Poison Pill Formed

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Over those three days, Yaoxin did not cultivate. She merely followed Han Feng's instructions and adjusted both her body and mind to their optimal state.

She took out the stone stele she had brought back from the ruins and studied it day and night. It recorded Profound Nether Poison Venerable's insights into the poison path and the cultivation method known as the Profound Nether Poison Scripture.

She committed the entire scripture's mental cultivation formulas and essentials to memory.

At noon three days later, Sacred City, Starwatch Tower.

On the rooftop, the sunlight was blazing, yet an invisible barrier blocked it out. The light here was gentle, and the temperature pleasant.

Han Feng, Medicine Elder, and Yaoxin had long been waiting here.

Han Feng took a bed-sized stone from his Storage Ring. It was dark red throughout, its surface as smooth as a mirror. The moment it appeared, the surrounding air grew several degrees hotter.

"This is a Sunfire Stone," Han Feng explained to Yaoxin. "It is an object of extreme yang and can neutralize the cold poison qi about to erupt within you, protecting your body. Lie on it."

Yaoxin nodded, took a deep breath, and obediently lay down slowly on the warm Sunfire Stone.

Han Feng looked at Medicine Elder, who gave him a solemn nod.

"Begin."

"Yaoxin, relax your mind. Do not resist. Take the initiative and guide that power within your body."

Han Feng's voice rang clearly in Yaoxin's mind.

Hearing this, Yaoxin slowly closed her eyes and, for the first time, actively reached out to touch the curse that had lurked within her for more than ten years and filled her with fear.

Boom!

A vast amount of grayish-purple Poison Dou Qi, like an uncontrolled flood, burst wildly from Yaoxin's meridians, bones, and flesh!

An aura of death, decay, and despair instantly filled the entire Starwatch Tower!

Yaoxin's body began to tremble violently. Her delicate face turned deathly pale, while vicious grayish-purple poison patterns spread frantically beneath her skin, threatening to devour her completely.

A heart-wrenching pain surged from the depths of her soul, and her consciousness began to blur.

At this moment, her Calamity Poison Body completely broke free of its restraints and entered a fully uncontrolled eruptive state!

"Now!"

Yao Chen shouted lowly.

Han Feng did not hesitate in the slightest. With a thought, two completely different flames rose from his palms!

One was the crimson, demonic Red Lotus Karmic Fire!

The other was the unyielding, blazing Nine Yang True Flame!

At the same time, a pale white flame ignited around Yao Chen's soul form. It was the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, famed throughout the continent!

Under the precise control of the two master alchemists, the three flames instantly formed a three-colored net of fire that covered heaven and earth, enveloping all the grayish-purple poison qi that was about to burst Yaoxin apart!

"Gather!"

Han Feng's gaze sharpened, and the fire net suddenly contracted!

With their destructive power, the three-colored flames began forcibly driving out and suppressing the scattered poison qi, pressing it bit by bit from Yaoxin's meridians and flesh toward the dantian in her lower abdomen!

This process placed an extreme demand on soul power and precision in controlling flames.

If the flames were too strong, Yaoxin's fragile meridians would be scorched in an instant. If they were too weak, they could not suppress the heaven-destroying backlash of the poison qi.

Yet with Han Feng's Late Heaven Realm soul power working in perfect coordination with Medicine Elder's nearly transcendent alchemical experience, everything proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Forced by the three-colored fire net, the massive amount of poison qi finally gathered entirely within Yaoxin's dantian, forming a rapidly spinning grayish-purple vortex of poison qi that seemed capable of swallowing all light!

"Put the poison pearl into her dantian!" Medicine Elder reminded him gravely.

Han Feng nodded and took out the sealed Profound Nether Poison Pearl from his Storage Ring.

With a flick of his finger, the deep-purple crystal pearl shot forth as a streak of light, entering with incomparably precise accuracy the center of the rapidly rotating poison qi vortex in Yaoxin's lower abdomen!

Buzz!

The poison pearl entered her body and erupted with a powerful suction force, like a magnet.

The previously violent and restless vortex of poison qi seemed to find its anchor the instant it touched the pearl. It surged toward it, wrapping it tightly.

The Profound Nether Poison Pearl became the core framework of the future Poison Pill, firmly anchoring all the free toxins within Yaoxin's dantian so that not a trace could leak out again!

Yao Chen pushed his soul power to its limit, and a jade bottle containing emerald-green liquid flew from his Storage Ring.

It was none other than the rare treasure of heaven and earth, the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva!

Using the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Yao Chen slowly enveloped the drop of Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva. With an exceptionally ingenious technique, he removed every impurity within it, ultimately refining it into a handful of pure life-force powder like jade dust.

"Go!"

He carefully and slowly guided the life-force powder into Yaoxin's dantian.

At this moment, the collision between life and death played out fiercely within Yaoxin's body!

The life-filled Bodhisattva power clashed and neutralized violently with the death-filled Calamity Poison Qi.

This was the most dangerous point of balance in the entire pill-condensation process. If life force and deathly intent lost balance, either the Poison Pill would shatter and the poison qi would backlash, causing Yaoxin to die on the spot, or the life force would disperse the poison power and render all their previous efforts useless.

But under the personal control of Yao Chen, once the continent's greatest alchemist, that balance was maintained perfectly.

"Yaoxin! Wake up!"

Han Feng's voice exploded like thunder within Yaoxin's consciousness, which was on the verge of sinking away.

"The external assistance is complete. You must take the final step yourself!"

"Circulate the Profound Nether Poison Scripture, control it! Devour it! Make it your own power!"

Hearing Han Feng's voice, Yaoxin's hazy consciousness suddenly cleared!

Enduring the agonizing pain that threatened to tear even her soul apart, she used every ounce of her strength to begin circulating the Profound Nether Poison Scripture according to the formulas she had memorized.

As the cultivation method circulated, the poison qi vortex within her dantian began compressing and refining inward at an unprecedented speed under the dual effects of the Profound Nether Poison Pearl and Bodhisattva power.

It was a long and torturous process.

Yaoxin felt as though she had been cast into purgatory. Her body and soul were being ground apart and reassembled over and over again.

Yet an unprecedented desire to live ignited within her heart!

She no longer wanted to be that monster who brought misfortune to those around her!

She wanted to live!

She wanted to live like a normal person!

"Condense!"

No one knew how much time had passed when Yaoxin released a cry from the depths of her soul.

The poison qi vortex within her dantian finally contracted sharply under extreme compression!

The vast poison qi ultimately transformed completely into a solid pill the size of a longan, dreamlike grayish-purple throughout, with profound poison patterns flowing across its surface!

The Poison Pill was formed!

And at the instant the Poison Pill took shape!

The Profound Nether Poison Pearl serving as its core seemed to have completed its mission. The primordial poison qi origin of that Nine-Transformation Battle Venerable sealed within it surged forth like floodwaters released from a dam, instantly washing through Yaoxin's limbs and bones!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Yaoxin's aura began soaring wildly at a terrifying speed!

Dou Practitioner, Dou Master, Great Dou Master... Dou Spirit!

One-Star Dou Spirit, Two-Star Dou Spirit, Three-Star Dou Spirit...

That power advanced with unstoppable force, forcefully pushing Yaoxin's cultivation all the way to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Spirit!

"Not good! The power is too immense!" Medicine Elder's expression changed.

If such a terrifying increase in strength left her foundation unstable, it would instead ruin Yaoxin's future!

Han Feng's gaze sharpened as well. Just as he was about to act and forcibly seal away part of that power—

A wondrous scene occurred.

The violent primordial poison qi came to an abrupt halt the instant it pushed Yaoxin's cultivation to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Spirit. It then receded like a tide and merged back into the Poison Pill, no longer leaking out in the slightest.

It was as though everything had been calculated in advance.

Yaoxin slowly opened her eyes.

She felt the unprecedented power within her, power she could wield with ease. She felt the Poison Pill quietly floating in her dantian, linked to her bloodline.

She knew that from this moment onward, she had been reborn.

"Good! Excellent!" Medicine Elder stroked his beard and laughed heartily at the sight, his face full of gratification. "Yaoxin, you are now a Nine-Star Dou Spirit. Remember, do not rush for success. After returning, consolidate your cultivation and familiarize yourself with your realm. You must suppress your cultivation for a time and make no further breakthroughs."

"Yes, Medicine Elder." Yaoxin respectfully bowed to Yao Chen.

Everyone atop Starwatch Tower was overjoyed.

Night fell.

The moonlight over Sacred City was cool as water.

Han Feng was sitting cross-legged in his room, cultivating to stabilize the soul power he had expended during the day.

Suddenly, a faint knock sounded at the door.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Come in." Han Feng opened his eyes.

The door was pushed open, and a tall, upright young man in black entered. It was Xiao Yan.

He looked at Han Feng, his expression somewhat complicated.

"Senior Brother."

He took a deep breath, as though he had made up his mind. "I want... to talk to you."