He Was Mistaken for the Sword Saint's Heir, So His Strictest Senior Trained the Fake novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: The Hundred-Blade Array

At nine the next morning the stands held three thousand people, and every one of them was looking at Shouyi.

He had walked out onto the field in his deep blue robes at the head of the Bluebrook team.

He had not yet breathed since the gate.

Mian could see it from three steps behind him, a held stillness all down the long back.

"Positions," called the herald.

Xiaoman took the base of the triangle and set her feet.

Mian took the second point.

Shouyi took the third, and the hundred blades rose around them from a rack in the grass, humming.

A white goose with an orange beak and a small brass medal on its chest wandered into the ring behind Shouyi and sat down.

"That's the Assembly's guard goose," Xiaoman whispered. "It lives here. Don't look at it."

Mian looked at it.

The goose looked back with no respect whatsoever.

"Begin," said the herald, and the gong went.

For the first minute it was beautiful.

Shouyi called the steps in a flat clear voice, and Xiaoman's qi sat under them.

Mian did what he did best.

He mirrored each blade's turn a heartbeat behind.

He felt along the ring for the soft places, the little snags where one thread of qi tugged against another.

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