Night’s Nomenclature

On a Class A Airship in the northern sky, Qing Kun stood quietly on the bridge.

The commander said to Qing Kun, "Boss, we don't have a relay base in the south, our endurance will be greatly reduced. Recklessly participating in the war might result in huge losses."

Qing Kun glanced at him: "Do you think I don't know that? We're already here, can we just take a stroll and run away? Attack fiercely!"

A holographic projection activated. On another airship of this Class A Airship, Qing Xing's father, Qing Yu, looked coldly at Qing Kun: "Estimated arrival at the battlefield in 5 minutes. Don't you dare be sneaky and only consume my air power."

Qing Kun retorted angrily: "Don't worry, I'm definitely braver than you in battle. We're all in the same boat now, all tied to the chariot by Shadow, with no way out."

"That's good," Qing Yu sneered.

Although these two were now tied to the chariot by Shadow, they couldn't stand each other.

Qing Kun looked at Qing Yu's holographic projection and said, "By the way, let me remind you, if your idiot son dares to use the Forbidden Artifact to bring misfortune to my son, Qing Yi, I'll twist his head off!"

Qing Yu ignored him and directly closed the holographic projection.

"Do you think I want to? Shadow himself said we have to bet on all our cards, reputation, and lives to exchange for a ticket to a new era. Do you know what that means?" Qing Kun cursed and kicked the commander's butt: "Go command your troops, don't nag me."

The commander stumbled back two steps from the kick, almost falling to the ground.

To be honest, this Boss is great in everything—kind to his subordinates, open-minded, not cold-blooded—the only bad thing is that his temper is too damn bad.

The edge of Forbidden Zone 00.

A field company was stationed here. They were not defending Forbidden Zone 00, but preventing Fire Pit from breaking through here to rescue.

Just as Chen Yu said, he had made full preparations for this battle.

Even though he knew the Grand Elder of Fire Pit would definitely not come, he still carefully guarded against it.

For the Chen Family soldiers, being able to guard the edge of Forbidden Zone 00 and not participating in the battle was naturally the best result, after all, where is it better than staying here on standby to besiege a Demi-God?

Half of this field company were Chen Family's spoiled brats. They were sent to the army by their parents to be tempered, hoping they could reform.

But how could these spoiled brats listen after entering the army? In the end, the Chen Family group army could only gather them together, arranging them to do the easiest tasks in every military operation.

The strangest thing about this field company was that the average person was a company commander.

A field company, with a 180-person establishment, had 14 lieutenant officers, which was considered a wonder by the Chen Family group army.

A soldier chatted, "I wonder how the battle is going over there. Shall we cook something to eat first?"

"No, Chen Yu is personally here this time, anyone who dares to be reckless will die without a doubt," said an officer, "My father called me specifically before coming, this is just for gilding. If we win, we will get a second-class merit. As long as nothing goes wrong, I can be promoted to major in a few months."

At this moment, they suddenly heard a strange sound from behind.

Everyone looked back and was immediately scared to death.

A giant covered in scars stood at the edge of the forest, holding a large tree as a club, his Face[-]ferociously looking at all the soldiers.

The scars on the giant were from fighting mysterious beasts in various Forbidden Zones. He had already become king in 7 Forbidden Zones.

Few people know that in those Forbidden Zones unknown to the Federation, a giant is plotting his own territory.

The giant raised his club and smashed it at the field company, roaring angrily.

The next moment, a group of wild boar kings rushed out from Forbidden Zone 00, crashing the field company guarding Forbidden Zone 00 into chaos!

Ding Dong's younger brother, Gu Dong, was also called back by the old men!

Gu Dong looked back at Ding Dong: "Gu Dong!"

Brother, you go back, I'll go kill people.

Ding Dong was a little anxious: "Ding Dong!"

It's very dangerous outside!

Gu Dong grinned: "Gu Dong."

What's there to be afraid of, just do it!

Saying that, Gu Dong strode forward, charging out with the group of wild boars.

Ding Dong hesitated for a long time, and followed!

Someone shouted from deep inside the Forbidden Zone: "First there were Knights, then there was heaven. Killing Knights at your doorstep, are you freaking insane! Fight! Fight! Fight! Here, no one can kill Qing Chen, not even a god, I said!"

Someone sighed: "You've been dead for hundreds of years, can you not be so irritable. I thought it was a mistake for the master to take you in as a Knight back then. Look at what you've taught Gu Dong, you shouldn't have let you take care of children back then!"

At this moment, Li Bingxi had followed Shadow's gaze to Forbidden Zone 00.

He looked at it in astonishment.

Before this, there had never been a precedent of mysterious creatures from the Forbidden Zones participating in wars in the entire Federation, they rarely even left the Forbidden Zones!

But now, he had just watched flocks of birds fly out from the tree crowns, and the Vermillion Bird flying in the front. The Vermillion Bird's tail feathers trailed more than ten meters long, like a meteorite just entering the atmosphere and burning in the sky, full of starlight.

Is this the trump card Shadow mentioned for Qing Chen?

Xiao Mengqian looked at the direction where the Vermillion Bird flew away, Shadow looked on with a smile.

This is the trump card of the Knight Order.

That is the love of the Knight seniors for the juniors over thousands of years, the hope of the old fellows for the revival of the Knight tradition after the gradual decline of the Knights for thousands of years.

Now, all the accumulated power has been given to Qing Chen by the old fellows.

Thinking of this, Shadow suddenly felt relieved.

He turned to Qing Chen and smiled, "Actually, I wasn't very relieved before, so I was a little reluctant to leave. I was worried that someone would bully you without anyone to help you, I was worried that you would be sad without anyone to talk to, I was worried that no one would be waiting for you when you go home. I kept delaying, wanting to see if there was anyone else in this world who would care about you like me. Now, I think I don't have to worry anymore. Remember, you had such a brother."

Shadow waited for that word "brother" for more than ten years.

There are no regrets in life.

As he spoke, Qing Chen realized something, and his tears flowed uncontrollably: "Is there no other way?"

"No," Shadow suddenly laughed loudly, "Xiao Chen, don't cry. I let Chen Yu and Li Bingxi come here, and I haven't killed them yet, it's because I want them to witness the arrival of an era belonging to you, a new era, a new world!"

As he spoke, Li Bingxi involuntarily stepped back, he felt that at this moment Shadow's momentum was infinitely rising, and gradually merging with the world.

Shadow's hair began to gradually shatter into stars and dissipate, and his body gradually became illusory.

"You've touched the critical point of the fusion of spiritual will and the world!" Li Bingxi exclaimed in surprise.

Shadow smiled, "What's there to be afraid of? I reached that critical point a century ago."

The cultivation of ordinary people is to pursue the strengthening of their bodies, so that they can withstand the stronger interaction between spiritual will and the world, and with mortal bodies, they control the rules of the world.

Shadow, when he just awakened, stood at the end of all the tracks.

However, in this world, except for the god Ren Xiaosu, everyone who crosses that critical line will fall into the state of physical disintegration, forever merging with the will of the world, sinking into the vast sea of stars.

The Demi-Gods Yan Liuyuan and Li Shentan, who created this time-travel incident, were no exception to such powerful figures.

The reason why Yan Liuyuan had to sleep for a long time was to resist the process of being assimilated by the will of the world by sealing himself.

However, today, for Qing Chen, Shadow actively crossed that critical line and became the one closest to a god!

Saying that, he turned to Qing Chen and asked with a smile, "How is it? Your brother is quite powerful, right?"

Qing Chen wiped his tears, "Powerful, my brother is the most powerful."

"There are no regrets," Shadow laughed loudly.

This Shadow stood on this desolate land, among thousands of troops.

Heaven and earth took him as the center, the momentum was magnificent like a whale sucking water, and the dark clouds in the sky were violently dispersed.

Shadow turned to Li Bingxi and Chen Yu.

"Li Bingxi, do you want to kill me? Do you deserve it?"

"I am a nameless person on this earthly path, I am a person with no attachments in this world. Chen Yu, I am an insurmountable mountain in your life, from today onwards, you will feel fear when you think of me, your cultivation path ends today!"

At this time, Chen Yu and Li Bingxi no longer had their previous composure. They had guessed Shadow's realm, but they never guessed that Shadow could actively cross the gap between Demi-Gods and Gods!

They are not fighting mortals now, but a god for fifteen minutes!

This is Shadow's greatest trump card, he hid this trump card for a century, to open a new era for his brother.

"Chen Yu, kill him!" Li Bingxi said in a low voice. As he said this, he turned and ran.

A Demi-God, however, was like a bereaved dog in front of Shadow, completely disregarding his Face[-]and running wildly, all his clones running in twenty-four directions.

Dare not speak loudly.

For fear of startling the heavenly people!

But how could Shadow let Li Bingxi go? He softly said, "Time!"

The world suddenly slowed down and stagnated.

Everyone stagnated, including the Demi-Gods.

The rules of Metahumans in the world all have fixed numbers, and all forces acting on other Metahumans will be resisted by the other party's life force field, just like Yang Yang can beat War Robots into scrap but cannot easily control B-Class Metahumans.

Shadow's ability to stagnate time in the past, if not noticed by Demi-Gods, then Demi-Gods will also stagnate with time. For those Demi-Gods, time is still normal, only Shadow's speed is relatively faster.

But if the Demi-Gods perceive it, such as Shadow killing people in front of them, Demi-Gods can use their spiritual will to resist, breaking free from the laws of time.

This is also why Shadow never fought Demi-Gods in the past.

But now it's different, Shadow is no longer a Demi-God, he is one level higher than all Demi-Gods, touching the realm of gods.

Even if he will die after fifteen minutes, he will be a god for fifteen minutes!

Brilliant as stars!

Therefore, when the force field called Time bloomed, even the Demi-Gods' speed stagnated!

Shadow strode towards Li Bingxi, as if strolling, he broke Li Bingxi's twenty-four clones one by one.

Thousands of miles without leaving a trace, one step to kill one person!

When Li Bingxi's clones were successively destroyed, Shadow stood beside Li Bingxi's main body, looking at the old Demi-God in front of him, whose expression of terror was frozen with time.

Shadow smiled, "I know you have a life-saving Forbidden Artifact to dare to come here, there are only two Forbidden Artifacts in the world that can save lives, one is Forbidden Artifact ACE90, the one-time-use Immortal Brooch, which was given to Chen Yu by Qing Wen's mother. The other is the Heart Lock, this thing is in your heart, right?"

Shadow didn't wait for Li Bingxi to answer, he already had the answer, the other party couldn't answer either.

In fact, both Chen Yu and Li Bingxi, these two Demi-Gods, had life-saving Forbidden Artifacts, that's why they dared to come here.

Forbidden Artifact ACE90, Immortal Brooch, a one-time-use item, obtained by Qing Wen from Qing Zhong.

This Immortal Brooch can use the souls of ten people to bring one person back to life.

"Once used, the Immortal Brooch will disappear, and it will reappear in a random brooch counter ten years later, bought by an unknowing person."

Forbidden Artifact ACE0, Heart Lock.

"Not seeking to be born on the same year, same month, same day, but seeking to die on the same year, same month, same day. If one party dies, the other party will die to compensate. If the husband dies, the wife's body will turn into a cocoon in a day, but the husband will emerge from the cocoon, the wife will die in place of the husband, and the husband will return to the physical function of a 1-year-old. This Forbidden Artifact was discovered on the tomb of Metahuman couples who loved and killed each other. To use this Forbidden Artifact, you must be a couple who have lived together for more than one year."

Li Bingxi dared to come, it must be because of this Forbidden Artifact.

Therefore, Li Bingxi never intended to use his life to exchange resources, he intended to use his wife's life to exchange for these resources.

In this war, the two Demi-Gods had four goals.

The first goal was to exhaust Shadow to death.

The second goal was to pit the other Demi-God to death. Chen Yu wanted to pit Li Bingxi to death, Li Bingxi wanted to pit Chen Yu to death. Everyone had the only life-saving Forbidden Artifacts in the world, even if they died, they wouldn't be afraid. This was equal to exhausting Shadow and the other Demi-God at the same time, with a very high winning rate.

The third goal was to kill Qing Chen and make the Knight Order extinct. Because although the promotion of the Knight Order was dangerous, the process was shorter than that of other Demi-Gods. They were all worried that there would be two Demi-Gods in the Knight Order at the same time. At that time, all Conglomerate leaders would not be able to sleep!

The fourth goal was resource exchange, Li Bingxi needed the resources in Qing Family's hands.

Shadow sighed, "Li Bingxi, ah Li Bingxi, your wife will die with you today. If it weren't for you, I would never kill a kind old woman, you deserve to die."

Saying that, Shadow gently swiped Li Bingxi's throat with his finger, cutting off all his vitality.

He touched Li Bingxi's body and took out a scalpel from his sleeve: "Eh, Forbidden Artifact ACE04 is actually on you, it belongs to my brother."

Shadow turned to Chen Yu and smiled, "I know I can't kill you today, that Immortal Brooch is indeed strange. I didn't find it hidden anywhere in your mansion, it must be kept by the person you trust most, right?"

Saying that, Shadow used the scalpel he had just taken to cut Chen Yu's neck.

No one in the world has ever thought that someone could kill Demi-Gods like slaughtering dogs!

Chen Yu's body turned into smoke and flew south. That was Chen Yu's soul, summoned by the Immortal Brooch.

"What a pity," Shadow said with a smile, "However, his Dao heart is already broken, wait for my brother to kill you."

Shadow walked back to Qing Chen again, put the scalpel he had just taken into Qing Chen's hand, and stared at him, calculating every second.

Then, this human god gently wiped away the tears in Qing Chen's eyes.

He looked at him for a moment, gently hugged the equally stagnated brother, then let go.

"Xiao Chen, the road I can walk with you ends here."

"In the future, no matter the wind and snow, or the sunshine, I will no longer interfere."

"Run, at a speed that even despair cannot catch up with. Kill all your enemies, stand on my shoulders, and look at the world that should belong to you."

The six suns in the sky had vanished due to Chen Yu's death.

Shadow opened the Shadow Gate and came to the dimly lit hut in the ginkgo garden.

He looked at his father who was still facing away from him, slowly knelt down and kowtowed, "Father, I entrust my brother to you, we'll be father and son again in our next life."

After saying that, Shadow put the necklace around his neck on the ground, his body completely disintegrated, turning into a handful of stars flying into the sky.

A tear fell to the ground in front of the old man.

Qing Zhun is no more.

In a corner of City 5 in the north.

Qing Ye looked at the old woman imprisoned in an iron cage. She had been poisoned and couldn't speak.

This was Li Bingxi's wife, imprisoned here waiting for her death.

Qing Ye's Shadow troops were doing the cleanup work behind him. Outside the iron cage were the bodies of the security personnel guarding the old woman, and blood.

He sighed, "I'm sorry, I have to kill you because of unavoidable reasons. Li Bingxi is dead, if you have any hatred, go find him on the road to the underworld."

In fact, no one called Qing Ye to tell him that Li Bingxi had died, but he firmly believed that if Shadow made a move, Li Bingxi would surely die.

However, when the old woman heard Qing Ye say that Li Bingxi was dead, the despair in her eyes was gone, instead, she had more gratitude.

Qing Ye seemed to understand, raised his hand, pulled the trigger, and the bullet accurately hit the old woman's forehead.

On the southern battlefield, the moment of stagnation caused by Shadow passed, Chen Yu was gone, Li Bingxi covered his neck, struggled twice, turned into a mandarin duck and flew into the sky, then turned into a pink light.

Zard exclaimed, "Wow, so beautiful."

At this moment, Qing Chen was still surrounded by the Chen Family army.

He only felt that he had just had a big dream.

That moment just now was clearly very short, yet it felt like a century had passed.

Qing Chen looked at the scalpel in his hand, couldn't help but burst into tears, the next moment, the thunder plasma in his body burst out, constantly surging.

His eyes were like gold, even his tears turned golden, when they fell to the ground, a single tear even bloomed countless electric arcs on the ground.

Qing Chen looked at Yang Yang and said, "Yang Yang, I don't have a brother anymore."

On this day, Shadow let Qing Chen witness his own death.

This was the last gift he gave to Qing Chen, helping Qing Chen awaken to A-Class.

A gift exchanged for his life.