Qing Lin: Happiness Is All About Comparison! Everyone Misunderstood

"Born under misfortune..."

At the Mo Tie Mercenary Group's base in Shimo City, Qing Lin tightened her grip on the broom in her hands.

Compared to Xiao Yi Xian, she felt that everything she had suffered since childhood was nothing.

She had merely endured the disdain of those around her and been assigned the most exhausting and tedious chores. Since joining the Mo Tie Mercenary Group, no one had dared bully her openly due to the captain's orders. Though she was still isolated in private, at least she had food, drink, and a place to stay.

But the Woeful Poison Body was destined to know no family, friendship, or love.

It would lose itself, die in agony in the end, and bring disaster upon countless others.

Thinking of this, Qing Lin raised a hand and firmly slapped her little cheeks.

She felt that she should no longer wallow in self-pity.

If she had guessed correctly, the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils that Young Master Xiao Ting had mentioned in his diary should be her talent.

Though she did not know the specifics of this talent, judging from the context of what Xiao Ting had written in the Notes, it was definitely a rare, top-tier talent—one that would leave the so-called geniuses of the Central Plains far behind.

"If I have the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then I definitely won't be useless in the future." Qing Lin thought rationally, "Young Master Xiao Ting said he wanted to meet me. When that time comes, my life will become extraordinary, right?"

Xiao Ting knew nothing of the women's reactions and continued writing in the Notes.

[Xiao Yi Xian, the bearer of this generation's Woeful Poison Body, truly had a bitter life.]

[At the age of three, she followed her mother to a small village that made its living gathering herbs. Several years later, she accidentally consumed poison and partially awakened her Woeful Poison Body. The poisonous aura she released killed everyone in the village.]

"Big Sister Xiao Yi Xian is so pitiful!"

At this moment, Qing Lin deeply understood what it meant for happiness to be born from comparison.

At the very least, she had not killed her own mother or the villagers who had treated her well.

Medusa, Yun Yun, Cao Ying, Feng Qing'er, and the others: The Woeful Poison Body truly was woeful.

Xun'er looked at Xiao Yi Xian's bloodless face, a trace of heartache flashing through her eyes. "Why did Brother Xiao Ting have to write it in such detail?"

"He doesn't know that someone else can see it, and that someone includes me." Xiao Yi Xian smiled softly, though her words were filled with bitterness.

Yet in the next moment, she felt her heartbeat accelerate.

[Xiao Yi Xian did not know that she had awakened the Woeful Poison Body, but she cleverly guessed that her mother's and the villagers' deaths were related to her. To ensure no one else died because of her, she began desperately studying medicine.]

[She was gentle and kind, using her medical skills to help every ordinary person around her who needed it, asking for nothing in return.]

[Yet whenever her Woeful Poison Body made people suspect that she was connected to poison masters, they would distance themselves from and reject her.]

[She could only move somewhere else and continue drifting through life.]

[But even such experiences did not change her inner kindness and gentleness, nor her heart that yearned for light.]

"This was mentioned in the storybook too?"

Having lived such an unusual life, Xiao Yi Xian had never had a true friend she could open her heart to. She had never imagined that someone could understand her so well.

Moreover, she felt that this was Xiao Ting's personal opinion of her.

[In truth, Xiao Yi Xian was simply born in the wrong place.]

[The Jia Ma Empire and the Chu Yun Empire are hereditary enemies. The Chu Yun Empire is a nation where poison masters gather, while the people of the Jia Ma Empire naturally despise poison masters. Thus, when Xiao Yi Xian revealed anything connected to poison masters because of her Woeful Poison Body, she would be rejected and shunned.]

[If she had grown up in the Chu Yun Empire, she would not have been treated as an enemy at all. She would even have been very popular.]

"This..." Xiao Yi Xian's little mouth fell slightly open, her eyes filled with confusion.

This was a direction she had never considered before.

[After Xiao Yi Xian learned that she possessed the Woeful Poison Body, she may have thought of this as well. She went to the Chu Yun Empire to develop herself and, in five years, rose from a Dou Zhe to a Four-Star Dou Zong. She established the Poison Sect, wiped out every force in the Chu Yun Empire except the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate, and secretly took control of the Chu Yun Empire's royal family.]

The women: !

How long!?

"Unbelievable." Medusa's eyes trembled.

She had risen from a Dou Zhe to a Four-Star Dou Zong in merely five years.

And she did not even need serious cultivation or cultivation techniques. She only needed to consume poison.

If it had not begun with misfortune and ended alongside misfortune, this physique would have been utterly heaven-defying.

Precisely because it was so heaven-defying, it was accompanied by misfortune as though it had incurred heavenly punishment.

"I'm currently a Dou Wang. Even five years from now, I wouldn't dare say that I could break through to the Dou Zong realm."

Somewhere in the Wind and Thunder Mountain Range, Feng Qing'er, who had stopped cultivating, secretly clicked her tongue.

Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation speed was simply unreasonable.

Fortunately, she would have to pay a price in the end. Otherwise, even Feng Qing'er would have become jealous.

"What a pity, what a pity."

Within a northern border fortress of the Jia Ma Empire, Yun Yun felt as though she had missed out on a fortune.

If she had acted decisively and taken Xiao Yi Xian as a disciple earlier, the Misty Cloud Sect would have had a Dou Zong guarding it five years later.

Even if it were only a fleeting bloom and Xiao Yi Xian might perish after a few years, the benefits it would bring would still exceed all imagination.

[While becoming powerful, Xiao Yi Xian also sealed off her heart because of the Woeful Poison Body.]

[In the end, she was even used by the Soul Hall to launch a war against her homeland, the Jia Ma Empire.]

[By then, the Misty Cloud Sect had already dissolved and been replaced by the Yan Alliance established by Brother Yan. The two sides fought fiercely, locked in a bitter struggle.]

"Dissolved..." Yun Yun did not know whether she should feel happy or sad.

Dissolution meant that the Misty Cloud Sect's elders and disciples had not been completely exterminated, and Xiao Yan had not acted so ruthlessly.

But the Misty Cloud Sect had ultimately become history after being passed into her hands.

She had failed the ancestors of the Misty Cloud Sect!

"It seems my role in the storybook is that of a villain." Xiao Yi Xian exchanged a glance with Xun'er, then rubbed her delicate brows. "In the end, I won't die at Xiao Yan's hands, will I?"

"Going by the usual storybook formula, it would indeed develop that way." Xun'er analyzed it solemnly. "Otherwise, you wouldn't have received the evaluation of an unresolved regret, Sister."

[The Yan Alliance's vice leader, Queen Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian were practically locked in a fight to the death.]

"The Yan Alliance's vice leader, me?" Queen Medusa was stunned.

She had not expected that she would join a faction established by humans.

"Perhaps it was for the Snake-People Tribe to gain better development." Medusa came up with what she considered a reasonable answer.

[During the battle between the two sides, Brother Yan recognized Xiao Yi Xian's identity. Remembering that they had once known each other, he revealed the Soul Hall's scheme to Xiao Yi Xian.]

[In pursuit of cooperation, Brother Yan brought out the Poison Pill Method, a secret technique researched by Yao Lao that could help a bearer of the Woeful Poison Body perfectly control her physique, though it had never been successfully put to use.]

Xiao Ting's original intention in writing this was to lament that Yao Lao had researched the Poison Pill Method for the bearer of the Woeful Poison Body whom he had befriended, only for it to never be put to use in the end.

But Xiao Yi Xian misunderstood when she saw it, and her body instantly stiffened. "It wasn't put to use in time... so I really did die in the end?"

"I must have been both friend and enemy to the storybook's male lead. The method existed but could not be used, so that's why I became an unresolved regret."

The more Xiao Yi Xian spoke, the more certain she became that her judgment was correct.

Xun'er's delicate brows furrowed. Recalling the records concerning the Woeful Poison Body that she had ordered people to investigate, she had a different view.

She felt that when Xiao Ting said it had failed to be put to use, he was referring to the woman with the Woeful Poison Body whom Yao Lao himself had befriended back then.

Based on the usual storybook formula, Yao Lao should have passed the Poison Pill Method to Xiao Yan, allowing Xiao Yan to successfully help Xiao Yi Xian and gain either a reliable guard or a confidante. That would have made more sense.

Thinking this, she intended to comfort Xiao Yi Xian.

But upon seeing the newly updated content below, she decisively kept her mouth shut.

[The Poison Pill Method requires three items. First, a Tier 7 Alchemist who has mastered three different Heavenly Flames. Second, the magic core of a Tier 7 Heaven Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast. Third, Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.]

Xun'er: It seemed that I had guessed wrong.

Big Sister Xiao Yi Xian really was an unresolved regret who never got to use the Poison Pill Method.