I dared ask you, my lord—what day was it today...
No one knew how much time had passed when Xiao Yi Xian's eyelids trembled slightly.
Little Spirit was delighted to see signs that Xiao Yi Xian was about to wake up.
When Xiao Yi Xian awoke from her coma, her entire body still ached faintly as though pricked by needles.
Little Spirit looked at the awakened Xiao Yi Xian and asked worriedly, "Sister, how are you?"
Xiao Yi Xian's sudden collapse not long ago had terrified her. If her pulse had not still been beating, Little Spirit would have thought she had brought death upon another loved one beside her.
Xiao Yi Xian shook her head to indicate that she was fine, then stroked the Storage Ring on her finger. A small jade bottle appeared in her hand.
Little Spirit took it, tilted the bottle's mouth, gently held it to Xiao Yi Xian's lips, and poured several drops of pink liquid into her mouth.
After taking the pink liquid, which had a pain-relieving effect, the stabbing pain throughout Xiao Yi Xian's body gradually faded considerably.
Climbing to her feet, Xiao Yi Xian picked up the black scroll, only to discover that all the writing and the illustration of eagle wings on it had completely vanished.
Staring at the empty scroll, Xiao Yi Xian blinked!
Then she suddenly took off her clothes. Little Spirit was startled beside her. Why was Sister undressing in front of her?
"She's still little, isn't she?"
"And they're both girls, so..."
Little Spirit looked helplessly at the undressing Xiao Yi Xian, her face flushing slightly.
Xiao Yi Xian did not notice Little Spirit's little reactions. She took out a crystal mirror from her Storage Ring, and using its reflected light, Little Spirit saw that a pair of palm-sized black eagle-wing tattoos had somehow appeared on Xiao Yi Xian's back.
Against skin as white as milk, there was a pair of small purple wing tattoos. It looked rather strange.
"Are these the Purple Cloud Eagle Wings?" Xiao Yi Xian murmured doubtfully. The Dou Qi within her moved at her will, flowing through the two tiny branch meridians and into the pair of small tattoos on her back.
Upon receiving the Dou Qi, the pitch-black tattoos immediately emitted a faint purple glow. In the end, they actually transformed into tangible wings, while the black eagle wings expanded from palm-sized to around half a foot wide.
Little Spirit stood beside her, her cheeks rosy as she curiously watched the wings on Xiao Yi Xian's back.
Her sister was not a Dou Wang, was she?
How could she have wings?
Xiao Yi Xian curiously looked at the pair of eagle wings marked with purple patterns and controlled them to flap slightly. A faint buoyant force arose beneath her, but she had only lifted a foot off the ground before falling back down.
Whoosh!
Xiao Yi Xian put away the wings, dressed herself, and gave Little Spirit a reassuring look. Then she sat cross-legged on the ground and began regulating her breathing.
High above the dense forest, a figure spread her purple wings and confronted the ruler of the skies, the Second-Rank Magical Beast Great Golden Eagle. Purple Dou Qi trailed behind her in streaks.
A flicker of killing intent crossed Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. Her brows furrowed as the Purple Cloud Wings accelerated instantly, and she murmured, "Sword, come!"
The Sword Box on her back trembled, and "You Su" shot from its sheath in an instant. The sword's edge scraped past the Sword Box, and the longsword gave a soft hum that lingered around her ears.
Holding "You Su," Xiao Yi Xian faced the golden figure high in the sky.
"Screech!"
The Great Golden Eagle let out a cry, its sharp avian eyes locked tightly on the human before it. Its golden wings beat frantically as it dove down, spreading its enormous talons.
Clang!
"You Su" collided with the yellowish-brown talons, scattering sparks. Pale purple Dou Qi clung to the Great Golden Roc's feathers.
"Screech!"
The Great Golden Eagle's incomparably sharp beak, infused with its own Dou Qi, pecked toward Xiao Yi Xian.
Clang!
Xiao Yi Xian raised "You Su" before herself, but the immense recoil blasted her downward.
As Xiao Yi Xian fell toward the ground, Dou Qi surged into her Purple Cloud Wings again. With a rise and fall, she charged upward once more.
The Great Golden Eagle shook its head. Its beak hurt terribly, and there was even a faint crack on it.
"Screech!"
The Great Golden Roc wrapped itself in Dou Qi and shot upward fiercely. Then Dou Qi gathered around its beak as its enormous golden feathers fanned out.
Every feather shone with a faint golden radiance. Its entire body was like a pillar of light wrapped in gold. With an "Aang" cry from high above, a massive torrent of light surged toward the ascending Xiao Yi Xian---
Seeing the Great Golden Eagle ready to make a desperate final stand, Xiao Yi Xian knew it was time to risk everything as well. "You Su" emitted an intense purple radiance.
Xiao Yi Xian herself shot toward the sky like an unparalleled divine sword, her sharp Sword Qi seeming to corrode the heavens.
Boom!
The enormous purple sword radiance and the golden pillar of light erupted in a tremendous shockwave, blasting the clouds in the sky into scattered fragments.
Blood-red rain fell from the sky amid pale purple light. With a whoosh, a massive figure plummeted from the heavens, crashing wildly through the treetops.
Boom!
The enormous Great Golden Roc was now covered in bloody wounds. Golden feathers fell all around with its blood. Its vertical pupils were filled with unwillingness, and its faint life force slowly vanished.
Xiao Yi Xian remained high in the sky. Her purple dress swayed gently in the wind, her hair was a complete mess behind her, and "You Su" in her hand was stained with traces of red blood.
Looking at the deep sword wound on the enormous Great Golden Eagle below, she could not help but sigh. "A Magical Beast's body really is tough."
At the same rank, Magical Beasts were stronger than humans. If Xiao Yi Xian's Poisonous Gas had not already infiltrated it silently, she could never have emerged unscathed.
But this also proved the strength of the Calamity Poison Body. Her cultivation had now reached the peak of the nine-star Dou Zhe realm, and she could already sense the bottleneck.
Combat was the fastest way to grow stronger...
Xiao Yi Xian landed on the ground, and the Purple Cloud Wings on her back dispersed like starlight.
Little Spirit was standing before the Great Golden Roc, skillfully cutting away edible meat. This was not the first time she had done so during this period.
If they wanted food, they had to find edible meat themselves. She did not dare eat meat that had been touched by Xiao Yi Xian's Poison Dou Qi. Eating it might kill her.
Xiao Lan was also rummaging through the Great Golden Eagle's body for its beast core. Its movements were so practiced that it was obvious this was not its first time.
Xiao Yi Xian found the scene rather amusing. She did not know when she had raised the two of them to be like this.
She sat cross-legged on the ground, recovering the Dou Qi she had expended while holding the remaining ancient pill in her mouth to rapidly replenish herself.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yi Xian felt that her Qi vortex was completely full. It was time to charge into the Dou Shi realm.
As Xiao Yi Xian entered her cultivation state, the energy of heaven and earth surging around her grew increasingly violent. By the end, Xiao Yi Xian's body had practically become a black hole.
It continuously absorbed the energy of heaven and earth wildly flooding into her body as her consciousness sank inward.
Feeling this, Xiao Yi Xian directly cut off the external source of Dou Qi. The Poisonous Gas within the Dou Ling and the Poisonous Gas in the poison pill were enough.
Heaven and earth Dou Qi contained far too many impurities. It had to be refined and purified through the meridians before it could be fully absorbed. Otherwise, one misstep might contaminate the Dou Qi she had painstakingly cultivated.
Rather than go through all that trouble, it was better to absorb pure Poisonous Gas...
The purple Qi vortex in her body seemed to have absorbed enough. It began rotating in reverse, and the pure liquid energy that should have been dripping into the vortex was instead flung outward in all directions by the reverse force.
The scattered liquid energy was hurled by the purple Qi vortex into nearly every part of her body. Whenever the liquid energy touched her meridians, bones, or flesh, Xiao Yi Xian discovered that it slowly merged into them!
"Hoo..."
Her consciousness exhaled a breath of nonexistent air, and waves of wild joy surged through Xiao Yi Xian's heart.
She could feel that as the liquid energy seeped in, every bone and every piece of flesh in her body seemed to be undergoing a transformation, gradually filling with immense power.
The Qi vortex's reverse ejection continued for more than ten minutes before slowly stopping. As the vortex gradually ceased rotating, the fierce suction force within Xiao Yi Xian's body also weakened until it disappeared.
The instant the suction vanished, the cross-legged Xiao Yi Xian opened her eyes, and a flash of purple light flickered past.
In an instant, the purple hair behind her moved without wind, her clothes billowed without wind, and a fierce aura several times stronger than before seemed to awaken and burst forth from her body!
At the same time, a robe of purple light draped itself over her body. She had successfully broken through to Dou Shi.
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