Finally Taking Control of Her Own Fate

In the cold, desolate universe, crystal-diamond-like stars studded the pitch-black firmament.

At some unknown time, the silver moon had risen high overhead. Behind the Xiao Family estate, everything was silent, broken only by occasional beastly roars that startled infants who had just fallen asleep.

Inside the cave, Xiao Yan lay sprawled on the ground with lifeless eyes, his mouth hanging open as he gazed at the starry sky as if he were about to die.

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

The moment the herbs appeared, their faint medicinal fragrance was enough to invigorate anyone with a single whiff.

As though sensing something, Yao Chen's eyes gleamed as he floated eagerly before Xiao Yi Xian. "Brat, are these two herbs for me?"

Xiao Yi Xian looked helplessly at Yao Chen, who was right in front of her and utterly without dignity. Where had his former poise gone?

Hadn't he just been carrying himself like an immortal sage?

Xiao Yi Xian swayed the herbs from side to side, while Yao Chen stared fixedly at them, following his beloved medicinal ingredients as they moved.

"Catch!"

Xiao Yi Xian directly threw the herbs away. Medicine Elder shot out with a whoosh like a little dog, then returned with the herbs and showed them off in front of Xiao Yi Xian.

A glint flashed through Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. She extended her fair little hand, clearly intending to take the herbs back.

Seeing this, Medicine Elder threw Xiao Yi Xian a flirtatious glance and said with a smile, "I'm going back into the ring to refine these herbs. We can talk if anything comes up."

Medicine Elder transformed directly into a wisp of white smoke and rushed into the Storage Ring on Xiao Yan's chest to refine the herbs.

After witnessing that scene, Xiao Yan remembered that this fellow transmigrator before him was a powerful expert. She must have quite a stash of money too, right?

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

Xiao Yan directly hugged Xiao Yi Xian's leg and looked at her with a tearful expression.

When Xiao Yi Xian saw him like this, black lines once again filled her forehead. She raised her fist and began pummeling him wildly, all while repeating, "Touching me, are you? Touching me, are you?!"

"Help!"

A familiar scream rang out from the cave, and Xiao Yan's Storage Ring suddenly flashed with a faint light.

Inside, Medicine Elder, who was refining the herbs, sensed the scene outside and laughed as well.

After venting her anger, Xiao Yi Xian obediently kicked Xiao Yan out of the cave, then tossed out a money pouch.

"Hehehe!"

Holding the money pouch and feeling its weight, Xiao Yan smiled. At least that beating had not been for nothing.

Medicine Elder's forehead twitched with black lines as well. He began to wonder whether taking Xiao Yan as his disciple had been a mistake.

Xiao Yi Xian casually tidied up the stone cave and sat cross-legged on the stone bed. Now that she had become connected with the protagonist's group, all she had to do next was follow the plot.

She had revealed that she was a transmigrator to Xiao Yan for the sake of what came next. After all, when transmigrators met fellow villagers, they were even closer than blood relatives.

This meant she no longer had to deliberately build a good relationship with Xiao Yan. Their relationship was already quite good. As long as she gave him some help when appropriate, her future would be secure.

Xiao Yan had only recently been humiliated by the broken engagement, and the plot had only just begun. Her most urgent task now was to raise her cultivation.

Cultivation Methods for the Calamity Poison Body were especially rare. If she wanted to refine poison quickly, a Cultivation Method was all the more important.

Dou Qi cultivation merely involved absorbing Dou Qi to nourish the body's meridians, while becoming a Dou Zhe was the process of transforming Dou Qi into a vortex.

If one relied solely on that basic Dou Qi cultivation method to condense a vortex, it would be far, far too slow.

The purpose of Cultivation Methods was generally singular, or at most dual-purpose: they specifically attracted Dou Qi of matching attributes.

For example, if one possessed fire-attributed Dou Qi but cultivated a wind-attributed Cultivation Method, the energy produced within the body through that method would be wind-attributed and completely incompatible with one's own nature. It might even cause one's body to explode and lead to death.

In other words, a Cultivation Method helped one specifically absorb Dou Qi of a certain attribute. Heaven and earth contained all kinds of Dou Qi, while Dou Qi cultivation itself could use any attribute.

A Dou Zhe was equivalent to Foundation Establishment in immortal cultivation, while one's attributes were equivalent to Spiritual Roots. If one's Foundation Establishment was chaotic and incompatible with oneself, there would be no possibility of advancing any further.

A suitable Cultivation Method could transform the surrounding Dou Qi into an attribute suited to oneself, thereby giving one the foundation to grow stronger.

The strength of a Cultivation Method also determined the size of the vortex, the amount of Dou Qi it could hold, and its quality.

The foundation cultivated through a Yellow-tier Cultivation Method was fundamentally imperfect and unstable, and the vortex could contain very little Dou Qi.

Earth-tier and Heaven-tier methods, on the other hand, were nearly perfect. Their Dou Qi capacity far surpassed that of lower-ranked methods.

If a Yellow-tier Cultivation Method was a cup of water, then a Heaven-tier method was a river. The difference between them was enormous.

As someone with the Calamity Poison Body, the energy inside her was purely Poison Dou Qi. Cultivation Methods for Poison Dou Qi were exceedingly rare across the entire continent.

There was no other reason—it harmed others and oneself alike...

The Seven-Colored Poison Scripture she had obtained before was a mid-grade Mystic-tier Cultivation Method that could speed up her absorption of Poisonous Gas.

But cultivation was no longer limited to this one Cultivation Method. She was someone who had obtained an ancient inheritance, and among it was an attribute-less Cultivation Method.

The Sword Canon was a sword cultivator's Cultivation Method. It cultivated matching Sword Qi within the body, and it was also an Unranked-tier method.

How strong it could become depended entirely on the user. Sword Qi was inherently the sharpest energy, surpassing even metal-attributed Dou Qi.

If she cultivated the Sword Canon, poison-attributed Sword Qi would appear within her body. To increase the strength of that Sword Qi, she would still have to rely on her poison.

A single strand of her Sword Qi was something no one below the seventh stage of Dou Qi could withstand. They would either die to the sword or be poisoned to death.

It possessed both the sharpness of Sword Qi and the might of poison. It was simply the perfect choice.

And what she had said before about the Shushan Sect was no joke either. After all, an individual's strength was limited.

If she wanted to establish the Shushan Sect, then this Cultivation Method would be the capital upon which she built it.

"Whew!"

Xiao Yi Xian let out a breath. Since she had made up her mind, her most urgent task now was to cultivate the Sword Canon. Ever since breaking through to Dou Zhe, she had been traveling and had barely cultivated at all.

A Cultivation Method was deeply imprinted in her mind. Mysterious characters continuously drew closer to her, while the Dou Qi within her body circulated endlessly through her extraordinary meridians and eight channels.

The Dou Qi circulated once along the route prescribed by the Cultivation Method, then once through the Sword Box, before finally returning to the vortex in her lower abdomen.

If she wanted You Su to grow stronger and become as nimble as an extension of her arm, she had to nurture it through everyday cultivation. It was not impossible that she might even raise a sword spirit.

As the sun rose in the east, Xiao Yi Xian stretched her slender waist. After cultivating through the night and even consuming a great deal of poison, her cultivation had reached the Three-star Fighter level.

Though she had only risen by one star, her strength was already several times greater than before.

Xiao Yi Xian brought two fingers together, and purple Dou Qi continuously swirled around them. Compared with her previous Dou Qi, it carried a sharp aura within it.

With a sweep of her fingers, she pierced straight through a large tree in the distance. The remaining Dou Qi around it continued corroding the tree.

Xiao Yi Xian smiled at the sight. Now, she finally had a chance to take control of her own fate.

She even wanted to shout aloud, "My fate is mine, not Heaven's!"

She had finally seen a path ahead and was no longer lost...

The clear blue sky matched her mood, while her long purple hair gave off a faint glow beneath the morning sun.

Not far away, a gaze watched Xiao Yi Xian's figure, filled with an unusual light...