After an unknown amount of time, a faint sound finally broke the deathly silence of the forest.
Little Doctor Fairy, who had been curled up on the ground unconscious for a long while, first twitched her slender fingertips almost imperceptibly.
Only after quite some time did Little Doctor Fairy slowly open her eyes.
What entered Little Doctor Fairy's sight was a figure in green standing quietly nearby.
"You're awake?"
Yao Xuan raised his eyes toward the awakened Little Doctor Fairy and spoke softly.
At the sudden sight of a stranger before her, Little Doctor Fairy's entire body instantly tensed, deep wariness flashing through her eyes.
She instinctively drew herself back, quietly putting some distance between them.
"Who... who are you?"
Seeing this, a faint smile curled across Yao Xuan's lips.
"Me?"
"If you count it up, I should be the one who saved your life."
The instant those words fell, Little Doctor Fairy's expression changed sharply.
She abruptly turned her head and looked around. Her gaze swept over the surrounding grass, trees, and earth, all yellowed, withered, and utterly devoid of life, and she immediately understood.
The strange poison lurking within her body must have lost control and erupted again, creating this scene.
Seeing the sight before her, Little Doctor Fairy had already believed Yao Xuan's words.
Her previously taut body relaxed slightly. Then, Little Doctor Fairy lowered her head a little and softly thanked him.
"Thank you, young master, for saving me."
As soon as she finished speaking, Little Doctor Fairy immediately lifted her eyes again, urgency in her brows.
"Did you happen to see the mercenaries who came up the mountain with me?"
Yao Xuan raised an eyebrow slightly and replied blandly.
"You mean those mercenaries? They had already gone down the mountain on their own earlier."
In truth, Yao Xuan had already quietly cleaned up those pale skeletons.
After all, when Yao Xuan had seen those bones earlier, he had known they belonged to the mercenaries who had escorted Little Doctor Fairy up the mountain to gather herbs. In the end, they had died miserably beneath the sudden eruption of the Calamity Poison Body's deadly poison.
Little Doctor Fairy was still pure-hearted at this moment. Yao Xuan knew that if she learned she had unintentionally taken several more lives, she would surely fall into endless guilt and self-reproach...
That was why he had dealt with the bones and lied to Little Doctor Fairy.
Hearing Yao Xuan's words, Little Doctor Fairy relaxed considerably. She then slowly rose to her feet, and as Little Doctor Fairy stood up completely—
The clothes Yao Xuan had draped over Little Doctor Fairy slipped off entirely, revealing the flawless white body beneath them once more before Yao Xuan...
With the poison having dispersed, Little Doctor Fairy's body was even fairer now. Especially beneath the moonlight, her exquisitely curvaceous figure was displayed to perfection!
Seeing this, Little Doctor Fairy hurriedly grabbed the clothes and held them in front of herself. Her originally fair cheeks instantly flushed red!
It was the bashful blush unique to a young maiden...
Little Doctor Fairy's face was red as she spoke in a trembling voice. "Young master..."
"Could you allow me to change into another set of clothes first?"
Yao Xuan nodded. Little Doctor Fairy then went some distance away and took out the clothes she had prepared beforehand from her medicine basket, changing into them.
A moment later, Little Doctor Fairy, now dressed in a white gown, emerged from the distant brush and first bowed deeply to Yao Xuan.
"Thank you, young master, for helping me..."
"I hope I didn't hurt you while I was unconscious..."
Yao Xuan smiled and shook his head. "Of course not. Your Calamity Poison Body may be terrifying, but it still cannot harm me at present..."
Hearing Yao Xuan mention the Calamity Poison Body, a glimmer instantly flashed through Little Doctor Fairy's eyes.
"Young master, you know about my constitution?"
At this point, Little Doctor Fairy only knew that her constitution was special; she did not know it was called the Calamity Poison Body. Thus, upon hearing that the man before her even knew the name of her constitution, she thought he might perhaps have a way to help her resolve this special condition.
After hearing this, Yao Xuan nodded. "Yes, I've heard of it..."
"And judging by the poison in your body, you must have consumed quite a few poisonous substances over the years..."
One had to know that an innate Calamity Poison Body had virtually no resistance whatsoever to poison.
Even though Little Doctor Fairy did not yet know that her constitution's true name was the Calamity Poison Body, ever since she had accidentally eaten poison as a child, things had spiraled completely out of control.
After Yao Xuan spoke, a flash of light glinted from his storage ring, and the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture he had obtained from that cave appeared in his palm.
Yao Xuan handed the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture to Little Doctor Fairy and said solemnly, "This poison scripture contains records concerning your Calamity Poison Body..."
"You may take a look..."
Little Doctor Fairy took the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and immediately began flipping through it.
Only after a while did a bitter smile appear on Little Doctor Fairy's face. "So I truly am the Calamity Poison Body recorded in here..."
"No wonder that ever since I accidentally consumed poison that time, I lost all resistance to every kind of poison..."
"No wonder I can never control my poison body, harming so many innocent people for nothing. Perhaps someone like me ought to die in atonement..."
Yet Yao Xuan merely smiled lightly. "Miss, why be so pessimistic..."
"Do you know that your innate Calamity Poison Body is a constitution countless people dream of possessing..."
"Moreover, if it can be controlled, the Calamity Poison Body can be considered a top-tier cultivation constitution!"
Hearing this, Little Doctor Fairy could not help lifting her head slightly to look at Yao Xuan. "Young master, could it be that you know a way to control this poison body?"
Yao Xuan smiled and nodded. "Though the Calamity Poison Body is rare, you are not the only one on this continent who possesses it..."
"Of course, there is a way to completely control the Calamity Poison Body..."
Upon hearing this, Little Doctor Fairy did not hesitate in the slightest. She immediately bowed deeply to Yao Xuan, and with that bend, her "peaks" were fully revealed.
"If you do not find me unworthy, young master!"
"This humble girl is willing to serve you for life, so long as you can help me resolve this poison body!"
The hope of living was right before her. How could Little Doctor Fairy possibly give up?
Yet Yao Xuan gently raised a hand, and a soft current of Dou Qi lightly lifted Little Doctor Fairy upright as he said.
"Controlling the Calamity Poison Body is actually simple. You only need to condense a Poison Core within your body..."
Little Doctor Fairy's eyes were filled with confusion. "A Poison Core!?"
Yao Xuan nodded.
"Right now, the Calamity Poison source within your body is scattered throughout your limbs and bones. Thus, the poison qi is too excessive and can easily harm innocent people..."
"Therefore, to completely control the Calamity Poison Body, you must temper your body with intensely yang flames, completely unseal all of your poison body's source, force every trace of deadly poison out from your meridians, and gather it all into your dantian's qi sea..."
"Then, use a top-grade seventh-tier poison-element magic core to bear the entire source of your poison body, supplemented with Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva to cleanse and neutralize it, suppressing the poison's violent nature so that the countless toxins no longer rampage wildly..."
"Finally, you need only use three Heavenly Flames to temper it in cycles, refining it again and again, forcibly condensing that poison power containing the Calamity source throughout your body into a perfect natal Poison Core..."
"The day the core is formed, the Calamity Poison Body will no longer be your burden, but the foundation of your cultivation..."
"This is the Poison Core method: poison is born from the core, and its power is controlled by the heart!"
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