The Woman Who Liked to Eat Poison

Why wait for Xiao Yan to relieve her pain? Of course, he had to get there first!

Chu Yang estimated that Xiao Yan probably had not met Xiao Yi Xian yet.

He immediately connected to the Medicine Emperor System cheat.

Then Chu Yang frowned, because—

He realized that the Medicine Emperor System would not immediately hand over all of the Medicine Emperor's knowledge to him at once.

The Medicine Emperor's complete set of medical manuals and alchemy techniques required him to complete the system's check-in tasks before he could gradually exchange for them.

In Chu Yang's mind, the system's spokesperson seemed to be an unnamed little girl, mischievously making faces at him, as if playing a prank.

Chu Yang nearly cursed inwardly. He instinctively felt that he had been abducted to another world to work like a laborer.

But he had no other choice. Given the situation ahead, he had to do it. Otherwise, whether he could even survive in this Dou Qi Continent was still a question!

"Ding! The system has triggered a random task: Help Xiao Yi Xian resolve her current suffering."

"Reward for completing the task: one Lucky Draw, plus one hundred check-in points."

Before transmigrating, Chu Yang often played games on Earth. Even without the system explaining, he understood what Lucky Draws and check-in points meant.

With the system patiently explaining it to him, he understood even more clearly that a Lucky Draw could get him good treasures, while check-in points could be used in the System Mall to exchange for what he needed. They were like money on Earth before his transmigration, or the Gold Coins used in the Dou Qi Continent.

Therefore, whether it was Lucky Draws or check-in points, the more the better!

And to get more, he needed to complete tasks.

And now, a task had arrived!

When he first heard the task announcement, Chu Yang was somewhat dumbfounded. He had just learned that the Medicine Emperor's knowledge and techniques would not simply be stuffed into his head all at once. There was no such bargain in the world, just as there was no free lunch! He had to complete tasks and use the check-in points he earned to exchange for them, bit by bit.

He just did not know whether a Lucky Draw might yield something related to the Medicine Emperor's knowledge.

As for completing tasks, Chu Yang was still a rookie who had just started out. It was not as though he could work on tasks day and night whenever he wanted; he had to wait for the system to issue them.

Nor could he casually ask that little girl spokesperson to give him tasks. For one thing, he had not figured out her temperament yet. If he offended her, he might go a long time without any tasks to do.

Or worse, she might deliberately give him an extremely difficult task. If he slipped up and capsized in a ditch, he would be dead.

After transmigrating into the world of Battle Through the Heavens on the Dou Qi Continent, no one could guarantee that he possessed an immortal body or some condition that would spare him from death!

Chu Yang forced himself to stop his baseless thoughts and focused on dealing with this task.

Although he had to work hard and earn the Medicine Emperor's abilities bit by bit himself, the Medicine Emperor System was not so stingy that it gave him no knowledge at all beforehand.

Moreover, having thoroughly read Battle Through the Heavens before transmigrating, and with the basic knowledge provided by the Medicine Emperor System, Chu Yang was confident that getting close to Xiao Yi Xian would not result in him being poisoned to death on the spot.

Although he could not currently refine a pill that would completely cure Xiao Yi Xian's condition, or even a pill that could temporarily stop her from sliding deeper into the abyss of suffering—because he did not yet have any check-in points to exchange for anything—he could still use certain techniques the Medicine Emperor System had provided beforehand to ease Xiao Yi Xian's pain for now and quickly make her fall unconscious.

After sleeping for a while, she should recover as usual.

Chu Yang guessed that Xiao Yi Xian had been a little too greedy this time and eaten too much poison, causing the situation to spiral out of control. Fortunately, she had run into him. Otherwise, this ordeal would truly have made her wish she were dead.

At that moment, based on his understanding of Battle Through the Heavens before transmigrating and the knowledge previously supplied by the Medicine Emperor System, a detailed account of Xiao Yi Xian and people with her special constitution immediately formed in Chu Yang's mind—

On the Dou Qi Continent, there existed an extremely special constitution known as the "Innate Poison Body," or the "Calamity Poison Body." The very existence of this poison body generally brought calamity.

Once, a woman with a Calamity Poison Body appeared on the Dou Qi Continent. In a fit of rage, she turned an entire empire into toxic land stretching for a thousand miles. Within that poisoned land, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even more, wandering spirits lingered.

On the Dou Qi Continent, the strong had rules of their own.

What that woman had done had undoubtedly violated those unspoken rules. After all, many powerful experts had emerged from that empire... Thus, the matter escalated. One expert after another went to seek revenge on that woman, only to fall one after another. The weakest among them were at least Dou Lings, while the strongest was even a Nine-Star Dou Emperor on the verge of advancing to Dou Zong. Yet all of them died at that woman's hands.

In the end, the incident drew out those old monsters who lived in seclusion. After a shocking battle unknown to outsiders, the woman, whose strength was only that of a Five-Star Dou Emperor, fled far away with severe injuries. Yet on the old monsters' side, even a Dou Zong-level super expert had to purge poison for ten years before fully recovering.

More than twenty years after the woman fled, she appeared once again. By then, she had already advanced to the Dou Zong level. Having suffered once before, those old monsters no longer dared to pass judgment on her recklessly, so they pretended not to know anything of her whereabouts.

Twenty years... Rising from a Five-Star Dou Emperor to Dou Zong in that time was an utterly terrifying speed.

The cultivation method of this poison body was also extremely strange. They did not need to spend years cultivating dou qi. To grow stronger, they only needed to—eat poison!

As long as they consumed poison, their Calamity Poison Body would convert the toxic power contained within it into an exceptionally special poison dou qi through a bizarre method.

The more potent the poison, the more it benefited the growth of their strength. Thus, they did not need arduous cultivation. As long as they continuously consumed poison, they could rapidly increase their power.

But nothing in the world was absolutely perfect.

Although the Calamity Poison Body could rapidly increase one's strength by consuming poison, poison was still poison.

Relying on the Calamity Poison Body, they could prevent the poison from devouring their bodies. However, as the poison they consumed accumulated over time, eventually even the Calamity Poison Body would be unable to suppress the poison dou qi within them. At that point... the agony of ten thousand poisons devouring their body would slowly torture them to death.

To obtain rapidly growing power, one naturally had to pay a price. There was no such thing as gaining something for nothing in this world!