Pale White Firelight
After putting everything away, Xiao Yan emerged from the Mountain Cave. It was midday, and the scorching sunlight beat down, baking the mountain walls until they were scalding.
He went to the base of a cliff, looked up at the blazing sun, and flexed his ankles slightly before stomping his foot hard on the ground.
With a crisp burst of energy, Xiao Yan shot up the cliff face like a cannonball. With a series of explosive sounds, he ascended rapidly along the rock wall.
This was the Mystic Middle-Rank movement Dou Technique that Yun Yun had left behind – Exploding Step. It involved condensing fire-attribute Dou Qi at a single point beneath the foot, using the force of the explosion to generate instantaneous extreme speed.
"It's actually a bit like the Eight Extremities Collapse."
Xiao Yan flipped and landed, twisting his ankle. Like the Eight Extremities Collapse, mastering Exploding Step required a strong physique. Otherwise, instead of being propelled forward by the explosive force, one's legs would break first.
For Xiao Yan, whose physical strength already surpassed his cultivation level, practicing Exploding Step was twice as effective.
Xiao Yan practiced alchemy in the morning, and after exhausting his Soul power, he would train in Dou Techniques. In the evening, he would cultivate the Burning Technique and the Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art. The cycle repeated.
He continued to train until dusk, when he happened to meet the Little Fairy Doctor returning with a flower basket full of herbs.
Bathed in the light of the setting sun, the Little Fairy Doctor stood in the twilight, her lonely figure evoking pity.
Seeing Xiao Yan, she smiled sweetly at him, holding up her flower basket, and said, "Are you eating dinner? Little Blue caught a Mountain Goat."
"Of course. I only know how to refine pills, not cook."
Sitting on a nearby rock, Xiao Yan watched the Little Fairy Doctor humming softly as she busied herself, and couldn't help but smile.
Over the past ten days, the Little Fairy Doctor had gradually come to terms with what happened in Green Mountain Town.
Munch, munch. Xiao Yan picked up his bowl and chopsticks and ate ravenously. After each day of training, he needed to replenish a large amount of food to recover his strength.
Chirp, chirp! Little Blue watched Xiao Yan's gluttonous movements and quickly ate a piece of roasted meat herself, as if to say, "Don't eat mine too!" Seeing Xiao Yan devour his food, a comforting smile slowly appeared on the Little Fairy Doctor's lips. Xiao Yan didn't care at all that she possessed the Calamity Poison Body and was a poison master, which undoubtedly left a special impression on her.
Not to mention that when Xiao Yan occasionally needed to refine Antidote Pills, he would specifically ask the Little Fairy Doctor to poison him, so he could practice his ability to create antidotes.
Antidote Pills were the most special kind of pills, requiring an Alchemist's on-the-spot adaptability and knowledge, needing to tailor the medicine to the poison.
"Oh, right, I should be leaving here in about ten days to go to Mo City. What about you?" Xiao Yan put down his bowl and chopsticks and suddenly said after a moment.
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, the Little Fairy Doctor, who was clearing the dishes, paused and said casually, "Oh, I was thinking of going to the Chuyun Empire to see if poison masters aren't so ostracized there."
"The Chuyun Empire, huh? If I ever travel around the world in the future, I'll go to the Chuyun Empire to find you," Xiao Yan said casually, lying on the ground and looking at the stars in the sky.
"Hehe, you can't hate me then, or I'll be very sad."
"How could I?"
Staring blankly at the Little Fairy Doctor as she walked into the small hut, Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly. He slowly stood up and walked towards the Mountain Cave, beginning to cultivate the Burning Technique and the Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art.
Early the next morning, Xiao Yan had just gotten up when he passed by the Little Fairy Doctor's hut and found the door tightly closed.
"Sigh." Xiao Yan seemed to have expected this and gently knocked on the door. Sure enough, there was no response from inside.
Xiao Yan controlled the Void Swallowing Flame, melting the lock and pushing open the door. Immediately, a pungent poisonous mist poured out of the room.
Meow! Mao Wu instantly appeared, its mouth widening into a black hole, devouring all the poisonous mist.
"This poison is really potent. If I didn't have the Void Swallowing Flame, I wouldn't dare to get close. This poison could probably kill even a Da Dou Shi."
On the bed, the Little Fairy Doctor's eyes were tightly closed. Her originally rosy cheeks were now tinged with a strange, colorful hue, as if she wasn't breathing.
Xiao Yan didn't panic. He took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the remaining poison powder from the corners of her mouth, his movements very gentle.
The Little Fairy Doctor hadn't been able to hold on.
The Calamity Poison Body only needed to consume poison to become stronger. For her, poison was like food; she had to eat when she was hungry.
The Little Fairy Doctor suppressing herself from taking poison was like a person being hungry but not being able to eat. That terrifying hunger would make one lose their mind.
What's more, this valley was full of herbs, and she could easily refine poison, making it even harder for her to resist.
In fact, Xiao Yan had noticed something amiss the night before. Her cultivation had reached Nine Star Dou Zhe, an increase of four stars in half a month, a speed that left him dumbfounded.
"A Dou Shi already..." Xiao Yan's Soul power sensed that her cultivation had broken through to Dou Shi, and the colorful lines on her face slowly faded.
On the bed, the Little Fairy Doctor, who had been tightly closing her eyes, finally opened them slowly. Turning her head, she saw Xiao Yan sitting quietly on a chair not far away.
Her jade hand moved slightly, touching the corner of her mouth, and a bitter expression gradually appeared.
A moment later, the bitterness gradually intensified. Little Fairy Doctor bit her lip tightly, suddenly pulled the quilt over her face, and muffled, intermittent sobs came from under the covers.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Yan, I... I couldn't control myself. I deserve to die."
Sitting on the chair, listening to the weak, soft sobbing, Xiao Yan's mood was also a bit heavy. After pondering for a long time, Xiao Yan seemed to have made up his mind.
He slowly stood up, sat on the edge of the bed, and gently patted Little Fairy Doctor's body wrapped in the quilt.
"I have a way to help you control the Calamity Poison Body."
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Little Fairy Doctor lifted the quilt, wiped away a trace of tears from her eyes, and asked with a hint of expectation in her voice, "Are you serious?"
Xiao Yan nodded and took out a roll of dark gray scroll from his Storage Ring. Little Fairy Doctor opened the scroll.
"Poison Pill Method? It requires an Alchemist of seventh-grade or higher to enter the body with their Soul power, gather all the accumulated toxins of the Calamity Poison Body, and finally transform them into a Poison Pill within the body. If the Poison Pill is successfully formed, the Calamity Poison Body will then become a truly terrifying physique."
However, when Little Fairy Doctor saw the required materials, her eyes immediately dimmed, and she shook her head self-deprecatingly, saying, "A Seventh-Order Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core, Bodhi Transformation Saliva, and three types of Strange Flames. A Seventh-Order Magical Beast is equivalent to a Dou Zong, and the Bodhi Transformation Saliva is unheard of."
"Not to mention three types of Strange Flames. Finding one Strange Flame is already an unparalleled opportunity, let alone three. It's impossible."
Just when Little Fairy Doctor was in utter despair, with a whoosh, the sound of flames burning suddenly erupted, and a deep white firelight illuminated the room.
Sensing the appearance of the firelight, Little Fairy Doctor slowly raised her head and looked at the ghostly white flame floating in the air.
In Little Fairy Doctor's eyes, the flame was very beautiful. The feeling of coldness and heat made people curious, a vast expanse of white like a snowy scene.
"There are roads up high mountains, and ferrymen for deep waters."
"Difficulties always exist, and there will always be solutions. Look, isn't one type of Strange Flame already gathered? And there happens to be an Alchemist."
Seeing Xiao Yan's bright smile, the warm firelight slowly swept away the haze in Little Fairy Doctor's heart, completely illuminating Little Fairy Doctor's inner being.
Tears could no longer be held back and fell from her eyes. Little Fairy Doctor hugged Xiao Yan and burst into tears.
The events of the past few months had already brought this girl without relatives to the brink of collapse. Only she herself understood the pain brought by the Calamity Poison Body.
As if grasping the light in the darkness, Little Fairy Doctor tightly clutched Xiao Yan's clothes, her tears wetting the fabric.
A snow-white butterfly fluttered its wings and landed on the table from outside the window. Xiao Yan did not expect that his premature disclosure of the Poison Pill Method to Little Fairy Doctor would cause the world line to deviate severely once again.
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