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Chapter 246: Dancing Blades

The trays were heavy with surgical razors!

But no, that wasn’t right Scalpel blades were only sharp on one end These looked painfully sharp on both sides

Each student very carefully plucked four from the trays as the workers wandered by, then placed them in their palms They didn’t knohat the Drill

Before long, every palm bore a set of razor blades A worker with surplus blades approached Lan Jue

Thetheers He approached the students, hands high “Two ns”

Tang Mi, Tang Xiao and Geng Yang were given two iven six more

Lan Jue kept just the two

“Watch carefully,” he instructed, as his hands begun to move

Under the student’s scrutiny, the razor blade began to dance along the back of Lan Jue’s finger, flipping over and between them back and forth The sharp inch of steel tuer joints like it had a life of its own

The sun was high over the outdoor field With the sun high overhead, shining directly upon Lan Jue and his razor blades, it gave the onlookers a strange sense of beauty They felt like they atching awith a friendly spirit, as the blade flashed occasionally catching the sun’s rays

However, no one was excited to watch By now they expected nothing but terrible things fro the lines of students, still coaxing the razor blade along his fingers His trek was slow and deliberate, giving everyone aer speed was fast, but very rhythe was done to Lan Jue’s hands The rise and fall of his fingers, and the flash of steel as it tu them, was almost hypnotic

“For the next hour, you will learn to control this blade as it runs over and between your fingers The other drill you Should anyone stop, or deviate from the method shown, you’ll all be treated to a wonderful surprise Begin”

Lan Jue returned to the front of the class The razor blades were gone, and now an orb of roiling lightning crackled in his pal sound it produced filled the air It’s cobalt blue, electric light cast stark shadows on the faces of the nearest students

With the ‘wonderful surprise’ of thisstill fresh in their minds, the students didn’t dare hesitate They took a final, dismal look at the razors, then started

Lan Jue never told them any tricks, never related any techniques He’d just showed theer exercises before, however their training methods had involved either crystal balls or small iron rods – never razor blades Who used razor blades?

They proceeded carefully, with ginger and jitteryoff in different directions Chu Cheng wandered a ball of fire swirling within The orb was alive with licking flaht Looking at it too long, it felt like your soul was being drawn inside Most unsettling of all, however, was the heat – or rather, the lack thereof Instead of heat, the orb released a palpable, ominous chill

None of the students knehat it was, or what it did, but the feeling it released was enough to frighten the to discover the properties of this devil’s fiery orb

The ’s lesson was clear; the Prince of Devils de Mi