A New Beginning

I dare ask you, my lord—what day is it today...

Who knew how much time had passed before Xiao Yi Xian's eyelids trembled slightly.

Seeing that Xiao Yi Xian was about to wake up, Xiao Ling'er was overjoyed.

When Xiao Yi Xian awoke from her coma, her entire body still ached faintly as if pricked by needles.

Looking at the awakened Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ling'er asked worriedly, "Sister, how are you?"

Xiao Yi Xian's sudden collapse not long ago had frightened her badly. If her pulse had not still been beating, she would have thought she had once again brought death upon someone close to her.

Xiao Yi Xian shook her head to show that she was fine, then stroked the Storage Ring on her finger. A small jade bottle appeared in her hand.

Xiao Ling'er took it, tilted the mouth of the bottle, gently pressed it to Xiao Yi Xian's lips, and poured several drops of pink liquid into her mouth.

After taking the pink liquid with its pain-relieving effect, the stabbing pain throughout Xiao Yi Xian's body gradually faded considerably.

Pushing herself up, Xiao Yi Xian picked up the black scroll, only to discover that all the words and the eagle-wing illustration on it had completely vanished.

Staring at the empty scroll, Xiao Yi Xian blinked!

Then, she suddenly stripped off her clothes. Xiao Ling'er, standing nearby, was also rather startled. Why was her sister taking off her clothes in front of her?

She's still young...

And they're both girls, so...

Xiao Ling'er looked helplessly at the undressing Xiao Yi Xian, her face flushing slightly.

Xiao Yi Xian did not notice Xiao Ling'er's little reaction. She took out a crystal mirror from her Storage Ring, and using the reflected light, she discovered that a pair of palm-sized black eagle-wing tattoos had somehow appeared on her back.

A pair of purple little wing tattoos had appeared on her milk-white skin. It felt rather strange.

"Is this the Purple Cloud Sculpture Wing?" Xiao Yi Xian murmured doubtfully. At a thought, the Dou Qi within her body flowed along the two tiny branching meridians and poured into the pair of small tattoos on her back.

Upon receiving the flow of Dou Qi, the pitch-black tattoos immediately released a faint purple glow. In the end, they transformed into tangible wings, while the black eagle wings expanded from palm-sized to around half a foot wide.

Xiao Ling'er stood to the side, her cheeks red as she curiously watched the wings on Xiao Yi Xian's back.

Her sister did not seem to be a Dou Wang, did she?

How could she have wings?

Xiao Yi Xian curiously studied the pair of eagle wings marked with purple patterns and controlled them to flap slightly. A faint buoyant force appeared beneath her, but she only rose a foot off the ground before falling back down.

Whoosh!

Xiao Yi Xian withdrew the wings, put her clothes back on, and gave Xiao Ling'er a reassuring look. Then she sat cross-legged on the ground and began regulating her breath.

High above the dense forest, a figure spread her purple wings and faced the ruler of the skies, the second-tier magical beast Great Golden Sculpture. Purple Dou Qi trailed behind her in streaks.

A trace of killing intent flashed through Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. Her brows furrowed as the Purple Cloud Wings accelerated instantly, and she whispered, "Sword Come!"

The sword case on her back trembled, and "You Su" flew from its sheath in an instant. The blade brushed past the sword case, and the longsword gave a soft cry that lingered around her ears.

Holding "You Su," Xiao Yi Xian charged toward the golden figure high in the sky.

Screech!

The Great Golden Sculpture cried out. Its sharp avian eyes locked tightly onto the human before it, its golden wings beating madly as it dove down, its enormous claws spreading wide.

Clang!

"You Su" collided with the yellowish-brown claws, throwing up a shower of sparks. Pale purple Dou Qi clung to the Great Golden Sculpture's feathers.

Screech!

The Great Golden Sculpture thrust its incomparably sharp beak, imbued with its own Dou Qi, at Xiao Yi Xian.

Clang!

Xiao Yi Xian raised "You Su" before her, but the immense recoil sent her crashing downward.

As Xiao Yi Xian fell toward the ground, Dou Qi once again flooded into the Purple Cloud Wings. With a single rise and fall, she shot upward again.

The Great Golden Sculpture shook its head. Its beak hurt badly, and there was even a faint crack on it.

Screech!

The Great Golden Sculpture wrapped itself in Dou Qi and rushed upward fiercely. Then Dou Qi condensed around its beak as its massive golden wings beat.

Every feather radiated a pale golden glow. Its entire body became like a pillar of light wrapped in gold. With a cry, it unleashed a huge torrent of light from high above, shooting toward the ascending Xiao Yi Xian—

Seeing that the Great Golden Sculpture was about to make a desperate final stand, Xiao Yi Xian knew it was time to risk everything as well. "You Su" radiated an intense purple glow.

Xiao Yi Xian herself became like an unmatched divine sword as she shot into the sky, her sharp Sword Qi seeming to corrode the heavens.

Boom!

The enormous purple sword radiance collided with the golden pillar of light in a tremendous explosion, scattering the clouds across the sky.

Blood-red rain fell from the sky amid pale purple radiance. With a whoosh, a massive figure dropped from the heavens, smashing wildly through the treetops.

Boom!

The massive Great Golden Sculpture was now covered in bloodstained wounds. Golden feathers scattered around with its blood, and its vertical pupils were filled with unwillingness as the last trace of life faded away.

Xiao Yi Xian remained high in the sky. Her purple dress swayed gently in the wind, her hair behind her in complete disarray, while the silver-white "You Su" in her hand was stained with traces of red blood.

Looking at the deep sword wound on the enormous Great Golden Sculpture below, she could not help but sigh. "A magical beast's body really is tough."

Magical beasts were stronger than humans at the same rank. If Xiao Yi Xian's Poisonous Gas had not already infiltrated it silently, she could never have emerged unscathed.

But this also proved the power of the Calamity Poison Body. Her cultivation had now reached the peak of the nine-star Dou Zhe realm, and she could already sense the bottleneck.

Combat was the fastest way to grow stronger...

Xiao Yi Xian descended to the ground, and the Purple Cloud Wings behind her dissolved like starlight.

Xiao Ling'er was already standing before the Great Golden Sculpture, skillfully cutting away edible meat. This was not the first time she had done so lately.

If they wanted food, they had to find edible meat themselves. She did not dare eat meat that had been touched by Xiao Yi Xian's Poison Dou Qi. It might kill her.

Xiao Lan was currently rummaging through the Great Golden Sculpture's body for its beast core. Judging by how skillfully it searched, this was clearly not its first time either.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Yi Xian found it rather amusing. She did not know when she had raised the two of them to be like this.

She then sat cross-legged on the ground, recovering the Dou Qi she had expended while holding the remaining Ancient Pill in her mouth to rapidly replenish herself.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yi Xian sensed that her Qi vortex was completely full. It was time to charge into the Dou Shi realm.

As Xiao Yi Xian entered her cultivation state, the energy of heaven and earth around her surged ever more violently. In the end, her body nearly became like a black hole.

It continuously absorbed the heavenly and earthly energy rushing madly into her body as her consciousness sank inward.

Sensing this, Xiao Yi Xian directly cut off the external source of Dou Qi. The Poisonous Gas from the Dou Ling within her body and the Poisonous Gas in the poison pill were enough.

The Dou Qi of heaven and earth contained too many impurities. It had to be refined and purified through the meridians before it could be completely absorbed. Otherwise, one mistake might contaminate the Dou Qi she had painstakingly cultivated.

Rather than go through all that trouble, it was better to absorb pure Poisonous Gas...

The purple Qi vortex within her body seemed to have absorbed enough. It began to rotate in reverse, and the pure liquid energy that should have dripped into the vortex was instead flung out in all directions by the force of the reverse rotation.

The liquid energy shot in every direction was flung by the purple Qi vortex to almost every part of her body. Whenever it touched her meridians, bones, or flesh, Xiao Yi Xian discovered that it slowly fused into them!

Huff...

Her consciousness let out a breath of nonexistent air, and waves of wild joy surged through Xiao Yi Xian's heart.

She could feel that as the liquid energy seeped in, every bone and piece of flesh in her body seemed to be undergoing a transformation, gradually filling with immense power.

The vortex's reverse ejection lasted for more than ten minutes before slowly stopping. As the vortex gradually ceased rotating, the fierce suction within Xiao Yi Xian's body also weakened until it vanished.

The instant the suction disappeared, the cross-legged Xiao Yi Xian opened her eyes, and a flash of purple light vanished from them.

In an instant, the purple hair behind her stirred without wind, her clothes billowed without wind, and a fierce aura several times stronger than before erupted from her body as though awakening!

At the same time, a purple garment draped itself over her body. She had successfully broken through to the Dou Shi realm.