Poison

"Really?" Xiao Fan asked uncertainly. The Storage Ring of the Misty Cloud Sect's leader was filled with good things. Xiao Fan had even spotted several high-grade medicinal pills.

This was far easier than exhausting himself searching for herbs in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

"Mm." Yun Yun nodded. She had indeed taken the Amethyst Winged Lion King's full-force claw strike, though she had deliberately allowed herself to be injured by it.

"Fine!" Xiao Fan nodded.

Inside the cave: a man, a woman, and a dragon.

"Xiao Yan'er!"

As if she had anticipated it, Zi Yan had already run off. Looking at the scattered bottles and jars, Xiao Fan was at a loss for words...

Just moments ago, while Xiao Fan had been making medicine with one hand and Sugar Pills with the other in the cave, Zi Yan had somehow kidnapped a Blue Eagle with intelligence.

In the end... Zi Yan had failed to hold on properly, and the Blue Eagle knocked over every bottle and jar Xiao Fan had placed beside him while refining pills.

Knowing she had made a mistake, Zi Yan immediately turned and ran without the slightest hesitation, with no intention whatsoever of cleaning up the mess.

As she ran, she shouted, "Xiao Fan, when I get back, I want drumsticks!"

"Hehehe." Watching the pair of bickering enemies, Yun Yun unconsciously smiled.

Looking at the Blue Eagle still circling overhead, Yun Yun fired out a stream of Dou Qi.

"Caw!" The Blue Eagle merely flapped its wings a few times in midair before plummeting straight down with a thud.

Crash!

Hearing the sounds of his pill furnace and jade bottles shattering, Xiao Fan felt his heart break into pieces as well...

After quite a while, Xiao Fan glared at Yun Yun with a dark expression. "You foolish woman! So this is how you repay kindness!"

Yun Yun was no longer powerless. A stream of wind Dou Qi bound Xiao Fan. "I'll compensate you, then. Why are you making such a fuss over it?"

"Then compensate me!"

"You still haven't settled the matter of insulting me. What, does a mere Dou Zhe think he can make waves before a Dou Emperor?"

Xiao Fan gritted his teeth and silently made up his mind. Just wait. Three years! Give me only three years, and I'll spank this foolish woman's ass until it blooms!

"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Never look down on..."

Seeing Xiao Fan still hanging his head as though he were cursing her under his breath, Yun Yun walked over to the Blue Eagle and said, "Enough, enough. You're acting like such a miser."

"I'll make you a meal to compensate you. A meal cooked by a Dou Emperor."

"Hmph, as if I care."

Xiao Fan discovered that the wind bindings around him had been released, yet he remained thoroughly dissatisfied.

Originally, only his pill furnace had cracked, and at least it could still be used to refine low-grade pills. But now, he had no pill furnace at all, along with several batches of herbs he had just prepared.

"One after another, none of you gives me any peace of mind!"

"If it doesn't taste good, I won't serve you, foolish woman!" Xiao Fan sat to one side in a huff.

Watching Yun Yun prepare everything in a convincing manner, Xiao Fan felt somewhat doubtful. Can she really cook?

Xiao Fan felt as though he had forgotten something important, and it seemed to be related to cooking.

While he was lost in thought, Xiao Fan suddenly remembered the Seven-Colored Poison Soup Xiao Yi Xian had made.

Afterward, Xiao Fan had been certain that the soup contained poison—and poison so potent that even he, a former Half-Emperor expert, could not detect it.

"But... that soup was really delicious..." Thinking of it, Xiao Fan could not help feeling dreamy.

"It tastes like Xiao Yi Xian..."

Meanwhile, Yun Yun was thinking, Hmph, you dare look down on my cooking? I'll make sure you see just how capable this foolish woman is!

It had to be said that aside from medicinal pills and herbs, Zi Yan probably loved roast chicken most of all, since it was connected to another mortal enemy of the Ancient Void Dragon.

Under Chef Yun Yun's diligent efforts, the Blue Eagle began to sizzle with frying oil, releasing waves of impossible-to-ignore fragrance.

"Eh... is this seasoning?"

Yun Yun picked up a small jade bottle from the ground. It was precisely the seasoning Xiao Fan had added earlier while making Sugar Pills for Zi Yan...

"Hmm? What kind of seasoning is this? It's even seven-colored?" Even Yun Yun failed to recognize the seasoning in her hand at first, but when she leaned closer and took a sniff, she immediately felt lightheaded. At once, she decided it was a carefully blended bottle of seasoning!

The purple-haired Little Dragon Maiden hiding by the entrance also entered the cave at that moment.

Xiao Fan held Zi Yan in his arms, clenched both hands into fists, and placed them beside her little head as he smiled at her...

"Xiao... Xiao Fan, I didn't do it on purpose..."

"Wuwuwu!"

Xiao Fan felt that Zi Yan had simply been spoiled too much. Fortunately, the Blue Eagle was only a second-tier magical beast. If she brought back a fourth- or fifth-tier magical beast while he was refining pills next time, that would be disastrous.

As he thought this, his fists rubbed back and forth over Zi Yan's little head.

From the first time Yun Yun had seen Zi Yan, she had felt that the girl looked familiar, but she could not remember where she had seen her before...

Yun Yun took the initiative to carve a piece of meat for Xiao Fan and Zi Yan, then handed the wing to Zi Yan. She could tell that Xiao Fan seemed to value this little girl greatly now. Even while refining pills, he would intentionally or unintentionally glance toward the cave entrance.

Perhaps even Xiao Fan himself had not noticed it. A trace of envy rose in Yun Yun's heart...

"Lady Sect Leader, why is this meat this color?" Xiao Fan looked at the other wing in his hand. Its surface was no different from ordinary roasted meat, but why was the flesh inside gleaming with seven-colored hues?

"Are you eating it or not?"

Yun Yun made as if to snatch it back.

How could Xiao Fan endure such provocation? He immediately took a huge bite.

"Eh!" Xiao Fan's eyes lit up as he praised Yun Yun. "Oh, not bad."

"Who do you think made it?" Yun Yun was quite pleased inside to receive Xiao Fan's rare praise.

As Xiao Fan chewed and savored the flavor of the meat, he said, "It feels a little familiar... like... like Xiao Yi Xian's taste..."

"Hmm?!" Xiao Fan's brows shot up as he realized something was wrong.

He hurriedly asked, "What did you put in it?"

"Just the seasonings you were using while refining medicine. They were seven-colored. Teach me how to make it next time, okay?"

"Seven-colored? When did I ever have seven-colored seasoning?"

Yun Yun looked at Xiao Fan strangely, took out the bottle of seasoning she had just used, and handed it to him.

Looking at that familiar jade bottle, that familiar barbecue, and that familiar seasoning...

Xiao Fan finally remembered what he had forgotten!

"You foolish woman! This is Aphrodisiac Powder! It's not seasoning!"

The key was that this Aphrodisiac Powder was no ordinary kind. Xiao Fan hurriedly looked down at Zi Yan in his arms. Sure enough, Zi Yan was already swaying her head dizzily, still clutching the half-eaten wing in her hand...

"Hehe, Xiao Fan... hehe, Xiao Fan has to be good to me for a lifetime..." A flush rose on Zi Yan's face, and her voice carried a hint of seductive charm.

Yun Yun panicked as well and hurriedly asked, "Then do you have an antidote?"

"Big sister, where would I get an antidote?"

This had never belonged to Xiao Fan in the first place. He had only kept it out of curiosity over the ingenious method used to make the Aphrodisiac Powder...

"Seven-colored..."

Xiao Fan instantly understood something and said with a laugh that was neither amused nor helpless, "Xiao Yi Xian... you truly were a natural-born poison expert..."