World-Saving Hall Poisoning? Back Me Up!

Xiao Yi Xian pursed her lips, and tears suddenly streamed down her face.

"What's wrong? You don't want to?"

Xiao Ze could not help but feel curious. If she wanted to refuse, she could just refuse. Why was she suddenly crying?

"No, I do!"

Xiao Yi Xian shook her head vigorously and hurriedly replied.

"Ever since I was little, whenever anyone discovered my Poison Body, they feared me like a tiger and avoided me at all costs. Only you were willing to accept me."

Hearing this, Xiao Ze's smile faded. He reached out and rubbed Xiao Yi Xian's head, looking directly into her eyes as he spoke sincerely.

"Don't worry. Your Poison Body will definitely be brought completely under control. When that time comes, no one will fear you anymore."

Xiao Ze made the promise solemnly.

Xiao Yi Xian nodded with all her strength, her eyes brimming with tears.

Xiao Yi Xian was kind by nature and dreamed of becoming an alchemist, but her innate attributes were insufficient, preventing her from fulfilling that wish.

Yet she had still resolutely chosen to become a physician who saved lives and healed the wounded, striving to live out her dream.

Unfortunately, fate seemed to have played a cruel joke on her.

A physician devoted to saving lives possessed a Poison Body that killed anyone who touched it!

No matter how unwilling she was, her Poison Body would unknowingly harm many people close to her!

In the original story, Xiao Yi Xian went to the Chu Yun Empire and inadvertently killed two elders who had cared deeply for her.

Even at the moment of their deaths, those two elders were still worried about her!

Such a cruel experience completely shut Xiao Yi Xian's heart away!

She came to believe that she was a disaster born by nature!

That was also why Xiao Ze wanted to take Xiao Yi Xian away.

Not only because Xiao Yi Xian could help him cultivate.

But also because his Perfect Calamity Poison Body could help Xiao Yi Xian control her Poison Body and keep her from accidentally harming others.

He wanted to prevent Xiao Yi Xian from suffering through that pain again!

"Alright, since you're going to follow me, let's formally introduce ourselves!"

Now that Xiao Ze had confirmed Xiao Yi Xian was willing to follow him, he no longer concealed his identity.

"I'm Xiao Ze, the Fourth Young Master of the Xiao Family in Wu Tan City!"

Of course, the Exquisite Face Mask was not easy to remove. He would wait until he returned to Wu Tan City, since it would be ruined once removed.

"I'm Xiao Yi Xian, a pharmacist from Ten Thousand Medicine Hall in Qing Shan Town!"

Looking at this somewhat weathered-looking young man, Xiao Yi Xian asked curiously, "Then should I call you Young Master Xiao Ze from now on?"

"No need. We should get along like friends. I didn't come looking for a maid or subordinate."

Xiao Ze shook his head and looked seriously at Xiao Yi Xian.

"I'd rather you became a friend I can talk to about anything, a companion who fights at my side!"

Xiao Yi Xian revealed a warm smile and nodded firmly.

Ever since meeting Xiao Ze, she had nodded far more often than before, and smiled more often too.

Xiao Yi Xian had actually noticed it long ago.

Xiao Ze had never treated her as a subordinate, attendant, or anything of the sort.

After gaining her trust, he had taken the initiative to pull her up from the ground.

He no longer looked down on her from above.

That small gesture had sent Xiao Yi Xian's favorability toward Xiao Ze soaring.

"Just call me by my name. We should be about the same age. This face is a mask, and it'll be damaged if I remove it, so I can't take it off for now."

Xiao Ze added an explanation, and Xiao Yi Xian obediently nodded.

At the same time, she carefully examined Xiao Ze's face. If Xiao Ze had not told her, she truly would not have been able to tell that it was a disguise.

Xiao Yi Xian was curious what kind of face lay beneath the mask.

But as Xiao Ze had said, he could not remove it for now, so Xiao Yi Xian suppressed the curiosity in her heart.

After talking for a while, the relationship between the two grew much more harmonious.

"Come to think of it... how did your Calamity Poison Body erupt? Did you deliberately take poison?"

Xiao Ze was somewhat curious. In his memory, Xiao Yi Xian should have been rather resistant to taking poison.

Otherwise, she would not have clutched her blanket and wept bitterly after taking poison.

"No. I remember eating a box of pastries, then feeling that something was wrong with my body and realizing that my Poison Body was about to flare up."

"So I hurriedly left Qing Shan Town alone and came to the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Then I met you, Xiao Ze."

Xiao Ze wore a thoughtful expression as he said, "You were poisoned. Whoever did it wanted you dead!"

"For poison potent enough to knock out someone with a Calamity Poison Body, its lethality is obvious!"

Xiao Yi Xian nodded, hatred showing in her eyes.

"Who could be so vicious as to want me dead? I don't think I've offended anyone in Qing Shan Town!"

"Sometimes, even if you don't go looking for trouble, trouble comes looking for you."

Xiao Ze shook his head as he spoke to Xiao Yi Xian.

That was exactly why he had stayed away from public view along the way.

Even a healer like Xiao Yi Xian, who devoted herself to saving lives, had been given a vicious poison by someone who wanted her dead.

"Do you want the person who poisoned you to pay the price?"

Xiao Yi Xian's eyes lit up at once, and she nodded repeatedly.

Though she was kind by nature, she was not the kind of person who could simply laugh off someone trying to kill her.

"Then let's return to Qing Shan Town and take a look. Maybe we'll find the answer."

Xiao Ze took out two cloaks and gave one to Xiao Yi Xian.

"Your clothes are dirty, and I don't have any women's clothes here. Make do for now. Put on the cloak and hide your identity."

Xiao Yi Xian obediently accepted the cloak and draped it over herself, wrapping herself up tightly.

"Also, don't call me by my real name from now on. When traveling outside, it's easy to stir up trouble and implicate the family, so it's best not to reveal our real names."

Xiao Yi Xian nodded, then asked in confusion, "Then what should I call you?"

"Just come up with a codename."

"Can I call you Young Master?"

"Uh... sure."

The two chatted as they hurried toward Qing Shan Town. From Xiao Yi Xian's account, Xiao Ze soon identified the target.

Ten Thousand Medicine Hall's competitor—World-Saving Hall!

After Ten Thousand Medicine Hall hired Xiao Yi Xian, its business had flourished, taking away World-Saving Hall's customers.

Cutting off someone's source of wealth was like killing their parents!

It was not strange for World-Saving Hall to want Xiao Yi Xian gone.

Upon arriving in Qing Shan Town, Xiao Ze found that he did not seem to need to verify anything.

The owner of Ten Thousand Medicine Hall had brought people to block the entrance of World-Saving Hall. A young man knelt nearby, while the surrounding crowd surged with righteous indignation.

Xiao Ze and Xiao Yi Xian listened from the side for a while and soon understood what had happened.

After Xiao Yi Xian's Poison Body flared up and she left Ten Thousand Medicine Hall.

The pastries she had left behind were quickly discovered by Ten Thousand Medicine Hall's people, and they immediately caught the person who had poisoned them.

After an interrogation, they had traced it back to World-Saving Hall.

At that moment, the owner of Ten Thousand Medicine Hall had come to World-Saving Hall in a fury to demand an explanation!

Other ordinary mercenaries who learned of the news had gathered as well, demanding that World-Saving Hall explain itself—or they would not be polite!

Xiao Yi Xian had saved many lives!

Yet the owner of World-Saving Hall, a small and shrewd-looking old man, appeared completely fearless.

"Ten Thousand Medicine Hall! You think you can frame my World-Saving Hall with this little bastard!?"

The owner of Ten Thousand Medicine Hall snorted and angrily rebuked him, "The witnesses and evidence are all here. No amount of sophistry will help you!"

"If you don't give me an explanation today, I'll tear down your World-Saving Hall!"

The surrounding onlookers echoed his words.

"That's right! Xiao Yi Xian is such a beautiful and kind person, yet you people tried to poison her to death. You're truly inhuman!"

"Poor Xiao Yi Xian, killed by heartless beasts like you!"

"Today, I'm here to back them up!"

Suddenly, a discordant voice rang out.

"If a healer can be so easily poisoned to death, then her Medical Arts must not have been much to speak of!"

Mu She slowly stepped forward!

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