Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 386: 285. Methods of Cultivation_3

“Where did you get this technique from?” Qing Chen pressed.

“According to the records, it was a long time ago. After humanity entered the new civilization era, some hidden cultivation organizations began to emerge,” the old man explained, “There have always been two organizations in the Southwest Snow Mountain, one is the Fire Pit, and the other is the organization to which this cultivation technique belongs. They hid in the Hot Spring Valley deep in the mountain until the Federation was established, then they reappeared in the world.”

“What were they hiding from?” Qing Chen didn’t understand.

The old man glanced at him. “You’ve seen the textbooks from Li’s School, so you should know that human civilization was almost wiped out last time due to the artificial intelligence ‘Zero’, right?”

“Yes, I know,” Qing Chen nodded.

“But before that, more than two hundred years ago, there was another disaster, which is hard to find in the records,” the old man said, “That time, Earth experienced a nuclear war, and all survivors sought refuge from the war and the climate impacts.”

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Qing Chen paused for a moment, realizing that humanity had faced two near-extinction disasters.

The first was the nuclear bombs devastating the land.

The second was artificial intelligence.

These two disasters were separated by more than two hundred years, and both the Fire Pit and the mysterious textual organization had hidden deep in the mountains during the first disaster.

“When did they come out?” Qing Chen was curious.

“The mysterious organization and the Fire Pit had conflicting beliefs,” the old man explained, “They grew up in the same vast valley. Initially, they managed to coexist, but eventually, they could no longer overcome the Fire Pit and had to emerge from the mountain to find new habitats. However, this organization was somewhat cruel. After arriving in modern civilization, leveraging their cultivation techniques, they looted more than a dozen Federal Production Bases in one go and controlled the Federation’s citizens to spread their faith, demanding believers to devote everything to their God.”

“And then?”

“Then they encountered the Federal Group’s army,” the old man said casually, “and were annihilated.”

Qing Chen could imagine how helpless a group of cultivators from that mysterious organization must have felt facing the full firepower of an organized military.

But the question arose, Qing Chen wondered, “Didn’t you keep any alive to interrogate them about their techniques?”

“We did, but their language isn’t the Federation’s,” the old man replied, “The Federal Group’s army captured eleven of them, but on some night en route to City 5, they all committed suicide.”

“So, when you say the upper limit of this cultivation technique is B-Class, it’s because the records show that the highest level in that organization was B-Class, right?” Qing Chen asked.

“Exactly,” the old man said, “They cultivated for so long and only reached B-Class, so that must be their limit.”

As he spoke, the old man glanced at him, “Being able to cultivate up to B-Class is something many people would desire, and in actual combat, the B-Class members of their organization are somewhat more fierce than genetic warriors. Moreover, their cultivation technique doesn’t have any side effects.”

Qing Chen knew that many cultivation techniques in the Inner World had side effects, like Li Yinuo’s ‘Fierce Tiger Sect’ which could turn a person into a strong man with plenty of strength but lacking agility.

Although Qing Chen really disliked Huan Yu, one thing she said was correct, every gain comes with a loss.

The old man casually said, “In this world, like the Knight, there aren’t many cultivation techniques that are complete in advancement and free from side effects.”

Qing Chen remarked, “I think you don’t have to keep hinting so crazily, just say what you want to say.”

The old man smiled and said, “I didn’t say anything or ask anything.”

At this moment, Qing Chen already understood clearly the old man knew about his Knight identity.

And that he had to select one of the direct inheritances of the Knight’s path from the Li Family was also part of the deal between Uncle Li Dong and this old man.

Otherwise, why would the other party feed him Dragon Fish every day?

Uncle Li Dong once told him that although Knights are strong, and each promotion places them at the pinnacle of their level, they do have one flaw: their bones only receive augmentation during the fourth life-and-death passage.

This could likely result in a situation where he threw a punch, the enemy was fine, but his bones cracked.

When Qing Chen asked his master how to solve this, Uncle Li Dong’s reply was: eat more calcium pills.

That answer was clearly evasive.

And perhaps the old man knew exactly what he was lacking, so right from the start, he generously offered the Dragon Fish as a meeting gift.

Thinking back, when Master Uncle Li Dong came to steal the Dragon Fish, he probably wanted to compensate for his own shortcomings too?

At that moment, Qing Chen searched for fishing line among the old man’s fishing gear, while saying, “Back to the main topic, you gave me this cultivation technique, but I can’t understand it. It’s of no use to me. How about I return it to you tomorrow?”

The old man thought for a moment and said, “In this world, I’m the only one who knows you got this cultivation technique, and I certainly won’t speak of it. The person who gave you the cultivation technique yesterday doesn’t know what’s inside the Black Box. So, take your time to study it, and I won’t ask you whether you have any research results.”

As Qing Chen cast his fishing hook into the water, he pondered what the old man had said.

He suddenly realized that the old man probably knew even the secret that he was a Time Traveler.

And the meaning behind the old man’s words was that he hoped Qing Chen would set aside his concerns and just translate the mysterious text, without worrying about suspicion.

Because, although Qing Chen always insisted he couldn’t understand the cultivation technique, he at least had seen that type of text before…

It was Tibetan from the Outer World.

A language that had disappeared from the Inner World a long time ago.

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A 5000-word chapter, another one coming this evening.

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