Poetry and Sword: Watch Me Make a Name Across the World with One

The spring sunshine is delightful, the perfect time for an outing. Visitors throng the shores of Xiaofeng Yinyue Lake.

They are all respectable single men and women. The handsome young men are mostly dressed like scholars, wearing fine, respectable long robes, their hair slick and shiny. They hold folding fans and gather in groups of three or five, all of them animatedly discussing the poems and songs recently circulating in Lingyan City. They speak with such passion that they seem to be commenting on the fate of the world.

But their shifty little eyes give them away.

Every now and then, they sneak a glance at a pretty young woman.

Ning Jiutian grins. "Spring is here, and the beasts are getting restless again."

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