Xiao Yan's lying skills were indeed somewhat g.

  Little Fairy Doctor, being a physi herself, had also iigated why the townspeople were poisoned. Of course, she had looked into Mr. Yao and Mu She as well.

  However, her iigation revealed that based on their abilities, they did not possess the knowledge to coct such a subtle poison.

  Moreover, Xiao Yan cimed that by interrogating the two men, he learhey had poisohe water source. However, if the water supply had been iheire popution of Qingshan Town should have been affected, not just a portion of them.

  Xiao Yan touched his h a hint of bitterness on his face. He couldn't help it. He wasn't a sdrel skilled in lying and deceiving women. When hastily forced to make up a lie, it was bound to have many loopholes.

  Little Fairy Doctor herself had also vaguely sehat all the evidence was actually pointing toward her. It recisely because all the clues implicated her that Mu She and Mr. Yao thought of joining forces against her.

  While they did want to force her to hand over the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and the various medial materials from the cave, they weren't actually framing her.

  "I learned from the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture that there exists a strange physique in this world called the 'Woeful Poison Body'. Those with this physique only o i poison to transform it into poison-attribute Dou Qi and increase their cultivation."

  "Moreover, when someoh this physique refines medie, they will cause the medial properties of the herbs to ge. No matter what herbs they use, the final product will always be poison."

  Little Fairy Doctor's beautiful eyes stared into Xiao Yan's, and as their gazes met, she slowly voiced the suspis in her heart.

  The Woeful Poison Body's process of refining medie was simir to an alchemist's method for cog medial pills. Medial pills couldn't be made by just anyone, because they required a bination of fire-attributed and wood-attributed Dou Qi. When alchemists refined pills, the wood-attribute Dou Qi mixed with the fire-attribute Dou Qi acted as a catalyst, causing the medial properties of the herbs to transform.

  This was what made medial pills so miraculous.

  If Xiao Yan's strong soul made him a natural-born Alchemist, then the Camity Poison Body made Little Fairy Doctor a natural-born Poison Master.

  Xiao Yan finally uood why her cultivation had increased so rapidly. It might have been because when cog healing medies, she had beeing some on herself, iently iing some of the poison and thereby rapidly increasing her poison-attribute Dou Qi.

  This was also how she had uionally caused the townspeople to be poisoned.

  "After iing poison, the Woeful Poison Body will ma seven-colored patterns on the face. This Seven-Colored Poison Scripture may be a manual specifically for cultivating the Woeful Poison Body." Little Fairy Doctor took out the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, which described the Woeful Poison Body i detail.

  By now, Xiao Yan had pieced together many things. He suspected that the cave was not actally discovered by Little Fairy Doctor, but rather, it was her dormant Woeful Poison Body that had guided her to the cave.

  How could there be so many ces in this world?

  It recisely because Little Fairy Doctor was born with the Woeful Poison Body, and the first stone box in the cave taihe Seven-Colored Poison Scripture specifically left for cultivating the Woeful Poison Body, that she discovered the cave.

  This was not a ce, but aability.

  The scroll of the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture itself was a deadly poison. Any ordinary person who touched it would die instantly. However, when Little Fairy Doctor, who possessed the Woeful Poison Body, came into tact with it, not only was she unharmed, but it also awakened her Woeful Poison Body.

  When things rea extreme, they only move in the opposite dire. Perhaps only the heart of the world's most benevolent physi could give birth to the world's deadliest Woeful Poison Body.

  Little Fairy Doctor had wholeheartedly wao bee an alchemist, but her poison-attribute Dou Qi prevented her from doing so. She wao be a physi who saved lives, yet she turned out to be the world's most poisonous Woeful Poison Body.

  Xiao Yan could not help but feel a surge of sympathy as he looked at the woman before him.

  Now, Little Fairy Doctor had lost everything.

  "What, are you suddenly telling me all this because you want to drive me away?" Xiao Yaeo be displeased, pg his hands on his hips as he spoke.

  "No, I'm not... it's just... y-you're not afraid of me?" Little Fairy Doctor looked timidly at Xiao Yan, asking with a hint of unease.

  Xiao Yan crossed his arms and gave Little Fairy Doctor a sideways gnce. He snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, so what if you're born with the Woeful Poison Body? I'm an alchemist, born with a medial body."

  "If I were afraid of your little poison, what kind of alchemist would I be? Let's see what's more formidable, your poison or my pills." Xiao Yan said with an arrogant expression.

  Seeing Xiao Yan's proud and smug look, the ers of Little Fairy Doctor's eyes iently became a little moist. She revealed a touch of a warm smile that came from her heart.

  "Thank you, Xiao Yan."

  She pointed her delicate fi a nearby thatched hut and said with a smile, "I built that before. Let's stay there for the time being."

  "Oh-ho, it may be just a thatched hut, but sharing a cozy little pce with a beauty? That's the kind of life that would make even the gods jealous" Xiao Yan nodded after gng at the hut, He then tilted his head to look at Little Fairy Doctor's fwless, jade-like profile and couldn't help but tease her with a smile.

  Little Fairy Doctor's pretty face immediately turned bright red upon hearing this. She pouted and gave him a bnk look, then waved her little fists and hummed softly, "Don't think you take liberties just because my strength is lower. My poison isn't weak either. Be careful or I might make you lose... certain funs."

  Xiao Yan gulped and raised his hands in surrender.

  As he watched the Little Fairy Doctor walk into the thatched hut, the bright smile on his fastantly vanished.

  Having thhly studied tless medial recipes and aexts, Xiao Yan naturally knew about the Woeful Poison Body stitution. He also realized that Little Fairy Doctor had withheld the most crucial information about it.

  The Woeful Poison Body would eventually lead to her death.

  This poison body could indeed increase her poison-attribute Dou Qi by ing poisons. However, ohe accumution reached a point where the Woeful Poison Body could no longer suppress the poison within her body, the agony of all the poisons dev her from the inside would cause her to slowly die uhe most excruciating torture.

  When Xiao Yan saw that the Little Fairy Doctor hadn't shared this with him, he guessed that she nning to restrain herself from ing any more poisons to prevent the excessive accumution of the poison-attribute Dou Qi.

  Perhaps Little Fairy Doctor was truly the greatest physi in the world.

  The Bone Chilling Fme was borh the icy depths of the her Cold Abyss, while the Sea Heart Fme was born within the depths of the sea. Even the Nihility Dev Fme, which as a fme should illumihe darkness, was born within the darkness itself and was the only Heavenly Fme devoid of light.

  When things reach their extremes, they iably move in the opposite dire; this too was an ultimate principle of the Dao.

  Xiao Yan took out a recipe for a 4th-tier medial pill from his ste ring — the Hidden Spirit Pill.

  This was a medial pill that he had been pnning to refine for a long time, as it was a breakthrough pill that could help the user directly advance from a 9-star Dou Master to a Dou Grandmaster realm.

  However, as a 4th-tier pill, its effects were not limited to simply breaking through to the Dou Grandmaster realm. After breaking through, the remaining medial power would solidify the cultivator's Dou Qi foundation, preventing it from being unstable due to the use of pills. It would also nourish the meridians ahe hidden injuries accumuted from previous cultivation, ying the foundation for a future breakthrough to the Dou Spirit realm and increasing the success rate of such a breakthrough by 20%.

  If the goal was only to break through to the Dou Grandmaster realm, a 3rd-tier pill would have sufficed. However, Xiao Yan wasn't satisfied with a simple breakthrough, as relying on pills to advaeo unstable Dou Qi.

  'Given the abundanedial herbs here, it wouldn't be a bad idea to stay and practice my alchemy skills until I successfully refihe Hidden Spirit Pill before leaving.'

  'Sigh, being a 7th-tier alchemist… who knows how long that will take. I just hope I make it in time.'