breathe!
In that instant, Luo Wanya understood the significance of their arduous journey.
The upper limit of the first three breathing techniques of the Zhunti Method is B level, and according to statistics, there are already as many as 40,000 members in the Parents' Association who have reached B level. However, they have not yet obtained the fourth breathing technique and are unable to break through further.
Qingchen once speculated that, compared to the knight's direct approach of questioning the mind as an ordinary person, the Zhunti Method proceeds gradually, starting with the first breathing technique, slowly allowing the practitioner to reach a level sufficient to withstand the fourth breathing technique, and then undergoing the questioning of the mind through the fourth breathing technique to break through the final bottleneck of the Zhunti Method.
However, even though the breathing technique is gradual, Luo Wanya and the others still face danger when going through the fourth breathing technique, because questioning the heart is questioning the heart, no matter how simple it is.
So the old man on Ginkgo Mountain abandoned them in a corner of the world, ignoring them completely, providing no food, clothing, or assistance, and rarely communicating with them, leaving them to experience the desolation and loneliness of that world.
Qingchen took the longest path of all the shortcuts in the world because his nature was innately capable of traversing it.
Luo Wanyi and his companions chose the path of the Zhunti Dharma because they had already put in enough effort and endured enough hardship, and their hearts were as firm as a rock.
They travel a certain route, observe a certain route, bid farewell to a certain route, and abandon a certain route; their lives have already changed.
Chapter 990, The Final Journey (Part Two)
Parents' Association members filed in through the Key Gate, while Freemason members Nangong Yuanyu and others, Sun Chuci and others, and Timewalker students from Whale Island Academy stood on either side of the gate, handing them new shoes.
Hundreds of trucks arrived, carrying supplies that had been prepared in advance.
Parents discovered that as long as they gave their names in advance, the people responsible for picking them up could even arrange suitable shoes and clothing on the spot, without needing to take measurements at all.
Xiaoqi asked in bewilderment, "How did you know my shoe size?"
While working on the statistics on the LCD screen, Nangong Yuanyu explained, "Qin Shuli compiled these statistics during your journey... Oh, you probably don't know, but he's been responsible for maintaining contact with us. However, this needs to be kept secret from you because when you step behind the Key Gate, a new life awaits you. It requires you to complete these 7,600 kilometers without knowing it. I'm not talking about the straight-line distance, but the distance of the winding route after modeling, taking into account the altitude difference."
This former top student from Luoyi High School no longer has a youthful face; only a soldier-like toughness remains.
Nangong Yuanyu continued, "Qin Shuli is responsible for counting your personnel numbers, and even counting who left, to ensure that the supplies we distribute here are accurate enough."
Xiao Qi stood there stunned. He suddenly realized that Qin Shuli had always known that this scene would happen once they passed Jianmen Pass.
Qin Shuli knew that they would meet their comrades-in-arms, have food to eat, water to drink, new shoes to wear, and a new life.
However, the other side still resolutely became a suicide squad to buy time, and disappeared with the remaining 16 parent association members in the incendiary bombs of the airship.
One by one, the parents entered the key gate, maintaining order and entering at a rapid pace of two people per second.
With hundreds of key doors leading to them, they were all passed through in less than an hour!
When only Xiao Qi remained behind the door, Nangong Yuanyu asked doubtfully, "There are still over ten thousand people who haven't received their supplies. Is the error really that big? Qin Shuli assured us there wouldn't be any errors. By the way, where's Qin Shuli? He hasn't received his supplies either. Where is he?"
Someone brought Qin Shuli's supplies.
Xiao Qi took the new shoes, took a deep breath, and shook his head: "It's not that there's an error. It's because we were bombed by airships on the last day before we arrived at Jianmen Pass. All our comrades were left behind, including Qin Shuli."
The person who painstakingly tallied everyone's number and shoe size ultimately didn't receive their own pair of new shoes.
At this moment, Yangyang came over and asked, "Where's Qingyi? Wasn't he supposed to be there to meet you? Why didn't he evacuate with you?"
Xiao Qi paused for a moment: "I think he might have an even more important task... He's in charge of destroying those twelve thousand war robots."
"How do we destroy it?" Yangyang asked.
Xiaoqi said, "I can't think of any way to destroy them... They are terrifying."
Yangyang seemed to be deep in thought, and the next second she suddenly soared into the sky and sped off towards Jianmen Pass!
Nangong Yuanyu said, "Let's go, Little Seventh Brother, you still have your mission... Can I ask you one last question?"
"What's the problem?" Xiaoqi replied.
"How did you manage to travel over 7,000 kilometers?" Nangong Yuanyu asked. "I mean, how did you manage to persevere when the whole world abandoned you?"
Xiaoqi laughed: "We're actually gambling too."
"You're betting on your success?" Nangong Yuanyu asked.
"No, we're betting we won't regret it."
Xiao Qi glanced back at the sky in the direction of Jianmen Pass, and finally stepped into the Key Gate.
Behind the door stood Zhang Mengqian, her eyes blindfolded with a white silk ribbon. She smiled and placed her fingers on his wrist. Not far away, Li Ke, Chen Zhuoqu, Hu Jingyi, Jinguji Maki, and other knights who had mastered the Knight Breathing Technique were all present.
Looking towards Jianmen Pass, Yan Chunmi suddenly looked up and saw a girl with pigtails descending from the clouds, carrying some cloud mist with her, as if she had fallen from the sky.
Yangyang landed in front of her and asked, "Where's Qingyi?"
Yan Chunmi responded, "He left Jianmen Pass to carry out a detonation mission. They are going to detonate a small nuclear bomb when the barrier loosens."
Yangyang frowned: "A suicidal detonation?"
Yan Chunmi laughed and said, "No, no, don't worry, they will retreat to a safe distance after they have placed the nuclear bombs, there will be no danger."
Yangyang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
Before Qingchen went to complete his final life-or-death ordeal, he asked her to take care of things on the Eastern Continent. Yangyang's biggest worry now is that Qingchen will finally return only to find that all the people he once knew are gone.
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Outside Jianmen Pass, three airships were still flying.
Inside the ship's hold, Qingyi looked at the holographic sand table and asked, "How much longer until we reach the edge of the barrier? I need the exact time."
“One hour and twenty minutes,” Song Niaoniao replied. “At that time, our airship will be the first to land, and after setting up a defensive line on the spot, the airship carrying ‘Greed’ will land.”
"How long will it take to set up the remote detonation program?" Qingyi asked.
Song Niaoniao replied, "It'll be quick, only takes one minute, and it's not difficult at all."
Qingyi then asked, "From the time the barrier thaws and the war robots regain their mobility, to when we detonate 'Greed,' how long will it take? Will it give them a chance to deal with 'Greed'?"
“No, they won’t have a chance. After pressing the remote control, it will detonate with a delay of 0.01 seconds,” Song Niaoniao said. “The yield of this greedy bomb is very small. After we complete the setup, we only need 12 minutes to withdraw to a safe distance. The electromagnetic pulse protection coating of the airship is enough to withstand the radiation and aftershocks.”
Qingyi loosened his suit and tie: "That's good."
At this moment, Qingyi was dressed in a black suit and white shirt, just like Qingchen was dressed when he was in the Intelligence Division.
When he's not working, he changes into a white tracksuit.
The secret service colleagues sometimes felt that the new boss was subconsciously imitating the old boss, Qing Chen, all the time, and perhaps even Qing Yi himself was unaware of it.
Three airships arrived in the airspace on time. Qingyi boarded the airship carrying 'Greed' and used his iris, fingerprint, and voiceprint unlocking program to activate the miniature nuclear bomb, putting it into a state where it could be detonated at any time.
Qingyi suddenly smiled: "Just now, when my father thought I was going to risk my life to detonate it, he seemed really anxious."
Song Niaoniao nodded in agreement.
Qingyi found it very interesting. When Qingkun was a child, he often told him: "Never be too ambitious to participate in the Shadow Wars. The money your father has earned is enough for you to be a playboy for the rest of your life."
While other parents hope their children will be successful, Qingkun prefers his son to be able to eat, drink, and have fun.
The other heads of the Qing family were all incredibly harsh on their children, but Qing Kun encouraged Qing Yi to play games every day.
From a young age, Qingyi aspired to be a different person from his father, and would never be as slovenly, unambitious, and scheming as his father.
But he later realized that his father, Qingkun, was actually an extraordinary person, someone he could never catch up to, even if he were a few years older.
After activating Greed, Qingyi turned and left without hesitation: "Retreat."
However, just as they were about to return to their airship, Song Niaoniao suddenly said, "Wait, I think I saw one of the war robots in the barrier move!"
Qingyi suddenly looked up at the sky: "Enlarge the holographic sand table for me!"
Once the holographic sandbox locked onto a certain war robot, everyone watched as the war robot's body trembled, and the pulse engines on its back and in its palms tried to reignite, spewing out blue energy!
Qingyi took a deep breath. The worst had happened: the barrier had loosened just as they had brought greed here and hadn't had a chance to leave!
Song Niaoniao quickly modeled the war robots' trembling frequency: "They'll probably be deactivated in 4 minutes and 31 seconds! We won't have time to retreat to a safe distance!"
Qing Yi laughed and cursed, "Damn, what bad luck!"
He was stunned for a moment as soon as he finished speaking. He had always regarded Qing Chen as a role model, but in this critical moment, he swore like Qing Kun.
"Boss, what do we do now?" Song Niaoniao asked.
Qingyi looked at the war robots that were loosening: "When the old man handed me this Greed, he said that these 12,000 war robots must stay here forever. So there is no reason to run away. We don't have time to evacuate to a safe area, and you all don't have a chance to evacuate either. Just wait here for them to loosen completely, and then detonate Greed."
This is the worst-case scenario. They could have waited patiently dozens of kilometers away, but unexpectedly, the timing happened to coincide with this awkward moment.
It's as if fate has arranged everything, and no matter how well you prepare, you can't escape it.
In the final moments, Qing Yi had Song Niaoniao bring over the radio communication equipment and first contacted the airship belonging to Yan Chunmi: "Have the Qing clan troops at Jianmen Pass continue to withdraw, and inform Ginkgo Mountain that I will definitely complete the mission. There's no need to worry about the war robots here anymore; none of them will escape today."
Yan Chunmi asked in confusion, "Did something happen?"
Qingyi replied, "The barrier has loosened ahead of schedule."
Yan Chunmi was stunned; she knew very well what those words meant.
Qingyi continued, "Please tell my father that he is the best... never mind, don't bother telling him. Why are grown men saying this? I predict that Greed will be detonated in 1 minute and 12 seconds."
Yan Chunmi asked hesitantly, "Is there anything else you want to say?"
"That's all. I was prepared for this," Qingyi said, and then hung up the radio call.
However, Yangyang's calm voice came from inside: "Don't detonate greed prematurely, wait for me to arrive."
Qingyi was stunned.
Yangyang said earnestly, "Trust me. If Qingchen were here, he would also choose to trust me. Stay by Greed's side and buy some more time. If I can't save you, then detonate it."
The next moment, Yangyang soared into the sky from Jianmen Pass. On the ground where she took off, huge magnetic field patterns suddenly appeared, as if they were the unique mark of her power.
With a loud bang, Yan Chunmi instinctively shrank her neck: "Wait, her speed has already broken the sound barrier? Can an A-level force field awakener break the sound barrier in flight?"
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Yangyang darted through the air. To this day, she is still an A-rank, but the A-rank of a force field awakener is clearly beyond the comprehension of many people. In the past, she had actually been hiding her true abilities.
But Yangyang knew very well that this battle was not as simple as rescuing Qingyi from 12,000 war robots. Instead, she had to complete the set mission and destroy those 12,000 war robots!
Otherwise, the plans on Ginkgo Mountain would be completely disrupted. They hadn't prepared any backup plans to deal with them at all, and all forces were converging on the north of City 5, waiting to welcome the arrival of Duke Storm and the orc legion.
If these war robots are not dealt with, everyone will face a pincer attack, and no one will have the resources to deal with them.
Grade A is not enough.