Stuck in a Chinese novel

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[I am curious about something]

\'What?\' Wei Jun asked, a little tired. It was the fifteenth day of their closed-door punishment and Liu Yu was still busy stabilizing her cultivation.

Wei Jun, on the other hand, was busy stabilizing his core and he had made progress by leaps and bounds in that regard.

However, fatigue was also catching up with him. He needed sleep, to eat, and most of all, to be free of the worry that his life was in danger.

[How are you so calm?]

\'I do yoga.\' Wei Jun replied and closed his eyes to get some sleep.

[No]

[That\'s not what I meant]

[Cultivators have deep emotions]

[Especially aggressive ones]

[But you\'re not just a cultivator]

[You\'re also an evil cultivator]

\'So?\' Wei Jun asked because he couldn\'t make any sense of the conversation.

[So evil cultivators have destructive thoughts]

[they have twisted desires]

[Like destruction, death, and other unspeakable things]

[However, your Qi core is calm as an immovable ocean]

[I saw it moved when Liu Yu\'s Qi threatened you]

[But otherwise, it doesn\'t influence you]

[How so?]

\'A person once told me that those are not my emotions to trigger.\' Wei Jun said. He didn\'t understand it then and he didn\'t understand it now either.

However, ever since he was born, there had never been a problem keeping his emotions in check. Wei Jun never wanted a toy, anything special. If he was denied something by his parents, he wouldn\'t be stubborn about it and let it go.

He always kept things to the point even from a young age. However, there was one emotion that would invoke other emotions in him such as disappointment, sadness, anger, happiness, and all.

[Love?]

\'Yeah. I was an idiot who fell in love with a girl at seven. She was eight, and she was beautiful to a child like me. I wanted to be her friend. However, she wanted to be my friend for an entirely different reason.\' Wei Jun explained.

[So unless it came to love or your life]

[Your emotions won\'t trigger]

\'Sometimes, very rarely, it also triggers when someone costs me money.\' Wei Jun added.

[Wow]

\'What?\' Wei Jun asked.

[I\'ve never seen such an evil cultivator before who had such control over his emotions]

\'If your curiosity is sated, can I sleep?\' Wei Jun asked.

[Of course]

[I will keep an eye out for the wife in case she mounts you while you sleep]

Wei Jun ignored the double-meaning sentence and immediately fell asleep.

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"Find him!" Yan Rong yelled as she ordered her subordinates to find their target.

The job was simple as simple as it could be. Snag the target as soon as he was released from the prison.

When Shao Chen came out of the prison, he looked haggard like he hadn\'t slept for a month, his beard was grown and his eyes were dead like fish.

But there was one emotion that was as alive as anything else.

Anger.

Just as he came out, he felt something was wrong. Like someone was waiting for him. Someone he wouldn\'t be able to defeat on his own.

So he decided at the moment to execute a vanishing technique he had learned as a mercenary. It was a taxing technique and it was a one-time chance as well.

If he was caught even after that, he wouldn\'t have enough Qi to fight back so it was a gamble for him and fortunately, it paid off.

Shao Chen managed to give his captors a slip and hid in the mountains to recover his strength. At most, it would take him two weeks before he was at his full strength. And then he would think about what to do next.

Every bone in his body told him to run away, get out of the country, and hide. However, just one part of his body refused to listen.

\'Wei Jun Ruan.\' Shao Chen thought. Just like he had taken something precious from him, Shao Chen was going to take something dear to him as well.

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Wei Jun woke up with an ominous feeling but felt so refreshed that he had to take a moment to review his state.

Since it was an ominous feeling, he couldn\'t help but look at Liu Yu. After all, she was the only threat to him right now. However, she was as Wei Jun had left her. Cross-legged and irresponsive.

Wei Jun sighed and sat up straight. \'How long was I out?\' Wei Jun felt refreshed beyond anything. He was still hungry but other than that, his mental state was top-notch.

[Two days]

[Almost three]

Wei Jun sighed and sat down. He was still very hungry and he wanted to eat. There were a lot of things in his inventory but he wasn\'t sure if Liu Yu could see him or not.

[She probably can]

[Her barrier hasn\'t come down even once]

[But you could try the grain balls]

\'Grain balls?\' Wei Jun asked.

[See those brownish balls in the pot]

[They\'re grain balls]

[They\'re made from various herbs and are good enough to keep a cultivator well-fed for an entire day]

\'All of them?\' Wei Jun asked.

[No]

[Just take one]

[Or you will be assaulted by a terrible diarrhea]

Wei Jun nodded and made his way to the pot which was still standing even after Liu Yu\'s Qi rampage. Wei Jun took one ball from it and ate it.

As soon as he did, he discovered that it didn\'t just smell horrible, it tasted horrible as well.

Still, he ate it and as soon as he did, his hunger disappeared on the spot as if magic.

[You have consumed a grain ball]

Other than the notification, there was nothing else about it so Wei Jun ignored it. He retired to his spot in the direct line of sight of Liu Yu and began to solidify his core.

He had made terrifying progress in the core solidification. It wasn\'t completed yet but he was sure that if he kept going at that pace, just a few days more and his Qi core would be perfect.

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"Sect master, may I ask you something?" A man asked the sect master who was fiddling with a metallic cube in his hands.

"What?" The sect master asked, his eyes remained closed while his hands still played with the cube in his hands.

"Why did you confine them together?" The man asked.

"I was told to." A simple reply came but nothing more than that. Even when the man asked who could order or even ask something like such a favor from the sect master, the sect master remained quiet.

He did, however, thought of the person who had asked him to do it. He then opened his eyes and looked at the cube. The cube also came from the very same person and it was a debt he couldn\'t pay for all his life.

\'Near immortality…\' He thought as he fiddled with the cube that was bound with him. It was a cube that kept him young. It was a cube that made body reconstruction like an everyday procedure for him.

\'But I wonder why the interest in both of them…\' He thought next. He remained quiet not just because he didn\'t want to answer his subordinate. He remained quiet because he didn\'t know the answer himself.

He just received a voice from the cube, as usual, an obnoxious voice that was full of arrogance, like nothing in the world could stand against that power.

And although the sect master hadn\'t seen them, he believed it with every ounce of his being. He was nothing but a speck of dirt against that entity.

While he was still thinking about them, another thought came to his mind. What he thought when he saw both of them standing side by side?

\'Perfect Yin and Yang.\'

It wasn\'t as perfect as he thought it was. The yang of the boy was weaker than the yin of the girl but it met all the conditions of perfect yin and yang.

\'Is that why?\' The sect master wondered as he once again stared at the cube but he didn\'t know what to think about it. Either he was wrong or he was right. But there was one thing for sure.

\'They were perfect.\' The sect master thought before he once again closed his eyes, cleared his mind, and fiddled with the cube again.

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"We found him." A man yelled in black clothes and Yan Rong rushed towards the voice. She saw the cave that had been emptied and the signs of someone living there.

"He was here? How long ago?" Yan Rong asked.

"About a day ago." The subordinate replied before he pulled out an animal skin and showed her, "And then there was this."

As Yan Rong saw the skin, she dropped it hurriedly and yelled, "Everyone to the Rising Dragon Star Agency!"

Yan Rong also bolted herself at the fastest of speed as she thought, \'He\'ll never forgive me.\'

She knew Wei Jun wouldn\'t forgive her for eternity if she let anything happen to the person whose name was written on the animal\'s skin.

On the other side, in the middle of a tall building, a handsome man made his way to the reception.

"How can I help you, Sir?" The receptionist asked since the man was very handsome and well dressed.

"I would like to meet Miss Xia Lu for an interview. I have an appointment with her." The man said.

"Can I have your name?" The receptionist asked with a smile.

The man smiled, fixed his glasses, and replied, "Shao Chen."