January 20, 2018
The time quickly came to five days later.
In these few days, the atmosphere in the Shen Family Outer Courtyard was suffocatingly strange.
Even though everything seemed orderly: the Outer Courtyard instructors would start the assembly countdown each morning at random times, and every night, after training, over a hundred young boys and girls would still have to rely on their abilities to find lodging. It was just like the rhythm of the past decades, centuries.
However, those amidst it could clearly sense the pressure in the air, akin to the calm before the storm.
Especially as a certain highly anticipated genius of the Outer Courtyard hadn't appeared in the courtyard's training ground for several days.
According to official statements, Shen Qing claimed to have family matters to handle and took a few days off as annual leave to visit his family, but of course, the people in the Outer Courtyard didn't buy this.
