The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#654 - Borrow a sword

Lu Jing's eyelids drooped, and he knew he'd been tricked this time.

He hadn't expected the dragon's beard candy to be harmless to the cat, but in his mouth, it turned into sleeping pills. He didn't know how the candy-making granny had done it.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the ram's horn pattern on Lu Jing's arm came into play.

At that moment, Lu Jing felt as if his stomach had turned into a black hole, swallowing all the cloying sweetness that was about to suffocate him.

The dizziness disappeared along with it, but Lu Jing didn't straighten up. Instead, he continued to fall backward, subtly signaling to A'mu, telling the little wooden figure to remain calm.

Not far away, another person with the same fragrance lifted his feet.

Together, they carried Lu Jing onto a carriage, then they seemed to notice A'mu nearby.

But they looked somewhat bewildered, standing there for a long while before one of them walked towards A'mu.

But how could A'mu's lightness skill compare to theirs? Before the person could reach A'mu, he disappeared with a whoosh.

The two of them circled the street several times, unable to see even the shadow of the little wooden figure, until they returned to the carriage and found A'mu had somehow gotten into the carriage, squatting beside the unconscious Lu Jing.

Seeing this scene, the two of them froze again, stunned for a long time before one of them climbed into the carriage and sat with Lu Jing and A'mu, while the other went to the front to drive the carriage.

Not long after the person sat down in the carriage, he took out a long needle gleaming with cold light from his bosom.

Without a word, he stabbed it towards Lu Jing's index finger.

He seemed to want to use this method to determine whether Lu Jing was truly unconscious or pretending.

But the next moment, an unexpected scene occurred. The long needle hit Lu Jing's skin and made a 'ding' sound like metal clashing, then it was actually bounced away!

The person didn't believe it and stabbed a second time. This time he used more force, and the result was even more outrageous: the long needle snapped in half.

The person looked down at Lu Jing's finger, which didn't even have a red mark.

So he seemed to freeze again, holding the broken needle for a long time without moving. At the same time, the carriage had already started moving.

Lu Jing originally wanted to try to judge where they were by the sounds from outside, but unfortunately, he wasn't a local and wasn't very familiar with Lintian Prefecture. He listened for a while and gave up.

After about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the carriage finally stopped again.

The person in the front jumped out of the carriage, opened the door, and, together with the person inside, carried Lu Jing out again, carrying him into the house.

On the way, Lu Jing's eyes slightly opened a crack, and he surveyed his surroundings.

As Huo Xing-sun had said, everything within his sight was made of sugar. In the courtyard, there was a sugar willow tree, under the willow tree was a sugar swing, and beside the swing was a sugar flowerbed.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing was the sugar house not far away.

Whether it was the doors, windows, or the tiles on the roof, everything looked so lifelike that it was impossible to distinguish it from the real thing without careful inspection.

Fortunately, the moon overhead was still the same moon.

Otherwise, Lu Jing would really have suspected that he had traveled to a sugar-coated new world that was very unfriendly to diabetics.

The person in front reached out and pushed open the door, carrying Lu Jing all the way to the bedside before putting him down.

Then the two of them didn't leave, but stood in front of the bed, one in front of the other, without moving.

As for the little wooden figure, it seemed to have been forgotten again. It peeked around outside the house for a long time before carefully sneaking in.

Then it found a corner closest to Lu Jing and stood there.

It seemed determined to compete with the two people to see who would move first.

After about half a cup of tea's time, Lu Jing mustered his courage to pry open a crack in his eyelids, only to find that there was no one else in the pitch-black room except himself.

The people who had been standing in front of his bed were just two sugar figures.

And the two sugar figures, from height to build, were no different from ordinary people. The most amazing thing was that their faces looked lifelike.

The expressions on their faces were different; one seemed to be sighing, and the other was smirking.

However, their gazes were all focused on Lu Jing.

Even Lu Jing was startled when he saw these two sugar figures by his bedside at night.

Especially when he remembered that he had just been brought back by these two sugar figures, Lu Jing felt even more terrified and wanted to escape from this strange sugar house.

But he finally suppressed the impulse in his heart, sat up from the bed, first walked to the table, and grabbed the candlestick on the table.

Then he reached into his bosom and took out a flint, but Lu Jing tried to strike it several times, but he couldn't light the candlestick.

Then he seemed to think of something, dipped his little finger in the oil in the lampstand, and put it in his mouth to taste it. Sure enough, this wasn't lamp oil at all, it was clearly sugar syrup.

No wonder he couldn't light it just now.

Fortunately, with Lu Jing's eye skills, even without lighting the lamp, he could still see the surroundings clearly with the help of the faint moonlight leaking in from outside the door.

Like outside the courtyard, the tables, chairs, and cabinets in the room were all made of sugar without exception.

Lu Jing first opened the box beside the bed, and saw that the sugar clothes inside were neatly folded, and there were also several sugar ingots placed next to them.

Lu Jing then opened the bookcase next to it, and inside were rows of sugar books.

But they were all just for show. Lu Jing took out one but couldn't open it. He put the sugar book back on the shelf, and then looked around again, wanting to see if there was anything nearby that he had forgotten.

In the end, his gaze returned to the two sugar figures.

Lu Jing stepped forward and looked in the direction of their gazes. This time, he finally made a new discovery.

On the bed, where he had been lying before, there was a note. This was probably the only thing in the whole house that wasn't made of sugar.

Lu Jing unfolded the note, and saw written on it: "To cure the evil disease, first pay the consultation fee. Tonight, heroes gather, and evil demons are born. Please lend your sword to destroy the demons and monsters. If this is successful, whatever you ask for, I will do my best."

The signature was the Candy-Making Granny.

Lu Jing was stunned. Huo Xing-sun had told him about the matter of paying for treatment, but he didn't expect the consultation fee to be for him to slay evil, and there was also the phrase 'heroes gather' in front.

Could these four words be referring to the meeting of the heads of the major sects tonight? But isn't this a prosperous age of righteousness? Where did the evil demons come from?