Lord of the Eternal Night

Chapter 7：Forever night and dawn

The experiences of the previous day had already made these children understand that any behavior that exceeded the stipulated time limit would be met with the lash of a whip.Among the children in the Huangquan Training Camp, there were some from noble and powerful families, but the vast majority were** children selected from various places, and there were also a few orphans with experiences similar to Qianye's. Those children who had struggled with hunger for years, upon seeing such a sumptuous first meal, mostly lost control and ate voraciously, fearing that they might not have such an opportunity again.Qianye, however, ate cautiously until he was a bit fuller than normal and then stopped. In the junkyard, he had witnessed many times that someone would accidentally find a large package of food but ended up dying from overeating.The breakfast time came to an end. When the bell, which seemed to be urging them on like the call of death, rang, the children rushed towards the door like a surging tide. At this moment, an accident occurred. A little girl suddenly fell to the ground, then writhed in pain, constantly screaming and shouting, and soon became motionless.She had eaten so much that she lost her life because of it.This breakfast, along with the little girl's fate, taught the surviving children the lesson of moderation.After breakfast, it was time for training again. The whole day was filled with all kinds of training, and all of it was related to strength and endurance.Halfway through each training session, Qianye felt that he couldn't hold on any longer. However, the stubbornness and perseverance that he had had since childhood supported him, enabling his small body to perform the prescribed movements one by one in a numb state and complete the training tasks. The days in the junkyard had taught him that even in the most desperate moments, as long as he gritted his teeth and persevered, he would always see the next day.When he finally lay down on the bed again, Qianye didn't even know how he had gotten through that day. This time, he didn't hurt himself again and slept on his stomach. And there were three whip marks on his tender back.Almost as soon as he got into bed, Qianye fell into a deep sleep immediately. That night, he had a dream, and the dream was full of the sound of whips cutting through the air.At six o'clock in the morning, the shrill ringing of the bell woke Qianye from his sleep. He rolled over and jumped off the bed, then put on his clothes relying entirely on instinct and rushed out of the barracks at full speed. Throughout the whole process, his eyes hadn't even fully opened.As soon as he rushed out of the barracks, the sunlight that greeted him made Qianye narrow his eyes. Suddenly, he remembered that it was supposed to be the Dark Season. Why was there sunlight at six o'clock?In the next moment, Qianye realized that he was no longer in the junkyard but had come to the middle continent where the empire was located: Qin. Here, the sunlight was rarely blocked by other upper continents, so naturally, there was sunlight at six o'clock.Qianye only paused for a blink of an eye before dashing to his position and standing as straight as a javelin.A new day had begun again.On this day, Qianye's deepest memory was still the leather whips in the hands of the instructors. He received another lash because he failed to complete the prescribed quantity within the stipulated time.The experiences of the other children were similar to Qianye's. Only the strongest few were not punished. The weakest one received five lashes and finally collapsed on the ground, unable to stand up on his own. Immediately, he was dragged away from the training ground. And from then on, Qianye never saw this child again.On the third night, the instructors brought a large bucket of something that looked like black ointment and asked the children to apply it to their whip marks. Applying this stuff was extremely painful, even more painful than when the whip had landed on their bodies. However, after a whole night of pain that made it impossible to sleep peacefully, by the next morning, the whip marks on Qianye's body were almost healed.In this way, days passed one after another. Every night, Qianye would have dreams, and these dreams were all related to being whipped.It wasn't until a month later that Qianye**************. And that night, Qianye suddenly counted the number of his fellow trainees who had started training in the same batch as him. To his astonishment, there were only seventy-six people around him now. Of the more than a hundred children at the beginning, thirty had disappeared in just one month.What followed was still endless strength and endurance training, as well as incessant whipping.Since the b****y first day, Long Hai no longer directly executed any child for minor reasons. Only behaviors that directly violated the bans would result in death. But even so, when Qianye had been in the training camp for exactly three months, there were only sixty people left among his fellow trainees, nearly half of them had disappeared. Most of the children who had vanished were eliminated by the brutal training.However, after three months had passed, Qianye's body had become much stronger, and he was almost a different person compared to when he first entered the training camp.On the first day after three months, Qianye and his fellow trainees were taken to a large building and ushered in a special class.The teacher for them was a beautiful woman with a tall and slender figure, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Her uniform could hardly contain her voluptuous curves.She strode onto the podium, wrote the five characters "The Essence of the World" on the blackboard, read them aloud first, and then said, "I know that most of you don't recognize these characters, but it doesn't matter. You have one month to study them. I'll distribute the textbooks to you in a moment. You should learn to recognize these words in your spare time during training. There will be an exam in one month. Now, I'll talk about what the essence of the world we live in is."The essence of the world is the origin force.According to this beautiful teacher named Zhang Jing, the root that supported the entire world was the origin force.The origin force was not immutable. It was also divided into two different natures: the one inclined towards light was called the Dawn Origin Force, while the one inclined towards darkness was called the Dark Origin Force.All lives depended on one side of the origin force to survive, and thus were naturally divided into two different camps: Dawn and Eternal Night. However, even among the races in the same camp, the degree of inclination towards the Dawn or Eternal Night side would vary.The human race was located on the Dawn side, while the various Dark Races that had enslaved humans for tens of thousands of years were on the Eternal Night side.Their power, and even their lives, existed by relying on the Dark Origin Force. The Dark Races had once been extremely powerful, with many branches among them. Among them, the Blood Race, the Werewolves, the Demon Descendants, and the Human-faced Spider Demons were all powerful races with far-reaching reputations.However, the human race was a strange race. Although most people were inclined towards the Dawn side, there were also quite a few who had joined the Eternal Night side. There were even some who, after awakening the Dawn Origin Force, eventually devoted themselves to the Eternal Night. It was said that between the Eternal Night and the Dawn, there was the purest origin force. However, very few people could sense the original origin force, let alone cultivate it. In this world, there was no race corresponding to the original origin force either.The origin force and cultivation...Hearing this, Qianye couldn't help clenching his right fist, as if trying to grasp a lingering trace of warmth. On that restless night with the crimson moon, that powerful hand was like a glimmer of light in the darkness to him.Zhang Jing patted the podium. The smooth and shiny metal surface of the podium split to both sides. Amid the faint sound of mechanical rotation, a strange object composed of countless metal wires, long and short metal branches, large and small metal gears, and many more irregular components rose and unfolded in the air one by one. This three-dimensional model was the map of the world.The whole world was dynamic. The gears were churning, and the metal wires were pulling. The components representing the continents and celestial bodies were slowly moving along different orbits respectively.One strange term after another came out of Zhang Jing's mouth. The human race had explored twenty-seven continents in this world. They were not stationary in the void but were slowly moving along mysterious trajectories without a moment's rest...Most of the children, including Qianye, were completely confused and could only memorize everything she said by rote, trying hard to remember as much as possible. At the same time, they stared fixedly at that model with numerous and complicated lines, hoping to remember enough things in the shortest time.Only a few children from noble and powerful families seemed to have already known this knowledge, so they looked calm and composed."The sunlight of the sun will be blocked by the upper continents. So the lower the continent is, the shorter the time it gets sunlight... For example, here, there are three months of the Light Season in a year, and the rest are the Dark Season. So the living conditions on this continent are extremely harsh. However, it is the origin place of all the human race. The empire also rose from here. Although it is now dispensable on the empire's territory, we call this continent the Eternal Night Continent, also known as the Abandoned Land..."Hearing this, Qianye suddenly trembled all over, and it seemed that something warm was about to flow from his eyes.