The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#346 - Too difficult

On the way to Mirror Lake Valley with Wu Han, Lu Jing felt a pang of guilt.

According to his original agreement with the girl in green, he should have gone to protect her six days ago, but Lu Jing had been busy dealing with the newly emerged secret power in his Niwan Palace.

This was a matter of life and death for him, so everything else had to take a backseat. Therefore, he only sent Gu Jing to Mirror Lake Valley once to deliver a message, telling the girl in green that he was busy recently and needed her to wait a while.

After that, Lu Jing put the matter out of his mind.

He didn't expect that after the girl in green waited for six days and still didn't see him, she would actually risk forcibly resuming the cultivation of her poison technique, resulting in the poison now entering her heart meridian.

You should know that a little over a month ago, the girl in green's internal energy was only slightly stronger than ordinary people. From this point of view, although the Ten Thousand Poisons Returning to Origin technique was extremely dangerous to cultivate, the corresponding rewards were indeed coveted.

Lu Jing himself didn't have any obsession with breaking through the internal energy realm, or rather, he had a deep obsession with not breaking through to the next realm.

However, he could also understand how strong the desire of ordinary martial artists would be when faced with the temptation of realm improvement. At the night banquet in Wujiang City, even Wei Zixian, such a proud person, fell for it when faced with the secret manual placed in front of him, let alone the girl in green who carried a deep blood feud.

With the opportunity to break through right in front of her, it was indeed unrealistic to ask her to stop cultivating.

Lu Jing sighed. Even if there were no benefits, he would definitely try to save her, because the girl in green being alive was a good thing for him in itself.

Whether it was the pie of Ten Thousand Poisons Returning to Origin or the poisons she had now refined, they were very important to Lu Jing.

He was only temporarily focusing his energy on dealing with the secret power, but that didn't mean he wasn't planning to deal with the trouble of internal energy. Moreover, according to Wu Han, he could also consume a wave of internal energy when saving people, which was a sure profit.

The two quickly arrived outside Ding Liu's residence in Mirror Lake Valley. Lu Jing found that there were already quite a few people standing here.

Some of them were people he had met when he delivered vegetables before, and some were new faces he had never seen. Lu Jing wasn't surprised. Even Wu Han didn't know how many paper figures lived in Mirror Lake Valley. He had only run a dozen trips before, so it would be a miracle if he could recognize everyone.

However, in Lu Jing's memory, most of the Second-Rate and above experts had arrived. Then, he saw the Little Marquis leading an elderly blind man towards them.

The Little Marquis also saw Lu Jing and nodded to him as a greeting.

Then, she said loudly to the people outside the house, "Thank you all for coming to help."

As soon as she finished speaking, someone with a straightforward personality shouted, "Little Marquis, you don't need to be polite with us. You know that most of us don't have any serious business on weekdays. Life is getting boring. Everyone is idle anyway. It's just spending a little internal energy, and it will be recovered in a few days. It's not a big deal!"

Before he could finish speaking, someone retorted, "Bullshit, Gambler, you don't have any serious business yourself, looking for people to gamble with you all day long. Don't treat everyone else like you... But saving people is the right thing to do. Everyone lives in Mirror Lake Valley, so we are considered neighbors. As the saying goes, if your neighbor's house catches fire, you must help, or you'll be in danger yourself."

The old blind man who was being supported by the Little Marquis also said at this time, "I heard that the child is only sixteen or seventeen years old. She still has a bright future. It would be a pity if she died like this. If possible, I wouldn't mind exchanging my old life for hers."

The Little Marquis nodded, "Okay, then I won't waste any words. Let's arrange a sequence. When the previous person comes out, the next person will go in. There should always be two people in the house, using internal breath to sustain her life. Remember, everyone, don't use up all your internal energy at once. Only use half of it, and then come out to meditate and adjust your breath, letting the other person in the house take over. Repeat this cycle until she has absorbed all the toxins."

The paper figures all agreed upon hearing this, and then arranged the order outside the house. As a result, not long after, a Taoist priest reeking of alcohol walked out of the house quickly.

Then, without saying a word, he chose an open space next to Ding Liu's flowerbed, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate.

The originally noisy crowd suddenly quieted down, because most people knew the Taoist priest. He, the Gambler who spoke earlier, and the old fisherman who had impersonated the Little Marquis were known as the Three Plagues of Mirror Lake Valley.

One of them was addicted to gambling, one was addicted to alcohol, and one was easily deceived. You were guaranteed to have a headache if they got entangled with you.

But headache or not, everyone had to admit that these three people's martial arts were very good, especially the Taoist priest who liked to drink. He had advanced to the Second-Rate realm for more than ten years, and his Taoist internal energy was incomparably pure.

Moreover, he was almost fifty years old, and his pure yang was still unbroken.

As a result, he came out in less than two incense sticks' time. Although the Little Marquis had set the rule of using only half of one's internal energy each time, this speed was much faster than everyone had expected.

So, after a while, someone said, "Old Taoist, is your virgin body not working? Why are you so fast?"

The Taoist priest didn't pay attention to him upon hearing this, until someone who knew his temper threw him a pot of wine. He gulped down several mouthfuls before speaking.

"That poison is a bit strange, but it's not difficult to deal with the poison alone. The key is that the poison has entered the heart meridian too deeply. That girl is only half alive. It's too difficult, too difficult to sustain her life..."

He said "too difficult" twice in a row, obviously feeling quite棘手. After drinking the wine, he threw the wine pot away and hurriedly meditated to recover his internal energy.

The remaining people outside the door looked at each other. The Drunken Taoist didn't bring good news. Although someone had joked about his virgin body just now, no one doubted his internal energy cultivation and judgment.

Hearing him say this, a shadow suddenly fell over many people's hearts.