What kind of being was Xie Suyao?
Noble, free, and extremely willful!
Those were the three words that could best describe her nature.
When Huang Zihan first encountered Bai Fanxian, he felt she was somewhat similar to Xie Suyao in some aspects. They both disliked being forced, were easily annoyed, and liked doing as they pleased.
But Grandmaster Bai seemed much more calm and peaceful.
The name Xie Suyao and "Red Widow Queen" became famous about ten years ago, when she had just emerged from cultivation and was harassed by a young master from a northern clan. That night, everyone in that young master's clan was struck by an incurable poison—muscle pain, dizziness, and nonstop vomiting for two days and nights until they had to rush to apologize at her doorstep.
Even one of the military's Grandmasters had to personally come out to talk with her.
And that's when they discovered the truth that Xie Suyao was also a Grandmaster!
That day, people witnessed the debut of a new Grandmaster.
That made the northern Xie Clan immediately known. But Xie Suyao positioned herself as free and without heirs. She gave the Xie Clan head position to her younger brother to handle cultivators wanting to join the Xie Clan instead. As for herself, she traveled and adventured throughout the entire country.
But even Uncle Huang didn't think Xie Suyao would appear at Village Beneath the Clouds at a time like this!
Because normally she didn't get along very well with the Alchemists' Association.
Poison and medicine were naturally opposites. Though not to the point of hatred requiring killing, the feeling of antagonism made both sides uncomfortable being near each other.
"Are you 'Goddess's Smile'?"
Xie Suyao narrowed her eyes while staring at Bai Fanxian's face. The face, figure, and external demeanor of the woman before her could be considered perfect.
So perfect that for a brief moment even she admitted she couldn't compete!
"..."
"...No."
Bai Fanxian tilted her head in confusion. She was just interested in this automatic beverage machine and had extracted some coins from Tang Tianjie to try pressing it. She didn't expect that when she looked up, a woman would be standing staring at her face intensely.
Besides this, she herself truly didn't know "Goddess's Smile."
"You are! This is definitely you!" Xie Suyao furrowed her brows tightly. She took out her mobile phone, opened it, and held it out in front.
Inside was a photo of Bai Fanxian's face with a beautiful smile gracing her lips—a photo taken this afternoon when she had just arrived at the village.
"Mm... that is indeed I."
Xie Suyao felt like the woman before her was somehow getting on her nerves. But Uncle Huang was surprised, because the extremely fearsome Red Widow Queen didn't seem as scary as the rumors.
When more and more people gathered to watch, naturally some recognized her. The Red Widow Queen's name was extremely famous, especially during these four years when people brought her face to rank in the martial world's Goddess Rankings.
When there were many people, there were many matters. Some just whispered, but there were some whose mouths were too quick when seeing Bai Fanxian's face.
"...Isn't that 'Goddess's Smile'?"
"Yeah. Look at this photo. No mistake. Definitely her."
"What's she doing here?"
"I think the Red Widow Queen must be jealous of her beauty."
Who said it wasn't known, but Xie Suyao, hearing it, furrowed her brows tightly.
Her qi power exploded from her body almost the instant her emotions fluctuated. The onlookers could feel pressure that made their faces pale. For the weak ones, they even collapsed foaming at the mouth, with purple bruise marks appearing in spots on their bodies.
They were fully poisoned!
Xie Suyao herself seemed to realize. She quickly calmed her emotions down slightly, making that fluctuating qi power return to her body. Her eyes were filled with a small sense of guilt.
But Bai Fanxian looked at Xie Suyao's demeanor with surprise.
This young woman seemed not to want to harm unrelated people?
Bai Fanxian's Heaven Sense swept once and covered all of Xie Suyao's body without her realizing. And she immediately understood the cause of the problem.
This woman's body and techniques were rather special.
She was born with a "Poison Absorption Body."
Poison Absorption Body was the name for a body with the ability to absorb deadly poisons into itself. Besides not harming the body, it even promoted development of the body in all aspects. When combined with the poison qi technique she practiced, Xie Suyao's body was constantly nourished by deadly poisons.
That also resulted in her body not aging, even though she was already over half a century old.
But there were still side effects. Her body could be easily stimulated by emotions and feelings. Just her feeling angry or displeased, the qi power full of poison from her body would immediately spread around her.
Xie Suyao took a deep breath.
Part of why she traveled everywhere was because of this reason.
Because its symptoms kept getting more severe over time, until these past few years she was almost driven mad by it.
That made people always afraid and not dare approach her. She was unintentionally misunderstood as a dangerous being. Like just now—just her feeling displeased and the qi power in her body surged out from her body.
In reality, Xie Suyao wasn't as scary and selfish as others thought. She was just a bit hot-tempered. But with her power that couldn't be controlled, it resulted in her often accidentally hurting others without realizing.
And her meeting Goddess's Smile today was merely coincidence. She traveled to this village to wait for the day the Divine Doctor emerged from cultivation like everyone else.
She wanted him to help cure her. She thought her body definitely had abnormalities.
And her staring at Bai Fanxian's face and asking to confirm her identity was just because she was happy to see someone who might enter this year's Goddess Rankings.
But people always misunderstood her!
Sometimes Xie Suyao wanted to cry out loud. Because those untrue rumors made her never have even one friend she could talk intimately with.
Xie Suyao bit her lip. She thought today she'd have to stay somewhere else. The young woman turned and prepared to leave. The watching audience immediately shifted to open a path for her to walk conveniently.
"...Wait."
But at that moment, Bai Fanxian called out first. It was a voice imbued with qi power and sent directly to Xie Suyao. Only she could hear and sense it.
The Red Widow Queen turned to look in confusion.
"Your power seems about to explode, doesn't it?"
Bai Fanxian's next words made Xie Suyao's eyes widen. Her brief shock made the qi power in her body burst out until the gathered crowd scattered in a circle.
The young woman quickly gathered her wits and controlled her power again. She looked at Bai Fanxian with disbelieving eyes. Her voice transmitted through qi power to Bai Fanxian as well.
"How do you know?"
"Whether I know isn't important..." Bai Fanxian paused.
"...But your body should be able to endure no more than three days. Your Poison Absorption Body has probably reached its limit. It can't handle your poison qi that increases every day."
"Poison... Absorption Body?" Xie Suyao murmured the name she'd never heard before in surprise. She herself more or less knew her body was stranger than ordinary people, because her technique didn't have the effect of slowing aging, yet she still looked like her early twenties no matter how many decades passed.
"If it explodes... this valley will definitely become hell on earth. Living things probably won't be able to live around here for a hundred years." Bai Fanxian spoke of serious matters with a calm expression.
Xie Suyao was stunned. She didn't want something like that to happen. Though she liked doing as she pleased, the truth was the number of people she'd killed in this life was extremely few, and they all deserved to die.
Her poisons mostly caused muscle pain, nausea, dizziness, but not death.
Thinking that if it truly exploded, over ten thousand people here would die because of her—it couldn't help but make her body feel cold and tremble.
"...You know how to fix it, don't you?"
Xie Suyao asked warily. She and the woman before her had never met, but her ability to correctly state her symptoms confirmed that at minimum she must have a certain level of knowledge.
"Not just know... I can solve your problem too."
Bai Fanxian looked at Xie Suyao consideringly. Though practicing techniques with deadly poisons, this person's killing qi wasn't severe. That meant this person wasn't bad.
Besides this, "Poison Absorption Body" was also a body type she was extremely familiar with from the era ten thousand years ago.
She had solved this problem once before, and that time was many times more severe than this time, because back then, by the time she realized, it had almost "exploded" right in front of her.
"Then please... can you cure me?"
Xie Suyao begged Bai Fanxian with hope. She was truly out of options. At first she thought she'd rely on the Divine Doctor, but she feared she couldn't wait until then.
"...Release your power."
Bai Fanxian nodded in acceptance easily. Hearing this, Xie Suyao hesitated. She looked at the people around who would definitely be hit by stray shots if her qi power exploded.
"Trust me."
Having finished speaking, Xie Suyao felt as if between herself and the people outside there was something powerful blocking. She turned to look at Bai Fanxian with awe.
"...Yes."
Boom!
In a blink, tremendous qi power burst from Xie Suyao's body like a flood. Nearby onlookers were all shocked and quickly backed far away fearing stray shots. Once they felt safe, they sighed with relief.
Without anyone realizing that such violent qi power hadn't harmed them even slightly.
But even if it didn't harm them, the sublime pressure of a Grandmaster level being could still make them tremble. Even though some were Martial Master level beings, they still looked with awe at power they could only dream of achieving.
When they came to, they found only the young woman called Goddess's Smile standing opposite Xie Suyao.
As if they were about to clash face to face!
The rumors therefore spread like wildfire. In just minutes, people in Kienga Cloud City knew that the Red Widow Queen was about to clash with Goddess's Smile!
No one knew the true reason! Because they talked through qi power. The news that spread was that Xie Suyao was displeased with beauty greater than hers. If she heard, she'd definitely want to cry again.
Because it wasn't that at all!
Miss Goddess's Smile was the one who told me to do it!