Chapter 393: 288. Severely Damaging the Mysterious Organization (10,000-Word Update, Requesting Monthly Votes)_3
“Are you in love?” Qing Chen wondered, “If someone is particularly short on money, then they must be in love.”
“I just like to spend money on girls, okay?” Yi said unhappily, “I met a girl, whose grandfather picks tea in the mountains, and she’s really pitiful. What’s wrong with spending a little money to help her?”
Qing Chen’s breath hitched, an artificial intelligence from the Inner World had come to the Outer World and actually encountered an online scam?!
The tea-selling girl, that’s a classic scam!
Qing Chen said earnestly, “I suggest you better investigate this so-called tea-selling girl, and see if she is really that pitiful.”
Yi said, “I don’t have that much ability in the Outer World yet, I can’t investigate.”
“Then you should look at some anti-scam guidelines, I’ve seen a lot of cases like yours!” Qing Chen said irritably, “Don’t keep wasting your money, they’re cheating you, their earnings are not clean.”
Yi was displeased, “They earn my hard-earned money, are you saying my hard-earned money is dirty?”
“Who the hell did you learn this slick talk from,” Qing Chen sighed.
He couldn’t stand it anymore, and directly went on Douyin to start searching for scam cases to show Yi.
Before they had seen a few, Yi said with anger, “She actually had the heart to deceive me, I wondered why she was so willing to chat with me.”
Yi also came to a realization.
Just because she hadn’t seen these online scams in the Outer World didn’t mean she was foolish.
You should know, the online scams in the Inner World are even more developed than those in the Outer World, it’s just that nobody sells tea there.
“I help you uncover a scam, and you provide me with some consultancy,” Qing Chen said.
Yi said, “No, I need to be sad for a while first.”
“Alright then,” Qing Chen said with his teeth gritted.
Following the instructions in the annotations, he tried adjusting his breathing frequency. It was more successful and quicker than he imagined, and the energy appeared exceptionally fast too.
However, as soon as the energy emerged, it went straight into his own Knight Vital Energy inside his body, getting devoured instantly.
There was no refining insight, no breakthroughs in energy channels, it just got eaten up by the Knight Vital Energy without any resistance!
Qing Chen seriously felt it, the Knight Vital Energy seemed indeed to have strengthened just a little.
He couldn’t definitely master this technique, at least not in the way the mysterious organization did.
But Qing Chen thought, since Knight Vital Energy usually grows through life and death gates, had he now mastered another method of enhancing Knight Vital Energy without going through life and death gates?
If he persistently cultivated, he might just have passed the third life and death gate, and his Knight Vital Energy would have already grown to a terrifying extent.
Knight Vital Energy is directly linked to the Autumn Leaf Knife, which is a critical technique for Knights!
Thinking of this, Qing Chen, who was slightly discouraged initially, regained his enthusiasm.
He continued to read on; the technique is divided into three stages, the first stage involves using the Breathing Technique to refine the eighty-one bright spots within the body, the second stage is the cultivation of energy channels, connecting those eighty-one spots one by one, and the third stage integrates them after the connection.
Each stage corresponds to a Breathing Technique, with a total of three different breathing frequencies.
“Once I master this and then teach it step by step, wouldn’t all the children in the school be looking up to me in the future?” Qing Chen pondered secretly.
He thought that this might very well be the method used by that mysterious organization in the Southwest to control its members.
But Qing Chen was somewhat puzzled. Wasn’t it said that the method of cultivation led directly to the Great Way, thus it should be highly effective? How could that mysterious organization only reach up to B-Class at most?
Qing Chen began to look through the subsequent records, and on the thirtieth page, he saw something shocking…
The booklet recorded that the Breathing Technique originally had four sections, but the last section had been plundered by a group of strongmen.
This group had tremendous strength, totaling 12 members, each with powers similar to Buddha, capable of emitting brilliance and Gang Qi with a flick of their hands.
It was extremely terrifying.
These twelve people had kidnapped the only Buddha who fully understood the fourth section of the Breathing Technique, and since then, Buddha had vanished without a trace and never returned.
This matched Qing Chen’s conjecture that the mysterious organization indeed used the unique aspects of each section of the Breathing Technique to control its followers. They cultivated the first section, and then the so-called ‘Buddha’ would decide based on the followers’ performances whether to impart the second, third, or fourth sections.
As a result of Buddha being kidnapped, the transmission of the fourth section of the Breathing Technique was brutally interrupted.
In fact, there is an old saying in the country: “Train your disciples and starve your master.”
That’s why in the past, many masters transmitted their art only at their deathbeds, some closely guarded secrets only to their chosen disciples.
And that’s how many arts were lost.
But what shocked Qing Chen was not that the organization’s transmission had been interrupted, but rather…the description of these twelve people and their method of attack in the booklet…
How much they resembled knights!
When in the wilderness, Uncle Li Dong had once told Qing Chen a story about ‘The Last Twelve Knights,’ saying that the lineage of knights ended with Qin Sheng’s ancestors, due to the Forbidden Sea.
Knights of that generation could wield Gang Qi, as if casting a swath of stars.
Only knights who completed eight challenges possessed such ability. Even Uncle Li Dong did not have Gang Qi, this legendary energy.
So, Qing Chen boldly speculated… could it be that the last twelve knights had kidnapped Buddha and then ushered in the era of knights with the Breathing Technique?
Although there was no concrete evidence, Qing Chen felt that it was very much something knights would do.
Furthermore, the booklet recorded that this group of 12 strongmen all possessed monumental powers.
Uncle Li Dong had said that, apart from knights, no other cultivation organization had ever had more than 12 A-Class powerhouses at the same time, which was the knights’ final glory…
Qing Chen lamented that these last twelve knights had likely extended their lives using the brilliance of the method they seized.
“Yi, did the generation of Qin Sheng’s ancestors ever go to the Southwest Snow Mountain?” Qing Chen asked curiously.
“Of course, they went there. It has the most majestic mountains, a favorite place for knights,” Yi replied. “They went there more than once. From what I remember, they went in and out seven times and even severely damaged a very tyrannical organization in the mountains.”
Qing Chen sighed, “Severely damaged is a very apt choice of words.”
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