Bamboozling Xiao Yi Xian, Leaving a Name After a Good Deed

"You must have cultivated a secret art that can hide your true cultivation, right?"

Seeing Lu Yuan's lazy manner and the smile on his face, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly thought of a reasonable explanation.

On the Dou Qi Continent, no one could break through from Seventh Stage Dou Qi to Dou Zhe in the space of a breath.

But there were cultivation methods that could make some powerful experts look no different from ordinary people.

"Miss Xiao Yi Xian, you really are as clever as ice and snow." Lu Yuan was slightly taken aback. He chuckled and shook his head. "But you guessed wrong. The reason I am as I am now is all thanks to you."

"From now on, you are my benefactor."

"A drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring. I absolutely must repay your kindness many times over."

Xiao Yi Xian: "..."

Being someone's benefactor was obviously a good thing, yet she couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong with what Lu Yuan had said.

"You're forcing the title of benefactor on me. Young Master Lu, what exactly are you after?" Xiao Yi Xian asked, getting straight to the point.

"I'm telling the truth." Lu Yuan withdrew his hand, the smile fading from his face, and gently spoke four words: "Woeful Poison Body."

Bang!

She sprang to her feet in alarm.

She rose so hastily that she knocked the stool behind her over, but she had no mind to pay it any attention.

The Woeful Poison Body, also called the Innate Poison Body, was a physique born for poison. It required no effort to cultivate; its owner could raise their cultivation simply by continuously consuming poison.

With a high-tier poison-attribute cultivation method, cultivation could yield twice the results with half the effort, but most possessors of the Woeful Poison Body did not do this.

That was because the Woeful Poison Body had one fated end: once the toxins accumulated in the body reached a certain point, ten thousand poisons would devour the heart, causing death.

Not only was the entire process unbearably painful, but the body would also explode at the end, turning everything within a hundred or even a thousand li into poisoned earth, devoid of life.

And once the Woeful Poison Body awakened, its possessor could no longer control the instinct to consume poison. This desire would grow ever stronger with time.

In other words, anyone with a Woeful Poison Body would inevitably keep consuming poison and growing stronger, only to die a miserable death and harm others in the end.

And that was only the final outcome. As the Woeful Poison Body grew stronger, it would also go out of control from time to time, and its possessor could accidentally poison those around them to death, including friends and family.

More than that, once the desire to consume poison grew strong enough, its possessor would lose their reason and become someone who would do anything for poison.

Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body had awakened long ago, and she had caused the deaths of many people since then, including her mother.

But she had only recently learned information about this physique.

In a cave in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, she had obtained a Poison Scripture made from the hide of an unknown beast.

The creator of the Poison Scripture was an ancient possessor of the Woeful Poison Body. The scripture contained a great deal of information about the physique, as well as some poison formulas and a Low Earth Tier poison-attribute cultivation method.

Xiao Yi Xian had recently become almost certain that she had the Woeful Poison Body and was preparing to find a place to confirm it once and for all.

She had not expected to hear the term from Lu Yuan now.

Xiao Yi Xian dug her fingertips hard into her palms, and panic flickered in her usually clear, limpid eyes. Yan Jin stared intently at Lu Yuan and asked in a trembling voice, "What do you know? Just how much do you know?"

Lu Yuan did not rush to answer. After glancing around, he asked calmly, "Xiao Yi Xian, are you sure you want to discuss your physique with me here?"

Xiao Yi Xian's breath caught. She then took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down before calling over the maid Mr. Yao of the Myriad Medicine Pavilion had assigned to her. "I have urgent business today and won't be seeing patients. Go tell the people outside."

With that, Xiao Yi Xian gave Lu Yuan a look. "Young Master, please follow me."

Lu Yuan rose and followed Xiao Yi Xian through the inner door to the Myriad Medicine Pavilion's back courtyard.

The back courtyard was spacious and contained many separate compounds. Xiao Yi Xian led Lu Yuan to a small compound on the western side, pushed open the gate, and went in. Once Lu Yuan had followed her inside, she locked the gate from within.

Xiao Yi Xian led Lu Yuan to the secret room where she prepared medicinal herbs before finally speaking. "Now you can talk."

Meanwhile, deep in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, dozens of li away.

Sunlight, broken into scattered fragments by the dense forest, fell across the various mountain paths.

A black-robed figure deliberately kept low and moved lightly, weaving nimbly through the trees, panting noticeably with every leap.

When the black-robed figure reached a cliff, he had no choice but to stop, revealing a rather delicate face.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the delicate-featured young man cursed under his breath. "These wolf cubs really do haunt me like restless ghosts."

Rustle.

A disturbance came from the bushes behind him.

Right after that, seven or eight mercenaries appeared, all dressed in the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's standard uniforms, each wearing a vicious grin.

"Run, brat! Why aren't you running anymore?"

"Be a good boy and hand over what you got from that cave. Maybe we'll let you die a little quicker."

"Our leader has already ordered you hunted down. You think you can take on the Wolf Head Mercenary Group all by yourself?"

"If you know what's good for you, surrender at once. Maybe we'll leave your corpse in one piece."

"..."

The youth, none other than Xiao Yan, committed their faces firmly to memory and called out to Yao Lao in his mind. Teacher, there are so many of them, and a few have higher cultivation than me. Are you really not going to help your disciple?

"Find a way yourself. Unless there's absolutely no other choice, I will not interfere." Yao Lao's voice remained steady throughout.

"All right." Xiao Yan knew he could only rely on himself now.

He glanced back at the bottom of the cliff, gritted his teeth, and decided to take a gamble.

He had successfully refined the Purple Cloud Wings several days ago, but he had immediately found himself caught in an endless pursuit and had never had time to master them.

If he used them now, his strength would not be enough to fully extend them.

All he could do was take a gamble and try using them as a glider to escape.

"Hmph!"

Just as Xiao Yan was about to jump, an explosion rang out.

Immediately afterward, an elderly figure descended from the sky like a cannonball and landed in front of Xiao Yan.

Then a faint veil of Dou Qi appeared over his body.

It was the mark of a Dou Shi.

"Who are you!?" The Wolf Head Mercenary Group's mercenaries immediately became wary.

A Dou Shi was not someone they could afford to provoke.

"We're mercenaries from the Wolf Head Mercenary Group."

"Our leader is a Dou Shi too."

"If you also want what this boy has, we can discuss it."

"..."

Hearing this, the old man swept his gaze over the mercenaries, raised his emaciated hand, and pressed it gently downward.

"There's no need for discussion. Just die for me."

The old man immediately attacked.

Cries of battle rang out at once.

But the commotion soon ended. Standing amid a pile of corpses, the old man turned to Xiao Yan. "Young friend, are you Xiao Yan?"