The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#330 - Death

Chapter 328: A Dying Man's Words

"Where are Yan Jun and Amu?" Lu Jing picked up a piece of clothing from the ground and draped it over Wang Wan, then used his Zen staff to hold the latter's throat, interrogating her.

But Wang Wan didn't know if it was because she was too stimulated, at this moment she was just repeating, "This is impossible, this is impossible, the Void Ghost I raised for seven years, how could it fail…"

Even though her breathing had become difficult, she still had no intention of answering Lu Jing's question.

Lu Jing didn't know if Wang Wan was really crazy, or if she was pretending to be crazy to escape this calamity.

However, now was not the time to settle accounts with her, so Lu Jing reached out and tapped her dumb acupoint, so as not to let her continue cosplaying as a repeating machine.

Then he casually clamped her under his arm and rushed to the room in front of him.

Although he had been somewhat mentally prepared, Lu Jing's face still showed a hint of unbearable color after pushing open the door.

I saw a chaff cutter stand erected in the center of the room. At this time, the rope tied to the knife head had broken, and the chaff cutter also fell from the air, cutting a small body crawling below into two pieces.

The room was filled with a strong bloody smell!

Lu Jing sighed, took half a step forward, as if trying to collect the body on the ground.

But in the next moment, a soft sword, like a poisonous snake spitting out its core, silently stabbed towards Lu Jing's back!

Seeing that he was about to succeed, a hint of excitement appeared on the face of the attacker, but then he saw that the target, who had not looked back from beginning to end, seemed to have eyes on his back.

Turning around before being stabbed by the soft sword, he lightly resolved the crisis, then reached out and pinched her throat.

Lu Jing knew that there was a second person inside when he had not yet stepped into this room.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why Wang Wan had not cut the rope, but the chaff cutter in the room still fell and cut off Bao'er's neck.

Wang Wan was obviously also afraid of his skills, unsure whether she could successfully cut the rope in front of him, so she simply let her confidant stay in this room all the time, so that once the situation was not right, she could immediately release the Void Ghost.

At this moment, Lu Jing had already recognized the person who attacked him as a maid beside Wang Wan. Her martial arts were very ordinary, and her internal strength realm was not even in the mainstream, but her skills in concealing her breath and assassination were well-trained.

She should have been trained as an assassin for a period of time. Lu Jing knew that these people were mostly dead soldiers kept by their masters, and it was difficult to ask anything from their mouths, so Lu Jing didn't waste his effort, directly used force on his hand, and crushed her throat.

Then he saw the black cat jump to an altar and gently push the altar with its paw.

Lu Jing heard the sound of a mechanism from behind a painting on the right side. After he removed the painting, he saw a hidden door. Lu Jing was still hesitating whether there would be any traps inside, but the black cat had already run in.

Lu Jing waited outside for a while, until he was sure that nothing had happened to the black cat, then he followed in.

Unlike the evil secret room he imagined, it was completely a meditation room, with nothing but two futons and an oil lamp.

Lu Jing immediately understood that this place should not have belonged to Wang Wan originally, but to her dead husband Su Zhe, it was where he practiced Taoism on weekdays.

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The Chen Dynasty was quite popular in cultivating Taoism and refining elixirs, especially among the rich and powerful, and wealthy merchants. If you didn't cultivate Taoism, you might be embarrassed to greet people, so this place should also be built by Su Zhe for fasting and meditation.

Lu Jing saw the missing Yan Jun and Amu here.

Among them, the little wooden dummy was tied to the beam with five flowers, and his light skills could not be used because there was no place to borrow strength, but it seemed that there was nothing serious about it, and Yan Jun's situation was even worse.

There were clearly no ropes on her body, but she was sitting cross-legged on a futon, motionless.

Lu Jing tried to call her name twice, but Yan Jun didn't respond.

Lu Jing first put down Amu who was hanging on the beam, then put down Wang Wan who had been clamped all the way, and at the same time unlocked her dumb acupoint, coldly said.

"I don't care if you're really crazy or pretending to be crazy, if you can't wake Yan Jun up, then don't even think about walking out of this room again."

Perhaps because she had enough time to adjust her mood along the way, Wang Wan was finally no longer like a Xianglin's wife, continuing to talk about the failure of the Void Ghost.

It's just that her originally pale face now looked even more bloodless. She glanced at Lu Jing deeply, before continuing, "Great Hero Lu, you have to give me some benefits before I can open my mouth, right?"

"What benefits do you want, want me to let you go?"

Wang Wan shook her head, "Since you already know what I have done, you probably won't let me go out to continue harming people, so even if you say you will spare me, I won't believe it."

"Madam Wang is very self-aware."

"Actually, from the moment I started refining strange objects, I expected this day to come, but…" Wang Wan's face was full of unwillingness, seeming to still regret that the Void Ghost inexplicably went offline in the end, but in the end, this regret only turned into a long sigh.

"Maybe there really is karma in this world. Great Hero Lu usually does good deeds, so he can turn danger into safety at critical times, unlike me, who has done too many bad things. Obviously, something that was foolproof went wrong, resulting in failure."

Lu Jing knew that this had nothing to do with good deeds, it was purely because he was not a cultivator, so he was not taken over by the Void Ghost, but Lu Jing was not sure what was going on in his upper dantian.

Why did the Void Ghost and Tianyi Life Water suddenly fight, resulting in a mutual destruction, and what was the Qi they fought out, and why did the remaining small piece of nothingness Qi also go in? Will this affect his previous plan to cut off the foundation of the Dao?

Lu Jing had too many doubts in his heart, but he was slightly relieved that he didn't see anything like a cauldron inside.

So that Qi should have nothing to do with foundation building, right? Lu Jing didn't think too much, and still focused on saving people, asking Wang Wan, "What are your requirements? Tell me."

"Great Hero Lu, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't know the limits. The requirements before death won't make it difficult for you." Wang Wan seemed to have broken free from her previous frustration, and said calmly.

"Help me build two graves for Bao'er and Chai'er, I know I may not be worthy of saying this, because I harmed them, and building graves can't offset the vicious things I did to them, I'm not asking for anyone's forgiveness, it's just to make myself feel a little easier when I leave."