The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#494 - Seeking medical advice in desperation

Han Shan Ke waved at the sky.

Although there was no wind, Lu Jing heard the rustling of leaves.

He looked up and saw that the leaves on the strange tree, which had been naturally spread out, were now all standing upside down! As if they were arrows on a drawn bow!

Then, Han Shan Ke clenched his palm and shouted, "Release!"

Immediately, the leaves on one of the branches shot out, not only enveloping Lu Jing, but also sealing off the space around him!

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However, whether he was scared stiff or not, Lu Jing stood there motionless, letting the leaves fall on his skin!

But the scene of blood and flesh flying that Han Shan Ke had hoped for did not appear.

When the rain of leaves ended, Lu Jing's clothes were tattered and he looked a bit disheveled, but there wasn't even a single wound on his body.

Han Shan Ke wasn't too surprised to see this, just a little disappointed.

"It seems those rumors in the Jianghu are true; you really have trained some kind of horizontal training to the extreme.

No wonder Li Feilong and those old eunuchs from the Pure Character Guard weren't your opponents.

This is interesting; we're both so resistant to beatings, it won't be easy to determine a winner tonight."

"I don't care, anyway, I'm not the one in a hurry to leave the academy," Lu Jing said calmly.

"Then I can only try harder," Han Shan Ke said with a smile.

After he finished speaking, he stomped his foot again, and soon Lu Jing felt the ground beneath him tremble, as if several dragons were churning and roaring.

Then, a section of ground behind him suddenly caved in, and a tree root thicker than his thigh drilled out of the ground, whipping towards the back of his head!

Although he didn't turn around, Lu Jing seemed to have eyes in the back of his head.

He leaped to the side just before the tree root struck him, easily dodging the sneak attack.

However, this was not the end!

Just as Lu Jing leaped into the air, the ground where he intended to land also sank, and then a tree root thicker than the one that had attacked him before drilled out of the hole, coiling towards his waist!

Han Shan Ke probably decided to change his approach because he was tired of Lu Jing's defense.

Instead of trying to injure Lu Jing, he decided to find a way to entangle him.

Anyway, he didn't have any deep hatred for Lu Jing; the purpose of tonight wasn't to kill, but just to leave the academy smoothly.

On this point, whether he killed Lu Jing or found a way to restrict Lu Jing's movements, the result was the same.

However, it wouldn't be so easy for him to succeed.

Although Lu Jing was in mid-air and couldn't borrow any strength, he still had leg techniques he could use.

Seeing another tree root attacking, Lu Jing didn't panic, and directly used the Wind and Cloud Change, kicking out before the tree root could entangle him.

The momentum of the tree root was immediately stopped, and Lu Jing used the force of the recoil to regain his distance and land safely.

But as soon as he landed, he heard several sounds of rushing wind behind him, and something was moving quickly under the soil beneath his feet!

Lu Jing had to retreat a few steps, first dodging the tree roots flying from under his feet, and then using his internal energy to slap away the tree roots extending from behind him.

Although he still hadn't been entangled by the tree roots as Han Shan Ke had wished, it gave the latter hope.

So Han Shan Ke stopped watching from the sidelines and decisively joined the siege against Lu Jing.

Although he still didn't know any martial arts after his rebirth, and basically just swung a set of wild punches when he fought, Lu Jing easily found openings every time and kicked him away.

But with his physical fitness strengthened countless times, he was unharmed every time he was knocked to the ground.

He dusted himself off and stood up again, then rushed up again with great enthusiasm.

Like an unkillable cockroach, his dog-skin plaster-like charge could bring some trouble to Lu Jing, especially as more and more tree roots emerged from the ground.

It was no longer as easy for Lu Jing to deal with them as before, and if he wasn't careful, he might really be caught by those tree roots and unable to escape.

Lu Jing knew he couldn't go on like this; he couldn't let Han Shan Ke launch an attack and take the initiative.

He had to do something to get rid of the unfavorable situation.

But before, he had tried both fists and feet, as well as knives and swords, but none of them had any effect on Han Shan Ke, who now possessed a new body.

The first method Lu Jing thought of was fire attack.

After all, Han Shan Ke grew out of that strange tree, and it seemed that all the methods he was using now were related to that strange tree.

As long as he could get rid of that strange tree, even if Han Shan Ke didn't die, his strength would be crippled.

And trees, under normal circumstances, are afraid of fire, but soon Lu Jing embarrassedly realized that he didn't seem to have any means to set a fire.

He relied on his good eyesight, and the moonlight tonight was also quite bright, so he didn't bring any torches when he came.

Not just torches, he didn't have anything else on him that could be ignited.

If other academy disciples were here, this wouldn't be a problem at all.

As long as a simple flame technique was used, a raging fire would naturally rise.

But Lu Jing looked at his skill panel, and only had a Lush Greenery that was almost at full level.

Setting fires wasn't his specialty.

Well, who told him that his specialization was a bit too serious.

In addition, he looked around and there was nothing around that could help fuel the fire.

Even if he could start a fire, it wouldn't be easy to get the flames to burn.

So Lu Jing could only give up this rather tempting idea and look for another method.

He had grown ginseng for a while, and had some understanding of plants.

He knew that these things actually had many weaknesses, such as being afraid of insects, afraid of drought, and also afraid of flooding…

However, these weaknesses were basically not effective immediately.

Lu Jing also didn't have the ability to flood this entire area, or suddenly turn it into a barren land.

Seeing that the attacks of the tree roots were becoming more and more crazy, Lu Jing couldn't find any way to break the situation, so he could only move his gaze to the only spell he had mastered.

—Lush Greenery, Lu Jing remembered that when he first started practicing this spell, he seemed to have killed a lot of plants because of improper casting.