Great Qin, Heaven Capital City.
Imperial Academy.
Three hundred students watched as the Confucian Sword, enshrined in the Confucian Temple, broke free from the sword box like a flying swallow, pierced the sky, and shot out toward the direction of Jiangnan Road.
The students from noble clans were immediately distracted from the Sage's Book in their hands, disregarding the Master who was still teaching, rushing out or leaning on the doorposts, or crowding around the window sills, eyes wide open as they watched the longsword that typically seemed like scrap iron tear through the sky.
The thick clouds in the sky were cleaved apart from the middle.