Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 563 354. There are always one or two winds in the world that fill my 108,000 dreams_4

At a certain moment, the old manʼs consciousness flickered, and it seemed as if he had truly once walked among those towering knights.

Together, they conquered the stars and the seas.

Together, they galloped through the wilderness, seeing all the rivers and streams.

At this moment, Hu Xiaoniu paused at a height of 411 meters for a brief rest, feeling his whole body trembling and almost unable to continue.

He wanted to look down, but before he could lower his head, he found that Qing Chen had overtaken him with the old man on his back, taking a different route!

After taking a deep breath, Hu Xiaoniu said, ”I might not be able to climb any higher.”

Qing Chen turned his head toward Hu Xiaoniu, ”Iʼll wait for you at the top of the mountain.”

The youth didnʼt say any more nonsense, because every knight must walk his own path.

Hu Xiaoniu looked up to see Qing Chen climbing upward with the elder on his back; he suddenly smiled and from somewhere found boundless courage to continue ascending.

Someone was waiting for him at the summit.

The next moment, Li Ke had completed his last leap onto the mountaintop.

The elder was in his final moments, looking up at the dark sky with only a faint breath of life remaining.

Suddenly, a gust of mountain wind blew, and Qing Chen tightly clutched a crevice in the rock to prevent the howling wind from blowing him and the old man off the cliff.

Even Qing Chen was starting to feel his energy wane.

The elder could distinctly feel that Qing Chen was trembling.

But the trembling youth seemed to fully command his body with his will, setting out once again.

Until reaching 599 meters.

With a powerful leap.

This time, Qing Chen did not hesitate or fear anymore.

He grabbed the highest edge of the Green Mountain cliff, pulling himself over the edge.

Qing Chen lowered the elder from his back and carefully helped him sit at the peak of the mountain.

The youth was calm, lacking the surging emotions he had the first time he climbed Green Mountainʼs cliff, just quietly sitting beside the old man, accompanying him through his last moments.

The elder was also calm.

The two sat side by side at the edge of the cliff, with Li Ke standing quietly behind them, waiting for the sunrise.

On the tranquil Green Mountainʼs cliff, the three waited in silence.

Beyond Green Mountainʼs cliff, were majestic trees and a green carpet formed by the crowns of countless trees.

Expansive and spectacular.

The elder said slowly, ”When I was fourteen, a knight visited my father at our mid-mountain estate. I remember clearly, he jokingly asked me if I would like to become a knight and follow him. Of course, I said yes. But my father did not agree, he said the Li Familyʼs future was for me to inherit and told him to choose someone else from our kin.”

”Back then, I didnʼt dare to defy my fatherʼs decision, but thinking about it now, the Li Family was so large, how could it be impossible to find someone capable of being the Family Head? If I had insisted on my decision at that time, perhaps everything would be different now.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than a ray of light suddenly burst through the clouds and over the mountains at the edge of the sky.

Shortly after, a red glow rapidly spread.

And then it turned to gold.

Those cascading colors of dawn, from a distance, looked like a golden sea.

The tide seemed to hang inverted, pouring down onto the earth.

Dawn had arrived.

Just then, a determined hand grasped the edge of Green Mountainʼs cliff, and Hu Xiaoniu clung to the cliff shouting—it was the most passionate expression of his youth.

”How wonderful,” the elder smiled, ”Youth is wonderful.”

Qing Chen looked at the elder, ”This is the sunrise we once watched, and you see it now.”

The elder began to smile, ”Thank you.”

”Donʼt mention it,” Qing Chen shook his head, ”In your bones, you are also a knight.”

The elder said, ”It took me a lifetime to understand one thing.”

Qing Chen asked, ”Whatʼs that?”

Looking at him with a smile, the elder said, ”The wind of our youthful gallop is more valuable than gold.”

Having said that, the elder looked toward the giant tree and saw a splendidly colored Vermilion Bird soaring and spreading its wings above the treetop, resplendent in the extreme.

Then came his resonant laugh, floating down from the mountain summit:

”If youth were granted to me once more, I would take a few ounces of gold for a few ounces of wind!”

That laughter was dreamlike, containing bits of regret, relinquishment, stubbornness, and carefree spirit.

The laughter ascended to the clouds, mingling with the sunrise, and even the Vermilion Bird on the giant tree turned its head to look back.

”Thank you,” the elder closed his eyes.

From then on, there was no more Li Xiurui in the world.

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Volume Two: The Second Chapter of Night, Symphony.

The End.

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