Finally Mastering One's Own Destiny

In the cold, desolate universe, stars like crystal drills were embedded in the pitch-black sky.

The silver moon hung high, and the Xiao Family's surroundings were silent, with occasional beast roars startling newborns.

Inside the cave, Xiao Yan lay sprawled on the ground, eyes vacant, mouth agape, gazing at the starry sky as if he were dying.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi Xian chuckled and took out the only two soul-restoring medicinal herbs from her Storage Ring.

As soon as the herbs were out, a faint medicinal fragrance filled the air, invigorating anyone who smelled it.

Yao Chen seemed to sense something, his eyes gleaming as he floated before Xiao Yi Xian, eagerly asking, "Brat, are these herbs for me?"

Xiao Yi Xian looked at the ungraceful Yao Chen before her, feeling helpless. Where was his previous demeanor?

Hadn't he just appeared as an ethereal immortal a moment ago?

Xiao Yi Xian dangled the herbs, and Yao Chen's eyes locked onto them, following the precious medicinal materials like a devoted puppy.

"Here you go!"

Xiao Yi Xian tossed the herbs away. Yao Chen shot out like a puppy, holding the medicinal materials and showing them off to Xiao Yi Xian.

A glint flashed in Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. She extended her fair, tender hand, looking as if she were about to take the herbs back.

Seeing this, Yao Chen winked at Xiao Yi Xian and said with a smile, "I'm going back to the ring to refine these herbs. We can discuss things later."

Yao Chen then transformed into a wisp of white smoke and disappeared into the Storage Ring on Xiao Yan's chest to refine the herbs.

Xiao Yan witnessed the scene and remembered that this "fellow villager" before him was a powerful individual, implying she must have a substantial stash of wealth!

"Fellow villager, lend me some money, sob..."

Xiao Yan hugged Xiao Yi Xian's leg, his face a picture of tearful distress.

Xiao Yi Xian's forehead involuntarily creased as she saw Xiao Yan's state. She raised her fist and began to beat him, shouting, "Let me hit you! Let me hit you!"

"Help!"

A familiar scream echoed from the cave. A light flashed from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring.

Yao Chen, who was refining herbs inside, sensed the scene outside and chuckled.

After venting her frustration, Xiao Yi Xian obediently kicked Xiao Yan out of the cave and tossed a money pouch at him.

"Hehehe!"

Xiao Yan grinned, feeling the weight of the money pouch. At least the beating hadn't been in vain.

Yao Chen's forehead twitched as he saw this. He began to wonder if taking Xiao Yan as a disciple had been a mistake.

Xiao Yi Xian tidied up the stone cave and sat cross-legged on the stone bed. Now that she was involved with the protagonist's group, she would follow the plot.

Revealing her identity as a transmigrator to Xiao Yan was also for future purposes. After all, meeting a fellow transmigrator felt closer than meeting one's own parents.

This way, she wouldn't need to actively build a relationship with Xiao Yan; it was already quite good. Offering appropriate help now would secure her future.

Xiao Yan had only recently had his engagement annulled, and the plot was just beginning. Her immediate priority was to improve her cultivation.

Cultivation methods for the Calamity Poison Body were extremely rare. To quickly refine poison, a suitable cultivation method was crucial.

The cultivation of Dou Disciple was simply absorbing Fighting Energy to nourish the body and meridians. Dou Practitioners, on the other hand, involved the process of Fighting Energy evolving into a Qi vortex.

If one relied solely on the basic Dou Disciple cultivation, forming a Qi vortex would be incredibly slow.

Cultivation methods typically focused on one or two attributes, specifically attracting Fighting Energy of the same attribute.

For example, if you had fire-attribute Fighting Energy but practiced a wind-attribute cultivation method, your body would manifest wind-attribute energy, which would be incompatible with your own, potentially leading to explosion and death.

Alternatively, a cultivation method could help you specifically absorb Fighting Energy of a certain attribute. The world contained various attributes of Fighting Energy, and cultivation could involve any of them.

A Dou Practitioner was akin to the Foundation Establishment stage in cultivation. Your attribute was like your spiritual root. If the foundation was chaotic and incompatible with you, further progress would be impossible.

A suitable cultivation method could help the surrounding Fighting Energy evolve into your compatible attribute, thus providing the foundation for becoming stronger.

The strength of a cultivation method determined the size of the Qi vortex, the amount of Fighting Energy, and its quality.

A Yellow Tier cultivation method would result in an imperfect, unstable foundation, and the Qi vortex would hold very little Fighting Energy.

Heaven-tier methods, however, were perfect. The Fighting Energy they contained was simply far greater than in lower-tier methods.

A Yellow Tier cultivation method was like a cup of water, while a Heaven Tier method was like a river; the difference was immense.

As someone with the Calamity Poison Body, she possessed only a single attribute: poison Dou Qi. Cultivation methods for poison Dou Qi were extremely rare across the entire continent.

Why? Because they harmed oneself and others...

The Seven-Colored Poison Scripture she had obtained was a Profound Tier mid-grade cultivation method, which could accelerate her absorption of poisonous gas.

However, she wasn't cultivating only this method now. She was a recipient of an ancient inheritance, which included a cultivation method with no attribute.

"Sword Canon" was a cultivation method for sword cultivators, allowing one to cultivate matching Sword Qi within the body. Its tier was unranked.

Its power depended entirely on the user. Sword Qi was inherently the sharpest, surpassing even gold-attribute Fighting Energy.

If she cultivated the Sword Canon, her body would produce poison-attribute Sword Qi. To increase the Sword Qi's power, she would have to rely on her poison.

A single strike of her Sword Qi would be unbearable for anyone below the seventh stage of Dou Qi; they would either die instantly or be poisoned to death.

It possessed both the sharpness of Sword Qi and the power of poison, making it an ideal choice.

Moreover, her previous talk about the Shushan Sect wasn't just for show. One must realize that a single person's strength is limited.

If she wanted to establish the Shushan Sect, then this Cultivation Method would be her capital.

"Hoo!"

Xiao Yi Xian let out a breath. Now that she understood, her immediate priority was to cultivate the Sword Canon. Ever since breaking through to become a Dou Practitioner, she had been on the move and hadn't cultivated much.

A Cultivation Method was deeply etched in her mind. Mysterious characters continuously approached her, and the Fighting Energy within her body flowed through the meridians and channels of her body.

The Fighting Energy circulated along the path of the Cultivation Method for one cycle, then along the Sword Box for another cycle, before finally returning to the vortex in her lower abdomen.

To make "You Su" stronger and as flexible as an arm, she had to start cultivating from daily practice. It was even possible to nurture a Sword Spirit.

The sun rose in the east. Xiao Yi Xian stretched her slender waist. After cultivating all night and even consuming a lot of poison, her cultivation had now reached the level of a Three-star Fighter.

Although she had only advanced one star, her strength was several times greater than before.

Xiao Yi Xian brought two fingers together, and purple Fighting Energy continuously swirled around her. Compared to her previous Fighting Energy, this had an inherent sharpness within it.

A single finger stroke pierced through a large tree not far away. The residual Fighting Energy even continued to erode the tree.

Xiao Yi Xian smiled at this sight. Now, she finally had the power to control her own destiny.

She even wanted to shout loudly: "My fate is mine to decide, not heaven's!"

She finally saw a path forward, no longer lost...

The clear blue sky mirrored her mood. Her purple hair emitted a faint glow in the morning sun.

Not far away, a gaze watched Xiao Yi Xian, radiating a special hue