In the mountains to the west, all traces of human civilization had been completely erased by the plants here.
Old Li led Qin Sheng into the mountains early in the morning. The two of them quickly traversed through the mountains. To them, the mountain forests were like flat ground.
When the two of them arrived at a canyon that was six or seven meters wide at an extremely fast speed, they leaped over it without even blinking like cats.
It was as though they did not care about such a canyon at all.
Whenever this happened, Qin Sheng would feel a sense of heroism as though he had conquered nature.
But his teacher always told him that nature could not be conquered by humans. What a Knight had to do was blend in with nature and become a unique creature in it.
Just as Old Li had said to Ren Xiaosu, he always advised humans to get out of the strongholds. Only then could they adapt to this world. Otherwise, they would only be eliminated.
That was what he had done.
Slowly, as the two of them approached their destination, Qin Sheng's stamina was gradually depleting. Old Li stopped in his tracks and said with a smile, "You're not a real Knight yet, so you have to conserve your strength. This time, you'll have to climb a vertical cliff of 600 meters with your bare hands. It won't be easy to get up there."
"Teacher, must we climb so high?" Qin Sheng said with a wry smile, "There aren't any protective measures in place. If we fall down, we'll be dead."
However, Old Li did not care. "How can a Knight follower like you be afraid of death? This is our faith. Moreover, this height of 600 meters was determined by the previous Knight. Why don't we climb 500 meters or 700 meters? It's just that 600 meters is enough to unlock your body's shackles, so we didn't make you climb any higher. Back then, that Knight climbed more than 900 meters. You and I can't reach his glory, but we can't miss a height of 600 meters, not even by a meter. "
The Knight Old Li was referring to was the founder of the Qinghe Group. And the current Knight Organization was made up of believers of the Knight. They regarded conquering nature and becoming one with it as their belief. They regarded that Knight as their faith and had been searching for the descendants of that Knight.
The so-called secret of a Knight unlocking the genetic lock was in the process of conquering nature and becoming one with nature. Those were the eight mysterious challenges.
Among them, the surge of strength was the mountain cross-country.
There was also the Birth of Heaven, which was skydiving.
The Water Creature was also an extreme surfer.
The Surge of Wind was also a form of winged flight.
Now, Qin Sheng only had one thing left: Gravity, 600 meters of unprotected rock climbing.
In fact, the Knight Organization did not mind people in the outside world knowing this secret. They just did not publicize it. These eight challenges had to be completed by ordinary people in order to completely open the shackles in their bodies.
In this process, if one didn't have extreme love and faith, it would be impossible to complete the eight challenges. If someone completed the eight challenges, they would naturally become a new Knight believer. That was because after they completed the eight challenges and saw the light of the Knight, they would understand that there was another mountain beyond life.
Every single one of these eight challenges was like the gates of hell, and one had to have a narrow escape from death in order to cross each of these thresholds.
Old Li looked at Qin Sheng's youthful face. It was full of vitality, just like how he had been 15 years ago.
Now, he was 38 years old and no longer young. Although he had unlocked the genetic lock and his body's functions had always made him strong, his state of mind was destined to be different.
The other Knight members were probably similar to him. Everyone's wish was to find the descendants of the Knight. They didn't have the chance to meet the Knight, but they wanted to see if the descendants of the Knight had the glory of the Knight.
Old Li looked at the 600-meter cliff in front of him and sighed. "All these years, we feel that there might not be a new Knight in the future. After you, there were people who tried to fly with wing suits, but they were attacked by birds in the air. Various consortiums have also given up on aircraft, and skydiving has become a lost cause. The most difficult challenge is still surfing. It's said that there have been many sightings of ships swallowed by the Kong Clan's beaches. Even going out to sea has become a difficult task, let alone surfing."
Not to mention the difficulty of the challenge itself, the conditions to complete it were even harsher than before. If one couldn't reach the sky, how could one skydive? In the process of skydiving, there was the possibility of being attacked by birds. This was no longer a matter of narrowly escaping death, but a matter of certain death.
Therefore, when Qin Sheng had first started the challenge, someone in the organization had foreseen that these situations might happen. Therefore, they had trained Qin Sheng to complete the other challenges first.
The two of them passed through the forest and a smooth cliff suddenly appeared in front of them. Old Li looked at the cliff in a daze. He had also climbed up from here in the past.
Old Li smiled and said, "When my uncle brought me here, I had the same thoughts as you. Is this a cliff that humans can climb? It's definitely not possible, but it turns out that I did it. Go on, Qin Sheng. Complete your last challenge and become the last Knight. "
Qin Sheng took off his heavy autumn clothes and changed into the climbing shoes, singlet, and shorts that the two of them had specially brought. He put a bag of magnesium powder on his waist. The magnesium powder was to increase the friction between his palms and the rock wall and prevent his palms from getting slippery after sweating.
Old Li smiled and said, "Do you still remember what I said to you?"
Qin Sheng glanced at Old Li and said, "I remember … Only faith, the sun, and the moon are eternal."
With that, Qin Sheng turned and walked towards the mountain. The afternoon sun of the autumn day was not poisonous at all. Instead, it made people feel a trace of warmth in the cold wind.
Under normal circumstances, such bare-handed rock climbing required familiarizing oneself with the route in advance. The climber had to be lowered down bit by bit from the top of the mountain. Not only did they have to familiarize themselves with the route, but they also had to clear the gravel on the rock wall.
However, many Knight had climbed this cliff. Qin Sheng could even see the subtle marks on the cliff and determine which route the Knight had climbed back then. It was as if the predecessors were pointing the way for him.
At this moment, Qin Sheng turned to look at Old Li. It was as if the Knight who had once shone brightly were standing behind him and smiling at him.
All the way up, Qin Sheng's movements were as light as an ape's. However, when he reached a position of more than 100 meters, Qin Sheng began to feel his physical strength was being consumed at an accelerated rate.
He stood there with his arms clamped between the cracks of the rock wall to catch his breath and rest. He looked up at the cliff above his head as if he could never see the end.
At this moment, Qin Sheng saw a line of small words carved on the cliff beside him: Zhang Qingxi's.
Come to think of it, this should be where Brother Qingxi had rested in the past. Qin Sheng smiled. He adjusted his breathing and continued to climb up.
At this moment, the Knight seemed to be reaching the top with him.
Old Li, who was at the bottom of the cliff, also moved his body. He carried a bundle of rope and began to climb up. However, for a Knight like Old Li, climbing such a cliff was no longer difficult. It was more like recalling his youth.
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