"Hunters?"
Yin Chengxiu thought for a moment, then turned and asked the household guards, "Where are those two hunters?"
One man said, "They left after they found him."
"Possibly... at the medicine shop!"
Lu Chuan spoke up then. "One hunter secretly followed this humble one, and this humble one accidentally discovered him, so... there was a bit of a misunderstanding."
With that, an embarrassed smile appeared on his face.
"You discovered the hunter following you, and even misunderstood him all the way into a medicine shop..." Hearing this, Yin Chengxiu looked Lu Chuan up and down again with suspicion and asked, "Have you practiced martial arts?"
"This humble one has never practiced."
Lu Chuan gently shook his head and said, "Though this humble one yearns greatly for the path of martial learning, my family was poor, so I could only study letters from a young age!"
"You've at least heard of 'the poor study letters, the rich practice martial arts,' haven't you?"
Yin Chengxiu was half-convinced and half-doubtful. Suddenly, he pointed at Lu Chuan's arm and said, "Roll up your sleeve. Let me see!"
Lu Chuan was speechless, so he raised his hand and rolled up his sleeve, letting Yin Chengxiu look clearly and thoroughly.
Yin Chengxiu swept a glance over it and saw that the flesh and skin on Lu Chuan's arm had not been tempered through cultivation. Only then did his doubts fade.
"Heh, bro is a Qi Refiner. Didn't see that coming, did you!"
Lu Chuan withdrew his arm without a change in expression.
Because the first stage of the Martial Way was to temper the blood, tendons, bones, skin, and marrow, those who had practiced the Martial Way not only had more abundant blood-qi than ordinary people and greater strength than ordinary people, their tendons, bones,