Sense of Guilt, Fire Cloud Water Flame!

"Yao Lao, what do I need to do to graft it onto myself?"

The moment Xiao Yan finished speaking, the enormous butterfly wings suddenly flapped, trying to flee.

"It still has spiritual awareness?" Xiao Yan was stunned.

"It is merely a remnant of consciousness left behind after death. Use Heavenly Flames!"

Following Yao Lao's guidance, Xiao Yan unleashed both the Fallen Heart Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Fire, enclosing the Pale White Bone Wings between them. The bone wings immediately began shrinking rapidly.

"Come here!"

Xiao Yan shouted sternly. The bone wings, now shrunken to an almost invisible size, drilled into his qi vortex along with the Heavenly Flames.

"Whoosh!"

At a thought from him, the domineering, broad bone wings abruptly sprang from his back.

Pale white.

Shocking!

"Such beautiful bone wings." Xiao Yi Xian felt a little envious, but she also knew that such an opportunity was not meant for her.

Obtaining three scrolls had already far exceeded her expectations.

Especially the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture...

"No, there's another scroll!"

Xiao Yan's expression shifted as he flashed in front of the powerful expert's skeleton and pulled out an ancient, yellowed scroll.

"This... could it be the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame?" Yao Lao cried out in surprise.

"The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, ranked third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking?" Xiao Yan froze.

Yao Lao nodded gravely. "The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame ranks third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking and possesses the special ability to purify all things. Anything touched by even the slightest bit of it will be purified into nothingness. It is extremely terrifying."

"This Heavenly Flame is exceedingly rare in the world. There seem to be only two or three of them, yet no one knows where they are. No one has ever truly seen one."

"Could this map be the way to find the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame?" Xiao Yan was overjoyed.

Ranked third...

After swallowing it, he might directly rise to Dou Wang... or even higher!

"Unfortunately, this is only a fragment of the map. With information this vague, it is impossible to find it." Yao Lao sighed regretfully.

"Take it slow." Xiao Yan was in no hurry.

What he lacked least was time. One day, he would find all the map fragments.

"Let's head out."

The Great Desolate Bone Butterfly Wings were truly incomparably tyrannical. Xiao Yan reluctantly put them away, then led the still-dazed Xiao Yi Xian toward the cave entrance.

"Tsk tsk, Xiao Yi Xian, you really do have secrets!"

Accompanied by a sinister laugh, a burly man slid down a rope from above.

"He Meng?" Xiao Yi Xian panicked for a moment, then quickly calmed down.

He Meng was the third-in-command of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, notorious for his lustfulness.

"Young Leader Mu Li told me to wait nearby and see what secrets you had. Sure enough, you've gained quite a haul!"

His greedy gaze swept over the scrolls as He Meng bared his teeth menacingly. "Hand them over!"

"Whoosh!"

Xiao Yan waved a hand indifferently, and a wisp of Fallen Heart Flame drifted onto He Meng.

"Aah!"

Amid his screams, He Meng and the rope turned to nothingness together.

"So that's why this guy hadn't gone with Mu She. He was waiting here to catch us!" Xiao Yi Xian shuddered in lingering fear.

Still...

He Meng had died far too ridiculously. If he had neglected his duty even a little and gone back to town to have some fun, he could have escaped this disaster and perhaps even taken over the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

"Let's go back."

Xiao Yan picked Xiao Yi Xian up again, but this time, she did not resist much.

"Thank you."

The breeze stirred her dark hair. Xiao Yi Xian clutched the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, both happy and despondent.

She could live on.

But...

She would live neither as a human nor a ghost.

If she had a choice, she would rather be a healer who saved the dying and treated the wounded than a poison woman feared by all, even hated by all.

"Farewell, if fate allows."

Xiao Yan set Xiao Yi Xian down at the edge of town and smiled warmly.

"Wait!"

Xiao Yi Xian grabbed Xiao Yan's arm, took a deep breath, and handed him several packets of poison powder.

"Take these. They might be useful."

Xiao Yan raised a brow, accepted them with a smile, and tucked them into his sleeve.

Seeing that Xiao Yan showed no disgust, Xiao Yi Xian felt a faint, inexplicable joy.

"See you!" Xiao Yan waved and departed.

Watching Xiao Yan's retreating figure, Xiao Yi Xian was overwhelmed with mixed emotions and stood there in a daze.

Everything she had experienced during the day felt like a dream.

"See you again..."

Touching the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture in her arms, Xiao Yi Xian seemed to find a reason to keep going.

Perhaps becoming a poison woman feared by everyone was not such a bad choice after all.

Inn.

The moment Xiao Yan stepped inside, Nalan Yanran excitedly rushed over.

She nearly crashed into Xiao Yan's arms.

"You broke through to Nine Star Dou Zhe?" Xiao Yan could hardly believe it.

Her speed was many times faster than he had expected.

"Don't be too surprised. She likely received the inheritance of Yun Potian, the former sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect. Your Wind Sesame Sunflower Ointment just happened to enhance the inheritance's effectiveness!"

Yao Lao's flat voice sounded in Xiao Yan's mind.

"A sect inheritance? There's such a thing?" Xiao Yan was astonished.

"Most sects have them. This little girl has a good temperament. She actually had the courage to face death and pass through the Life and Death Gate."

Yao Lao had also heard a little about the Misty Cloud Sect's Life and Death Gate.

Could it have been because of me...? Xiao Yan's expression turned strange.

If Nalan Yanran discovered that after putting in so much effort, she had only just become a Nine Star Dou Zhe while Xiao Yan was already a Six Star Dou Ling...

Wouldn't she collapse on the spot?

"Senior, you're amazing!" Nalan Yanran's eyes sparkled with admiration.

She was the first person in the Misty Cloud Sect to pass through the Life and Death Gate, obtaining all of Yun Potian's inheritance.

Not even Yun Shan and Yun Yun had achieved this.

Moreover...

Yun Potian's inheritance was like a huge clay jar that occasionally leaked a little, benefiting her greatly.

Even Gu He could only increase the speed at which the inheritance awakened by thirty percent.

But Xiao Yan had increased it severalfold!

"Keep working hard."

Xiao Yan shut off his senses, unwilling to listen to Nalan Yanran's endless chatter any longer. He took out a Qi Recovery Pill and swallowed it.

Late at night.

Xiao Yan sat in his room as the fifth Heavenly Flame arrived as promised at dawn.

His cultivation also rose from Six Star Dou Ling to Eight Star Dou Ling.

The Flame Mantra advanced as well!

"It seems the boost Heavenly Flames give to one's strength is not determined entirely by their ranking."

Xiao Yan snapped his fingers lightly, and a flame shaped like a fire cloud yet resembling flowing water appeared.

"Ranked sixteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, Fire Cloud Water Flame!"

The instant the Fire Cloud Water Flame appeared, Xiao Yan's sleeve suddenly stirred.

It was the several packets of poison powder Xiao Yi Xian had given him.

"Sizzle, sizzle!"

When the Fire Cloud Water Flame touched the poison powder particles, they abruptly bloomed into tiny flowers, fragrant and elegant, without the slightest trace of toxicity.

"It purifies poison?" Xiao Yan quickly grasped the Fire Cloud Water Flame's ability.

"A bit useless. At least for me right now, it serves no purpose."

Xiao Yan shook his head slightly. It seemed that today, he was once again fated to miss out on a Heavenly Flame ranked in the top ten.

"Tsk tsk."

As Xiao Yan fell asleep, a teasing smile appeared on Yao Lao's aged face.

"That little girl who plays with poison seems to have been troubled by her constitution all this time."

"I wonder what changes would occur if the Fire Cloud Water Flame were infused into her body."

"Interesting..."