Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 979: Shinguji Maki's Path

On Whale Island, core members of Daybreak, Guardians' Union, and Kunlun are holding a meeting, even Knight trainees have temporarily interrupted their training.

Qing Chen's disappearance is enough to make everyone drop everything and return to provide support.

Luo Wanya said solemnly, "Little Seven and their team have wiped out the Mexican drug cartel and are now heading to various secret drug factories. Because we can't determine Boss's condition, he may have amnesia or his powers may be sealed, and he may be unable to handle crisis situations. So we haven't directly searched for him through the drug lord, but instead are personally taking down those drug factories. This way, the drug lords don't know what we're doing, nor do they know that Boss might be in their hands."

"How long will Little Seven and their team take to arrive?" Zheng Yuandong asked.

Luo Wanya replied, "The nearest drug factory will take 1 hour, and the farthest will take 12 hours by car. We have plenty of time. However, we still can't be sure if Boss is in the drug factories."

The atmosphere of the meeting was rather heavy.

This is because before returning, Guardians' Union had already been tailed by the Phoenix City Army before reaching Sword Gate Pass.

Guardians' Union is unable to fight against the fleet in the sky, so they can only hide in the mountains and forests, ambushing and moving at night, using disguises provided by the Qing Family to avoid pursuit. This has slowed down Guardians' Union's retreat.

On the other hand, Qingshan Fortress, following Ling's coordinates, just attacked the supply line of the Phoenix City Army. Although this bought some time for Guardians' Union, the Storm City fleet in the rear reacted swiftly and has already intercepted Qingshan Fortress's path.

If Qing Chen can't be found in time, East Continent will suffer heavy losses! Zheng Yuandong looked at Li Tongyun in the conference room, "You are all on Qingshan Fortress, how is the situation?"

Li Tongyun shook his head, "Radar has detected enemy fleets. Fate Weaver seems to have foreseen our attack on the supply line and laid an ambush in advance."

Fate Weaver exchanged a supply line for a Qingshan Airship Fortress, which seems like a good deal for them.

And since they saw it in advance, they must have other preparations.

Only when All-out war begins can people truly feel the helplessness of ordinary people facing Fate Weaver. They don't even need a complete intelligence system or satellites to know everything.

Li Tongyun said, "Aunt Li Changqing has formulated a battle plan to break through, but with Fate Weaver's capabilities, it will be difficult to escape."

Luo Wanya was puzzled, "Ling should be very clear about Fate Weaver's combat methods, but she still ordered Qingshan Fortress to go to the Central Plains. Could there be a problem? Also, she even specifically ordered Xiaotongyun and Nangeng Chen to board Qingshan Fortress!"

From the perspective of others, Ling's command was like giving Qingshan Fortress and the core members of Daybreak to West Continent.

Zheng Yuandong remained silent for a moment, "She met with the Old Master of Ginkgo Mountain before accepting the command. Since the Old Master made this decision, there must be his reason."

Ni Ergou mumbled, "But what if we're all killed by Ling…"

Zheng Yuandong said seriously, "If our deaths can bring victory, then death is not meaningless. In the next time travel, Kunlun Members will all rush to Sword Gate Pass to meet Qing Kun and Shendai Yunluo to support the 330,000 people of Guardians' Union."

Shinguji Maki, holding the well-behaved Foxfire, was sitting beside the Knight trainees, listening to the meeting. They had completed five Trials of Life and Death day and night, with Shinguji Maki, Chen Zhuoqu, and Hu Jingyi all reaching B-Class. Only three Trials of Life and Death remain.

However, they are currently stuck on the wingsuit flying challenge. Everyone has mastered the essentials of wingsuit flying, and the Hu Family Group has arranged ten helicopters to provide round-the-clock support for their training.

However, high-speed human arrow target practice is not something that can be completed at will. Qing Chen paid a huge price, even repeatedly using the Restorative Shroud to accelerate his illness, before he barely completed it.

Foxfire in her arms was like a warm treasure, nestled in Shinguji Maki's embrace. She could understand everything everyone was saying, but seeing so many people about to suffer misfortune, she could only wait helplessly in the Outer World.

Here, she is not a Time Traveler yet.

Shendai Yunluo, sitting next to her, had his hands tucked in the sleeves of his white hunting robe, and smiled, "Are you worried?"

"Hmm," Shinguji Maki nodded, "Teacher, will Sister Tongyun and the others be alright? Is my master really not dead?"

Shendai Yunluo laughed, "Don't worry, your master has a hard life, even if he kills everyone in the world, he won't die. Everyone's worries are unnecessary, I never worry about such things."

Shinguji Maki's tears dripped down, "But I'm so worried about Master, I haven't seen him for a long time."

As she pulled out a tissue from the Forbidden Artifact tissue box to wipe her tears, Shendai Yunluo saw some words on a wet tissue, "Wait!"

Shendai Yunluo unfolded the crumpled tissue, "The island in the sky falls on the plain, and the corpses on the wasteland pile up into mountains."

He pondered, "Does the island in the sky refer to Qingshan Fortress? And the corpses on the wasteland refer to the members of Guardians' Union? It's a bad omen."

Shinguji Maki was stunned.

She seemed to see Luo Wanya and Little Seven falling one after another, and Qingshan Fortress falling from the distant sky.

The mountains and rivers are broken, and the world is incomplete.

While everyone was still in the meeting, she suddenly walked outside. Shendai Yunluo got up and followed, smiling, "Where are you going?"

Shinguji Maki said earnestly, "Teacher, I like everyone here very much. When everyone sees me, they'll give me food. When I go to the cafeteria, everyone will happily greet me, Mom Jiang Xue will buy me beautiful clothes, Sister Tongyun will give me her teddy bear, and when I'm scared at night, she'll hold me in her arms to sleep. The people here are really nice."

After coming to Whale Island, everyone took good care of Shinguji Maki, just like taking care of Xiaoyu.

If she wants to eat crayfish, Zard and Xiaoyu will peel crayfish for her.

Everyone thinks she is still young, so no one has ever told her about the most dangerous things. Even when everyone is in a meeting, she is like an outsider listening in, everything is irrelevant to her.

Shinguji Maki continued, "I don't want to stay here alone every time you time travel. Although each time travel is just an instant, in my opinion, I'm missing half of your lives."

Shendai Yunluo touched her head, "Then, teacher will accompany you on the last part of the journey."

The two came to the rocks on the shore of Whale Island. Shendai Yunluo looked at Shinguji Maki, "Are you ready?"

Shinguji Maki nodded.

They put on their diving gear.

The next moment, an unusually valiant white dragon roared out, and the two of them each held one of Bai Rongyi's special horns and dived into the sea with it.

The underwater Bai Rongyi was extremely swift, taking the two of them down rapidly.

One hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

Below Whale Island, it suddenly opened up. The familiar cherry blossoms suddenly appeared in front of them, the entire village hanging upside down at the bottom of Whale Island.

The well in the center is still slowly swallowing water. Colorful fish swim among the branches of the cherry blossom trees, beautiful and magnificent.

Homeland.

This is the homeland of the Yin-Yang Master, preserved by the Yuan Clan at the bottom of the sea.

Shendai Yunluo looked at the towering Eight-Forked serpent in the distance and was stunned.

This is a rare great demon recorded in the family history. It was once the strongest Shikigami in the hands of the Yuan Clan, bar none.

The Eight-Forked serpent had rebelled against the Yuan Clan three times, and each time it was re-imprisoned and controlled. This is the only Shikigami in the history of the Yin-Yang Master that had ever broken free from the Yuan Clan's bloodline constraints!

It is now bound by chains, suppressed by 112 human-shaped Shikigami. Chains connect from the Eight-Forked serpent to those Shikigami, drawing power. The power of hundreds of Shikigami is used to suppress it alone!

Those 112 Shikigami were once retainers of the Yuan Clan, and finally stayed by the Yuan Clan's side after death, loyal and unwavering.

Shinguji Maki cut her finger in the sea. When the Yuan Clan's blood stained the seabed, the 112 Shikigami suddenly opened their eyes and looked over, and the Eight-Forked serpent began to struggle angrily, as if worried about being controlled by the Yuan Clan again!

Shinguji Maki looked at it with some fear and hesitated for a moment before daring to approach. However, the next moment, she seemed to make a decision and resolutely swam towards the Eight-Forked serpent.

The 112 Shikigami sitting on the ground smiled at her. They had been waiting for more than six hundred years, and the world had not disappointed their waiting.

At this time, a giant whale flew out from Shinguji Maki's brow, descending on the top of the Eight-Forked serpent like a Kunpeng.

The seabed at this moment seemed to be plunged into a prehistoric world, and the upside-down pink cherry blossoms left the branches under the current, like a swirling galaxy.

The distant whale's cry sounded in the sea, and that sound of the whale's cry seemed to come from the other shore of time and space, desolate and lonely.

The giant whale, with its terrifying pressure, shocked the Eight-Forked serpent, leaving it unable to move.

One by one, the chains broke, and the 112 Shikigami turned into streams of light and flew into Shinguji Maki's Spiritual Bridge. The Eight-Forked serpent, under the suppression of the giant whale, struggled for two hours before finally, unwillingly, turning into a stream of light and submitting.

The giant whale swam back, Shinguji Maki floated in the river, the giant whale revolved around her again and again, before reluctantly returning to the Spiritual Bridge.

Previously, although Shinguji Maki had already taken it in, her strength was insufficient, and she had never been able to summon it.

Now is the time.

Shendai Yunluo grabbed the dragon's horn and smiled, holding Shinguji Maki's small hand and flying towards the surface, but they didn't return to Whale Island, but flew to a farther place.

Inside Whale Island, Luo Wanya was waiting for news, but as time passed, Guardians' Union members had swept through 21 drug factories, but still hadn't found Qing Chen.

Everyone's mood became heavy.

Luo Wanya said with difficulty, "There are only two drug factories left. If we still can't find him…"

At this time, the satellite phone rang. Luo Wanya nervously pressed the call button, "Hello?"

Little Seven's low voice came from the other end, "The last two drug factories have also been taken down, but Boss wasn't found. Strangely, we didn't even find the people who attacked the village, nor did we see those villagers."

Luo Wanya was stunned. They were originally investigating because the neighboring villagers said that the villagers from the robbed village were taken to make drugs, so they wiped out the three major drug cartels.

But now the three major drug cartels are all wiped out, but the people who robbed the village haven't been found?

In the past, after the leader of a drug cartel was killed, a new drug cartel would soon be born because his subordinates hadn't died out yet. These people are familiar with the business, and the drug production and distribution processes, and they can quickly re-establish the industry.

It's different now. Guardians' Union has almost uprooted the Mexican drug cartel.

Yet, this turned out to be collateral damage…?

Luo Wanya thought for a while and said, "Forget it, anyway, they're not good people, killing them is fine. But where do we find Boss now?"

Zheng Yuandong: "I requested to view satellite surveillance, starting from the robbed village, and traced the trail of those culprits. Their convoy disappeared after entering a forest, a 6-hour drive from the village. This time, I'll personally lead a team to search that forest and find Qing Chen. However, everyone should also be prepared."

Chen Zhuoqu stood up, "All Knight trainees, come back with me for training. Before the next time travel, we must complete the Trials of Life and Death."

Before leaving, Qing Chen had made a final effort. He killed 12,000 Garrison Troops soldiers in the Royal Capital, destroyed most of the Royal Capital's official institutions, and destroyed the Extreme Night organization that Zhong Yu had just established, capturing Chen Yu.

Qing Chen was doing everything he could, because he was worried that if something happened to him, East Continent would be defenseless.

Now Qing Chen has indeed disappeared, but he has done his best to buy time for East Continent.

Now, those who were once protected by Chen Zhuoqu must stand up.

As they were leaving,

"Where's Shinguji Maki?!" Li Tongyun suddenly asked loudly, "Wasn't she still sitting in the meeting room just now? Why did she leave?"

Lu Yuan replied, "I just saw her leave with Shendai Yunluo, maybe they went to eat?"

"No!" Li Tongyun came to the place where Shinguji Maki had just been sitting and found the tissue wet with tears. She immediately panicked, "Everyone, help me find Shinguji Maki, I have a bad feeling about this."

Everyone searched Whale Island for a long time, but Shinguji Maki and Shendai Yunluo disappeared without a trace.

"What should we do?" Hu Jingyi asked, "We still need to bring her to training."

Xiaotongyun seemed to be thinking, "No need to find her."

"Do you know where she went?" Chen Zhuoqu asked.

Xiaotongyun said, "She went to walk her own path."

In the sky, Shendai Yunluo sat side-by-side with Shinguji Maki on top of Bai Rongyi with a gentle smile. Shinguji Maki held Foxfire to keep warm, and had a custom-made small parachute pack on her back, looking extremely cute.

Hyakumegami, wearing a white cloak, flew beside them to protect them.

During this time, passing flights saw the huge white dragon below, and the passengers all opened the small windows and stared, envious.

Shendai Yunluo said, "Luo Wanya's doubts about Ling, I can actually answer. Now the deciding factor between East and West Continents is, on one side, the Forbidden Artifact ACE-002 Heaven and Earth Chessboard, and on the other side, Fate Weaver's God's perspective. In fact, everyone has seen the fate that transcends time and space, so they have made their own arrangements. The reason Ling sent me to Sword Gate Pass is that she knew that only I could help Guardians' Union safely pass through Sword Gate Pass under those circumstances. The reason she let Li Tongyun, Nangeng Chen, Liu Dezhu and others board Qingshan Fortress is because she saw you in fate."

Shinguji Maki listened silently.

Shendai Yunluo continued, "Now, it's not enough for you to complete the wingsuit flying Trials of Life and Death anymore… Are you ready?"

Shinguji Maki nodded seriously, "I'm ready."

Shinguji Maki's expression was the same as when she burned down her own thatched hut.

Stubborn, resolute.

Shendai Yunluo vaguely felt like he saw Qing Chen, because he had seen this expression on Qing Chen before.

He smiled and said, "No wonder Qing Chen wanted to take you as his disciple."

For a Knight who possesses the Breathing Technique, only seven Trials of Life and Death are needed to reach the Demi-God realm. Now, all the Knight trainees have undergone five trials: diving, surfing, rock climbing, downhill cycling, and skiing.

The remaining trials are wingsuit flying, skydiving, and penetrating the earth's core.

Only the last two require landing into a sinkhole without opening a parachute, mastering the airflow with the body. Only after entering the sinkhole can a parachute be opened.

If Shinguji Maki wants to control the Eight-Forked serpent and the giant whale, she must complete two Trials of Life and Death within this return cycle, so she chooses to gamble with her life.

Even though she has received wingsuit flying and skydiving training, this journey is still a life-or-death situation.

Shinguji Maki, holding the well-behaved Foxfire, said thoughtfully, "My master said before that he would take me on the path he walked. I worriedly asked him if I also had to live in a pigsty, and he said yes… Later I learned that in our lineage, masters love to pit their disciples… Teacher, I miss my master. He is now missing, and I want to do some of the things he wants to do, so he doesn't have to work so hard."

Shendai Yunluo smiled, "You will meet again."

Bai Rongyi is about to reach Guatemala. The white dragon quickly climbs to a high altitude, and the speed does not decrease at all.

Just as they were about to reach the sinkhole above Guatemala…

Breathing.

Flame patterns suddenly appeared on both sides of Shinguji Maki's cheeks. She jumped down.

As she promised Qing Chen, she would walk the path Qing Chen had walked.