"Phew!"
Xiao Yi Xian sat cross-legged on the bed. The Dou Qi within her body circulated through special meridians, traveled around the Sword Box, then returned to her Dantian. Reading M
"Phew!"
Xiao Yi Xian exhaled a faint gray breath, impurities from her body. After refining the sealed Poisonous Gas within her body for an entire night, her cultivation had surged forward, reaching the level of a seven-star Fighter.
Purple Dou Qi coiled around Xiao Yi Xian's fingertips as she sighed inwardly. "As expected of the Calamity Poison Body!"
Eating poison allowed her to grow stronger, like drinking experience potions. It would have been perfect if there were no side effects.
Xiao Yi Xian lifted her clothes and saw that the Seven-Colored Poison Line across her lower abdomen seemed to have grown a tiny bit longer.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Little Spirit, who was still sleeping beside her, with some confusion. She seemed to have been asleep for a long time, hadn't she?
"You little brat, don't worry. She's undergoing a transformation. When she wakes up, she may already be a Dou Zhe." Medicine Elder suddenly appeared before Xiao Yi Xian. Even he looked rather astonished as he watched Little Spirit.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Medicine Elder and asked happily, "When did you wake up?"
Medicine Elder stood with his hands behind his back and replied calmly, "Just now."
Xiao Yi Xian glanced at Little Spirit and asked curiously, "Medicine Elder, do you know what's happening?"
Medicine Elder stroked his chin and said seriously, "This should be a cultivation method unique to Heaven and Earth Spirits. That Cultivation Method of yours may have awakened her bloodline. One transformation is enough to make her a Dou Zhe."
A trace of surprise flashed through Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. "Then if she transforms nine times, or even ten times..."
Medicine Elder gazed at Little Spirit with deep eyes. "It wouldn't be impossible for her to become a Dou Di, but it would be far too difficult!"
Hearing that it would be extremely difficult, Xiao Yi Xian relaxed. When had such a species ever existed? It even seemed to possess the potential to become a Dou Di, though the difficulty was immense.
Yet the book Battle Through the Heavens barely mentioned it. It only described most common magical beasts and had never written about such an aberrant existence.
Perhaps it was not wrong to call her a magical beast, but calling her a spirit among demons would not be inaccurate either.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Medicine Elder and said calmly, "Medicine Elder, once Little Spirit wakes up, I'll leave."
Medicine Elder nodded. Wu Tan City was too small, with nothing worth lingering over. To grow stronger, one had to travel thousands of miles and see the splendor of the world.
Medicine Elder drifted back and forth as he said casually, "When little Yan becomes a Dou Zhe, I'll take him and set out as well."
Xiao Yi Xian nodded. "Jia Nan Academy has the fourteenth-ranked Fallen Heart Flame."
"Oh? It's actually the Fallen Heart Flame?" Light shone in Medicine Elder's eyes upon hearing this. He had sensed the presence of a Heavenly Flame at Jia Nan Academy, but he had not expected it to be the Fallen Heart Flame.
Fire was born from the heart, tempering Qi and refining bone. The Fallen Heart Flame was known as a "cultivation cheat device."
Not only could this Heavenly Flame accelerate cultivation, but once successfully refined, it would continuously produce a kind of Heart Flame within the body.
This Heart Flame required no control at all. Every day and every night, every moment, it would burn the Dou Qi within one's body. Amid such nearly ceaseless tempering, it was as though the body remained in a cultivation state at all times.
Moreover, this cultivation state was even more effective than ordinary cultivation. Such cultivation naturally far surpassed normal practice, hence its title as a cheat device.
Yao Chen turned around, then thought of Xiao Yan's strength and said dejectedly, "Even if Xiao Yan breaks through to Dou Zhe, he still won't be able to absorb a Heavenly Flame ranked fourteenth."
He understood better than anyone how difficult it was to absorb a Heavenly Flame. Even he had exhausted every effort back when he absorbed one.
Xiao Yi Xian smiled. "Then what about the Green Lotus Core Flame?"
"What?"
Medicine Elder immediately grabbed Xiao Yi Xian by the shoulders, disbelief filling his face. "Are you certain?"
Xiao Yi Xian nodded. "The Tagor Desert contains the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Queen Medusa is also reluctant to part with it."
"Hm?"
Medicine Elder was stunned by the news. A yin-aligned snake was interested in a supremely yang Heavenly Flame?
Could it be?
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Medicine Elder and smiled. "That's right. She intends to evolve using a Heavenly Flame. We'll meet in the Tagor Desert then. Whether Queen Medusa will have already taken the Heavenly Flame by that time is hard to say."
Medicine Elder nodded. Every piece of information Xiao Yi Xian had given provided him and Xiao Yan with a clear goal, allowing them to grow quickly.
"But what about the third Heavenly Flame?"
Yao Chen had no idea where to find a third Heavenly Flame. If he gave up his Bone Spirit Cold Flame, his life would be in danger as well.
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Medicine Elder mysteriously. "The Sea Heart Flame. And it's already controlled by someone you know especially well, Medicine Elder!"
"Hm?" Medicine Elder was bewildered by Xiao Yi Xian's words. Since when did he know someone who controlled the Sea Heart Flame?
"Han Feng!"
The instant Xiao Yi Xian spoke those two words, Medicine Elder's pressure erupted. His blood-red eyes were filled with rage.
"Han Feng!" Medicine Elder enunciated the name word by word. The killing intent contained within each word dragged Xiao Yi Xian into endless darkness.
Seeming to realize something, Medicine Elder withdrew his aura and looked at Xiao Yi Xian apologetically.
Not long ago, he had still been the greatest Medicine Master in the Central Continent, roaming freely across the land. Then, because he passed through a village and saw a child...
He had thought the child could inherit his legacy, but he had never expected that it would mark the beginning of his fall into the abyss.
Out of compassion, he had accepted a disciple. Because he worried whether the Flame Mantra could be cultivated, he had withheld it. Yet he had never expected... never expected...
At this thought, Yao Chen gritted his teeth in secret. He had raised that disciple for who knew how many years, yet that bond had been worth less than a few words from others?
A casual provocation had been enough for him to dare devour his own master. He truly was an ungrateful wretch who could never be fed enough.
Seeing Medicine Elder lost in thought, Xiao Yi Xian knew she had made him recall many painful memories.
Han Feng had been an orphan Yao Chen rescued. He had grown up cherished under Yao Chen's care.
He should have had a bright future, yet his heart had changed...
Driven by wolfish ambition, he chose to murder Yao Chen, the master who had raised him, after Mu Gu's instigation, all to seize a Cultivation Method called the Flame Mantra.
Furthermore, the requirements for cultivating the Flame Mantra were extremely harsh, and it carried a certain degree of danger. Medicine Elder had originally never intended to give this Cultivation Method to Han Feng.
But Han Feng did not see it that way. His mind already twisted, he committed the most unforgivable act.
"Betraying his master!"
This was also a necessary step for Xiao Yan's cheat device, Medicine Elder... Without such a past, Xiao Yan's ending would have been obvious at a glance.
After reducing Yao Chen to ashes, Han Feng feared that Yao Chen's close friends, Venerable Feng and Gu Ling, would uncover the truth. Carrying Yao Chen's belongings, he fled to the Black Corner Region, became a local tyrant, and rose to become the Black Corner Region's foremost Medicine Master, the "Medicine Emperor."
No matter how she put it, Xiao Yi Xian could not describe that traitorous bastard as anything but "stupid!"
He did not trust his master, and childhood influences had turned him into this. In the end, he had only become a Dou Emperor.
His eventual death had been quite satisfying too. One word: "Deserved!"
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