Pan Long waited a little longer. When the crowd stopped growing, he decided that everyone who could make it for now had arrived and nodded to Prefect Jin beside him.
Prefect Jin smiled. Ever since taking office in Xiangping, he had spent years as a practically invisible figure, with little sense that his presence mattered. The chance to take center stage today excited him greatly.
The scholarly official, who knew nothing of martial arts, picked up the speaking trumpet officers ordinarily used to read proclamations and announce notices, then loudly explained the details of Shang Man's case.
"...In my judgment, Yang An's death was highly suspicious. Unfortunately, with the dead unable to testify, there was nothing we could do. Fortunately, an Immortal or Buddha has descended and is willing to use great divine powers to bring Yang An back to life and resolve this mystery."
"That is the full account of the case. Anyone with questions may read the notice the yamen will post afterward."
He spoke for a good fifteen minutes, but no one present grew impatient.
To witness the miracle of someone being brought back to life, they would have waited three or five days, let alone fifteen minutes.
While Prefect Jin spoke, winds swept the clouds across the sky as True Person Grandmasters arrived one after another, riding the wind.
Ordinary people had never seen anyone brought back to life, and most True Person Grandmasters had not either.
They were just as eager for a chance to broaden their horizons and witness the methods of an Immortal or Buddha.
The True Person Grandmasters naturally noticed Pan Long beside Prefect Jin. The True Persons, whose cultivation was lower, had yet to understand what they were seeing, but the expressions of the two Grandmasters who had achieved Unity of