# 1598
Chapter 1598
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Great Xia border.
A gray streaking light crossed the Mist Wall, hurtling straight toward Great Xia.
"Foreign god has descended!!" At the reconstructed Chennan Pass, the Night Watch soldiers on constant alert at the mist border spotted the streaking light and immediately sounded the alarm, reporting the situation to the temporary command center.
As the shrill alarm rang out, the soldiers at Chennan Pass脸色骤变，立刻飞奔向自己的岗位，与此同时，一道强横的神力波动自Chennan Pass内爆发！
Nezha stepped onto his Wind-Fire Wheels, gripped his Fire-Tipped Spear, and soared up from the sea surface, gazing at the rapidly approaching gray figure, his brow furrowed.
Since the Battle of Chennan Pass, this border had remained in silent mode, with no other foreign gods invading. After all, aside from the Cthulhu Faction gods, there were few existences capable of threatening Great Xia now. But as a precaution, the Heavenly Court had still stationed a Great Xia god at each pass.
"Only one?" Nezha said in a low voice.
"That's right." Guan Zai flew up from within Chennan Pass, pulling the brim of his baseball cap down slightly. "But it's a Chief God, and its aura is extremely terrifying—it should be among the top tier of Chief Gods."
"Hmph, doesn't matter who it is."
Nezha brandished his Fire-Tipped Spear, darting toward the gray streaking light. The aura emanating from that streak of light was even stronger than his own, reaching the level of Sun Wukong. But as long as it was below the Supreme God, Nezha was confident he could hold the line until other Great Xia gods arrived.
"Who dares?! How dare you trespass into Great Xia?"
A blinding ball of fire tore through the clouds, precisely intercepting that gray shadow. Nezha's figure emerged from within the flames, killing intent radiating森然.
Before him, a gray figure with six wings on its back slowly materialized.
Upon seeing that face clearly, Nezha paused slightly.
"It's you?"
Nezha's memory was quite good. After the Battle of the Stele at Kunlun Mountain, he had brought Lin Qiye's teammates to the Heavenly Court to visit him. This gray angel emanating the aura of a Chief God was one of the young men from that time.
"Senior Nezha." Shen Qingzhu clasped his hands in a formal greeting. "I am Shen Qingzhu of the Nightfall Squad. We've met before."
"Shen Qingzhu???"
Guan Zai, who had followed behind, saw him and shock also appeared on his face!
"How did you become..." Guan Zai started to speak, then seemed to realize something. "Did you really absorb the power of the Underworld and come back?!"
During the early period after Shen Qingzhu went missing, Lin Qiye and others had asked the Gods of Great Xia to search for him. His disappearance wasn't a secret. Now, seeing those six wings behind him and his aura, Guan Zai immediately pieced together the cause and effect.
"That's correct." Shen Qingzhu nodded slightly. "Senior Guan Zai, may I ask, where is Nightfall now?"
Guan Zai and Nezha exchanged a glance, then fell silent together.
Sensing the changes in their expressions, Shen Qingzhu's heart sank, his expression growing heavier.
"Is Nightfall... alright?"
"Sigh..."
Night Watch Headquarters.
The silver elevator descended continuously. As the number on the screen changed to the underground seventh floor, the heavy elevator doors slowly opened.
Zuo Qing walked at the front in a dark red cloak, Lin Qiye in patient clothes followed closely behind, and behind them was Wu Quan with a resentful look on his face.
Since Lin Qiye wanted to come to Night Watch Headquarters, Doctor Li naturally wouldn't stop him. After all, Lin Qiye having things he wanted to do was beneficial for his 'heart关'—it meant he was trying to move forward little by little... Doctor Li wouldn't leave Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital easily, so he assigned Wu Quan to accompany Lin Qiye closely.
The three of them passed through a dim corridor. As Zuo Qing opened a tall metal door with his fingerprint, the space ahead suddenly opened up.
This was a spacious underground area, at least equivalent to six stories in height. In the very center of this space, a towering black stele stood imposingly, like an oversized Straight Blade thrust into the earth.
Near the underground space, black spiral staircases rose upward, extending all the way to the top of the stele, ensuring that characters on any side or angle of the stele could be clearly seen.
At the sight of this stele, Lin Qiye's murky eyes contracted slightly.
He had visited Night Watch Headquarters more than once, but he had never been here. The headquarters had only seven underground floors, and six of them existed to accommodate this stele. Standing at the foot of this grand monument, the three of them were as insignificant as ants.
Wu Quan looked up at this stele, his face full of shock as well.
"Are all these names of Night Watch members?" Wu Quan traced his hand across the stele's surface. The densely packed names were carved in an orderly fashion, each character about the size of two thumbnails, neat and sharp, containing cutting edge.
"Yes and no." Zuo Qing gazed up at the stele, speaking slowly. "The names carved on this stele include not only Night Watch members, but also members of the Special Action Team 139 from back then, and even older members of the Bureau of Evil Suppression.
During the Han Dynasty, Marquis Huo Qubing established the Bureau of Evil Suppression. He hauled a massive boulder from the depths of the Eastern Sea. On the suggestion of a friend, he had all Bureau of Evil Suppression members' names inscribed on it, to achieve immortality...
After that, dynasties rose and fell, but the Bureau of Evil Suppression always existed. It wasn't until the end of the feudal era, when the mist descended, that it transformed into Special Action Team 136, and then, into the Night Watch."
Zuo Qing's fingertip traced across the names on the stele, his expression somewhat complicated. "To this day, this monument bears the names of 17,931 Bureau of Evil Suppression members, 98 Special Action Team 139 members, and 11,079 Night Watch members."
"Wait... that doesn't make sense. The Bureau of Evil Suppression was established in the Han Dynasty, right? That's over two thousand years ago, and only seventeen thousand people? The Night Watch has only been around for just over a hundred years, yet already has over eleven thousand?" Wu Quan frowned and asked.
"Transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, intelligence was limited, and even when 'mysteries' appeared, they wouldn't cause too much impact. Moreover, in that era, the Gods of Great Xia and the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were stationed there. If there really were large-scale 'mystery' uprisings, they would step in to resolve them. So the number of Bureau of Evil Suppression members throughout history was actually quite small.
In contrast, although the Night Watch has only a hundred-year history, Great Xia's population also grew rapidly, and without the protection of Great Xia gods, the Night Watch naturally needed more members."
Wu Quan nodded slightly.
The group walked along the spiral staircase to the very top of the stele. At the top of the stele, three characters written in a flying-dragon and dancing-phoenix style glowed under the lights. Although in clerical script, one could still make out their meaning:
—Huo Qubing.
Lin Qiye looked down from Huo Qubing's name. Second was "Gongyang Wan," followed by "Zhan Yuwu," "Yan Zhong," "Jiang Songqing"... These names carved on the stele were merely names. In this era, no one knew that behind these ancient names lay such heavy and grand stories.
Lin Qiye's gaze shifted away from these names, and he asked:
"Where are the names of the special squads?"