Woeful Poison Body

Lin Yuan opened the stone box. The two of them looked inside, and a colorful, ancient-looking scroll appeared before their eyes.

The instant Xiao Yi Xian saw the colorful scroll, her heart stirred slightly. Her intuition told her that this scroll was very important to her.

Looking at the scroll, Lin Yuan's gaze narrowed slightly. This scroll was the beginning of Xiao Yi Xian's fate, the starting point for her to understand herself and walk the path toward becoming the Heavenly Poison Woman. And he did not intend to cut off this destiny. He would hand the right to choose over to Xiao Yi Xian.

As for Zi Yan and Qing Lin, their minds were not yet mature, so Lin Yuan would dote on them, guide them, and protect them while they were still weak. But as for Xiao Yi Xian, this young girl who, though young, was very mature, after giving her some guidance, he would respect her choice.

Under Xiao Yi Xian's hesitant gaze, Lin Yuan picked up the scroll. Beside it were a few small words: Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

"This is a poison scripture. Want to read it together?" Lin Yuan shook the scroll in his hand and asked Xiao Yi Xian.

"You're willing to share it with me? Wonderful." Xiao Yi Xian's eyes lit up, and her mood grew somewhat excited. She wanted to quickly confirm the reason for the stirring in her heart.

"Then come on!" Lin Yuan waved his hand, and Azure Dou Qi condensed not far away into an azure table and two azure chairs. He sat down in one of the chairs, then waved his hand at Xiao Yi Xian.

Seeing this method that was like void creation, Xiao Yi Xian finally truly understood just how vast the gap between the strong and the weak was. Many times, the miracles in the eyes of the weak were just casual acts in the hands of the strong. Xiao Yi Xian took a deep breath and sat down on the chair beside Lin Yuan.

Looking at Xiao Yi Xian's somewhat thin dress, Lin Yuan's brow lifted slightly. The cold deep within this cave was no small thing, and Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation was still very low. Thinking of this, Lin Yuan quietly formed a warm fireball beside Xiao Yi Xian, dispelling the chill around her.

Afterward, Lin Yuan opened the scroll, and the two of them began studying the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture together. This poison scripture recorded a large number of poison formulas, and Lin Yuan gained quite a bit from reading it as well. He did not reject the use of poison. After all, poison was also a very good method against the enemy, and the ideas in the poison formulas on how to use various medicinal ingredients also gave him no small amount of inspiration.

As time passed, the two of them finally turned to the last section. What was recorded in the final section was precisely the Woeful Poison Body. The scroll recorded in detail the characteristics of the Woeful Poison Body, the method of identifying it, what kind of destruction it would cause, and also recorded the bloody disasters and tragic end of a previous owner of the Woeful Poison Body.

When Xiao Yi Xian finished reading the method of identifying the Woeful Poison Body recorded in the scroll, her face turned deathly pale. As the following contents entered her mind bit by bit, especially after she finished reading the tragic end of the Woeful Poison Body recorded on the scroll, the despair in her eyes could no longer be concealed.

In the cave, the invisible atmosphere became oppressive. Lin Yuan did not even need to deliberately sense it to detect Xiao Yi Xian's wavering. Her shoulders were already trembling uncontrollably. This was probably the weakest and most shaken moment in Xiao Yi Xian's life. A physician who wanted to become an alchemist was actually destined to become a poison master, the opposite of her ideal.

Things have to be faced eventually. Knowing, accepting, facing it—this is the process of a person's tempering. Lin Yuan sighed inwardly, as if he had thought of certain matters from the past, and his gaze became even more distant.

Lin Yuan gently closed the scroll, looked toward the void ahead, and asked softly, "Xiao Yi Xian, you have the Woeful Poison Body, don't you?"

When those words fell into Xiao Yi Xian's ears, her body trembled. She turned to look at Lin Yuan's profile, her face and tone added a bit more sorrow. "How did you know... Right, you're so smart. You must have noticed my state just now. How do you plan to deal with me? Are you planning to get rid of me before I cause disaster to the world?"

"That would be fine too. I don't want to hurt innocent people. Rather than becoming that kind of calamity, I might as well die here. Compared to being surrounded and killed because of my identity as a woman with the Woeful Poison Body, perhaps dying as a physician would be a kind of happiness."

Lin Yuan listened quietly from the side, waiting for Xiao Yi Xian to vent the pressure in her heart, waiting for her emotions to settle.

As Xiao Yi Xian went on and on, after a while, she suddenly discovered in surprise that the corners of Lin Yuan's mouth had lifted slightly. Immediately afterward—

"Hahahaha, causing disaster to the world? Dying now is a kind of happiness?" Lin Yuan's playful smile broke Xiao Yi Xian's muttering to herself, and also interrupted her self-pity.

Xiao Yi Xian could not help looking at Lin Yuan with a slightly angry expression. She was feeling sad over her fickle fate, yet why did this guy not understand the mood at all? With that laugh of his, she was too embarrassed to continue feeling sad. The atmosphere was completely gone.

Lin Yuan looked at Xiao Yi Xian, put away his smile, and his expression also became solemn. He said in a deep voice, "There's no need to wallow in self-pity. Your constitution is a gift from the heavens, a treasure countless people yearn for but can never obtain. You should feel happy about it."

"Would anyone yearn for this cursed constitution? Didn't the scroll say that the Woeful Poison Body represents disaster and self-destruction?" Lin Yuan's words left Xiao Yi Xian somewhat doubtful. Her experience was still greatly limited, and on a matter related to her own constitution, she showed signs of caring so much that it threw her into confusion.

"Heh heh, what the scroll recorded is merely the experience of a Woeful Poison Body at the Dou Sect level. How great a disaster can a mere Dou Sect cause? It is only that the recorder's experience was insufficient."

"Xiao Yi Xian, remember this: the Dou Qi Continent is not defined by good and evil, but by strength and weakness. There are plenty of people who have caused more destruction and committed even greater slaughter than the Woeful Poison Body, yet to this day they are still feared, respected, and worshiped. Why? Isn't it simply because they are strong enough?"

"What you should be grateful for is that you were born with a key to strength. Although the path opened by this key is dangerous, you have the chance to choose, don't you?"

"The choice is in your hands. Ask your own heart what you want, then make your decision. As a friend, I will support your choice."

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Xiao Yi Xian was slightly stunned. A friend? What a familiar yet unfamiliar existence. Thinking carefully, she had been drifting from place to place all these years, and it seemed she had never truly had anyone who could be called a friend. She had not expected to gain a friend because of this strange experience—a friend who was not afraid of the Woeful Poison Body, a powerful friend with somewhat wicked tastes.

Out of the corner of Xiao Yi Xian's eye, she saw the azure fireball beside her that had dispelled the chill around her. A warm current flowed through her heart. Was this what a friend was? It felt... not bad.

"Why are you so good to me?" Recalling her short but deep interactions with Lin Yuan, Xiao Yi Xian had some doubts. As intelligent as she was, she sensed that the young man seemed to have a special good impression of her, but this kind of good impression was very different from that of the people in Qingshan Town who admired her.

"Perhaps because of fate, perhaps because of your outstanding beauty, perhaps because you have the potential to walk with me in the future. But the greatest reason should be that I wanted to do it, so I did it. That is all." Lin Yuan's voice was somewhat ethereal.

"You really are willful." Xiao Yi Xian stood up and solemnly extended her jade hand toward Lin Yuan. "Although I don't know exactly why you look at me differently, thank you for still being willing to become friends with me, someone with the Woeful Poison Body. I'm very happy to have a friend like you. I am Mu Yunxian. Everyone calls me Xiao Yi Xian."

Lin Yuan rose and grasped the hand Xiao Yi Xian extended. "I am Lin Yuan, Yuan as in Hidden Dragon in the Abyss, someone determined to reach the summit."

The two of them smiled at each other.

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