Dou Emperor

Not to mention the Heavenly Flames and the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, which she had never even heard of, the core of a seventh-tier Demon Beast, the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, was enough to fill her with despair.

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A seventh-tier Demon Beast was equivalent to a Dou Zong expert of the Human Race. It could already take human form and could kill her with a mere puff of breath.

As a physician, she had naturally heard of Heavenly Flames, but after living outside Qingshan Town all these years, she had never heard of anyone possessing one.

As for the final Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, she had neither heard of it nor seen it before.

However, since all of them were materials for curing the Calamity Poison Body, their rarity was likely no less than that of a Heavenly Flame.

"Th... thank you."

Whether the solution was real or not, the thought alone was enough for Xiao Yi Xian to offer her thanks.

It was just that she had yet to figure out how she should repay him.

After all, she was merely a small-time physician from Qingshan Town, while he had not only recognized her Calamity Poison Body at a glance but also knew how to cure it. His strength was naturally far beyond that of an ordinary Dou Shi.

But aside from her body, she seemed to have nothing else to offer.

"I have all three of these items. But if you want to cure the Calamity Poison Body, you'll need to come with me to the Tagor Desert. It can't be done here."

In truth, that last sentence was complete nonsense. With Xiao Chen's strength, he could do it anywhere.

He had obtained the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva during his last trip to the Black Corner Region.

As for the three Heavenly Flames, a single Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would be enough.

Before leaving Central Continent, he had specifically gone to Poison Falling Ravine from the original story to obtain the core of the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.

"Thank you, but there's no need. I'll find a way myself."

Xiao Yi Xian always felt that Xiao Chen had ulterior motives. Granted, he was very handsome, but they were still far too unfamiliar with each other.

She could not hand her life and death over to someone else.

"There is only one portion of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva in the entire Dou Qi Continent, and it is in my hands. Don't bother looking elsewhere. Unless the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which appears once every thousand years, emerges again, obtaining a second portion of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva is simply impossible. Think it through. You only get one chance."

"I'll be waiting for you at the Xiao Family in Salt City for three months. After that, I'll leave for Central Continent to settle some grudges."

Helping Xiao Yi Xian cure her Calamity Poison Body was partly because he did not want his appearance to cause this gentle girl before him to suffer a tragic fate.

The other reason was that he truly liked Xiao Yi Xian. There was nothing he dared not admit.

But he was, after all, a nine-star Dou Saint standing at the peak of the Dou Qi Continent. Going this far was already his limit.

If Xiao Yi Xian truly did not believe him, then all he could do was apologize to her in his heart.

After he finished speaking, Xiao Yi Xian's expression became somewhat complicated. As a woman, she keenly sensed a trace of impatience in Xiao Chen's tone.

But was he truly worth trusting?

"In that case, once this herb-gathering mission is over, I'll go to the Xiao Family in Salt City to find you."

At this point, Xiao Yi Xian could only take a gamble.

After all, other than her body, she had nothing else worth coveting in the eyes of the man before her.

And given his strength, taking her body did not seem like it would be difficult for him.

So, with nothing to lose, she gritted her teeth and took the gamble.

"Fine. I'll take you back later."

"Oh, right. There are some medicinal herbs in here. Pick them if you want. This is a Storage Ring that can hold living creatures. I'll give it to you."

Xiao Chen pointed toward the corner of the stone chamber, where soil had been piled into a small flower bed. All sorts of herbs and plants grew within it, and a strange fragrance lingered in the air.

Hearing this, Xiao Yi Xian looked over. "Purple-Blue Leaf, White Spirit Ginseng Fruit, Snow Lotus Seed..."

The names of precious, hard-to-find high-grade medicinal herbs slipped one after another from Xiao Yi Xian's rosy lips as she stared blankly.

"Ice Spirit Flame Grass!" At last, Xiao Yi Xian's beautiful eyes fixed firmly on a stalk of grass in the center of the flower bed, its leaves alternating between white and red.

The grass had two colors, white and red. Its white stem was covered with tiny ice-crystal-like particles, while its fiery red crown looked like a burning flame. Two utterly opposing colors and properties had somehow grown together on the same plant, a truly miraculous sight. A faint mist curled around the plant, making it seem as though it stood amid clouds. This strange herb was called Ice Spirit Flame Grass. It was extremely difficult to find in the outside world, and it was also an essential ingredient for refining the Blood Lotus Pill in the original story.

After gathering the herbs, Xiao Yi Xian returned to the herb-gathering site under Xiao Chen's escort.

After what had happened earlier, their relationship had improved quite a bit, and they talked about many things concerning each other along the way.

Xiao Yi Xian had heard so much about the Xiao Family lately that her ears were practically growing calluses.

Therefore, she was extremely curious about Xiao Chen's exact identity.

When the two returned to the group, they found that the physicians of the Ten Thousand Medicine House had already gathered all the medicinal herbs they needed. Everyone was waiting for Xiao Yi Xian on the spot.

"Xiao Yi Xian, if you hadn't returned soon, I was about to send people to look for you."

When Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the dense forest, a figure hurried over. However, upon seeing Xiao Chen behind her, he paused slightly and asked with a smile, "Sir Dou Shi, didn't you leave?"

"Yes. This girl ran off, and I happened to run into her, so I brought her back."

"Oh, then thank you, Sir Dou Shi."

Mu Li's expression changed slightly at those words, but when facing a Dou Shi as powerful as his father, he still did not dare act rashly.

Just as Mu Li was about to say something, Xiao Chen suddenly frowned and looked toward the core region of the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Seeing this, Xiao Yi Xian asked softly.

"Everyone, leave immediately. Otherwise, it may be too late."

Before his words had even faded, a violent energy fluctuation and a ferocious lion's roar suddenly exploded through the sky like muffled thunder.

Hearing the lion's roar filled with violent fury, Mu Li and the others' faces changed drastically.

"The ruler of the mountain range—the Amethyst Winged Lion King."

As a mercenary from Qingshan Town, Mu Li immediately recognized the owner of the roar: the sixth-tier Demon Beast, the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

"Everyone, leave at once."

As a mercenary, he naturally understood what that furious roar meant.

Someone—or rather, some Demon Beast—was challenging the ruler of this mountain range.

And whenever such a thing happened, the Monster Beast Mountain Range would experience a massive beast rampage.

Anyone within it would be placed in grave danger.

Therefore, the best choice was to leave the Monster Beast Mountain Range as quickly as possible.

"You want to go take a look?"

Glancing at Xiao Yi Xian, whose beautiful eyes shimmered with excitement, Xiao Chen asked.

"Yes!"

"Fine, then let's go."

He could not figure out what Xiao Yi Xian was planning, but a mere sixth-tier Demon Beast was not worthy of his fear.

What was more, this sixth-tier Demon Beast had snake food that he needed.

"What? Xiao Yi Xian, you want to go? Absolutely not! It's too dangerous."

Before Mu Li could finish speaking, Xiao Chen wrapped an arm around Xiao Yi Xian's slender willow-like waist. Then, a pair of blood-red energy wings appeared behind his back.

"Dou Qi Wings... a Dou Wang expert? How is that possible?"

Everyone wore expressions as though they had seen a ghost, then watched with complicated gazes as the two figures gradually vanished from sight.

At that moment, in the core region of the Monster Beast Mountain Range, violent energy ripples continuously produced rumbling sounds in the clear blue sky. There, azure and crimson colors spread across nearly half the heavens, dyeing even the lazy white clouds with their two-colored glow.

Shortly afterward, Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Chen suddenly appeared atop a towering tree from which they could clearly see both sides battling in the sky.

"L-let go of me."

Xiao Yi Xian struggled timidly in Xiao Chen's embrace.

Yet Xiao Chen seemed not to hear her. He held her slender waist as he frowned deeply at the woman confronting the Amethyst Winged Lion King from afar.

Unable to break free from Xiao Chen's arm, Xiao Yi Xian gave up. Her gaze turned to the enormous Demon Beast in the sky. This beast was massive, its seven- or eight-meter-long body covered in a layer of purple crystals. Under the sunlight, it glittered brilliantly, almost dazzling to the eye.

The Demon Beast's head was a rather savage-looking lion's head. Its beastly eyes, blood-red with strange purple gleams, its huge maw lined with fangs, and a fiery red spiraled horn atop its lion head all gave it a terrifying appearance. Clusters of purple flames swirled around the horn's tip. On either side of its enormous lion body grew a pair of purple wings. With every beat of those wings, pale purple flames surged forth like flamethrowers, sweeping across the skies. Its four sturdy claws were also coated in purple crystals. Each step it took caused the void to tremble, making it hard to imagine just how terrifying its strength was. The giant Demon Beast stood in the air, and an invisible pressure descended from the heavens, making people tremble. "So this is the legendary Amethyst Winged Lion King?" Xiao Yi Xian covered her small mouth as she stared dazedly at the Demon Beast that embodied both beauty and destruction.

After marveling at the Amethyst Winged Lion King's appearance, Xiao Yi Xian shifted her gaze to the person facing it.

"It's actually a woman?" Her gaze first fell upon that curvaceous, exquisite figure, and Xiao Yi Xian was greatly astonished. She had not expected the expert capable of standing against the Amethyst Winged Lion King to be a woman.

The woman in the sky wore a plain dress that wrapped around her voluptuous body. She held a long sword of somewhat unusual design that emitted an azure glow. Her dark hair was arranged into a noble Phoenix hair ornament, while her beautiful face remained calm and serene, unchanged even as she faced a Demon Beast renowned throughout the Dou Qi Continent.

Behind the mysterious woman was a pair of wings. They were somewhat illusory and were likely formed from her own Dou Qi. Manifesting wings from Dou Qi was almost the mark of experts above the Dou Wang realm.

In the sky, the mysterious woman stood calmly. Her beautiful and tranquil face carried a grace and nobility that even her plain clothes could not conceal.

"Who is she?"

"One of the Jia Ma Empire's ten strongest experts—the Misty Cloud Sect's sect leader, Dou Emperor Yun Yun."

"Other than her, have you ever heard of another female Dou Emperor in the Jia Ma Empire?"

Xiao Chen curled his lip, speechless.