Netherworld Poison Fire Map, Myriad Soul Banner!

"Come on, back to the clan."

With everything settled, Yan Lin glanced at the clan experts rushing over from the direction of Holy City. He called out to Hua She'er, and the two of them slowly slithered back to the clan.

All along the way, Hua She'er followed behind Yan Lin. However, his attention was not on her, but on Qi Yunxiao's exclusive attribute panel.

After killing him, the attribute panel automatically appeared wherever Yan Lin looked. He could pull it closer or farther away, enlarge or shrink it at will. Only after Yan Lin copied the entries would the panel disappear.

Special Entries:

[Cultivation Talent: Useless]

[Alchemy Talent: Ordinary Grade, Level One]

[Bloodline: None]

[Constitution: Nine Yang Poison Body]

[Rare Treasures: Netherworld Poison Fire Map, Soul Technique "Myriad Soul Banner" (Incomplete)]

Ordinary Entries:

[Techniques: Earth-grade Low-Level Technique "Nine Yang Poison Scripture"]

[Dou Techniques: Profound-grade High-Level Dou Technique "Nine Yang Poison Demon Hand", Profound-grade High-Level Dou Technique "Poison Dragon Drill", Profound-grade Low-Level Dou Technique "Nine Yin White Bone Claw", Profound-grade Low-Level Dou Technique "Bone Softening Palm"...]

[Pills: Seventh-Grade Pill "Humanoid Pill", Fifth-Grade Pill "Spirit Breaking Pill"...]

[Poisons: "Even Dou Wangs Struggle to Resist", "One Day Death Powder", "Half-Step Madness Smile Powder"...]

[Pill Formulas: Sixth-Grade Mysterious Ice Pill... Fifth-Grade Spirit Breaking Pill, Fifth-Grade Dragon Tiger Pill...]

[Medicinal Herbs: Hundred Year Blue Silver Grass, Thousand Year Sun Severing Grass, Ten Thousand Year Folding Ear Root...]

[Magic Cores: Fifth-Order Water-Attribute "Bubble Dragon" Magic Core...]

[Sixth-Order "Poison Dragon Cauldron", Spirit Storage, Five-Patterned Purple Gold Card...]

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"Damn, as expected of a Fifth-Grade Alchemist and Poison Master. He dropped so much loot."

Yan Lin swayed his snake tail as he slowly moved across the scorching yellow sand. After giving Qi Yunxiao's exclusive attribute panel a cursory glance, he was overjoyed by the long list of copyable options, and a smile spread across his face.

His gaze began to carefully examine Qi Yunxiao's entries, looking to see whether there was anything he wanted to copy.

"How is that possible?"

"Qi Yunxiao's cultivation talent and alchemy talent are both so low. How did he become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist and a Dou Wang expert?"

That was Yan Lin's first reaction when he carefully examined the two talent entries among Qi Yunxiao's special entries.

His gaze moved downward, and he thought, Could it be because of the Nine Yang Poison Body?

But what kind of special constitution was this Nine Yang Poison Body?

With that curiosity, Yan Lin continued reading. When he saw the record under the "Rare Treasures" entry, his pale purple eyes lit up slightly. "It's actually a Netherworld Poison Fire Map!"

"That makes sense. Netherworld Poison Fire truly holds an irresistible allure for Poison Masters. No wonder Qi Yunxiao was pursued by two Dou Wang Poison Masters."

Netherworld Poison Fire was formed when poisonous miasma gained sentience. It contained extreme toxicity; even the slightest spark of it would inflict deadly poison.

Even Alchemists who desperately coveted Heavenly Flames would not choose to devour and fuse with Netherworld Poison Fire.

Poison Masters had no such concerns.

Netherworld Poison Fire was even greatly beneficial to their cultivation, so naturally, Poison Masters flocked to it.

Qi Yunxiao cultivated both alchemy and poison arts, so Netherworld Poison Fire held the same temptation for him.

"Netherworld Poison Fire isn't suitable for my alchemy, but if I had a Tribulation Poison Body and could swallow Netherworld Poison Fire like poison... wouldn't I take off?"

Yan Lin found himself longing for it.

No one ever thought they had too much money.

Having an additional Tribulation Poison Body would greatly help and improve both his cultivation and combat power.

"If I get the chance, I still need to find Xiao Yi Xian as soon as possible."

Naturally, good things drew covetous eyes.

Yan Lin was no exception.

"But this Soul Technique, the Myriad Soul Banner... If it dares to take such a name, it must be extraordinary."

For some reason, Yan Lin thought of Wang Mazi and certain jokes from the internet in his previous life. An image that made him want to laugh emerged in his mind.

In that image, he held a Myriad Soul Banner belching thick black smoke and cackled at all living beings, "Everyone, please enter my Myriad Soul Banner for a chat."

Deep down, he seemed to harbor a little desire to become an evil cultivator.

But he also knew that this Myriad Soul Banner definitely was not like Wang Mazi's.

Yan Lin had previously seen Qi Yunxiao use the Myriad Soul Banner. It had seemed rather like a soul attack.

He guessed that the Myriad Soul Banner was related to souls.

Perhaps it was some kind of soul technique?

Driven by curiosity, he directly took out Qi Yunxiao's Ring. His powerful Soul Power penetrated it, and before long, he retrieved an ancient parchment scroll that was clearly only half complete.

After carefully reading the ancient script recorded on it, delight appeared on Yan Lin's handsome face. "This Soul Technique is actually an ancient soul cultivation method, and it also possesses the ability to attack souls. No wonder it was classified as a rare treasure."

"What a pity it's incomplete... Yet even half of it is this powerful. I wonder how strong the Myriad Soul Banner would be in its complete form."

Thinking of how Qi Yunxiao's alchemy talent was abysmal, yet he had still become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist, Yan Lin now understood. It was probably because of this Soul Technique.

This Soul Technique could condense a "Soul-Calling Banner" from one's own soul power, draw the souls of others into the banner, then devour the Soul Power of Soul Bodies to nourish oneself. It could also refine them into undead to fight on one's behalf.

It was unknown whether this was due to it being incomplete or whether it had always been this way, but the Soul Power fed back by devouring Soul Bodies took a long time to accumulate and improved slowly.

Still, the ability to steadily increase Soul Power over time was already something countless people dreamed of.

After all, secret arts capable of increasing Soul Power were exceedingly rare even in the Central Plains, and not something ordinary people could obtain.

The growth of Soul Power also determined an Alchemist's rank.

Qi Yunxiao had risen from Ordinary Grade, Level One talent to become a Fifth-Grade Alchemist. Yan Lin believed it was because of this Soul Technique.

And that was indeed the case.

Speaking of which, Qi Yunxiao had been quite a character, with a bit of a protagonist's aura around him.

He had come from the classic useless-trash background, from the bottom rung of society.

Later, he had been forced off a cliff by his enemies and unexpectedly obtained the legacy of a predecessor.

From then on, he turned his life around and became a respected Alchemist.

However, the predecessor's legacy he obtained belonged to an evil cultivator who was not only an Alchemist, but also a Poison Master.

Having been bullied since childhood, Qi Yunxiao had a rather dark nature. Naturally, he had no psychological burden in cultivating this predecessor's legacy.

Relying on that legacy, Qi Yunxiao had gone from a worthless nobody who was not even a Dou Zhe to a one-star Dou Wang and Fifth-Grade Alchemist in just over twenty years.

Now, at the age of forty-six, he had encountered a great tribulation in his life.

After recently using a Fifth-Grade Spirit Breaking Pill to break through to the one-star Dou Wang realm, he attended the annual grand auction held by the largest auction house in the Heavenly Snake Empire.

Because he had successfully bid for the Netherworld Poison Fire Map, he drew the attention of numerous experts.

Although Qi Yunxiao had been prepared, too many people had set their sights on the Heavenly Flame map. He could not shake them all off and was pursued all the way to the Tagor Desert.

Then he encountered Yan Lin...