My Master, Xiao Jinghou

Seeing this, Lin Yu was not discouraged. Instead, he calmly continued, "I'm from the Pill Tower, an Eighth-Grade Alchemist. I have some idea how to resolve your Calamity Poison Body."

Those words were like a thunderclap exploding in the woman's mind.

She abruptly raised her head. Her originally dull pale violet eyes widened sharply, her lips trembling as her voice filled with incredulous shock and anticipation. "You... what did you say?"

The Pill Tower was the holy land in the hearts of alchemists throughout the world.

And now, an Eighth-Grade Alchemist from the Pill Tower was saying that he had a solution for the Calamity Poison Body?

Han Shanshan was also somewhat surprised. She turned to Lin Yu, raised a brow, and asked, "Junior Brother, do you really have a way?"

She had spent so much time with Lin Yu, yet she had never known that he had studied something like the Calamity Poison Body.

"I think we can use Heavenly Flames to forcibly gather the uncontrolled poison within the body into one place, then use the magic core of a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast as the foundation to condense a Poison Pill, sealing all the toxins inside it. Afterward, we can use Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva to improve the physique."

Lin Yu calmly explained the Poison Pill method that the woman with the Calamity Poison Body had developed in the original timeline.

Upon hearing this, the woman's pale violet eyes instantly lit up, and her entire body trembled slightly with excitement.

She possessed the Calamity Poison Body herself. Over the years, in search of a way to resolve it, she had endured untold hardships and suffering. No one understood the Calamity Poison Body better than she did.

At this moment, she rapidly worked through every step Lin Yu had described in her mind. Theoretically, every part of it made perfect sense!

"You really... really have a way?" The woman's voice trembled. Tears glimmered faintly in the corners of her eyes, mixed with hope.

Seeing her excitement spilling plainly onto her face, Lin Yu immediately rose to his feet and extended a hand toward her. A gentle smile curled at his lips as he teasingly asked, "So, are you willing to come with me now?"

The woman looked at the hand Lin Yu had extended before her, then at Han Shanshan standing beside him with a smile on her face. The tears in her eyes finally slipped down uncontrollably.

She hurriedly wiped her face with the back of her hand, then tremblingly reached out and placed her hand in Lin Yu's palm.

"Oh, right. My name is Han Shanshan. What's your name?" Han Shanshan asked in a light, natural tone.

"My name is Du Ning." The woman's voice was still somewhat weak, but it carried more life than before.

"My name is Lin Yu." Lin Yu introduced himself as well and nodded at Du Ning.

After introducing themselves, the three did not linger any longer.

Lin Yu looked up at the poisonous mist blotting out the sky above the mountain range. With a thought, Bone Prison Beast Cold Flame shot into the heavens. The flames swept across the sky like a raging wildfire, burning away and purifying the layers upon layers of purple-black poison mist.

The three leaped into the air and flew toward the spatial wormhole.

Along the way, Du Ning's injuries gradually improved after taking the pills Lin Yu had given her. The Dou Qi that had been thrown into chaos by her loss of control over the poison was also temporarily suppressed by the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

She spoke little. Most of the time, she simply followed quietly behind Lin Yu and Han Shanshan, but the pale violet eyes no longer held only lifeless stillness.

Whenever Han Shanshan took the initiative to speak with her, she would softly reply with a few words. Though she was still somewhat reserved, she was no longer as distant as she had been at first.

When they arrived before the spatial wormhole, Han Shanshan took a spatial vessel from her Storage Ring.

Han Shanshan tossed the spatial vessel into the air. The tiny wooden boat expanded in the wind, turning in the blink of an eye into a flying vessel roughly thirty feet long, hovering steadily before the entrance to the spatial wormhole.

The three boarded in turn, and Han Shanshan controlled the spatial vessel as it transformed into a streak of light and plunged into the spatial wormhole.

A month later, the spatial vessel emerged from the wormhole exit in Northern Sky City. After a brief rest, the three entered the next spatial wormhole leading to Sky's End City.

Another half month passed. When the spatial vessel finally burst out from the wormhole exit in Sky's End City and landed steadily on the broad plaza, the air rushing toward them already carried a dryness and chill distinct from that of the Central Plains.

They had finally arrived at the Northwestern Continent.

"Junior Brother, we've arrived at the Northwestern Continent. Where are we going next?" Han Shanshan jumped down from the spatial vessel and stretched lazily.

A month and a half of continuous spatial travel had left her thoroughly stifled. Now that her feet were on solid ground, her spirits immediately lifted, and her voice carried eager excitement.

"First, we'll go to the Black-Corner Region. I heard someone from the Thunder Clan built an academy there."

"Sure. Since we've come to their territory, we should pay them a visit." Han Shanshan nodded.

The three did not stay long in Sky's End City. Once they determined the direction of the Black-Corner Region, they continued on their journey.

After entering the Black-Corner Region, the air was filled with a faint scent of blood and murderous aura. Along the way, they often saw groups of cultivators hunting others down or fleeing for their lives.

However, the aura emanating from Lin Yu's group was simply too powerful. Two Dou Zongs and one peak Dou Emperor—such a lineup could practically run rampant through the Black-Corner Region. After those restless fools lurking at a distance took a look, they wisely withdrew.

Deep within the Black-Corner Region, Jia Nan Academy stood amid a mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles.

Lin Yu released a trace of his Dou Zong aura. The powerful pressure spread toward the academy like something tangible.

Sensing that a Dou Zong expert had arrived above Jia Nan Academy, the academy immediately fell into commotion.

But soon, two elderly figures soared into the sky from the depths of the inner academy and stopped steadily before Lin Yu's group.

They were Qian Mu and Bai Lie, the two guardians of Jia Nan Academy's inner academy, known as the Thousand Elders. Both were Dou Zongs and were Jia Nan Academy's strongest forces on the surface.

Qian Mu and Bai Lie flew into the air. When they clearly saw the three visitors, their expressions grew somewhat grave.

These three young people looked to be only in their early twenties, yet their auras were unfathomable. In particular, the young man in green standing at the front was only a one-star Dou Zong, but the faint sense of danger he gave off was even stronger than that of many high-level Dou Zongs.

Qian Mu steadied himself, cupped his hands, and asked, "May I ask why the three of you have come to Jia Nan Academy?"

Lin Yu did not answer immediately.

His Spirit-Realm Soul force casually swept out, silently passing over the entirety of Jia Nan Academy like a spring breeze brushing across one's face. In an instant, it locked onto an extremely concealed aura hidden deep within the academy.

It belonged to a Battle Venerable. It was most likely Mang Tianchi.

Lin Yu withdrew his soul force, his expression unchanged. He cupped his hands from afar toward the direction where that aura was concealed and said loudly, "My master is Xiao Jinghou."