Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 50 Calamity

Xiao Bai arrived at the bluestone platform and randomly selected a key to insert into the lock of the first box, but he felt resistance halfway through.

"Looks like it's not this one!" Xiao Bai took out another one and inserted it, this time it went in without any resistance.

If this round doesn't work either, Xiao Bai will really start to doubt his luck.

With a gentle turn of the key, a "click" sound came from inside the box, suddenly echoing throughout the stone chamber.

Xiao Bai simply opened the box. As for any danger, he had already used his soul power to investigate and found no traps or poisons inside.

Inside the open stone box, a colorful scroll lay quietly.

Looking at the colorful scroll, Xiao Bai knew that this must be the famous "Seven-Colored Poison Scripture".

Xiao Bai picked up the scroll from the box, examined it in his hand, and looked at the few small characters on the side of the scroll. Sure enough, it was the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

Upon opening it, one finds records of how to prepare various poisons, as well as detailed explanations of their toxicity.

Moreover, the poisons were actually classified into grades like elixirs, with the highest-grade poison recorded as being a sixth-grade poison, which could even threaten a Dou Zong.

In the Dou Qi Continent, there is a profession that specializes in poisons—the Poison Master. It originally evolved from the profession of physician. Most of them are people who cannot become alchemists but are very interested in pharmacology and medicinal properties.

They started out healing the sick and saving lives, but in this world where the strong are respected, whether out of self-preservation or greed, they began to use the toxicity of medicines to try to develop poison formulas, which eventually led to this special profession.

The Izumo Empire to the north of the Gama Empire is a paradise for poison masters, who are rarely seen elsewhere.

Poison masters are a highly despised profession in the Dou Qi Continent, standing at the opposite extreme from alchemists—one is respected, the other is universally hated.

"Xiao Bai, you're not interested in poison masters, are you?" As Xiao Bai was in a daze, Yao Lao saw him looking at the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture with great interest and hurriedly spoke up.

This kid's talent for alchemy is unmatched; we can't let such a promising talent go astray.

In Yao Lao's view, alchemists are a thousand times, ten thousand times more noble than poison masters, and the two cannot even be compared; poison masters are not worthy of comparison.

If alchemy is a broad, smooth road, then poison mastery isn't even a narrow, winding path.

"Your talent for alchemy is unparalleled in my life. Don't be greedy for short-term gains and go learn some kind of poison master. There's no future in that!" The old alchemist continued to persuade him when he didn't speak.

"Don't worry, senior, I won't delve into this. I'm just curious and want to take a look!" Xiao Bai replied gently, a warm glint in his eyes.

"That's good!" The old apothecary breathed a sigh of relief. If Xiao Bai really inherited his alchemy skills in the future, he would be considered half of his successor. If this kid was determined to become a poison master, the old apothecary would really feel sorry for him.

Xiao Bai gradually unrolled the scroll completely, and sure enough, at the end, there was a record of the "Calamity Poison Body".

"The Calamity Poison Body is a very peculiar physique on the Dou Qi Continent. This physique requires almost no cultivation; it can be converted into poisonous Dou Qi simply by constantly consuming poison, thus rapidly increasing its strength."

Identification method: Those born with the Calamity Poison Body have a thin, seven-colored line on their lower abdomen. This line grows as the poisonous fighting energy within the body increases. When the seven-colored line extends to the heart, the Calamity Poison Body is at its strongest, but at the same time, it will suffer the excruciating pain of being devoured by countless poisons!

"Senior, is the Calamity Poison Body mentioned here really that miraculous, allowing one to rapidly increase their strength without cultivation?" Xiao Bai asked Yao Lao, feigning ignorance.

Why did he open this scroll? He was only a little curious, but more importantly, he wanted to use this opportunity to get Yao Lao to reveal that he had the method to make poison pills.

In this way, it won't seem abrupt to ask the old medicine master for the method of trading poison pills at any time in the future.

"Heh~ Amazing? Xiao Bai, you should know that nothing in this world comes without effort. This kind of rapid increase in strength will eventually come at a heavy price!"

The old apothecary first gave a cold laugh, then continued in a somewhat low voice:

"While the Calamity Poison Body can rapidly enhance its strength with poison, poison is still poison. Although this constitution can initially prevent backlash, when the amount of poison in the body increases to the point that the constitution can no longer suppress it, that will be their most painful time, a slow death amidst the agony of countless poisons devouring their bodies!"

"Is there really no solution?" Xiao Bai asked curiously.

"Yes! If you discover you have a 'Calamity Poison Body' and never touch poison for the rest of your life, your constitution will never activate!"

"What if the physique is unlocked? In the long history of the Dou Qi Continent, there must have been some exceptionally talented people who would have found a solution, right?"

"Someone solved this before!" the old apothecary said after a moment of silence.

Xiao Bai nodded and didn't ask any further questions. This was enough; he could just have an excuse to ask the old man for medicine later.

Just then, a small head appeared beside him, peeking curiously at the scroll of "Seven-Colored Poison Scripture" in his hand.

Seeing Xiao Bai looking at her, Little Fairy Doctor quickly withdrew her head, puffed out her chest, and showed Xiao Bai the jade box in her arms, saying in a sweet voice:

"Look, I've dug up all the medicinal herbs and packed them up; they're all here!"

She looked quite adorable as she held more than a dozen jade boxes in her arms, which were almost up to her chin.

However, Xiao Bai was a little speechless. This girl seemed to really like these herbs. She could have just left them there, but she picked them all up and hugged them.

After Little Fairy Doctor showed him the jade box, she stared longingly at the scroll in Xiao Bai's hand, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

"Um...do you need that scroll? If not, could you give it to me?" She glanced at Xiao Bai cautiously, shuffling one small toe back and forth on the ground, and whispered.

Then, fearing that Xiao Bai might misunderstand her as greedy, she mustered her courage, raised her head, waved her small hand at Xiao Bai, and hurriedly said:

"Don't misunderstand! I don't want everything. It's just that because of my genetics, I can't become an alchemist, so I can only rely on these things!"

After speaking, Little Fairy Doctor's eyes dimmed a little. She was just a weak woman with no talent for cultivation. After so many years of cultivation, she was only at the ninth level of Dou Zhi.

If she could become a respected alchemist, then she wouldn't have to worry about safety.

In the first few years in Qingshan Town, things were fine. She was young and hadn't fully grown up, so everyone just treated her like a little girl. Plus, she was kind-hearted and would do her best to treat anyone who came to her for treatment, so she was highly respected by everyone.

But as she grew older over the past two years, she became more and more beautiful, and some people began to look at her strangely. Although the prestige of Qingshan Town could temporarily protect her, who knew if someone would take the risk?

So she wanted some means of self-protection, and this was the only way she could do it: become a hated poisoner. This made the kind-hearted girl feel a little sad for a while.

Xiao Bai looked at Little Fairy Doctor and nodded.

(End of this chapter)