Complementary Constitutions

Ye Xiu felt the changes within his body in a daze. That cluster of Purple Flame was like an ice cube thrown into water, slowly melting away. The melted essence flowed through his blood to every part of his body, finally converging in his dantian.

Had the Purple Flame been refined just like that?

Ye Xiu was a bit bewildered.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he had managed to refine the Purple Flame born from the Companion Amethyst Source?

He lowered his head to look at his hands, a thought stirring in his mind.

Puff!

A cluster of purple flames emerged from his palm, dancing in the air. The flame was not large, only the size of a fist, but the temperature it radiated was several times higher than before. The surrounding air was scorched until it distorted.

"Damn, could this also be an innate talent of the Innate Medicine Body?"

He had expected to struggle for a long time, yet he had refined it in such a muddled, effortless fashion!

Ye Xiu stood up and stretched his limbs. The Dou Qi within his body circulated smoothly, without the slightest discomfort. The Dou Qi in his dantian had turned a reddish-gold color streaked with purple, appearing more solid and far more violent than before.

He flicked his hand, and a bolt of Purple-Gold Dou Qi shot from his fingertips, striking the cave wall.

Boom!

A basin-sized crater exploded into the cave wall, sending stone fragments flying and filling the air with dust.

Ye Xiu raised an eyebrow.

The power had increased by at least thirty percent.

And this was only just after the initial refinement; once it was completely integrated later on, the power would rise even further.

The efficiency and quality of his alchemy would undoubtedly see a significant boost as well.

Ye Xiu withdrew his hand; this Innate Medicine Body was even more overpowered than he had imagined.

At first, he thought this constitution simply made alchemy convenient, allowing one to automatically become an Alchemist once their cultivation reached a certain level. Now it seemed it was far more than that. If it could easily refine something as violent as the Companion Amethyst Source, what about when he obtained a Heavenly Flame in the future?

Could he just swallow that directly, too?

Ye Xiu pondered for a moment and felt it was highly likely.

However, now was not the time to think about that; he needed to fully integrate the Purple Flame first.

He sat back down, closed his eyes, and began to circulate his Dou Qi. The Purple-Gold Dou Qi in his dantian flowed through his meridians, scouring his body over and over again. With every cycle, the purple portions fused more tightly with the reddish-gold ones.

Time passed bit by bit.

He did not know how long it had been when Ye Xiu opened his eyes.

The sky had already turned dark, and the sound of the night wind blowing through the mountain forest drifted into the cave.

The Purple Flame within him had completely stabilized, becoming one with his original Dou Qi. With a mere thought, he could mobilize it at will.

Ye Xiu walked to the cave entrance and smashed the giant boulder blocking it into powder with a single punch.

He looked up at the sky, estimating the time.

He must have stayed in the cave for nearly a day and a night.

Next, it was time to head to the Tagor Desert.

The Green Lotus Core Flame was still waiting for him there.

But before leaving, he should make one more trip to Qingshan Town.

Ye Xiu made up his mind and unfurled his flame wings behind him.

This time, the color of the wings had changed.

They were no longer purely reddish-gold, but reddish-gold streaked with purple, shimmering with an eerie light under the moonlight.

With a flap of his wings, he shot into the sky and flew toward Qingshan Town.

The night wind whistled past his ears, and the mountain forest below retreated rapidly.

As Ye Xiu flew through the air, he suddenly thought of Yun Yun.

That woman should have already returned to the Yun Lan Sect by now, right?

Next time they met, would she treat him to grilled fish she made herself?

Ye Xiu smiled.

Fine, he would see just how terrible her cooking skills really were when the time came.

A streak of reddish-gold light cut across the night sky and soon vanished behind the distant mountain ranges.

Qingshan Town.

The sky was just beginning to brighten, and there were already people on the town streets. Vegetable peddlers carried their baskets toward the market, and a few early-rising mercenaries squatted at the entrance of a tavern smoking; everything was peaceful.

Ye Xiu landed outside the town, retracted his Dou Qi Wings, and walked along the street.

When he reached the entrance of the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, he paused in surprise.

The door was open.

He pushed the door open and saw Little Doctor Fairy sitting behind the counter at a glance. But unlike the previous few days, she wasn't reading or preparing medicine; instead, she was sitting cross-legged on her chair with her eyes closed, a faint gray aura faintly emanating from her body.

Is this... cultivation?

The gray aura on Little Doctor Fairy wasn't ordinary Dou Qi, but Poison Dou Qi.

Moreover, this Poison Dou Qi seemed to have formed some kind of resonance with the Dou Qi inside his own body.

The Dou Qi within him began to stir; it wasn't repulsion, but rather like a person who had been starving for a long time catching the scent of meat.

What the hell?

Ye Xiu was stunned.

What kind of situation was this?

He took two steps forward, getting closer to Little Doctor Fairy. The gray Poison Dou Qi drifted over, touched his body, and was actually absorbed directly into him.

After absorbing it, the Dou Qi in his body became even more excited, as if it had been injected with adrenaline, and its circulation speed doubled instantly.

Ye Xiu was completely dumbfounded.

He looked down at his hands, then back at Little Doctor Fairy, who was still cultivating.

What the...

Could his Innate Medicine Body swallow poison too?

No, it wasn't just swallowing. The bit of Poison Dou Qi he had just absorbed circled through his body and was converted directly into his own Dou Qi. Furthermore, after the conversion, it even fed back a warm sensation that drifted through the air between them and burrowed into Little Doctor Fairy's body.

Little Doctor Fairy's body trembled slightly, and the complexion on her face improved significantly.

Ye Xiu: "..."

Damn it, is this... dual cultivation?

He couldn't quite believe it, so he reached out and gently placed his hand on Little Doctor Fairy's shoulder.

The moment he made contact, that gray Poison Dou Qi surged into his body like it had gone mad. At the same time, the Purple-Gold Dou Qi within him proactively met it, and the two streams of Dou Qi intertwined, circled through his meridians, and then separated into a purer stream that flowed back into Little Doctor Fairy's body through his hand.

Little Doctor Fairy let out a muffled groan and opened her eyes.

Seeing Ye Xiu standing before her, she was startled for a moment, and then her face flushed bright red.

"Sen, Senior?!"

Ye Xiu didn't let go, staring at her as he asked, "What are you cultivating?"

Little Doctor Fairy stammered, "The, the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture... the one you gave me last time..."

Ye Xiu nodded.

As expected.

He had guessed it just now; the thing capable of making Poison Dou Qi emerge from Little Doctor Fairy was most likely that Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

He felt the changes within his body and looked at Little Doctor Fairy again.

The girl had only been cultivating the poison scripture for a few days, yet the Poison Dou Qi in her body was already taking shape. However, since she had just started, the Poison Dou Qi was still unstable and carried a sense of rawness.

But that wasn't the point.

The point was that he could actually absorb her Poison Dou Qi and even feed it back to her.

The Dou Qi between the two of them circulated like this, spinning faster and becoming purer with every rotation.

The Dou Qi in Ye Xiu's body, which had just refined the Purple Flame, originally carried a hint of stiffness, but now, stimulated by the Poison Dou Qi, it had fused even more thoroughly. The effect on Little Doctor Fairy's side was even more obvious; the color in her face was getting better and better, and the aura on her body was becoming increasingly stable.

After a long while, Ye Xiu let go.

Little Doctor Fairy caught her breath and looked up at him, her eyes watery and her face still flushed.

"Senior, what was that just now..."

Ye Xiu thought for a moment and said, "It should be that my constitution has resonated with your Woe Poison Body."

"Resonance?"

"Mm." Ye Xiu nodded. "My constitution can accommodate all kinds of energy, and your poison body is a source of poison in itself. When the two things come together, they help and promote each other."