nycdaug #354 - consciousness
#354 - consciousness
“Hey, I'm talking to you. There's a limit to foolishness; enough is enough.”
Lu Jing's tone suddenly became more serious, “You keep talking about avenging your parents and friends at any cost, but when you encounter a little setback on the road to revenge, you think about ending it all with death. What kind of 'at any cost' is that? Or is it just a childish outburst? Didn't you blush when you said it?”
“Are you questioning my determination to get revenge?” the girl in green snapped. “You haven't had your sect wiped out and your family and friends slaughtered, so you can't possibly understand my pain. I wish I could kill all the righteous bastards in the world. That's why I can't accept help from my enemies.”
“You're the one who hasn't understood the situation from beginning to end,” Lu Jing shook his head. “What do you think is the most difficult part of revenge? Is it betting your life? Is it developing unparalleled martial arts?”
“Isn't it? If I could cultivate the Myriad Poisons Convergence to a first-rate level, who in this world could stop me?”
“Mastering martial arts is certainly difficult, but it's not the most difficult part. Revenge is a process of killing others and killing yourself. If you want to continue down this path, you will inevitably face dilemmas like this in the future,” Lu Jing said calmly.
“What do you plan to do? Die every time? Since you've chosen this path, you might as well abandon those meaningless prides early on.”
“Are you saying that in order to get revenge, I should become an ungrateful, despicable, and thoroughly evil person?” the girl in green clenched her fists, her voice trembling.
Lu Jing chuckled. “You want to kill all the righteous people in the world, so aren't you already a bad person? Even if you're not that kind of person now, you'll eventually become that kind of person if you walk far enough down this path.
“I remember you once told me that you not only wanted to kill those righteous people, but also their families, and retaliate against them for everything they had done to you and your family. So let me ask you.
“Are you going to kill those infants still in swaddling clothes? Kill pregnant women? Kill the elderly in their twilight years? Kill those guards and servants who are desperately protecting them? And those neighbors and constables who come to investigate… Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to persuade you to give up, I just want to remind you that revenge is not as easy and romantic as it is written in storybooks, it requires considerable awareness.
“In this process, you will naturally feel tormented and waver. Both physically and mentally, you will face unprecedented challenges… From this point of view, being a complete villain might be easier.”
“Watch me. If one day I am truly consumed by hatred and become the monster you described, please kill me,” the girl in green said, her voice weak but firm.
Lu Jing was somewhat surprised, seemingly not expecting the girl in green to say such a thing. He opened his mouth to say something, but she had already closed her eyes again, concentrating her mind and focusing on dealing with the last trace of poison in her heart meridian.
So Lu Jing just sighed and said softly, “Honestly, your heart is so soft, but you still have to be stubborn and pretend to be a villain. How can you survive in the Jianghu like this? Even if you master martial arts, you won't be able to get revenge.”
The unexpected awakening of the girl in green accelerated Lu Jing's detoxification process for her.
Half an hour later, the last trace of poison in her heart meridian disappeared. Moreover, after this near-death experience, she was blessed by misfortune. After completely absorbing the poison in her body, her inner strength grew a lot, unable to be fully contained in her dantian.
So the girl in green simply used this inner strength to open up three more acupoints, and finally successfully entered the third-rate realm.
And after she finished her exercises and adjusted her breathing, and Ding Liu, who had slept and recovered his energy, also came out of the inner room. He originally just wanted to see if Lu Jing could still hold on, but he didn't expect to see that the girl in green had already regained her mobility.
Without saying a word, Ding Liu directly stepped forward and grabbed the wrist of the girl in green. After a moment, he happily said, “Not bad, it seems that the poison has really been completely dissolved.”
After speaking, he put on a stern face again and said to the girl in green, “Hmph, when you first entered the valley, I told you not to play with those poisonous things when you have nothing to do. Now you know how powerful they are, right? Fortunately, you were lucky and were discovered early. Otherwise, one step later, you would already be a corpse.
“Listen to my advice, stay away from those messy things in the future, including your evil internal energy. It's best not to practice it anymore. I'll give you another prescription for conditioning and nourishing your body.”
Lu Jing thought that the girl in green would refuse, but he didn't expect her to remain silent, silently accepting the prescription handed over by Ding Liu, and then said in a somewhat awkward tone, “Ding… Divine Doctor Ding, is there anything you want to do?”
“What, you want to repay my life-saving grace?” Ding Liu waved his hand, “Forget it, saving people is the duty of a doctor. Besides, I've already entered Mirror Lake Valley, and there's nothing I can't let go of.”
Hearing this, the girl in green suddenly became a little anxious, “Think again, is there really nothing? Preferably… the more difficult the better.”
Ding Liu was a little baffled, “Are you trying to find trouble for yourself?”
However, after saying this, his expression changed, “Now that you mention it, I really remembered something, and you are the only one in the entire Mirror Lake Valley who can help with this.”
“What is it?” the girl in green was overjoyed.
“I want to revise and organize all the prescriptions on hand,” Ding Liu said, “To see which ones are effective, which ones are ineffective, and whether there are any omissions. If this can be done, not only will the medical skills of the participants greatly improve, but it will also benefit future generations, and leave something for the medical community after a hundred years.
“How about it, are you interested? Let me say first, this is a time-consuming task, and it is common to spend three to five years on it. I see that you are usually quite busy, so if you can't handle it, then forget it.”
“I… I can do it,” the girl in green gritted her teeth.