Calamity Poison Body

After Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame devoured the souls within the Soul Bag, the aura it emitted rose to another level.

Lin Yu satisfactorily withdrew the flame, then took Han Shanshan by the hand. The two turned into streaks of light and shot into the sky, continuing toward the northwest.

Over the next three months, they traveled steadily in the northwestern direction.

They had gained quite a lot during those three months, but as their gains increased, Lin Yu gradually felt that this stop-and-go pace was too slow.

"Senior Sister, let's pick up the pace." Lin Yu awoke from cultivation, sensing that the Dou Qi within him had improved somewhat again. He turned to Han Shanshan beside him and spoke.

Han Shanshan looked up at him and nodded.

Having made up their minds, Lin Yu took out a map to confirm their direction, then led Han Shanshan toward the nearest great city with a spatial wormhole.

Several days later, as the two flew over a chain of rolling mountains, Lin Yu suddenly halted in midair.

His brows furrowed slightly as his Spirit-Realm Soul keenly detected an unusual aura.

It was an exceptionally dense poisonous gas, continuously spreading outward from somewhere deep within the mountains.

The poisonous gas was dark purple. Wherever it passed, plants withered and birds and beasts vanished. Even the air corroded with faint hissing sounds.

Its toxicity was so fierce that, even from several miles away, merely catching that faintly sweet, fishy scent made one feel somewhat dizzy.

Lin Yu exchanged glances with Han Shanshan beside him, and both saw the same curiosity in each other's eyes.

"Be careful," Han Shanshan cautioned. With a thought, the bone-white Bone Spirit Cold Flame surged from her body and firmly protected her.

Lin Yu likewise summoned Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame to protect his entire body. Multicolored flames flowed around him, forming an impregnable defensive barrier.

The two followed the source of the poisonous gas and dove toward the depths of the mountain range.

The farther down they flew, the denser the poisonous gas became, until the purple toxic mist had nearly condensed into a tangible substance.

Wherever the flames passed, large swathes of toxic mist were burned away and purified, releasing shrill hissing sounds and opening a passage for the two of them.

They passed through the thickest layer of poisonous mist and landed at the bottom of a valley.

The sight before them made both draw in a sharp breath.

The ground was covered by a thick layer of unknown purple viscous liquid. Stepping on it produced a teeth-grating sizzle.

The poisonous gas filling the air was so dense it was suffocating. An ordinary cultivator would have their meridians invaded by the poison and their internal organs corroded after only a few breaths here.

At the center of this silent valley, a woman lay unconscious atop a massive purplish-black boulder.

She appeared to be only a little over twenty. Her features were delicate and refined, her figure slender and frail, and she wore a light-purple gown that had already been badly damaged.

The hem of her dress was torn in several places, revealing shocking wounds beneath. Some were still slowly bleeding, staining the rock beneath her with dark red marks.

Most striking of all, the virulent poisonous gas spread throughout the mountains and valleys was continuously emanating from within her body.

At this moment, she was unconscious, and the poisonous gas had lost control. Centered on her body, it frantically spread in every direction, turning the valley into a deadly forbidden land that no living creature could approach.

Lin Yu landed several feet in front of her and crouched down to examine her carefully.

The woman's cultivation was roughly at the level of a five-star Dou Emperor, and her meridians were filled with violent, chaotic poison-attributed Dou Qi.

Han Shanshan crouched beside Lin Yu and carefully studied the purple poisonous gas swirling around the woman. Suddenly, her pupils contracted sharply, and she blurted out, "This is the Calamity Poison Body!"

"The Calamity Poison Body?" Lin Yu was startled upon hearing this, then his heart jolted.

The Calamity Poison Body—of course he was familiar with that name.

In the original timeline, a woman with the Calamity Poison Body had once developed a method using a poison pill to completely control it. Yet because she lacked a crucial item, she failed to succeed and ultimately died in resentment under the poison's backlash.

The unconscious, scar-covered woman before him was likely that pitiable person, struggling bitterly beneath the torment of the Calamity Poison Body.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu no longer hesitated.

He took a sixth-tier healing pill from his Storage Ring, crouched down, gently pried open the woman's jaw, and placed the pill into her mouth.

The pill dissolved upon entering her mouth. Its gentle medicinal power slowly flowed down her throat, turning into a warm current that surged into the meridians throughout her limbs and body.

Though gentle, the medicinal power contained powerful vitality and restorative strength. The shocking external wounds across the woman's body stopped bleeding and scabbed over at a visible rate, while a trace of color gradually returned to her paper-pale face.

Not long after taking the pill, the woman's eyelashes trembled lightly a few times before she slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes were an extremely pale purple, like two crystals stained by poisonous gas—beautiful, yet carrying a heartbreaking weariness.

She blinked blankly at first, seeming not yet fully awake. Then she suddenly realized something, and her expression changed drastically. Struggling to sit up, she said in a hoarse, urgent voice, "Leave quickly! Stay away from me! The poisonous gas on my body will hurt you!"

Over the years, she had long grown accustomed to others avoiding her as though she were a plague. She was used to being treated as an ill omen and a monster, used to hiding alone in forgotten corners and silently enduring the agony of poison gnawing at her body.

Now, upon suddenly seeing two strangers standing before her, so close to her at that, her first reaction was not joy but fear—fear that her poisonous gas would harm these two kind-hearted people.

"Are you the Calamity Poison Body?" Seeing that she had awakened, Han Shanshan leaned closer, her tone carrying undisguised curiosity.

Her gaze was clear and candid, without the slightest fear or disgust, as though she were merely examining something rare she had never seen before.

With Bone Spirit Cold Flame protecting her body, such a small amount of poisonous gas could not harm her at all.

At her words, the woman's expression suddenly darkened, and a deep pain flashed through her pale-purple eyes.

She lowered her gaze and did not answer, but her despondent expression already explained everything.

"We have Heavenly Flames that can temporarily suppress your poisonous gas." Lin Yu crouched before her and pointed at the Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame burning around his body. His tone was gentle and sincere. "Why not travel with us from now on?"

At his words, an almost imperceptible flicker of hesitation passed through the woman's eyes.

These two were not afraid of her poisonous gas. They had even saved her. It would be a lie to say she was not moved.

But after a moment, she still slowly shook her head, her voice low and bitter. "Forget it. Thank you both for saving my life, but my constitution is too dangerous. Those who stay by my side never come to a good end. I don't want to drag you down with me."

She did not trust the two people she had known for less than the time it took for an incense stick to burn. She did not even know their names yet.