Mirror Peering (1 / 2)

However, all of that lay in the future.

Xiao Yi Xian gathered her wandering thoughts, her gaze firm.

Right now, her most urgent priority was to raise her cultivation.

She possessed the Misfortune Poison Body, one of the strongest physiques on the Dou Qi Continent. All she needed to do was swallow poison, and her Misfortune Poison Body would convert it into Poison Dou Qi, sending her cultivation soaring.

However, the Misfortune Poison Body had a major flaw. Once activated by consuming poison, it would subject her to the agony of Myriad Poisons Devouring the Body when the toxins accumulated to a certain level.

She would also become utterly addicted to poison. To her, it would be like opium poppies—the more potent the poison, the stronger its allure.

For Xiao Yan, for the strength to walk a different path from her previous life, Xiao Yi Xian picked up a packet of poison and tipped it straight into her mouth without batting an eye, swallowing it in one gulp.

Taking that packet of poison meant that her woeful poison body had now awakened.

The poison spread through Xiao Yi Xian's body. Her awakened woeful poison body automatically converted it into Poison Dou Qi, which flowed throughout her body and settled into every limb and bone.

Once her woeful poison body awakened, Xiao Yi Xian instantly transformed from an ordinary mortal into a cultivator, a mysterious power filling her body.

Feeling that power, Xiao Yi Xian's eyes flickered slightly. Without hesitation, she took out another two packets of poison and swallowed them in one gulp as though they were food.

Feeling a warm current in her dantian, Xiao Yi Xian lifted her clothes and glanced down at her lower abdomen.

A thin seven-colored hidden line lay across her lower abdomen.

This seven-colored hidden line was the mark of the woeful poison body. It would grow as the concentration of poisonous power within her increased.

When that seven-colored line extended to her heart, her woeful poison body would be at its strongest. She would then be like a walking nuclear bomb in the mortal world.

Now that she had consumed poison and awakened her woeful poison body, the seven-colored hidden line was noticeably darker than before.

With her cultivation experience from her previous life, Xiao Yi Xian knew this was a sign of toxins accumulating in her woeful poison body.

Once her woeful poison body awakened and its toxins reached their peak, she would endure the agony of Myriad Poisons Devouring the Body. That suffering would plunge her into hell, cold and suffocating, but to leave no regrets in her future, and for Xiao Yan, it would all be worth it.

The power of love could make a person incomparably strong, not only in body, but even more so in mind.

With her woeful poison body awakened, Xiao Yi Xian consumed every poison in her home to grow stronger.

After those poisons entered her body, they became toxins, which her woeful poison body then converted into Poison Dou Qi.

In an instant, Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation shot upward.

In just half a day, she leaped from an ordinary person who lacked even the strength to truss a chicken to an expert at the eighth stage of Dou Qi.

Such a terrifying rate of advancement would make even geniuses shrink back.

There was no denying that the woeful poison body was freakishly powerful.

Although the eighth stage of Dou Qi was already formidable, Xiao Yi Xian firmly shook her head when she thought of Xiao Yan's future enemies. This was still nowhere near enough.

She needed even more potent poisons.

Only stronger poisons could further strengthen her woeful poison body and accelerate her cultivation.

While Xiao Yi Xian quietly rose to prominence, Xiao Yan was also making astonishing progress in Wutan City.

Although the timeline had changed, as a child of destiny, his opportunities and talent had all been neatly arranged.

With Yao Chen, an eighth-tier alchemist, carrying him forward, Xiao Yan's cultivation returned to its peak, reaching Dou Zhe.

Seeing his son regain his talent for cultivation, Xiao Zhan was overjoyed as a father.

On the very day Xiao Yan returned to Dou Zhe, he held a celebratory banquet and invited Wutan City's other two great clans.

Xiao Mei also began pursuing Xiao Yan again, clinging to him all day and asking to cuddle.

This infuriated Gu Xun'er, that walking jar of jealousy.

She nearly grabbed a knife and went to challenge Xiao Mei to a duel.

Xiao Yan avoided his older cousin Xiao Mei as though she were a venomous snake or scorpion.

He genuinely disliked a woman as status-minded as Xiao Mei, even if she was beautiful and his older cousin.

By contrast, Xiao Yan found Xiao Xun'er, who had always remained steadfast and never abandoned him, far more pleasing.

However, there was one thing Xiao Yan could not quite understand: lately, Xiao Xun'er kept giving him cold looks at the slightest provocation, unlike how clingy she had been before.

This left Xiao Yan utterly baffled.

A woman's heart was a needle at the bottom of the sea.

Meanwhile, Yun Yun reached the forbidden grounds outside the Gate of Life and Death and charged straight inside.

At the critical moment, Chen Yang arrived and stopped her.

"Don't act rashly! Calm down, calm down!"

Chen Yang did everything he could to dissuade Yun Yun, trying to calm her down.

If she barged in, all of Nalan Yanran's efforts would go to waste.

"I really can't calm down! Yanran is my only disciple. Now that she's in danger, shouldn't I, as her master, go in and bring her out?"

Yun Yun still wanted to rush inside, but Chen Yang simply refused to let go.

"A fledgling must learn to fly eventually. This is her opportunity."

After a pause, Chen Yang continued, "Even if we really have to go in, we should at least find out whether she's safe first, shouldn't we?"

"The Gate of Life and Death's inheritance can only be received once in a lifetime. If you charge in so recklessly and interrupt it, this opportunity of hers will be ruined."

Seeing that Yun Yun had calmed down considerably, Chen Yang gave her another timely dose of reassurance.

"When Yanran went inside, I placed a Restriction on her. Through it, we can see what's happening inside at any time!"

Hearing this, Yun Yun gave Chen Yang a deeply astonished look, trying to discern how much truth there was in his words.

Under Yun Yun's astonished gaze, Chen Yang raised his hands slightly, condensed the water in the air, and traced a circle with both hands.

"Twenty-Eighth Heavenly Stems Treasure Art of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stems Treasure Art: Mirror Peering."

Chen Yang circulated his Dou Qi and murmured an incantation. The circle before him became a clear, transparent Water Mirror.

An image appeared within the Water Mirror, revealing the scene inside the Gate of Life and Death.

It was dark and eerie inside, with danger lurking on every side.

In the image, a young woman wielding a treasured sword overcame one trial after another and reached the inheritance site within the Gate of Life and Death.

The inheritance site had three stone walls covered in intricate inscriptions. This was where successive Misty Cloud Sect Masters had passed away in seated meditation. The inscriptions recorded the legends of their lives, along with their lifelong insights and understanding of cultivation.

To obtain these inheritances, one only needed to pass through the many trials.

Within the Water Mirror, Yun Yun actually saw Nalan Yanran resonate with the Gate of Life and Death. The characters in the inscriptions seemed to come alive, radiating dazzling golden light.

"Now you can rest easy, right?" Chen Yang said to Yun Yun as he dismissed the Water Mirror.

Yun Yun was still stunned that Nalan Yanran could resonate with the Gate of Life and Death, so she did not take in what Chen Yang had said.

It was simply inconceivable. Nalan Yanran had actually resonated with the Gate of Life and Death and gained the recognition of the successive sect masters within it.

Yun Yun had also entered the Gate of Life and Death and resonated with it.

But she had been a Dou Wang when she entered, while Nalan Yanran was only a Dou Zhe now!

Since Nalan Yanran had resonated with the Gate of Life and Death, she should no longer face much danger as its inheritor.

The weight finally lifted from Yun Yun's heart, and she no longer tried to force her way into the Gate of Life and Death to bring Nalan Yanran out.

However, a new worry arose.

Nalan Yanran had resonated with the Gate of Life and Death and received its inheritance. When she emerged after completing her trials, her cultivation would surely advance by leaps and bounds.

And so, Yun Yun felt an intense sense of crisis.

If Nalan Yanran's cultivation advanced that rapidly, would she surpass her?

If her disciple surpassed her in cultivation, she would lose face in spectacular fashion.

No, I have to work hard at cultivating. Yun Yun turned her gaze toward Chen Yang, her eyes shining as though she were looking at a treasure.

Dual cultivation can improve my cultivation and speed up my progress. Why don't I take the initiative?!

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