The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#337 - Tragedy repeats itself

“My apologies,” Lu Jing said with regret.

Yan Jun shook her head, “I told you this isn’t your fault. I’m not angry at you, but at myself. I had clearly made up my mind under the eaves to put this matter behind me and interact with you naturally as before.

“But when I heard your footsteps, my heart was thrown into turmoil again. I couldn’t greet you generously like a friend, and instead consciously distanced myself from you. But doing so in itself means that I haven’t let go of that matter.

“Before coming to the academy, my master once said that my state of mind hadn’t truly reached perfection. At that time, I didn’t quite agree, thinking it was just an excuse for her to keep me by her side for continued cultivation, because she originally wanted to train me to be the next Pavilion Master of the Yunshui Jingci Pavilion, and didn’t want me to join the Sitianjian.

“But I didn’t expect her to be right again this time,” Yan Jun sighed, “Brother Lu, I didn’t have any dissatisfaction with you before, it’s just that the thoughts in my heart were hard to settle… please allow me a few days to calm down.”

Lu Jing nodded, not saying anything more.

The raindrops in the sky became denser and denser. After about a quarter of an hour, the two finally arrived in front of the paper figurine shop they had seen earlier.

Only this time, the paper figurine shop, which usually didn’t do business during the day, was actually open.

Inside, there was a young man who looked not much older than Lu Jing and Yan Jun, craning his neck along with a bird to look outside, seemingly pondering when the rain would stop.

Seeing Lu Jing and Yan Jun, a look of vigilance appeared on his face. He said, “Lu Jing, Yan Jun?”

Lu Jing nodded, “Are you the supervisor sent by the Sitianjian?”

“Not quite,” the young man shook his head, “The department received your letter saying that a strange object was suspected to have appeared in Wujiang City, so they sent me here first. I am Feng Xinzi, specializing in the preliminary investigation and verification of strange objects. Once we’ve investigated enough, the department will send a supervisor to handle it.”

After a pause, the young man cautiously added, “Can you first prove your identities?”

“Does this count as proof?” Lu Jing pointed to the nightingale beside the young man, “This is my messenger. Also, I have a wooden token.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Jing, having successfully completed its mission, spread its wings and flew back to Lu Jing’s shoulder.

Then, Lu Jing and Yan Jun took out their wooden tokens from the academy.

The young man examined the two’s wooden tokens and respectfully returned them. Afterwards, he also took out his own waist牌.

Unlike the wooden tokens used by the academy students, the young man’s waist牌 was made of iron, with his name also appearing on the back, while the front also had a half-open, half-closed, rather mysterious eye.

After Lu Jing and Yan Jun looked at it, the young man spoke again, “Alright, now we can talk about the case. Did you see what the strange object looks like, or have any suspects?”

“Uh, the case has actually been solved,” Lu Jing said.

When he asked Gu Jing to deliver the letter, the subsequent events hadn’t happened yet. He hadn’t even suspected Wang Wan at the time, so now it seems that many things in that letter are no longer valid.

“The case is solved?” The young man was stunned upon hearing this. Then, his gaze involuntarily shifted to the ham on Lu Jing’s shoulder.

There was no helping it, who asked the ham to be the most bizarre-looking thing in front of him?

Ordinary people wouldn’t be carrying a ham around late at night.

Seeing this, Lu Jing knew that he had probably misunderstood, and quickly explained, “No, no, no, this is just an ordinary ham. A friend gave it to me. It’s something else that’s causing trouble.”

Then, Lu Jing roughly recounted what had happened tonight to the young man, and also took out the small hammer he had obtained from Han Bo.

The young man didn’t reach out to take it, “It’s the department’s rule that Feng Xinzis are not allowed to touch strange objects. We are only responsible for investigating information. The subsequent matters will be resolved by the supervisors. Moreover, the matter you mentioned is too important and far exceeds my ability to handle. I can only report it to the higher-ups first. Guo Shaojian may also come to you afterwards to understand the situation. I hope you won’t leave the academy for the next period of time.”

This difference was certainly not because of the ham he was carrying on his shoulder, but because he had used Tianyi Shengshui to solve the potential problem of secret power.

So, stepping back onto this land full of secret power, Lu Jing felt that everything looked much more pleasing to the eye, and he didn’t have the sense of crisis that he had before.

Now, even if Guo Shaojian punished him to attend Professor Zheng’s True Explanation of Secret Power again, he wouldn’t be as flustered as before.

However, Lu Jing still planned to ask Xia Huai about the qi in his upper dantian after dawn.

As for now… Lu Jing calculated that the time for his internal energy to refresh was approaching, so he opened the gourd and took a sip of Falling into the Mortal World.

The familiar spiciness went down his throat and straight to his stomach.

Lu Jing could feel the internal energy in his dantian constantly dissolving. Although he had seen the magical effect of this poison countless times, Lu Jing still couldn’t help but sigh every time he drank it… the person who created this poison was truly a genius.

It was a pity that such a genius was no longer alive, and even the Myriad Poison Valley, which collected this poison formula, no longer existed, leaving only the green-shirted girl as the sole remnant.

Speaking of the green-shirted girl, it seemed like it was almost time to help her practice her skills. Lu Jing was planning when to go tomorrow, but suddenly felt a throbbing in his head.

Lu Jing was very familiar with this faint throbbing pain. He had been tormented by this throbbing pain that appeared every day for more than two years, but this time it appeared much earlier than usual.

Lu Jing was also taken aback. He had just swallowed Falling into the Mortal World, and there was still at least 70% of his internal energy in his dantian. If the internal energy refreshed at this time, he estimated that he would be doomed.

But soon Lu Jing realized that this throbbing pain was not transmitted from his abdomen to his head, but came from his head from the beginning, or more precisely, from the niwan palace in his forehead.

But this discovery not only didn’t make Lu Jing happy, but almost scared him out of his wits.

What the hell? Why was there a change in his upper dantian? He had just severed his Dao foundation!