The so-called Saber Forest was a place amid the bamboo forest behind the academy, but there was no actual forest there. Only an expanse of broken bamboo could be seen. The bamboo had all been cut, leaving the bases where, for some reason, new bamboo sprouts weren’t growing.

When Xiang Shaoyun saw the Saber Forest, his eyes opened wide in astonishment. There were over 1,000 chopped off stalks of bamboo. The cuts were completely identical, as if all the bamboo had been chopped off by one single cut. This sight looked more like a miracle.

"A single slash to cut so many bamboo; this is how this place came to be known as the Saber Forest," Luo Yongcheng said. He had been similarly shocked when he had first seen...