The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#289 - Hundred-day foundation building

In the past few days, the students of the academy had gradually discovered that the library had a new secretary named Xuan Ji.

The original Secretary Yu, it was said, felt that the world was vast and had the idea of going out to see it. Unwilling to be confined to one place, he resigned and left.

Some people felt it was a pity, but more people were secretly delighted.

There was no other way, the main reason being that this new Secretary Xuan was simply too elegant, like a person who had walked out of a traditional ink painting.

Moreover, her voice was very gentle and pleasant to listen to. In addition, as long as you briefly described to her what kind of book you wanted, even if you didn't know the title, she could quickly help you find it.

As a result, for a time, many more students came to the library to borrow books.

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The questions she answered were basically limited to books. If anyone wanted to take the opportunity to inquire about her background, without exception, she婉拒 (politely declined) them. No one had ever succeeded in inviting her out for dinner and a show.

No, it wasn't that there were no exceptions. For example, that guy named Lu Jing seemed to be very familiar with her. It was unknown whether the two had known each other before.

Anyway, every time Lu Jing came to the library, Xuan Ji would temporarily put down what she was doing and take the initiative to greet Lu Jing. Moreover, sometimes the two would have lunch together.

Although they only ate the food from the food box that Lu Jing brought and didn't leave the library, it still made many people envious.

Later, Xia Huai also joined in.

The girl had naturally heard some rumors about Lu Jing and this Secretary Xuan during this period, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Coincidentally, she was also punished by Supervisor Huang to come here to help organize the books in the library, so she used this as an excuse to come to the library and wanted to meet this Secretary Xuan.

However, in the beginning, Xia Huai didn't come with Lu Jing, but chose a time when Lu Jing wasn't there.

She herself couldn't say why she did this, but she vaguely felt that her behavior was a bit like running to someone's door before a big battle and peeking over the courtyard wall to spy on the enemy's situation.

Therefore, Xia Huai was quite uneasy and somewhat wary when she went, but after meeting Xuan Ji and spending some time together, the previous wariness and uneasiness quickly disappeared.

Xia Huai even forgot the purpose of her coming here, and only chatted with Xuan Ji with great interest about the storybooks she had read, and then talked about the most popular collections of poetry at the moment.

The girl came from an official family and had read many poems and articles. However, after joining the Sword Washing Pavilion, most of the people around her were obsessed with martial arts, so it was not easy to find someone who had a common language.

And the situation was similar when she arrived at the academy. It's just that everyone's obsession changed from martial arts to secret power. Lu Jing, the only one who didn't practice secret power, didn't seem to be too interested in poetry and articles.

Therefore, Xia Huai rarely met someone who could chat so well, and her perception of Xuan Ji improved a lot. She was already thinking about when to invite her to stroll around the bookstore.

And when she was about to leave, Xuan Ji also gave her a book as a gift. When Xia Huai flipped through it, it turned out to be a romance novel from the previous dynasty, telling the story of a pair of martial arts heroes who traveled the world together with their swords.

After receiving the novel, Xia Huai seemed to have thought of something, and her face couldn't help but turn red.

On the other side, Xuan Ji suddenly took off the deerskin glove on her right hand, revealing her wrist, which was empty below.

"Sister Xuan, you..." Xia Huai exclaimed softly, but soon her eyes were attracted by the ink color on Xuan Ji's wrist.

Xuan Ji smiled slightly, but she had already put on the glove again, "This is a secret between us, please don't tell anyone else."

"Are you a person from a book?" Xia Huai quickly reacted.

She had also heard about the function of that strange object in the library. It was said that it could not only help people who came to the library to quickly get the books they wanted, but also bring the characters in the books to life.

Xia Huai just didn't expect that Xuan Ji in front of her actually came from a book.

During the time the two had spent together, she couldn't feel anything unusual about Xuan Ji at all. In fact, if the latter didn't take off the glove on her own initiative, she would not have associated Xuan Ji with a person from a book at all.

Because the feeling Xuan Ji gave her was completely that of a living person.

Xuan Ji nodded, "Guo Shaojian took a fancy to my ability to never forget, so he asked me to manage the library. Oh, by the way, Young Master Lu also knows about this, because he was also there that day."

"No...no, I didn't mean that." Xia Huai stuttered.

"I didn't say anything, I just told you in passing." Xuan Ji smiled.

Although she didn't want to admit it, Xia Huai did feel a sense of relief when she heard Xuan Ji's words.

Immediately, she heard Xuan Ji say again, "You can come with him next time."

"Um...okay." The girl responded softly.

Thus, a storm that had not yet stirred had already subsided silently.

Lu Jing, who was the focus of it, didn't even feel any abnormality. Until Xia Huai came to him and asked him to go to the library to organize the books together, Lu Jing simply agreed and didn't think much about it.

Afterwards, during a chat among the three, Xia Huai talked about the progress of the students' secret power cultivation in the academy.

It had been almost two months since the academy started classes. Except for Lu Jing, all the freshmen of this year had crossed the threshold of secret power cultivation and started foundation building.

The so-called foundation building means building the foundation.

Unlike the Xianxia novels Lu Jing had read before, the speed of foundation building in the academy is exactly the same for everyone. From the day foundation building starts, it takes one hundred days to complete foundation building.

However, the effects of foundation building are not the same, and can even be said to be vastly different.

In general, this is a bit like a twelve-minute run. The time is fixed, but how far you can run in the end depends on each person's talent and aptitude.

People who build a good foundation will generally have a smooth cultivation path in the future, but if the foundation is not solid, it is conceivable that it will become very difficult to build a building on top of it.

Therefore, everyone in the academy now attaches great importance to foundation building. Many people not only complete their daily homework on time, but also are working hard to find elixirs and methods that can help with foundation building.

Of course, Lu Jing, an outsider, didn't know these things. He didn't even know what foundation building was, and didn't want to know. He only became interested when Xia Huai mentioned something about foundation building.

"You said...if the Dao foundation is damaged during foundation building, will it completely ruin the cultivation?"