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Liu Kemeng did not follow the crowd and leave. She was ordered by Master Li, who was still in shock and still angry, to stay and clean the entire martial arts arena as punishment for disrupting the examination room. In the huge venue, she was the only one left alone at the moment. She held a broom that was almost the same height as her, and kept sweeping away the dust on the ground and the scattered talisman fragments left from the previous competition. The sunlight stretched her shadow long and thin, casting it on the smooth bluestone. The shadow looked thicker than usual, with a sense of slump and curling around the edges.