Chapter 1855: Chapter 1855: Soaring from Zero

Xiao Yi has never been one to embrace despair.

These days, he has been in despair because he truly couldn’t think of any solution.

Yet today, he suddenly thought of these two people in his life, and abruptly found clarity.

Simultaneously, he also thought of a solution.

No, in fact, he had thought of a solution long ago; he just wasn’t certain.

At this moment, he was certain.

He emerged from despair with an air more confident than ever before.

His cultivation was gone, his body broken, yet Xiao Yi was still Xiao Yi.

His internal organs, limbs, bones, and muscles were all entangled with potent poison, extremely painful.

But his blood remained hot.

The hot blood continued to surge within him.

He didn’t feel cold because this hot blood kept him warm. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

He didn’t feel the searing heat because this hot blood burned hotter than the blazing sun.

This fervor was for nothing else.

It was once for the longing for the wondrous central region and the unyielding pursuit of the martial arts path.

More importantly, it was to find that person in the central region, to find a way to save that old man.

For martial artists, despair is the most terrifying thing.

Yet for Xiao Yi, despair was a joke.

Unless he died.

However, he was still alive.

Even if it’s just this battered body for now.

Xiao Yi’s eyes, like decaying flesh, focused intently.

His body, which had casually slumped to the ground, trembled and slowly returned to a cross-legged position.

His mind was pondering the contents of the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book.

He had read the entire Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book countless times.

Even if he couldn’t take out the contents from the Universe Ring now, couldn’t take out this book, he had already memorized its contents by heart.

Once upon a time, Xiao Yi thought the person who created this Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book was a madman.

Now, with his cultivation gone and his body shattered, he couldn’t even cultivate normally.

But the thing this madman created gave him a glimmer of hope.

Because this Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book itself overturned the entire cultivation system.

Previously, Xiao Yi had no intention of cultivating this thing.

But now, he could only give it a try.

With his cultivation gone, he had nothing left to lose, and naturally, he had no worries.

At worst, he would lose his life.

Of course, Xiao Yi was confident that would not happen.

Following the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book’s instructions, Xiao Yi began cultivating.

"Cultivate the body with poison, temper the body with poison, nourish the internal organs with poison, imbue the limbs and bones, permeate the entire body."

This method was something a martial artist would almost never dare to attempt.

Even a master of poison wouldn’t dare to ’play’ like this.

But the current condition within Xiao Yi’s body was exactly as described in the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book.

His body was now full of poison.

The poison seemed to have become one with his entire body.

Thus, there was no way to remove it, no matter how skillful the alchemist’s methods, it couldn’t be done.

Unless every part tainted by the poison was completely replaced.

Of course, that’s completely impossible, hence his previous despair.

Now, since it couldn’t be removed, there was no need to waste it; use it all for his own cultivation.

Xiao Yi sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, meditating.

The aura around him gradually shifted from weak to steady, then began to surge, becoming robust and eventually exploding.

This explosive aura was not Xiao Yi’s own, but rather the breakthrough aura of martial arts cultivation.

Indeed, Xiao Yi’s martial arts cultivation was breaking through from zero.

The Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book was indeed a cultivation technique.

The intense poisons within him could instantly collapse even his peak of supreme physical strength, indicating the immense power contained within.

With the technique in place and the ’cultivation items’ available, with Xiao Yi’s talent, cultivation naturally wouldn’t be an issue.

Even though his cultivation was gone and all the complete martial arts had dissipated, he had walked the path of cultivation step by step before.

So he had no martial arts bottleneck whatsoever.

The original zero cultivation began to surge continuously.

Mortal Realm, Postnatal, Innate, Mysterious Profundity...

The surging aura paused abruptly here.

Xiao Yi glanced introspectively at his body, where a ’small world’ appeared conspicuously.

The small world, something a Martial Artist Cave Profound Realm can begin to possess, marked the time when martial artists gained the ability to soar in the sky and burrow in the earth.

This ’small world’ appeared right next to his normal yet shriveled martial arts small world.

However, unlike a normal martial arts small world, this ’small world’ was entirely pitch black.

Furthermore, while the martial arts small world contained primordial power, this ’small world’ housed horrifying poison.

It was less a small world and more a ’poison realm’.

Xiao Yi merely paused for a moment, before resuming his cultivation, as his aura surged once again.

Mysterious Profundity, Mystic Breakthrough, Earth Origin...

Upon reaching Earth Origin Realm, the aura once more paused.

This was because a poison pill was forming inside again.

Xiao Yi still recalled, when he ascended to the Earth Origin Realm back then, he developed an Earth Element Golden Core.

Now, what was developing was a poison pill.

This poison pill was identical to the one he had previously self-destructed.

Back then, this poison pill was formed by Xiao Yi at the Black Poison Villa, using the power of Black Poison Pond Water to cultivate the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book.

However, at that time, he was at the Saint Realm, naturally bypassing all the previous realms to directly form the poison pill.

Now, starting from zero, it wasn’t until reaching ’Earth Origin Realm’ that the poison pill formed.

Then, the aura surged once more.

Earth Origin, Heavenly Element, Earth Extreme...

Cultivation paused once again.

A trace of Heaven and Earth Martial Arts Power began to be controlled.

However, he only controlled the Poison Dao, stored within the ’poison realm’.

Subsequently came Heavenly Extreme, Saint Realm, Saint King Realm.

As Xiao Yi cultivated, he introspected the special ’small world’ within him, which was the ’poison realm’.

A complete martial arts emerged gradually within the poison realm and became under his control.

One complete Poison Dao after another descended between heaven and earth.

From one complete poison attribute martial arts at Heavenly Extreme, to ten at Saint Realm, to a hundred at Saint King Realm.

The cultivation of the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book was actually consistent with normal martial artists’ cultivation.

Its step-by-step cultivation and each realm were the same as normal cultivation realms.

Yet, the greatest difference was the poison.

Currently, there was not a trace of primordial power in Xiao Yi’s body.

For martial artists, primordial power is the source of strength, and without it, a martial artist’s combat power is extremely weak.

For the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book, the source of power was not primordial, but poison power.

Yes, Xiao Yi’s current body was filled with poison power.

The power transformed from the strands of potent poison filled the entire small world.

The reason the Ten Thousand Poison Treasure Book was said to overturn the entire system was because the cultivation achieved did not have any trace of primordial power.

Poison power permeated through all martial artist realms.

The Mysterious Profundity small world turned into a Mysterious Profundity ’poison realm’.

The Earth Element Golden Core turned into the Earth Origin Poison Pill.

The first complete martial arts at Heavenly Extreme became the first Poison Dao.

Moreover, within the poison realm, no other martial arts could exist, only Poison Dao.

Another major difference during cultivation was that the poison power, aside from traversing the cultivation realms, also tempered the body.

Simply put, the body was cultivated with poison.

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