Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1232: Chapter 703: The One Who Never Won Finally Won (Part 4)

“Your Hu Jingyi really isn’t suited for studying. He’s in fifth grade now and has consistently been dragging my class back. He’s almost a joke in the whole school. It’s normal for everyone to laugh at him. As a parent, I suggest you take him for an intelligence test. If it doesn’t work out, send him to a special school. I’m saying this for Hu Jingyi’s benefit. Seeing his peers do better will make him anxious. People should be with those who are similar to them.”

On the way home, Hu Jingyi’s mother was holding her child’s hand, and as they walked, he said, “Mom, maybe I should switch schools, otherwise the teacher always calls you over, I truly can’t learn.”

His mother didn’t reply; she just continued walking with him in the sunset.

Until the sun sank into the ground and a crescent moon hung in the starry sky.

“Mom, transfer me, I don’t want to go to school anymore,” Hu Jingyi cried.

His mother finally turned to him and silently looked at him, “Are you sure?”

Hu Jingyi was stunned, feeling that the question was hanging over him like a cold, cruel sword.

His mother continued, “Giving up school, giving up effort, just muddling through life like this, are you sure?”

“You ranked last in elementary school.”

“You ranked last in middle school.”

“You ranked last again in high school.”

“You can’t beat others at basketball, you don’t understand soccer, and when others scold you severely, you don’t dare to argue back.”

“In your senior year, you studied with only four and a half hours of sleep a day, swearing you’d get into a top university. But you worked on math problems with a flashlight at midnight, stood under the streetlights to memorize at 4:30 am, and after a whole year of hard work, all you got was a second-rate college.”

“You are acutely aware that no matter how hard you try, you are an ordinary person.”

“You’ve failed at the first eight cliff faces, each and every one, how dare you directly challenge the ninth cliff of the Green Mountain now?!”

“Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to give up on such a life? If you could live your life again, would you keep trying or give up?”

Young Hu Jingyi stood in the darkness and gradually stopped crying.

His expression began to calm, and he opened his eyes, “Life has only just begun; as long as I’m not dead, I’ll keep moving forward!”

Qing Chen said, “Congratulations. From now on, it’s a new life.”

Hu Jingyi stared blankly at Qing Chen.

Qing Chen gave him courage, “The challenge just now was called ‘Questioning the Heart.’ Out of 211 challengers, only you and Chen Zhuoqu passed. You are not a failure, at least not in this moment. Go on, keep your breathing rhythm steady, climb straight up to the sky, where the skies are wide and the sea is vast.”

Hu Jingyi equipped himself with magnesium powder and a dagger and began climbing, inch by inch, towards the top of the Green Mountain cliff.

Through diligence compensating for clumsiness, Hu Jingyi might not be the smartest person, but he was definitely the most diligent among all challengers.

He practiced climbing techniques time and time again; every time Chen Zhuoqu took a break, Hu Jingyi would practice two more hours.

At this moment, those techniques, ingrained in his heart, finally came in handy.

Hu Jingyi started seeing engraved markings on the Green Mountain cliff.

62 meters, left by Zhou Peng.

83 meters, left by Zhao Yongyi.

Only now did he understand that Qing Chen had them bring daggers to leave their names on this cliff too.

At 99 meters, he suddenly heard a scream and saw a challenger wailing as they fell from the cliff into the white mist below, ending abruptly with a ‘thud.’

Hu Jingyi was terrified.

Challengers fell one after another, dropping past all cliff challengers, and the screams shook the others’ hearts.

Hu Jingyi’s body began trembling; he feared death—no one can disregard death.

On this cliff face, death fell from everyone’s side, howling past!

Giving up?

Just then, Hu Jingyi looked up to see the 100-meter mark.

“The rest of life is the path ahead.”

“Left by Qing Chen.”

These were the words Qing Chen left when he reconstructed this Green Mountain cliff, and they were also what he wanted to tell all challengers.

Originally, Qing Chen could climb four or five hundred meters at once to leave his name, but he stopped at 100 meters due to Cao Wei’s crossbow arrow chase and the mountain’s wild wind.

However, it was here that he comprehended life and death, choosing to continue forward despite the threats behind him.

Hu Jingyi gradually stopped trembling, engraved his name at the 99-meter mark, and continued climbing!

367 meters, left by Uncle Li Dong.

599 meters, left by Ren Xiaosu.

Hu Jingyi didn’t know how long he had been climbing, nor remembered how many people had fallen from the cliff; he only felt the long night had gradually passed, and the sky was brightening again.

Looking up once more, he saw the rock jutting out from the cliff.

At that moment, Hu Jingyi finally understood why the ends of the first eight cliffs set such an almost insurmountable obstacle.

Hu Jingyi gazed downward, and it seemed like an infinite abyss was behind him.

This road’s end truly had a threshold—leap and live, fall and die.

“Do you think he dares to leap?” Zheng Yuandong asked beneath the Green Mountain cliff.

“Anyone who passes the Knight’s ‘Questioning the Heart’ would surely pass this hurdle,” Qing Chen smiled and replied, “A knight’s life is not about defeating the world again and again, but about defeating oneself time after time. Besides, the knight predecessors will guide him.”

In the next second, Hu Jingyi saw that phrase, just like Qing Chen did before.

“Life should be like a candle, burning brightly from start to finish!”

Like Qing Chen did before, and like all preceding knights, he took a brave leap, firmly grasping the edge of the cliff.

The person who had never won once in life finally won once.

On Whale Island, the morning sun rose, welcoming a new era.

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Chapter of 6500 words, sorry it’s an hour late.