Chapter 23 Don't tempt me, my will is strong.
"That's great." Lin Jianyu said, then suddenly realized something was wrong and quickly added, "What I mean is, my master is still alive, that's great."
Although she preferred to believe that her master was still alive, she couldn't find any evidence that he was still alive, so she was actually quite unsure. His words put her at ease.
"We must go find him quickly." She did not ignore his words "he won't live long" and "he's about to die," and knew that she didn't have much time left and had to find her master as soon as possible.
"How do you know Shui Shui is still alive?" Yun Dan asked.
“I can sense it,” Lu Jiao said truthfully.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jianyu was about to ask him why he could sense it when he heard Yun Dan ask, "Because of that Soul Jade?"
“Yes.” Lu Jiao nodded. “If your cultivation level weren’t so low, you could also sense it, even its exact location.” He said the last part to Lin Jianyu.
Lin Jianyu has only just begun cultivating, so it's normal for his cultivation level to be low, and it won't be high in a short time.
"Can't you sense his exact location?"
"No." Lu Jiao shook his head.
"Why?" His cultivation level is so high, how can he not sense it?
“I’m not like you,” Lu Jiao said.
“How are we different? Aren’t we both…two eyes and one mouth? Okay, we are indeed quite different.” He was a pure-blooded sea creature, she was a pure-blooded human, and they weren’t even the same race.
But logically speaking, shouldn't he be more capable than her? Why can she sense it, but he can't?
"Why can I sense it, but you can't?"
“Because you’re a bastard,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Why resort to personal attacks when you can just say what you want to say?
"This bastard has this skill too!" It seems it wasn't just a pure insult.
"Let go," Lu Jiao said again.
This time, Lin Jianyu didn't hold onto him anymore.
As soon as she let go, Lu Jiao continued walking forward.
"You still haven't told me what you want with my master?" Lin Jianyu asked, catching up with him.
"I have my reasons," Lu Jiao said. "Are you going to look for them, or not?"
"Find him!" Lin Jianyu said without hesitation. "But I don't know where to start. When my master and I parted, he only said that he might come to Minyue, but I don't know whether he came or not. If he came, I don't know where he went. I only know that he should go to a place with abundant spiritual energy, not to the seaside, and he would not easily approach a river like the Minjiang River."
"Can you sense which direction he's in?" They don't even have a direction right now. Finding him is purely a matter of luck.
“Yes,” Lu Jiao said, “but it has to be within a certain range; currently, it cannot be sensed.”
We can't sense it right now, which means her master isn't within this range.
"What is the exact size of 'certain range'?"
"I don't know," Lu Jiao replied bluntly.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
It's okay, we can just use it as a free radar to detect everything along the way. It just might take a little longer, since we don't know how much time her master has left.
"You said my master won't live much longer, but how long exactly do you mean by 'not long'?"
"have no idea."
"You don't even know roughly how long it will take?"
"Hmm." Lu Jiao switched to "I don't know" mode.
"I don't even know how long it will be, so why do you say my master won't live much longer?" Lin Jianyu asked, then suddenly realized something and immediately asked, "When you say 'not long,' do you mean a few years? Or a few hundred years?"
She almost forgot that this ancestor was probably over a thousand years old before he fell asleep. For a long-lived race like them, who could live for who knows how many years, a few hundred years might just be a blink of an eye.
“A few years,” Lu Jiao said, “or maybe a few months, or even a few days, but it won’t be long.”
A few years is fine, but a few days is really not long enough, not even enough to travel all over Fujian and Yue.
"Is there any way to travel all over Fujian and Yue as quickly as possible?" she asked Yun Dan and the others.
"Yes," Yun Dan said calmly. "Let the big shot go on his own, without taking you, a burden, with him."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Although he was reluctant to admit that he was a burden, without her, Lu Jiao's abilities would indeed allow him to travel all over Fujian and Yue very quickly.
She looked at Lu Jiao, about to ask him if he was willing, when she heard him say, "You're dreaming!"
Very good, he has completely mastered the use of this phrase.
"He can't live without me, you guys think of another way."
"Can't you think about it yourself?" Zhu Liu said.
“I want scientific things, you want metaphysics… no, not you, it’s them. Without you, you have a head just for looks,” Lin Jianyu said.
"You finally admit I'm good-looking." Zhu Liu cupped her face in her hands, smiling like a flower, the kind of smile that was so ugly it was unbearable to look at.
Lin Jianyu simply couldn't bear to watch.
She asked Zhu Jin for a map and a pen, marked the route they had taken after encountering Lu Jiao, and then pointed to the place where Lu Jiao woke up and asked Lu Jiao, "When you were here, could you sense where we are now?"
"I don't know," Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu asked a few more questions before determining the approximate range of his perception.
"As we've come this far, have you sensed which direction my master is in?"
"No."
"Give me a few minutes." After saying that, Lin Jianyu began to draw on the map. Less than five minutes later, she concluded, "If the master's senses are correct, we don't need to go to these areas I drew. We can just go to these areas to check and determine whether my master is in Minyue."
"How did you come to this conclusion?" Zhu Liu asked, looking at what she had written and drawn on the map, completely bewildered.
"It was calculated," Lin Jianyu said. "You're a terrible student, even if I explained it to you, you wouldn't understand."
Zhu Liu: "..."
He shouldn't have asked.
"The fastest way I can think of to get to these areas is by transportation, but the boss's appearance isn't suitable for public appearances. He refuses to change into the same clothes as us..." Lin Jianyu was halfway through her rant when she suddenly felt a chill down her spine. She turned around and saw that the person she was complaining about was "watching" her from behind.
"Do you have any other ideas?" she asked Yun Dan and the others, feigning composure.
"You can have a big shot carry you," Yun Dan said casually.
Lin Jianyu turned to look at Lu Jiao, just about to ask him if it was okay, when she saw his thin lips part slightly, and his familiar words quickly rang out.
"You're dreaming!"
Lin Jianyu: "..."
I wish I could go back in time and slap myself to death the person who said those words to him.
"Is there any other way?"
"Use the speed-traveling talisman to move faster," Yun Dan said calmly.
"How fast?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"I can run faster than you," Yun Dan said. "And I won't feel tired."
"There are also these talisman papers, quickly give them to me to try," Lin Jianyu said.
"No."
"What are you talking about if you don't have anything to say!" Are you kidding her?
“There’s no ready-made one, but I can draw one,” Yun Dan said calmly.
"Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up." Lin Jianyu picked up the map to make room for him.
Yun Dan took out yellow paper, cinnabar, and a brush from his backpack and began to paint.
Unlike Lin Jinshui, he drew talismans extremely quickly, and the talismans were drawn very hastily, so much so that almost no one but himself could understand them.
Lin Jianyu held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what the runes on it were.
"My master was right, the runes you drew are damn abstract."
"I learned it from my second martial uncle," Yun Dan said calmly.
“My master’s runes are even more abstract than his,” Xuanzhan testified.
"So, it's so fast you can't see it." She remembered her master saying that her second master's uncle drew talismans so fast you couldn't see them.
"More or less," Yun Dan said calmly.
"How do you use this?" Lin Jianyu asked. "Do you just stick it on your body?"
"Mm." Yun Dan nodded. "After applying it, you can activate it with spiritual power."
Seeing that he nodded, Lin Jianyu stuck the talisman in the center of his forehead.
Yun Dan: "..."
Yun Dan was also exasperated by this brat.
"Who the hell stuck a speed-enhancing talisman on their forehead?!"
"I thought it would be more effective if I put it on my forehead." Lin Jianyu peeled the talisman off her forehead. "Can't I put it on my forehead?"
"Sure, but that's crazy," Yun Dan said. "Besides, it'll scare people." Jumping around with a talisman stuck to your forehead, what's the difference between that and writing "I'm a zombie" directly on your forehead?
Lin Jianyu wasn't sick, so she decided to change the location of the plaster.
Just as I was hesitating whether to stick it on my left or right foot, the talisman flew away from my hand.
She calmly turned to look at Lu Jiao, and sure enough, the talisman was in his hand.
Just as he was about to let him finish reading it and return it to her, he saw the talisman on the paper turn into a golden light and enter his body.
"How did you get absorbed again!"
"Again?" Yun Dan grasped the key point in her words.
“I didn’t get the corpse-suppressing talisman from you before. When he first woke up, I thought he was a zombie, so I stuck the talisman on his forehead,” Lin Jianyu said.
No sooner had she finished speaking than Lu Jiao's soft voice rang in her ear.
"Suppressing Corpse Talisman!"
"It's not a corpse-suppressing talisman, it's, it's..." Before she could come up with a name to salvage the situation, she had already been sent flying.
Fortunately, she already has some cultivation level, so this level of flying won't cause her too much harm; at most, it will hurt a little.
When he walked back to them, Yun Dan had already drawn two more speed-traveling talismans.
"You can stick one sheet on each foot and run faster."
Lin Jianyu stuck a card on his foot, then asked him, "How do I activate it using spiritual power?"
"Concentrate your spiritual energy on the talisman, then say 'move it,'" Yun Dan said. "Try it yourself, or I'll help you activate it."
"Who came up with such a hasty mnemonic?" Lin Jianyu complained.
"Me?" Yun Dan said, "I just thought of it. Time was tight, so it was a bit hasty. It's okay if you don't read it."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu was truly grateful to him.
She tried to concentrate her spiritual energy on the talisman, expecting it to fail most of the time, but to her surprise, she succeeded.
And then, that was it.
Before she could even react, she was already in the river.
Before I could even scream for help, I choked on a mouthful of water.
Fortunately, Zhu Jin pulled her out of the water in time, preventing her from dying before she could even begin her mission.
As soon as I put her down, she ran off again, heading towards the Minjiang River.
"You've gotten addicted to jumping?" Lu Jiao grabbed the back of her collar to prevent her from jumping into the river again.
The moment the back of her collar was grabbed, Lin Jianyu almost suffocated.
"I can't stop! Help!" Her legs seemed to have a mind of their own, completely out of her control, wanting to run forward. But Lu Jiao was holding onto the back of her collar to stop her from running. With the two sides pulling at their limits, she felt like she was about to be decapitated.
Fortunately, Yun Dan removed the talisman from her foot in time.
"Didn't you learn how to brake when you were learning to drive?" This is the first time I've seen someone who, when they can't stop, doesn't step on the brake but instead slams on the gas.
"You didn't teach me how to brake," Lin Jianyu complained, rubbing her neck which was throbbing from being strangled.
"Do I need to teach you this?" Yun Dan looked at her with an expression that said, "I didn't expect you to be so stupid." "If you feel you're going too fast, withdraw your spiritual energy; if you feel too slow, add it. If you want to stop, withdraw all your spiritual energy. Also, can't you turn corners when you're running?" Even if you can't stop, you can't rush into the river.
"It was too fast. I didn't even have time to react before I was already in the river," Lin Jianyu said.
"You didn't steal it the second time either."
"Your brain could still think when your neck was being strangled!" It's already a miracle that she could scream for help.
"Of course it can," Yun Dan said. "It's just a constriction, not a break, so it doesn't affect brain function at all."
Lin Jianyu said "Fuck".
"I need to get used to this talisman first." At least she has to wait until she can control her spiritual power freely before she can use it properly.
"Then you'll have to get used to it! I'll cook." After saying that, Yun Dan didn't forget to instruct Xuan Zhan and Zhu Jin, "Keep an eye on her, don't let her jump into the river again."
Lin Jianyu silently turned around, no longer facing the river.
Then, she started crashing into trees and falling into pits.
Yun Dan realized that she really couldn't be flexible.
Fortunately, after practicing for more than an hour, she finally grasped a bit of the trick.
Dinner consisted of grilled fish and fish soup. Lin Jianyu, who had been torturing herself for over an hour, ate with great relish, praising, "The fish is so delicious." After praising it, she suddenly realized something and turned to look at Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao was eating grilled fish, and unlike her, whose mouth was dripping with oil, he ate with dignified manners.
Noticing her gaze, Lu Jiao turned to look at her and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
"I said fish is delicious, aren't you angry?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"Why should I be angry?" Lu Jiao also thought the fish was quite delicious.
"I said fish is delicious and you didn't get angry, so why did you get angry when I said my name was Jian Yu?" Her name is Jian Yu, not Jian Ren Yu or Jian Jiao Ren. Even if it sounds like "cheap fish," it's still an insult to fish. What does it have to do with the merman?
“I’m not angry,” Lu Jiao said.
"I've already flown away, and you still say you're not angry."
"If I get angry, you'll die," Lu Jiao said seriously.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Okay, she just thought too much of him.
"Then can you call me Jianyu from now on?"
"No." Lu Jiao refused without even thinking, and then called her "little bastard."
Lin Jianyu remained silent.
She mistook the grilled fish in her hand for Lu Jiao's, took a big bite, and exclaimed, "It's so delicious!"
After eating and drinking his fill, Lin Jianyu practiced for more than an hour and was almost able to control the Swiftness Talisman.
Of course, she's still a ways off from being completely in control, but at least she won't crash into trees, fall into pits, or drown anymore. Simply put, she's finally learned how to turn.
When they set off again, Lin Jianyu used a speed-traveling talisman.
As her speed increased, their overall speed also increased.
After spending more than ten days searching the area she had marked, Lu Jiao still couldn't sense Lin Jinshui's direction.
If his intuition is correct, it means that Lin Jinshui is not in Minyue.
If it's not in Minyue, then it will be hard to find.
China is so big, and their time is limited.
After several discussions, they decided to travel north along the Minyue route all the way to the capital.
Because the last time Lin Jianyu saw Lin Jinshui was in the capital, when he left he told her that he might come to Minyue, and even if he didn't end up in Minyue, there was a high possibility that he would head south.
Traveling north from Fujian, the first province you pass through is Zhijiang.
Their current location is not far from Zhijiang; it would only take them two days to get there by fast travel, so they didn't consider transportation, even though it would be pointless to think about it anyway.
Lin Jianyu had used the Swift Travel Talisman for more than ten days and was now able to fully control it. At its fastest, it could catch up with a train, so there was no need to use any means of transportation, although it did consume some spiritual energy.
Her spiritual power was already limited, and it was barely enough to replenish her physical strength. Now it was running out, and she relied entirely on Xuan Zhan and Yun Dan to keep her alive.
After deciding that their next stop would be Zhijiang, they stayed in Minyue for another day. As before, Yun Dan and the other two went to a nearby town to replenish their supplies, while Lin Jianyu and the other two stayed behind to wait.
Lin Jianyu sat cross-legged and absorbed spiritual energy for a while, when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart. Even after more than ten years, she was still familiar with this feeling, which was a sign that her body was about to undergo a change.
She quickly took out a small porcelain bottle she carried with her, poured out a drop of blood and put it in her mouth. She originally planned to hold it in her mouth for a while and then swallow it when she couldn't bear it anymore. However, the blood drop dissolved shortly after it entered her mouth, and the pain disappeared.
Just as she finished thinking to herself how different it was to have cultivation, the small porcelain bottle she hadn't had time to put away flew away. Unlike before when she was used to it, this time she looked at Lu Jiao with eyes almost popping out of her head.
"No, you're not allowed to eat it!" She quickly got up and rushed towards Lu Jiao, but still couldn't stop him from putting the blood beads into his mouth.
Fortunately, he only ate one and didn't shovel it all into his mouth, but even so, she only had two left. When she snatched the small porcelain bottle back from Lu Jiao's hand, her eyes were red.
Without the Soul Jade given to her by her master, her body began to mutate again. These two blood beads were her hope for survival. Once she finished consuming them, her body might not be able to withstand the mutation and would explode and die. She had to start cultivating as soon as possible. She suddenly regretted being lazy for the past ten days.
"These are blood beads that my master gave me to suppress the abnormal changes in my body. I can't give them to you."
Lu Jiao just wanted to taste it; she had no intention of taking the remaining two blood beads from her, but...
"Who gave you the guts to snatch something from me?"
“These are my things, and you took them from me,” Lin Jianyu reminded him.
“What I took is mine,” Lu Jiao said.
"I got it back, it's mine again now." Lin Jianyu carefully hid the small porcelain bottle, as if afraid he would snatch it back again.
"I can take your things, but you can't take mine." That's right, it's a double standard.
"Why should I!" Lin Jianyu protested.
Lu Jiao is the master of dealing with those who dare to defy him.
Then, Lin Jianyu flew away.
After flying away, she didn't come back. She sat down to meditate, keeping a distance from Lu Jiao, afraid that he would try to steal her blood beads again.
Xuan Zhan walked to her side and asked, "Did you just undergo a strange change?"
“There were signs of an impending change, but I suppressed it after consuming the blood bead,” Lin Jianyu said.
How many blood beads are left?
Two.
How often did you undergo a mutation in the past?
"There is no pattern."
What is the shortest interval?
"More than a month, I think?" It had been so long that Lin Jianyu couldn't quite remember.
If she undergoes a mutation once every month or so on average, then she has no more than six months left.
It's unrealistic to expect her to cultivate to the point where she can withstand the damage caused by the mutation within half a year; she needs to find her master as soon as possible.
Lin Jianyu thought so too.
But in this vast sea of people, she didn't even know where her master had gone, so finding him was no easy task.
Now we can only pin our hopes on Lu Jiao.
Although she didn't know exactly what he wanted from her master, she knew that things couldn't get any worse than her and her master dying together.
When Yun Dan and the others returned, Lin Jianyu was cultivating, with Xuan Zhan sitting beside her and guarding her, while Lu Jiao sat far away from them, as if she didn't want to be associated with them.
"Why are you sitting so far away from the big boss?" Yun Dan asked Xuan Zhan.
Xuanzhan briefly recounted the events to him.
After listening to this, Yun Dan couldn't help but frown.
Even Wen Boyan and Shen Siming couldn't completely solve the problem of Lin Jianyu's physical mutation, so they had no chance of solving it.
"Once we reach the next town, I'll call my third uncle and ask him to inquire with my master and your master if there's any way to temporarily suppress the changes in my junior sister's body."
"How about we ask the big shots first?" Zhu Liu suggested.
As everyone knows, the shamans or high priests of each race are incredibly powerful. Lu Jiao himself is an incredibly powerful being, and he is also a shaman of the Merfolk race. Perhaps the problems that are troubling them will be very easy for him to solve.
“Go ask,” Yun Dan said.
"I dare not," Zhu Liu said cowardly.
Don't be fooled by the fact that he always hides behind Lu Jiao with Lin Jianyu whenever they encounter danger. That's only because Lin Jianyu, that fearless and silly guy, is there. He wouldn't dare to hide by himself.
Yun Dan glanced at Lu Jiao not far away and realized that he didn't dare to either.
Unlike Lin Jianyu, they all knew how terrifying Lu Jiao was. Normally, they would be careful not to provoke him, or even ask him a question, for fear that Lu Jiao might kill them if he got angry.
"Let Junior Sister ask her herself! She's familiar with the Big Boss," Yun Dan said. "I'll go make dinner first, and Jin Jin will help me."
"And me?" Zhu Liu asked.
"Go and gather some firewood."
"Okay!"
They busied themselves in an orderly fashion, while Xuanzhan continued to stay by Lin Jianyu's side.
Lin Jianyu cultivated for another hour before opening his eyes, because he smelled the aroma of food.
"I think I can smell garlic roasted lobster."
"You were born in the Year of the Dog, your nose is so sensitive," Yun said with a light smile.
"What a coincidence, I really am a dog," Lin Jianyu said.
"Weren't you born in the Year of the Tiger? When did you become a Dog?" Zhu Liu asked.
"I calculated it from the year my master picked me up." Her life truly began after she met her master, which happened to be the Year of the Dog. She even changed her birthday, so naturally, she had to change her zodiac sign as well.
"You can calculate it like that?" Zhu Liu was amazed.
"Of course."
"So am I older than you?"
"You're dreaming!"
Zhu Liu: "..."
What a waste of your time.
"Did you have a falling out with the big boss?" He lowered his voice considerably when he asked this question, even though he knew it wouldn't make much of a difference.
"No!" Lin Jianyu didn't lower her voice. "Why do you ask that?"
“You went all that way to meditate, I thought you had a falling out with the big boss,” Zhu Liu said.
“No,” Lin Jianyu said. “He snatched my blood bead, but I snatched it back. He got angry and made me fly away. I was afraid he would snatch my blood bead back when I came back, so I sat down and meditated.”
"I see." Zhu Liu understood. "Why don't you ask the big boss if there's any way to stop your body from mutating again?"
"Does he have a solution?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"If I wanted to know, would I need you to ask?" Zhu Liu said. "The boss is a shaman of the Merfolk, so he must know a lot. You can ask him whatever you want, just to try anything. Anyway, we don't have any other options."
"How do you know he's a shaman from the Merfolk tribe?" Lin Jianyu asked in surprise.
"You've forgotten how that old tortoise addressed the big boss before," Zhu Liu reminded him.
Lin Jianyu remembered that when the old voice stopped Lu Jiao from killing the princess of the Flood Dragon Clan, it seemed to call him Lord Fish Witch.
"Does the shaman know a lot?"
“Of course,” Zhu Liu said. “As we all know, shamans and high priests are the most knowledgeable people in a race, and among them, the long-lived race is the most knowledgeable.”
"Then I'll go ask," Lin Jianyu said.
"Weren't you going to ask?" Why did you walk towards the location of Yun Dan's grilled lobster?
"If you ask someone a question, you have to bring them some food; they don't understand any social etiquette," Lin Jianyu said.
"Could you put down the lobster you're eating before you say that?" Zhu Liu said coldly.
"Let me taste it first to see if it's cooked through. It wouldn't be good for the big shot to eat an undercooked lobster."
"If we're not familiar with each other, would your second senior brother let you eat him?"
"Then let me taste it first, okay? You talk too much nonsense." Lin Jianyu blew on it a few times, and just as he was about to take a bite, the lobster flew away. "There's my saliva on it. I accidentally splashed it on when I blew on it."
Lu Jiao: "..."
Although Lu Jiao didn't know whether what she said was true or false, she still returned the lobster to her.
After quickly finishing one, Lin Jianyu immediately picked up two more and handed them to him, acting like a sycophant, just like someone who had worked as a translator.
"Please enjoy, sir. I've tried it, and it's absolutely delicious."
Lu Jiao ignored her, took the bowl and chopsticks she handed him, and tasted them. They tasted really good.
Seeing that he had eaten, Lin Jianyu moved a little closer to him and said cautiously, "Boss, I have a question I'd like to ask you."
“If you continue to suppress it, you will only face death,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu was already used to his eavesdropping habit, so she wasn't surprised that he knew what she was going to ask before she even asked. She followed his lead and asked, "What if you don't suppress it?"
"Die even faster," Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Very well, asking this question is pointless.
Is there no way to avoid death?
"Yes," Lu Jiao said.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jianyu's eyes lit up, but before she could ask him what his solution was, she heard him say, "But why should I tell you?"
"Because you can't live without me," Lin Jianyu said. "If I die, what will you do all by yourself? A fish? Never mind, it doesn't matter. What will you do?"
"Who told you I can't live without you?" Lu Jiao asked.
"Then let me go?" Lin Jianyu said.
Do you know why I keep you by my side?
"Why?"
“Because I want to kill you with my own hands,” Lu Jiao said.
"If you wanted to kill me, it would be easy. You could have just done it yourself. Why did you have to..." Lin Jianyu suddenly realized something halfway through her sentence and changed the subject, saying, "You can't kill me!" So, even though he wanted to kill her so badly at the bottom of the crevice, he let go and spared her at the crucial moment.
Lin Jianyu thought about it more and more and felt that the possibility was very high, and suddenly he became a little arrogant.
“You’re too dirty,” Lu Jiao said.
"What?" Lin Jianyu was a little taken aback.
"I can't bring myself to do it."
Put together, these two sentences mean that she was too dirty, and he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Depend on!
If he hadn't kept snatching food from her hands, she almost would have believed him.
"Admit it, you just can't kill me." Lin Jianyu was already convinced that he couldn't kill her, at least not for the time being. "Otherwise, try killing me."
"Don't get too cocky," said Zhu Liu. "You dare to make such an unreasonable request? Aren't you afraid the big boss will actually grant your wish?"
Lin Jianyu wasn't afraid when he said it, but now he's a little scared.
Never mind what I said.
Lu Jiao did not do anything to harm her because of her arrogance, because he knew that doing so would only confirm the fact that he could not kill her for the time being. He calmly finished the last bite of lobster meat, and then looked up at her.
When he "looked" at her, Lin Jianyu's heart skipped a beat. She thought he was going to try and kill her, but he only asked her one question: "Do you want to successfully undergo the mutation?"
He spoke in a very calm tone, but it was inexplicably seductive. Not only Lin Jianyu, but also Yun Dan and the others were drawn to his words and their eyes fell on him without prior arrangement.
"Do you have a solution?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"have."
"What are the conditions?" Lin Jianyu believed in the existence of free lunches in this world, because she had been doing so for more than ten years, but she did not believe that Lu Jiao would give her a free lunch, especially after she had become arrogant.
"Give me your remaining two blood beads," Lu Jiao said.
"No way." Lin Jianyu refused without even thinking and clutched her pocket tightly.
Lu Jiao smiled as he "watched" her actions.
Her smile was gentle, like a spring breeze.
This was the first time Lin Jianyu had seen him smile since they met, and the impact was even greater than when she first saw his face under the crack. She was almost blinded by his good looks.
Fortunately, she had been bombarded with the beauty of her second master's uncle since she was a child, so she had developed a certain resistance. Although her second master's uncle's ethereal beauty paled in comparison to her own stunning good looks.
"Just say what you want to say, don't seduce anyone. My will is very strong." Her heart is only for her master.
As soon as she finished speaking, she received a handkerchief from Yun Dan.
"What are you doing?"
"Wipe away those pathetic tears from the corners of your mouth," Yun Dan said.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jianyu subconsciously wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand, only wiping away a little oil left from eating lobster, not the tears he mentioned.
"Don't cause trouble."
"If I hadn't caused trouble, you would have already flown away." Before anyone could see that Lu Jiao's face darkened visibly when she told him not to seduce people.
Lin Jianyu hadn't actually seen it, so she fearlessly said to Lu Jiao, "The blood bead was given to me by my master. Even if I don't eat it myself, I won't give it to you."
"If I really wanted it, do you think you could hide it?" He couldn't kill her for the time being, but taking her two blood beads would be a piece of cake.
Lin Jianyu: "..."
"Can't we try to negotiate?"
“Give me the blood bead, and I’ll help you successfully mutate,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu wavered a little.
The blood bead is important, but if she eats it, it can only keep her from dying temporarily; it won't solve the problem of the mutation. Giving it to him, however, offers a glimmer of hope.
"You're not lying to me, are you?"
"Believe it or not." Lu Jiao didn't offer any further explanation.
"Could you just give me one?" Lin Jianyu tried to bargain.
"cannot."
"Then one will do, right?" Lin Jianyu said. "I'll give you the other one after the mutation is successful."
Lu Jiao seemed to consider it for a moment before saying, "Okay."
He didn't necessarily need the blood beads; it was just that the more Lin Jianyu was unwilling to give them, the more he wanted her to reluctantly part with them.
Lin Jianyu breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
If he insists that she give him both, she will probably give them to him, because there is not much difference between having one left and having none left.
She took out a small porcelain bottle from her pocket, intending to pour out a pill and hand it to Lu Jiao, but he stopped her.
"Don't pour it on your hands, it's dirty."
Lin Jianyu, who had just wiped the grease from the corner of her mouth with her hand: "..."
She had actually forgotten about it, but she remembered it after hearing him say it was dirty.
After remembering, for a moment she really wanted to ignore his objections and pour both blood beads into her hand so that he wouldn't fight her for them. But she was also afraid that if he didn't get the blood beads, he wouldn't help her with the mutation. In the end, she held back, withdrew her hand from her own, and poured one into his hand instead.
After Lu Jiao obtained the blood bead, she immediately put it in her mouth and ate it, not even giving her a chance to regret it.
Lin Jianyu felt incredibly sorry for him.
"You're not lying to me, are you?"
"Yes," Lu Jiao said. "I was just lying to you."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
Lin Jianyu's eyes cracked.
If it weren't for Yun Dan and Zhu Liu holding her arms on either side, she would have rushed up and grabbed Lu Jiao by the neck, making him spit out the blood droplets back at her.
"Your... um..."
Zhu Jin covered her mouth from behind to prevent her from saying anything reckless: "Calm down, calm down, take a deep breath. The big boss is just teasing you. Don't risk your life in a moment of impulsiveness."
Lin Jianyu took a deep breath... What a load of rubbish! Her mouth and nose were covered, she was about to suffocate.
Fortunately, Xuan Zhan noticed her abnormality in time and made Zhu Jin let go of her. Otherwise, she would have died at the hands of her own people without Lu Jiao even having to lift a finger.
"You fucking..."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Zhu Jin raised his hand in apology.
He apologized, and Lin Jianyu didn't hold it against him anymore. Instead, she said to Yun Dan and Zhu Liu, "Let go, I've calmed down."
Yun Dan and Zhu Liu could tell from her expression that she hadn't calmed down, but they still let go of her hand, ready to pull her back at any moment.
"Don't joke like that, I'll get angry," Lin Jianyu said to Lu Jiao.
Lu Jiao said, "I'm not joking with you."
Lin Jianyu: "..."
That cheap fish won't even take a chance; one day she'll make him suffer.
"I don't care, you have to help me successfully transform."
"Helping you successfully undergo the mutation isn't out of the question," Lu Jiao said, knowing when to stop. "Just don't regret it later."
"Why would I regret it?" Lin Jianyu asked.
“I didn’t say you would definitely regret it,” Lu Jiao said.
Lin Jianyu originally had no intention of regretting it, because if the mutation failed, she would only have one way out: death. Nothing was more terrifying than death. But after hearing his words, she became a little worried, worried that if the mutation succeeded, she would become neither human nor ghost.
"What will I become after the mutation is successful?"
"To become a pure-blooded sea creature."
"What kind of pure-blooded sea creatures?" There are many kinds of pure-blooded sea creatures.
“The same as the one who gave you their heart’s blood,” Lu Jiao said.
The one who gave her her heart's blood was her master, a pure-blooded sea creature like her master—a whale.
Although she had never seen her master's true form, she could accept him just like her master.
For some reason, she felt a vague unease because of Lu Jiao's words, "Don't regret it in the future."
"Can I prevent my body from mutating? I mean, can I stop my body from mutating?" Being a pure-blooded human isn't so bad, since she can cultivate now anyway.
“No,” Lu Jiao said. “Once the mutation begins, it will only end with success or failure. If you succeed, you will become a pure-blooded sea creature; if you fail, you will explode and die.”
"It has to succeed." What could be more terrifying than dying from a body explosion? "Shall we begin now?"
"No rush, we'll start when you undergo your next transformation," Lu Jiao said.
"Do you know when I'll undergo another transformation?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"The timing of the mutations is unpredictable, but it can be manipulated."
How do you control it?
“Both spiritual nourishment and threats to your life can cause your body to change,” Lu Jiao said. “The former means that when you absorb a certain amount of spiritual energy, your body will naturally change. The latter means that when your life is threatened, your body will change prematurely due to its self-protective instincts.”
"If you want the mutation to occur sooner, either absorb more spiritual energy or put yourself in a dangerous place."
"Let nature take its course!" Lin Jianyu didn't consider putting herself in danger at all. She couldn't absorb as much spiritual energy as she wanted, so it was best to let nature take its course.
However, without Lu Jiao's help, if she wanted to successfully undergo the mutation, she would have to absorb as much spiritual energy as possible to improve her cultivation level. But absorbing too much spiritual energy would cause her body to mutate prematurely, which was a dead end.
Lu Jiao is the only one who can break this deadlock. Whether it's finding her master or helping her successfully undergo the transformation, she can only rely on him.
For a moment, I didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse to have awakened him from the bottom of the crack.
If she hadn't landed on his coffin, the soul jade her master gave her would likely have shattered while protecting her. Whether the shattered soul jade could still suppress the mutation of her body is unknown, but it's highly likely it couldn't. If it couldn't, her body would have mutated.
In order to successfully undergo the mutation, she would definitely absorb as much spiritual energy as possible to improve her cultivation. However, absorbing more spiritual energy would cause her body to mutate prematurely. She only had four blood beads left, and she couldn't possibly survive until she found her master.
So, let's say we're more fortunate?
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