Feelings Bloom in Secret! Xiao Yan Arrives!

Xiao Yi Xian lowered her eyes and bowed her head, carefully gathering the herbs.

Strands of her long hair fell by her sides. Her gaze was focused, making her look exceptionally beautiful.

Yet such a pure young girl...

Gu Fei closed his eyes briefly. He knew that Xiao Yi Xian possessed the Woeful Poison Body.

For now, Xiao Yi Xian herself was still unaware of this.

And the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture she had just obtained contained some descriptions of this constitution.

Once Xiao Yi Xian finished up and read the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, she would learn of it.

The Woeful Poison Body was something countless people throughout history feared, yet it was also coveted by many who wished to take crooked paths.

After all, people with this constitution hardly needed to cultivate. Simply by consuming poison, they could rapidly increase their cultivation.

But poison was poison, after all.

While their cultivation rose quickly, it would also damage their bodies.

Moreover, the process of raising one's cultivation this way was filled with pain.

And the Woeful Poison Body could erupt without warning. Once it did, if one failed to endure it and became a slave to the Woeful Poison Body, they would lose their sanity and embark on a killing spree, until they ultimately lost their lives.

Thus, many who had possessed the Woeful Poison Body had ultimately ended up killing those closest to them with their own hands before taking their own lives in agony.

The Woeful Poison Body had chosen Xiao Yi Xian. This was her fate.

Its seal had not yet been undone, so she could naturally pretend that nothing had happened.

She could act as though she had never discovered any of this, return to her peaceful yet happy life in Green Mountain Town, and live out an ordinary life.

Of course, she could also yield to her desire for strength, break the seal, and face the other, unknown side of things.

Gu Fei would not interfere too much with her choice.

Whether to activate this constitution or not would be entirely up to Xiao Yi Xian herself.

Besides, although the Woeful Poison Body was terrifying, it was not completely beyond saving.

At the very least, Gu Fei remembered that in the original story, Yao Lao had possessed a method that had saved Xiao Yi Xian's life.

He remembered that it involved using the Poison Pill Method to eliminate the hidden danger of the Woeful Poison Body.

That way, the Woeful Poison Body would lose its side effects and retain only its positive strength.

Gu Fei was leaning by the cave wall, his eyes lowered as he pondered. His gaze was unfocused when Xiao Yi Xian's cheerful voice startled him awake.

"Young Master, I've collected all the herbs. Here, take them!"

While Gu Fei had been lost in thought, Xiao Yi Xian had happily walked over with a pile of herbs in her arms.

Her eyes sparkled, and a few crystalline beads of sweat had formed on her forehead from gathering herbs.

Her purple hair was damp with sweat and clung stickily to the sides of Xiao Yi Xian's neck and cheeks.

The gentle young girl, like a lotus rising from the water, became even more captivating.

The corners of Gu Fei's lips rose as he stored all the herbs in his Storage Ring without refusing again.

"Mm. Let's return to the herb-gathering party. We've been gone too long. Someone might grow suspicious."

Xiao Yi Xian recalled that she and Gu Fei had been away for far too long, while Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had also been gone for quite some time.

If they did not reappear soon, people might suspect her and Gu Fei. She hurriedly said this.

Gu Fei nodded. Then, with Xiao Yi Xian leading the way ahead of him, the two left the cave one after the other.

When they reached the platform at the bottom of the cliff, Gu Fei once again directly wrapped an arm around Xiao Yi Xian's slender waist and flew upward.

He was quite gentlemanly, only loosely holding her, but fearing that Xiao Yi Xian might struggle and fall, he used a bit of deft force as well.

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Xiao Yi Xian felt enjoyment. Emotion Value +100

The flight upward lasted only a brief moment.

Yet Xiao Yi Xian had actually felt enjoyment. Gu Fei could not help secretly glancing at her.

The girl's little face was flushed red, the corners of her lips curled upward, and her entire body was completely relaxed.

When Gu Fei set her back on the ground, she even looked reluctantly at the hand that had held her before withdrawing her gaze.

After this incident, Xiao Yi Xian's affection for Gu Fei had deepened greatly.

She had not noticed it herself, but in truth, that affection had begun to faintly cross the boundaries of friendship.

Even feelings between a man and a woman had begun to sprout.

When the two returned to the top of the cliff, only Mu Li's cold corpse lay there.

Mu Li seemed unable to rest in peace, but from now on, he could only remain in this dense forest, never breathing again. Before long, he might even be devoured by wild beasts.

The Wolf Head Mercenary Group members whose cultivation Gu Fei had crippled had fled long before Gu Fei and Xiao Yi Xian descended the cliff.

They did not dare linger here at all, nor did they dare return to the party.

The young group leader, Mu Li, was dead. They did not even dare collect his corpse, and could only leave him there alone.

Because they had failed to protect the young leader, returning to the mercenary group meant death anyway—and the leader's methods of torture were even more terrifying.

Therefore, the only thing they could do now was flee the Monster Mountain Range at all costs and live as ordinary people from then on.

Gu Fei paid them no attention. Nor could he be bothered to.

As though nothing had happened, he returned to the herb-gathering party with Xiao Yi Xian, his expression exceptionally calm.

It was Xiao Yi Xian's first time doing something like this. Though her acting was somewhat stiff, she still managed to fool all the mercenaries.

Although some people noticed that quite a few members of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had vanished, they did not suspect the two of them.

On a dirt road a hundred li from Green Mountain Town, a black-clad youth was trudging forward with difficulty.

His face still looked somewhat youthful, but his gaze was exceptionally resolute.

Looking closer, an enormous black greatsword was actually strapped to the black-clad youth's back.

However, rather than calling it a greatsword, it would be more accurate to call it a thick iron ruler without an edge or blade.

The black greatsword had no tip either. At its end, it looked as though something had sliced it cleanly in half, exposing a smooth, mirror-like cross-section.

The surface of the pitch-black greatsword was also etched with blurry, strange patterns. They stretched all the way to the hilt, covering nearly every part of the blade.

The strange patterns, paired with its ancient black color, gave it a rather mysterious appearance.

The bizarre greatsword was almost taller than the youth himself.

It looked as though the sword would crush the youth beneath its weight in the next moment.

This peculiar combination made the occasional passersby unable to resist casting curious glances his way.

This person was none other than Xiao Yan.

"Teacher, you said before that you wanted me to cross the Monster Mountain Range. What exactly was your purpose? Was it to put me in danger so I could unleash my body's true potential?"

Xiao Yan stopped and spoke as though talking to himself, but the answer he had been expecting did not come.

"Looks like Teacher still hasn't awakened. I can only rely on myself for all of this..."

After a long while, Xiao Yan sighed and continued onward.