"The All-Knowing Eye results are out. Qin Leyin and Shuiyun Palace lead the field, while Nieruo and Twin Carp Palace are in second place. Followers who perform well will also receive personal praise from the Sword Bearer, and may even earn points for their side..."
The "Huiyao Scoreboard," posted at noon, had already been copied by Xianchan Chenchen of the Yan Capital Statistics Department that afternoon.
Looking at the "brilliant commentary" on Qin Leyin, he couldn't help laughing aloud. He could only vaguely tell that the Sword Bearer was being sarcastic toward Qin Leyin. To everyone else, it would all seem obscure and incomprehensible. But he knew exactly what kind of impact this chart would have once it spread.
Almost every important court official knew about the Sword Quest for Succession, though none knew the details. Without exception, they wanted to interfere in this "boring game." However, under the protection of the Sword Bearer, the imperial family, and Cha Huan, the Imperial Academy had practically become a state within a state in Yan Capital. The court was completely unable to meddle.
But the chart posted by the Sword Bearer had pointed the court—and everyone else—in the right direction. The court could not do anything to the imperial family. It wasn't that they didn't dare; the imperial family truly had no one left.
Even the court agents who had plotted the assassination of the previous emperor probably hadn't imagined that, in just two years, the imperial family's members would slaughter one another until they were nearly wiped out, while the heroes of the outer eight districts would show signs of establishing independent regimes. No matter what, the seven Sword Masters could not die anymore. This was not only the Sword Bearer's demand, but also the court's bottom line.
If even the