Woeful Poison Body (1 / 2)

"The woeful poison body is a rather bizarre and exceptionally rare constitution.

Once this poison body is activated, deadly poison spreads throughout the entire body. Anyone who touches it dies, and its bearer must consume poison to survive.

The woeful poison body also has a flaw. The more poison its bearer consumes, the more concentrated the toxins within become. Once those toxins accumulate past a certain point, they erupt completely.

When that eruption occurs, all life within a thousand miles is destroyed.

There are also two types of woeful poison body: innate and acquired. The innate type is present from birth, while the acquired type is artificially created.

Of the two, the former is more powerful.

The only way to activate a woeful poison body is by swallowing poison.

If its bearer never consumes poison, the woeful poison body will never activate."

As he spoke, Yao Chen sank into his memories.

"What makes this constitution so absurd is that its bearer doesn't need to cultivate. Simply swallowing poison increases their cultivation."

"There was once a woman with a woeful poison body who cultivated to Dou Zun. When her poison body erupted, a thousand miles around her became hell on earth.

Once the toxins in a woeful poison body reach a certain concentration, its bearer suffers the agony of myriad poisons devouring the body, slowly dying under that torment."

Everything Yao Chen said made it clear that the drawbacks of this constitution outweighed its benefits.

Given the choice, one would be better off without it.

At the thought that such a lovely young girl possessed such a terrifying constitution and would eventually die in such a cruel way, Xiao Yan felt an inexplicable pang in his heart.

"Teacher, is there really no way to solve this?" Xiao Yan asked.

Yao Chen was an old fox. He immediately caught the regret in Xiao Yan's voice.

He knew that this boy, at the age when love first began to blossom, must have taken a liking to the young girl and couldn't bear to see her die such a cruel death.

Yao Chen didn't think having someone he wanted to help was a bad thing. On the contrary, he thought it was good, since it would give him greater motivation to cultivate.

Yao Chen stroked his beard with an inscrutable air, his eyes narrowing in a smile.

"It's not as though there's no way. The solution is the Poison Pill Method.

The so-called Poison Pill Method gathers all the accumulated toxins within the body and ultimately condenses them into a Poison Pill.

But this method has extremely stringent requirements. Three conditions must be met."

"Those three conditions are: first, three different heavenly flames; second, the magic core of a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast; and third, bodhi body transformation saliva. Obtaining any one of these three requires an extraordinary stroke of fortune."

"But this little lass is lucky. Somehow, she got hold of an Artificial Seven-Colored Poison Pill. Although it isn't as good as one she condensed herself, it's still impressive. It possesses ninety-six percent of the functions of a genuine Seven-Colored Poison Pill."

"With this Artificial Seven-Colored Poison Pill, her woeful poison body can be kept almost entirely under control. There won't be any problems for a very long time."

Hearing that her woeful poison body had been dealt with, Xiao Yan let out a long sigh of relief.

Still, he took note that it could only be kept almost entirely under control and would remain free of problems for a very long time. The issue hadn't truly been resolved.

To settle the problem of her woeful poison body for good, they needed three different heavenly flames, the magic core of a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, and bodhi body transformation saliva.

"Little Yanzi, you're awfully concerned about her. Have you taken a liking to her?" Yao Chen smacked his lips and transmitted his voice to Xiao Yan with wicked amusement.

Taken a liking to her!

Ahem, ahem, ahem!

She wasn't even an adult yet. She was still young, and he wasn't that much of a beast.

"Teacher, don't talk nonsense and sully my good name." Xiao Yan's attempt to cover it up only made it more obvious.

As someone who had been through it all, Yao Chen saw through him but didn't expose him.

He merely sighed over how early young people matured these days.

Barely bigger than a bean sprout, yet already knowing all about love and romance.

As for him, he had lived this long and was still a lone dog, without knowing what it was like to be with a woman.

A failed life.

Yao Chen suddenly felt like such a failure!

He had been abandoned by the Yao Clan as a child. Later, he fell in love with Han Shanshan, who taught him Alchemy. While they were searching for the bone spirit cold flame, she used an Ancient Forbidden Technique to save him, sacrificing her body and soul. Later still, he adopted Han Feng and taught him all his Alchemy, only for Han Feng to prove an ungrateful wolf that could never be tamed, killing him for the Flame Mantra.

Watching Xiao Yan experience the first stirrings of love, Yao Chen recalled his own youth, along with the love of his life, Han Shanshan.

If not for the bone spirit cold flame, she would never have sacrificed herself.

Yao Chen both loved and hated the bone spirit cold flame.

Most of his achievements had depended on it, yet because of it, he had lost his lifelong companion.

Before disappearing, she had told him that he could bring her back once he became a Dou Di. But with his talent, becoming a Dou Di was easier said than done.

In the nearly ten thousand years since Tou She Ancient God, no Dou Di had appeared on the Dou Qi Continent.

A trace of sorrow seeped from Yao Chen.

Xiao Yan didn't know why his teacher was grieving. He didn't feel comfortable asking, either, fearing he might only make things worse, so he cut off their communication.

Seeing Xiao Yan suddenly become distracted while looking at her, Xiao Yi Xian frowned in puzzlement.

Only then did she realize something was wrong.

Earlier, she had been so concerned about Xiao Yan's safety that she had overlooked one detail.

Xiao Yan's cultivation wasn't right!

At this point, shouldn't Yao Chen have been absorbing his dou qi from inside the Bone Ring for half a year?

Yet after having his dou qi absorbed for an entire six months, Xiao Yan's cultivation had advanced rather than regressed, rising from One-Star Dou Zhe to Seven-Star Dou Zhe.

As she pondered this, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly caught sight of the Heavy Xuan Ruler in Xiao Yan's hand out of the corner of her eye.

Her pupils contracted sharply, and her eyes widened as she stared fixedly at the Heavy Xuan Ruler.

She couldn't possibly mistake it. This was the weapon that would accompany him as he fought across the continent in the future—the Heavy Xuan Ruler.

But the Heavy Xuan Ruler's original owner wasn't Xiao Yan. It was Yao Chen.

Only after taking Xiao Yan as his disciple had Yao Chen given it to him.

Why was it already in Xiao Yan's hands?

Xiao Yi Xian suppressed the turmoil in her heart, a thousand thoughts racing through her mind.

Could Xiao Yan have been reborn, just like her?

He had been reborn, found a way to awaken Yao Chen, and obtained the Heavy Xuan Ruler from him.

But Xiao Yan's behavior didn't really seem like that of someone who had been reborn.

Xiao Yi Xian still remembered that when Xiao Yan first saw her, his eyes hadn't held the surprise of seeing someone he once knew.

To him, she was simply an ordinary stranger.

So, if he hadn't been reborn, where exactly had things gone wrong?

Then his earlier distraction had actually been him communicating with Yao Chen.

In life, Yao Chen had been an eighth-tier alchemist and a Dou Zun expert. With his vast knowledge and experience, he must have recognized her woeful poison body.

Xiao Yi Xian still held considerable respect for Yao Chen.

He had nurtured Xiao Yan.

But she couldn't say much in praise of the old fellow's values.

Xiao Yi Xian had always believed that the reason Xiao Yan was such a womanizer, with more beauties by his side than could be counted on one hand, was his association with that old fellow Yao Chen. Stay near vermilion and you turn red; stay near ink and you turn black.

Even now, Xiao Yi Xian still remembered Yao Chen once telling Xiao Yan that her bosom was small, nowhere near as magnificent as Yun Yun's.

Just listen to that. Was that something a respectable teacher should say to his disciple?