Stuck in a Chinese novel

I made a little change in the Dragon tear's description but this change makes it more sensible.

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"Where are you going?" The Captain asked as he saw Wei Jun turn around and walk in the direction of the wyverns, "All you have to do is give an answer."

"There was a thing my brother always used to say," Wei Jun said as he kept walking, without even turning to look at the platoon, "We don't kneel."

No one understood what that meant yet no one could mock that phrase. They didn't even understand what he meant yet they all had a natural impulse to take his words to heart.

And fear them, and in doing so, fear him.

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Wei Jun must have walked for about an hour. By now, he was well out of the platoon's eyes.

'What's stopping them from leaving?' Wei Jun asked. It was a predetermined plan. Except for Wei Jun, there was no one in that platoon who was at the level of the Wyverns yet all of them had come to this place. The question was why?

Did they plan to leave once Wei Jun was dead? Or did they have another scheme prepared?

The answer to that came from the system.

[They cannot leave]

[Not unless the guardian of this dungeon is killed or permits them to leave]

'Guardian?' Wei Jun asked.

[Some special cases among the monsters]

[Like the queen bumblebee or the hound]

[Special monsters, one could say]

[They are bound to the dungeon]

[And only their permission or death can unlock the path of return]

[It's not the same for all dungeons]

[But for almost all of the dungeons]

[It's like so]

'Which means someone is going to join them soon. Someone who can fight the wyverns.' Wei Jun speculated.

[It would have to be someone even more powerful than that Brigadier]

[After all]

[A blood wyvern is no easy opponent even for Qi Grandmasters]

'Blood wyvern?' Wei Jun was intrigued so he asked.

[Superior life from of the wyverns]

[Closest to dragons]

[They have the thickest dragon blood in them among all types of wyverns]

[It also allows them to use the skill of dragons]

[The famed dragon breath]

[Of course]

[It's nowhere near the original]

[But it will still do the job and cook you well done]

'What are you saying?' Wei Jun asked.

[I'm saying you have no chance of winning]

[So take that dragon's tear]

[And take it now]

Wei Jun didn't know what the urgency was about but he did as the system said.

He pulled the green stone from his inventory and held it in his hand.

[Tear of the green dragon (Diluted)]

[Tier B-]

[Description: Green dragons are beings known for their vitality and strong healing powers. A characteristic unique to them. Not even the great red dragons, the kings of the dragon race possess such strong healing powers]

[Effect: Upon usage of a cosmic power, you can heal yourself or others]

[A.N: This is not a skill

The amount of health recovered is equivalent to the power used]

[Would you like to absorb the tear of the green dragon (diluted)?]

[Yes\\No]

'Wouldn't it be better to take it diluted?' Wei Jun asked.

[It would definitely be better]

[But it will also blow you up]

Wei Jun decided not to comment on that and simply clicked on yes. The next moment, a warm current passed through him as if his body was dipping into a warm sauna bath.

The feeling didn't last very long and unlike what Wei Jun expected from the clichés like that, there wasn't an ounce of pain. Slowly, the feeling accumulated at one spot and settled down in his heart.

[Pain isn't the only thing that brings death]

Wei Jun was wise enough to agree and looked at the skill window. However, as the description said, there was no skill addition to his skill window.

'How do I use it?' Wei Jun asked.

[How do you use the Death Qi whip?]

Wei Jun had no answer to that. Death Qi came to him as if it was a part of his body. Even that didn't come to him as naturally at first as it was now, but it was at least something he could see.

Wei Jun closed his eyes and tried to look into his heart. However, he tried and tried and couldn't reach into his heart. For some reason, he couldn't inspect his heart like he could inspect his Qi core.

So, he decided to take a different approach. Since he couldn't reach into his heart with his mind, he would let something else take his mind into it.

Wei Jun reached out to his yang Qi and began to circulate it through his body. Naturally, it passed the vessels in his heart and when it did, that was when Wei Jun noticed nothing at all in his heart.

It was strange, he could feel it in his body before and even now, he could sense something faint in his heart but he could not just pick it up, and now, even with Qi, he was unable to pick up its traces.

[The imprint is not on your body, host]

Wei Jun stopped. He distinctively remembered the system saying the imprint of the dragons was on his soul. If that was the case, he had no clue what to do about it.

[Soul is not something you can reach into]

[Just feel it]

[It is a part of you]

[Just a part you cannot reach]

[Like the itch on your back that you just cannot scratch but it is still there]

'I'm limber and I can reach my back without an issue.' Wei Jun replied to the analogy represented by the system.

[… Right]

[Just feel it]

Wei Jun sighed and closed his eyes. Once again, he tried to reach into his heart but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't. Seeing that nothing improved even after an hour, Wei Jun decided to give up.

However, just as he did, he suddenly came up with an idea. Something so simple he felt like an idiot not thinking of it before.

Wei Jun pulled out a knife and slashed himself on his hand. Blood began to dip and a notification of his losing health popped up in his view.

Soon enough, his HP was lowered by 10. As it did, Wei Jun used his yang Qi to stop the bleeding but he didn't heal his HP. Once he was done, he willed something deep down in his heart to heal him.

This time, he didn't even have to try it as hard as before. Just as he thought of it, strange green energy began to leave his heart and traveled to his hand via the vessels that were used by Qi.

In just a moment, it was in his hand and his Qi began to be consumed at a fast rate and his HP began to heal. In just a moment, a time so short that Wei Jun hadn't even blinked his eyes fully open when he was healed.

And not just that, the same warm current flowed through him once again. Granted, it was less this time than before, but it was still soothing and if Wei Jun wasn't so much in control of his body, he would have liked to do it again.

Wei Jun shook his head and tried to dive back into his heart but just as the same as before, Wei Jun could sense something in his heart, but he couldn't reach out to it. Since he knew how it worked, Wei Jun stopped trying to waste time and made his way toward the place where the wyverns were still flying.

Wei Jun was near enough for them to pick his scent up but they still didn't attack him. Wei Jun was feeling optimistic about this so he kept walking in the direction of the place where he could feel a tremendous amount of power coming from.

As he approached what looked like a cave, wyverns began to land next to him, eyeing him with intentions unknown, Wei Jun contained his composure and kept walking towards the cave.

While he appeared calm on the outside, Wei Jun was panicking on the inside. This time, he had no plan in his arsenal. No backup plan for fleeing from there. He hadn't expected the platoon to have a spell prepared. While he did expect a battle, he didn't expect one with the wyverns.

His plan had many blind spots and now that those spots were fulfilled, Wei Jun was left with only one option.

Take a gamble.

Something he had rarely done before in his life. Whenever Wei Jun headed into a situation, he always had plans from A to Z prepared but this time, his only hope was to believe in his luck.

As he arrived before the cave, he stopped. The immense pressure coming from the inside was frightening even for him. Once again, he came to the simple realization that this was an opponent he wouldn't be able to win against.

The only option was to make that opponent an ally.

And so, he stepped inside, hoping for the best and anticipating the worst.