Woeful Poison Body

"Nobody touch her!"

Just as everyone stood at a loss, a booming voice suddenly rang out. Nalan Sheng stepped out of the crowd, his expression grave. "I never imagined anyone could actually awaken this constitution."

"Young man, do you know what's going on?"

"If I'm not mistaken, Xiao Yi Xian has awakened an extremely unusual constitution."

Nalan Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly. "And it's an exceptionally overbearing one. Once awakened, it fills her entire body with poison. Anyone who touches her will die without question."

"..."

At his words, everyone exchanged uneasy looks and instinctively took several more steps back.

Although many of the mercenaries harbored feelings for Xiao Yi Xian, none dared gamble with their lives after learning that her entire body had become lethally poisonous.

Meanwhile, the seven-colored hues on Xiao Yi Xian's face slowly faded, and her rosy complexion returned.

Her lashes trembled slightly before she slowly opened her beautiful eyes, clear as autumn waters.

Xiao Yi Xian first looked around in confusion, then turned her gaze to the corpse beside her.

"Qiya!"

Seeing the colleague who had been speaking to her just moments ago suddenly reduced to a cold corpse, Xiao Yi Xian cried out in shock and hurriedly asked the others, "What happened? How did Qiya end up like this?"

"..."

Faced with Xiao Yi Xian's questions, everyone's expressions grew complicated, but none knew how to answer.

"Xiao Yi Xian, your poison killed him."

In the end, Nalan Sheng was the first to speak, breaking the deathly silence.

"W-what did you say?"

Xiao Yi Xian's beautiful eyes flew wide at his words. She instinctively shook her head. "Impossible! You're lying!"

"I have a Poison Scripture I obtained from some ancient ruins. Read its final volume, and you'll know whether I'm lying."

Nalan Sheng made no attempt to argue. Instead, he tossed the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture down in front of Xiao Yi Xian.

Looking at the ancient seven-colored scroll, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly felt a powerful sense of unease. She unconsciously drew a deep breath before picking it up to examine it.

As she slowly unrolled the seven-colored scroll, exquisitely intricate poison formulas appeared before her.

But Xiao Yi Xian had no heart to study those formulas now. Instead, she turned to the contents recorded in the final volume.

[The woeful poison body is an unusual poisonous constitution. Those who awaken it can rapidly increase their strength by consuming poisons.

The woeful poison body is easy to identify. Those who awaken this constitution will have a thin, seven-colored line on their lower abdomen.

This line grows as the concentration of poison within the awakened person's body increases. When the seven-colored line reaches the heart, the woeful poison body is at its strongest. At the same time, its bearer will suffer the agony of ten thousand poisons devouring their body.]

Below the introduction to the woeful poison body was a list of the many horrifying disasters it could cause once it went out of control.

Since Xiao Yi Xian already had a thin, seven-colored line on her abdomen, she could now confirm that she had awakened the woeful poison body.

What Xiao Yi Xian had never imagined, however, was that once the woeful poison body went out of control, it could turn everything within a thousand li into a poisoned wasteland.

If Xiao Yi Xian remained unaware of how terrifying the woeful poison body was and continued living in a densely populated city, it would cause an unimaginable catastrophe once it completely escaped her control.

Moreover, Xiao Yi Xian was a physician who had always regarded treating illnesses and saving lives as her duty.

At the thought that she might someday kill hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people, Xiao Yi Xian no longer knew how to face the future.

"Q-Qiya, I killed you..."

Her face deathly pale, Xiao Yi Xian gazed at Qiya's face, twisted in pain, her beautiful eyes brimming with guilt.

Although Xiao Yi Xian had not personally witnessed Qiya dying from her poison, the antidote pill in his hand gave her enough clues to guess what had happened.

Clearly, Qiya had tried to help neutralize her poison, only to accidentally touch her and be poisoned to death by the woeful poison body instead.

"A scourge like me has no reason to keep living."

A glint of resolve flashed through Xiao Yi Xian's eyes. She pulled out the dagger she carried and swept it toward her own throat.

Thump!

Just as everyone thought Xiao Yi Xian's fragrant life was about to fade, Nalan Sheng suddenly darted in front of her and knocked her unconscious with a chop of his hand.

Under everyone's startled gazes, Nalan Sheng first put away the fallen Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, then scooped the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian into his arms and walked into the nearby forest without looking back.

Watching their retreating figures, everyone instinctively wanted to say something, but in the end, none spoke up to stop him.

Compared with forcing Xiao Yi Xian to stay or watching helplessly as she died, perhaps letting Nalan Sheng take her away was the best choice.

The golden crow sank in the west, and the bright moon rose in the east.

As night slowly fell, Xiao Yi Xian, whom Nalan Sheng had knocked unconscious, groggily awoke.

Xiao Yi Xian instinctively rubbed her aching neck before examining her surroundings.

She found herself in a dry cave, covered with a bearskin blanket.

A campfire burned near the cave entrance, and a black-robed figure sat beside it.

"You're awake."

Nalan Sheng turned toward Xiao Yi Xian and pointed at the iron pot in front of him. "You've been asleep for most of the day. You must be hungry. Come have some meat broth to tide you over!"

"Why did you save me? Who told you to save me? Couldn't you just let me die? Why did you have to meddle? Boohoo..."

Remembering everything that had happened before she lost consciousness, Xiao Yi Xian could not help breaking down in tears again.

Seeing this, Nalan Sheng felt a pang of guilt.

Had he not ordered the Shadow Ninja to release a snake to bite Xiao Yi Xian, perhaps she would not have had to suffer like this.

But Nalan Sheng did not regret doing it. Even if he had not ordered the Shadow Ninja to release a snake to bite Xiao Yi Xian, her woeful poison body would still have awakened.

Unless Xiao Yi Xian gave up being a physician for the rest of her life, the day would eventually come when she accidentally ingested poison. Nalan Sheng had merely brought that day forward a little.

Once Xiao Yi Xian's sobs gradually subsided, Nalan Sheng suddenly spoke.

"Actually, you don't need to despair like this. It's not as though there's no way to resolve the side effects of the woeful poison body."

"..."

At those words, Xiao Yi Xian immediately stopped crying. She turned toward Nalan Sheng and asked, her face full of hope, "Y-you aren't lying to me, are you?"