(Chapters 531 and 534 have been revised.)
"You foresaw the Sword Saint's crisis?"
The drunken Yuan Gang frowned slightly when he heard this.
"Yeah." Lin Qiye nodded. "We want to know how to move freely through the Mist."
"Nonsense."
Yuan Gang slammed a hand on the table. "You aren't even a Special Squad yet, and you're already thinking about going into the Mist to save someone? Do you have a death wish?"
"We really aren't a Special Squad." Lin Qiye spoke calmly. "But if we're so afraid of death that we can stand by and watch our own teacher die... then what would it matter even if we became a Special Squad?
Instructor Yuan, you said it yourself. Once Mental Power reaches a certain level, one's state of mind becomes the key factor in determining whether one can break through. If we do nothing, then when we reach that realm, we'll never be able to advance again."
Yuan Gang stared into his eyes. "Reach that realm? Do you know how high that realm is? Over the past hundred years in Great Xia, how many people have even touched that threshold? For that vague, elusive possibility, you're willing to gamble your lives now?"
"We are."
There was not the slightest hint of retreat in Lin Qiye's gaze.
After the two stared at each other for a long while, Lin Qiye smiled.
"Instructor Yuan, perhaps you still don't understand our team. Then let me introduce us to you again..."
Lin Qiye raised his hand and pointed to them one by one in the order they sat.
"Baili Pangpang, the former designated heir of the Baili Group, an abandoned son of the Baili Family. He died at the hands of the person he trusted most, then came back to life;
Cao Yuan, whose