Chapter 727: Yanqing, Yanqing — so young, yet already so old!

The video continues.

【Those words are quite insightful — it is my own limited perspective that falls short.】

【Then Brother Yanqing, I have been at Luo Fu for some time now, yet I have not yet had the chance to see the venue for this Martial Exhibition.】

【Hearing you speak so eloquently just now, curiosity has welled up within me. Might you take me over to have a look?】

After chatting with Yanqing and Miss Yunli for a while,

Seeing Jiaoqiu suddenly felt like going to see the venue of the Martial Exhibition.

So he made his request to Yanqing.

【Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu wants to see the Dueling Starship? Very well!】

【Yunli and Miss March have surely never seen it either.】

【How about this — I shall take everyone to have a look.】

Stelle: "Speaking of the Martial Exhibition..."

Stelle: "Didn't Seeing Jiaoqiu just say that tomorrow is the Martial Exhibition?"

March 7th: "Uh... in other words, this is the last day I get to practice my swordsmanship?"

March 7th: "Tomorrow I have to step onto the arena?"

Yunli: "What is it?"

Yunli: "You've been practicing for so long already — are you still nervous?"

Yanqing: "It is your first time stepping onto the arena with a sword, so some nervousness is only natural."

Yanqing: "But since in the video both Yunli and I have given you our high recognition, that means Miss March's swordsmanship has truly already reached some small measure of success."

Yanqing: "Winning a few matches will certainly not be difficult!"

Furina: "Miss March 7th, have a little confidence in yourself!"

Stelle: "March, brace yourself!"

Stelle: "Let the contestants at the Martial Exhibition see the might of our Astral Express's Sword Champion!"

March 7th: "You all really do have full confidence in me!"

March 7th: "I only hope that once I step onto the arena, no matter what, I can win at least one match!"

March 7th: "Otherwise losing my own face would be a small matter — the faces of my two young masters would probably be utterly lost by me."

The video continues.

The four followed Yanqing to Starport Hub,

gazing out from there at the venue of the Martial Exhibition — the Dueling Starship.

【I didn't expect quite so many people to come and gaze at the Dueling Starship?】

Seeing Jiaoqiu surveyed the people around him,

and could not help but remark.

【.... Hm?】

At that moment, Seeing Jiaoqiu noticed a group of people not far away,

twitched his nose, as if catching a familiar scent.

This caused him to furrow his brow slightly without thinking.

【Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu, what is it?】

Yanqing noticed Seeing Jiaoqiu's odd expression,

and could not help but ask.

【N... no, it's nothing.】

Hu Tao: "That group just now..."

Hu Tao: "It seems Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu noticed something off about them?"

Paimon: "But Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu seems to be sniffing!"

Paimon: "Could there be something strange about that group's scent?"

Robin: "Does everyone still remember?"

Robin: "At the very beginning, those few unidentified people who disguised themselves as Cloud Knights."

Robin: "Those people, it seems, have not been exposed even until now!"

Yanqing: "Crap!"

Yanqing: "On the eve of the Martial Exhibition, that batch of suspicious people has actually not been screened out!"

Yanqing: "A great disturbance may arise!"

Lumine: "The few people Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu just deliberately observed — could they also be in disguise?"

Furina: "Hard to say. From the outside, they look completely like ordinary Foxian people."

Furina: "Sigh, I still hope no major complications arise."

The video continues.

【Do you see it? That starship in the distance — that is the dueling arena for this Martial Exhibition, the Dueling Starship.】

Hearing Seeing Jiaoqiu say it was nothing,

Yanqing pointed at a massive starship in the sky,

and showed it to the three of them.

【From afar, it doesn't look all that special.】

Seeing Jiaoqiu raised his head,

gazing at the starship that, to his eyes, seemed rather ordinary,

commented.

【This Jingfeng warship was refitted from a decommissioned vessel of Luo Fu.】

【Before the official Martial Exhibition Ceremony, people are not yet permitted to board.】

【But when tomorrow's bell tolls and the ceremonial cannons fire, Hearing Yanqing will represent the Cloud Knights of Luofu Xianzhou, step onto the arena, and accept the challenge of brave warriors from all directions.】

【Yanqing has been taken along by the General since he was small, taught swordsmanship and the art of war.】

【Ten thousand slashing strikes a day, ten thousand thrusts a day, on and on, on and on.....】

【I understand. I seem to be a little different from ordinary children.】

【I never envied the toys and freedom they had, nor did I ever feel that focusing solely on sword practice was something boring or difficult.】

【Even when I stepped onto the battlefield, broke through enemy lines and slew foes, facing those hideous, monstrous aberrations, I felt no fear at all.】

【Every day I could feel myself growing stronger, stronger, a little stronger again.....】

【Clutching victory again and again — there is nothing happier in this world.】

【But later, I took a sword strike from a certain someone.】

【That single strike shattered my once-perfect, flawless confidence to pieces.】

【In the instant that strike arrived, I felt fear for the first time.】

【Perhaps this is what Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu meant by the instant between life and death, when ten thousand thoughts turn to emptiness.】

Paimon: "Huh??"

Paimon: "Ten thousand slashing strikes a day, ten thousand thrusts a day?"

Paimon: "Practicing the sword... turns out to be something this, this hard?!"

Ying: "Young man Yanqing probably hasn't told the whole story yet."

Ying: "Footwork and the like have to be practiced too. Add those in, and it would definitely be even harder."

Miss Qingque: "This is what happens when someone more talented than you still out-grinds you!"

Miss Qingque: "What have you got to catch up to them with?"

Furina: "Young man Yanqing practiced the sword from childhood and never found it boring — he even found it interesting...."

Furina: "If it were any other child, they'd probably be thinking every day about how to slack off."

Stelle: "This is the Innate Sword Dao Sacred Body!"

Stelle: "Luo Fu's destined next Sword Champion!"

Miss Yunli: "With his current state of mind, he's still a long way off from Sword Champion."

Miss Yunli: "He took a single strike and he's been utterly defeated ever since."

Miss Yunli: "Have you no shame?"