Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 123

Chapter 123: Problems of tomorrow
Chapter 123

Had Wei Jun not healed Sun Ruan, things would have been much more difficult for Wei Jun. Although they were hard now as well, they were hard in a different sense. If Wei Jun had been interrupted and harassed when he was accumulating power in the beginning, he would have had no way to fight back.

At least now he was prepared and had ample breathing space to accumulate enough power to defeat Sun Ruan one day. So he didn’t regret his choice but he was still annoyed by the fact that there was no peaceful option. He would have been in danger had he not healed Sun Ruan, and he was in danger now. There was no third option that he would have liked like killing Sun Ruan then and there while killing the rest as well.

‘Haaa… Killing people without this fancy power used to be so much easier.’ Wei Jun lamented inwardly. Although the Tian family wasn’t a cultivator family, they had many subordinate families that did. A good example would be the Na family. And not only that, they could also afford to hire cultivators so killing them wouldn’t have been easier for Wei Jun.

“Haa…” Wei Jun sighed once again.

He couldn’t help but count the ridiculousness of the situation. Once he was at his villa, he headed straight to his room to shower and clean himself. He then saved the clothes in his inventory so they couldn’t be found by anything in the world.

Although he didn’t want to, he was going to be involved in the investigation of the recent incident. He wanted to have as many cards on his side as he could. In the first place, he intended to deny every claim of his involvement but if somehow the cops managed to prove he was there, then he would have to just portray himself as an innocent bystander.

It was his word against theirs and with no clothes as a piece of evidence, there was nothing proving his involvement and just looked at him like a bystander.

However, if somehow the cops managed to give the evidence of his clothes, then he would simply use the investigations of the cultivator’s forces that he couldn’t logically face a higher realm cultivator and then also some more cultivators.

However, Wei Jun, better than anyone, knew that no perfect crime existed. He had even left some evidence behind in his other crimes before.

The only difference was that he made sure to leave behind what couldn’t be traced to him. Even now, he was trying hard enough to lose the insinuations of him being there but if they were proved because of something he had failed to notice, he would simply use the aspect of logic to wiggle out of this incident.

Once he was done with his plans and his clean-up, he lay on the bed in his nightwear and thought back to that finishing move from earlier. The two cultivators somehow increased the potency of their Qi and managed to almost kill him while dying themselves. It wasn’t Wei Jun’s attack that had wiped them out legs up, it was their own.

Wei Jun’s own power had barely managed to keep him alive. All that destruction didn’t come from him; it came from the potent Qi of those two cultivators. Rather than horror, Wei Jun marveled at the purity of Qi and intended to possess that.

He had questions regarding that Qi and there was only one person who could answer those questions of his.

[That was the pure life Qi]

[Also known as innate Qi]

[Except for the power of darkness, all other powers come from life]

[Mana users have mana core that they can overload]

[Spiritualists have spiritual overcharge]

[Similarly, Qi users have innate Qi that is also known as the Qi of life]

[A pure and raw form of power]

[Remember this host]

[There is no higher power than the power of life]

[The greater the rank of a person, no matter what the power, the higher their life force]

[For example, if the innate Qi of two cultivators was enough to bring down a building and damage many others]

[Then the innate Qi of a ‘Qi empowerment realm’ master would be enough to reduce a block to rubble]

[Just imagine what the scale of destruction from the overcharge of higher realm Qi users would be]

Wei Jun couldn’t even imagine properly. If a block, then it was a fraction of a city next. Could there be a level of Qi users that could take an entire city down with them?

But, his curiosity in that matter didn’t last for long because he wanted to have the same potency of the Qi as the innate Qi.

[That is not possible]

[Some of it is]

[But not the entirety of it]

[Let’s say, you can make your Qi about half as potent if you really put a few decades into it]

Clearly, the time perception of Wei Jun and the system was different. Wei Jun wanted such a thing done in a matter of months, a year at most yet the system was telling him that it would take him a few decades so nonchalantly.

The system had either forgotten the fact or it was just theoretical, but Wei Jun only had five decades in this world, literally a few decades, and even in this time frame, not only did he have to advance his cultivation, perfect his Qi core, make fu*k ton of money and last but not least, kill a few special people of this world along with many others who would stand in his way during his entire journey.

He sighed once again and closed his eyes. Any problems of his would have to wait until tomorrow. Until then, he would just sleep because he hadn’t slept nicely for some time now.

*****

“Fu*k!” Ju Bai Lu screamed as pain assaulted his body. He was having a very hard time controlling the foreign Qi inside his body that came from none other than a person who was nothing more than a waste in his eyes.

Liu Yu, who watched this spectacle couldn’t help but think how useless the man in front of her proved to be but she kept her thoughts to herself. To her, Ju Bai Lu still had some uses, not to mention his status in the sect was still higher than hers even though she was more talented and higher in terms of cultivation.

But the fact that Ju Bai Lu was the son of the sect master’s brother and fairly talented, not monstrously like Liu Yu, kept his status quite a bit high.

“I will kill him!” He yelled, for the umpteenth time and once again, Liu Yu swallowed the urge to say that he ran away from the very person he was threatening to kill behind his back.

Thinking that the sooner she got rid of this problem of his, the sooner this waste of time would leave so she stepped forward and grabbed Ju Bai Lu’s arm, making him wince in pain. She disregarded his hiss of pain and said, “Grit your teeth, senior brother, this will hurt a lot.”

Before Ju Bai Lu could even speak, he felt something cold and chilling enter his arm, and that frosty element began to fight off the burning hot strand of Qi inside his arm. Some of the power of Liu Yu proved ineffective against that Qi strand but soon, quantity took over quality, and using about 5% of her entire Qi, she managed to snuff the hot strand of yang Qi.

She then retracted her own and stepped back, letting Ju Bai Lu circulate his own Qi to mend his arm back. While he did that, he said, “Your intel, no, our intel was completely wrong. He wasn’t a powerless waste but a seasoned warrior. It seems Sun Ruan has raised a good hidden card.”

Since Ju Bai Lu thought that such growth was only possible if one was trained from an early age, it was possible that all the rumors and actions of Wei Jun were a front to let the world think that he was a waste and now that he was strong enough, Sun Ruan was going to let him out at once when everyone’s guard was down.

Liu Yu, on the other hand, however, thought differently. She wasn’t someone who had seen Wei Jun once or twice. She was practically raised under the shadow of his name so it was inevitable that they would have interacted many times. In all those times, she never felt anything from Wei Jun, not even a flicker of masculinity let alone power.

However, just recently when she met him, Wei Jun appeared to be the perfect definition of a man. Handsome, headstrong, and powerful. All of the qualities he didn’t have just a few months ago.

This only meant something foreign had occurred. Wei Jun seemed to have caught someone’s eye. Someone powerful that could change Wei Jun to that extent.

‘It seems I need to look into it more deeply before making another move.’ Liu Yu thought inwardly as she returned to her room, leaving a groaning Ju Bai Lu by himself.