Chapter 149: City Trial Begins
"We’ve found nothing; the perpetrator seems to be like the ghost from the rumors..." Xu Guiku’s face looked quite awful. After all, such a heinous crime happened right under his watch, and he couldn’t escape his responsibilities.
The most face-losing aspect was that until now, he had not a shred of evidence about the murderer, and didn’t even know where to start investigating. He could only order soldiers to search the entire city aimlessly, merely to make a show of action to his superiors—after all, he couldn’t just do nothing, could he?
Since he couldn’t uncover the truth, he might as well mystify the killer. That way, it wasn’t due to his incompetence, but because the killer was just too powerful.
Despite Xu Guiku’s reputation for iron-clad justice, when it came to his own official cap, he would also engage in some small maneuvers. Every man for himself, and the heavens annihilate the unworthy!
Fei Yushu’s face darkened in an instant, and his gaze towards Xu Guiku became scrutinizing, but he didn’t say much. Instead, he brushed past Xu Guiku with a cold swish of his sleeve.
He planned to first check the situation at the local sub-branch residence.
Xu Guiku naturally saw the disapproval in his heart, yet he still had to toughen his skin and follow.
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In the blink of an eye, two days hurried past, and the news of the Demon slaughtering the entire sub-branch of the Divine Sword Hall in Luoyan City was buzzing throughout the Nanzhuo Dynasty. Discussions of the incident overshadowed the buzz about prodigious talents of the Hidden Dragon Martial Arts Competition in all forty-eight prefectures.
And on this day, the city trials began everywhere.
In each city, the number of young cultivators who had achieved a star ranking was already in the several hundreds of thousands. In the last few days, the numbers were booming, including not only local cultivators but also many young ones from the Southern Domain’s kingdoms. Especially in the last two days, their numbers had increased nearly by a third, which even made Qin Jun click his tongue in wonder.