"What should we do, then?"
Xiao Yan's anxious voice echoed through the cave. He did not want the fellow villager he had just met to be gone so soon.
Xiao Yi Xian walked over with a dark expression and gave him a solid knock on the head.
"That hurt! Why did you hit me?"
Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Yi Xian, who had hit him, and felt like crying without tears. What had he done now?
"I'm not at that stage yet. Don't make it sound like I'm about to die!"
Hearing Xiao Yi Xian's stern voice, Xiao Yan could only draw circles in grievance at the side, cursing her.
"Medicine Elder, so I need your help."
Seeing Xiao Yi Xian's serious expression, Yao Chen shrugged. "This will be difficult, even if I do have a solution."
"What solution?"
Xiao Yan leaned closer. He was immensely curious about what method could control such a constitution.
Yao Chen floated in the air, gazing toward the sky outside with the air of a lofty master. He said gravely, "The Calamity Poison Body is rare in this world. It harms both oneself and others. There is only one method."
"What method?"
Xiao Yan's eyes were full of little stars. On one hand, he wanted to know how this fellow villager could be saved. On the other, this old man seemed to know so much that he appeared to be an expert.
Xiao Yi Xian did not know what to say from the side. She already knew these things.
Yao Chen stood with his hands behind his back. "The only way is to gather the toxins within the body into a pill. This is called the Poison Pill Method. Once the poison pill is formed, the poison body can be controlled."
The moment Xiao Yan heard this, he impatiently said to Yao Chen, "Then, Medicine Elder, hurry and help my fellow villager!"
Yao Chen helplessly shook his head. "The difficulty of this Pill Control Method is no less than refining a physical body. Difficult, difficult, difficult..."
Xiao Yan was dumbfounded upon hearing that, muttering endlessly at the corner of his mouth, "How could this be? How could this be?"
Seeing how concerned Xiao Yan was for her, Xiao Yi Xian smiled faintly. She rubbed his head and said to Yao Chen with a smile, "I know where to find the materials for the Pill Control Method."
"Hmm? You know?"
Yao Chen floated before Xiao Yi Xian and asked excitedly. If the Pill Control Method could succeed, then his resurrection would no longer be a problem.
Xiao Yi Xian nodded. "I know the locations of three Heavenly Flames."
"Wonderful!"
Yao Chen became even more excited upon hearing this, dancing with joy. He had a chance to revive, and an even greater chance to personally kill his traitorous disciple.
"However, how do you know?"
Yao Chen looked at the calm Xiao Yi Xian. He felt as though all of this had been within her plans. Just who was she?
Xiao Yi Xian smiled faintly. "Rest assured, it will not harm you, Senior. My master was the sect leader of the Shushan Sect on the Dou Qi Continent. He used his life to divine a small amount of information for my sake."
"Hmm?"
Yao Chen merely hummed. When he had roamed Central Continent, he had never heard of any Shushan Sect. Could it be some hidden clan?
Upon hearing Shushan, Xiao Yan's eyes became unfocused. He walked over to Xiao Yi Xian and asked, "Is Shushan still accepting disciples? I want to join."
"Hmm?" Medicine Elder wondered why Xiao Yan seemed to understand more than he did. What were they even talking about? He could not understand any of it.
Had he fallen behind?
Could he no longer keep up with the times?
Xiao Yi Xian smiled. "No problem. It's just that Shushan only has the two of us now. As for its inheritance, we each need to walk our own path."
Xiao Yan's eyes dimmed when he heard that. He had thought he could join some mighty super sect!
After all, in his previous life, Shushan had been a renowned great sect, and legends of sword immortals had appeared endlessly.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Xiao Yan and smiled faintly. "Once you break through to Dou Zhe, I can pass the Imperial Sword Technique on to you!"
The instant Xiao Yan heard this, he excitedly grabbed both her hands.
Black lines of irritation slowly formed on Xiao Yi Xian's forehead, and she beat Xiao Yan up again. This kid was getting far too carried away. If she did not hit him, she simply would not feel right.
Yao Chen grinned as he walked over to Xiao Yi Xian and whispered, "It requires three Heavenly Flames to refine it, but I don't have anyone here capable of controlling three Heavenly Flames."
Xiao Yi Xian glanced at Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen instantly understood. The two of them discussed things quietly like a pair of foxes.
"Medicine Elder, look at Xiao Yan. Maybe he can definitely cultivate the Flame Mantra successfully!"
Yao Chen looked at Xiao Yi Xian as she leaned closer and whispered in surprise, "Your master even knew whether I possessed the Flame Mantra?"
Xiao Yi Xian chuckled and whispered, "Relax. My master only divined a little before suffering a backlash and passing away."
Yao Chen looked at Xiao Yi Xian with a strange expression. "Aren't you sad that your master passed away?"
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Yao Chen with her deep eyes and said calmly, "My master could not have lived much longer due to severe injuries anyway, so he did this for me in the end."
Though Yao Chen found it somewhat strange, he did not ask further. He smiled and glanced at Xiao Yan, who was still lying on the ground. "I have no confidence in the Flame Mantra either. Not only are Heavenly Flames exceptionally difficult to absorb, but the failure rate in cultivation is also extremely high."
Xiao Yi Xian said with complete confidence, "No matter what, we just need to make Xiao Yan cultivate it. This is the only chance for both of us to survive."
"That's true!"
Xiao Yan trembled as he stood up from the ground, clutching his head. Looking at the two people whispering behind his back, he suddenly thought of the word "foxes" for some reason.
In his eyes, the two seemed like an old white fox and a little white fox chattering away about something. For no reason at all, goosebumps rose all over his body.
It felt as though something bad was about to happen!
"Ahem, brat from the Xiao Family, for the sake of the three years of Dou Qi I have provided you, I will personally help you return to Dou Zhe within a few months."
Yao Chen stood with his hands behind his back. With his assured expression and immortal-like bearing, Xiao Yi Xian might have been fooled too if she did not know his true nature.
"Xiao Yan pays respects to Master!"
Having lived two lives, Xiao Yan was naturally not someone unfamiliar with worldly matters. Having experienced countless ups and downs, he naturally knew that the person before him was an absolute golden thigh to cling to.
As the saying went, "Anyone who refuses to cling to a golden thigh is a fool."
It was just like the saying from his previous life: "When young, one does not know the goodness of rich older women, and mistakes true affection for someone else."
Yao Chen nodded as he watched Xiao Yan decisively take him as master. One hand behind his back even made a "???" gesture toward Xiao Yi Xian.
Xiao Yi Xian smiled at the sight. Sure enough, he was still that familiar shameless old man.
Looking at the scene before her, she knew that from now on, she would be walking the same path as the protagonist. As long as she did not court death, she would have a chance to control the Calamity Poison Body.
Yao Chen nodded at Xiao Yan after all the formalities had been completed. With a hint of warmth in his tone, he said, "The most important thing now is to raise your cultivation. You were once a Dou Zhe already, so with a little external stimulation, you can easily return to Dou Zhe."
Xiao Yan's eyes instantly lit up upon hearing this. He impatiently looked at Medicine Elder and asked, "What kind of external method? Pills?"
"Ouch!" Another bump rose on Xiao Yan's head, the two bumps perfectly symmetrical.
Medicine Elder withdrew his palm and said calmly, "Tomorrow, prepare three intact Purple Leaf Orchid Grasses. The older they are, the better. Also, two Bone Washing Flowers.
Their age does not matter. Oh, right, and one first-tier wood-element magic core. These are all low-grade materials. I assume you can get them..."
"What?"
Xiao Yan instantly collapsed upon hearing that. Those items would cost at least a thousand gold coins, while all his savings from the past few years amounted to only a few hundred gold coins.
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