He Was Mistaken for the Sword Saint's Heir, So His Strictest Senior Trained the Fake novel · Chapter 7 of 24
Chapter 7: The Inspector Asks the Captain
They came back down the mountain with the echo stone wrapped in a blanket, and neither of them said a word about the cave.
Mian did not mention it at breakfast or at footwork, or when Shouyi corrected his elbow from six feet away.
That was how Mian knew it was bothering Shouyi a great deal.
By afternoon the Inspector had called every disciple to the yard for what he called the Routine Examination of the Team.
Two hundred of them stood in rows with their hands folded.
Xiaoman stood at the back, polishing her abacus with her sleeve.
Mian had been given a sack of flour to carry, because the cook was short a pair of hands and old habits die hard.
He held it against his chest and stood very quietly.
"Every team captain of the Assembly," the Inspector began, unrolling his scroll, "must show the Core Formation Seal once, before a witness of the Council."
He smiled kindly at Shouyi.
"It is a formality. A mere stamp in the air. It proves the captain's qi is of the proper depth."
Shouyi stood in the middle of the yard in his deep blue robes.
He did not move a muscle.
"Like so," said the Inspector.
He raised two fat fingers and drew a neat square in the air with a little twist at the end.
"The Seal of Order. You will know it."
Mian looked at the Inspector's fingers.
He had never seen the gesture before.
He had it now, all of it, the square and the twist, and he could not have forgotten it if he tried.
"Captain Yan?" said the Inspector.
Shouyi lifted his hand.
His fingers began the square.
Left edge, top edge, and then the qi that should have followed his fingertips just sat in his hand.
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