# 928
Chapter 929: My Name is Jinian
"?" Wei Dong's mouth twitched slightly as he pointed at the girl with one foot propped on the table, speaking with the utmost reluctance. "That one... is our president."
As he said this, Wei Dong wished he could find a crack in the floor to disappear into.
How embarrassing!
He had just finished telling them about the president's heroic deeds,好不容易竖起的人设和伟岸形象，瞬间就崩塌了 — the persona and majestic image he had painstakingly built up collapsed in an instant.
Lin Qiye could only shift his gaze back to the girl. Judging by her appearance, she should be around his age... but no matter how he looked at her, she was vastly different from the image Lin Qiye had imagined.
"Lin Qiye." The girl called out his name immediately, patting the seat beside her. "Come, sit."
Lin Qiye froze.
After a moment of contemplation, he walked over and sat on the sofa, puzzled. "You know me?"
Lin Qiye searched through his memories, certain this was the first time they had met and that they had no prior connections. But why could this president of the Oath Society, who was supposedly far away in the mist, call out his name so easily?
"Of course I know you." Jinian smiled faintly.
She leaned close to Lin Qiye's ear and whispered, words only the two of them could hear: "Which ward... are you up to now?"
Lin Qiye's pupils constricted sharply!
"What ward?" Lin Qiye asked, playing dumb.
Seeing Lin Qiye's eyes full of wariness, Jinian sighed helplessly. She raised her right hand and began counting off on her fingers, one by one.
"Nyx, Merlin, Bragi..."
The moment those three names left her lips, Lin Qiye's heart was already churning like a mighty wave!
When Jinian had just said the word "ward," he had already sensed something, but he wasn't certain. However, seeing her list the patients from the first three wards so effortlessly, Lin Qiye knew this was no coincidence.
This girl... knew about the existence of the Asylum of the Gods, and knew it was on his person.
"Who are you?" Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly.
It was then that Jinian realized she hadn't introduced herself yet. She cleared her throat lightly, extended her right hand freely, and curved her lips upward:
"Hello, Director Lin. My name is Jinian."
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The mist.
A battery-powered scooter glided slowly across the turbulent sea surface. Lu Wuwei gripped the handlebars at full speed, his expression blank as he stared ahead.
Behind him, two figures wearing rubber duckies on their heads drifted lazily through the air.
"Mr. Lu... can we go any faster?" Baili Pangpang's mouth twitched. "At this speed, when will we ever find Qiyie?"
Lu Wuwei shrugged. "My Forbidden Ruins can only track the order at this speed. Any faster and I'll lose the target, and... the scooter runs out of battery easily."
Baili Pangpang: ...
You can ride a scooter through the mist, and you're worried about running out of battery? Do you have to be so... down-to-earth?
Baili Pangpang complained in his heart a thousand times. Just as he was about to say something, a soft sound came from behind them, and a torrent of spiritual power surged forth.
"Did someone break through?" Cao Yuan asked, startled.
Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan turned simultaneously to look. On the golden sword light racing through the air, Shen Qingzhu, sitting cross-legged on the sword blade, slowly opened his eyes. A faint smile curved his lips.
The spiritual power emanating from him was now dozens of times more abundant than before.
Shen Qingzhu had broken through to "Measureless."
"想不到，你居然比我快。" An Qingyu一边专心操控着【瑶光】，一边叹了口气，似乎是有些沮丧。
"You were manipulating a forbidden artifact, so you didn't have time to break through. If you were the one controlling the [Yaoguang] now, you might have broken through even faster than me." Shen Qingzhu raised an eyebrow and said.
An Qingyu shook his head helplessly and said nothing.
"Next, I'll control the [Yaoguang]. You focus on breaking through." Shen Qingzhu took control of the [Yaoguang] from An Qingyu's hands. "Can you break through before we find Qiyie?"
An Qingyu was silent for a moment, then nodded firmly. "Yes."
Up ahead, Baili Pangpang turned his head back and couldn't help but sigh.
"Zhuage broke through too. Once Qingyu breaks through, everyone in our squad except Jiang Er and Jialan will be 'Measureless'... the future looks bright."
Cao Yuan raised an eyebrow. "Jiang Er is still at 'Sea' realm. That's true since she's still young... But do you really think Jialan hasn't reached 'Measureless'?"
Baili Pangpang froze. "But Jialan didn't have a breakthrough process, right?"
"From the moment we met her, when have you ever seen her break through?" Cao Yuan shook his head. "The first time we met her, we thought she was at 'River' realm like us. Later, after the Sword Saint senior's training, when we broke through to Sea Realm one after another, she displayed 'Sea' realm power. Now that we've reached 'Measureless,' she can still slap 'Measureless' practitioners into the ground...
Her realm has never truly broken through in any real sense. Instead, it keeps rising as our strength grows."
Baili Pangpang was stunned for a moment. "Are you saying her realm is fake?"
"I'm saying her true realm might be far higher than we imagined. She's just been hiding it, never showing it."
"But why would she do that?"
"I don't know... but that doesn't really matter." Cao Yuan shrugged. "Everyone has secrets — like Qiyie's endless Forbidden Ruins and 'Mysterious' army, like the Ruyi the Heavenly Venerable placed inside you, like how high Jialan's realm really is... There are some things we don't need to know completely. We just need to trust each other."
"That so." Baili Pangpang grinned. "No matter how awesome Jialan is, she's still our Jialan from the [Nightfall] squad."
Just as the two were chatting, Lu Wuwei, who had been riding at the very front, suddenly braked hard and stopped on the sea surface.
"Mr. Lu, what's wrong?" Baili Pangpang asked, puzzled.
Lu Wuwei frowned as he looked at the order in his hand, confusion flashing across his face. "The direction where Lin Qiye is... suddenly changed..."
"Changed?" An Qingyu frowned. "He's moving, isn't that normal?"
"No, not a small-scale shift... He just jumped from one space to another."
The members of the [Nightfall] squad exchanged glances, all seeing worry in each other's eyes.
"Then... can you still find him?" Baili Pangpang asked carefully.
"Yes." Lu Wuwei was silent for a moment, then pointed to the sea beneath them. "We... may have to go underwater."
Underwater?
An Qingyu, sitting on the [Yaoguang], heard those two words and froze slightly.
It was as if he had thought of something. He looked around, his mind faintly tracing the route they had taken since leaving Great Xia. A thought surfaced in his mind.
"I think I know where Qiyie is."