Stuck in a Chinese novel

[Qi: 200]

[Your Qi has reached the 200-point mark]

[QP +200]

Wei Jun sat in the middle of a mountain behind the city. It was properly secluded and no matter what he did it wouldn\'t be noticeable to anyone.

Wei Jun ate almost all of the Barghest meat. It wasn\'t appetizing in the least and it was very hard to chew. Still, it helped Wei Jun\'s physical stats.

It did raise his worries when he first ate it and this notification showed up.

[You have consumed unprocessed poisonous meat]

[You have been poisoned]

[…]

[Death Qi has neutralized the poison in the meat]

[Death Qi -2]

It was a surprise to see that he was eating poisonous meat and when he asked the system about it because he didn\'t receive the same notification when he ate the Direhound meat, the system replied…

[That was processed]

[You\'re eating it directly from the source]

[Of course, it wouldn\'t be edible]

\'How should I process it then?\' Wei Jun asked.

[Why would you do that?]

\'To eat it?\' Wei Jun wasn\'t sure how to reply to that question.

[Processing and cleaning monster remains is a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive process]

[You have Death Qi which neutralizes the venom and poison inside the meat]

[Why would you deliberately waste resources on that?]

Wei Jun felt a little embarrassed at that clear answer. It did make sense for Wei Jun to do that because there wasn\'t any reason to go through such a process. But he didn\'t know about the process thing so he asked.

Knowing it was safe to eat, Wei Jun began to clean the meat, cook it, season it, and he also tried to tenderize it which worked to some extent, and he stuffed himself to the point the following message showed up.

[You cannot gain any more stats by consuming the No-eyed Barghest meat]

Wei Jun wasn\'t thrilled with this message. He ate straight for an entire day and all he received were nine stat points in his physical traits. Seven to his agility and two to his stamina.

[Still, it is more than you can hope for at the moment]

Wei Jun agreed with that because that was indeed true. Wei Jun hadn\'t increased any increase in his physical stats from his training and this was the only way for him to gain stats at the moment.

That and the option of elixirs in the shop but those were too damn expensive for Wei Jun at the moment.

Wei Jun would have to deprive the entire country of its wealth just to afford a powerful body cultivation technique.

Wei Jun stood up, packed everything, and stored it in his inventory. According to the system, even the bones of the monsters were useful so Wei Jun was asked not to throw them away like he was planning to do.

Wei Jun decided he would sell the remaining corpses and remains to the shop if they were sold at a lower rate outside.

Now the only urgent agenda on Wei Jun\'s list was to attend the gate event tomorrow which he was actually looking forward to.

~~

Wei Jun returned to his penthouse to find it even more chilly than yesterday. Still, nothing except his room was frozen thanks to the artifacts he used to trap the Qi inside.

Wei Jun peeked into his room to see Xia Lu still sitting in the middle of literal ice, her body not at all frozen but a little pale than before and her black hair also had a few strands of pure white locks.

He liked the new look but was still worried about her paleness which was once again quelled by the system telling him that she was just getting accustomed to Qi. These were momentary changes and they would soon go away once she was done with cultivation for the time being.

\'Didn\'t you say one couldn\'t cultivate for such a long time?\' Wei Jun curiously asked because Xia Lu had been cultivating for almost two days now.

[One can\'t]

[But right now, what\'s essentially happening is that Yin Qi is merging with Xia Lu]

[Meaning she is turning to Yin Qi itself thanks to her high-grade technique]

Wei Jun nodded and went to the other room and lay down to sleep. He wasn\'t sleepy but he also needed to be prepared for the next day. Although his body no longer required him to sleep for longer periods of time, he still slept anyway to rest his brain whether it was needed or not.

~~

"I\'m so excited," Lin Ruan uncharacteristically showed such childish emotions as she along with Wei Jun waited for the gate\'s entrance to stabilize.

Twenty disciples were to enter a gate as a team under the guidance of an elder and try to finish it on their own. Four more teams were going through something of a similar scenario.

It wasn\'t a competition but the team to do the best would receive rewards for clearing the gate and if their performance was extra good, they would have the chance of obtaining the boss monster\'s core.

It was a great motivation for everyone and although no one said anything about it, they still knew that it was a competition, not just with the other teams but among each other as well. After all, there was only one core and twenty of them.

Only one person was uninterested in that reward and that was obviously Wei Jun. Wei Jun didn\'t want such rewards. Of course, if he managed to obtain the core, he would welcome it but it wasn\'t his goal. His goal was to raise his Death Qi.

His Yang Qi was slowly becoming an enormous pool even though the requirement for the skills was also increasing along with it. Still, he had plenty of it but when it came to the Death Qi, his mood soured because he could only use each skill once and the Death Qi would have to be replenished.

"Just try to hold it in," Wei Jun said because he wasn\'t sure how to deal with this. He turned his head to his left side and saw none other than Ju Bai Lu looking back at him.

If he had to explain his look in one word, then it definitely was \'Murderous\'. Ju Bai Lu was looking at him as if he couldn\'t wait to kill Wei Jun with both hands and then drink his blood to sate his anger and thirst for blood.

Wei Jun smirked and mouthed, \'How\'s your mommy?\'

Ju Bai Lu\'s face was covered in visible vessels, relaying his anger which Wei Jun laughed at and turned his attention to the elder who had just appeared before them.

"I\'m sure you all want to be heroic and gather many achievements for more treasures and become elders to look me in the eye," The female elder who didn\'t look any older than mid-forties with her exquisite features spoke.

"But none of them has any use when you\'re dead. Now personally, I wouldn\'t mind if you all be a little reckless in there and kill yourselves so I don\'t have to worry about you pathetic creatures standing up to me," The elder was quite harsh with her words and finally finished.

"But you\'re all precious to the sect, unfortunately. So I will protect you to the point I can. But if you all still act like immature brats, then I wouldn\'t care what happens to you. I don\'t care if you have ties to the sect master, I wouldn\'t hesitate to put you in your place," The elder finished her words, especially looking at Ju Bai Lu.

After all, Ju Bai Lu led a considerable faction inside the sect because of his status as basically the prince of the sect.

Of course, that didn\'t mean he would definitely be the next sect master. He might not even make it to an elder if he wasn\'t able to reach a certain point in his cultivation.

The sect master wouldn\'t favor him in the least and who he was wouldn\'t matter. That was why, even now, the elder really didn\'t respect Ju Bai Lu because to her, he was just another disciple and she was an elder.

Ju Bai Lu was also aware of that fact so he lowered his head and said, "I will make sure not to be a hindrance to you, esteemed elder."

"Your words don\'t mean jack sh*t to me." The elder dismissed the sincere words of Ju Bai Lu which embarrassed him but he didn\'t dare to say anything about it.

No one else laughed at him as well because of who he was.

Well, almost everyone.

"Haha." Wei Jun made sure to let out a slight chuckle with a great tinge of mock hidden in it.

Ju Bai Lu looked at Wei Jun with even more hatred which Wei Jun once again dismissed.

"What are you laughing at, weakling?" The elder didn\'t like Wei Jun laughing so she asked with her mood a little irked.

"I was just thinking whether he would wince in pain or smile like a pervert when he would have your beautiful long legs wrapped around his neck." Wei Jun straightforwardly said.

"…" Silence fell in front of the gate that was finally stabilized as everyone heard what Wei Jun said.

He basically just hit on the hundred-year-old woman and her reaction wasn\'t discernable from her neutral expression.