Perfect Control of the Calamity Poison Body!

After returning to the surface, Su Zhao waved his hand to fill the pit completely with sand, then compacted it with Dou Qi until no trace remained.

After finishing all this, he summoned the Purple Cloud Wings, took Little Doctor with him, and flew back into the sky toward Desert City.

Even Su Zhao had not expected things to go so smoothly. He had assumed they would encounter at least a few setbacks and had even prepared contingency plans. It seemed he had worried for nothing.

After returning to the courtyard in Desert City, Su Zhao gave a few brief instructions before heading straight into his room.

He sat cross-legged and took the enormous Green Lotus Platform from his storage ring, placing it on the floor before studying it carefully.

The green lotus platform gleamed with a gentle luster in the light, while the green flame at its center burned quietly.

As Su Zhao sensed the terrifying energy within it, he realized that the Green Lotus Core Flame truly was not something the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame could compare to.

When he had absorbed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame last time, Su You had already weakened it to the extreme, leaving little energy behind.

The Green Lotus Core Flame before him, however, was at its peak. Its power rivaled that of a Dou Huang expert, and the sheer energy contained within its flame seed was enough to reduce him to ashes if he made even the slightest mistake.

After some thought, Su Zhao decided that, to be safe, he should wait until he broke through to Da Dou Shi before finding a way to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Forcing himself to devour an otherworldly flame at its peak while he was merely a Dou Shi was still highly dangerous, even with the Fire Spirit Physique.

Still, that did not mean he could not make use of it before truly devouring it.

Sensing wisps of green flame energy faintly leaking from the Green Lotus Platform, Su Zhao could not help but smile.

Though the leaking energy was weak, it was genuine otherworldly flame energy. To the Fire Spirit Physique, it was far more effective than any heaven and earth spiritual energy.

Keeping the Green Lotus Platform beside him while cultivating and absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame energy it released would undoubtedly make his progress twice as effective with half the effort.

Besides that, there was one more matter: the Calamity Poison Body.

Now that the Fire Spirit Physique had devoured the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, its source flame had grown considerably. It should be enough to suppress the source poison unleashed after activating the Calamity Poison Body.

It was time to fully awaken the Calamity Poison Body!

Now that he had found three otherworldly flames, even if he could not control the Calamity Poison Body after awakening it, he could still use the Poison Pill Method as a safeguard. He had nothing to fear.

Su Zhao raised his hand and removed three jade bottles from his storage ring.

What they contained were not ordinary medicinal pills, but poison pills he had refined in his spare time over the past month, made from all manner of highly poisonous medicinal ingredients.

To ordinary Dou practitioners and even Dou Shi, they were deadly poisons that would kill upon consumption. But to someone with the Calamity Poison Body, they were the finest elixirs in the world.

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Zhao pulled out the stoppers, and three pitch-black poison pills flew out.

Tilting back his head, he swallowed all three pills in one go!

The pills melted the instant they entered his mouth, transforming into an incomparably violent torrent of poison that instantly swept through his entire body!

The poison surged into his meridians like a raging flood, seemingly ready to corrode his flesh and blood wherever it passed.

Yet the agonizing pain he had expected never came.

In its place was an incomparable sense of relief. As the poison flowed through his meridians, it cleansed away the lingering impurities before returning to his dantian. There, it circled beneath the roasting heat of the source flame, transformed into incomparably pure poison energy, and was finally converted into abundant Dou Qi!

Within Su Zhao's dantian, the crimson source flame intertwined with the newly injected poison energy. The Fire Spirit Physique instinctively suppressed the ferocity of the source poison, taming and transforming it into peerlessly pure energy that merged with his Dou Qi.

His aura rose steadily throughout the process, and the Dou Qi in his meridians grew increasingly abundant. At the same time, strands of green energy from the Green Lotus Platform beside him drifted out in response to his perception and were absorbed by him as well.

The night passed without incident.

The next morning, Su Zhao was still sitting cross-legged in his room. Faint crimson flames swirled around him, mixed with an almost imperceptible layer of purple Dou Qi.

A moment later, Su Zhao finally opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Lowering his head to sense the changes in himself, a flash of delight crossed his eyes.

"Eight-Star Dou Shi!!"

In just one night, after consuming three poison pills, his cultivation had risen directly from a Seven-Star Dou Shi to an Eight-Star Dou Shi!

He was only one step away from Nine-Star now.

"What incredible speed! No wonder Little Doctor in the original story went from not even being a Dou practitioner to the Dou Zong realm in just a few short years. The Calamity Poison Body only needs to consume poison to raise its Dou Qi realm. This ability is simply too heaven-defying."

If not for the risk of the poison body going out of control, the Calamity Poison Body might even be stronger than a Dou Di bloodline!

The reason Little Doctor's cultivation progressed slowly after reaching Dou Sheng in the original story was not because her physique had reached its limit. Rather, after reaching the Dou Sheng realm, there were simply too few poisons in the entire world of Battle Through the Heavens that could threaten a Dou Sheng.

Without a source of potent poison, the Calamity Poison Body naturally had no room to display its power.

One could imagine that if this were a world where poison was the primary cultivation resource, the potential of the Calamity Poison Body could truly be expanded without limit!

"Very good. Just as I expected, under the suppression of the Fire Spirit Physique, the Calamity Poison Body has shown no signs of losing control. The poison energy in my body is completely obedient to my will. It seems I can easily control the Calamity Poison Body without using the Poison Pill Method!"

The more Su Zhao thought about it, the more excited he became.

A Calamity Poison Body with perfect innate control! It could be said that he would encounter no bottlenecks whatsoever before reaching Dou Sheng!

As long as he had enough poison, he could rapidly raise his cultivation.

"Hahahaha! At this rate, it will not take long for me to reach Dou Ling or even Dou Wang. It seems I will be able to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame in just a few days. First, I'll cultivate the Calamity Poison Body until I reach Dou Ling. Then, devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame will carry no risk at all. With the power of the otherworldly flame, I'll quickly reach Dou Wang!"

Once he reached the Dou Wang realm, not many people in the Jia Ma Empire would be able to threaten him.

Even without Su You constantly protecting him, he would possess the strength to defend himself.

A Calamity Poison Body that could be controlled freely from birth was likely the first of its kind in the history of the Dou Qi Continent. However, Su Zhao had relied on the system. The Fire Spirit Physique and the Calamity Poison Body were fundamentally opposing physiques, with the Fire Spirit Physique naturally restraining the Calamity Poison Body. Yet through the system's immense power, the two had merged into one, resulting in the current situation.

Under normal circumstances, the Fire Spirit Physique and the Calamity Poison Body could never appear within the same person.

All that could be said was that the system was damn awesome!

In the days that followed, Su Zhao and the others spent nearly all their time cultivating.

Little Doctor also learned that Su Zhao had awakened the Calamity Poison Body as well. He had cultivated normally before this, only formally drawing out the Calamity Poison Body's power now.

Su Zhao, meanwhile, could not wait to try a cultivation method he had long wanted to test—a method that could only be used when two possessors of the Calamity Poison Body cultivated together.