Reward: A Flying Dou Technique! The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Grows

"With your current strength, you can't do it yet." Yao Lao's illusory figure floated out. After examining it for a while, he said, "To force it open, you'd need to be at least a Dou Ling."

"Even if I helped you break through this door, there might be other mechanisms and traps beyond it. It's not a safe bet."

"You've been gone too long. There's no guarantee Xiao Yi Xian won't grow suspicious. Don't let your cleverness backfire."

"Yes, teacher." Xiao Yan rubbed his nose. "That woman really wasn't lying. I'll go back and find her to cooperate."

Xiao Yan left the cave, climbed up the rope, gathered a pile of firewood, and returned.

In the center of the camp, Xiao Yi Xian was treating an injured mercenary's wounds. As if sensing something, she looked up and met Xiao Yan's gaze, a playful glint flashing in her eyes.

This woman really isn't simple. Xiao Yan felt his nose itch again and carried the firewood to one side.

"Sure enough, Xiao Yan won't behave himself." On a mountaintop, Ya Fei ate some dry rations.

"Having lived two lives, with Yao Lao by his side, there's no way he'd behave himself." Ya Fei leaned against a large tree, pretending to sleep.

Muttering softly to herself, Ya Fei resumed her quiet wait.

She waited from early evening, when the moon shone bright and the stars were sparse, until the dead of night, when the moon was hidden and the wind was high.

This time, Xiao Yi Xian didn't have her assistant cover for her. She knocked the assistant out with drugs, disguised the assistant as herself, and put the assistant in her bed.

She then changed into night clothes, dusted herself with powder to conceal her scent, and slipped out of camp without drawing attention. She went to a nearby cliff and waited.

About a quarter of an hour later, a point of light appeared high in the night sky. It swiftly dove down and stopped in front of Xiao Yi Xian.

It was a Blue Eagle, a magical beast at the peak of the first rank.

"Let's go, Xiao Lan." Xiao Yi Xian jumped onto the Blue Eagle's back and directed her toward the treasure cave.

She arrived only moments later. Xiao Yan had already been waiting for a long time on the rock jutting out in front of the cave, cultivating as he waited.

"A flying magical beast."

Seeing how Xiao Yi Xian had arrived, Xiao Yan's eyes flashed with surprise.

"Sure enough, this young woman isn't simple." Yao Lao's voice carried a hint of amusement. "If there's no need, don't tear away all pretense of friendship with her."

"If you really tried to seize it by force, this flying magical beast is probably one of her backup plans. She'd send word to many people, and you'd be surrounded in no time."

"I know, teacher. I'm just standing in as a guard this time and making a little money." Xiao Yan made it clear that he knew what he was doing.

Xiao Yi Xian jumped down at the cave entrance and gestured for Xiao Lan to leave.

Without exchanging pleasantries with Xiao Yan, she took out a prepared fire starter, lit a torch, and walked straight into the cave.

When they reached the mechanism-operated door, her heart began to race. Under Xiao Yan's gaze, she ran to one side, crouched down, and reached for the switch.

"It really is here. The diary didn't deceive me." Xiao Yi Xian breathed a sigh of relief and pressed the switch.

"Bang!"

The mechanism-operated door slowly opened.

Seeing this, the last trace of doubt in Xiao Yan's heart vanished.

Xiao Yi Xian really had discovered the treasure cave on her own and explored it beforehand.

He wasn't the sort to use trickery and force to seize other people's belongings. He would simply treat this as Xiao Yi Xian paying him for protection. He just didn't know which treasures she would give him.

The door opened fully. Xiao Yi Xian didn't make Xiao Yan wait outside and walked straight in.

While Xiao Yan looked around, she showed no concern for any mechanisms that might be there and went straight to the skeleton in the center of the cave dwelling.

She first removed the Storage Ring from the skeleton's hand. After injecting Dou Qi into it, she discovered that it had plenty of space inside.

"It's mine."

Xiao Yi Xian's gaze swept around the room from the corner of her eye before she slowly spoke.

"There are several million gold coins here. We'll split them evenly."

"There are also some spiritual herbs cultivated by the senior who lived in this cave dwelling. We'll split evenly any that aren't the only one of their kind."

"If there are any herbs you particularly want and there aren't many of them, tell me. We can discuss them."

As she spoke, Xiao Yi Xian casually removed the map fragment from the skeleton and put it in her Storage Ring. Then she picked up three keys and began unlocking the wooden boxes one by one.

Teacher, it looks like she really has been here before. She knows this place very well, Xiao Yan chatted with Yao Lao in his mind.

He hadn't expected Xiao Yi Xian to be so generous, splitting the gold coins and herbs evenly with him.

As his opinion of her improved, his hands didn't stay idle. He ran to three of the corners and put away half the gold coins in each, then went to the last corner to examine the herbs.

"Ice Spirit Flame Grass!" Xiao Yan's breath caught. This was the main ingredient Yao Lao had said he needed to refine a Snow Lotus Pill.

The Snow Lotus Pill was a Fifth-grade Pill, something he would need when he refined a Heavenly Flame in the future.

Teacher, Xiao Yan called in his mind.

"Don't rush. Ask Xiao Yi Xian first," Yao Lao said.

"Miss Xiao Yi Xian, may I have this Ice Spirit Flame Grass?" Xiao Yan asked without turning his head.

"Ice Spirit Flame Grass?" Xiao Yi Xian had long known it was here, and she also knew Xiao Yan would want it badly. Without turning her head, she said, "If you want it, you can have it. You can take a little less of the other herbs, or, if you have any poison on you, you can trade it with me."

Xiao Yan hadn't expected Xiao Yi Xian to be so accommodating, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Now he wouldn't have to tear away all pretense of friendship and fight for it.

What Xiao Yan didn't notice was that Xiao Yi Xian had already undone the seals on all three wooden boxes.

She obtained the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, the Flying Dou Technique Eagle Wings, and the High-grade Profound Tier Dou Technique Mad Lion's Roar, respectively.

Mad Lion's Roar was a Dou Technique that could be cultivated by anyone, regardless of their Dou Qi attribute.

"I'll put them away first." Xiao Yi Xian put all three scrolls into her Storage Ring.

According to the diary, the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture had belonged to her in the first place.

The Flying Dou Technique, meanwhile, had been obtained by Xiao Yan, giving him the ability to fly before reaching the Dou Wang level. It should be very important to him. If she didn't want to reveal that she could see the diary, she had better let him have it.

As for the High-grade Profound Tier Dou Technique Mad Lion's Roar, it should have been the Dou Technique in the box Mu Li took away.

"Hmm?"

As Xiao Yi Xian considered how to give up the Flying Dou Technique without arousing suspicion, the diary copy in her mind suddenly began to turn.

[Copy owner Xiao Yi Xian has changed a fate node. Fortune reward granted.]

Before Xiao Yi Xian could react, a force surged from the copy into her body.

She felt a force revive without warning in her dantian.

It was as though the source of a cursed power was awakening violently.

She felt her Dou Qi transforming as an unknown force ignited the Seven-Colored Hidden Line in her dantian.

Lethal poison filled her limbs and bones, awakening fragments of memory and letting her understand what was happening to her.

The Woeful Poison Body, the special physique I possess. With this physique, I can grow stronger just by consuming poison. It undergoes several awakenings in its early stages. Each awakening causes me to lose consciousness, and poison Qi spreads out to protect me while I awaken.

So the villagers and Mother... really did die because of me!

The suspicions she had harbored for years were confirmed, and Xiao Yi Xian felt utterly miserable.

Just then, she felt a tingling sensation on her back. The Seven-Colored Hidden Line in her dantian branched out, and new pathways spread across her back, forming a totem.

This was a special Flying Dou Technique suited to the Woeful Poison Body: Seven-Colored Poison Wings.

It was initially a High Xuan Tier Flying Dou Technique.

As the toxicity in her body increased, the Flying Dou Technique's grade would rise as well.

Is this... a benefit from the diary copy?

So the diary copy can be used this way too.

Meanwhile, at the Ye Clan in Ye City, in the Pill Region of the Central Plains.

Ye Qingzhou was immersed in cultivation when the diary in his mind suddenly began to turn.

[Random diary reward obtained: Body Immune to a Hundred Poisons (immune to all poisons below the seventh rank), Low Earth Tier Flying Dou Technique: Purple-Gold Eagle Wings (improved from the High Xuan Tier Flying Dou Technique Eagle Wings)]

[Special reward obtained: Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Seed (can be fused)]

Ye Qingzhou: ???

Random rewards trigger this often, and they're this generous too!?

"I have a feeling this reward has something to do with Xiao Yi Xian."