Over the next few days, Fang Qianyuan behaved obediently, genuinely keeping to the Lin Family's separate courtyard and seldom venturing out, lying low until the storm passed.
On Ten Thousand Poisons Island, where Ten Thousand Poisons Valley was located, Huang Youdui's injury had stirred up towering waves.
A mere outsider, a grassroots rogue cultivator of unknown background, had actually dared to injure an elder?
Many people were shocked and furious.
Yet there was no shortage of those who gloated over his misfortune.
After all, not everyone liked the Huang clan, nor could everyone truly be expected to get along harmoniously and present a united front merely because they were all elders of Ten Thousand Poisons Valley.
On the contrary, those people were more interested in the newly arrived expert.
They all understood the value of powerful rogue cultivators. At this crucial juncture, when Ten Thousand Poisons Valley thirsted for talent and sought fresh blood to become a true sect in its own right, such an expert held extraordinary significance.
The Lin Family had no shortage of close allies on the island, who deliberately or otherwise began singing "Guang Hao's" praises and speaking in his defense.
The outcome was naturally just as Old Madam Lin had wanted: the affair became a story of two rivals fighting over a woman, with Huang Youdui harboring malicious intentions first, only to prove the weaker fighter and lose both the battle and his dignity.
His friendship with Lin Shan and his feud with Huang Youdui were also recounted in vivid detail, as though many people had witnessed everything firsthand.
With such matters half true and half false, and romantic rumors thrown into the mix, there was truly no way to refute them.
Everyone on the island knew the Lin Family had a daughter who had