Eight Spider Lances

With the pills Yao Lao had refined, the Xiao Clan's annual income could surge by at least several dozen times, allowing Xiao Zhan to secure his position as clan leader.

Xiao Zhan was not only Xiao Yan's father, but also one of the few people in the Xiao Clan who genuinely treated him well.

Even though Xiao Yan knew Yao Lao was helping Xiao Zhan secure his position to win his favor, he still had to acknowledge the debt.

Moreover, with his reputation as a genius alchemist, Xiao Yan could now openly gather all kinds of cultivation resources.

But every advantage came with a drawback. As Xiao Yan's reputation as a genius alchemist spread throughout Wutan City, Jia Lie Bi and the others began to grow restless.

If they allowed the Xiao Clan to keep developing like this, it would probably dominate Wutan City before long.

When that happened, Jia Lie Bi and the others would either have to relocate their entire clans or bow their heads and submit to the Xiao Clan. Neither outcome would be pleasant.

Thus, Jia Lie Bi and the others planned to strike first and eliminate Xiao Yan, the genius alchemist.

Once Xiao Yan was dead, the Xiao Clan would naturally cease to be a threat.

Unfortunately, what Jia Lie Bi and the others did not know was that Xiao Yan had already mastered a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique-Possession!

Although Yao Lao's strength had yet to recover fully, using Xiao Yan's body to unleash Dou Wang-level power for a short time would still be as easy as turning his hand over.

While Jia Lie Bi and the others frantically courted death, Nalan Sheng was diligently practicing the Benlei Palm and Lightning Divine Movement Technique on the training grounds of his luxurious estate.

Dozens of Nalan Shengs could be seen darting and weaving across the spacious training grounds, with palm-shaped bolts of lightning shooting out from time to time.

"Hm?"

Nalan Sheng suddenly furrowed his sharp brows, then halted his steps and stopped in the center of the training grounds.

The Nalan Shengs leaping about around him slowly dissolved like bubbles. They were all afterimages so lifelike they could pass for the real thing.

Open the System Shop!

With a thought, Nalan Sheng summoned the System Shop.

A month had passed since the System Shop's last refresh, so ten new products had appeared on its shelves.

Huh? These are...

Nalan Sheng quickly scanned the new products, a gleam of wild delight flashing through his eyes. He immediately spent eleven thousand Villain Points to purchase two of them.

[Name: Eight Spider Lances]

[Effect: Increases all of the user's attributes by 50%, provides jumping, climbing, and physical attack capabilities, and can evolve as the user grows stronger.]

[Price: 1,000 Villain Points]

[Name: A1-Rank Laser Gun]

[Effect: Can fire planetary first rank laser attacks, up to a maximum of ten shots.]

[Price: 10,000 Villain Points]

The Eight Spider Lances originated from the world of Douluo Continent and were an extremely rare External Spirit Bone.

In the original story, Poison Douluo had followed Tang San's guidance and forced the toxins into his spirit bone, thereby resolving the problem of his martial soul's poison backfiring on him.

Thus, as long as Xiao Yi Xian refined the Eight Spider Lances and then channeled all the toxins she could not digest into them, she should be able to resolve the side effects of her woeful poison body.

In a sense, using the Eight Spider Lances to hold excess toxins and using a Poison Pill to absorb them worked on the same principle.

The A1-Rank Laser Gun, meanwhile, originated from the world of Swallowed Star. It was a high-tech weapon capable of firing laser attacks that could kill planetary first rank warriors.

Although Nalan Sheng did not know exactly how powerful a planetary first rank warrior was, according to the original setting, such warriors were already equivalent to humanoid nuclear weapons.

Even if beings of that level could not match Dou Zong experts, they could at least rival Dou Huang experts.

With a devastating weapon like the A1-Rank Laser Gun in hand, Nalan Sheng might even blow a Dou Huang expert's head off with a single shot if he caught them unprepared.

Moreover, it could fire ten laser shots. For the time being, it should count as Nalan Sheng's greatest trump card.

What a treasure! What a fine treasure!

After toying with the A1-Rank Laser Gun for a while, Nalan Sheng reluctantly put it away along with the Eight Spider Lances, then turned his attention to his character status panel.

[Host: Nalan Sheng]

[Age: 15]

[Cultivation: Five-Star Dou Zhe]

[Cultivation Method: Jinglei Formula (Perfection)]

[Dou Techniques: Six Vault Immortal Thief (Minor Mastery: 3265/6000)+, Benlei Palm (Major Mastery: 394/12000)+, Lightning Divine Movement Technique (Major Mastery: 682/12000)+, Water Clone Technique (Perfection), Purple Cloud Wings]

[Devil Fruit: Flame-Flame Fruit]

[Summons: Shadow Ninja (10)]

[Items: Infinite Desert Eagle, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils Instance Card, Eight Spider Lances, A1-Rank Laser Gun]

[Villain Points: 14798]

Looking at the character status panel, which showed that he had grown considerably stronger again, Nalan Sheng nodded in satisfaction, then took the Eight Spider Lances to find Xiao Yi Xian.

Upon learning that the Eight Spider Lances could resolve the side effects of her woeful poison body just like netherworld poison flame, Xiao Yi Xian immediately circulated the poisonous Dou Qi within her body at full power and refined them into herself.

The result did not disappoint Nalan Sheng. As Xiao Yi Xian successfully refined the Eight Spider Lances, the excess toxins in her body were smoothly transferred into them.

Even the thin, seven-colored line on Xiao Yi Xian's abdomen became faint and barely visible once more.

Time slipped away like a white steed flashing past a crack, and in the blink of an eye, another half month or so had passed.

Without having to worry about her woeful poison body backfiring, Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation speed increased considerably again. In just over half a month, she successfully condensed a Dou Qi vortex.

Seeing that Xiao Yi Xian had broken through to a one-star Dou Zhe, Nalan Sheng finally set off with her for Black Rock City.

Black Rock City was the large city closest to Wutan City. Its overall strength far surpassed Wutan City's, and it ranked among the foremost of all the large cities in the Jia Ma Empire.

Only large cities on Black Rock City's level had a civilian Aerial Transport Fleet provided by the empire.

If Nalan Sheng and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Imperial City by carriage, it would take at least two or three months, whereas traveling with the Aerial Transport Fleet would take only about ten days.

Naturally, Nalan Sheng was taking Xiao Yi Xian back to the Imperial City because he wanted to use the Nalan Family's intelligence network to purchase poison-attribute cultivation methods and Dou Techniques suitable for her.

Although

Poison Masters were almost never seen within the Jia Ma Empire, the neighboring Chu Yun Empire was a country renowned for them.

Furthermore, the Jia Ma Empire and the Chu Yun Empire were sworn enemies, and conflicts erupted between them from time to time. As a result, quite a few factions in the Jia Ma Empire had naturally seized poison-attribute cultivation methods and Dou Techniques from the Chu Yun Empire.

Given the Nalan Family's standing in the Jia Ma Empire, purchasing some Profound Rank poison-attribute cultivation methods and Dou Techniques should not be particularly difficult.