A Day of Longing for Treasure

"All done!"

Xiao Yi Xian bandaged the wound of the uncle before her, then took a tissue from her assistant Lifi and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Xiao Yi Xian is amazing!"

"Exactly, exactly..."

"I want to be tortured too... No, no, I mean treated gently!"

"You?"

Xiao Yi Xian smiled faintly as she watched the cheerful crowd joking around. She now somewhat understood why the original owner had liked being a pharmacist, and why she had yearned even more to become an alchemist.

The feeling of saving lives really was quite nice...

She glanced at the transparent display case and seemed to notice something. Her eyes fixed tightly on a pale yellow lump in the farthest corner.

If she was not mistaken, this was definitely the priceless Blood Lotus Essence.

Xiao Yi Xian smiled at the clerk beside her and pointed at the Blood Lotus Essence. "Please get me this Yellow Lotus Essence."

"Certainly!"

The clerk beamed when Xiao Yi Xian spoke to him. He hurried over and took out the Yellow Lotus Essence she wanted.

Xiao Yi Xian carefully examined the Yellow Lotus Essence before her. Her small fingernail lightly scratched its surface, peeling back a little of the yellowish outer layer to reveal a trace of blood-red color beneath.

Looking at the Blood Lotus Essence, Xiao Yi Xian smiled faintly. "I'll take this Yellow Lotus Essence."

Everyone laughed as they watched Xiao Yi Xian carefully put away the Yellow Lotus Essence.

Everyone in Qingshan Town knew that Xiao Yi Xian loved medicinal herbs as though they were treasures. Today, they had truly witnessed it.

Xiao Yi Xian took out some gold coins and handed them to the clerk. With a faint smile, she slowly left beneath the reluctant gazes of the crowd.

The clerk sniffed the bag containing the gold coins, reluctant to part with its faint medicinal fragrance.

"Hey, give me those hundred gold coins. I'll pay two hundred!"

"Poor bastard, I'll pay three hundred~"

"I'll pay five hundred~"

The crowd stared at the money bag in the clerk's hands like wolves and tigers.

"Uh!"

The clerk looked around at everyone's gazes, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and gave an awkward smile.

"I'll pay one thousand. Give me the bag!" A figure appeared outside the crowd and declared arrogantly.

A rather large money bag appeared from nowhere and smashed into the clerk's head.

Crash!

The money bag fell to the ground with a pleasant clinking sound. Just from the sound, one could tell there was no small amount of money inside.

"Who was that?"

A bump was gradually rising on the young clerk's forehead. Pale green Dou Qi gathered in his hand, and he looked ready to kill someone to vent his anger.

The crowd fell silent at the sight of the enraged clerk. After all, who would dare offend a pharmacy clerk?

They were merely ordinary mercenaries, and they usually could not do without coming here for treatment or to buy and sell medicinal herbs.

"Heh, it was me!"

A voice came from behind the crowd. Everyone moved aside, opening a path.

The clerk had intended to teach the person a good lesson, but the moment he saw who it was, he forced a smile and hurried over to offer the money bag. "So it's the Young Leader. Please!"

"Hmph!"

Muli snatched the money bag away, held it beneath his nose for a sniff, then swung the sweet-smelling bag around as he swaggered toward the Monster Mountain Range with his fierce-looking brothers behind him.

No one dared say a word. The young leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group was not someone easy to provoke. Only after Muli had gone far away did they dare complain.

"Heh heh, isn't he just relying on his father being one of the strongest people around here? What's he acting so proud for?"

"Exactly~"

The clerk ignored the chatter around him. Seeing that Muli had not made trouble for him, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in relief, picked up the money bag, and hurried into the back hall.

Back in her room, Xiao Yi Xian elegantly ate the meal prepared by her assistant Lifi. She merely glanced at Lifi as she left and did not pay much attention to her.

Whatever. She was hungry:

"People live by food!"

The food in this other world was quite good, especially the beast meat before her. It was wonderfully chewy.

After carefully checking that no one else was watching her, she felt reassured. She took small bites of the delicious otherworldly food. The taste on her tongue was truly the best she had ever eaten in either this life or her previous one.

The unusual texture, even the delicate fragrance in the medicinal tea, immersed her in it all.

The original owner had eaten well and slept well here. Xiao Yi Xian truly envied her, but why had she not grown at all?

Looking down at herself, Xiao Yi Xian felt a little embarrassed. Fortunately, she saw herself every day, so she did not care much about her size.

Besides being watched, everything here was good. There were the two guards in the courtyard outside her door, servants constantly walking back and forth...

The original owner had not even discovered after all these years that her closest assistant, Lifi, had been bought off by someone else.

She still remembered that in the original novel, Xiao Yi Xian had been betrayed by someone close to her. Otherwise, Muli would never have discovered her.

Even after so many years, the original owner had never noticed anything wrong with Lifi and had always treated her as a good friend.

"Sigh!"

Resting her chin on one hand, she tilted her head and looked around her room. At this moment, she did not even know what she should do.

She had a feeling that if she wanted to break through to the Dou Zhe level, her Poisonous Gas would erupt once. Faint Seven-Colored Poison Lines had even appeared around her lower abdomen, though they were not particularly obvious.

Her top priority now was the cave, followed by finding a place to break through to Dou Zhe and endure the Poisonous Gas devouring her body. Otherwise, if she broke through here, Qingshan Town might end up like the little valley in her memories.

Not only did the gold coins in the cave exceed all of her current possessions, but the medicinal herbs and Dou Techniques there were also what she needed most right now.

However, if she wanted to take all the treasures from that cave, she would need a storage ring—the legendary Storage Ring.

Xiao Yi Xian extended her slender fingers. A wisp of purple Dou Qi curled around her fingertips, and this powerful force made her quite curious.

There had been no such thing as Dou Qi on Earth in her previous life. There had only been spiritual energy from Eastern mythology and magic from Western mythology.

In her view, whether it was Poison Dou Qi or anything else, it was simply one form of energy between heaven and earth.

Were all those who cultivated Poison Dou Qi perverted murderers?

Were all those who did not cultivate Poison Dou Qi good people?

What utter nonsense!

Was the path of the strong not paved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood?

For example, her favorite Ruthless Empress. In the future, she too would become someone like an Empress.

This world was called the Dou Qi Continent. From Dou Zhe to Dou Saint was the highest known realm.

But beyond Dou Saint was the legendary Emperor Realm. To become an emperor, one needed Origin Qi, but Origin Qi had vanished ten thousand years ago. In the original novel, there were two methods to break through to Dou Emperor.

One was to rely on the Ancient Emperor Pill to cultivate into an emperor, while the other was to rely on Heavenly Flames to become an emperor.

As long as the Calamity Poison Body had poison, it could level up without limit. If she devoured enough toxins, could she break through to emperor without needing Origin Qi?

The thought filled her with excitement. Who knew what blessings she had accumulated in a past life to make a trip to another world possible?

As a transmigrator in another world, how could she not climb to the mountaintop and see what the view at the pinnacle looked like?

"But how am I supposed to get a Storage Ring?"

Xiao Yi Xian lay gloomily on the dining table. Her long purple hair quietly slipped from her shoulder, revealing her delicate little ear.