Stuck in a Chinese novel

Chapter 227: Assimilation?

Wei Jun was back in his apartment by noon. As soon as he opened the door, he felt a sudden chill assault his body. He went further in and found out that the source of the chill was coming from his room.

He grabbed the handle of the door to open it only to have it fall apart in pieces. It was frozen from the other side.

The chill that assaulted him this time now that the door wasn't in the way to block it was horrifying. Hurriedly he used his yin Qi to prevent his insides from freezing.

Inside, he saw Xia Lu sitting on the bed, cross-legged, her eyes closed and waves of frost emitting from her, freezing everything in the room. His bed, his walls, everything in the room was frozen to the point that it wouldn't even thaw anymore.

It would only break down.

[Yeah]

[I should have probably told you about that]

[I myself froze some parts of mine when my wife was practicing while I went to sleep]

Wei Jun wasn't interested in that information.

Instead, he asked, 'Is it worrying?'

[It's normal]

[The Qi around her is freezing, entering her core and stabilizing it]

[It's slow though]

[But in that case, you're lucky]

[Had her talent been higher, you would be evacuating the half of the city]

Talent was one thing the system talked about the most. Wei Jun could tell just from this how necessary talent was when it came to cultivation.

[I used to believe that]

[But looking at you]

[My beliefs are quite shaken at the moment]

Wei Jun nodded and said, 'Her progress, where has it gotten by now?'

[From the looks of it, she's somewhere between the initial realm of the Qi sense realm and the middle realm of the same realm]

[And for the reason you're asking]

[You will only feel the effects once she reaches a major breakthrough]

[Or when she goes to the realm of the Qi gathering realm]

[Earlier cultivation would be quite fast for her]

[At this rate, she will be entering the Qi gathering realm by tomorrow or day by tomorrow at the earliest]

'You think it's a waste on her, don't you?' Wei Jun asked. Although it wasn't obvious, he could pick up that the system wasn't satisfied by Wei Jun giving the cultivation technique to Xia Lu.

[Given to Yan Rong]

[The progress would have been ten or even a hundred times faster]

'Doesn't she already have divine ranked techniques?' Wei Jun argued.

[Which she doesn't know how to use]

[She's just born with them and it makes her stronger over time]

[She doesn't know their mechanics]

[Like a closed book]

[But if she were to learn from the system's party system]

'She would have been able to instantly put into practice like Xia Lu.' Wei Jun completed the system's words.

Sure, it was a waste to give it to Xia Lu who had very low talent, but Wei Jun was sure she would be able to progress faster than anticipated.

Motivation always trumped many factors, one of them including talent.

Of course, talent was a factor that couldn't be ignored. However, solely thinking that talent was everything was also wrong. Wei Jun wasn't the type to rely on such useless things. His drive was, after all, beyond such simple factors.

'Well, not time.' Wei Jun said before he went to another room after setting up some treasures to prevent the frost Qi from destroying the entire building.

[Qi: 192]

Wei Jun's Qi was the only thing that he could increase but since he couldn't do it the normal way, he had to rely on the elixir way.

The only problem with that method was that Wei Jun couldn't consume the same type of elixir twice. He could but then the effect would be halved.

The price of the elixir would remain the same but the effect would be halved every time he used it. It meant if it increased his Qi by 2, then using it again would benefit him by increment of Qi by 1, after that, he would have to consume two to get one point of Qi.

It was, by no way, a fair trade so when Wei Jun asked the system about this…

[There are more yang elixirs than there are people in this world]

'Really? Because I seem to be running out of them.' Wei Jun pointed out.

[The shop update would bring new things every time]

[You don't have to worry about that]

Wei Jun nodded and went back to the shop to check for a suitable herb that he could consume using the death Qi. Enduring soul-searing pain was better than spending many days on slowly increasing his Qi.

Soon enough, Wei Jun found a suitable elixir.

[The Memories of Mad Warriors]

[Tier: A]

[Type: Consumable]

[Description: A tribe called the Mad Warriors used to grow this herb out of the ashes of their deceased

It contains their racial characteristics little bit so if you're not mentally strong, it is recommended not to take this herb]

[Effect: +5 Qi]

[Caution: Possible side effects include losing rationality, unusual attraction towards the opposite gender, a strange craving for blood, and anger fits]

[Price: 10,000,000]

[…]

[Are you sure you want to take this one?]

'Why?' Wei Jun asked.

[…]

[No reason]

The system was too afraid to say that it was worried about the last side effect of the herb because Wei Jun already had quite a bit of temper.

Wei Jun ignored the system's words, not even understanding what it was about, and grabbed the blood-colored herb which was the same from root to leaves.

Without waiting, Wei Jun put it in his mouth and swallowed it instantly. It was horrible to taste but that was his least concern when pain, unlike anything he had ever experienced, assaulted his body.

His skin began to turn orange and the color was darkening by the second. His clothes began to melt and seep into his skin but only for a second before they disintegrated into nothing because of the intense heat.

Wei Jun couldn't even let out a scream because he felt like his vocal cords were long gone and he was worried it would also harm him from the inside.

He didn't know how long he had been in that pain, which made him reconsider his decision to take herbs, but the death Qi soon reacted, and as soon as it did, the yang Qi that was rampaging throughout his body began to calm down and head to its only ally in Wei Jun's body.

The yang Qi core.

The core also began to absorb the qi at a breakneck speed. Wei Jun began to feel better but by the time it was done, his skin was long since melted and his body looked like something like the science lab's mannequin.

The Death Qi didn't abandon him while he was in pain and began to course throughout his whole body and began to repair Wei Jun. Soon enough, new vessels and skin formed on Wei Jun, and the pain was gone by that time.

Of course, it did nothing to the mental pain he was in.

"Haa… Haa…" Wei Jun panted, thinking back to the horrifying pain he had never felt before. Wei Jun now somewhat understood what would happen to those who he would torture by letting his Qi into them.

'That's not a good thing to do.' Wei Jun thought while lying on the floor, naked, trying to forget the horrifying pain when the Death Qi returned to its core and settled down.

But, as soon as it did.

[You have completed the assimilation with Death Qi by a little bit]

[All physical stats +1]

At first, Wei Jun thought it was an illusion because of the intense pain but he was wrong. It really was there.

Wei Jun hurriedly tried to reach into his Death Qi core to initiate the earlier process again when the system stopped him.

[Stop!]

'What?' Wei Jun was a little taken aback by that sudden shout.

[Do you want the entire world to know you have an element of darkness?]

[And not just any darkness as well]

[The existence of everything that mankind considers evil]

Wei Jun didn't know what this was about suddenly so he asked, 'What do you mean?'

[I knew about Dark Qi assimilation]

[Though I don't know about assimilation with Death Qi]

[But I think it's something the same]

[At the present time, just using Death Qi is a problem for you]

[What if you become Death Qi itself]

[Then detection would be your last concern]

Wei Jun could somewhat understand what the system was saying. He had to be careful using Death Qi because it misunderstood him as an evil cultivator.

However, at the current time, Wei Jun could still hide himself once the traces wore off.

However, from the system's words, Wei Jun figured that the traces of Death Qi would be constantly on him.

So hiding wouldn't be then.

Wei Jun sighed and calmed himself down. In the future, when no one would be left to stop him, he would then attempt this method, and that too when he would run out of any other method.

For now, he had plenty of ways to increase his physical stats and one of them was the Barghest corpses in his inventory.

'Let's have a BBQ party tonight.' Wei Jun thought before he opened the shop to find an elixir that could increase his yang QI by just one more point and it wasn't long before he came across another herb.

He sighed and took it out.

'To another world of pain.'