Once a precedent is set, it can serve as an example for others.
The night Han Tiechui's earth-shattering roar echoed around, it piqued the curiosity of many people during the daylight hours.
When it came to Cultivating Immortals—or the County Magistrate, for that matter—people naturally harbored mistrust, not because they were malicious, but because they belonged to a different class.
Lacking both scholarly honors and mana, the people instinctively trusted those who were like them.
Although Han Tiechui was known throughout the county as a peculiar woman—famed for galloping horses on her arm and capable of killing three men with a single punch without even catching her breath—she was just like them, an ordinary person!
That an ordinary person could scold a ghost right to its face and emerge unscathed the next day, was bound to spark inquiries.
No one wanted to live in fear every night; they all wished to have a pleasant chat with their families after dark.
