Stuck in a Chinese novel

\'Fuck!\' Wei Jun cursed as the weight of the rubble was on his back and something seemed to have penetrated his thigh.

[Are you okay, host?]

\'Given the circumstances, I should be but I am,\' Wei Jun replied and asked, \'What happened to me back there?\'

[You died]

[But you didn\'t really die]

[It seems to have met the prerequisite of some condition that awakened death Qi inside you]

\'Is that why you asked me not to activate Qi armament with that Qi?\' When Wei Jun returned to his room and protected Xia Lu, he was abbot to create Qi armament but since he was out of normal Qi, he decided to use the other one.

However, the system had advised against that, or it wasn\'t just a simple advice and a warning.

[Remember Run Long\'s reaction?]

[Outsiders won\'t know it is death Qi]

[To them it is evil Qi]

[If you are categorized as an evil cultivator]

[No matter who you are, the entire world of cultivation would band together to kill you]

[At your current level, you cannot even defeat Run Long let alone the entire world]

Wei Jun hated to admit it but he was indeed weaker than Run Long. Especially now that Run Long had broken through to the next rank in cultivation. It was all the more dangerous for Wei Jun to face him.

As for the death Qi, he was well aware of the Qi trace so if he were to use it here, he would be ousting himself to the world.

[For now, there are no traces of death Qi outside even when you awakened]

[But if you use it, there are bound to be]

\'I see,\' Given that, Wei Jun\'s only option was to bear this burden and wait the time left for when he could consume another Qi pill.

\'Shouldn\'t have left her here,\' Wei Jun thought. He regretted leaving her there but he had no way of knowing that Run Long would end up breaking through to the next level.

Xia was still unconscious underneath him and the weight of the rubble on his back was increasingly getting harder to deal with by the moment. He couldn\'t even use the Qi empowerment skill to make it bearable so all he could do was hold it with his back as long as he could.

On the outside, Sun Ruan arrived with Lao Chen and examined the surroundings. "I sense Lin, Wei Jun, and another person\'s Qi. Go follow that one," Sun Ruan ordered Lao Chen who swiftly carried it out.

As for Sun Ruan himself, he scanned the surroundings with his Qi to see if there was anything left. To his surprise, he sensed two life forces, still alive, buried under the villa. One of them was none other than his grandson who Qi could be traced to him and as for the other one, he didn\'t who it was but given his grandson was atop that person, protecting them, it must be someone important.

"Grandfather!" Sun Ruan heard a familiar voice and saw Lin Rian running at him.

"Oh. Lin, what a surprise, you have reached the pinnacle of the Qi empowerment realm," Sun Ruan said, not interested in saving Wei Jun at all.

"What?" Lin Ruan said quietly but she hurriedly shook her head and said, "There\'s trouble. I can\'t find Xiao Wei."

"He alive." Sun Ruan said to placate Lin Ruan.

"He is?" Lin Ruan beamed and asked, "Where?"

"Underneath there," Sun Ruan said, pointing at the ruined and fallen villa.

Lin Ruan\'s face fell when she heard that. From the looks of it, the battle wouldn\'t have been easy since the opponent was someone who had even given her a hard time. Wei Jun must be low on qi if not out of it. He wouldn\'t be able to survive in there.

"We need to get him out then!" Lin Ruan said and was about to move when Sun Ruan stopped her, "Not now. He is buried too deep. Not only did the ceiling cave in, but the floor did as well. If we move the unsettled rubble even a little bit, it would be dangerous for him."

"But can\'t just do nothing!" Lin Ruan said out loud.

"I know. However, even if Xiao Wei survived, the mortal with him would not survive," Sun Ruan said.

"Mortal? What mortal?" Lin Ruan asked. "He is protecting a mortal underneath him," Sun Ruan said while pointing to the place where Wei Jun was.

Lin Ruan wasn\'t at a level where she could scan the surroundings with her Qi so she asked, "Who is it?"

"I don\'t know," Sun Ruan replied.

Lin Ruan bit her lower lip. Her brother was important but she couldn\'t say that they should disregard the other person and just focus on saving Wei Jun. She wasn\'t that heartless yet.

"Who was it?" Sun Ruan asked.

The scale of destruction was not normal so it was bound to be someone strong. The problem was, Sun Ruan couldn\'t recognize that Qi pattern.

"It was the creator of the Miracle Cream," Lin Ruan replied.

"What enmity would that boy have with Xiao Wei?" Sun Ruan asked.

"Xiao Wei sabotaged his operation and destroyed it completely," Lin Ruan replied.

"Hahahahahaha!" Sun Ruan erupted in boisterous laughter as he said, "Now that\'s a descendant of the Ruan bloodline. Good. Good. Maybe it is time to hand some business responsibility to him."

If not for the circumstances, Lin Ruan would have been very happy to hear that but now she wasn\'t too sure. Cultivators weren\'t inhuman. No cultivator would be able to survive under a fallen building without Qi and even if Wei Jun had Qi, it would soon run out.

"What do we do, grandfather?" Lin Ruan asked but Sun Ruan remained quiet. He just kept looking at the place where Wei Jun had fallen and decided to see what he would do.

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"Why the hell is it not happening?" Wei Jun asked out loud, annoyed by the fact that he couldn\'t restore his Qi normal way.

Since he would have to wait for the pill cooldown to end, he thought he would try it the normal way but even that wasn\'t working. The only one who had an answer was the system and his body was failing so he had to ask.

[It\'s the death Qi]

[As long as you have that, no type of Qi in the world would get near you]

[Even the core inside you rejected the death Qi]

\'What does that mean?\' Wei Jun asked, getting his emotions under control.

[It means you wouldn\'t be able to cultivate normally now]

[Even the Qi core inside you would require force instead of smooth flow now]

\'Why? Is the death Qi that evil?\' Wei Jun asked because, from the words of the system, the other types of Qi were sort of disgusted by the death Qi.

[No]

[They\'re afraid]

\'What?\' Wei Jun couldn\'t understand what the system meant.

[No human is supposed to have death Qi]

[Death Qi is the strongest form of Qi]

[No one in the history has ever had it]

[Except one thing]

\'What?\' Wei Jun asked.

[The dragon of death]

[But that\'s another story]

[What matters right now is that the other types of Qi are too scared of the death Qi]

[So they are rejecting it while it is still weak]

\'What happens when it becomes strong?\' Wei Jun asked.

[Death Qi absorbs other types of Qis]

[It will absorb everything in the world]

[Just like you absorb the life force of others and increase your own stats]

[Host]

[I don\'t think you awakened the death Qi]

[I think it has always been inside you]

[That was why you grew stronger everything you killed a cultivator]

Wei Jun thought back to everything. It was true that he was puzzled about all of that. Why would he gain stats when he killed a cultivator?

The system had said it was impossible and it wasn\'t the function of the system. So now it meant that it was a system of him. Wei Jun\'s.

Wei Jun had something inside of him that was different than the rest. Something dark and strong.

\'Death.\' Wei Jun said.

[Precisely]

[Somewhere in there]

[In your soul]

[You have the element of death]

[Since you don\'t know how to control it]

[It has manifested on its own]

[And it has taken the form of Qi]

[Host]

[I don\'t think you will ever be able to cultivate normally]

\'Is there any way to get rid of it?\' Wei Jun asked.

[No]

[If it was a cultivation technique, then you simply had to delete it from the cultivation techniques window]

[But it still only has one cultivation manual registered]

[This is not something of the outside]

[This is inside of you]

[Inside your soul]

[You cannot rip out a part of your soul no matter what you do]

"Ugh…" Wei Jun was about to continue when he heard a groan from underneath him.

"What the? Where are… we?" Xia Lu woke up and asked, finding herself in a cramped space.

"Morning beautiful," Wei Jun uncharacteristically made a joke.

"What?" Xia Lu was more puzzled by that than her surroundings.