Stuck in a Chinese novel

Chapter 139: Death?

It was the universal law. Once depleted, one couldn't restore Qi unless through a natural process which was circulation, attraction, and absorption of Qi.

Run Long should know that because of his upbringing, he was familiar with every medicine to existed. There were elixirs or treasures deep in the spiritual mountains that increased one's Qi recuperation speed but there was none that could do that instantaneously.

"How did you do that?" Run Long couldn't help but ask. If there was something like that that existed and helped his enemies, his enemy would be unstoppable in the future.

'And if I can obtain such a thing?' Run Long couldn't help but wonder what he could accomplish if he had the power to constantly replenish one's Qi. The second biggest weakness of a cultivator.

The first one being was one's invulnerability while breaking through to the next stage in cultivation.

"Do you really expect me to reply to that?" Wei Jun asked with an expression that said, 'You're the biggest idiot of the century.'

Run Long only shrugged and said, "You will when I beat it out of you."

"Oh? You seem confident." Wei Jun said.

"And you're stalling for time," Run Long said before he got into a stance again.

"Tch," Wei Jun clicked his tongue because Run Long wasn't as stupid as he thought he was. But, it wasn't like Wei Jun was out of cards.

[Blue Fang dagger

Tier: E

Effect(s):

Attack +30

Agility +5

50% chance of 'bleed' effect applying

50% chance of 'poison' effect applying

5% chance of a critical hit

Additional information: The poison effect would depend on the opponent's Qi level. If the opponent has Qi, the special effects will apply every time]

It was just a tier E dagger but it would do the job for now. Of course, Wei Jun made sure not to reveal his inventory idiotically as he did with Ju Bai Lu.

He put his hands behind his back and pretended to take it out from his back. He held the dagger in his left hand and crossed his arms in front of him with some distance between them. A classic stance of someone who was on defense and offense with a small weapon.

Run Long looked at the dagger in Wei Jun's hands and took out his own needles as well. Even though he had used them subtly against Lin Ruan, there was no need to do that because his opponent was constantly on guard.

Wei Jun didn't let run Long took the initiative and firmly planted his feet on the ground, pushing himself to his opponent with all his agility and strength allowed.

Wei Jun was happy to notice that the dagger enhancements worked even with his agility stat well beyond the limit. So with 85 points of agility, he was slightly faster than before.

But that wasn't his main focus. The main ability of the dagger was the poison ability and that was what he really needed against Run Long.

Wei Jun hurriedly opened his palm and discharged some of his Qi to move aside as a needle passed his place, Wei Jun nodded, although barely but he did.

However, his momentum had been broken and that was what his opponent was aiming for as Run Long also lunged at Wei Jun.

Wei Jun once again discharged Qi from his hands but this time not to jump sideways but to up so his body was propelled just enough that he was about four feet off the ground.

Wei Jun managed the rest with a flip in midair using just one point of Qi once again and just avoided Run Long who passed underneath him, not having the option to stop his advance midway through.

But Wei Jun didn't miss that opportunity and put Qi into his dagger, bringing the poison chance to a hundred percent.

All he needed was a little nick while he was flipping in the air and Run was passing beneath him. Wei Jun managed to nick Run Long in the shoulder, surprisingly ignoring threw Qi barrier in the way.

As Wei Jun returned to the ground and Run Long stopped, he turned around but didn't attack again. He looked at his shoulder where there was a dark purple spot, spreading fast.

Run Long hurriedly brought his Qi to that point, captured the poison before it could spread anymore, and pushed it out. Wei Jun didn't attack at that time because that was what he needed. Time.

Wei Jun had figured out from this small exchange that he wasn't strong enough to face Run Long, not without deploying some hidden cards and he was slowly revealing all of them.

As soon as Run Long had discharged the poison, he lunged at Wei Jun once again but this time, a little slowly because he was wary of the dagger. Wei Jun decided that even that was enough because Run Long was slow enough for Wei Jun to keep track of.

However, he was quick to change that decision when Run Long sped up almost a few feet away from him, catching Wei Jun off guard so all he could do was use Qi to reinforce the place of impact and some impact it was.

Even with the Qi barrier from Qi armament, the hit was strong enough to shake Wei Jun's internals.

[HP -17]

Wei Jun placed his hand in front of him, touching Run Long's barrier, and discharged five points of Qi at him, trying to ignore the massive pain that assaulted him.

It worked, slowing down Run Long's charge by a lot but Run Long had other plans when Wei Jun felt a bunch of needles penetrating different parts of his body.

Wei Jun understood he was poisoned so before it took complete effect on him, he also drove his dagger deep inside Run Long's abdomen.

It was a desperate struggle from both sides however, the winner of the scenario was clear.

Wei Jun fell to the ground, feeling sluggish as system messages bombarded his vision.

[Warning]

[The host has been gravely injured]

[The host has been injected with paralysis poison]

[The host has been injected with blue worm's poison]

[The host has been injected with a thousand-year scorpion poison]

[The host has been injected with red flame venom]

[The host has lost basic sensory functions]

[The host has lost his eyesight]

[The host's internal organs have been infected]

[Warning]

[Warning]

[All systems failing]

'Consume phoenix tears.' Wei Jun thought and commended the system however, the result was something not in his favor.

[Phoenix tears have been consumed]

[Condition is too severe]

[Drastic measures are required]

[HP below ten percent]

[Blue worm's poison has been neutralized]

[HP below nine percent]

[Paralysis poison has been neutralized]

[HP below seven percent]

[Emergency systems activated]

[The host will lose half HP from this point on]

[Thousand-year scorpion poison has been neutralized]

Your source is m-vl|emp,yr

[HP below three percent]

[Effect of phoenix's tear has been neutralized]

[Remnants of red flame venom found in the host's system]

[HP below two percent]

[…]

[.]

Wei Jun couldn't understand what was happening. Even though the phoenix tear had done its job, the progression of the other poisons was way too fast so while Wei Jun was healing, the other poisons were doing their damage before the phoenix tear could get to them.

Now there was nothing else to do. Wei Jun didn't have enough power to command the system. His eyes could see nothing but darkness, nothing but darkness. He couldn't feel anything as well.

'That was embarrassing,' He could think though. He couldn't talk to the system but he could think himself.

'Dying at the hands of the first one. Never expected that,' Wei Jun thought. He was sure he would be able to win against an opponent of that level but he was wrong. He had been too ill-prepared.

'Well, there's no use thinking about it now,' Wei Jun thought before he felt his consciousness slip away. He knew that once this was gone, he wouldn't be waking up again. Or maybe he would be back in his original world.

'That… wouldn't… be so… ba---' Wei Jun thought his final thought before his consciousness slipped away.

[HP has reached zero]

[The host has died]

[…]

[…]

[All the conditions have been met]

[Innate title 'The spawn of death' has been activated]

[The element of 'Death' has been awakened]

[the element of 'Death' has mixed in with your Qi]

[Error]

[Assimilation not possible]

[Power of Qi insufficient to sustain 'Death']

[A new source would be created]

[Power of death would be locked behind levels]

[The power of death has been locked away]

[current composition of death at 10%]

[The current power of death has been assimilated with Qi]

[Assimilation has begun]

[Assimilation at 10%...50%...99%]

[Assimilation has reached 100% percent]

[Congratulations]

[You have awakened death Qi]

[The death Qi has eliminated everything foreign in the host's system]

[Good luck]

Wei Jun opened his eyes, no pain, nothing in his consciousness. All he felt was the ground underneath his body. He hurriedly stood up, expecting to be somewhere else but he was where he was before.

The only difference was the man in front of him wasn't triumphant but a look of horror was replaced by it, a strong one.

"Ev—Evil Cultivator," was all Run Long said.