Stuck in a Chinese novel

As Lin Ruan and Run Long collided, the shockwave from their exchange shook the surroundings. The actor's team that hadn't managed to make it inside was struck by that shockwave and stumbled. Xia Ly fell along with the rest, but she hurriedly managed to collect herself and helped Quan Li to carry Zhan Yi.

There were scratches on her knees and hands but she gritted her teeth and pushed through. Right now wasn't the time to worry about small injuries.

They came inside and put the injured Zhan Yi on the couch in the living room. Zhan Yi was knocked out cold but it wasn't the worst because Xiao Heiling checked his pulse and it was still strong.

"It's dangerous here. We need to make it deeper inside. Try to go out the back!" Xia Lu yelled orders but no one moved. They were all too frozen in fear seeing the state Zhan Yi was in.

"Snap out of it!" Xia Lu yelled. It had the intended effect but Quan Li still hadn't snapped out of it. Xia Lu grabbed her and shook her, "Remember what Wei Jun said that day in the gym? Snap out of it and face your fear!"

Her wake-up call was accompanied by a slap, of course. Quan Li snapped out of it but asked in a trembling voice, "But sister, what am I supposed to do?"

Her expression wasn't good, she was lost. "For now just survive," Xia Lu said, pointing at the unconscious Zhan Yi.

Quan Li managed to pick up some courage and carried Zhan Yi with shaking hands. Xia Lu turned to the other two and said, "Evacuate from the back along with the servants."

Xiao Heiling nodded and said, "I will go get the servants. You go with them," He instructed Quan Kui who wasn't very keen on leaving without him.

"Don't worry." He said before he moved deeper into the villa along with everyone to help with the evacuation.

Xia Lu, who was left alone, felt another tremor that pushed her slightly but she managed to pick herself up. She then turned to the stairs and without hesitation, made her way up the stairs to the room of the master of the house.

'I need to wake him up,' The situation was urgent and didn't call for cultivation. He could do that later but right now, Wei Jun needed to deal with a more urgent problem.

As she arrived at Wei Jun's room, she felt that the tremors on the outside had lessened quite a bit. That meant one of two things. Either Lin Ruan was prevailing, or…

She didn't want to think ahead because that wasn't something she could even afford to think of right now. As she opened the door of the room, she sensed something that made her freeze in her steps. Chilling cold eyes. That's what she saw.

The chill she felt was so severe even though those eyes weren't aimed at her. The owner of the eyes blinked, a little longer than usual and when he opened them, there was no coldness in his eyes.

"What are you doing here? It's dangerous here," Wei Jun said as he slowly stood up, his muscles cracked with each of his movements as if woken from day-long sleep.

Xia Lu, seeing the coldness was no more there, collected herself and said, "It's even more dangerous outside."

"Hmm. I didn't expect him to attack us like this," Wei Jun said as he slowly made his way to her and said, "Sit on the bed. Don't move. I will be right back."

Before Xia Lu could say anything, she felt her senses dull, and soon, her eyes were covered with darkness. Wei Jun had pressed a few of her acupoints, a trick he learned when he learned about acupoints.

Xia Lu fell unconscious and Wei Jun gently placed her on the bed. Wei Jun made his way down the stairs but he didn't go to the front door but made his way to the back of the villa where the servants were evacuating.

Xiao Heiling, the person Wei Jun expected the least to stay behind, was actually doing the evacuation. It was impressive so Wei Jun approached him. Xiao Heiling saw him too and was about to say something when Wei Jun threw something at him and said, "Take it to Zhan Yi. He needs it."

Saying so, Wei Jun turned and left for the front door which was very much gone thanks to the tremors of Qi from the outside. The tremors Wei Jun felt now were a lot less than when he woke up.

However, he didn't feel happy because his enemy wasn't injured in the least. On the contrary, it was Lin Ruan who was on her knees, panting with blue spots on her face and exposed arms.

'Poison, huh?' Wei Jun thought as he purchased another one of the same things he had given Zhan Yi because it had been the most effective thing in the system shop against injuries.

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As others ran inside, Lin Ruan fought against Run Long. At first, it was bearable but then suddenly, things got a lot worse.

'Is this the power of a Qi gathering realm cultivator?' She couldn't believe what she was witnessing. It was clear that the man before her was in the Qi gathering realm, at most in the middle rank, yet she, a Qi empowerment realm cultivator, couldn't hold herself against him.

She was on the losing side. And that wasn't the worst part. The man was conserving his strength while she was going all out. 'This doesn't make any sense,' She thought as she dodged a strike to her abdomen and delivered a palm strike covered in a blue hue.

Run Long didn't bother to dodge that strike and blocked it with his arm, covered in his own Qi of a yellowish hue. Of course, he had taken that strike because he had something up his sleeves. He pulled a special needle from a box that he would usually keep hidden and stabbed Lin Ruan with it.

The needle ignored the Qi barrier around Lin Ruan and penetrated her stomach. She felt nothing but a slight sting but still jumped back while pulling the needle out. It could have been anything and she wasn't going to take a chance.

But, she felt something. Something lethargic. She felt her strength slowly waning. It wasn't going down slow enough for her not to be able to feel it but not so fast that she couldn't process her own Qi to locate whatever she was injected with.

"It's useless," Run Long stopped attacking her. He stood back with a cold look on his face and said, "The poison infects your Qi. The more you supply to it to contain it, the faster the poison would act."

When Lin Ruan heard the word poison, she scoffed at Run Long and said, "Some man are you. Using such underhanded tactics in a fight."

"You dare talk to me about fairness?! When you were the ones who started this?! You think I don't know it was your work?!" Run Long said with anger overflowing in his words as yellow Qi swerved around him. His power began to change.

Something was changing inside him.

'Peak of Qi gathering realm!' Lin Ruan thought inwardly. She had seen a lot of things in the world of cultivation but she had never ever witnessed even the greatest of talents to break through in front of her without anything special.

Lin Ruan hurriedly stepped back and following the advice of Run Long, she stopped using her Qi to contain the poison that actually slowed down her power deterioration.

She gathered all of her Qi in her hands for one final attack. Although the Qi was making the poison spread faster, it was also able to protect her innards but with her Qi out of the way, she felt her insides churning by the poison but she didn't care.

It wasn't to the point that she wouldn't be able to make it out. She focused back on her full and probably final attack as she launched herself at Run Long with both of her palms extended forward.

Now a sane person would dodge given the time but Run Long didn't dodge. Instead, he also extended both of his hands but he didn't use Qi to reinforce them. he simply stood there with the power of simple Qi armament.

Lin Ruan and Run Long's palms collided with each other and a shockwave stronger than ever assaulted the area, destroying the front entrance of the villa and many other things.

The dust cloud that was raised due to that began to settle as Lin Ruan came into view, on her knees and coughing blood. Her skin had purple spots in many places, the poison she thought wouldn't spread so fast was spreading faster than ever.

But that wasn't her main concern as she laboriously spoke, "What sort of monster are you?"

The dust around Run Long settled as well and when he came in view, there wasn't a single sign of injury on him. Run Long chose not to reply to that and slowly walked forward as he gathered Qi in his hands and said, "I didn't come here to kill anyone else but that fu*ker, but you forced my hand."

He raised his hand, ready to bring it down on Lin Ruan when he was suddenly struck in his chest by something. Run Long was thrown away, all the way to the walls of the villa.

Wei Jun, who stepped forward and stood next to Lin Ruan said, "Now, is that how a guest should act?"