, that troublesome place.
According to reliable reports, some said that Yu Canghai and his disciples had bought a full twenty copies of the Evil-Exorcising Sword Manual—almost one for each of them.
Whether they intended to practice it themselves or take it back to their sect, study it thoroughly, make corrections, and pass it down was still unknown.
Aside from the Qingcheng Sect, which had stirred up the trouble, all the other major sects and nearly every martial artist who had come to Fuzhou City had gained something.
After all, Annie had prepared plenty of manuals, and they weren't expensive. So regardless of whether they had originally been interested in the Evil-Exorcising Swordplay, or whether they truly wanted to practice it, any martial artist who saw how easily the manual could be obtained would spend five taels of silver to buy a copy.
In fact, it wasn't just the martial artists who had come to Fuzhou over the past few days hoping to fish in troubled waters. Quite a few of Fuzhou's gentry, officials, and wealthy merchants had bought