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The human heart wasn't like the streets. It couldn't be washed clean after a heavy downpour.
In the eyes of the emperor and officials and peddlers and commoners in the capital, the shockwaves from the fight between the cultivators were still rippling without pause. When Chen Ping'an helped Zhong Qiu teach Yan Shijing and the young girl fist techniques, their young friends who hung around and joined in on the fun were one of these ripples.
After Old General Lü left the city wall and bragged about his friendship with Chen Ping'an to his grandson and granddaughter, that was also one of the ripples. The many families moving away from Champion Scholar Alley were again a ripple.
Ding Ying was dead, while Yu Zhenyi had stepped onto his flying sword and flown away. Thus, the mess was left to Zhong Qiu to clean up.
After accompanying Cao Qinglang to the private school, Chen Ping'an returned the same way that he had come, holding the oil-paper umbrella in his hand as he walked along the silent and deserted streets. Following the imperial court's decision to gradually ease the enforcement of martial law in this district, one could already see a few people returning to the streets.
However, the streets were still largely lifeless, and the people striding through them were mostly daring members of the cultivation world who had come here to admire the battlefield. They would click their tongues in wonder when they laid eyes on the extremely deep ditch in the ground caused by Lu Fang's sword strike.
Bull Mountain and the surrounding areas were still sealed off, with the imperial court decreeing that anyone who dared enter without permission would be executed without mercy. Many officials from the Ministry of Astronomy appeared in this area, and the simple thatched cottage that Yu Zhenyi had constructed nearby was demolished as well.
When the gallant travelers from the cultivation world saw Chen Ping'an, they simply treated him as a fellow member of the cultivation world who had come here to admire the profound power of those grandmasters.
Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment before walking to that martial arts school and asking to enter. The doorkeeper saw that he didn't look like someone who was here to challenge the school or rip down their sign, and noticed that the young boy possessed a very powerful aura. Hence, he didn't dare to...
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