Stuck in a Chinese novel

Yuna looked at Wei Jun with great disbelief in her eyes. Wei Jun looked down at her with cold eyes before he looked away and yelled, "Don't let them kill anyone!"

The imperial soldiers who had moved to protect the imperial family were about to achieve their objective when the smirk-man executed a killing strike on one of his own, almost killing him but before the man could die, Wei Jun grabbed him and pulled him back so he wouldn't die.

Unfortunately, the crown prince managed to kill one while he moved away. When the imperial grandmasters saw their own people dying at the hands of the imperial prince and his companions, he yelled for them to fall back.

As for Wei Jun, he pulled his hand back and looked at the heart in his hand that had stopped beating while the person he had harvested the heart from fell on the floor with the same look of disbelief she had before.

Wei Jun moved forward and aimed straight for the smirk-man who realized Wei Jun's goal and tried to move away but he had forgotten there wasn't just Wei Jun on the military side.

"Don't kill him!" Wei Jun yelled on time before a hand stopped just before the smirk-man's face, the heat from it melting his face along with that permanent smirk on his face off, surfacing the flesh and bones underneath.

"Aahhh!!!!!"

He fell on the ground as he yelled in extreme pain while he clutched his face. Wei Jun ran after the crown prince but the crown prince had a trick up his sleeve as well. He pulled something out from his subspace bracelet and drank it. As he did, he disappeared from his spot and entered one of the paths.

He was so fast that Wei Jun was only able to catch a glimpse o him. But, it wasn't like Wei Jun was trying to catch him anyway.

And the objective was accomplished anyway.

Wei Jun stopped and everyone stopped. In the background, only the sounds of screams could be heard but Wei Jun ignored them and looked at the crowd that had stopped moving altogether.

"I hope I don't need to tell you guys what happens now, do I?" The question was mostly pointed at the imperial cultivators who realized the issue was greater than they thought.

When everyone remained silent, Wei Jun approached the screaming man, formerly known as the smirk-man, and knelt before him. Wei Jun grabbed him by his melted face which only enhanced the agony of the poor man.

Wei Jun remained silent and listened to the screams for a while before he knocked the man out.

Wei Jun stood up and turned to the rest, "We need to follow him. There have already been two deaths which means one more is required. We are to make sure no one dies from here on."

"What would happen in the case of three deaths?" General Shao who was the only one who was thinking with a cool head at the moment so he was the one to join the conversation.

"No idea. But it can't be something good." Wei Jun replied before he added, "The imperial grandmasters will move with me while you two remain here and hold the position. Just make sure no one is killed or dies."

He then purchased a bunch of health pills from the shop and threw them at General Shao after he stored them in a bottle.

"What are these?" General Shao who had never seen such a thing asked.

"They will restore one's health with the exception of limbs so they will be a good backup. They work only ten minutes apart so don't take two at once." Wei Jun explained.

General Shao was shocked by such a thing and he wasn't the only one. Wei Jun ignored their shock and said, "I will say it again. Make sure no one dies. Not even him."

General Shao nodded when Wei Jun pointed at the passed-out face-burned man.

"Wait." Just before Wei Jun was about to move out, General Ming who had been silent since earlier said.

Wei Jun stopped and let her speak.

"Why take them?" General Ming asked.

"Cause someone needs to be here with the masters and I don't trust them if they are indeed in this together. What if, after we're gone, they massacre everyone here?" Wei Jun asked as he explained his reasoning.

The imperial cultivators clicked their tongues but remained silent while General Ming contemplated in total silence before she nodded and said, "Very well."

"But once we're done, I'm killing this bastard." General Ming said as she pointed at the unconscious man. Wei Jun nodded without having any qualms and said, "Knock yourself out."

With that, the next step of the plan was decided. Wei Jun and the imperial cultivator grandmasters followed the path the crown prince had taken. Wei Jun was right in his analysis once again. No where in the requirements said that the keys had to be evil cultivators.

The word evil wasn't a requirement but a necessity of the imperial family. To find the right path. Because only someone who was involved in darkness could feel the overwhelming darkness coming from that path.

Wei Jun himself could tell that...

'That sinister energy. Just what could it belong to?'

Even he was scared. He didn't know how strong whoever was imprisoned was. He didn't know much, but he knew of one thing, whoever it was, it was sinister to the point that even Wei Jun felt chills down his spine.

Wei Jun looked at his hand and noticed the absence of the subspace ring once again. Wei Jun was curious what they wanted but he had a guess. They were after the fruits and the keys. There were some additional requirements. Wei Jun just wasn't aware of them yet.

"How long do we have to walk?" The woman among the masters asked.

"As long as we have to." Wei Jun replied.

"And why do we have to listen to you?" One of the grandmasters asked.

"Because if you don't, that angry woman back there will freeze your balls." Wei Jun replied.

The grandmasters had no choice but to listen to them. They couldn't kill General Ming and Shao because they were not strong enough. Why the need to kill them? Because if they were to get out and the fact that they were with evil cultivators became apparent, the imperial family's fate would be unknown, but their fate would be perfectly clear.

Only two ways to prevent that.

Either kill everyone or have them as your witness.

Since killing them was not an option because they couldn't, they had to curry their favor, and being a douche was not a wise option if they wanted that.

Wei Jun knew what was going through their minds but he didn't care one bit. He was sure they would listen to him as long as they wanted to get out and not be branded as evil cultivators.

'Besides...' Wei Jun had other plans for them.

While they walked, Wei Jun finally decided to check the descriptions on the fruits and the keys and as he did so, his eyes turned wide in surprise before a smirk appeared on his face as he kept walking to their destination.

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"Haa... Haa..." The crown prince took deep breaths as he arrived at the end of the catacombs and entered the ginormous room that held something in the middle of it.

He sighed and pulled the subspace ring he had pulled off of Wei Jun. There was something in it that he needed. Needed to have it before he would open the sarcophagus that was in the middle of the giant room.

However...

"What?" He couldn't help but ask himself as he checked the subspace ring in his hand.

"How could it be? I surely saw him." The crown prince said as he looked at the empty subspace ring in disbelief.

"Looking for there?" He heard a voice from behind him before he could even get over the dreaded surprise.

"You!" The crown prince yelled as he saw Wei Jun and the rest of the cultivators enter the giant room.

"Me." Wei Jun simply replied before he asked, "So? What was the big plan? Wake her up and have her under your control?"

The crown prince's eyes went wide as that question was asked. He couldn't believe how Wei Jun knew of that.

"How did you?" The crown prince couldn't help but ask.

Wei Jun remained silent as he was once again reminded of what he read in the system description. If the answer his gut and analysis had arrived was true, then he was sure he wouldn't be able to do what the imperial family was planning to do due to the additional requirement.

A requirement they had missed.

Wei Jun simply smiled and threw the keys towards the crown prince along with three fruits and said, much to the surprise of everyone in the room, "Go ahead, wake her up."