94: Chapter 94 Yun Yun: You're testing this sect master with this?

"Sect Leader."

Gu Han stood tall and straight, reminding her in a neither humble nor arrogant tone, "Sect Leader, you're holding your book upside down."

What?!

Yun Yun hurriedly placed the book on the desk and swept her gaze downward.

As it turned out, there was nothing wrong with the orientation of the book at all.

Realizing she had been played, Yun Yun felt a heat flush through her body, and the tips of her ears turned red.

"This fellow is truly too bold."

Before, he just stopped calling himself a disciple in front of her; later, he started using "I" quite openly.

After that, he dared to linger in her secret base to soak in the hot springs, and even hinted at his possessiveness toward her.

Now he was escalating even further, actually starting to tease her.

If he gets even stronger, what will happen then?

"What's the deal with that maid of yours?" Yun Yun adjusted her emotions and asked with feigned severity.

But as soon as she spoke and felt Gu Han's playful gaze, she began to regret it.

As the dignified leader of a sect, instead of caring about her disciple's cultivation progress, she was asking about a maid.

It gave the impression that she cared a lot, as if she were being jealous.

"A Sword-bearing maid isn't someone you can just take in lightly," Yun Yun tried to cover for herself, her cheeks burning. "An Outer Sect Disciple has no right to own a maid. It's only because you revealed your Dou Master cultivation in public and were promoted to an Inner Sect Disciple, otherwise..."

"Rest assured, Sect Leader, I understand all of this." Gu Han looked up directly at Yun Yun with a smile in his eyes.

"Hmm?" Yun Yun was stunned for a moment.

Why did he suddenly start respectfully calling himself "disciple" again?

Gu Han thought to himself that this was called having personality.

When everyone calls themselves a disciple, only I don't.

Once you adapt and find me unique, I'll switch back to normal.

It leaves you at a loss, your heart fluttering, making it impossible to remain calm when facing me.

"You understand?" Yun Yun felt inexplicably irritable. "Then tell me, what special traits does this maid you've taken in have?"

"There are too many to list all at once," Gu Han said after a slight pause. "She has the Calamity Poison Body."

"What?!" Yun Yun's pupils shook as she stood up abruptly in disbelief. "What did you say she has?"

"Calamity Poison Body," Gu Han answered seriously. "I hope that you, Sect Leader, can use some of the sect's resources to help me nurture her."

"Are you crazy!?" Yun Yun's tone was terrifying. "This is the Calamity Poison Body. Are you trying to bring ruin to the entire Cloud Mist Sect by keeping her?"

"Sect Leader, why do you say that?" Gu Han asked back, his expression unchanged.

"Since you can name the Calamity Poison Body, you must have heard about the nature of this constitution. It's..." Yun Yun's tone was solemn, a serious expression appearing on her face. "Why do you think this constitution is dubbed 'Calamity'?"

"Furthermore, those with the Calamity Poison Body are natural Poison Masters. You know that our Jia Ma Empire and the Izumo Empire are mortal enemies. Countless seniors of our Cloud Mist Sect have fallen on the battlefields against the Izumo Empire; we share that enmity."

"Poison Masters are the primary group of cultivators in the Izumo Empire."

Hearing this, Gu Han's expression didn't change as he asked in return, "So, as long as someone is a Poison Master, they belong to the Izumo Empire?"

"Sect Leader, you are a Dou Huang expert. Surely your vision should no longer be limited to a single empire?"

"On the Fighting Qi Continent, there are only evil people, not evil powers."

"So what if she's a Poison Master? So what if she uses poison?"

Yun Yun: "..."

Was she being lectured by Gu Han!?

But before she could retort, Gu Han continued, "Her name is Xiao Yi Xian. She doesn't know her own surname, and she has lived a life of wandering..."

"Before meeting me, she only felt a bit of warmth in Qingshan Town, and even that was because of her status as a physician..."

"She had no choice. If she did, she wouldn't want to be a Poison Master, but a physician who saves lives."

"Possessing the Calamity Poison Body is the true misfortune for her."

"After awakening this constitution, she did indeed plan to leave the Jia Ma Empire and head for the Izumo Empire."

"Sect Leader, tell me, if the Izumo Empire gained another Poison Master with the Calamity Poison Body, would that be good or bad for the Jia Ma Empire?"

Yun Yun was suddenly speechless. If a possessor of the Calamity Poison Body joined the Izumo Empire and grew powerful, it would definitely be a nightmare for the Jia Ma Empire.

As for killing Xiao Yi Xian now to eliminate the so-called risk, she wasn't that cold-blooded.

"Sect Leader, your thinking is too limited."

Gu Han had walked up to Yun Yun at some point. He picked up the teapot she had placed on the desk and poured himself a cup as if he were at home.

"The Jia Ma Empire's enmity is with the Izumo Empire, not with Poison Masters as a whole."

"If the Izumo Empire had many Alchemists, would we then be hostile toward all Alchemists?"

"A Poison Master's methods are eerie, but as an Ice Attribute Dou Qi cultivator, I have plenty of tricky methods myself."

"Think about it the other way around. If our Cloud Mist Sect produces a master of poison, won't we have a greater advantage when facing the Izumo Empire in the future?"

Hearing this, Yun Yun's train of thought was instantly opened up.

Growth for the Calamity Poison Body only requires devouring poison. The primary and most powerful method used by those Poison Masters in the Izumo Empire is poison.

Doesn't that mean that in the future, all the poison methods the Izumo Empire uses against the Jia Ma Empire—or at least against the Cloud Mist Sect—would become resources to help Xiao Yi Xian grow?

If people from the Cloud Mist Sect were poisoned, they could even have Xiao Yi Xian detoxify them.

"Learn the enemy's skills to control the enemy. We use a Poison Master to deal with the Izumo Empire's Poison Masters, and use the Calamity Poison Body to bring calamity to the Izumo Empire. Isn't that better?"

"As for the fact that the Calamity Poison Body will eventually be unable to resist devouring poison and explode, there are far more poisons within the Izumo Empire than in our Jia Ma Empire. If that day truly comes, Xiao Yi Xian can go to the Izumo Empire to explode. Isn't that also better?"

Yun Yun found that Gu Han was very persuasive; she was actually shamefully tempted.

Nurturing an expert who is loyal to the sect, counters Poison Masters, can eventually deal a heavy blow to the Izumo Empire, and can solve various poisons for the Cloud Mist Sect seemed to have nothing but benefits.

"Furthermore, the Calamity Poison Body is not unsolvable." Seeing Yun Yun was tempted, Gu Han took a sip from his teacup and smiled. "The senior who looks favorably upon me comes from the Central Plains' Ice River Valley."

"The Valley Master of the Ice River Valley is a Dou Zun Expert. Not only does he possess Ice Attribute Dou Qi, but he also has an Acquired Calamity Poison Body."

"Acquired Calamity Poison Body?" Yun Yun looked up to meet Gu Han's gaze, her eyes filled with confusion. Clearly, she had never heard of this term.

The Calamity Poison Body's original name was the Innate Poison Body, even called the Innate Poison Master Saint Body. It was only because the outcome was destined to be a tragedy and harm countless people that it was more commonly known as the Calamity Poison Body.

Acquired Calamity Poison Body... could it be that one's constitution is modified after birth to be like the Innate Poison Body?

"That Dou Zun Expert modified his own constitution to be similar to the Calamity Poison Body, allowing him to devour poison to become stronger. Unfortunately, it is still inferior to the innate version in many ways." Gu Han's next words confirmed Yun Yun's suspicion.

"According to that Dou Huang senior from the Ice River Valley, the Ice Venerable has a method to solve the problem of the Calamity Poison Body."

"I don't know if it's true or false, but you, Sect Leader, can use your connections to investigate."

"But it's an opportunity, isn't it?"

Yun Yun: Are you using this to test your Sect Leader?!