My Endless Life.

Chapter 116 What is "Qi"?
"Did you hear that someone killed the Red Wing Bird yesterday?"

"What's so great about killing the Red Wing Bird? Any Mist Explorer can do it, right?"

"But I heard that the one who killed it was a newcomer who had just entered the foggy area!"

"What?! A newbie!!? Are you kidding me!?"

"How could I lie to you? Go to the association's backyard and take a look. The body of the red-winged bird is right there!"

Inside the association hall, the Tanwu family were chatting among themselves.

They were talking about the new guy who killed the red-winged bird.

The red-winged bird itself is nothing. As long as you know the methods and techniques, not only the fog explorer, but even the heavy fog explorer can kill the red-winged bird without any harm.

But what if the person who killed the red-winged bird was a newcomer who had just entered the foggy area for one day?
A novice mist explorer at the mist level hunted down the overlord of the second-level fog area on the first day of entering the fog area, and also rescued several high-level fog explorers. This legendary event in itself would naturally cause widespread discussion among the public.

Ronnie stood aside, listening to their discussion with some fascination, until his friend Emma called him, he came back to his senses.

"Hey! Ronnie! What are you daydreaming about? It's time to sign up for special training!"

Emma, ​​who possessed the second-level relic dragon scale and had the strength of a dragon, grabbed Ronnie by the scruff of the neck and dragged him to the special training registration place.

Ronnie, who had gotten used to Emma's strength over the past few days, let Emma carry him and said excitedly:
"Emma, ​​did you hear that? A new member of the Tanwu family killed a red-winged bird! That was a red-winged bird!!"

"Yeah, yeah, I heard it, but what does it have to do with us? We're not even a Tanwu family now!"

Emma rolled her eyes and dragged Ronnie to the registration desk before letting him go.

Ronnie tidied his clothes skillfully and said to Emma:

"Since he's a new guy, do you think it's possible for us to meet him? Is it possible for him to teach us a thing or two?"

"Don't think about it." Rumi pushed up his glasses in the crowd. "This kind of genius will definitely be sent to the capital for professional training. Maybe he will be the next Black Mist. We can't compete with him. Let's just be down-to-earth and take it step by step."

“…Think about it.”

Ronnie muttered.

He was a dreamer, and even if he had contracted a fourth-level relic, it couldn't stop his fantasy and enthusiasm.

Besides, isn’t that how it’s played out in novels and storybooks? The protagonist encounters a senior or something, and then is noticed by the senior and taught unique skills, and from then on he soars to become a great fog explorer... or something like that.

Although Ronnie didn't think that he, who had only contracted a fourth-level relic, was a protagonist, but...what if?
Ronnie was thinking about it and discussing with his friends about the strong newcomer.

After discussing for a while, they suddenly stopped.

Because they heard the name of the 'protagonist' from those people.

"By the way, do you know the name of that amazing new guy?"

"You've asked the right person. I was nearby when he came back yesterday! I heard from that mist-level girl... ahem, the senior from the Tanwu family, that his name seemed to be... Li Qi? Yes, that's the name. His name is Li Qi."

Hearing this name, Ronnie and the other two were all stunned.

Ronnie's eyes widened and he murmured, "... Li Qi?"

Rumi and Emma also had dazed expressions and it took them a long time to come back to their senses.

“Are you kidding me…?”

They would never have imagined that the 'protagonist' discussed by these fog explorers in the association was actually the little friend in the welfare home who grew up with them.

That annoying guy who no one can get close to, actually is so powerful?
In an instant, several people's hearts were filled with a strong sense of unreality.

……

"Did you really kill the Red Wing Bird?"

In the reception room inside the association, Malu looked at Li Qi in disbelief.

Li Qi calmly drank the milk tea that Carol brewed for him, leaned on the sofa and squinted his eyes and said:
"The deputy captain can give me proof, and... is there any point in me lying?"

We will know whether it was Li Qi who killed him by just trying.

If Li Qi didn't have the ability to kill the Red Wing Bird, he would be exposed soon, and there would be no point for Li Qi to lie.

Malu also knew this, but he also felt a sense of unreality in his heart.

It’s not like he hasn’t seen genius before.

Weiner, a genius who became Black Mist at the age of 25, defeated a Heavy Mist-level Mist Explorer who was older than him in just one day.

In just one year, he completed the upgrade from thin fog to black fog, and since then he has been leading the exploration team to explore deep into the fog area.

He is a genius in Maru's eyes.

But even for Weiner, his growth trajectory is obvious, and he didn't kill the overlord of the second-level area right away.

But Li Qi...

Malu stared at Li Qi in thought, and Carol suddenly asked:

"You have mastered Chi, right? When did it happen?"

Li Qi: “?”

gas?
What the hell? ?

Why does the style seem to have changed to martial arts and fantasy?

Li Qi stared at Carol in a daze, totally not understanding what the "qi" Carol was talking about was.

As soon as they saw Li Qi's expression, Carol and Maru knew that he had no idea what "qi" was.

As a result, their expressions became even more surprised.

Carol even exclaimed: "You killed the Red Wing Bird without even breathing?! How did you do it? Don't tell me you relied on your Level 1 relic! I know that thing, it's a toy Chris used before, and it alone can't kill the Red Wing Bird!"

Carol and Maru had seen the scars on the red-winged bird.

The red-winged bird died very quickly. First, its body was entangled by something, and then a sharp weapon pierced its forehead and brain, killing it instantly.

The technique is clean and decisive, without any unnecessary traces.

So they didn't really believe that Li Qi killed the red-winged bird.

But there was no third person at the scene, and the deputy captain who was rescued by Li Qi was so frightened that he couldn't say anything.

Malu then had no choice but to ask Li Qi.

Originally they thought that Li Qi had mastered the existence of "Qi", but now it seems that Li Qi killed the red-winged bird with unknown methods!
So how did he do it?
Does he have any other relics on hand?
Li Qi remained silent. He had no intention of saying how the red-winged bird died.

He only needs to maintain a mysterious "master" persona. As for how he did it and how he did it, others don't need to know.

And compared to this, Li Qi has more important things to ask.

"... Let's not talk about that for now. First, tell me, what is 'qi'?"

Li Qi asked with a frown.

Qi... This thing has never been mentioned in Tanwu's textbooks.

Maru and Carol looked at each other.

Although they still wanted to know how Li Qi killed the red-winged bird, since Li Qi was not going to tell them, it would not be a good idea for them to continue asking.

And now that Li Qi asked this question again, the two of them simply took this opportunity to continue the topic.

Marudao:
"You came out of the fog area, so you must have experienced the backlash of the fog, right?"

"Yeah, it hurts, but I can still bear it."

Li Qi nodded slightly.

The backlash in the fog area seemed more like a special "withdrawal" reaction to Li Qi.

Just like when you go from a low altitude to a high altitude area, you will experience altitude sickness. When you come out of a foggy area, you will also experience similar reactions.

A body that has become accustomed to the foggy area will feel uncomfortable if it suddenly leaves the foggy area.

The feeling will be mild at first and then become stronger.

It was so strong that every inch of muscle in the body seemed to be breaking and dissolving.

When Li Qi activated his superpowers during the backlash of the fog, he discovered that some special things were leaving his body. It was those things that were leaving his body that were causing him physical pain.

Li Qi guessed that it should be the "fog" that entered the body.

When the fog explorer enters the foggy area, the fog will enter the human body, allowing the human body to gradually adapt to the environment of the foggy area.

Once you leave the fog area, the fog in your body will no longer have a source of existence and will leave your body on its own.

The reaction that occurred during this period was the backlash of the fog.

Perhaps this is why this phenomenon is called "fog backlash". The root cause of this phenomenon is fog.

Li Qi thought about this and looked at Malu, asking him to continue.

Maru said:

"The body of a Tanwu family will be strengthened by the backlash of the fog again and again. When they experience too much backlash of the fog, or stay in the fog area for too long, after leaving the fog area, when they experience the backlash of the fog, a special power will be generated in their body."

Carol then added:
"This power is 'qi', the 'qi' of the mist..."

As she spoke, she suddenly raised her right hand, clenched it into a fist and smashed it on the long stone table beside her.

Then there was a loud 'bang' and the long table cracked and broke in the middle.

But Carol didn't seem to be using much effort.

Carol said: "This is the application of 'Chi'."

"..."

Li Qi, who used his superpowers to see the energy working in Carol's body throughout the whole process, looked at the power fluctuations that were similar to the energy of the ruins, and he realized something in his heart.

So... the energy of those relics is "Qi"?
Li Qi thought for a moment, then spread out his palms and said to the two of them:

"If this is 'chi', then I think I have mastered it."

He spread out his palms, and there seemed to be nothing inside them, but there was the energy of the relics hidden within them.

Qi cannot leave the body, even from the surface of the body. Looking at the way Carol and the others use Qi, they use it to strengthen the body.

So it stands to reason that it is impossible to determine whether a person possesses 'chi' from the surface.

However, Li Qi believed that they should have a definite solution.

Sure enough, seeing Li Qi stretch out his hand, Malu put his palm on it without hesitation, and their palms collided with each other. Li Qi felt his "relic energy" collide with the special energy in the other person's body.

Malu and Li Qi's palms separated as soon as they touched. He looked at Li Qi with a complicated expression and said to Carol:
"Yes, this is indeed 'Chi'... He has indeed mastered 'Chi'."

After saying this, Maru and Carol's expressions became very interesting.

As we all know, only after entering the fog area and enduring the backlash of the fog can there be a certain chance of mastering the flow of "qi".

So here comes the question, Li Qi, who has never left the city or entered the foggy area before...

Why can he master 'Qi'?
This is the common question that Maru and Carol have deep in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)