chapter xvi long enough to break

　　But where did the skirt come from? Chiyo struggled to think of the daunting question. He shook his head vigorously as the girls next to him shifted in his vision, and it dawned on him right then and there where the skirt had come from. 　　Is this what it's like to be drunk? It seems like it's pretty good! Chiyo was already quite a bit excited at the thought. 　　Song Zining and those two teenagers kept on talking about something, and even turned to ask him a few questions from time to time. However, Qianye's consciousness was fluttering right now, and he couldn't hear too clearly. Or if he heard clearly, he couldn't figure out the meaning. 　　But the general meaning was still understood by Qianye, these three big-headed flies that buzzed non-stop were saying, drink, drink again, keep drinking! The other meaning was that Thousand Nights was already drunk, so if he recognized the shrug he should hurry up and change and dance, then he wouldn't have to drink anymore. 　　Song Zining smiled badly at Thousand Nights, and smoothly dragged over a girl and started to undo her skirt. The girl giggled and didn't avoid it, instead swinging her waist and hips to let her skirt slide down bit by bit. 　　But Chiyo didn't feel drunk at all. 　　"Of course I can still drink! Come on, dry!" While letting out his bravado, Qianye raised his wine glass high and raised it, then poured it down his throat, followed by another glass. 　　Since he challenged him so much, Song Zining and those two teenagers of course refused to show any weakness and drank just as fast. 　　Thousand Nights looked towards the night sky in a daze, only to feel that the moon was moving particularly fast tonight, how come it was on the left just now, and now it had already run to the right side of the sky? 　　The night seemed to be very quiet, it should have been very quiet. 　　In this silent night, Thousand Nights couldn't help but yawn, and then somewhat wanted to sleep. He thought like this and then lay down. After lying down, Thousand Nights pillowed onto a very soft mass that felt very comfortable. 　　But the next moment Qianye sat up prancing, suddenly welling up in a huge sweat! 　　This night wasn't supposed to be quiet! Just now obviously a group of people were still noisily drinking, why was it suddenly quiet? 　　When Qianye looked around, he was shocked to see Song Zining and the young boys and girls collapsed on the ground, all of them whistling loudly, apparently already sleeping to death. 　　Qianye stayed for half a day before realizing that they were all drunk. 　　In this one drink, Qianye had put down three tough opponents by himself. And he was completely sober after breaking out in a cold sweat. 　　But sobering up too soon wasn't a good thing, and while looking at the messy scene, Thousand Nights had a headache and didn't know how he should deal with the aftermath. Dragging these ten or so dead pig-like guys back was not an easy task. 　　Right at this moment, a soft and delicate voice suddenly came from behind Qianye: "It seems to be very lively here!" 　　As soon as he heard this voice, Thousand Nights immediately instinctively jumped up, stood up straight, and said loudly, "Hello Instructor!" 　　Zhang Jing walked out from the woods and glanced toward the empty wine bottles all over the ground, then stared at Qianye and said with a smile, "Did you do all this?" 　　"This ...... is, no ......" Qianye didn't know how to answer. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange, Zhang Jing's eyes seemed particularly bright, and the air seemed to have some strange and dangerous flavor. 　　Zhang Jing looked up and down at Qianye several times and suddenly sighed, the shining light in her eyes converging. 　　She waved her hand and said somewhat despondently, ''You go back first, you don't need to be in charge here. Early tomorrow morning, report to Instructor Shadow. He will give you a week of individual instruction as your reward for this exam." 　　Chiyo was instantly surprised and delighted. Shadow was not only a firearms expert, but also a sniping expert, to be able to be instructed by him individually for a week, the value was immeasurable. 　　Returning to the dormitory, Chiyo quickly fell asleep as the after-effects of a bellyful of strong alcohol kicked in. 　　Early the next morning, Thousand Nights was woken up by the clamor on the playground. Unsure of what was going on, he went out to take a look, only to be shocked to find that Song Zining and the other two teenagers were all tied to a post at the moment, completely naked, with three whip marks on each of them. 　　These three people can be the mid-year examination ranked in the top ten strong characters, it is said that they are all gate family out. Now not only were they beaten together, but they were also stripped into bare pigs and tied to pillars for public display! For most of the children from poor backgrounds, this was by no means small news. It wasn't always possible to get a chance to see the bare asses of three awesome guys! 　　The other news that shocked the crowd was the reason why Song Zining and the others were in such a sorry state. 　　It was rumored that Song Zining had sparred with someone last night, going three against one, yet he was still put down. This scene happened to be seen by Zhang Jing who was passing by, and this magical girl instructor then thought that these three guys had simply disgraced her, not only giving each of them three lashes, but also stripping them naked for a day of public display. 　　This incident is just a small episode in the training camp. But from then on, Song Zining said nothing and refused to drink with Qianye again, the mention of the word alcohol will be far away from Qianye. 　　This actually made Qianye quite regretful, he truly enjoyed the feeling of being slightly drunk that night. But without Song Zining, the penniless Qianye couldn't afford to drink alcohol no matter what, not even the worst kind. 　　Three months passed in the blink of an eye. 　　Song Zining ignited the second Force node and went straight to the final graduation test, then unsurprisingly succeeded in passing the test, and from then on left the Yellow Springs Training Camp forever. 　　At that time Thousand Nights was in the cultivation room battling the tides of the Force. When he heard the news after class, he also got a wooden box handed over by Zhang Jing, which contained four pieces of "Zhu Yan Blood" neatly placed inside. 　　A year ago, Xu Lang had already graduated. 　　Qianye was still working hard on the barrier of the Qi Sea Node. He had already been able to endure twelve Force Tide impacts, but this current progress was only moderately low amongst the kids in the entire training camp. 　　After the rounds of elimination, the remaining children were all the top choices regardless of their natural talent and temperament. The vast majority of the children were able to induce more than fifteen Force Tides, but the more Force Tides were stacked, the more intense the pain triggered would be. So there were less than ten people who could truly withstand the impact of fifteen rounds of Force Tides. 　　The more the tides of the Force were superimposed, the stronger the impact would be, and the more Force would be drawn from the surrounding area, but the corresponding pain and damage to the body would also be greater, and it was a geometric progression. 　　After the introduction of the Soldiering Technique, it is entirely a test of the cultivator's will and physical toughness, both of which are indispensable. 　　Therefore, in the Imperial Army, there has always been a tradition of judging heroes and heroines by how many rounds of Force Tides they can withstand. Generally speaking, seven times eight times is a coward, more than ten times is reasonable, if it can reach fifteen or sixteen times, can already brag. If you reach twenty times or more, you can walk sideways in the army. 　　When Song Zining graduated, he was said to be able to withstand seventeen tides of the Force, and now there were several people in the class who had already reached the level of being able to withstand fifteen tides of the Force, and were not far away from igniting the second Force node. Among the top ten cadets in terms of overall grades, only Thousand Nights had endured the lowest number of Force Tides. 　　However, no one knew how much pain Thousand Night had endured when he had induced the tides of Force. The pain that twelve Force Tides brought to Qianye was already comparable to the nineteenth round of an ordinary cultivator! 　　Another half a year had passed, and nine more children in the class had graduated. 　　Qianye's cultivation progress was still extremely slow, and up until this time, he was barely able to withstand fifteen Force Tides, but he was still a long way from igniting the second node. 　　The class was supplemented with new trainees, and more than half of the children were already younger than Qianye. Chiyo was the smallest child in the class when she first entered the training camp, but now she had become one of the larger members. 　　The trainees that had been added basically had the ability to withstand fifteen tides of the Force, and their starting point alone was comparable to Chiyo. But then almost everyone progressed much faster than Chiyo, as Chiyo had to accumulate three times the amount of Force to achieve the same results. 　　The later it got, the slower Thousand Night's cultivation progress became. Thousand Nights realized that it wasn't just the Force Tides that had to endure extra pain, because of the old injuries, the barriers of the Qi Sea Node were also far stronger than the others. 　　Three times the Force, fifteen times the Force Tide's impact would have been enough to shake the node barrier once if it was placed on other people, but in Qianye's case, the raging Force Tide was like a head-on collision with a mountain peak, and the barrier didn't even move! 　　Even Zhang Jing couldn't do anything about this situation, and could only allow Qianye to slowly accumulate the Force, so that in the future, when the water was ready, the nodes would naturally ignite. 　　In this way, when Qianye was finally able to withstand seventeen tides of Force, the node barrier showed a hint of loosening. And by this time, Qianye was already fifteen years old, one of the oldest few in the class. 　　This class was already the highest grade training class, and the children who replenished in were all first grade combat soldiers capable of withstanding fifteen Force Tide impacts, and it usually didn't take more than a few months for the nodes to ignite, and then they would stabilize for a period of time, and then they would go and take the graduation exams once their strength had stabilized. 　　The graduation exam of the Yellow Springs Training Camp had traditionally only had one element, and that was to go to the back of the mountain in the Grand Canyon and hunt down a Crystalline Lizard. These huge guys with a body length of more than ten meters would have a strength equivalent to a second-grade combat soldier as long as they reached adulthood. 　　Although the trainees of the Yellow Springs Training Camp who managed to survive to the end were all geniuses, and had survived the most brutal training, the difficulty of hunting a crystal lizard with just a dagger was also quite great. It was said that the death rate of cadets in all the graduation exams would reach around 15%. 　　It was said that any training camp trainee who reached the final exam stage could be a company commander when their strength was put into the regular military regiment of the empire, and from this, it could be seen how shocking that 15% casualty rate of the graduation exam was. 　　However, Qianye can't even ignite the second node right now, even if he has enough practical combat ability, he still doesn't have the qualification to take the graduation exam. In the Yellow Springs Training Camp, the rules were the rules and would not be changed for any reason or cause. 　　However, it wasn't as if Qianye had gained nothing during this period of time. He had gotten perfect scores in any course that had nothing to do with Force cultivation. 　　But the Force was the root of everything. Without the Force, any grade was nothing. 　　In the blink of an eye, Qianye was about to turn sixteen. On the night before he turned sixteen, Qianye didn't sleep, but left the dormitory alone and chose a quiet place to sit alone under the moonlight. 　　"It's already sixteen ......," Thousand Nights thought silently. He thought back to the encounter in the junkyard, the one that changed his fate. 　　Qianye actually didn't know his birthday, even his age was measured by Gu Tuohai using a secret method. So Lin Xitang set the day he retrieved Qianye in the junkyard as Qianye's birthday. 　　Until now, Qianye deeply remembered that big, warm and solid hand. His world was originally only dark and cold, it was that hand that brought the first beam of sunlight to this world. 　　At that time, Qianye was just like a newborn bird that had just broken out of its shell, and in his heart, he quietly regarded Lin Xitang as his father. But all along, this little thought of his has never been said out loud. 　　Qianye silently sat down, gathered his thoughts, and began to cultivate. On this particular night, he was prepared to give up everything to try to withstand the eighteenth round of Force Tide. If he succeeded, then igniting the node was just around the corner. However, if it failed, Qianye would be hit hard by the recoil force suffering unrecoverable injuries, and might even directly burst into flames. 　　Thousand Nights had already stayed at the second Force Node for too long and too long, so long that he had to break his back.