In just one day, the Gu Family had brought Gu Wuji to the provincial capital for its officials to determine whether he possessed the Dust-Cleansing Medicine Body.
Their actions had been swift indeed.
Though the provincial officials were highly cultivated as well, they could not find anything. After all, the most obvious trait of the Dust-Cleansing Medicine Body was a medicinal fragrance emanating from the body. Without that, everything else was empty talk.
Thus, they issued a public notice declaring the matter nothing but a rumor and forbidding anyone from bringing it up again. Should any martial artist trespass into the Gu Family because of this rumor, they could be killed without punishment.
Many martial artists lost heart upon reading it. They had thought the Dust-Cleansing Medicine Body had truly appeared in the world, only for it to turn out to be a rumor in the end.
Though the man surnamed Deng, whose arms and legs had been broken, remained unwilling to accept it, he began to doubt himself after seeing the provincial capital's notice.
Generally speaking, the authorities would never help conceal such a matter, no matter how much money was offered in bribes.
Instead, they would report it to the imperial court, because it meant a Martial Saint could be cultivated—a tremendous achievement that meant rapid promotion.
If the Gu Family's youngest son truly possessed the Dust-Cleansing Medicine Body, the provincial capital could not possibly have failed to report it.
"I had my arms and legs broken... over an ordinary child?" The more the man surnamed Deng thought about it, the angrier he grew. He hated himself for having been blind and mistaking that child for a Medicine Body.
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