12: Evil poison body form

“My idea is to proactively awaken the Calamity Poison Body, and then while Cultivating, search for a method to control it.”

“To live in fear, waiting for the Calamity Poison Body to finally erupt, or to proactively unleash the Calamity Poison Body and fight to the death—the choice is entirely in your hands!”

As Xiao Lei’s words fell, a voice appeared out of thin air in his mind.

“Replication successful.”

“Target: A moderately famous physician”

“Cultivation: Eight-segment Dou Qi”

“Cultivation Technique: None”

“Dou Technique: ...”

...“Physique: Calamity Poison Body (unawakened)”

“Replicate Physique.”

“Replication successful. Detecting a conflict between the host’s attributes and the Calamity Poison Body. Automatic repair initiated, retaining the Calamity Poison Body’s ability to Cultivate by consuming poison. The Calamity Poison Body will be transformed into a special Dou Technique for the host. When activated, it can transform into the Calamity Poison Body form. During the activation of the Dou Technique, the Dou Qi attribute will transform into poison, and the host will suffer the pain of poison Qi devouring the body...”

“To turn the Calamity Poison Body into a Dou Technique, changing forms when activated, that’s quite interesting!”

“Then, System, will my Calamity Poison Body erupt?”

“The host’s poison Qi is essentially a transformation of the host’s fire-attribute Dou Qi. As long as the host’s Dou Qi is not unstable, the poison body will not erupt.”

“Then doesn’t that mean it won’t erupt!”

Xiao Lei smiled. Others’ Cultivation, achieved by consuming Medicinal Pills, was unstable, but his Cultivation, replicated by the System, was exceptionally solid!

While Xiao Lei was still ecstatic about his poison body form, Xiao Yi Xian was plunged into an endless dilemma.

“There’s no need to make a decision on such an important matter right away. I will return in a few days. At that time, if you choose to Cultivate the Calamity Poison Body, I will give you a gift.”

Xiao Lei finished speaking and got up to leave. Like Yao Chen, he wouldn’t make the choice for Xiao Yi Xian, but he would provide guidance. After all, Xiao Yi Xian proactively Awakening the Calamity Poison Body was more in line with his interests.

Xiao Lei arrived at the entrance and saw that there was still a long queue, and even those who had left earlier had returned.

Xiao Lei paid no mind, and to the fiery gazes of the crowd, he whistled and strolled away leisurely, looking utterly pleased.

Soon, just as everyone expected Xiao Yi Xian to return quickly to continue seeing patients, Xiao Yi Xian’s assistant came out instead.

“Xiao Yi Xian is not feeling well. Everyone, please come back tomorrow!”

“Not feeling well! Not feeling well? Wasn’t she fine just now?”

The crowd was clearly unable to accept such a reason.

“Xiao Yi Xian was fine just now, how could she suddenly feel unwell after that Xiao Lei went in!”

“That Xiao Lei looked very pleased just now...”

“Oh no! My goddess—!” a mercenary cried, clutching his head in disbelief, tears streaming down his face.

“This beast! Can being handsome allow him to do whatever he wants! Can being an Alchemist allow him to do whatever he wants!”

Sorry, if Xiao Lei wanted to, with his Cultivation as a Great Dou Master, he really could do whatever he wanted in Qingshan Town.

“Beat him up! We must beat him up!” the mercenaries angrily whispered to each other.

“But that kid is an Alchemist!”

“Let’s go, we’ll go to the Wolf Head Mercenary Group and tell Mu Li about this! Let Mu Li figure out a way to deal with him.”

Among three people, there must be one who is resourceful!

Of course, Xiao Lei knew nothing of this; he was already preparing to enter the mountains!

“The cliff, the Magical Beast Mountain Range’s periphery. The original work didn’t describe the cave much, but based on the strength of the herb-gathering team at the time, it can be inferred that it’s not far from Qingshan Town and not far from the mountain path, otherwise Xiao Yi Xian, with her low Cultivation, wouldn’t have been able to reach it.”

With these characteristics, Xiao Lei systematically searched, occasionally hunting Demonic Beasts for combat training.

It wasn’t until dark, after visiting several cliffs, that Xiao Lei finally arrived at the correct location.

“It should be here!”

Xiao Lei stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down at a certain protrusion from the cliff face below.

Xiao Lei’s Soul Strength was now at the level of a Second-Grade Alchemist, barely allowing him to detect the cave hidden beneath the dense vegetation.

“No rock snakes! Otherwise, I’d have to find a few strong men to make it understand...”

After muttering, Xiao Lei no longer hesitated. He squatted down, placed a palm on the cliff face, and then jumped down the cliff without hesitation.

Activating Suction Palm, his palm pressed against the cliff face, and he descended rapidly.

By controlling the output of Dou Qi, Xiao Lei could control his descent speed.

Landing steadily, he quickly approached the stone door. Xiao Lei raised his hand and unleashed an Octane Blast.

Boom!

A low impact sound echoed, and the stone door collapsed with a crash.

Xiao Lei held up a torch and walked inside. Passing through a long corridor, Xiao Lei arrived in a stone chamber.

Xiao Lei looked around and found that the surroundings were piled with gold coins, roughly estimated to be hundreds of thousands, which should be enough for Xiao Lei to spend for a long time.

Besides this, there were many medicinal herbs, planted to the side.

“Hoh, there are even medicinal herbs that don’t require photosynthesis, how magical!”

Xiao Lei secretly sighed, an otherworldly realm truly is an otherworldly realm!

Xiao Lei wasted no words, coming before the skeleton of the tomb owner and pulling out both the key and the incomplete map.

Turning around, he approached the stone box, opened it, and took out the Wings of the Eagle, the Seven-Colored Poison Sutra, and the Roaring Lion’s Roar.

After doing all this, Xiao Lei then turned to carefully pick all the medicinal herbs one by one according to the method in his mind.

Xiao Lei had replicated Gu Ni’s Alchemy, and thus obtained all of the latter’s knowledge related to Alchemy, which naturally included how to harvest medicinal herbs.

It must be said that although Gu Ni’s Alchemy ability was not strong, having lived for so many years, he had extensive knowledge related to Alchemy.

This was also the condition that supported him as an appraiser for the Mittel Auction House.

Although these medicinal herbs were not particularly precious, they were better than nothing. Among them was also an ice spirit flame grass, which could be used to refine the Blood Lotus Pill.

Of course, Xiao Lei wouldn’t use this Medicinal Pill, because he wouldn’t personally devour an abnormal flame and gamble with his life.

This matter should be done by others; Xiao Lei would just take the ready-made benefits, directly replicating and stealing them!

Xiao Lei didn’t want to suffer any more hardships!

Putting all the gold coins piled around into his storage ring, Xiao Lei left the cave in a joyful mood.

While Xiao Lei was content and satisfied here, a certain clown in Qingshan Town was so angry he was almost going crazy.

“Xiao Lei—!”

Mu Li listened to the mercenary’s words, suddenly gripping tighter, the teacup he held barely able to bear the strain.

“Xiao Yi Xian! Hmph! This ungrateful fellow, how could she not know my intentions for her!”

“We’ve known each other for so long, and she ignores me, but now some pretty boy comes along and she rushes to throw herself at him!”

“Someone, go, keep an eye on that kid. As soon as he appears in Qingshan Town, report it to me immediately. I want to personally cripple this kid, and then throw this dead dog in front of Xiao Yi Xian!”

Mu Li’s face was twisted in a ferocious, gnashing grimace. If Xiao Lei had seen him, he would probably have pointed at his nose and asked him:

Are you catching a cold? Why is your nose so red?