The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#214 - Immortality

Chapter 213: Immortality

After saying goodbye to Jing Xiang, Lu Jing and Xia Huai used their lightness skills and ran towards the cave.

Along the way, the two encountered many other magical traps.

However, compared to Gu Zhongling's two flying swords, which were so powerful that they were despairing, these spells, although dazzling, were still within Lu Jing's ability to handle.

The one-armed Gu Zhongling stood on the rock wall of the cave, looking down at the two young people at his feet.

Just like a king looking down at his subjects.

After a while, he took the initiative to speak to the two, "Don't count on Jing Xiang, his Thousand Transformations Array was not completed at all. In the end, he could only rely on suicide to deal with me, but unfortunately, he was still one step too slow. Although he was seriously injured, he did not die immediately, and this also means... you have nowhere to escape tonight."

Speaking of this, he paused, then looked at Lu Jing, "I want to see what the heart of a person who will not regret is like."

"How about we make a deal? If you can immediately cut out your heart for me to see, I will let her leave," Gu Zhongling said, pointing to Xia Huai.

"You're dreaming," the girl said coldly.

However, Gu Zhongling ignored her, just smiled and looked at Lu Jing, "This is a very cost-effective deal. The previous battle has already proved that even if the two of you go together, you are not my opponent. Instead of dying here together, it is better to use one person's sacrifice to exchange for the other person's departure.

"If you are a real man, you should know how to choose at this time."

"Don't listen to him, there are only a few steps left, let's rush out together," Xia Huai said anxiously when she saw Lu Jing was silent after hearing this. She had already drawn her sword.

She was about to step forward to draw a circle again, but then Lu Jing pressed down on the hand holding the sword.

Lu Jing raised his head and looked at the figure on the cliff, "Senior Jing really... committed suicide?"

Gu Zhongling nodded, and did not hide it, "That's right, in this world, I was born because of him. If he dies, I naturally cannot live alone, so he thought of using this trick to deal with me.

"But since I have seen through it, you don't have to think about this trick now, okay... let's stop with the small talk, if you don't do it, then don't blame me for sending you on your way together ruthlessly."

Gu Zhongling's tone became grim when he said the last sentence.

And his two flying swords were also shining brightly in the air, looking eager to try.

However, in the next moment, to everyone's surprise, Lu Jing's Zen staff suddenly came out of his hand and smashed towards the two flying swords in the air first.

Although Xia Huai didn't know the meaning of Lu Jing's doing this, the girl reacted quickly. Seeing this, she also rushed up together, but before Xia Huai rushed to the two flying swords.

They saw the two flying swords let out two wails after being hit by the Zen staff, and then they were smashed in half and fell to the ground, eventually turning into two paper swords cut out of yellow paper!

The expression of "Gu Zhongling" on the cliff changed drastically when he saw this scene. He turned around and wanted to escape, but Lu Jing's movements were faster. After only a few ups and downs, he had already arrived in front of "Gu Zhongling".

He reached out and grabbed the latter's neck.

"Gu Zhongling" made a hoarse sound in his throat. As the illusion dissipated, he also revealed his true face. It was the white-haired, white-bearded old man that Lu Jing had seen at the banquet before.

Lu Jing threw him on the ground, and then he jumped down from the rock wall.

The white-haired, white-bearded old man obviously didn't want to be captured so easily. After landing, he couldn't care about the pain in his body, and he had already pinched a magic trick with his trembling palm.

But his thumb and middle finger had just come together, and they were cut off by Xia Huai's sword.

However, he still roared at Lu Jing as if he couldn't feel the pain, "You can't, you can't leave here!!!"

"I'm afraid it's not up to you," Lu Jing said lightly.

Before he finished speaking, he had already picked up the Zen staff that had fallen on the ground and smashed it towards the old man's head.

This staff directly smashed the latter's head to pieces, and blood and minced meat flew several feet away, splashing directly onto the rock wall not far away.

However, the headless corpse did not fall down.

On the contrary, a strange scene appeared.

A new head actually grew out of the rotten flesh on his neck.

This method has already exceeded the scope of what magic can do. Lu Jing thought of a certain possibility and raised his eyebrows, "The thing you regret most is not being able to be immortal?"

The new head of the white-haired, white-bearded old man was covered in blood. Hearing this, he grinned, which made his smile look even more hideous and terrifying.

"That's right, you want to kill me? Young man, I advise you not to waste your energy. I am the first person to discover this place and have completely integrated with it. You mortals with limited lifespans will never understand..."

However, he only said half of his words, and Lu Jing's Zen staff had already fallen on him again.

His sternum was immediately broken, and even two of them pierced directly into his lungs, but what shocked him was not the fatal injury to his chest. After all, no matter how serious the injury was, it would quickly recover under the rules of Another Heaven and Earth.

What he really felt terrified was that his body actually flew up with Lu Jing's Zen staff.

Flying towards the cave not far away, after landing, he rolled several times on the ground.

When he raised his head and looked outside the cave again, he found that Lu Jing and Xia Huai were no longer there.

But not only was there no joy on his face, but he also showed unprecedented fear and unwillingness.

He looked down at his body, only to see his muscles and skin shrinking and withering at a speed visible to the naked eye, until they disappeared, and he eventually turned into a skeleton.

As for Lu Jing and Xia Huai on the other side of the cave, they suddenly felt a burst of dizziness, as if the whole world was shaking. Boulders rolled down from the rock walls, and cracks opened up in the earth.

It looked like the end of the world.

Xia Huai subconsciously wanted to retreat, but in the next moment, Lu Jing grabbed her palm, and then Lu Jing inserted the Zen staff beside his feet, and took off the wine gourd from his waist as quickly as possible, and drank the Fallen into the Mortal World inside.

Then, before the cave completely collapsed, he re-gripped his Zen staff and jumped in with Xia Huai.

Thanks to Tian Ya w, Snowflake Bread, Zhonghua Yimin and other children for their rewards~