The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#771 - Life for life

"Are you all sure you want to do this?" Lu Jing's expression was serious. "As far as I know, if you're willing to surrender, and you haven't stained your hands with the blood of any innocents, the Si Tian Jian will most likely just lock you up."

"The blood of innocents?" Wuyi chuckled. "Right now, just in this blood mist, there must be hundreds of commoners dead, right? If we divide it up amongst ourselves, wouldn't ten lives per person be a conservative estimate?"

Lu Jing was silent.

"So you don't need to try and dissuade us anymore. At least our lives won't be taken by our enemy, the Si Tian Jian, but will be sacrificed to save our own comrades. Thinking about it that way, isn't it much more worthwhile?"

Lu Jing wasn't one for unnecessary sentimentality, so upon hearing this, he cut to the chase, "What do you want me to do?"

"I told you, the hunchback's ability is troublesome to activate... We can gather the lives ourselves, but besides that, you also have to bring the person to us, and provide us with some secret power."

"Secret power? What do you need secret power for?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.

"The hunchback's ability only works on people, and compared to normal people, we strange objects are missing a soul, which is like having extra holes... So, you'll need to use secret power to plug them up. By the way, what palace are you a cultivator of?"

"Second Palace."

"Second Palace..." Wuyi frowned.

"What? Is that not enough?"

"Normally, it should be enough, but aren't you going to capture Hongluo? She won't be easy to catch... This blood mist itself was born because of her, so she's naturally in her element here. If she can't win, she can run. Ordinary people can't keep up with her at all."

"It's okay, I have formations."

Since he planned to cooperate with Wuyi and the others to restore Hongluo to her original state, Lu Jing certainly couldn't join forces with the one-eyed Daoist and rely on the latter's grand formation. Fortunately, Lu Jing himself had also learned formations from Ye Gongmei.

The Beast Taming Formation created by Ye Gongmei is a top-notch extraordinary formation in the world.

Lu Jing had previously used it to trap many powerful strange creatures, and now using it to deal with Hongluo shouldn't be a problem.

Wuyi further instructed, "In short, when you're capturing her, try to minimize the consumption of secret power. Save more secret power for when the hunchback restores her."

"I understand." Lu Jing then asked, "By the way, where should I look for her?"

The girl with the soft whip walked to a corpse, reached inside, and pulled out a jade box, handing it to Lu Jing, "Here, take this."

"What is this?"

"That's the life soul that was extracted from Hongluo. It's a pity that once a soul is taken out, it's very difficult to put it back, otherwise the hunchback wouldn't need you to provide secret power," said the girl with the soft whip.

"But this life soul can still lead you to her."

"Okay." Lu Jing took the jade box, "I'll be back."

After saying that, he strode out of the restaurant.

Back on the street, Lu Jing opened the jade box and found that it contained a rather delicate bell.

Lu Jing took out the bell and shook it. After a moment, he heard the faint sound of a bell coming from his southeast direction.

So Lu Jing headed in that direction.

Along the way, he encountered many people wailing and screaming in terror, but as he went further, the fewer people he encountered.

Even the surrounding houses were quiet.

Lu Jing took out the formation plate and formation materials from his pocket and continued forward, but this time he slightly softened his footsteps.

After walking about a hundred steps, the bell in Lu Jing's hand suddenly moved on its own.

Although it was shaking rapidly from side to side, it didn't make any sound.

Lu Jing was still wide eyed, trying to carefully observe his surroundings.

The next moment, he felt a gust of ghostly wind sweep past his left side.

Then a bloody palm landed on his shoulder!

Lu Jing didn't break free, but took advantage of the other party's examination of him to quickly throw out the formation materials in his hand.

And this action completely angered the attacker. The strength in the opponent's hand was surprisingly great, and even wrought iron could be crushed by her.

But the body of the person in front of her seemed to be harder than wrought iron!

She used all her strength, but couldn't break the man's bones. Her fingernails scratched across his skin, making a chilling rustling sound, but the effect was very limited, leaving only a few white marks.

At this time, Lu Jing was about to complete the formation.

As a beginner, setting up the formation was certainly not as easy as the one-eyed Daoist, who could complete everything by just inserting a few formation flags.

However, this time he performed beyond his usual level, setting up the formation at least twice as fast as usual. Just as he was about to succeed, the blood corpse jumped onto his back, then opened its mouth and bit at his neck.

Lu Jing didn't dare to gamble that the other party's teeth wouldn't pierce his skin. He freed one hand to hold the blood corpse's head, and continued to set up the formation with the other.

The blood corpse wrestled with him several times, and seeing that it couldn't break free from Lu Jing's palm, new changes occurred on its body.

A shroud silently wrapped around Lu Jing's neck.

The next moment, Lu Jing felt his breathing become difficult.

Seeing this, Lu Jing immediately performed a shoulder throw, lifting the blood corpse on his back and throwing it to the ground.

Now was not the time to be gentle. Lu Jing turned the blood corpse over and slammed it at least a dozen times, making the other party see stars.

The shroud wrapped around Lu Jing's neck finally loosened, and Lu Jing tore it off.

The blood corpse was not convinced. It got up from the ground, shook its head, and quickly rushed up again.

But this time, Lu Jing didn't stand there and take the beating. Instead, he used all his strength and threw a punch, colliding with the blood corpse's fist.

With a loud bang, the blood corpse retreated several steps, but Lu Jing's body remained motionless.

Before the blood corpse could stand firm, Lu Jing pounced on it again.

The result was that the blood corpse had almost no power to fight back, and was constantly being beaten down by Lu Jing.

After fighting for a while, it probably finally realized that it was no match for the person in front of it, so it swayed its body and窜进进了 the blood mist again.

Lu Jing's movements were already very fast, grabbing one of her arms.

But he didn't expect the blood corpse to directly choose to cut off its arm. However, it didn't have time to be proud, and after running a few steps forward, it crashed headfirst into a non-existent wall.

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