Calamity Poison Body Awakens, the Queen Faces the Evolution Tribulation

Poison entered his body.

Just as Xiao Yan was about to mobilize the battle qi within his vortex to expel the poison that had entered his body,

it was as if some switch within his body had been flipped. Strange ripples emerged from within him and washed toward the poison.

As the strange ripples continued to wash over it, the poison transformed into purple-black gas that traveled through his meridians before entering his dantian. Drawn by the battle crystal within the vortex, it swirled around it.

Sensing the changes within his body, Xiao Yan's expression shifted slightly.

The Calamity Poison Body he had obtained through Dual Cultivation with Little Fairy had awakened at this moment!

An intense hunger rose within his body, madly absorbing the poison contained in the lake water.

That hunger affected Xiao Yan's mind, even making his thoughts sluggish.

He willingly soaked in the poisonous lake, allowing the poison to enter his body and be washed away by the strange ripples his body produced, transforming into poisonous battle qi.

The exhilaration brought by his rapidly rising strength made Xiao Yan lose himself in it, unable to pull free.

Inside the Portable Space, Medicine Elder noticed Xiao Yan's abnormal state. After a brief examination, he understood what was happening, and his expression changed slightly.

"Little Yan, wake up!"

Medicine Elder's soul voice exploded in Xiao Yan's mind.

Xiao Yan shuddered and regained consciousness, but the hunger in his body surged into his mind again.

While he still retained a shred of reason, Xiao Yan willed himself and flashed into the Portable Space.

Even so, his body's craving for poison continued to affect Xiao Yan's rationality, as though constantly urging him to leave the space and immerse himself in the poisonous lake once more.

However, without poison entering his body, that hunger became rootless. Moreover, Xiao Yan had only just awakened the Calamity Poison Body, so after lasting several minutes, the craving gradually faded.

Xiao Yan let out a light breath, his forehead covered in fine sweat.

"This Calamity Poison Body is too terrifying. It can actually affect a person's mind."

Xiao Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with lingering fear.

If Medicine Elder's warning had not interrupted him, he would have continued soaking in the lake until he had absorbed all the poison within its waters.

Although that would not have killed Xiao Yan, it would instead have increased his strength.

But it would also accelerate the accumulation and eruption of toxins within his body.

"The Calamity Poison Body itself is a double-edged sword. Used well, it offers tremendous benefits to one's strength. Used poorly, it harms both others and oneself."

Medicine Elder said sternly from the side.

The bizarre ability of the Calamity Poison Body to increase one's strength simply by consuming poison was already defying the natural order. And defying the natural order came at a price: the toxins accumulating within the body, like a Sword of Damocles hanging over every owner of a Calamity Poison Body.

Xiao Yan nodded, his expression solemn.

After the poison body awakened, he gained a deeper understanding of the Calamity Poison Body.

It turned out that once the Calamity Poison Body awakened, Calamity Waves would be born within the body.

The Calamity Waves transformed the toxic power within ingested poison into poisonous battle qi, while the toxins themselves were evenly fused into the bones and flesh.

This was also why the toxins accumulated within a Calamity Poison Body were so difficult to expel.

Xiao Yan lifted his shirt, revealing his lower abdomen. As the poison body awakened, the seven-colored hidden line on his abdomen had crept upward by half an inch.

Once the hidden line reached his heart, the poison body would erupt, and Myriad Poisons Devouring the Body would begin.

That was not much of a problem. He merely had to keep his poison craving under control.

The only thing giving him a headache was that his body now contained poison, so he could no longer be intimate with Little Fairy.

Otherwise, her poison body would awaken as well.

"Teacher, let me borrow your Bone Chilling Flame."

Xiao Yan shook his head. His queen wife was still using a Heavenly Flame to evolve and was facing Gu He's attempt to seize the flame. He should obtain the Green Lotus Core Flame first.

Medicine Elder raised a hand, and a pale white cold flame appeared above his right palm. He then inserted his left hand into it and separated a seed flame.

With a flick of his finger, the seed flame of the Bone Chilling Flame drifted toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan extended his right hand and caught the seed flame.

He had constantly trained by absorbing flames, so he had long since become capable of enduring the Bone Chilling Flame's power.

The Myriad Flame Emperor Physique was even more powerful than the Calamity Poison Body.

The Flame Mantra, the Myriad Flame Emperor Physique, the Calamity Poison Body, and the Jade Snake Three-Flower Eyes—ten thousand years ago on the Battle Qi Continent, when source qi still existed, obtaining any one of these would have allowed someone to become a Battle Emperor.

Now, only by cultivating the Flame Mantra could one inherit Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's legacy and obtain a strand of the Emperor Origin within it to become a Battle Emperor.

Xiao Yan wrapped his entire body in the Bone Chilling Flame, then left the space and entered the lake.

Under the Bone Chilling Flame's strange temperature, the lake water around him seemed to boil, constantly releasing purple bubbles that were beautiful yet dangerous.

When the poison in the water encountered the Bone Chilling Flame, it froze into tiny purple-black threads of ice, then slowly sank to the bottom of the lake.

At that moment, the natural energy at the center of the small island began to fluctuate violently. All the surrounding natural energy gathered toward the center.

Xiao Yan quickly swam toward the island like a small fish.

After reaching the island, Xiao Yan swallowed the Bone Chilling Flame into his body, then carefully crept toward the direction where the energy was gathering.

When Xiao Yan neared the center, a massive purple snake over a hundred feet long appeared above the island.

"So this is my queen wife's true form?"

Hidden behind a boulder, Xiao Yan stared at the enormous purple snake in the sky in shock and could not help muttering softly.

"After Snake People are born, they use a secret technique to infuse the soul of a snake-like magical beast into their bodies. As they grow older, the snake-like magical beast serving as their companion soul gradually merges with them until they become inseparable."

Medicine Elder explained through soul transmission.

The Snake People were not magical beasts, but an intelligent demi-human race.

Purple light surged from within the enormous purple snake in the sky. The purple light formed an energy barrier that enveloped the entire island, not only isolating Gu He and the others who had rushed over, but preventing even soul perception from entering.

Then, after circling through the air several times, the enormous purple snake released a clear, low cry and plunged without hesitation into the mass of green flame in the pool below.

After the purple snake entered the Green Lotus Core Flame, Queen Medusa let out a shrill scream. Her enormous snake body writhed constantly as the flames tempered it, and scales of purple snake skin were burned away one after another.

Xiao Yan's heart ached at the sight.

Just as Xiao Yan wanted to step forward and absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame to ease his queen wife's pain, Medicine Elder stopped him.

"Don't move. Queen Medusa has reached the critical moment of her evolution. If you absorb the Heavenly Flame now, all her efforts will be wasted."

Xiao Yan could only endure it.

Under the tempering of the Green Lotus Core Flame, the enormous purple snake's body continually shrank until it was only twenty or thirty feet long. The queen screamed miserably for more than half an hour, then seemed to reach her limit and stopped moving, allowing the Green Lotus Core Flame to burn her.

Just as Xiao Yan thought his queen wife's evolution had failed, the natural energy on the island suddenly went berserk.

A dark cloud formed entirely of energy gathered overhead, with thunder rumbling and flashing within it.

"Is this the Evolution Tribulation?!"

Inside the space, Medicine Elder cried out in surprise, then explained it to Xiao Yan.

When certain powerful magical beasts evolved, a lightning tribulation would descend. If they could survive it, their evolution was successful; if they could not, they would be severely injured at best and perish at worst.

Xiao Yan looked worriedly at the motionless, charred queen atop the Heavenly Flame.

After lightning gathered within the dark cloud for more than ten minutes, it transformed into a silver pillar of light and crashed down.

The tremendous impact of the lightning pulverized everything around it. Even with his fourth-tier physical body, Xiao Yan was blasted more than thirty feet away.

As the silver pillar of light struck down, the dark cloud dispersed as well. Clearly, there had only been one bolt in this tribulation.

Xiao Yan, who had been blasted away, rolled across the ground and stabilized himself before sprinting toward the center of the island.

The purple snake had collapsed on the ground. Wisps of smoke rose from its charred body, and an occasional silver arc of lightning flickered across it.

"Did the evolution fail?"

Xiao Yan's pupils contracted. Looking at the dying purple snake, he tremblingly pressed his right hand against its body.

Crack~

At that moment, the charred outer skin on the purple snake's body suddenly began to peel away slowly.