"A born calamity…"
At the Rock Desert City, in the Manly Steel Mercenary's compound, Qing Lin tightened her grip on the broom in her hand.
Compared to Little Fairy Doctor, she suddenly felt that her own misfortunes weren't so bad.
She had only suffered scornful looks from those around her and had always been assigned the heaviest, most tiring chores. Since joining the Manly Steel Mercenary, no one dared bully her openly due to the leader's instructions. She was ostracized in private, but at least she had food, drink, and a place to stay.
But the Woeful Poison Body was destined to have no familial love, no friendship, and no romance.
They would lose themselves and ultimately die in agony, dragging countless others down with them.
Thinking of this, Qing Lin raised her hand and slapped her own cheek forcefully.
She felt that she had no right to wallow in self-pity.
If she wasn't mistaken, the "Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils" that Young Master Xiao Ting had mentioned in the Journal should be her innate talent.
Although she still didn't know the exact details, considering what Xiao Ting had written and the context, it was undoubtedly a top-tier talent that would make so-called Central Plains geniuses pale in comparison.
"If I possess the Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils, I definitely won't be a useless person in the future." Qing Lin analyzed calmly. "Young Master Xiao Ting said he wanted to meet me. Once that happens, my life should become extraordinary, right?"
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Xiao Ting remained oblivious to all the girls' reactions and continued writing in his Journal.
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[Little Fairy Doctor, the current generation's possessor of the Woeful Poison Body, has indeed had a bitter life.]
[When she was three, she followed her mother to a small village that survived by gathering herbs. A few years later, she accidentally ingested a poison and partially awakened the Woeful Poison Body. The poison gas she unconsciously emitted killed everyone in the village.]
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"Sister Little Fairy Doctor is so pitiful!"
For the first time, Qing Lin truly understood the phrase "happiness is revealed by comparison."
At least she hadn't killed her mother or the villagers who'd treated her kindly.
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Medusa, Yun Yun, Cao Ying, Feng Qing Er, and the others: The Woeful Poison Body really is a calamity.
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Xun Er looked at Little Fairy Doctor's bloodless face and felt a twinge of heartache. "Brother Xiao Ting didn't have to write it so vividly."
"He doesn't know that someone else can see it—and that this 'someone else' includes me." Little Fairy Doctor smiled gently, though the taste in her mouth was bitter.
But in the next moment, she felt her heart rate speed up again.
[Little Fairy Doctor doesn't realize she has awakened the Woeful Poison Body, but she's clever enough to suspect that her mother and the villagers' deaths are related to her. In order to ensure no one else dies because of her, she throws herself into studying medicine.]
[She is gentle and kind, using her medical skills to help every ordinary person in need around her, never asking for anything in return.]
[But whenever her constitution arouses suspicions of her being related to Poisons Masters, she is shunned and rejected.]
[She can only change where she lives again and again, drifting with the flow.]
[Even with such experiences, she never loses her inner gentleness and kindness, nor her heart that yearns for the light.]
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"Was all that written in the story?"
Because of her unusual way of living, Little Fairy Doctor had never had true close friends. She had never imagined that someone could understand her so well.
Moreover, she could feel that this was Xiao Ting's own evaluation of her.
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[In truth, Little Fairy Doctor was simply born in the wrong place.]
[The Jia Ma Empire and the Chu Yun Empire are mortal enemies. Chu Yun is a nation teeming with Poison Masters, and the people of Jia Ma are naturally hostile toward Poison Masters. Therefore, whenever Little Fairy Doctor displays anything related to Poison Masters due to the Woeful Poison Body, she is rejected.]
[If she had grown up in Chu Yun Empire, she wouldn't be hated at all. She would be very popular.]
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"This…"
Little Fairy Doctor's small mouth parted in shock, a dazed look in her eyes.
It was a perspective she had never once considered.
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[After she learns she has the Woeful Poison Body, she likely thinks of this point as well, so she goes to Chu Yun Empire to develop there. In five years, she grows from a Dou Practitioner to a four-star Dou Ancestor, establishes the Poison Sect, wipes out all factions within Chu Yun Empire other than the Ten-Thousand Scorpions Gate, and secretly takes control of the imperial clan.]
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All the girls: "!"
How long?!
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"Incredible." Medusa's pupils trembled.
From Dou Practitioner to four-star Dou Ancestor in just five short years.
And she didn't even need to focus on cultivation methods or techniques—just eating poison was enough.
If not for the fact that her path began with calamity and ended in calamity, this constitution would be heaven-defying.
Precisely because it was too heaven-defying, it was like a constitution cursed by heaven, bound tightly with misfortune.
"I'm already a Dou King, and even I don't dare say I can reach Dou Ancestor in five years."
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In a place within the Wind Lightning Mountain Range, Feng Qing Er, having paused her cultivation, clicked her tongue.
Little Fairy Doctor's cultivation speed was downright unreasonable.
Fortunately, it all came with a price. Otherwise she really would have been jealous.
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"What a pity, what a pity."
At the northern border fortress of the Jia Ma Empire, Yun Yun felt a huge sense of regret.
If she had been more decisive and taken Little Fairy Doctor as a disciple earlier, the Misty Cloud Sect would have had a Dou Ancestor in five years.
Even if Little Fairy Doctor's life would have been brief, the benefits she could have brought in that short time were beyond imagination.
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[As she grows stronger, Little Fairy Doctor closes off her heart even further because of the Woeful Poison Body.]
[In the end, she's exploited by the Hall of Souls and made to wage war on her homeland, the Jia Ma Empire.]
[By that time, the Misty Cloud Sect has already dissolved, replaced by the Yan Alliance established by Brother Yan. The two sides clash fiercely.]
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"Dissolved…"
Yun Yun didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Dissolving meant that the Misty Cloud Sect's elders and disciples weren't completely massacred—Xiao Yan hadn't gone to extremes.
But in the end, it was under her leadership that the Misty Cloud Sect became a thing of the past.
She had failed the Sect's ancestors.
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"Looks like my role in the story is on the villain's side." Little Fairy Doctor rubbed her temples, exchanging a glance with Xun Er. "In the end, I don't die at Xiao Yan's hands, do I?"
"By normal story logic, that's how it should go." Xun Er analyzed solemnly. "Otherwise you wouldn't have gotten the evaluation of 'lingering regret.'"
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[The Yan Alliance's Deputy Leader, Queen Medusa, and Little Fairy Doctor nearly end up locked in a fight-to-the-death.]
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"Yan Alliance's Deputy Leader, me?"
Medusa blinked in surprise.
She hadn't expected herself to join a faction created by a human.
"It must be for the Snake-People race to gain better development." Medusa quickly came up with what she felt was a reasonable explanation.
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[During the battle, Brother Yan recognizes Little Fairy Doctor's identity. Remembering their fateful encounter in the past, he reveals the Hall of Souls's schemes to her.]
[In order to seek cooperation, Brother Yan takes out the poison-pill method—a secret art Yao Lao developed to help a possessor of the Woeful Poison Body gain perfect control over their constitution, though it was never successfully put to use.]
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When Xiao Ting wrote this, his original intention was to lament that Yao Lao had specially devised a "poison-pill method" for a possessor of the Woeful Poison Body he had befriended, but in the end it had never been used.
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Little Fairy Doctor, however, misunderstood upon reading this, her body instantly going rigid. "So it really didn't get used in time. I still die in the end."
"I guess my relationship with the male lead is something between enemy and ally. There is a method, but it isn't used on me, so I end up a 'lingering regret'."
The more she thought about it, the more convinced Little Fairy Doctor became that she was right.
Xun Er's slender brows furrowed slightly. She remembered the records she'd had her people gather on the Woeful Poison Body and had a different opinion.
She believed that when Xiao Ting referred to the method "never getting used in time," he meant the original possessor of the Woeful Poison Body Yao Lao had befriended.
If she applied standard story logic, the likely development was: Yao Lao passes the poison-pill method to Xiao Yan; Xiao Yan uses it to help Little Fairy Doctor; and in return, he gains a reliable guard or confidante. That made more sense.
With this in mind, she was about to comfort Little Fairy Doctor.
But after seeing what came next in the update, she firmly shut her mouth.
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[The poison-pill method requires three things: first, a seventh-tier alchemist who masters three different Heavenly Flames; second, the magic core of a seventh-rank Sky Poison Dragon Scorpion Beast; third, Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.]
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Xun Er: Looks like I guessed wrong.
Sister Little Fairy Doctor really did become a "lingering regret" who never used the poison-pill method.
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