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Jun moved through the streets of YellowHearth City at the head of three thousand cultivators and tried very hard not to think about what she was doing.
The formation stretched behind her in columns of eight that filled the wide boulevard from wall to wall. Boots struck stone in a rhythm that had been drilled into them over weeks of dawn-to-dusk sessions. Left, right, left, right. The sound rolled ahead of them like a wave, bouncing off building facades and scattering through alleyways and side streets. Merchants abandoned their stalls. Pedestrians pressed themselves against walls.
A cart driver took one look at the approaching column, unhitched his ox, and led the beast into a bakery of all places.
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