The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#802 - And you still say you are not a monster?

"You're saying Guo Shaojian has already been controlled by that dragon?" Lu Jing asked in surprise, "What evidence do you have?"

"Isn't what's happening now evidence enough?" Master Ji retorted, "He forced me to draw a map to the center of the secret realm, and then sent all the elites of the Sitianjian to their deaths. I warned him early on that this approach was no different from suicide.

"Speaking of which, he hasn't come in to find me for several days, and now the two of you have come before me..." A playful look appeared on Master Ji's face, "Well, how are those who entered the secret realm now?"

Lu Jing and Kui both didn't answer.

However, sometimes not answering is an answer in itself.

This time, Master Ji unexpectedly didn't mock Guo Shouhuai and the Sitianjian again, but instead sighed, "I've always disliked the place behind you, feeling it's corrupt and old-fashioned. The rules set by those people more than a thousand years ago are clearly no longer suitable today. It's ridiculous that generations of Sitianjian supervisors still stick to the old ways and don't think about making progress.

"They clearly hold the truth of this world, but they don't know how to use it to make the world better, nor are they willing to accept new things... About forty years ago, I was already planning how to replace the Sitianjian, but I didn't expect the Sitianjian to end in such a way in the end. It's really lamentable."

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"Stop worrying about those things. In at most three months, that thing in the secret realm will come out," Lu Jing said. "If you have any ideas, you better say them now, or are you going to watch the human world be destroyed?"

Master Ji's approach looked like the standard operation of those big villains in Xianxia novels.

"I don't want to either, but I need raw materials to refine strange objects," Master Ji said helplessly. "My method is very simple. Since we can't beat that thing one-on-one, we can only rely on numbers to win."

"How many strange objects are you planning to refine to deal with it?"

"My initial plan is two hundred thousand," Master Ji said.

"So two hundred thousand people have to die?"

"It's six hundred thousand, six hundred thousand living souls. I'm not directly refining those living souls into strange objects. They're just raw materials. Afterwards, I'll select two hundred thousand armored warriors again. They're the strange objects I want to refine.

"Because what I need is not ordinary strange objects, but an army of strange objects that can advance and retreat in an orderly manner, are well-trained, and can fight to the death without retreating. These two hundred thousand elite strange object soldiers will be my most powerful weapon against that dragon. Otherwise, what do you think I'm rebelling for? I'm even willing to give that position to Han Shan Ke to sit in, as long as he's willing to cooperate with me, raise the banner, and train the soldiers. Anyway, I have no interest in being an emperor.

"Unfortunately... he was killed by you before he even left the academy," Master Ji sighed. "After that, I could only find someone to pretend to be him, which delayed some time. Later, Guo Shouhuai sent the elites of the Sitianjian to open a hole in the cage where that dragon was imprisoned again. Now, my plan is definitely too late.

"Oh, right. Besides that, I also found that kid from the Ten Thousand Demons Palace and joined forces with him to refine a demon sword as a weapon to slay the dragon. That demon sword is now in the hands of your Sitianjian. You can use it if you want, but still because of you, that sword wasn't refined either. You'd better not have too much hope."

Master Ji's words made Lu Jing and Xia Huai's hearts sink, but after a moment, Lu Jing spoke again, "Then you misunderstood us before as Guo Shouhuai, saying something about not bothering, and you don't know where that person's things are or what they are..."

"That's because Guo Shouhuai, no... it should be said that the dragon came to me some time ago. He was looking for something. I don't know why, but he seemed to think that I had hidden that thing."

"What thing?" Lu Jing asked.

"A bead, it should be left behind by the existence who cut him into twelve pieces and imprisoned him in the secret realm back then."

Seeing hope reappear on Lu Jing and Kui's faces, Master Ji poured cold water on them, "I know what you're thinking... but I really don't know where to find that thing. No one knows its appearance, size, or weight. Even if it appears before your eyes now, you can't determine whether it's the thing you're looking for..."

However, Lu Jing interrupted Master Ji before he could finish speaking, "No, we should have a way to find that thing. Otherwise, there's no need for that dragon to control Guo Shaojian and escape from the secret realm again, because the Sitianjian's formation has already been set up, and it can break free directly in three months without going to extra trouble."

Speaking of this, Lu Jing thought of something again, and his expression suddenly changed, "You said that dragon can erode cultivators' souls?"

"That's right," Master Ji said.

Lu Jing and Kui quickly exchanged a look, and said in unison, "Supervisor Ebony!"

"Not good, he wants to steal that star chart!"

Lu Jing took out [Ji Zi Yi Shi Liu] from his sleeve again, and without even having time to return to the foot of the mountain, he directly inserted the key into the water tank in front of the hall.

A door emerged from the bottom of the tank.

Lu Jing said to Master Ji on the roof, "Well... we have urgent matters, so we'll take our leave first and come back to see you later, if the world isn't destroyed in three months."

...

After leaving that world in a bottle, Lu Jing and Kui both performed a lightness technique and hurried on their way.

However, after walking for half a mile, Lu Jing felt that Kui's speed was too slow, so he simply carried her on his back.

Then, without holding back, he used Raging Waves and hurried towards the nearest county town.

It only took less than half an hour to run all the way from the seaside back to the academy.

Afterwards, Lu Jing didn't rest and rushed to the small courtyard where Professor Xu was located.

He was afraid that he was one step late and the star chart would be stolen.

However, when Lu Jing and Kui arrived at Professor Xu's small courtyard, they found that it was already empty.

"It's over," Lu Jing only felt a chill in his heart.

Because he and Ebony had cooperated twice, and the latter had returned from the secret realm with a slim chance of survival, Lu Jing had never suspected him.

Unexpectedly, such negligence might ruin their last hope, and even harm Professor Xu.

On the contrary, Kui on the side was still calm. She glanced at the courtyard, then reached out and touched a stone bench. After looking at the dust on her hand, she said to Lu Jing, "Don't worry, we still have hope. There are no signs of fighting here, and it feels like no one has lived here for a while."

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