The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#220 - Similarities

Lu Jing and Xia Huai briefly told Yang Tao what had happened on the other side of the cave. The latter listened with wide eyes, regretting that he hadn't been able to go in with them to witness the demeanor of the two seniors.

Now that 'Another Sky' had disappeared, even when the ban was lifted in the second year, the other new students would have no chance to see this legendary and mysterious scene.

Yang Tao also felt quite regretful about this, but no matter what, he was happy for Lu Jing and Xia Huai to be able to escape danger and return safely.

As they were talking, Yang Tao suddenly thought of something else, scratching his head and saying to Lu Jing, "Oh, right, while you were away, I helped you feed your black cat, but…"

"Did it bite you again?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

"No, it hasn't bitten me since it bit me last time," Yang Tao said, "But in the past month, it has attacked four other new students, fortunately, it didn't succeed."

Lu Jing felt a headache coming on.

When he first saw the black cat, he knew it wasn't an easy character, but for the sake of A'mu, Lu Jing didn't bother to argue with it, and even brought it into the academy, considering it a companion for A'mu.

But now it seemed that this guy had no intention of repenting.

It was still biting people everywhere, fortunately, the students of the academy were all martial arts experts, and many of them were second or third-rate experts.

Although this black cat was very agile, it could only sneak attack ordinary people. If it really encountered a martial arts expert, it would be completely finished, unable to even get close.

If it weren't for the fact that this was the academy, with too many strange creatures, and the new students were new to the place, afraid of accidentally causing trouble, they wouldn't have made things difficult for it. Otherwise, even if it had nine lives, it wouldn't be enough to lose.

"Uh, tell me their names, and I'll apologize to the people it attacked later," Lu Jing rubbed his temples helplessly, "I actually haven't spent much time with it either. Before I met it, it was just a wild cat… I'll go back and see. If it's really untamable, then I'll have to send it out of the academy again."

Yang Tao originally wanted to chat with Lu Jing about how to cut bamboo from the Bamboo Path, but seeing that Lu Jing seemed a little uneasy, he had to swallow the matter back into his mouth, waiting for another opportunity to mention it.

After Lu Jing left, Yang Tao was about to leave when he was stopped by Xia Huai behind him.

"Young Hero Yang, are you free right now?"

"What is it, Miss Xia?" Yang Tao stopped and blinked in confusion.

"Well, Young Hero Yang, you have extensive connections in the academy and the most well-informed news. I wonder if you know anything about the seniors who are living in seclusion in the academy?" Xia Huai said seriously.

… … … …

Lu Jing didn't know that Xia Huai and Yang Tao were already working hard to help him improve his secret power compatibility and successfully enter the threshold of cultivation.

Otherwise, he would definitely tell them not to waste their efforts, he was doing quite well as he was now.

Since realizing that he might repeat the same mistakes, Lu Jing couldn't help but feel anxious again.

Now he didn't want to have anything to do with secret power anymore. Anyway, with his current martial arts, and if he could master the Fire Scale Armor, ordinary cultivators wouldn't be his opponents either.

Even if he encountered Gu Zhongling's flying sword again, he would have a chance to fight. There was really no need to take any more risks, after all, he already had enough troubles.

For example, the black cat not far away. Before Lu Jing even returned to his residence, he saw the guy climbing over the wall from the yard from a distance.

Its movements were practiced, showing it was a habitual offender.

After landing, it quickly burrowed into the bushes. Lu Jing sneered and quietly followed, intending to catch it in the act.

His light skills were actually not suitable for secret tracking, but the black cat didn't run around aimlessly. Its route was very purposeful, heading straight for a small courtyard behind the hillside.

This allowed Lu Jing to keep more distance from it, hanging far behind it. When it was about to reach the small courtyard, he stopped using his light skills and lightened his steps.

Then he saw the black cat climbing up a pagoda tree next to the courtyard on all fours, furtively poking its head out from the tree.

Perhaps because it had suffered a loss in this place before, this time the black cat seemed particularly cautious. After a full quarter of an hour, seeing that it still couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

It actually gave up just like that, and climbed down from the tree again. Lu Jing even saw a rather human-like expression of disappointment on its face.

However, it quickly cheered up again, licked its lips, and ran towards the next place.

Lu Jing followed behind the black cat, accompanying it to three places in succession.

Originally, he was just waiting to catch it in the act, but gradually Lu Jing became curious about what the cat was doing.

Because Yang Tao had told him before that in the past month, four new students had been attacked by this black cat, and now the three places this guy went to were exactly the residences of three of the four victims.

Lu Jing didn't understand why the black cat was so obsessed with these people.

Moreover, on the surface, these four people were men and women, from all over the country, and there seemed to be no common ground.

Could it be that it had a grudge against this black cat when it was in the capital?

No, no, that's not right. This guy also attacked Yang Tao and the little monk Zhaoming before, and the expressions of these two people clearly showed that they were seeing this black cat for the first time. Moreover, with the temper of the little monk Zhaoming, there was no possibility of a grudge.

Lu Jing felt that he might have missed something.

He thought about it, and after the black cat left, he simply came out of his hiding place and knocked on the courtyard door.

Lu Jing spent about an hour apologizing to the four people one by one for what had happened before, and also asked them some questions.

Lu Jing felt that no matter how this black cat chose its targets, its targets were obviously time-sensitive. For example, the little monk Zhaoming, when they first met, this guy was eager to try, but then he never bothered him again.

And the last of the four, the black cat seemed to have lost interest in him as well.

Therefore, Lu Jing also focused his attention on what had happened to the four people recently. Originally, he wanted to see if the four people had gone to a certain place together, or eaten the same thing.

As a result, the final answer he came to was quite unexpected to Lu Jing.

These four people had almost nothing in common, from martial arts to family background. If you really had to compare them, there was only one thing that could barely be considered common, and that was that they had all had a period of good or bad luck during this time.

The reason why this point caught Lu Jing's attention was also because Yang Tao was having bad luck when he was bitten by this black cat before.

And after that, his luck seemed to start to improve, and he obtained the Red Bean.