Xun'er's Blunt Take: The Great Di Clans Aren't Stupid

"Don't worry, Sister Xiao Yi Xian. Tomorrow, I'll definitely bring Brother Xiao Ting here and have him meet you."

"Brother Xiao Ting knows so much. He must know how to resolve the Woeful Poison Body too."

"You know my identity as well. I'll have people investigate and see whether there's any way to help you."

Xun'er's words were like sweet rain after a long drought to Xiao Yi Xian, instantly easing the burden in her heart.

The daughter of a Di Clan patriarch and the only child of a peak late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng had said she would help her. There was always a sliver of hope.

"Thank you, Xun'er. I will remember your kindness forever," Xiao Yi Xian said solemnly, a unique radiance appearing in her gaze as she looked at Xun'er.

No matter her reasons, Xun'er was willing to offer her help. It was an experience Xiao Yi Xian had rarely known since childhood.

"You don't need to be so polite, Sister. We're friends now, aren't we?" Xun'er took Xiao Yi Xian's hand.

"Friends..." A dazzling light bloomed in Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. It was something she had longed for since childhood but had never possessed.

Once the Woeful Poison Body awakened, she feared she would never have it in this life.

She had never expected Xun'er to be willing to become her friend. She nodded firmly. "That's right. We're friends!"

The two newly made friends chatted in the private room for a long while. Only after Xun'er felt that Xiao Yi Xian's mood had mostly settled did she reveal her intention to return to the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yi Xian was perceptive and spoke first. "I came to Wutan City with Wan Yao Zhai's merchant caravan, responsible for inspecting medicinal ingredients as an alchemist. I'll head back first."

"Alright, we'll meet again tomorrow." Xun'er readily agreed.

After Xiao Yi Xian left, Xun'er walked to the window and pushed open a narrow gap, watching Xiao Yi Xian's retreating figure from afar.

She sincerely wanted to help, and she would do everything in her power, because Xiao Yi Xian would definitely become Xiao Ting's confidante.

Xun'er was merely judging others by herself. When one encountered someone too stunning in one's youth, one could never forget them for the rest of one's life. Everyone else would merely be a compromise.

And she was unwilling to settle. She believed Xiao Yi Xian, who was qualified to receive a Notebook Copy, would not settle either.

If a man obtained a Notebook Copy, he would definitely want to become Xiao Ting's brother.

After all, if they became rivals, the copy's restrictions would make it impossible for them to act against him.

"It would be nice if someone from the Hun Clan—especially Hun Tiandi—had a Notebook Copy." A sudden thought struck Xun'er.

If that happened, not a single person in the vast Hun Clan could harm Xiao Ting.

Because of those restrictions, she was not particularly anxious to learn who possessed Notebook Copies.

"Aunt Ling," Xun'er called softly.

"Young Lady." Ling Qing, dressed in black, appeared before Xun'er and dropped to one knee.

"Send word to the clan. I want every record concerning the Woeful Poison Body, as well as methods of resolving it." Xun'er closed the window again, her expression calm as though she were discussing something insignificant.

"Yes!" Ling Qing accepted the order and withdrew.

She worked quickly. Just as Xun'er returned to the Xiao Clan's small courtyard, Ling Qing appeared again and handed her a jade slip.

"Young Lady, the records have been retrieved."

Xun'er reached out to take the jade slip, infused it with dou qi, and pressed it to her forehead.

The next moment, countless pieces of information flooded into her mind. They were records from the past thousand years concerning the emergence of Woeful Poison Body possessors across the Dou Qi Continent.

Because those with the Woeful Poison Body ultimately died from their bodies exploding, turning countless places into poisonous lands, many were hunted down after information about their constitutions was exposed.

More than half perished in various ways at the Dou Emperor level. Very few died before reaching the Dou Emperor level, while the rest successfully broke through to Dou Zong, though it became difficult for them to improve rapidly afterward.

After all, the Woeful Poison Body relied on poison to increase one's strength, and high-grade poisons and toxic substances were exceedingly scarce.

In their search for poison, Dou Zong experts with the Woeful Poison Body, driven by desire, committed one bloody massacre after another.

"Oh?" Xun'er's willow-leaf brows rose.

The most recent appearance of a Woeful Poison Body possessor had been nearly forty years ago, and she had once crossed paths with Yao Lao.

At the time, that Woeful Poison Body possessor was only a Five-Star Dou Emperor. After her poison was stolen, she flew into a rage and turned an entire empire into a thousand-li stretch of toxic earth, drawing the siege of countless Dou Emperors. Yet she easily suppressed them all, including a Dou Emperor expert half a step into the Dou Zong realm. In the end, several reclusive Dou Zong experts had to intervene before the woman finally stopped.

Yet she did not die. Instead, she fled after being seriously wounded, while also deeply poisoning a Dou Zong, leaving him in unbearable agony. It took him ten years to purge the poison completely.

But that Dou Zong did not enjoy many peaceful days. The woman with the Woeful Poison Body appeared again. Not only had her injuries healed, but she had become a peak Dou Zong expert and easily completed her revenge.

Later, while competing for a seventh-rank poison, that Woeful Poison Body possessor clashed with Yao Chen, who would later become Venerable Yao. In the end, she was no match for Yao Chen, who controlled Heavenly Flames and numerous Earth Tier Dou Techniques.

However, Yao Chen did not kill her. The two even became companions for a time. More precisely, the Woeful Poison Body possessor clung to Yao Chen, an Eighth-Rank Alchemist.

But good times did not last. Before long, the Woeful Poison Body possessor died in an eruption of her constitution. This time, however, Yao Chen intervened, preventing widespread devastation.

"As the Dou Qi Continent's foremost Eighth-Rank Alchemist, Yao Lao must have conducted considerable research into the Woeful Poison Body." Xun'er silently committed this information to memory.

She then began examining the methods the Gu Clan had collected for resolving the Woeful Poison Body.

Method One: Before the Woeful Poison Body initially awakened, consume a seventh-rank medicinal pill, the Qingyuan Pill. The Woeful Poison Body would never awaken.

Method Two: Before the Woeful Poison Body possessor reached the Dou Zong level, consume an eighth-rank Xuanyuan Yishi Pill with three-colored pill lightning or above. There was a fifty percent chance of dying from bodily explosion and a fifty percent chance of completely purging the body's toxins, but cultivation would never advance again for the rest of one's life.

Method Three: After the Woeful Poison Body reached the Dou Zong level, consume an eighth-rank Xuanyuan Yishi Pill with five-colored pill lightning or above. The toxins in the body would be completely purged, and normal cultivation would become impossible. Consuming poison again could continue to raise cultivation, but the day one broke through to Dou Zun would be the day the Woeful Poison Body erupted.

Method Four: Theoretical...

Method Five: Theoretical...

Method Ten: Speculation.

As expected of the Gu Clan. With one move, it produced three verified methods for resolving the Woeful Poison Body, two theoretically feasible methods, and five methods conjectured to be feasible.

Yet Xun'er did not feel happy after reading them. Instead, her brows drew tighter and tighter, until she finally let out a long sigh. "No wonder the great Di Clans never gathered Woeful Poison Body possessors to nurture them. It wasn't that they hadn't considered it. They had tested it and discovered it was meaningless."

For Method One, unless the Woeful Poison Body possessor's parents were Dou Zong experts, or even stronger Dou Zun or Dou Sheng experts, it would be impossible to discover the condition before it awakened and produce a seventh-rank medicinal pill.

Xiao Yi Xian had already undergone her initial awakening, so this method could not be used.

Methods Two and Three both required eighth-rank medicinal pills, which were hard currency among Dou Zun and Dou Sheng experts.

If the Woeful Poison Body's talent remained intact after using them, the great Di Clans would not mind making such an investment.

But if it was used before becoming a Dou Zong, not only was the success rate only half, but even success meant being permanently stuck at the Dou Emperor level.

If it was used after becoming a Dou Zong, success was guaranteed, but one would likewise remain permanently at the Dou Zong level.

No Di Clan would be willing to make such a losing trade—exchanging an eighth-rank medicinal pill for a permanently capped Dou Emperor or Dou Zong.