Dou Qi Continent / Green Mountain Town
"Who am I?"
"Where am I?"
A figure in white lay on a wooden bed, looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings in confusion. Her gaze swept across the pink bed curtains, which felt both familiar and strange.
Two chaotic streams of memories suddenly appeared in her mind, as though countless currents of electricity had passed through it. Fragmented scenes continuously arranged and wove themselves together in her head.
"Am I Xiao Yixian, or Xiao Yi Xian?"
Under the dim candlelight, a figure sat blankly at the edge of the bed...
"Why have I become so small... Wait, my voice?" Xiao Yi Xian looked at her two small, fair hands and suddenly realized something.
"Impossible, impossible..." She hurriedly felt herself over from top to bottom, and then...
"Why did I become a girl?!"
Xiao Yi Xian wore a look of utter despair. From what had just happened, she had definitely transmigrated, and the memories in her mind were a complete mess. This should have been a wonderful thing, but something seemed to have gone wrong...
She had become a girl.
"Damn it!"
She had read plenty of gender-bender novels before and had even fantasized about what it would be like to become a girl. But when it really happened to her... she realized she was panicking like crazy.
"Forget it. Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it. Nothing can be changed at this point..." After a bout of inner struggle, Xiao Yi Xian chose to compromise and began sorting through her memories.
Wasn't there a saying? "Life is like xx. Since you can't resist it, you might as well enjoy it."
Xiao Yi Xian could not resist fate, so she could only accept it.
What a pity. Not long ago, she had been a handsome young man on her way to a convention, yet in the blink of an eye, she had become a cute girl?
She only remembered walking down the street when she seemed to have been hit by a car. Judging by her current situation, she had apparently transmigrated as well.
This plot felt a little familiar... Most protagonists began this way. She vaguely remembered novels always starting like this.
She slowly wound a slender finger around her long purple hair. The faint medicinal fragrance and the real sensation forced her to admit that she had been reborn as Xiao Yi Xian.
She had to admit that a handsome man had turned into a cute girl.
She had lost the family members who had once been closest to her...
She would never see those two-dimensional wives again...
Honestly, it would be a lie to say she was unhappy. She had come to a world she knew well and become her favorite character, Xiao Yi Xian.
She possessed the Calamity Poison Body she hated most. She cultivated by consuming poison, was immune to all poisons, her entire body filled with Poisonous Gas, unable to escape poison's temptation.
This physique, which could unconsciously kill others, had turned the kind-hearted Xiao Yi Xian into the Heavenly Poison Girl, despised and shunned by all.
If not for the destined protagonist of this Dou Qi Continent, her life would likely have been like those of all previous possessors of the Calamity Poison Body.
She had wanted to become an apothecary, even an alchemist, but she had walked down the path she hated most. Even before the person she loved, she could only become a confidante.
She glanced at the bright silver moon beyond the wooden window, her thoughts drifting who knew where.
Now that she had become Xiao Yi Xian, she still had to face the problem of the Calamity Poison Body.
The Calamity Poison Body cultivated differently from ordinary people. It did not require years of Dou Qi cultivation. To become stronger, one only needed to consume poison. The Calamity Poison Body would then use a strange method to convert the poisonous power contained in the poison into extraordinarily special Poison Dou Qi.
The more potent the poison, the greater the benefit to their strength. However, poison was still poison. Although they could rely on the Calamity Poison Body to prevent the poisonous power from devouring their bodies...
Once they consumed more and more poison in the future, until even the Calamity Poison Body could no longer suppress the Poison Dou Qi within them, they would slowly die amid the agony of countless poisons devouring their bodies.
In the original story, Xiao Yi Xian first used Yao Chen's Poison Pill Method to control her poison body, then used a method left behind by a senior with the Calamity Poison Body to completely control it, ruling the world through poison.
No matter what she wanted to do, she still needed the protagonist's group for help. According to the original body's memories, Xiao Yan had not yet arrived in Green Mountain Town, but the map to that cave in the Monster Mountain Range was still in her hands.
Although she did not know why she had transmigrated into Xiao Yi Xian, cultivation was the most urgent matter now. With her current Six-Stage Dou Qi, if she did not have the identity of an apothecary, she would probably have died somewhere long ago.
If a beautiful woman was weak, what awaited her would be...
Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation talent was not particularly good. If she followed the conventional path, she had no Cultivation Method, no teacher, and pitifully few resources.
It was far too difficult to walk that path. And as someone born with the Calamity Poison Body, would it not be a waste if she did not make good use of it?
After all, a certain faction in Central Continent was particularly fond of the Calamity Poison Body, even cultivating acquired Calamity Poison Bodies.
Besides, who could guarantee she would never touch poison in her life? Without any cheat ability now, only the Calamity Poison Body could set her on the road to becoming strong.
Honestly, she did not want to eat poison either. If she had not transmigrated into Xiao Yi Xian, she likely would barely have encountered poison in her entire life.
No matter what, the only way to escape her current predicament was to consume poison. This was, after all, a world where the strong preyed on the weak.
"Then... what should I do?" After calming down, Xiao Yi Xian realized this problem.
How could a girl gain freedom under such circumstances?
Um, with her cultivation, she would probably be dead in no time if she went outside.
And no matter what she did, she had no cheat ability or system. She was completely broke...
Then there was only one path before her, and it was also a path she had to take...
Since she had thought it through, all she could do now was awaken part of the Calamity Poison Body.
"Hu!"
Xiao Yi Xian took a deep breath. Her hands trembled as she pulled a small white paper packet from her clothes and slowly opened it. The purple powder was deadly poison, yet it constantly drew her in.
Her delicate hands rose and fell as she held the poison powder. Then, as if recalling something, determination flashed in her eyes. In an instant, she swallowed all the poison powder.
This was her only path to becoming strong. She wanted to walk the path from the original story ahead of time. She also wanted to become a powerhouse—or rather, to survive.
The instant the poison powder entered her body, she seemed to feel a special current circling within her. The Dou Qi in her body was crazily devoured before finally gathering in the Dantian below her abdomen.
Xiao Yi Xian lightly licked her lips with her small tongue, her gaze somewhat dazed. That numb sensation made her immerse herself in it.
After consuming poison this time, she developed the urge to eat even more poison powder. Bag after bag, she consumed all kinds of poison until she had eaten the only four bags of poison she possessed and became drowsy.
Day quietly arrived with a rooster's crow. Xiao Yi Xian lay on the bed, her breathing calm and steady, as though she had already fallen asleep.
A great deal of white paper was scattered around her, and even the air carried faint poison along with a subtle medicinal fragrance.
Knock, knock, knock!
"Xiao Yi Xian, are you awake? A patient has arrived."
Xiao Yi Xian awoke from her sleep at the sound of knocking. A trace of purple light flashed through her eyes. Rubbing her slightly dizzy little head, she said,
"I know. I'll go to the main hall in a moment. Go make preparations first."
"Understood!"
Hearing Xiao Yi Xian's response, the person outside quickly headed toward the main hall.
Listening as the footsteps grew farther away, Xiao Yi Xian gradually let out a breath of relief—
She glanced at the scattered white paper around her and smiled awkwardly. How could she go on living if someone came in and saw this scene?
Consuming poison either meant suicide or cultivating through poison. Her usual image as a pure, white-clad fairy would probably shatter completely.
If this had been her previous life, she could guarantee that she would never wake up again unless she became a ghost...
After tidying the room, she stood before the mirror. The girl reflected within wore a pale white dress. Her appearance could not be called peerlessly beautiful, but she was still a rare beauty.
Her faintly smiling face exuded a fresh, ethereal air. Her lips, once red, were now purple, giving her a different kind of beauty.
What made her eyes flash with admiration was that willow-thin waist, narrow enough to fit in one hand. This waist truly was the prettiest she had ever seen. As expected of Xiao Yi Xian.
It was just...
She looked at the slight curves before her. Something felt a little off, but it was not much different from her previous life. The change was not that great.
She was merely a tiny bit prettier...
Her hair and height differed by just a tiny bit...
And then her body was just a tiny bit different from her previous life...
Xiao Yi Xian's slender fingers gently twined around her purple hair. The faint medicinal fragrance made her completely indulge in it.
Perhaps because of the original body's memories and emotions, she held a special affection for medicine.
The abundant Nine-Stage Poison Dou Qi in her body made her even more intoxicated, as though everything now were a dream.
The Calamity Poison Body truly lived up to its name. After swallowing all the poison powder in one night, she had risen by three stages of Dou Qi.
She lightly brushed aside the long hair on her forehead, slung the little bag cherished by the original body over herself, and walked out of her small room.
As Xiao Yi Xian walked through the courtyard, the servants she passed treated her with utmost respect. Here, Xiao Yi Xian was an uncrowned queen.
Anyone who offended her would either be beaten up by the people she had saved, or simply be denied treatment.
Passing through the winding corridors, she arrived before the main hall. A figure lay before the entrance, the bloody wound in his chest especially eye-catching.
Xiao Yi Xian walked through the surrounding crowd and came before the patient. Looking at the wound, she carefully cut open his clothes with a small knife, then took some healing medicine from the bag at her waist and sprinkled it over the injury.
"Wow, Xiao Yi Xian is here!"
"So beautiful. Tsk, tsk, that waist is so slender..."
"Idiot, are you trying to die? More than half the mercenaries in Green Mountain Town have been treated by Xiao Yi Xian. Be careful someone hears you and cuts out that tongue of yours!"
"I was just talking nonsense... Heh heh, heh heh..." Seemingly noticing the hostile gazes cast his way, the man's face paled. Looking utterly embarrassed, he was dragged away from the apothecary by his companion.
The crowd became much livelier because of Xiao Yi Xian's arrival. Countless gazes watched Xiao Yi Xian as she bandaged the wound.
Quite a few people even looked at the unconscious figure with intense envy, wishing they were the ones injured and being bandaged by her, though they were reluctant to spend the money.
Besides, getting hurt really hurt~
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