The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#593 - The Dharma Ending Age?

Lu Jing didn't hesitate after getting the new flying sword and immediately started refining it.

With this, the number of flying swords he possessed reached as many as three. It's unclear if there will be anyone like him in the future, but he is definitely unprecedented. After all, Gu Zhongling, who is known as a genius sword cultivator, has only refined two flying swords.

Of course, the power of Gu Zhongling's two swords is far from comparable to Lu Jing's newly acquired three. Fortunately, with Lu Jing's terrifying cultivation speed, it probably wouldn't take too long to catch up with Gu Zhongling.

And most importantly, the part of his secret power that surged after he opened the Second Palace finally had a place to settle.

Relying on cultivating three swords simultaneously, Lu Jing could exhaust the secret power in his upper dantian within eight hours.

This way, he would have three and a half hours of free time… Well, it's a bit tight, but at least he could maintain his daily life.

Moreover, he also had the talisman treasure given to him by Supervisor Huang, which he could use once a day to consume a lot of secret power.

Squeezing it, there was hope for five hours. And when he wasn't on external missions, he could also rely on the beast control formation to bully the various fierce beasts in the academy, as well as devote himself to the ginseng planting business to solve the excess secret power.

In short, he had temporarily overcome the immediate crisis. As for what to do after upgrading and becoming a Third Palace cultivator, Lu Jing had no time to think about it. However, with the compass Kui gave him, collecting more flying swords wouldn't hurt.

If he really had tens of thousands of flying swords, he wouldn't be afraid even if he became a Ninth Palace cultivator.

Unfortunately, according to Chi, all the flying swords in the cultivation world combined are probably only two or three hundred. This is the result of hundreds of years of accumulation.

After finishing the external mission and resolving the crisis of exploding, someone finally remembered that he was still an academy student.

So, after tidying up a bit, he went to the school hall the next morning for a lecture, which he hadn't attended for a long time.

He remembered that there should be a spell class in the morning. But when he arrived at the school hall, he found that all the disciples were talking to each other, and their eyes were strange when they saw him.

Lu Jing was a little confused by the staring. He walked to Xia Huai, sat down, and asked the girl, "What are they talking about?"

"Professor Sun just sent someone over to notify everyone that the lecture in the morning has been canceled."

"Then why are they looking at me with that kind of look?"

"Because you haven't come to listen to lectures for a long time. As a result, Professor Sun stopped lecturing as soon as you came. And you are famous for being able to cause trouble. Everyone now suspects that this matter is related to you."

"… … … …"

"I'm kidding you," Xia Huai covered her mouth. "Everyone just thinks it's rare for you to come to listen to lectures. As for Professor Sun… it's probably because of that matter."

"What matter?"

"I'm afraid you're the only one in the entire academy who doesn't know," Xia Huai's face also put away her playful expression and replaced it with a serious one. "In fact, someone discovered half a month ago that the secret power of the academy seemed to be thinner than before. At that time, it also caused some small-scale discussions, with all sorts of opinions."

"However, most people didn't take it to heart, thinking it was only temporary. Until now, more than half a month has passed, and the secret power has not returned to its previous concentration. The cultivation and spellcasting of many people have also been affected to some extent, even if the impact is still very small for the time being."

"But it's hard for everyone to ignore it. By the way, aren't you a perfect foundation builder? You should be the most sensitive to changes in secret power among us. It's okay when you're in the Book World, but after you come out, don't you feel that it's different from before?" Xia Huai asked curiously.

This question hit the nail on the head.

Although Lu Jing is now a Second Palace cultivator, he has never absorbed even a trace of secret power from the outside world.

All of his secret power is refreshed by himself, self-contained. Whether the secret power outside is strong or weak has nothing to do with him.

However, after hearing Xia Huai's words, Lu Jing also realized the seriousness of the problem. "The secret power is decreasing, is it temporary?"

In fact, when he asked this question, he already had the answer in his heart. After all, as a secret power-resistant player, Lu Jing almost read all the books related to secret power changes when he was in the library, and he didn't see any similar records.

In other words, at least this kind of thing has not happened in the past few hundred years.

And it's hard not for Lu Jing to associate this with Guo Shouhuai, whom he met in the library before. The latter looked worried as he was looking for books related to secret realms. According to the current saying in the cultivation world, secret realms are the source of secret power.

So the decline of secret power probably didn't start half a month ago. It may have been earlier than most people thought, but it was only recently felt.

And the secret power is still decreasing until now. Doesn't that mean that the Department of Celestial Observation doesn't have a good solution to this?

Thinking of this, Lu Jing couldn't help but gasp. Although the amount of external secret power has no impact on him, it has a great impact on the world he is in.

There are strange objects in this world. It is because of the existence of the Department of Celestial Observation and cultivators that the threats and disturbances brought about by those strange objects are resolved, and ordinary people are prevented from being harmed by strange objects.

The decrease in secret power will undoubtedly break this balance. The casualties of the Department of Celestial Observation in handling cases in the future may also increase, and the manpower originally short due to the frequent appearance of strange objects will be even more stretched.

The top priority now is to quickly figure out whether the decline of secret power is temporary or permanent.

There is no need to say the former. As long as they can survive the period of secret power decline, then everything will be fine. But if it is permanent, or the decline period is very long, say hundreds or thousands of years, then the trouble will be great.

Especially as Lu Jing, who had been bombarded by online novels in his previous life, the four words "End of Dharma Era" directly popped into his mind.

No way, the secret power is only decreasing now, it won't all disappear, will it?

Lu Jing didn't dare to think about it anymore, and when his eyes swept over the others in the school hall, he also saw varying degrees of worry on everyone's faces.

However, most people, because they didn't go on external missions as early as Lu Jing, are only worried that the things they have just learned so hard will become useless.

Among them, Chen Hanqing's face was the most pale. As one of the only four first-class secret cauldrons in the academy, he had just completed his transformation through secret power cultivation, so he naturally didn't want any more problems to occur on his cultivation path in the future.