The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#292 - A fire

Lu Jing hadn't expected that after Gu Jing went for a stroll outside, it would actually bring back another nightingale.

Moreover, that nightingale had a note tied to its leg, so it seemed it had encountered Gu Jing while delivering a message.

Generally speaking, such situations are very rare, because messengers are connected to their masters, and they are usually very focused when delivering messages, not easily distracted by food or other nightingales like their wild counterparts.

In fact, they almost never eat or rest until they deliver the message to its destination, which is why the Sitianjian chose them as messengers.

However, this messenger had gone astray on the way, which reminded Lu Jing of the scene when he first encountered that gray nightingale in Nightingale Valley.

It seems that Gu Jing has inherited that special ability from its mother after all, which means that it can intercept other nightingales if it wants to.

Lu Jing shook his head and said to his messenger, "Let the person... no, the bird go. It has important business to attend to and doesn't have time to play around with you. Also, don't intercept people without my permission in the future."

Although Gu Jing didn't understand Lu Jing's words, it could still sense its master's meaning. It tilted its head, seeming a little puzzled, but in the end, it chirped twice at the nightingale it had brought back, as Lu Jing had instructed.

Thus, the poor bird was finally freed and spread its wings to fly towards the direction of the Sitianjian.

Lu Jing then took some millet and water to feed Gu Jing, who was still immersed in the excitement of its first message delivery.

… … … …

In the following month, nothing special happened.

Lu Jing, relying on his inexhaustible internal energy, smoothly raised the Fire Scale Armor, which should have been quite difficult to train, to the fourth level.

At this point, not only was his body difficult to injure with ordinary blades, but even the most fragile internal organs had become more solid, able to withstand powerful external impacts.

Now, when Lu Jing went from Suspended Sky Viewing Platform to Mirror Lake Valley, he felt almost no discomfort when falling into the water. Even if he replaced the lake surface under his feet with flat ground, he would no longer be injured.

And on the fifth day after that, his fourth path of Wind and Cloud Transformation was officially completed.

Currently, among the martial arts he possesses, the Mad Demon One Hundred and Eight Staffs is still the strongest in terms of power, but in terms of the exquisite changes of moves, the Wind and Cloud Transformation, having cultivated four paths, has surpassed it.

This also gave Lu Jing the motivation to continue cultivating this exceptionally difficult leg technique.

You should know that there are still five paths of leg techniques waiting for him later, and he doesn't know what kind of brilliance this martial art will radiate after he has practiced all nine paths of leg techniques on this secret manual and then integrated them.

Of course, these are all future matters.

After the Wind and Cloud Transformation also completed its breakthrough, Lu Jing had done almost all the preparations he could do, felt pretty good about himself, so on the last day before the small competition, he came to Chen Bo to register.

The latter was obviously a little surprised when he saw him, "You also want to participate in this small competition?"

Lu Jing nodded, "I am also a student of the academy."

"That's true, but this small competition is mostly about things related to mystic power," Chen Bo reminded him. He was also doing it out of kindness, not wanting Lu Jing to be embarrassed at that time.

After all, the day of the small competition should be quite lively. So far, half of the people have completed their registration, and many of the remaining half are still hesitating. Even those who eventually give up should come to watch.

If Lu Jing is dumbfounded by the first question at that time, he will inevitably lose face.

In fact, in just a short while, several academy students who came to Chen Bo to register couldn't help but whisper to each other after seeing Lu Jing.

After all, Lu Jing is a fierce man who has only attended one mystic power class since the academy started. It is said that the character he wrote for Professor Zheng has not yet turned golden even now.

Many people thought that he had completely given up on mystic power cultivation, and what happened later seemed to confirm their guess, so they never expected that Lu Jing would also come to participate in the small competition with them this time.

Is this guy... trying to prove something with this move?

After all, Lu Jing was the most popular person among this year's freshmen in the entrance examination, even once surpassing Yan Yun, who is recognized as the number one person among the younger generation.

He ascended the Tianshu Ranking at a young age and was valued by Supervisor Huang, which can be described as being in high spirits. However, in just a month, he fell from the clouds to the mortal world.

No, it's not even the mortal world, after all, ordinary people don't have such outrageous mystic power cultivation qualifications.

Entering a treasure mountain but gaining nothing.

He must be very disappointed now.

Especially watching the people who were far behind him before gradually narrow the distance with him with the help of mystic power, or even surpass him.

He must also be holding a fire in his heart, so he wants to use this small competition to prove that he has not been abandoned.

This is the most reasonable and appropriate explanation that everyone can think of.

Otherwise, it is impossible for him to be here for the prizes of the small competition like other people, because those things used as prizes are mostly related to mystic power cultivation, which Lu Jing obviously can't use much.

Chen Bo also thought so, but he is also an old man in the academy. Although he doesn't know what the specific questions for this exam are, he has seen many previous foundation building small competitions.

So Chen Bo could only pick up his pen and write Lu Jing's name on the booklet in front of him, then handed Lu Jing a red silk ribbon, "Tie it on your hand. Gather at the foot of the back mountain tomorrow at Chen time. Those who are more than a quarter of an hour late will be directly judged to have lost. As for the remaining exam questions, you will know at that time."

"The academy has prepared a batch of prizes for this small competition. The top ten people in the small competition can choose from them in order."

Lu Jing really wanted to confirm whether there was First Water of the Heavens inside, but since Chen Bo said that the top ten people would choose one by one in the end, it was better not to let people know what he wanted in advance.

So Lu Jing held back and didn't ask.

And this, in the eyes of Chen Bo and others, seemed to once again confirm the guess that Lu Jing was not here for the prizes.

Chen Bo could only nod to Lu Jing and say, "Good luck to you."