Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 482: Awakening, Mastering Thunder
Qing Chen's feat of ‘climbing’ against the current, clinging to the rock wall at the top of the underground river, truly shocked Shendai Yunhe.
Although furious, he had never imagined anyone could be so tenacious...
If there was sufficient oxygen, if he hadn't gotten lost in this underground river, the boy could indeed gradually climb back to the entrance.
At least it was far more reliable than swimming back.
But in Shendai Yunhe's opinion...
This was simply impossible.
Because he didn't know that Qing Chen would never get lost, nor did he know that Qing Chen's current Knight True Qi was enough to support him breathing underwater for four hours.
Shendai Yunhe coldly watched the boy clinging to the top of the rock wall, sneering.
There was only one artificial gill; he didn't intend to share it with Qing Chen.
Bringing a living Qing Chen back north was the task Conglomerate had given him.
But if he gave Qing Chen the artificial gill, and the boy tried to die together, destroying the artificial gill, then he too would die in the underground river.
Humans are both strong and fragile; without oxygen, even a Demi-God couldn't survive more than thirty minutes.
Shendai Yunhe was afraid. Logically, the boy should seize every chance to survive, preserving the artificial gill.
But you can't judge a madman by common sense.
Therefore, Shendai Yunhe didn't intend to save Qing Chen; he would take the boy's drowned body back to Conglomerate.
He urged the Overlord Newt to swiftly kill him.
Qing Chen seemed to not expect Shendai Yunhe to find a solution to the oxygen problem so quickly.
Before the Overlord Newt charged, he was forced to push off the wall.
His body was swept downstream by the rushing water.
The moment he brushed past the Overlord Newt, the Newt's short, blunt claws grazed the boy, leaving three deep wounds on Qing Chen's body.
The blood was immediately washed away by the river water. Qing Chen felt himself growing weaker, possibly falling into hypovolemic shock.
Qing Chen understood; Shendai Yunhe no longer wanted to leave him alive!
To be safe, he would kill him directly!
Qing Chen was unwilling.
He wasn't unwilling to die.
Everyone dies.
He was unwilling to die alone.
A Knight's death needed someone to accompany him.
Qing Chen swam quickly; Nanobots even formed a pair of webbed feet on his soles to help him swim faster.
However, no matter how fast a person swims in water, they can't be faster than the Overlord Newt.
At this time, the Overlord Newt had turned around. Shendai Yunhe's Face[-] was ashen; he had run out of patience.
Wait, Qing Chen suddenly saw a black shadow ahead and to the left; it was a small branch of the underground river!
In a flash, Qing Chen forcefully swam into it. He could fit, but the Overlord Newt's massive size couldn't.
Shendai Yunhe rode on the Overlord Newt's back, coldly watching the boy in the cave. As he approached, the boy shrunk back a little.
However, Qing Chen didn't rashly swim into the depths of the dark cave, because in this complex network of underground caves, one wrong turn and there's no way back.
Qing Chen touched his wound, trying to repair it with Nanobots, but the Nanobots had consumed too much energy during the previous battle and were powerless.
He felt his body growing cold.
He looked at Shendai Yunhe guarding the cave entrance.
Shendai Yunhe sneered at him, wanting to see how long Qing Chen could hold his breath.
However, at that moment, the boy closed his eyes.
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“The final meter.”
“Is your own path.”
In the darkness, Qing Chen's pores opened wide.
Breathing with all his might.
Was he going to die?
Was he going to sink into this dark underground river? freewebnoveℓ.com
There were so many things he hadn't done.
So many people he hadn't seen.
Such a good time.
So many roads he hadn't traveled.
He knew Shendai Yunhe wasn't dead yet, that he still had a backup plan.
But at this moment, nothing mattered.
Qing Chen simply used all his strength, every pore in his body breathing wildly.
Your life is a long journey; some will come, and some will go.
Sunrise.
Sunset.
Those scenes will also fade away.
But if there is anything that can accompany you eternally, it is belief.
Life is long; to survive, Qing Chen must open his heart and mind, breathe his life.
And that power that had been dormant deep within his life.
When he first completed the Trials of Life and Death, something had been dormant, almost opening along with the Gene Lock.
The second time he leaped into Weiyang Lake, the feeling was even clearer.
However, the third Trials of Life and Death disappointed Qing Chen. On the ocean, under the Dark God's Kingdom, he didn't feel the familiar life and death, and the dormant power remained still.
From that time, Qing Chen should have realized that he had taken a wrong turn in the world of Conquer with Virtue.
He shouldn't have turned his Knight path into a certainty.
And now, the boy walked back through hardship, picking up the lost scenery, filling in what was missing from those times...
One by one.
So, the power reappeared.
Is this life and death?
Qing Chen felt death and danger approaching in the darkness, but his heart was cheering.
In an instant.
The roar of thunder echoed in his bones, rumbling, scattering, erupting!
A golden light flowed between his muscles, winding, surging!
He journeyed, looked back, and gazed afar!
Like a new cultivation, not about realm, but about mentality.
The lost boy finally found everything he had lost!
Only faith and the sun and moon are eternally immortal.
The brilliant boy, his body mastered thunder.
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In the dark river water, Shendai Yunhe waited quietly.
He could have left the Overlord Newt to chase Qing Chen into the branch, but for some reason, when he wanted to approach the boy, a trace of fear rose in the heart of this A-class expert.
He was afraid that the boy was pretending, that he still had a secret weapon, that he would capsize in the gutter and forever sleep in this underground river.
Only the Overlord Newt beneath him could give him some security.
Along the way, Shendai Yunhe tried every means to destroy Qing Chen's will, but failed.
Not only did he not destroy Qing Chen's will, but the boy repeatedly counterattacked!
At one point, Shendai Yunhe had an illusion: this boy was invincible.
Thinking of all this, a shame rose in Shendai Yunhe's heart. Being pushed to this point by a small C-class, his state of mind had broken.
As Shadow once said, Conglomerates sometimes use despicable means to play psychological warfare: once they discover a prodigious talent in an opponent's family, they will try to create setbacks for this genius.
If the genius doesn't survive that setback, they'll become ordinary, mediocre.
In this world, there are too many people who give up like this, geniuses are no exception.
Shendai Yunhe knew that even if he safely returned to the north, with this knot in his heart, he would no longer be able to improve his realm.
He was furious.
He never imagined that a small C-class would destroy his state of mind!
But even so, Shendai Yunhe still didn't dare to personally kill Qing Chen; he just waited quietly outside the dark cave, waiting for Qing Chen to drown.
Qing Chen's will wasn't destroyed, but Shendai Yunhe's will was precarious.
But something unexpected happened. After two minutes, Shendai Yunhe didn't wait for Qing Chen's death, but a golden light.
Shendai Yunhe looked in astonishment and found that golden light was escaping from the slits of Qing Chen's closed eyes, floating in the water as golden arcs.
Getting closer, Shendai Yunhe felt a tingling sensation on his skin.
Suddenly, Qing Chen opened his eyes. Shendai Yunhe saw a pair of golden eyes staring at him in the dark branch, as if they held ancient gods.
“Awakened?!” Shendai Yunhe was extremely surprised.
He didn't expect that at the moment when his state of mind was almost destroyed, the boy's state of mind became stronger, even breaking the rules of cultivation that made awakening difficult!
Generally speaking, cultivation is the process of releasing the body's potential, so once the potential is released, there will be no more awakening.
After awakening, cultivation will also be extremely slow.
This is why Liu Dezhu's cultivation speed is slower than others.
Without someone's guidance, Liu Dezhu would find it difficult to complete a complete cycle of qi, let alone cultivate qi meridians.
But this rule failed on Qing Chen.
A cultivator at C-class who can awaken again, what kind of terrifying potential is this?!
If this boy is left alive, many people will probably have sleepless nights!
But thinking of this, Shendai Yunhe didn't have the urge to kill, instead, fear arose in his heart. His soul trembled as he urged the Overlord Newt to flee.
Shendai Yunhe knew that even if the boy awakened, he would likely not have a major breakthrough.
A person's potential is not endless. If the cultivation level is C-class, the awakened ability might only be D-class or E-class.
But Shendai Yunhe was still uncontrollably afraid. The boy was like a piece of chewing gum, inseparable, unbreakable, unshakeable!
Then, in the black branch, golden electric arcs surrounded the boy, and the dark underground river was suddenly as bright as daybreak!
He opened his golden eyes, shooting out of the cave like arrows.
The roles of hunter and prey miraculously reversed!
Qing Chen swam hard, trying to catch up with the Overlord Newt.
However, the next moment, the fierce Overlord Newt suddenly slowed down. Its huge tail swept, hitting Qing Chen hard against the rock wall of the underground river, knocking him unconscious.
Shendai Yunhe sneered again. The young genius was still too naive, not understanding the ever-changing methods of killing.
He rode the Overlord Newt slowly towards Qing Chen, but at that moment, the boy's eyes opened again, the golden light captivating.
Shendai Yunhe's heart stopped, feeling that the golden gaze was as solemn as a god's.
The Overlord Newt charged fiercely at Qing Chen, but the boy didn't dodge.
Qing Chen raised a hand in the water.
Like a god issuing a divine decree.
With a bang.
The boy was swept into the dark current by the Overlord Newt.
But the golden arc that erupted from his fingertip pierced the water, heading straight for Shendai Yunhe's chest!
Shendai Yunhe wanted to raise his hand to block, but he felt his arm go numb. He looked at his arm in astonishment; that was where Qing Chen had hit him with his hair.
The hair hadn't pierced his arm, but it had precisely struck the radial nerve plexus!
A tiny amount of Nanobots attached to the hair entered Shendai Yunhe's body through the wound, using their remaining bioenergy to try to destroy the nerve plexus.
This damage wouldn't affect an A-class fundamentally, but it would cause Shendai Yunhe to have a momentary movement disorder in his forearm, hand, and wrist.
Even 0.2 seconds is enough.
The golden arc scattered in the water, but still reached Shendai Yunhe.
Shendai Yunhe only felt that the golden arc didn't seem very powerful, but it made his whole body stiff for a moment!
In the darkness, he suddenly saw the golden light flashing, and on the boy's Face[-], which was turning in the current...
There was a smile!
Extremely brilliant!
Qing Chen didn't seize the opportunity to escape; instead, he swam upstream. In a moment of effort, the boy had arrived in front of Shendai Yunhe!
Scatter with the thunder!
In the brilliant future, there will be no more name of Shendai Yunhe!
At this time.
Shendai Yunhe struggled to quickly dodge to the left, feeling that the hair strands between the boy's fingers were cutting through his arm.
Bone and flesh, disintegrated in an instant!
Shendai Yunhe's arm was severed!
If he hadn't dodged quickly, the hair would have cut off his head! The hair between his fingers was far sharper than the ones that had been shot out before!
Shendai Yunhe swung his left arm; he thought he could repel Qing Chen, but Qing Chen didn't retreat, instead, his fingertips shot out another golden thunder, heading straight for his Face[-].
Shendai Yunhe subconsciously ducked, but the thunder scattered in the water, unavoidable; where there is water, there is thunder.
But he suddenly felt something was wrong; this golden thunder didn't seem very powerful; at most, it made his Face[-] slightly numb.
Wrong!
Wrong!
Shendai Yunhe sensed something was wrong!
The golden arc wasn't meant to strike him; it was aimed at the artificial gill in his mouth.
The artificial gill, which uses the principle of electrolytic oxygen separation, had its core instantly destroyed. Shendai Yunhe, caught off guard, inhaled a mouthful of icy water, almost into his lungs!
It turned out that the boy, knowing that even after awakening, he still couldn't match an A-class expert, still targeted ‘oxygen’.
He knew from the beginning that he only needed to destroy Shendai Yunhe's oxygen equipment, and Shendai Yunhe would be unable to fight!
Thanks to the power of nature.
Thanks to this world!
Qing Chen closed his eyes peacefully and drifted with the current, completely falling into darkness.
Shendai Yunhe knew that his time was running out; he didn't chase Qing Chen but urged the Overlord Newt to swim madly upstream; he frantically tried to reach the entrance of the underground river before his oxygen ran out!
But soon, Shendai Yunhe felt that his blood no longer had any oxygen.
Actually, he knew this was futile.
He widened his eyes; he never thought he would capsize in the gutter at the hands of a C-class!
Clearly, their strength was like the difference between heaven and earth; clearly, that was an ant he could crush with one hand!
Gradually, the Face[-] of the A-class expert began to swell, his eyeballs began to bleed, and his consciousness became increasingly blurred.
Before completely falling into darkness, Shendai Yunhe subconsciously glanced in the direction Qing Chen drifted; there was only darkness, no trace of the boy.
Wait.
Shendai Yunhe seemed to think of something, urging the Overlord Newt to open its bloody mouth and swallow him whole!
There was a place in the Overlord Newt's abdominal cavity that contained air; it was the place where the newt controlled its buoyancy!
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Half an hour later, the huge Overlord Newt quickly climbed out of the entrance, where Shendai Yunhe and Qing Chen had entered the water.
The huge Overlord Newt suddenly opened its bloody mouth, spitting out the dying Shendai Yunhe.
The A-class expert sat up in a sorry state, breathing heavily; he was almost fainted by the foul smell in the Overlord Newt's abdominal cavity.
His skin was corroded and pitted.
After an unknown amount of time, Shendai Yunhe roared in the dark cave!
For the humiliation!
For the pain!
He looked at his severed arm; the broken end had been corroded by the fluid in the newt's abdominal cavity; even with the most advanced technology, it was impossible to reattach it; he could only install Cybernetic Limbs.
Shendai Yunhe was furious, but soon he heard someone shouting above the cave, as if someone had already chased down.
He was startled; how did the people who rescued Qing Chen arrive so quickly?!
No time to think; Shendai Yunhe put on another diving device from the shore, sat on the newt's back, and dived into the water again with hatred and anger.
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