Chapter 1366
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Chapter 1366: “Heroic Spirit”
Island.
On the other side.
On the silent desolate mountain, a fair-looking young man in snow-white clothes with bulky headphones around his neck silently gazed at the golden dragon of national fortune soaring into the sky in the distance, his black hair fragments fluttering in the wind.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, he slightly turned his head to look behind him.
A tall woman wearing a sherpa-lined hoodie was smiling as she approached from afar, standing beside him.
“Why did you come too?”
“Of course I was worried little Tang Tang would be lonely by yourself, so I came to keep you company?” The woman patted his shoulder firmly.
Tang Yusheng gave her a helpless look, “Wang Qing, no matter what, I’m still your senior and boss, could you not use such strange nicknames for me… it’s awkward.”
“I think it’s fine,” Wang Qing replied righteously. She paused, then continued,
“But this time I didn’t just come to see you… after all, I’m also curious about what this Lin Qiye, whom the Marquis mentioned, actually looks like.”
Tang Yusheng turned his head, looking at the golden dragon of national fortune soaring in the distance,
“Uncle Li summoned the national fortune… isn’t that making too big of a scene?”
“It’s actually normal,” Wang Qing said leisurely,
“After all, without doing this, it would be difficult to explain our existence.
Who would have thought that within the sleeping national fortune of Great Xia, a group of ancient relics who should have departed long ago are still being nurtured?”
Tang Yusheng remained silent, merely rubbing the bulky headphones around his neck, and after a long while, he let out a deep sigh…
…
Looking at the surging golden dragon of national fortune before them, Lin Qiye and the others widened their eyes in shock.
“Great Xia’s national fortune?!” Lin Qiye had sensed the existence of national fortune before when rescuing Anta County from the mist, but compared to this skyward-soaring golden dragon, that was merely like a grain of rice.
He never imagined that he would witness Great Xia’s prosperous and magnificent national fortune in this form, in this place!
The golden dragon of national fortune penetrated through the ground above their heads, disappearing from sight, but everyone could sense its presence. It was like a burning torch in winter – even through the thick ceiling of the air-raid shelter, everyone could feel its intense heat and grandeur.
“Dragon’s eye…” Anqingyu seemed to realize something and quickly unfolded the sea chart in his hand.
“What did you say?” Cao Yuan didn’t quite hear clearly.
“This island should be the starting point of Great Xia’s dragon vein!
Look, if you connect these dragon veins, isn’t the position of this island the dragon’s eye submerged in the sea?”
Anqingyu sketched the outline of Great Xia’s map on the ground with his hand, marking and connecting the positions of several dragon veins, extending them continuously. The island where they were located on the sea chart was at the convergence point where all dragon veins disappeared into the sea, looking from afar like an eye inlaid on the ocean.
Cao Yuan and Jiang Er were amazed by this connected dragon map, their mouths slightly open, while Baili Pangpang, standing behind everyone, blinked without saying a word.
The golden dragon of national fortune circled in the air before plunging back into the island. Strands of fortune energy faded and disappeared into the earth, as if they had never appeared.
Lin Qiye came to his senses and looked at Li Qiangqiang, who was smiling silently before him, and asked puzzledly:
“What… exactly is going on?”
Li Qiangqiang thought for a moment, “Do you know how many special teams Great Xia has in total?”
“Five,” Lin Qiye answered immediately. “Our Special Team 005 [Nightfall], the destroyed Team 004 [Mask], 003 [Phoenix], 002 [Medium], and… Team 001.”
Recalling Li Qiangqiang’s words just now, Lin Qiye seemed to understand something and asked incredulously,
“So, the [Hero Spirit] you mentioned earlier…”
“That’s right, we are Great Xia’s Special Team 001, [Hero Spirit],” Li Qiangqiang said leisurely.
“Hero Spirit…” Anqingyu kept muttering these two words, seemingly pondering.
“Team [Hero Spirit] is a special team composed of the heroic spirits of successive Night Watchmen Commanders-in-Chief,
And I, Li Qiangqiang, am the second Commander-in-Chief of Great Xia’s Night Watchmen, a member of Team [Hero Spirit].” Li Qiangqiang extended his hand, pointing at the ground beneath his feet, “Our function is to guard Great Xia’s national fortune!”
“Guard the national fortune…?”
These simple four words, at this moment, seemed to contain endless power to Lin Qiye and the others, impacting their minds.
Lin Qiye had heard before that Great Xia’s national fortune was guarded by someone, but he never imagined that those guarding it were the mysterious Team 001 [Hero Spirit] that had never appeared in the world.
“But haven’t you all died in battle?” Anqingyu asked puzzledly. “How can your heroic spirits remain?”
“Long ago, someone created a secret technique where, at the brink of death, one could refine bones and blood into instruments, merge body with weapons, and with some special methods and artifacts, create a vessel for the spirit to collect the obsession within the soul – what we call ‘heroic spirits’.” Li Qiangqiang’s voice was extremely calm,
“But such spirit vessels can only maintain a ‘heroic spirit’ for ten minutes. The only way to make ‘heroic spirits’ persist is to place the spirit vessel in the massive flow of national fortune, using the power of national fortune to nurture the ‘heroic spirits’ and maintain their existence.
National fortune nurtures heroic spirits, heroic spirits guard national fortune,
They depend on each other – this is the meaning of Team [Hero Spirit]’s existence.”
After hearing Li Qiangqiang’s description, Lin Qiye and the others stood stunned, unable to come to their senses for a long time.
Refining bones and blood into instruments, merging body with weapons?
Although Li Qiangqiang described it casually, Lin Qiye and the others couldn’t imagine what price one would have to pay to achieve this.
So, this young man dressed in 1980s style before them… was the genuine Commander Li Qiangqiang?!
“Junior Lin Qiye pays respects to Commander Li!” Lin Qiye stepped back half a step, put away the [End King’s Law] beneath his feet, and bowed solemnly, “I apologize for any offense caused earlier due to not understanding the situation!”
“Hehe, no need to be so serious. We just wanted to see what was so special about the legendary Lin Qiye,” Li Qiangqiang patted his shoulder casually. “You’re pretty good, kid. I have high hopes for you.”
The other members of Team [Nightfall] also paid their respects.
“Commander Li…”
“Hey, don’t call me Commander. I’ve been dead for so long… Great Xia’s Night Watchmen only has one Commander-in-Chief now, and that’s Zuo Qing, understand?
As for me, just call me Gun Brother.”
“Qiang Brother?” Lin Qiye’s expression was somewhat strange, as the name sounded awkward.
“Not the ‘qiang’ from ‘qiangqiang’, but the ‘gun’ from ‘bang bang bang’,” Li Qiangqiang slightly lowered his toad sunglasses and smiled. “In our era, there weren’t many educated people, and few knew how to write ‘qiangqiang powerful’. Back then, the brothers in the Huaihai Waterfront gang all called me Gun Brother – simple and powerful… you can call me that too.”
