Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 315: Secrets to be Taken to the Grave and a Request

“Sir, don’t you need to rest today?”

In the small Autumn Leaf Manor, the ground was already filled with people sitting on the bluestones.

According to Qing Chen’s usual habits, he should have closed the doors to visitors long ago.

Qing Chen looked at Li Ke: “It’s alright, being a teacher always requires some sacrifice.”

Li Ke muttered: “Sir, this doesn’t sound like something you would say.”

Qing Chen: …

Qing Chen kept these students in Autumn Leaf Manor, of course, for a reason.

After all, these were the treasures of the Li Clan, the future of the Li Clan, and the Elder certainly knew that the secret of the passage had been leaked, and there was always a possibility of enemies coming through this passage.

At this time, how could the other party not send experts to protect the vicinity of Autumn Leaf Manor?

Therefore, as long as the Li Clan’s precious darlings were still in Autumn Leaf Manor, Qing Chen himself would be safe.

At this moment, the most bored person was Li Ke.

Everyone had already sat down cross-legged and begun to enter a meditative state, but he hadn’t yet.

Li Ke looked at Qing Chen expectantly, thinking that the sir wouldn’t have forgotten about him, would he?

Li Ke looked at his classmates and brother, and finally said goodbye to Qing Chen, saying that he was going out for a while.

Qing Chen watched Li Ke’s back as he left Autumn Leaf Manor, wanting to see how the other party would understand his actions.

But not long after, Li Ke rushed back with two servants. He told the servants to wait outside and not to peek at the scene in the courtyard.

As for himself, he moved stacks and stacks of cushions into the courtyard one after another.

“You went out just to move these?” Qing Chen asked softly.

“Yes,” Li Ke nodded: “Sir, you are a cultivator, naturally you are not afraid of the cold, but they are all still ordinary people, sitting cross-legged on the ground in this season, they will catch a cold and have a fever, affecting your teaching progress.”

“Why don’t you ask me why I don’t teach you alone?” Qing Chen said calmly.

“Sir, you will not wrong me,” Li Ke finished, then went to distribute the cushions, and in order not to disturb others’ meditation, he only gently placed the cushions in front of each person.

Actually, Li Ke had also thought about the question Qing Chen had just asked, why couldn’t only he cultivate?

Was it because he wasn’t qualified enough?

No, the sir certainly wouldn’t forget, there must be something better left for him.

Although Li Ke didn’t yet know what was better than orthodox cultivation methods, he would just wait.

Sometimes, people always say that heroes cherish each other, Qing Chen felt that it should be smart people who cherish each other.

Hu Xiaoniu and Li Ke, when faced with Qing Chen leaving them alone, made the same choice, which was to wait.

The two words “wait” contain great wisdom.

At this time, Qing Chen walked to Li Shu and gently placed his palm on the person’s Shen Ting acupoint.

The Knight True Qi slowly poured in, Li Shu felt his Bright Points quickly lighting up, and said with tears streaming down his Face^[-]: “Sir, what’s going on? My cultivation progress has suddenly become much faster, are you helping me?”

“It’s just a top-up,” Qing Chen said lightly: “Don’t be distracted, continue cultivating.”

Sometimes Qing Chen would think that the Knight ancestor should have snatched the first three sections of the Breathing Technique and passed it down.

With this top-up skill alone, he could quickly raise a powerful team of cultivators.

The Knight Order is divided into two levels: Knight, messenger.

Li Shutong is a Knight, Li Dongze, Su Xingzhi, Lin Xiaoxiao, Ye Wan and others are ‘messengers.’

Now, Qing Chen is a Knight, Zhang Tianzhen, Liu Dezhu, Nangeng Chen, Li Tongyun and others are ‘messengers.’

Messengers are the followers of the Knight.

Qing Chen felt that on the Knight’s path, the Zhunti Method was the most suitable cultivation method for cultivating messengers, because the Knight True Qi could enhance the messengers’ cultivation progress, and could also control the messengers’ strength and demands through the first, second, and third sections of the Breathing Technique.

Among these students, some may think that after learning this Breathing Technique, they can start their own school, but they will soon find that without the subsequent second and third sections of the Breathing Technique, they will at most stay at the E level.

The second section of the Breathing Technique cultivates the Qi meridians, which can allow them to cultivate to the C level.

The third section of the Breathing Technique cultivates the wheel meridians, which can allow them to smoothly cultivate to the B level.

If there are truly loyal followers, even if Qing Chen teaches the fourth section of the Breathing Technique and lets them try the Trial of Heart, it’s fine.

But for each section of cultivation, the other party relies on Qing Chen.

And how many people can resist the benefits brought by the top-up?

Qing Chen didn’t know how many messengers his Knight would eventually have, he just steadily gathered people’s hearts, and the more the better.

He finished giving top-ups to Xiao Tongyun, Nangeng Chen, Li Yino and a total of five people, this choice seemed random, but they were all people Qing Chen trusted.

After doing all this, he turned back to the recliner.

He was still thinking, would those assassins still come? If they don’t come, these students will leave…

Li Ke whispered aside: “Sir, what time will they cultivate until tonight?”

“Cultivation cannot be calculated by time,” Qing Chen said seriously: “If they can’t even endure this hardship, they don’t need to cultivate.”

But Qing Chen’s wishful thinking was quickly shattered.

At 11 o’clock, someone pushed the door open.

Qing Chen was stunned, the person who came was the middle-aged man who had given him the Zhunti Method booklet before. He had guessed the other party’s identity, and it was very likely that he was the expert beside the Elder.

But the middle-aged man glanced at the students in Autumn Leaf Manor, and then calmly said: “Get up, everyone. The Secretariat asked me to inform everyone that although cultivation is a joyful thing, it also requires work and rest. Go back to sleep, and then come again tomorrow morning.”

Qing Chen was speechless, the Elder was clearly seeing through his thoughts and wanted to tease him.

As the students said goodbye to him one by one, the middle-aged man walked to him and whispered: “Don’t worry, there will be no opponents you can’t handle in the passage, you may have some doubts, but you can get the answers at Dragon Lake tomorrow.”

Qing Chen thought, alright.

That night, he sat on the steps of the passage and waited all night, and the assassins didn’t come.

Qing Chen even hoped that he could have the assassin’s phone number, and then call to ask if they were still coming, if they were, hurry up, if not, don’t come, what’s the point of dragging it on like this?!

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At 6 o’clock in the morning, footsteps came from outside Autumn Leaf Manor, and someone whispered: “When does this Autumn Leaf Manor open in the morning?”

“I don’t know either, Li Ke said it depends entirely on the sir’s mood,” someone answered.

Slowly, all twenty-two students waited outside the door, even Qing Yi was pacing anxiously, waiting for Autumn Leaf Manor to open.

Li Shu glanced at the others: “I thought I was the only one who would come so early, but I didn’t expect you all to be so early.”

A young man named Li Huang smiled: “What, are you going to be the only one to receive the sir’s top-up? Think again.”

Li Shu looked at him: “Li Huang, were you the one who muttered privately yesterday, that you wouldn’t kneel to anyone except your parents and grandfather, right?”

“I did that to protect my self-esteem, men have gold under their knees, kneeling to someone who is seven years younger than me, I really need to overcome some psychological barriers,” Li Huang explained seriously: “But I didn’t mean to look down on the sir.”

In fact, the only reason these people came to Autumn Leaf Manor early in the morning was that they could not enter a meditative state at home.

Just like the situation Qing Chen encountered when he first taught Zhang Tianzhen and Liu Dezhu, the frequency of the Breathing Technique was not so easy to grasp, at that time even Li Shutong thought that Qing Chen would need half a year to use the Breathing Technique on his own, it was just that Qing Chen himself was an exception.

At this time, someone looked at the few who had received top-ups yesterday: “I heard that after you were topped up by the sir, you immediately lit up the first Bright Point?”

Li Shu and Li Yino nodded.

But at this moment, Qing Chen pulled open the two small wooden doors of Autumn Leaf Manor from the inside: “Come in, everyone, sit on your cushions.”

“Thank you, sir,” everyone said in turn.

Qing Chen went to each person in turn, using Knight True Qi to check everyone’s cultivation progress.

He needed to know who among these 22 students had the best talent and cultivated the fastest, so that he could pay more attention to them in the future.

However, when he reached Li Yino and Nangeng Chen, he suddenly frowned.

Because, after just one night, these two people had actually lit up one Bright Point each.

Qing Chen felt a little strange, it was fine for others, but he had specifically checked their progress when he gave them top-ups last night, and he absolutely wouldn’t be wrong.

Moreover, he knew Nangeng Chen’s talent, even if the other party could maintain the Breathing Technique in the Qing Shan Bie Yuan Courtyard, it would not be possible to have such a cultivation speed.

“What’s wrong with you two?” Qing Chen asked with a frown: “Why is your cultivation progress so fast?”

Nangeng Chen hesitated: “No… nothing.”

“Tell the truth,” Qing Chen said coldly.

He hadn’t cultivated this Zhunti Method himself, so he had to adjust his teaching based on the students’ experience.

“I yesterday… um,” even Li Yino, this beautiful and bold girl, seemed to find it difficult to say it.

Finally, Li Yino looked at Qing Chen’s calm eyes and said through gritted teeth: “Last night, when Nangeng Chen and I were having intercourse, we found that a ‘Qi’ was actually flowing back from each other’s Bright Points, alternating between the two of us, and after we finished, our cultivation progress was much faster, and now we have already lit up a Bright Point.”

Nangeng Chen looked innocently at the sky, experiencing the taste of social death.

Qing Chen was shocked!

Even he, the teacher, didn’t know that the Zhunti Method could have this kind of development!

Although he had guessed earlier that there had always been legends of dual cultivation in the esoteric sects, this was also why many Buddhists considered this lineage to be an unorthodox tradition.

But Qing Chen didn’t expect this cultivation method to actually exist!

Moreover, the effect of this cultivation method on cultivation progress was too great, once was as effective as a top-up.

No, Qing Chen looked at Nangeng Chen’s expression, it was estimated to be more than once.

At this time, Qing Chen saw the strange expressions of Li Shu and others, and suddenly felt a little bad.

This is a proper cultivation method, and I am a proper person, but looking at the eager looks of these people, wouldn’t the cultivation organization I lead have some strange reputation in the future?!

If this gets out, what will others think of me?

People don’t care how I explain it, people will only believe what they want to believe!

However, this joyful Zen seems to require two people to cultivate the Zhunti Method, right? In this case, Li Shu and the others can’t use it either.

Qing Yi was in the crowd, silently looking at the group of wolf-like young men beside her, thinking, what a magical development…

The next moment, a young man named Li He hesitated and said: “Sir, in fact, it’s not just two cultivators who will have this reaction, my wife and I are the same, but not as fast as Li Yino and Nangeng Chen, about half as fast.”

Li Shu and others’ eyes lit up.

Qing Chen, who was on the side, looked at Li Shu and others, and quickly said: “Faster cultivation speed is certainly a good thing, but I hope you will be restrained in this aspect, especially don’t go out and seduce girls and harm them.”

Li Shu bowed slightly and said: “Sir, you’re overthinking, we also have our bottom line, and we won’t go out and harm others.”

Qing Chen felt a little relieved: “That’s good.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Shu added a question: “Then, can we find wives?”

Qing Chen hesitated: “Yes.”

Although he wanted to say no, he couldn’t stop others from having intercourse.

He, Qing Chen, was the nominal master, but he couldn’t control such things!

Qing Chen looked up at the sky, the sky that was just turning white, thinking that his reputation was about to be strange in the Li Clan.

Fortunately, among these people, only Li He had married a wife, and the others had no chance to marry wives in the military camp all these years.

It seemed that his reputation could still be preserved for a while.

In the morning, everyone cultivated in Autumn Leaf Manor until the morning, and didn’t leave until nine o’clock.

During this time, Qing Chen chose seven more people for top-ups.

He found that as he repeatedly used up his Knight True Qi and combined it with the first section of the Breathing Technique, his Knight True Qi was also rapidly increasing.

He felt that it wouldn’t take three months, and according to this, it would only take two months to fill his whole body.

I wonder what kind of expression Master Li Shutong would have when he found out about this.

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When all the students had left, Qing Chen slowly walked towards Dragon Lake, ready to ask the Elder for an answer.

However, as soon as he arrived at the broken bridge, before he even sat down, he heard the Elder angrily ask: “What kind of cultivation method did you teach them, early this morning, those children actually all ran to the Secretariat to ask the Secretariat to grant them marriages… and even fourteen-year-old children went to ask for marriages!”

Qing Chen: …

What the hell is this about granting marriages!

These elite soldiers are the most sensitive to strength, and now that they have found a shortcut to quickly improve their strength, how could they not want to seize it.

However, to ask the family for a marriage just for cultivation, it’s too hasty!

Moreover, after cultivating with him, they suddenly went to ask for a marriage, other members of the Li Clan would definitely guess it’s related to him!

The Elder said: “I asked the Secretariat to reject them all, if they want to get married, they should date themselves, don’t cause me this kind of trouble. Years ago, I let them help the family with arranged marriages, one by one they ran to the army to hide, now they don’t have marriage partners, they all came to ask the family to arrange marriages… Also, is this cultivation method orthodox or not? Is it really orthodox?”

Qing Chen angrily said: “Isn’t this the cultivation method you gave, what does it have to do with me!”

The Elder thought for a while: “It seems like it is…”

“Let’s not talk about this,” Qing Chen knew that his reputation was already doomed, so he stopped dwelling on it: “The leak of the secret passage, was it you who leaked it?”

“Strictly speaking, it wasn’t,” the Elder shook his head: “Someone spent all the money I gave them, and actively wanted to sell this secret for a higher price, but they didn’t expect that the buyer was too ruthless, didn’t intend to pay, and didn’t intend to spare their lives. So, the most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart, and most of the things that can really hurt you are your friends.”

“Then since you knew about this, why didn’t you stop it?” Qing Chen curiously asked: “Those who knew about it should be under the close surveillance of the Li Clan, I don’t believe you would trust human nature so much.”

“Of course I know, but Changqing is worried about how to catch those rats, this is the bait I helped her put out,” the Elder laughed: “However, those rats are very clever, even if their whereabouts are discovered, they won’t be caught all, so you have to be careful, there will be more people coming recently.”

“By the way, I’m very curious why you’re putting on this show, who are you trying to pit?” Qing Chen curiously asked.

“Whoever takes the bait will be pitted,” the Elder said with a smile: “The fish sees the bait, and it takes the bait itself, before I leave, I have to take care of the external enemies before the turmoil of power change appears, right?”

Qing Chen sighed: “Everything is arranged clearly by you, I’m going to move back to Flying Cloud Courtyard, you can find someone to catch the rats yourself.”

The Elder laughed: “Don’t you need sacrifices for the Marionette in your hands? This is also me helping you find sacrifices. Moreover, the people who come later will definitely be the sacrifices you need most. In my life, I have been lucky enough to see others use the Marionette, when you reach that point, you will understand how terrifying it is to possess it. I’ll lure these damned people to you, you should thank me, how can you complain about me?”

Qing Chen said expressionlessly: “My master sold me pretty cleanly.”

“I’m an old man who is about to die, what bad intentions can I have,” the Elder laughed: “Don’t worry, the secrets related to you, I will take them to the grave.”

Qing Chen, hearing this sentence, suddenly asked: “How much longer do you have?”

The Elder slowly said: “I don’t know either, now I’m just hanging on by a thread, the rest is left to fate.”

“Knowing that your body is not good, you still go fishing in the cold wind?” Qing Chen was puzzled.

“How can I fish if I’m dead,” the Elder said cheerfully: “Isn’t it just to do what I want to do during my last bit of time?”

Having said that, he pulled up the fishing hook and handed the Dragon Fish to Qing Chen.

Only this time, Qing Chen didn’t leave, but sat on the broken bridge accompanying the Elder, from noon to sunset.

Neither of them spoke, just sitting quietly.

“Can I ask you a favor?” The Elder looked at the setting sun slowly falling into the back mountain and said.

“Hmm?” Qing Chen looked over.

In the sunset, the Elder was slowly saying something, and the young man was listening attentively.

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