In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, within the energy-rich Small Valley, a white-clad girl sat beside a medicine furnace, carefully pouring the powder she had just prepared into a small jade bottle. The Small Valley looked much as it had when Xiao Yan and the others left. Some of the medicinal herbs they had picked had grown back, lending the place a vibrant air.
After bottling the medicinal powder she had just prepared, Xiao Yi Xian reached for fresh herbs in the bamboo basket beside her. But the moment she picked them up, her body trembled faintly. She knew that feeling had returned. Even though she did everything she could to suppress it, what remained of her reason still lost to that overwhelming craving.
With trembling hands, she took out a pouch of pitch-black medicinal powder and poured it into her mouth. As soon as the powder entered her mouth, a burning sensation spread through her internal organs-the agonizing pain of the poison taking effect. Yet from deep within her body came an unprecedented sense of bliss, forcibly wiping that agony away.
Xiao Yi Xian quietly curled up on the ground, enduring the agony of the poison while savoring the bliss that flooded every limb and bone. Whenever she consumed poison, a rainbow sheen would appear on her cheeks. She found those colors hideously ugly and did not want anyone else to see her like this, especially that boy in black.
Moreover, while she consumed poison, the toxins in her body would throw her mind into disarray. Her constitution had only awakened recently, so it had not caused any harm yet. But as time went on, even she did not know what horrors she might commit. When that day came, she would inevitably hurt the people around her. That was