Chapter 396: Loyal and Devoted

At this moment, noon had passed, the sun had shifted, and the sunlight was no longer shining on the Oath Palace, but spilling from behind Xu Qing.

So, among the solemn standing Sword Holders, Xu Qing, who walked out of the crowd slowly, was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight.

The Captain looked at Xu Qing's figure, feeling emotional and proud in his heart, secretly saying this was his Little Junior Brother.

In the crowd, Qingqiu had no expression on her pretty face under the mask. She glanced at Xu Qing, feeling some disgust in her heart, so she turned her head to look at the direction of Nanhuangzhou.

She did not like such sunny days, she liked the time when snow fell.

Because every time it snowed, she looked at the distant heaven and earth, and vaguely, she could always see a thin figure, walking cautiously along the wall, nodding at her.

Little Brother... Qingqiu muttered in her heart.

I must go to Nanhuangzhou to find you as soon as possible. I think the so-called geniuses here are not as good as you. If you stood in their position, you would be stronger than any of them!

When Qingqiu looked from afar, Kong Xianglong and the others also looked at Xu Qing. Others still carried some dissatisfaction in their eyes, but Kong Xianglong did not.

He was smiling, and his smile carried blessings.

Not only for Xu Qing, but for other friends, he was like this.

In the eyes of these people, Xu Qing walked forward with a calm expression. After nine steps, he cupped his fists in front of the crowd and bowed respectfully to the five people in the front hall.

Greetings, My Lord.

At this moment, the Vice Palace Master and the four deacons in front of the Oath Palace all looked at Xu Qing.

Before Xu Qing came, his name was known by the five people. The day the Dao Bell rang, it shocked the entire Sword Holding Palace, and even the County Governor had asked about it.

Now seeing Xu Qing with his own eyes, looking at the other party's figure in the sunlight and the red flames emerging on the white clothes, the four deacons nodded secretly.

The Vice Palace Master revealed appreciation in his eyes, and his expression became a bit gentler.

Xu Qing, you asked about the brilliance of ten thousand zhang, personally appointed by the Great Emperor, opening the first creation of our Fenghai County, so the Palace Master's decree summons Xu Qing to be the Palace Master's accompanying secretary!

From now on, follow the Palace Master's side, I hope you will be tempered more, and do not live up to the Great Emperor's praise, the ringing of the Dao Bell!

Respect the decree! Xu Qing's expression was solemn, and he cupped his fists and bowed again.

Regarding this arrangement, he did not have too many surprises, but he still had some regrets in his heart.

He did not want to be this accompanying secretary, he wanted to go to a department similar to the Criminal Investigation Department.

And as soon as the Vice Palace Master's words came out, many of the new Sword Holders were shocked, and the eyes looking at Xu Qing carried envy, very strong.

Accompanying secretary is equivalent to a civil position by the Palace Master's side. This kind of position itself does not have much power, but he represents the Palace Master. After taking office, anyone who sees him must be polite.

Especially since the Sword Holding Palace Master had never had an accompanying secretary by his side before this, Xu Qing was the first.

In the eyes of everyone, this itself represented the Sword Holding Palace Master's importance to Xu Qing, telling the world through this move how important the brilliance of ten thousand zhang and the Great Emperor's personal appointment were.

One can imagine that after this matter spreads, in the future, all new Sword Holders who join the Sword Holding Palace will pay more attention to the questioning here.

Although this position matches the glory Xu Qing obtained, there were still people among the Sword Holders here who were not convinced.

Such as Zhang Siyun.

He stared at Xu Qing, the disgust in his heart was extremely strong, especially the left side of his face, although it had returned to normal, he still felt stinging pain, which was where his mother's slap had landed.

I am not trash! Zhang Siyun gritted his teeth, roaring in his heart.

The Vice Palace Master and others standing in front of the Oath Palace did not care about the reactions of the crowd. Even Zhang Siyun's ancestor was among them, but he did not look at Zhang Siyun from beginning to end.

Xu Qing, although you were appointed by the Palace Master without assessment, you still need to go to the secret training for the next seven days.

Xu Qing's expression was serious as he acknowledged, then stepped back and returned to the ranks of the Sword Holders, his actions capable, which made the five people in front of the Oath Palace nod in their hearts again.

Listen well, all of you. The Vice Palace Master's gaze moved from Xu Qing to all the Sword Holders below.

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The order sword you obtained in your respective Sword Holding Courts is not only a sound transmission object for Sword Holders, but also a tool for checking battle merits, and even more so the foundation of the Sword Pavilion.

Later, you can build your own Sword Pavilion under the Capital city with this. This Sword Pavilion will accompany you for a lifetime, even if you are sent to take office elsewhere.

The higher its height, the greater the glory it represents. I hope that one day, there will be someone among you with a Sword Pavilion of ten thousand zhang.

Only after sacrifice will it dissipate, but the name will be written in the Oath Palace of the Sword Holding Palace, and every time future Sword Holders take an oath, they must pay respects, never to be forgotten.

The Vice Palace Master spoke slowly. After finishing, he flicked his sleeve, and immediately the hall behind him scattered brilliance, and all the doors were completely opened, making everything inside clearly reflected in the eyes of all Sword Holders.

That hall obviously had another space, and its actual range exceeded the hall itself.

Inside were countless order swords.

Some were complete, some were incomplete, and some only existed as fragments, and even some seemed to have their sword spirits shattered when they died, so spirit tablets were placed.

A sense of heroism rushed toward them, and a sense of shock arose spontaneously.

There were too many spirit tablets and order swords inside, from top to bottom, from left to right, all of them.

These were all the Sword Holders who had died in battle in Fenghai County for countless years!

Every one of them was a genius of the human race in the past.

Every one of them had a story of their own that was moving and heroic.

Looking at those order swords and spirit tablets, Xu Qing's heart was shocked. He felt a shock of the soul spreading from the hall, pouring into his brain.

Vaguely, he seemed to hear the roars of countless Sword Holders before they died, and saw countless white-clothed figures.

They had the human race behind them, so they would rather die in battle than retreat even half a step.

The sense of shock was even stronger.

They died with a smile, they roared to kill the enemy, they shouted oaths before death, carrying no regrets.

I wish to become a Sword Holder, loyal to my duty, and not afraid of sacrifice.

I wish to become a Sword Holder, never betray the human race, and be ready to fight at all times.

I wish to become a Sword Holder, fight for the human race, and protect the human race.

I wish to become a Sword Holder, cut off the disaster of dawn, and bloom with the light of heaven and earth.

These sentences came out of the mouths of one figure after another. As they became more and more, they gradually gathered together, like the sound of heaven and earth, echoing through the universe, and at the same time, they instinctively came out of the mouths of every Sword Holder here.

Gradually, everyone's voice merged with the words in the mouths of those figures, as if becoming one.

That kind of heroic spirit from the unfulfilled ambitions of the martyrs seemed to be inherited across time and space at this moment.

This was the oath of all new Sword Holders.

Xu Qing did not know how he left the Sword Holding Palace. Until his body was walking between heaven and earth, his brain was still echoing the scenes of the Oath Palace before.

All of this was completely different from when he was in the sect.

Not only Xu Qing was like this, the Captain was also like this. All the Sword Holders were like this at this moment. Even people like Zhang Siyun had a daze in their expressions.

Until he returned to the courtyard of the branch sect and returned to his residence, Xu Qing's heart recovered.

He raised his head to look at the night sky outside, looked at the direction of the Sword Holding Palace, and could not help but take a deep breath. He knew why he was like this, because the Oath Palace contained amazing soul fluctuations.

There were too many heroic souls and martyrs there. They had no malice toward the new Sword Holders, only telling their regrets and their unfulfilled ambitions.

They used this method to tell the new Sword Holders...

What is a Sword Holder!

Xu Qing had ripples in his heart. In fact, all the way here, he had already felt that Sword Holders were very different from the sect cultivators he had encountered in Chen Tinghao.

Xu Qing was silent.

He would not immediately have a sense of belonging to any force, whether it was a sect or the Sword Holding Palace, no matter what he saw...