The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#569 - Cat Wire Grass

The purple-skirted woman and her group were somewhat bewildered by Lu Jing's sudden warning that he was about to run.

For a moment, they didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

After a long while, the purple-skirted woman asked, "Grandmaster Lu, how much longer can you hold on?"

"Uh, an hour shouldn't be a problem," Lu Jing didn't want to exhaust all his secret power, after all, he still had his medicine field to manage.

"… … … …"

The purple-skirted woman and her group fell silent again upon hearing this, but this time they recovered much faster than before.

The purple-skirted woman paused and said, "Then why don't you hold on a little longer, Grandmaster Lu? I'll go and get that thing for you, so you won't have to come again next time."

"Thing? What thing?" Lu Jing was baffled.

As soon as he said this, the purple-skirted woman and the others were all shocked.

After a long while, she stammered, "There's a cat-thread grass growing where that strange object lives, which can be used to refine pills that speed up the absorption of secret power, which is very beneficial for cultivation. Lu… Grandmaster Lu, weren't you here for that thing?"

"I wasn't," Lu Jing said.

"Then why did you attack it?" The purple-skirted woman was dumbfounded, pointing to the stone python in the formation.

Lu Jing didn't want to say directly that he had come to fight this thing just to fight this thing, so he just made up an excuse, "Oh, I came here to practice a formation I just learned."

"Just to practice a formation?" The purple-skirted woman found it a little hard to believe.

"That's right."

The purple-skirted woman couldn't help but regret having been so quick-tongued just now, telling Lu Jing about the cat-thread grass, but then she thought again, with the strength of that strange object, even if they hadn't told Lu Jing, they wouldn't be able to get it, so she felt relieved again.

"In any case, let's go and pick that cat-thread grass for you first."

"Can this thing be planted?" Lu Jing thought for a moment and asked.

"Uh, I don't think so… Cat-thread grass has very demanding requirements for its growing environment. Some people have tried to plant them before, but unfortunately, they couldn't succeed no matter what they tried. Over time, later generations gave up. That's why cat-thread grass is so rare."

The purple-skirted woman explained.

When Lu Jing heard this, he lost interest. He couldn't use pills to speed up his secret power cultivation, and this cat-thread grass couldn't be grown on a large scale. Selling it for money would be of little value to him.

So Lu Jing then said to the purple-skirted woman, "You guys take it."

"What?" The purple-skirted woman doubted her ears.

"Take it. That cat-thread grass, wasn't that what you came here for? It just so happens that I'm holding this guy back for you now, so go get it."

However, after Lu Jing finished speaking, the purple-skirted woman and her group stood there without moving, as if they were stunned.

"What are you still standing there for? Go quickly," Lu Jing looked around a few times, his eyes falling on the young man who had mocked him earlier, after all, he only had some impression of the purple-skirted woman and this guy.

It wasn't good to have the only lady present run errands, so Lu Jing finally chose him, "You, yes you, stop looking around, go get the cat-thread grass."

That young man valued face the most, and subconsciously wanted to refuse when he heard this, but when he saw the pairs of eager eyes around him, and thought about the effort and energy they had spent on this cat-thread grass during this time, he finally couldn't help but give in and headed towards the place where the stone python lived.

At first, in order to maintain his composure, he was still walking, but after a few steps, without Lu Jing urging him, he had already started jogging, and then he ran faster and faster, and even cast a lightness spell on himself.

As a result, it only took him less than half an incense stick's worth of time to return to the valley, and he was clutching a strangely colored herb in his hand.

The purple-skirted woman couldn't help but show great joy when she saw the herb in his hand, "This cat-thread grass is so big! If we use it sparingly, it's enough to refine five or six batches of pills. That way, each of us will get a lot."

The others also felt like they were in a dream.

Although they had made a lot of preparations before setting off this time, they didn't actually have much confidence in their hearts. Even if they could get the cat-thread grass in the end, the process would probably be very thrilling and difficult.

But no one expected that it would be so easy and smooth in the end. The young man felt like he was just going on a picnic, and casually picked the cat-thread grass.

On the way back, he was still worried that Lu Jing would temporarily change his mind and make him hand over the cat-thread grass, and then mock him in person to avenge his previous grudges.

But he didn't expect that Lu Jing just glanced at him casually, raised his eyebrows, "Are you guys done?"

It was as if the thing he was holding in his hand was just a radish that had just been dug out of the ground.

"Ah, we don't have anything else to do," the young man said blankly.

However, after hitting it a few times, it still couldn't do anything about the great formation, and then it remembered the long contest of strength between itself and someone earlier, and as a result, the anger it had managed to accumulate also disappeared, and soon it chose to continue to lie down.

They watched helplessly as the purple-skirted woman and her group walked towards the outside of the valley, until they disappeared from sight.

However, after the purple-skirted woman and her group retreated to the entrance of the valley, they did not rush to leave, but stood there again.

Then they heard the rumbling sounds suddenly becoming dense, accompanied by the sound of trees breaking and the sound of ocean waves coming from nowhere. Just as everyone was starting to worry about Lu Jing, they saw that familiar figure again.

Lu Jing had just shaken off the stone python not long ago, and ran out of the forest, flicking the fallen leaves and grass stems on his body. He looked up and saw the purple-skirted woman and her group standing not far away, not leaving, so he asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything else?"

"Oh, I saw that you were in a hurry to leave just now, and I didn't have time to talk to you about the distribution of the cat-thread grass," the purple-skirted woman said.

"There's no need to distribute it, I said it's all yours."

"But that's not very good, is it? After all, you're the one who put in the effort this time, we just ran errands." This time it was the young man who had ridiculed Lu Jing earlier who spoke. His eyes didn't look at Lu Jing, but at the open space at his feet, somewhat awkwardly.

"I'm not just being polite to you, the main thing is that I really can't use this thing."

If they hadn't witnessed Lu Jing manipulating the great formation to fight the stone python with their own eyes, the young man would definitely have thought that the person opposite him was bragging, but now no one in the purple-skirted woman's group would doubt Lu Jing's words.