Xiao Yi Xian raised an eyebrow instead.
"Did you actually know about my physique all along? Over the years, you always seemed pretty familiar with my condition, whether you showed it openly or not."
"Uh, I read some ancient books at home before and found a case similar to yours."
Naturally, Xiao Long pinned it on the ancient books. Xiao Yi Xian asked, "Then why didn't you tell me? Were you afraid I couldn't take it?"
"Of course not. Knowing wouldn't change anything, so why make you worry for nothing?"
Xiao Long put the two Dou Techniques into his Storage Ring.
They were decent enough. He might have been rather excited before.
But after obtaining two Heaven-tier cultivation methods and Heaven-tier Dou Techniques from the Tou She Ancient God Jade, these were, at most, gifts or bargaining chips to him.
Just like that, Xiao Long had become nouveau riche.
He could no longer be bothered to spare anything below an Earth-tier Dou Technique a glance.
"Come on, tell me."
Xiao Yi Xian couldn't help pleading.
Xiao Long heard the coaxing tone in her voice.
Why did it feel like Xiao Yi Xian had become much less reserved around him?
After thinking it over, he said, "Your physique is called the Woeful Poison Body. Of course, the word 'woeful' was probably added by later generations."
"I'm not too sure about exactly what it does."
"But since the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture records so many poisons, it should have something similar in there. See if you can find it."
Hearing the name Woeful Poison Body, Xiao Yi Xian felt little reaction.
Over the years, words like those...
She had long since grown used to hearing them, wherever she went.
As long as even part of her condition was discovered, abuse would follow.
At Xiao Long's words, she was about to leaf through the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture when he said, "All right, read it once you're back. I'll take you home."
"I can go back myself. Didn't you say you were going into the mountains to find something?"
"But..."
"All right, all right. Do you think I'm some little girl? Before I met you, I'd already suffered plenty of hardship and wandering."
The two walked out of the cave. Xiao Yi Xian took a short bamboo flute from inside her clothes, placed it between her lips, and blew softly. A peculiar sound wave swiftly spread from the flute.
A moment later.
A huge eagle, azure from head to tail, swept rapidly toward them. In mere moments, the eagle was circling beneath the cliff.
"Xiao Lan!"
Xiao Yi Xian waved. Xiao Long picked her up and landed on the Blue Eagle, then stared at the eagle. "Get her home safely. If anything goes wrong, I'll stew you!"
"Screee!"
"Hey, don't scare Xiao Lan! You threaten to make stew every time! Xiao Lan doesn't even like you anymore."
"I don't need a magical beast to like me. As long as you like me, that's enough."
"Such a silver tongue!"
After a moment's thought, Xiao Long removed his Storage Ring and handed it to Xiao Yi Xian. "Keep this safe for me for now. The place I'm going might destroy even this Storage Ring."
"Huh?"
Worry immediately surfaced on Xiao Yi Xian's face. Earlier, Xiao Long had only said he was going into the mountains to find a few things.
Was it really that dangerous?
Even a Storage Ring could be burned away?
"It's not that dangerous for me, but it is for the Storage Ring. The ring isn't worth much, but it contains the medicinal herbs you wanted."
"Then make sure you come back safely."
"Don't worry."
Xiao Yi Xian took the Storage Ring and slipped it onto the ring finger of her right hand. Then, noticing Xiao Long's gaze, she drew her hand back slightly. "What?"
"I remember telling you that wearing a ring on different fingers means different things!"
Xiao Yi Xian kept her little face composed. "What meaning? I'm just wearing a ring... What could it mean...?"
"Aren't you overthinking it?"
Seeing Xiao Yi Xian still trying to force an explanation, Xiao Long shook his head with a smile. "You've got a stubborn mouth. I wonder if it's soft when kissed!"
"Hmph!"
Xiao Yi Xian glared at him. Xiao Long waved. "All right, I'm off!"
The next moment, he leaped from Xiao Lan's back and shot into the distance. Xiao Yi Xian called loudly, "Come back safely!"
"When you get back, I'll let you see how soft my lips..."
"Hey, I'm back! Hahaha!"
Suddenly, the distant figure doubled back. Before Xiao Yi Xian could even react, she felt an arm wrap around her slender waist.
Then, all at once, she felt a kiss land on her lips.
"All right, they really are soft!"
Xiao Long chuckled. Still trying to plant a death flag?
How hard could subduing a Myriad Beast Spirit Flame be? The Horse Talisman healed everything, and the Dog Talisman granted immortality.
And there was Shendu's power to suppress flames.
Plus, with the Tou She Ancient God he had "experienced," even the golden emperor burning heaven flame had felt fear toward him.
Let alone the much weaker myriad beast spirit flame.
"You!!"
Only then did Xiao Yi Xian react, her carefully maintained composure shattering completely.
"You shameless rogue!!"
But by then, she realized Xiao Long really had gone far away.
Xiao Yi Xian couldn't help touching her lips.
"Who has a first kiss like that? It was over before I could even feel it."
"Man, the Magical Beast Mountain Range really is huge!"
Following his sense of the flame, Xiao Long sped across one area of the Magical Beast Mountain Range after another. At first, he had only a vague direction, but as he continued deeper...
That sense finally grew clear. By then, he estimated that he had already left the eastern part of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and reached its central region.
At last, in a valley, Xiao Long clearly sensed the myriad beast spirit flame deep beneath the ground.
But this place...
Xiao Long looked at the magical beast skeletons strewn everywhere. It seemed this was no friendly place.
There were even skeletons of Dou Ling-level magical beasts.
Without exception, however, these remains brimmed with fire-attribute energy. In other words, all of them had been fire-attribute magical beasts before they died.
Xiao Long landed. Through his past experience as the Tou She Ancient God, he had also learned the origins of the myriad beast spirit flame.
Essentially, large numbers of dead fire-attribute magical beasts piled up in a certain special location. In the end, their flesh, magic cores, and the souls within them...
For some special reason, they formed a myriad beast spirit flame.
"I wonder if there's a guardian magical beast..." Xiao Long walked into the valley, stepping over the bones, and saw a great mound of piled-up flesh.
It resembled an altar, but these magical beasts looked utterly shriveled, as though their flesh and blood were gone and only an outer layer remained.
Soon.
A glimmer of red finally appeared in Xiao Long's sight. Meanwhile, the Shendu statue in his mind, which had done little since awakening beyond supplying him with power...
Suddenly seemed to come alive and began to roar.
And just then.
Something unexpected happened!
With a flicker of thought, Xiao Long shot backward. A giant flaming python burst straight out of the ground, its maw gaping like a brazier as it snapped at him!
"A heavenly flame?"
The next moment, magical beasts formed from flames began appearing all around him!
"Damn it, a fire version of the Vine Shadow Technique?"
Feeling that terrifying heat, Xiao Long knew it had to be a heavenly flame. But was the myriad beast spirit flame's ability based on summoning?
What was more, Xiao Long even sensed several Dou Ling-level Fire Spirits among them!
Why had Xiao Yan only faced one Dou Ling guardian beast when subduing the green lotus core flame, while I have to face several just to subdue a myriad beast spirit flame?
In the end, I still lost to the Heavenly Dao's big money!
"But I've got cheats!"
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