Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 406 293, The Power of Galloping, the Lurking Danger Underwater

When the sound of the genetic lock being unlocked echoed beneath the surface of the lake, it happened in an instant.

Qing Chen had proven one thing.

That was, knights could also complete challenges in the Outer World, and his future would be a path of smooth sailing.

In the future, new knights could arise from the humans of the Outer World, and the vast sea that Qing Chen faced would no longer be the Forbidden Sea.

The lake water was icy cold, but Qing Chen closed his eyes and let himself sink to the bottom of the lake.

He felt the surging power within his body as if it could boil the entire Weiyang Lake, and right beneath this surface, Qing Chen was like a volcano hidden deep under the sea, feeling like he could erupt at any moment.

The Reverse Breathing Technique had been released, and the genetic lock, which had been shut down due to the breakthrough, was now unlocked once more.

Moreover, it was replaced by a power even more majestic than before.

Using the Reverse Breathing Technique would cause the genetic lock to close, and even after stopping the technique, an ordinary personʼs state had to be maintained for an hour.

If one were to forcibly reverse it, then they would face a situation where they could never continue to make breakthroughs in their lifetime.

However, that only applied to normal conditions.

The process of completing the life-and-death challenge itself was the process of piercing through the genetic lock.

Qing Chen felt as if he were back on the precipice of the verdant mountain, leaping from an ordinary person to a Transcendent.

Knight Vital Energy gushed out from the depths of his body, like the rising sun ascending to the sky, unceasingly erupting forth.

If previously, Knight Vital Energy could only fill his arms, now the additional Knight Vital Energy could also fill his legs.

D-class peak, only a hairʼs breadth away from C-Class, infinitely approaching that boundary.

Qing Chen could feel someone shooting at the surface of the lake, bullets carrying the air as they shot into the water, pulling trajectories underwater.

But he didnʼt move, letting those trajectories crisscross over his head, not the slightest bit worried that they would harm him.

At this moment, his body seemed as if it didnʼt need oxygen, capable of surviving underwater just the same.

Because suddenly, Qing Chen felt as if there was a fire burning incessantly in his heart, as if it could melt his heart away.

The aftermath of unlocking the genetic lock was cooling down in the icy lake water.

But the fire did not cease.

Qing Chen remembered that Liu Dezhu had experienced similar precursors before his Awakening.

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Does that mean, all Awakeners, at the moment of Awakening, are like this?

The fire gradually subsided.

But Qing Chen felt it had not disappeared; it simply hadnʼt accumulated to the critical point of a true breakthrough and therefore went back into hiding.

Uncle Li Dong once said that cultivation is the slow process of excavating potential, and once a personʼs potential is excavated, they would lose the chance to Awaken.

Thus, there are no Awakeners among Cultivators; the two do not coexist.

However, an exception had occurred with Qing Chen.

Ordinary knights only reach F-Class when they complete their first life-and-death challenge, yet he was already E-Class.

This meant that, following this process, Qing Chen could reach S-Class upon completing six life-and-death challenges, becoming one of the rare beings, a demi-god.

Completing the seventh would make him a true God.

But what if all eight life-and-death challenges were completed?

Uncle Li Dong said there is a limit to the power of a world; you can approach a threshold indefinitely, but cannot break through it.

Just like in the Outer World, its rule is that ordinary people cannot become Transcendents.

One must borrow the rules of the Inner World in order to come back and continue breaking the rules of the Outer World.

Then, if the power limit of the Inner World is an SS-Class God, how should Qing Chen release his potential? Where should the tremendous potential from that extra life-and-death challenge go?

Thinking too much now is actually of no use, life is miraculous, it will find its own way out.

Qing Chen felt his state after the breakthrough, every pore seemed activated post-genetic lock release, breathing in oxygen from the water.

Strange, he hadnʼt Awakened yet, but he had gained the ability to breathe underwater with his skin.

And as the skin breathed, Knight Vital Energy was also being rapidly consumed.

It was Knight Vital Energy that was sustaining the underwater breathing!

Was this some sort of Knightʼs ability? Why had his master never mentioned it?

Was it because the waters of the Inner World were too dangerous, so knights never tried going underwater? Or was it because... although he hadnʼt Awakened, the two precursors still endowed him with some peculiar abilities?

Qing Chen roughly calculated the rate at which True Qi was being consumed but didnʼt hurry to leave.

He silently waited.

Because he believed someone would come down to deliver themselves to death.

At that moment, Zhang San stood by the gradually calming lakeside: ”Boss, he jumped down and hasnʼt surfaced since; his life or death is unknown.”

”Send someone down to take a look, alive we want to see the person, dead we want to see the body,” Huan Yu said calmly through the Bluetooth headset.

The slender figure sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window always felt something was amiss; the Daytime Boss with whom heʼd sparred several rounds, just like that, dead?

The Qing Chen, who killed decisively on Laojun Mountain, also dead inside the Bungee Tower?

Although they lost quite a number of people to achieve this outcome, Huan Yu always felt it was too easy.

As if deep down, he felt the other party wouldnʼt die.

Somewhere along the line, Huan Yu had developed a feeling that no matter what, he couldnʼt kill the other party, so he needed validation, he needed the other partyʼs body to prove whether the Daytime Boss was truly dead!

”Be careful, I suspect heʼs not dead; he might just have a few fractures,” Huan Yu said.

Zhang San hesitated, ”Even if heʼs not dead, itʼs been ten minutes, he should have suffocated by now.”