Mad Experimenter

[You refused Yun Zhi's kindness, saying you would repay today's favor another day, then continued fleeing without looking back.]

[Surrounded by five Snake-People Dou Wang experts, Yun Zhi remained behind. You had Medicine Elder return to save her.]

[After fleeing for most of the day, you began devouring a Heavenly Flame.]

[Naling, a Blood Lotus Pill, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and an unexpectedly effective Green Lotus Seat still failed to spare you the excruciating pain of devouring the Heavenly Flame.]

[After narrowly surviving countless brushes with death, you succeeded. The Flame Mantra evolved to the Middle Profound Tier, while your strength rose to that of an Eight-Star Dou Shi.]

Xiao Yan sucked in a cold breath. "This damn technique actually worked..."

Then Xiao Yan could not help but think that if his Dou Qi had not been drained for all those years, he would at least be a Dou Wang or even a Dou Emperor by now.

With a body tempered by that level of strength, fusing with a Green Lotus Core Flame would still have been painful, but he certainly would not have nearly died atop the Green Lotus Seat.

[After your breakthrough, you went to Desert City to find Hai Bodong and began refining medicine for him.]

[Medicine Elder showed you the Black Demon Cauldron from the Heaven Cauldron Ranking and added special crystals of Bone Chilling Spirit Flame to the pill during refinement.]

[Hai Bodong successfully broke his seal and regained the strength of a Dou Emperor. You called in a favor and had him accompany you to the Misty Cloud Sect.]

[Upon returning to Stone Desert City, you found that the Desert Iron Mercenary Corps had been attacked and Qing Lin had been taken away. You subdued the Sand Mercenary Corps and headed to the Mo Clan of Salt City to search for Qing Lin.]

[While resting at an inn in Salt City, you unexpectedly encountered Nalan Yanran.]

Nalan Yanran wore a fitted moon-white robe that accentuated her graceful curves. A pale silver sash was tied around her slender willow waist, perfectly displaying its delicate contour.

Her long, shapely legs, clad in white thigh-high stockings, appeared even more voluptuous. Over the past two years, she had gradually transformed from the spoiled young girl she once was into a mature woman with an otherworldly air.

[The Mo Estate had deep ties with the Misty Cloud Sect. Using a Restoration Spirit Purple Pill capable of restoring Hai Bodong's full strength, you hired Hai Bodong as a long-term enforcer.]

[At the Mo Estate's birthday banquet, unable to find Qing Lin, you confronted Mo Cheng directly. During the interrogation, Nalan Yanran attempted to stop you, immediately using the Misty Cloud Sect to pressure you.]

[You killed Mo Cheng. Just as you were about to take Qing Lin back, a female Dou Emperor in green seized Qing Lin.]

[You and Hai Bodong pursued her closely, only to be blocked by the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor. Hai Bodong was restrained by it, leaving you as the only one capable of harming it.]

[The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor was enormous. Even borrowing Medicine Elder's power and using Eight Extremities Collapse failed to inflict serious damage. You considered Dou Techniques such as the Flame Splitting Wave-Cleaving Ruler, but none possessed the wide-area destructive force needed to deal a fatal blow to the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.]

[You made a mad decision: fuse the Bone Chilling Spirit Flame with the Green Lotus Core Flame.]

[Having fused with the Green Lotus Core Flame through a near-death ordeal, Medicine Elder clearly acknowledged you as his disciple. He supplied you with a constant stream of soul power.]

[The two Heavenly Flames were fundamentally incompatible, but Flame Mantra Dou Qi seemed capable of fusing them. You successfully created the *Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus*.]

[The earth-shaking force of the explosion heavily wounded the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor. Your own fate was unknown as Hai Bodong carried you away.]

[In your daze, you heard Medicine Elder's words: The Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus was immensely powerful, but creating it and protecting you from the waves of flame had exhausted his soul power. You had also used a desperate move, and did not have much time left.

In the end, he had indulged you too much. He did not know when he would awaken again, or whether he would ever encounter another genius...]

[Not long afterward, you died.]

[Simulation complete.]

[Simulation evaluation: Mad Experimenter.]

[Experiments may be mad, but remember to take proper precautions.]

"I was blown to death?!" Xiao Yan scratched his head. Medicine Elder had only just started spoiling him, and then he had gotten carried away.

Big brother, was this how you let your disciple be willful? Wasn't this harming both of you?!

Xiao Yan lowered his head and sighed. Teachers on the Dou Qi Continent were truly hard to put into words...

When Nalan Yanran wanted to break off the engagement, her teacher had simply agreed, completely disregarding the wishes of Nalan Yanran's still-living grandfather and father.

And in this experiment, when he fused the two Heavenly Flames, Medicine Elder had strongly supported him with soul power. Had he not considered the consequences of the explosion?

Xiao Yan could not help thinking of the armor Yun Zhi had worn when she endured a claw strike from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King without being torn apart. If he had possessed something like that, he might have survived.

[Simulation rewards: Calamity Poison Body, Beast Soul Dominant Body, Medicine Spirit Sacred Body.]

Looking at the three uniform physique-type rewards, Xiao Yan found it difficult to choose.

Of the three, the Calamity Poison Body was the one he understood best. Xiao Yi Xian possessed this very physique.

It could increase one's strength by devouring poisons. Though it practically had no upper limit, poisons capable of threatening powerful experts were exceedingly precious, so considerable effort would still be needed later on.

Moreover, after devouring too many poisons, those with this physique would suffer the agony of countless toxins consuming their body.

With this physique, if one could not resolve its inherent flaw, the faster one cultivated in the early stages, the faster one would die.

The Beast Soul Dominant Body was somewhat similar to the secret art of the Snake-People Tribe, which sealed snake-shaped souls within the body.

The difference was that the Beast Soul Dominant Body could devour the souls of many different magical beasts, gaining one additional soul with every breakthrough. Furthermore, the magical beast souls could evolve as their owner's strength increased.

As more magical beast souls were fused, the owner's physical constitution would become increasingly stronger. Even without transforming into a magical beast, they would be nearly unmatched among those of the same realm.

Xiao Yan had personally witnessed the battle between Dou Emperor Yun Zhi and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Magical beasts possessed an enormous advantage in close combat.

If he could transform into a magical beast, he could almost instantly reverse the tide of battle at a critical moment.

Xiao Yan had also personally seen Queen Medusa transform into a Purple Nether Flame Snake. That enormous purple serpent had endured the scorching of the Heavenly Flame for quite some time.

Although the Beast Soul Dominant Body could not match the short-term growth speed of the Calamity Poison Body, it was an excellent physique in the long run, and it carried no danger to one's life.

The final Medicine Spirit Sacred Body was somewhat similar to the Calamity Poison Body, as both were related to medicine. The latter, however, specifically concerned poisons.

The Medicine Spirit Sacred Body could devour medicinal ingredients to increase strength and ignored resistance to pills.

Take the Dou Ling Pill as an example. Although consuming one could raise a Dou Wang's strength by one star, every Dou Wang could only take a single Dou Ling Pill in their lifetime.

Because of the extremely high resistance, taking a second Dou Ling Pill would produce no effect at all.

However, someone with the Medicine Spirit Sacred Body could continuously devour Dou Ling Pills to increase their strength after reaching the Dou Wang realm.

Still, those with the Medicine Spirit Sacred Body required an enormous amount of medicinal power.

It was absolutely impossible for one Dou Ling Pill to raise them by a star. They often needed several times, or even dozens of times, the amount of pills an ordinary person would require.

Moreover, if one raised their strength by consuming large quantities of medicinal ingredients and pills without powerful means to thoroughly refine them, pill impurities would continuously accumulate in the body, making it impossible to break through to the Dou Saint realm.