(￣︶￣) Skirts Fluttering
BOOM—!!!
At last, with a deafening crash, the countless stars hanging over the training grounds shattered.
Almost at the same time, the bodies of all one hundred and eight Heavenly Soldier puppets stiffened. The light in their eyes flickered violently, then went out completely. One after another, they toppled to the ground like puppets with their strings cut, limbs askew.
Just one sword strike...
The Celestial Star Array, the very foundation said to let the Heavenly Court exert its might over the Three Realms, the Six Paths, and countless vast worlds, had actually been broken so easily?
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As a result, an absolute silence fell over the training grounds.
The ninety-nine examinees were still frozen in the various poses they had struck while forming the array and struggling to hold it together. When they realized the pressure on them had vanished and saw the graceful figure standing before them, slowly sheathing her sword, they were utterly dumbstruck. They froze like clay statues, unable to utter a single word of their earlier accusations, complaints, wails, or curses.
After all, they had just been struggling to hold on, never imagining that the very next moment, the array would... would be broken by someone.
And the crucial point was that the one who had broken the Celestial Star Array was none other than the examinee with the lowest cultivation, the one who had refused to enter the array diagram. Most of them had been convinced she would be the first to be eliminated, and thought she was either crazy or had given up: "Lin San-kui," Lin Daiyu?
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On the examiners' platform, the examiners were just as frozen in shock.
A jade slip had somehow fallen from one green-robed examiner's