The Naming of the Night
Chapter 622

Whale Island Has Been Contained?!

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Jingūji Maki runs through the long, labyrinthine corridor.

She walked barefoot on the soft brown carpet, the hem of her nightgown swaying and bobbing in the dim light, like a lamp floating in the river of time.

The little girl's hair, smooth and glossy black, bounced behind her back.

It was already midnight, and even the students who had just left their parents and gained their freedom were fast asleep.

A soft, warm breeze swept through the corridor, like the arm of a giant, wanting to pull the little girl into its embrace.

Powerful, careful, and kind.

It seemed as if they were afraid of startling the little girl...

The calls from the corridor sounded like a nursery rhyme under the cherry blossom tree in my hometown, with cheerful laughter lingering in my ears, and it seemed as if adults were holding hammers, tamping rice cakes in a mortar.

People chanted slogans as the rice cakes were pounded into white balls in the rice mortar.

The old man sat on the wooden steps, leaning on his cane as he looked at the young people with a knowing smile.

Jingūji Maki felt the call and almost shed tears.

She didn't know why she was crying.

Li Tongyun followed behind, but she did not disturb Jingūji Maki. She simply followed the little girl silently through the corridor and through time.

Xiao Zhenji arrived outside the dormitory and walked across the vast plaza with its stone slabs.

Xiao Zhenji continued walking outwards, towards the cliffs of the island, her bare feet treading on the black stones of midnight.

The stone was clearly very sharp, yet it didn't hurt her at all.

The jagged rocks, originally eroded by time, were transformed into a road where Xiao Zhenji walked.

She finally reached the edge of the cliff, her body standing still in the surging sea breeze, gazing at the crescent moon on the horizon.

The person suddenly went mad.

The water vapor in front of me condensed into a strange scene.

She saw a magnificent three-masted wooden sailing ship sailing on the waves, with a middle-aged man dressed in a clean white hunting robe standing at the bow.

Her demeanor was exceptionally graceful.

Dozens of large sailing ships escorted this three-masted sailing ship.

A little boy was playing with a ball on the deck, while a little girl watched silently, her face cupped in her hands.

The little boy accidentally kicked the ball into the sea and hurriedly cried out, "Father, please retrieve the ball for me!"

The middle-aged man at the bow laughed, and with a wave of his hand, a shikigami appeared, riding the water and gently lifting the ball from the sea.

The shikigami was young and godlike, standing on a high wave, smiling broadly, her eyes filled with doting affection for the little boy.

However, at that moment, a muffled thud was heard from the bottom of the cabin, and thick smoke billowed out of the cabin.

The middle-aged man turned around and was shocked to see eight sailboats around him on fire at the same time, accompanied by explosions in the cabins.

He said in a deep voice, "Someone has tampered with this! Immediately send the servants' ships to rescue us, and first take the elderly, children, and women away!"

However, no matter how the command flags were waved or how loud the horns were, the other ships around them showed no intention of approaching. Instead, they quickly sailed away and only stopped when they were two or three kilometers away from them.

These ships prominently displayed the Snow Mountain Flag of the Kamishiro Corporation.

The middle-aged man watched this scene calmly, seemingly already knowing what had happened.

Just as he was about to summon his shikigami, Ride the Waves, to give chase, there was another loud bang.

The three-masted sailing ship he was on broke in two, and a huge burst of fire and explosion instantly engulfed everything.

The middle-aged man was injured in the explosion, with almost every inch of his limbs and bones broken.

Blood gushed from the severed arm into the sea, attracting a massive whale.

The blue whale swallowed the middle-aged man whole and sank to the deepest part of the ocean.

But gradually, one of the blue whale's eyes began to resemble a human pupil.

His eyes were filled with sadness and despair.

It swam back to the surface until it met a little boy, then gently took him into its mouth and used its large oral cavity for protection.

It wanted to find the little girl again, but it couldn't find her anywhere.

The ships at sea began to attack it, and it had no choice but to leave.

The Giant Whale swam an unknown distance until it saw a shoreline, at which point it spat the little boy out of its mouth.

At this moment, the Giant Whale's human-like eyes were filled with tenderness and reluctance, but it didn't look any longer and returned to the seabed.

That was a father's last obsession.

The two sections of the ship gradually sank into the sea, and the ships that had originally left surrounded them again, with hundreds of shikigami standing still at the bow, waiting.

They continued sailing only when the sea became completely still.

The little boy was taken in by fishermen on the shore and was saved after running a fever for more than 30 days.

He changed his name and became a down-to-earth fisherman, even forgetting his past heritage.

Centuries later, a young man suddenly came to the fishing village and picked up the baby girl who was still in swaddling clothes.

The baby girl's parents had both died in the plague, and the young man opened a spatial portal and placed her in front of a wooden house at the foot of a snow-capped mountain.

The young man had sharp eyebrows and eyes like stars. He calmly said, "An Xin await a new era."

Seeing this, tears streamed down Jingūji Maki's small face.

For some reason, she already understood that it was the fate of her ancestors.

Xiao Tongyun stood not far behind her and saw the whole thing. She didn't know why such a scene would appear on Whale Island, but she knew that it must be related to Xiao Zhenji.

At this moment, under the moonlight of the crescent moon, a middle-aged Onmyoji slowly walked out of the sea. He stepped into the air, as if there was an invisible narrow ladder to heaven.

The middle-aged man approached Jingūji Maki and touched the little girl's forehead with his index finger.

The middle-aged man transformed into a white light and flew in the air, but the white light remained condensed and did not dissipate. In the end, it transformed into the shape of a Giant Whale and flew in the sky.

The Giant Whale flapped its enormous fins... no, to be precise, those unusually large fins were more like a pair of wings.

Xiao Tongyun was stunned by this scene, as if she were seeing the legendary Kunpeng.

The next moment, as if she understood something, Jingūji Maki bit her finger and let the blood flow out.

The Giant Whale in the sky crashed down, shrinking continuously, and burrowed into Jingūji Maki's fingers.

This Giant Whale is larger than any shikigami recorded in the Kamishiro Family.

That was a gift from the ancestors of the Genji Clan to their descendants.

Moreover, Jingūji Maki suddenly felt as if she were connected to this island on a spiritual level.

Li Tongyun slowly walked to her side.

Xiao Zhenji turned around and looked at me with teary eyes, saying, "Sister."

This is the third word that Li Tongyun taught Xiao Zhenji.

Li Tongyun gently pulled her into his arms. "Don't cry."

But Jingūji Maki couldn't stop her tears. She huddled in Li Tongyun's arms, feeling incredibly sad.

Suddenly, rain began to fall from the sky above Whale Island.

Outside, it was sunny, but on Whale Island, it was pouring rain.

Li Tongyun whispered, "Sister will avenge you, don't worry."

At this moment, Zheng Yuandong was Yuewen in his office. He said to Lu Yuan, "The branch school project needs to begin. We need to categorize these students and then provide individualized instruction to ensure they can live well in the Inner World."

Ni Ergou nodded. "My survey data shows that 73% of the students are not doing well in the Inner World, relying entirely on gold bars given to them by their parents to survive. Some who brought gold bars there were even robbed by their parents or siblings in the Inner World, or by outsiders. They don't know how to protect themselves, nor do they know how to obtain useful items to bring back to the Outer World. These people have already been teetering on the edge of survival in just a few months. Fortunately, we started the school in time."

Lu Yuan said, "Half of the children have been tainted by the malevolent energy of the Inner World, but that's okay. We are confident that we can turn them back. My current idea is to differentiate between students who have a talent for cultivation and those who don't, and also between those with good grades and those with bad grades. What's surprising is that 11% of the university students this time are top students from prestigious universities, which may be able to help us in scientific research."

Ni Ergou added, "These college students are all workers or club members in the Inner World, and they are not qualified to access the technological knowledge of the Inner World. We can help with this, so it is appropriate to set up a separate college for such talents to conduct scientific research and study."

Ni Ergou continued, "Then those without cultivation talent are placed in a separate academy to teach them how to protect themselves and how to transport resources from the Inner World. Kunlun is responsible for converting these resources into cash to maintain the organization's operation."

Ni Ergou: "Those with talent for cultivation will be placed in a separate academy, taught combat skills, wilderness survival skills, and so on, giving them more options. By the way, boss, Boss He still unwilling to reveal the Hu family's cultivation methods?"

Zheng Yuandong shook his head. "The Hu family's Heart Sword Technique is one of the orthodox cultivation traditions. This thing is precious and doesn't belong to him, so it's normal that he doesn't want to take it out."

Ni Ergou whispered, "But the members of Jiuzhou are all studying. He wants to establish a place for the Time Walker, so the 60,000 students on Whale Island are what he should be considering most."

Zheng Yuandong shook his head. "I can't persuade him right now, because in his eyes, Kunlun might also be one of his True Sight Eye enemies. After all, what he's going to do goes against Kunlun's principles, so he won't create obstacles for himself. This time, nearly a thousand students from the Jiuzhou members didn't report for duty. My idea is to first use the Eye of True Sight to identify students suitable for cultivation, and then I'll talk to Qing Chen."

"Do you want Qing Chen's Zhunti Method?" Lu Yuan asked curiously.

Ni Ergou muttered, "That old bastard Luo Wanyai is really something. Even our people can't infiltrate his Parent's Association. And these days, not just anyone can learn the Zhunti Method at the Parent's Association; you need to have a certain level of contribution. It'll take at least two months to accumulate enough contribution points. Once we've accumulated enough, our people might become family. This organization is really weird."

Zheng Yuandong calmly said, "I don't want to steal Qing Chen's Zhunti Method, but I want to exchange the Wizard's Legacy and the True Sight Eye for the Zhunti Method."

"That's not a good idea. Wizarding inheritance is clearly more functional," Lu Yuan said.

"No," Zheng Yuandong shook his head, "The key to wizarding inheritance lies in the True Sight Eye. We only have 72 True Sight Eye, which means that the Observer Organization can have a maximum of 72 wizards. However, the academy has tens of thousands of students, and wizarding inheritance is not suitable for us. It is more in line with our position to give it away."

"He won't agree, will he?" Ni Ergou hesitated. "Lu Yuan and I have different ideas. I've observed the Parent's Association. This Zhunti Method can rapidly improve the strength of a group, just like a virus. The Parent's Association this, it's like having a cheat code."

Zheng Yuandong laughed and said, "We're not forbidding the Parent's Association continuing to use the Zhunti Method... Besides, Qing Chen must really want the wizarding inheritance right now, because Secret Keeping Technique Parent's Association. All organizations that expand too quickly will understand the importance of Secret Keeping Technique. Of course, whether he's willing to switch in the end depends on his own will, and we can't force him."

Just then, a torrential downpour began outside the window.

Zheng Yuandong stared in astonishment out the window at the bright moon over Whale Island.

This kind of heavy rain only happens on the island!

The exceptionally intelligent leader of Kunlun immediately realized. "Whale Island has been taken over by someone else?!"

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