FWF #801 - Is it cool up there?
#801 - Is it cool up there?
In fact, Lu Jing himself had almost forgotten about the [Ji Zi 16].
When he first got it, he was worried about being teleported into that vase, so he didn't dare to use it and just treated it as a trump card to save his life.
It wasn't until he entered the academy and read through the "Records of Strange Objects" that he learned the exact usage of this thing.
However, Lu Jing didn't practice swordsmanship, and the inheritance of the Azure Lotus Sword Sect didn't attract him much. Moreover, after entering, he would likely have to face a group of experts from the Azure Lotus Sword Sect who had cultivated for seventy or eighty years, or even hundreds of years.
Lu Jing's idea of running into the vase faded even more. And because he didn't report the [Ji Zi 16] to the Sitianjian at the beginning, he didn't want to take the initiative to hand it over now, so he simply threw it aside, where it gathered dust for a year.
It wasn't until Kui mentioned [Wu Zi 75] that Lu Jing remembered this key that he had discarded in a corner.
Upon hearing this, Kui stopped recuperating and got up from the chair, saying, "Let's go."
The two came to the Investigation Bureau and used an expedited request. As a result, they found the location of the island by dusk.
Then, the two used the [Well] to rush to the nearest county town.
By the time they reached the island, the sun had just sunk below the sea horizon.
Lu Jing held the [Ji Zi 16] and inserted it into the sea water. As soon as the key entered the water, it seemed to come alive, began to vibrate violently, and showed a strong desire to break free from Lu Jing's fingers.
Lu Jing firmly grasped the key with two fingers, and then extended his other hand to Kui.
Kui didn't think much and grabbed Lu Jing's hand.
Then, the two saw a door emerge from below the water surface, and the key led them towards that door!
When the sea water rushed in, Lu Jing closed his eyes subconsciously.
When he opened his eyes again, he and Kui were already on a beach. As for the key, it had calmed down again.
Lu Jing looked up at the cliff not far away, and saw four large characters engraved in the center of the cliff with peerless swordsmanship—Azure Lotus Sword Sect!
And there was a small path between the cliffs leading directly to the top of the cliff, where there were palaces and pavilions, magnificent and imposing, like a fairyland.
Everything was as described in He Qing's diary.
Lu Jing chuckled, "We really got in."
Seeing Kui raise her foot and walk towards the mountain, Lu Jing hurriedly reminded her, "Be careful, this place is the base of the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. They have been here for over seventy years, haven't aged at all, and practice swordsmanship every day. Many of them have become first-rate experts. I should clear the way ahead."
With Lu Jing's current strength, if he really went all out, ordinary first-rate experts would find it difficult to threaten him. Of course, Qin Buyu, the leader of the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and the Sword King of the East Sea, was no ordinary first-rate expert.
He was recognized as the number one expert in the martial world seventy years ago, ranking at the top of the Tianji List. Now, after seventy years of seclusion, his martial arts have reached an unknown level.
However, Lu Jing now has the Nayang True Qi and the "Martial Canon" in his body, so he is not too afraid of Qin Buyu. If it really doesn't work, he can use the flying sword.
With his current martial arts and the flying sword, Qin Buyu wouldn't be his opponent even if he practiced for another hundred years.
So Lu Jing didn't deliberately slow down when he went up the mountain, and didn't even conceal his movements.
It would be good to lure out some small monsters in advance, rather than having them all gather around the boss and attack together in the end. However, all the way to the top of the mountain, he didn't encounter a single enemy.
Then Lu Jing thought of a crucial question.
Since the Sitianjian had transformed [Wu Zi 75] into a secret prison to imprison Mr. Ji, the members of the Azure Lotus Sword Sect on the island before had probably been cleared out.
Thinking of this, Lu Jing quickened his pace and walked towards the main hall not far away. As a result, before he even entered the door, he heard a voice from inside.
"Don't bother... I really don't know where that person left the thing. Hmm, why are there two people this time? Who did you bring?"
Lu Jing recognized that it was Mr. Ji's voice, but when he looked in the direction of the voice, he couldn't find anyone.
It wasn't until the voice sounded again, "Oh, aren't you Lu Jing, and Inspector Kui? Did you also fall for that thing's trick?"
"What thing's trick?"
Lu Jing looked around for a while and finally found Mr. Ji.
Mainly because the place he was staying was too bizarre. He was actually on the eaves of the palace, lined up with a group of ridge beasts, and only his head was left. If you didn't look carefully, you would really think he was a decoration on the roof.
"How did you get up there?"
"Guo Shouhuai put me up here," Mr. Ji said. His tone was still very optimistic, "I figured he might be afraid that I would be bored being here alone, so he wanted me to look at the sea view and relieve my boredom."
"..."
"Do you want me to bring you down?" Lu Jing asked kindly.
"No need, if you bring me down, he will string me up again when he comes back. I won't bother going back and forth, and now everyone has to look up to talk to me, which is also good."
While speaking, Mr. Ji was also sizing up Lu Jing and Kui.
"What are you here for?"
"Uh, I originally wanted to ask you about Guo Shaojian, but now I feel like there's no need to ask," Lu Jing said with a wry smile.
"Why not ask?"
"He has strung you up there. You must hate him to death. We wouldn't dare to believe anything you say."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Ji rolled his eyes, "Would you believe me if I said I don't hate Guo Shouhuai at all?"
"Have you been up there for too long and suffered a stroke?"
"No, Guo Shouhuai is even more miserable than me. He personally destroyed his most precious Sitianjian. Why should I hate him?"
"What did you do to him?" Kui's expression changed.
"I didn't do anything to him." Mr. Ji's voice sounded somewhat gloating, "I only found out after he caught me... his soul was actually eroded by the divine sense of that thing in the secret realm. It's a pity that he was kept in the dark and didn't know anything, gradually becoming an accomplice of that thing."
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