Wei Jun stared at Run Long, who, even after being hit with a strong strike was fine and dandy. Wei Jun stared at Lin Ruan who didn’t look so good and gave her the phoenix’s tear and said, “Get inside. Don’t call the police yet.”

Lin Ruan took the vial and drank the liquid without hesitation but she still asked, “Why?”

“Because I want to see where I stand,” Wei Jun said before he turned to Run Long who was slowly walking in his direction, and added, “And it wouldn’t be fun otherwise.”

Lin Ruan felt the scorching essence of the phoenix’s tear and the next moment, all her injuries had been healed, her condition had improved, the marks of poison were nowhere to be seen, and one more change inside of her that made her feel immensely surprised.

‘My Qi has improved and increased,’ Her Qi had become more potent, and not just that, her Qi had increased by a considerable amount as well.

She looked at Wei Jun who had provided her with that elixir. Not only had she ever heard of an elixir that could do that, she didn’t even know that this could be done. ‘Another monster,’ She couldn’t help but think.

Wei Jun ignored her pricing gaze and kept his eyes on Run Long who was also showing strong emotion of surprise on his face as he asked, “How did you cure that poison? That’s a blue leech poison. An antidote doesn’t exist for that.”

[Wow]

[That was some drastic measure]

‘What do you mean?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Sun Ruan was afflicted with the same poison]

[Just so you know]

Wei Jun smiled as he turned to Run Long. He was amused because the system understood his intentions but right now wasn’t the time for that. He first needed to take care of the problem in front of him.

Although Wei Jun had said he wanted to test his limits, what he really wanted was to push Run Long enough so that he would retreat. There was still something to gain from Run Long and for that, Wei Jun couldn’t kill him yet.

“That’s not what you’re here for,” Wei Jun said as he activated [Qi empowerment].

[Status]

[Wei Jun Ruan

Level: 34

HP: 43\43

QP: 175\300

Cultivation realm: Qi gathering realm]

[Strength: 72(+25)]

[Agility: 92-> 80(+25)]

[Stamina: 92-> 80(+25)]

[Defense: 67(+25)]

[Qi: 60]

[Charm: 41]

[Luck: 19]

His Qi had gone down by leaps and bounds but he still had Qi replenishing pills as a backup. And with the [Qi empowerment] skill, he was almost in the realm of a Qi empowerment cultivator.

Run Long nodded. That was all the answer he needed. Since Wei Jun knew why he was there, then Wei Jun was involved in this matter all along.

Run Long dug his feet into the ground and launched at Wei Jun. However, he was immensely surprised when his full power launch was stopped, although not effortlessly, by Wei Jun who smiled and directed his momentum to the ground while also spinning himself and delivering a strike at his abdomen, pushing Run Long into the ground.

Run Long hadn’t taken any damage but his Qi had taken a slight hit and lower a little than before. However, Wei Jun didn’t give him the option to get out as he began to rain down punches on Run Long, pinning him down on the ground without a chance to retreat.

Seeing that there was no way out, Run Long decided to use his Qi and blasted Wei Jun away. It gave him the time he needed to get up and jump back but just as he was midair going back, Wei Jun was already upon him.

Run Long crossed his arm in front of him and was hit by another strong attack but this time, there was a little something mixed in.

[Discharge -5QP]

Run Long’s Qi barrier had taken a strong hit and the place where Wei Jun had hit, was now cracked. Run Long was astonished and hurriedly reinforced the barrier with his Qi and focused on the incoming attacks. His attacker was relentless and proficient at fighting.

All Run Long had was speed and power while his fighting techniques were at most basic. However, Wei Jun was fast, precise, and followed a proper technique, his damage was doubled while his Qi usage was halved than Run Long.

Run Long couldn’t help but admit that his opponent, while lower than him in terms of Qi, was very much stronger than him in other aspects.

Wei Jun delivered a piercing kick to the same place where he had struck him with the discharge skill fist but this time, there was no Qi discharge because he was running low of it.

[Qi empowerment has ended]

And then there was this problem of his. Qi empowerment skill ended after five minutes and then there was a five-minute cooldown. However, from what he had observed so far, the cultivators didn’t have the same problem and they could keep it up as much as they wanted.

[You are welcome to use it on your own]

[But I won’t say anything about the cost]

‘Shut up.’ Wei Jun replied, annoyed by the system’s remark.

It was true that Wei Jun could activate the skills on his own through the circulation of his Qi, however, one, he couldn’t do such a perfect circulation so the same effect wouldn’t happen and two, the amount of Qi he would take might be doubled or even more because his control wasn’t that good.

So all in all, all he could do was injure Run Long as much as he could in these five minutes so that they could have a five minutes’ break, talk like in movies and figure out each other’s motives.

‘Yeah, right!’ Wei Jun said as he dodged a strike from Run Long. It was difficult to dodge and if Wei Jun didn’t have experience and predicted Run Long’s trajectory, Wei Jun wouldn’t have been able to dodge that strike.

Run Lon had felt that there was something wrong with his opponent. With the slight decrease in speed, there was something about it.

However, Wei Jun’s Qi armament was still up so how come only his power decreased was something Run Long couldn’t understand.

But, he didn’t need to understand as long as he could have the upper hand. Run Long stopped his charge by digging his feet into the ground and launched at Wei Jun once again. Wei Jun once again made an effort to dodge however, Run Long had learned from his mistake as he somehow changed the course mid-launch and struck Wei Jun square in the abdomen.

Wei Jun wasn’t harmed but his Qi armament had taken a big crack, he didn’t have the time to reinforce it because Run Long’s fist was about to come down again.

Wei Jun extended his palm on the left side and discharged two points of his Qi. The discharge propelled him also, pushing to the right side, outside of Run Long’s charge but Wei Jun didn’t miss this chance and with his right hand, he delivered a full powered fist infused with five points of Qi.

It struck Run Long straight in his left bicep, once again cracking his Qi armament but not to the extent like before. It was still a crack and Run Long had to step back, to avoid further risks.

This allowed Wei Jun time to breathe as well. His Qi armament had already been used four times, for each minute taking a hundred and forty points of his QP and then he had to reinforce the cracked part along with the discharge skill, bringing his Qi down to single digits.

[QP: 2\300]

Luckily, it didn’t seem like Run Long was planning on attacking again but Wei Jun still had four minutes down on his cooldown to the empowerment skill.

As for the armament skill, his Qi was being used constantly every minute for it so that skill took a great amount of his Qi as well.

[A ‘Qi replenishing pill’ has been consumed]

[QP has been fully restored]

[You cannot consume another pill for an hour]

Wei Jun didn’t consume the special kind but he did consume the one that had an hour-long cooldown between each consumption.

As his Qi began to fill up, Wei Jun this time tried a little something. Instead of just empowering all of his body, he tried to focus on his hands and feet.

[I wouldn’t recommend that]

‘Why?’ Wei Jun, keeping his eye on Run Long who also was attacking, looking at Wei Jun with his eyes wide open.

[This is not an experiment, host]

[This is a battle]

[There’s a reason why cultivators don’t empower just their limbs]

[Please wait until this battle is finished]

Wei Jun stopped. He had come to trust the system when it came to cultivation. He shifted his gaze back to Run Long who was looking at him strangely.

He asked, “How did you do that?”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep