The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#805 - Bailongbo

Professor Xu had regained his composure and was even calmly sipping tea while watching Lu Jing and Xia Huai battle the ebony wood.

Hearing Lu Jing's question, he smiled slightly and said, "It's alright. I divined a hexagram for myself earlier, and it showed that I would not encounter any major disasters recently, so I wasn't worried at all."

Lu Jing glanced at Xie Anshi outside the door, who looked worried and was still in shock. He didn't have the heart to expose the old man, so he followed his words and said, "That's good. I wonder about that star chart…"

"I have already deciphered it," Professor Xu interjected. "The star chart corresponds to a place located in our southwest. Hmm, it should be within the borders of present-day Meng Province."

"Where in Meng Province?" Lu Jing asked immediately, his spirits lifting upon hearing this.

"Bailong Lake in Meng Province."

Bailong Lake sounds like a lake, but it is actually a desert. It is said that thousands of years ago, there was indeed water there, and quite a lot of it. However, later, because several rivers upstream gradually dried up, the water there also gradually dried up, leaving only an empty lakebed and large areas of salt crust.

Because of the existence of those salt crusts, it is difficult for plants to grow. And because there are no plants, most of the animals either ran away or died, except for a few extremely tenacious species, and slowly it became the desert it is today.

Bailong Lake is quite large, and most of the area looks the same, so it would definitely be difficult to find anything there.

Kui frowned and said, "It seems we need to request manpower from the Department to investigate."

Lu Jing shook his head upon hearing this. "That dragon is also looking for that pearl now. Guo Shaojian, who is controlled by it, is currently missing, and no one knows where he is hiding. Moreover, we don't know if there are any other people within the Department of Celestial Observation who have been controlled. Now, only a few of us know about the pearl, so it's best to get it quietly before that dragon reacts."

After speaking, Lu Jing asked Professor Xu again, "Can you be more specific about Bailong Lake?"

Professor Xu said, "This star chart was drawn tens of thousands of years ago after all, so I can only estimate a general area. How can I be so accurate? But…"

"But what?"

"But if I could personally go there and take a look at the constellations, the range should be narrowed down further," Professor Xu said, stroking his beard.

"Time is of the essence. I'll go tell Supervisor Huang and we'll set off right away," Lu Jing said.

Although he still doesn't know what the pearl is for, adhering to the principle that we should get what the enemy wants first, Lu Jing will definitely not let go of that pearl.

However, he can't rule out the possibility that the place on the star chart is actually a trap.

After all, this star chart was left to him by Guo Shouhuai, who was controlled by that dragon. Logically speaking, if there really was a pearl, Guo Shouhuai would have taken it away long ago.

But Lu Jing also felt that if Guo Shouhuai really wanted to harm him, he wouldn't need to go to so much trouble. He could have just not crossed out his name and let him go to the secret realm to die together.

Furthermore, there was another layer of doubt in Lu Jing's mind.

Why did Guo Shouhuai entrust this matter to him?

The top priority now is to find that pearl before that dragon does.

Lu Jing returned to his residence to pack up a bit, and then went to Mirror Lake Valley again, first to return the poisonous snakes he had borrowed before, and second, he planned to borrow another person.

They were about to go to Bailong Lake, which is a place where there isn't a single soul for hundreds of miles. Naturally, the Department of Celestial Observation didn't set up any branches there. The nearest 【Well】 is located in Ulan City, the seat of government of Meng Province, which is also the only city.

Lu Jing certainly couldn't run back every few days to help Dongmen Weilan protect the law, so he simply brought Dongmen Weilan with him this time.

The academy has rules that paper figures cannot leave Mirror Lake Valley.

However, Dongmen Weilan is an exception. Guo Shouhuai left her here in the hope that she would repent and become an inspector of the Department of Celestial Observation, so he did not engrave her name on 【Ji Zi 22】.

Of course, logically speaking, Dongmen Weilan cannot step out of here until she gives up her desire for revenge.

But Guo Shouhuai has disappeared now, and the Department of Celestial Observation is about to collapse, so Lu Jing taking a slight loophole should… not be a big deal, right?

And Dongmen Weilan looked rather complicated after Lu Jing briefly introduced the current situation.

She didn't expect that her Ten Thousand Poisons Returning to the Source hadn't been completed yet, but her revenge was about to be taken first.

Three months later, when that dragon comes out of the secret realm, if no one can do anything about it and it destroys the world, then those righteous people who joined forces to destroy Ten Thousand Poisons Valley in the first place will naturally have nowhere to escape.

But at that time, other people will also die together.

Dongmen Weilan doesn't really care too much about whether she will die or not, but she doesn't want those paper figures in Mirror Lake Valley who saved her to die with her.

Most importantly, she doesn't want Lu Jing to die.

Moreover, after a little calculation in the girl's heart, if both the people with hatred and those without hatred die, then wouldn't this revenge be equal to not being avenged?

So Dongmen Weilan was finally persuaded by Lu Jing and decided to help Lu Jing save the world first, and then slowly take revenge.

Lu Jing borrowed Dongmen Weilan from Mirror Lake Valley, and then went to find Yan Yun and Xia Huai, plus Wen Xiaochuan to make up the numbers, which can be regarded as gathering all the manpower for this trip.

It's not that he likes to bring his family with him, indulging in a Shura field and unable to extricate himself.

The main reason is that the world is in chaos now, strange creatures are rampant, and the manpower of the Department of Celestial Observation is insufficient. Lu Jing is worried that something unexpected will happen to the three girls when they go out to handle cases when he is not around, so he simply took this opportunity to take them away together.

Furthermore, if the situation really becomes irreversible three months later, at least everyone can be together neatly. It's a pity that Gu Caiwei is still busy with her business, and Lu Jing is still counting on the money from selling ginseng to buy medicine for Dongmen Weilan, otherwise he would have taken Gu Caiwei with him as well.

In short, early the next morning, Lu Jing led his harem group, Kui, and Professor Xu to meet up, and the young Taoist Xie Anshi was also among them.

The main reason is that he also heard the conversation between Lu Jing and Ebony Wood.

In the end, the group of eight people was divided into two groups, arriving quietly in Ulan City, and no one in the Department of Celestial Observation, except for Supervisor Huang, who temporarily took over the position of Shaojian, knew what the purpose of the eight people's trip was.

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