The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#711 - breakthrough

“I should have known, it's all my fault for being so talkative. Read М”

Firewalker Sun clutched his head, looking pained.

He was immersed in the grief of betraying Mister Ji again.

"Okay."

With Firewalker Sun taking action, everything suddenly became much easier.

Lu Jing only needed to set up torches and keep watch, and he also took care of a few demonic cultivators who came looking for treasure.

Firewalker Sun moved the items from the treasury to a place forty kilometers away, finding a hidden cave to hide them.

After finishing all this, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, while Lu Jing, on the other side, had already packed a hundred pounds of gold ingots into a small box and handed it over with a grin.

"This is yours."

"This makes me feel even more like a traitor," Firewalker Sun said with emotion.

"You can refuse it."

"Then wouldn't I have betrayed for nothing?" Although Firewalker Sun had drunk a lot of wine, he was still very clear-headed.

The two concealed their tracks and returned to Xia Yi County, and by this time, the sky had already brightened.

So Lu Jing didn't bother climbing over the wall again, and waited for the city gate to open.

Then, he accompanied Firewalker Sun to buy a new set of clothes, and then went to the market to buy some snacks and candied fruits. After Firewalker Sun finished taking a bath, they carried them together to the home of that Miss Qi.

But what happened next was somewhat beyond Lu Jing's expectations.

A woman of about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, with a beautiful face, walked out from the inner hall. Her gaze swept over Lu Jing and Firewalker Sun's faces, and finally landed on Firewalker Sun, saying, "Mister Sun?"

Firewalker Sun was startled, "Ah, how do you know I'm Mister Sun? According to what I said in my letter, you should… you should…"

"I should think that this friend of yours is Mister Sun, right?" The woman finished his sentence for him.

Firewalker Sun was a little embarrassed.

But the woman didn't keep them in suspense, pointing to the box containing gold ingots at her feet, "The Mister Sun I know wouldn't bring something like this to see me. Since you brought it, it means you feel guilty."

"I thought about it, there aren't many things you can deceive me about, just appearance and height. So…"

"This idea was mine," Lu Jing said with a wry smile, "But now it seems I was being too clever. Miss Qi is intelligent and perceptive. We should have been honest from the start."

"You are…" The woman surnamed Qi turned her face to Lu Jing, politely.

"His friend, my surname is Lu."

"Mister Lu, I know you also mean well." The woman surnamed Qi sighed, "Intelligent and perceptive? But what girl doesn't want to be innocent and naive? It's just that my mother and father passed away early, leaving me and my two younger sisters. As the eldest, I have to make myself mature quickly and become clever."

"However, the world is difficult now, and I am just a woman after all. I don't know how long I can last. So when I heard Mister Sun say that he had found a safe place, I also had the idea of moving my whole family there. But…"

"But some idiot thought he was deceiving you in appearance and height, and didn't dare to see you, and didn't dare to openly ask you to come over, right?" Lu Jing said.

Even though the woman surnamed Qi was mature enough, her face turned red when she heard this, and she lowered her head in silence.

Firewalker Sun had already become mute.

He was now gaping, with a look of surprise and confusion.

Lu Jing pushed the Firewalker Sun who was in a daze, "What are you waiting for? Do you want her to beg you?"

"Oh, oh, oh." Firewalker Sun woke up from his dream and hurriedly said to the woman surnamed Qi, "Are you willing to move to live near Green Dragon Mountain with your two younger sisters? We are building a fort there. When it is built next spring, it will be enough to resist six or seven thousand elite soldiers. By the way, the cook on the mountain also cooks very delicious food."

The woman surnamed Qi nodded, "I am willing. Can Mister Sun give me two days to pack up my belongings?"

"Of course, I… I will wait for you. We will set off together then. I can protect your safety. I didn't exaggerate about my martial arts. I am still very powerful. No matter what bandits, I can drive them away."

"Then I will thank Mister Sun on behalf of my two younger sisters." The woman surnamed Qi bowed.

"It's done, this matter is perfectly resolved." Lu Jing clapped his hands and said to Firewalker Sun, who was still scratching his head and giggling, "I still have something to do, so I'll take a trip first. You send Miss Qi's family to Green Dragon Fort, and then remember to bring our things back."

Firewalker Sun had regained his energy at this moment, patted his chest and assured Lu Jing, "Don't worry, leave it to me."

Perhaps because he had seen too many tragedies recently, it was rare to see a cliché scene of lovers finally getting married. Clichéd as it was, Lu Jing was in a pretty good mood.

However, he didn't forget the main business. After saying goodbye to the two, he took the black knife to the Sitianjian as soon as possible.

He also received the two flying swords that Guo Shouhuai had promised him before. This time, Guo Shouhuai was not stingy, and the two flying swords he gave him were called Chixiao and Qingying, which were quite famous in the cultivation world.

Especially Chixiao, which was already six hundred years old and had been through seven owners. Lu Jing was the eighth.

With these two flying swords, Lu Jing's flying sword collection had now expanded to six.

This number was a bit scary. Lu Jing spent three hours every day just practicing swords, which was enough to exhaust the secret power in his upper dantian.

However, Lu Jing didn't only practice flying swords. He didn't neglect his martial arts either, especially the Fire Scale Armor.

This body protection divine skill had saved him countless times, and considering the nature of his work, adding points to defense would never be too much.

He had also stayed on the fourth level for almost half a year before, and now he finally showed signs of breaking through again. Lu Jing seized the opportunity and went into seclusion for more than ten days, and finally successfully broke through to the fifth level.

After reaching the fifth level, his defense was further enhanced, but his body didn't seem as hard as before, more like an ordinary person's body.