On the arena.
Lin Qingyi's voice finished echoing beside Jiang Ning's ear, and he immediately turned his head to glance at the viewing platform.
He saw Lin Qingyi sitting in a corner of the viewing platform, shrouded in shadow.
When Lin Qingyi saw Jiang Ning looking over at her, a faint guilt immediately surfaced in her eyes.
"Sorry!!" Her voice rang beside Jiang Ning's ear again.
All of this happened in the space of an instant.
Then.
Jiang Ning smiled faintly at Lin Qingyi, then turned back to look at the black-clad, sword-wielding woman on the arena—Xie Xiaojiu.
"I hear you are skilled with the sword?" Jiang Ning said.
"That's right!" Xie Xiaojiu nodded slightly.
"Good! Looks like you want to fight me with weapons!" Jiang Ning said, nodding as he spoke.
Then he turned to the man presiding at the side. "My Lord, I need a blade!"
"No problem!" the Examination Master said. Then he grabbed a blade from the weapon rack on the nearby arena and tossed it toward Jiang Ning.
"Take it! Put on a good performance!"
"Many thanks!" Jiang Ning caught the blade and thanked him.
The moment the long blade entered his hand, the Trait of Blade and Man as One instantly took effect.
The long blade in his hand seemed to become an extension of his arm, moving as easily as his own fingers.
Jiang Ning also knew the weight of this long blade: eighty-five jin, three chi and seven cun long.
"Do you know why I came onto the arena?" Xie Xiaojiu suddenly said.
"Does that need a reason?" Jiang Ning asked.
"Of course it does!" Xie Xiaojiu tightened her grip on the long sword in her hand and continued, "Qingyi kept mentioning you to me over and over some time ago, saying