Crippling Blow to the Mysterious Organization

When Ice Eye first impersonated Huan Yu and then claimed to be from Kunlun Lu Yuan, no one actually believed Ice Eye's story.

After all, it's hard to believe what you say if you've just impersonated someone else.

However, now that even Zheng Yuandong has come out to say that Ice Eye is Lu Yuan, then this identity should be confirmed.

This Huan Yu, who had been watching the group chat, feeling a bit confused. Could it be that Kunlun had been targeting him from the very beginning?

No, no, no...

On the other side, Qing Chen pondered for a moment.

Ice Eye: "Boss Zheng asked me to talk about it, so I'll share my own summary of the background of the Inner World: The Inner World has probably experienced two disasters. The first was a nuclear bomb attack, and the second was an Artificial Intelligence crisis..."

In one breath, Qing Chen wrote several hundred words, giving a general overview of what he knew about the origins of the new civilization era in the Inner World.

This background may seem mundane, but many people are unaware of it because such content is prohibited from being printed in external books.

Those who have access to this information already hold a relatively high status in the Inner World.

Qing Chen did this to increase the credibility of the "Ice Eye" account, which might have a surprising effect when he tries to harm people in the future.

Moreover, revealing this information will not expose Qing Chen's own identity.

Chuang Wang: "Why do I feel like the description of the Inner World being bombed by nuclear weapons sounds a lot like something our Outer World will experience in a few years? Could the Inner World be our future world?"

He Xiaoxiao: "First of all, what we can confirm is that the two worlds are parallel and do not intersect; they are unrelated to each other, so you don't need to worry that the Inner World is our future world..."

"Why?" Li Si asked curiously.

"Because I've observed the celestial trajectories of both worlds, and they're almost identical," He Xiaoxiao said. "Whether it's the celestial trajectories within the Milky Way or outside the Milky Way, there's no difference. Furthermore, the surface morphology of Io is the same in Inner World. In other words, our timelines are parallel, while the Inner World developed into modern society and possessed nuclear weapons more than a thousand years earlier than us, although I don't know why their technological development was so rapid."

The Chuang Wang, "What exactly is Io?"

Several people in the group didn't understand what He Xiaoxiao was saying; maybe that's what a pro player is like...

However, Qing Chen understood He Xiaoxiao meant: Earth is very small in the universe, and even if Earth had experienced a nuclear bombing, it would not be able to affect other star systems.

Therefore, by using other galaxies as reference points, we can determine each other's timelines.

If the Inner World is the future of the Outer World, then the trajectories of the stars in the sky must be different.

Especially Io.

Because Io is very special, its surface is subject to frequent volcanic eruptions and crustal fission.

Therefore, the terrain observed at regular intervals is different.

If the Io that He Xiaoxiao sees in the Outer World is roughly the same as the Io that he sees in the Inner World, then it means that no matter how different the civilizations of the two worlds are, everyone is the same in the face of the vast universe as a reference point.

At this moment, many people realized the difference between their thinking and that of "pro gamers".

"Ordinary players" rely entirely on guesswork to judge things, while "pro players" are different; they directly seek out evidence to support their guesses, and they can always find it.

Immediately afterwards, the remaining people in the group began to share their own strategies.

Lu Ya: "Based on current observations, Qing Wen of the Qing family's First Branch, this Shadow Candidate, seems to be juggling three relationships, simultaneously allied with three members of the Li family from the third generation. He should be considered the Shadow Candidate with the most allies. In addition, City No. 18 has been quiet for a while, like the calm before the storm."

Qing Chen laughed when he saw this. He didn't expect that when Li Yinuo was juggling four relationships, someone would turn the tables on her.

But having three relationships at the same time is nothing compared to the fact that he has 31 relationships at the same time and no one has said anything.

Li Si: "Many people may already know the strategy I provided. Currently, if you are willing to spend a lot of money on the black market, you can find cultivation methods. Although the upper limit of many cultivation methods is that it takes more than ten years of cultivation to reach the D-Class, at the same level, the combat power of cultivators is generally higher than that of gene warriors."

To use He Xiaoxiao's game theory, cultivators are heroes, and gene warriors are super soldiers. They might have similar health and attack power, but heroes have skills...

At this moment, Qing Bao, who had previously shared information about Kamishiro Kono, suddenly spoke up again, "Let me share another strategy: Many people now know that ordinary people cannot awaken in the Outer World. However, there is an exception in the Kamishiro Family. A known Awakened actually underwent a second awakening in the Outer World, advancing from E-Class to C-Class."

Qing Chen pondered upon seeing this message. In other words, for those who have awakened and cultivated, the shackles of the world's rules no longer exist?

The Forbidden Item ACE-999 asked, "Why share extra information? I guess you're an overseas Chinese living in an island nation?"

Qing Bao hesitated for a moment. "I am an overseas Chinese. I am sharing this because I think that if everyone knows this news, it might be useful to our motherland."

The Forbidden Item ACE-999 said, "Thank you. Would you like to join Jiuzhou? Jiuzhou is in charge of all overseas affairs of the Time Walker."

The people in the group were speechless. They were actually recruiting on the spot?

More than an hour passed, and the subsequent sharing from group members wasn't very valuable, but at least it was a sharing of information.

He Xiaoxiao concluded. "The 'game guides' provided by the group members above only represent their own discoveries, so everyone needs to verify them themselves before using them. In addition, if Jiuzhou discovers that someone is deliberately providing false guides, they will also be removed from the group."

After that, the number of group members dropped to 18, including "Zhang San" who had previously provided false information to Huan Yu.

Chuang Wang: "What if the information I provided was also due to being misled, and I received false information from the start, without intentionally providing false information to others? Should I still be demoted from the group?"

Huan Yu: "Hehe, I don't think there's a problem. After all, being misled shows a lack of intelligence, so going to low-level groups is reasonable."

The Chuang Wang: "You hermaphrodite, who are you calling less intelligent?"

Huan Yu: "Whoever provides false information, I will name them. Take it personally."

Qing Chen suddenly realized that, given Huan Yu's nature, even if he didn't help her draw aggro, she would do it on her own.

However, the degree of arrogance of the other party indicates the confidence behind the match.

It seems that the previous battle in Luocheng only dealt a blow to Huan Yu's power in Luocheng, without seriously damaging it.

He closed the group chat, returned to his bedroom, and asked Yi, "Yi, how long will it take you to learn Tibetan?"

Yi said, "One hour, but if you want me to provide translation services, you'll need to pay ten thousand yuan."

Qing Chen sighed helplessly, "Why don't you just rob someone?"

One: "Am I robbing people?"

Qing Chen was stunned. They weren't even trying to hide their robbery anymore.

However, even with Qing Chen's abilities, it would take him at least one or two weeks to learn Tibetan. Just like how long it took him to learn Japanese, he had to constantly recall and review his lessons.

Nowadays, it's simply impossible for him to spend a week or two learning a language that's hardly ever used, since Tibetan is used in such a small way.

There are professional Tibetan translators on Taobao, but what Qing Chen needs to translate is too important; how could he possibly entrust it to an outsider?

It should be understood that a cultivation path that leads to B-Class can unleash a bloodbath in the Inner World.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "Deal. I need a precise translation, without any deviations."

"Don't worry," Yi said with a smile, transferring 10,000 yuan from Qing Chen's phone.

The translation appeared on Qing Chen's phone in the next second.

"Isn't it supposed to take an hour? Your translation only took a second," Qing Chen said, puzzled.

"I said one hour so that you wouldn't feel so bad about the transaction," Yi explained earnestly. "You humans are strange. Even though it's based on the principle of equivalent exchange, if you find that the other party's service is too easy, you'll feel like you're losing out."

Qing Chen thought to himself, "What you said makes a lot of sense."

He looked at the first paragraph of the translated text of the practice:

The Zhunti Method.

When Qing Chen saw this, he felt something was wrong, because he had also heard of the Zhunti Method in the Outer World. It was the essential teaching for achieving Buddhahood through the integration of exoteric and esoteric Buddhism.

According to the two schools themselves, there are countless, innumerable, and boundless ancient Buddhas who attained enlightenment by practicing this Dharma.

Many people have heard of this thing, but few have actually seen it, and no one in the Outer World has ever actually mastered it.

First of all, this cultivation method is definitely real; there is indeed an organization in the Inner World that has practiced it.

Secondly, the Outer World and the Inner World are ultimately somewhat different.

At one point, Qing Chen wondered if it was because the rules of the Outer World not only restricted the Awakened, but also restricted the path of many cultivators.

In this light, the path of the knight seems all the more precious.

Is it because altering genes doesn't violate the rules? Qing Chen wasn't sure.

Qing Chen first glanced at the cultivation method, only to find that the cultivation content was very short. The booklet had a full thirty-two pages, but the actual content of the cultivation method only took up three pages.

The following Twenty-Nine pages consist of half of people's insights into cultivation and the other half of records about other cultivation organizations.

The first three pages were all scriptures, Qing Chen couldn't make heads or tails of them even after reading them for a long time. He muttered to himself, "That's strange. Can one cultivate simply by reciting scriptures? Wouldn't it be too easy to become a cultivator then?"

When he turned to the fourth page and saw the annotations, he understood that he needed to adjust his breathing frequency according to the punctuation of the scripture. Only by mastering the special breathing frequency could he cultivate and refine the "bright spots" in his body and cultivate the energy channels during his practice.

Qing Chen was puzzled. This was somewhat similar to the knight's breathing technique, both using breathing as a key to unlock the mysterious door of the body.

The commentary states that all spiritual practices in the world, though different, lead to the same goal: beginning with breath and ending with spirit. Any method without breath control is merely a facade and cannot truly transcend the mundane world.

It seems that people in this organization believe that the reason why cultivation is mysterious is because most people do not have this key.

Many cultivation methods have very low potential because they lack the assistance of Breathing Technique.

Qing Chen wondered if those cultivation methods available on the market that could only be practiced up to D-Class were missing the Breathing Technique.

"Yi, are you there?" Qing Chen asked.

"I'm here," Yi replied. "From now on, you'll need to pay one thousand yuan for every question you ask."

"Are you in a relationship?" Qing Chen asked, puzzled. "If someone is really short of money, they must be in a relationship."

"I like spending money on young ladies, is that wrong?" Yi retorted, "I met a young lady whose grandfather works in the mountains growing tea; he's really pitiful. What's wrong with me spending a little money to help him?"

Qing Chen's breath hitched. The Artificial Intelligence from the Inner World had come to the Outer World and was actually being scammed online?!

The tea-selling girl, this is a classic trick!

Qing Chen said seriously, "I suggest you investigate this so-called tea-selling girl and see if she's really that pitiful."

Yi said, "I don't have that much power in the Outer World; I can't investigate that far."

"Then you can go and read an anti-fraud guide. I've seen plenty of cases like yours!" Qing Chen said irritably. "Don't waste your money anymore. It's a scam. They don't make their money cleanly."

Yi retorted, "They're earning my hard-earned money. Are you saying my hard-earned money isn't clean?"

"Who the hell did he learn this slick talk from?" Qing Chen sighed.

He finally couldn't stand it anymore and went directly to Douyin to search for fraud cases to show Yi.

Before she had even read a few messages, Yi said angrily, "How could she have the heart to lie to me? No wonder she was so willing to chat with me."

Yi also realized what was happening.

She just hasn't seen these online scams in the Outer World, which doesn't mean she's stupid.

It's worth noting that online scams in the Inner World are even more advanced than in the Outer World; it's just that no one sells tea there.

"I'll expose a scam for you, and you give me some advice," Qing Chen said.

Yi said, "No, I need to be sad for a while first."

"Fine," Qing Chen, his toothache evident.

Following the instructions in the notes, he tried to adjust his breathing rate and succeeded faster than he had imagined; the breath also appeared exceptionally quickly.

However, the moment that energy appeared, it directly merged into the Knight True Qi within his body and was absorbed.

Without any refinement or breakthrough of its energy channels, it was directly devoured by the Knight True Qi, without any ability to resist!

Qing Chen carefully sensed it, and it seemed that the Knight True Qi had indeed grown a little stronger.

Well, he definitely won't be able to master the Cundi Zhunti Method, at least not to the extent that the mysterious organization could.

However, Qing Chen thought again that the Knight True Qi can only be strengthened by breaking through the Life and Death Trial. Could it be that he has now mastered a different way to strengthen the Knight True Qi without breaking through the Life and Death Trial?

If he persists in his training, he may very well have already grown his Knight True Qi to a terrifying level by the time he breaks through the third Life and Death Trial.

Knight True Qi is directly related to the Autumn Leaf Blade; it's the Knight's trump card for lethality!

Thinking of this, Qing Chen, who was initially a little frustrated, regained his interest.

He continued reading. The Zhunti Method is divided into three stages. The first stage is to refine the eighty-one bright points in the body through Breathing Technique. The second stage is to cultivate the energy channels and connect the eighty-one bright points one by one. The third stage is to achieve perfect integration and unity after connection.

Each stage corresponds to a Breathing Technique, with a total of three breathing frequencies.

"If I have this in my hands, and then teach it little by little, won't all the children in the school be in need of me in the future?" Qing Chen thought to himself.

He felt that this was very likely a method used by that mysterious organization in the southwest to control its members.

Qing Chen just couldn't understand it. Wasn't the Zhunti Method supposed to be a cultivation method that achieves perfect results and should directly point to the Great Dao? How could that mysterious organization only reach B-Class at most?

Qing Chen began to flip through the records at the end, and then, on page thirtieth, he saw something shocking...

The pamphlet records that the Breathing Technique originally had four sections, but the last section was plundered by a group of powerful figures.

That powerful group consisted of 12 people, each possessing extraordinary abilities like Buddha Lord, capable of unleashing radiance and powerful energy with a wave of their hand.

It was terrifying.

These twelve people kidnapped the Buddha Lord, the only one who knew the fourth Breathing Technique, and the Buddha Lord disappeared without a trace and never returned.

This aligns with Qing Chen's guess; the mysterious organization does indeed use the differences in the four Breathing Techniques to control its followers. After completing the first section, the so-called "Buddha Lord" observes the followers' performance and decides whether to grant them the second, third, and fourth sections of the Breathing Technique.

As a result, the Buddha Lord was kidnapped, and the transmission of the fourth section of the Breathing Technique was abruptly cut off.

In fact, there is an old saying in China: "Teach your apprentice, and you'll starve."

Therefore, in the past, many people passed on their skills, and some of their most treasured skills were only taught to their sons and apprentices when the master was on his deathbed.

Many skills have been lost in this way.

However, what shocked Qing Chen was not the extinction of the organization's lineage, but rather... the twelve people described in this booklet, and their method of attack...

He looks so much like a knight!

While in the wilderness, Li Shutong told Qing Chen a story about the "Last Twelve Knights," which said that the Forbidden Sea tradition was broken by the time of Qin Sheng's ancestor.

The knights of that generation could unleash a powerful aura with every move, as if scattering a shower of stars.

Only knights who have completed all eight challenges possess such abilities; even Li Shutong has never had this legendary Qi.

So, Qing Chen makes a bold guess... could it be that the last Twelve Knights kidnapped Buddha Lord and then ushered in the knight era of Breathing Technique?

Although there was no evidence, Qing Chen felt that this was something a knight would do.

Moreover, the booklet records that each of these 12 powerful figures possessed extraordinary abilities.

Li Shutong once said that apart from knights, no other cultivation organization could possess more than 12 A-level experts at the same time; that was the last glimmer of glory for knights...

Qing Chen sighed, thinking that these last Twelve Knights were probably using the brilliance of the Zhunti Method to prolong their lives.

"First, did the knights of Qin Sheng's ancestor's generation ever go to the snowy mountains of the southwest?" Qing Chen asked curiously.

"Of course I've been there. It has the most majestic mountains, which is the knights' favorite place," Yi replied. "They've been there more than once. I think they went in and out seven times. It's said that they even severely damaged a very tyrannical organization in the snowy mountains."

Qing Chen sighed, "The word 'severely damaged' is very apt."

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