149: My Destiny Medicine Furnace

Crossing the Void Realm between the Eastern Profound Domain and the Central Divine Continent requires not only massive amounts of Spirit Stones but also a behemoth capable of withstanding the chaotic spatial currents.

The Void Ark, Dawn.

This giant merchant vessel, capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people, was currently floating silently at the Void ferry. The hull was covered in thick basalt armor and inscribed with countless complex wind-repelling formations. Lin Chen, dressed in a green robe, held a snow-white "pet fox" with nine small tails in his arms as he followed the crowded throng onto the deck.

Su Mei had retracted all her Demonic Qi at this moment, curling into a small ball. Her agile, watery eyes, however, darted around restlessly, occasionally rubbing against Lin Chen's chest to find the most comfortable position.

"Master, the women here are so fierce. The way they look at you, it's like they want to swallow you whole." Su Mei's Divine Sense transmission rang in Lin Chen's mind, carrying a thick sense of jealousy.

Lin Chen patted her little head, signaling her to be quiet. At this moment, he was using the Human Emperor Scripture to restrain his aura, making him look like a handsome, wealthy Young Master from a prominent family. In this Upper Realm where the female venerable reigns, such a "peerless male Cultivator" appearing on a cross-domain Flying Boat naturally attracted countless greedy and covetous gazes.

However, when Lin Chen walked into the lower cabin, the scene before him made him frown slightly.

The originally spacious cabin now had an extremely bizarre void. Thousands of Cultivators were huddled on one side of the cabin like they were avoiding a plague god, with some even preferring to sit on the floor rather than go to the other side.

And in the corner on the other side, there was only dead silence.

Within a ten-meter radius, there was not a single person. The wooden floor there exhibited a chilling, withered black color, faintly emitting a sweet yet cold, rotting odor.

At the core of that charred black area, a petite figure crouched, wrapped in a large emerald-green robe. She kept her head down, her large hood covering most of her face, revealing only a mop of slightly withered, yellowish, fine short hair. She looked like a frightened quail, trying her best to minimize her presence.

"Tsk tsk, how unlucky. That 'jinx' from Medicine King Valley is actually on this ship too."

"I heard she was born cursed to kill her whole family. When she was ten, half the herbs in Medicine King Valley were turned into waste by the poisonous Qi on her."

"Whoever touches her dies. Even the big shots at the Mahayana stage don't dare to get within three feet of her. Let's stay away, lest we get infected by the 'calamity'."

The whispers of the passersby sounded harsh, and the green-robed girl's body shrank again, almost burying her head in her knees.

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow, his footsteps not pausing in the slightest. In the stunned gazes of countless people, he walked straight toward that "vacuum zone."

"Hey! That pretty boy, are you crazy? If you want to seek death, find another way!" A burly female Cultivator couldn't help but shout.

Lin Chen ignored her.

He walked up to the green-robed girl and sat down quite naturally.

"You... don't come over..." A voice as thin as a mosquito's buzz, trembling, came from under the hood. Yao Linger raised her head in terror, revealing a palm-sized face. She was born extremely beautiful, yet it carried a sickly pallor, and her eyes were filled with despair and inferiority.

"I am poisonous... I will... I will kill people... Please, go away..."

Yao Linger's eyes turned red with anxiety. She instinctively wanted to retreat, only to find she had already backed into a corner. Due to extreme nervousness, the emerald-green poison mist around her actually began to churn uncontrollably—that was the Calamity Poison Qi capable of rotting the Physical Body of an ordinary Cultivator instantly.

However, a scene that made everyone on the ship drop their jaws occurred.

Those emerald-green poisonous fumes, upon hitting Lin Chen, acted like spring snow meeting the scorching sun, instantly dissipating without a trace.

Lin Chen not only sat firmly but even reached out a large hand and gently patted Yao Linger's dusty hood, his tone as casual as if he were chatting: "It's too crowded over there; it's quieter here. Mind if I squeeze in?"

Yao Linger was stunned.

Since she was born, this was the first time someone had touched her at such close range without wearing any Magic Treasure or any protection. What shocked her even more was that this excessively handsome man not only didn't dissolve into blood, but his eyes were so gentle that she wanted to cry.

"Here, want to eat?"

Lin Chen flipped his hand and took out a Dragon Blood Fruit radiating a rich life force, handing it to Yao Linger's lips.

The onlookers were already petrified. The toxins capable of corroding black iron had actually failed in front of this man?

Yao Linger looked at that large, distinctively jointed, warm, and powerful hand close at hand, and tears finally poured out. She tremblingly reached out her own pale little hand, trying to take the fruit. The moment her fingertips touched Lin Chen's palm, she felt that unprecedented, overwhelming, masculine warmth.

Ding! Detected Top-tier Physique: Calamity Poison Body! System Notification: The host possesses the Human Emperor Sacred Body, which is immune to all poisons. If you engage in "in-depth exchange" with the owner of this Physique, you can convert the toxins into pure cultivation, helping her control the Poison Core!

Yao Linger huddled in the corner, clutching the spiritual fruit Lin Chen gave her tightly. She couldn't even bear to eat it, just staring blankly at Lin Chen's profile, which was so close. Having lived for a long time in the shadow of being shunned and feared, every action of Lin Chen's at this moment felt like a miracle to her.

"That... aren't you afraid of me?" Yao Linger asked in a small voice, her tone carrying a trace of expectation, but more of a fear of being abandoned.

Lin Chen turned his head, looking at this girl known to the outside world as a "jinx" but who was actually a supreme poison Cultivator in the making, and suddenly smiled wickedly, reaching out to pinch her sharp little chin.

"Afraid of you? The woman who can make me, Lin Chen, afraid hasn't been born yet. As for you, little poisonous thing, since you let me sit here, you are my person from now on. Understand?"

Domineering and unquestionable.

Yao Linger's heart skipped a beat. This feeling of being forcibly possessed by a strong person was, for a marginalized person who had never been loved, a fatal poison, a hundred times more potent than the Calamity Poison Qi within her.

"Yes... Master." She responded in an extremely small voice, blushing.

At nightfall, the Ark entered the deepest part of the Void, with only the faint glow emitted by the Restrictions surrounding them.

As the voyage stabilized, the lights in the cabin gradually dimmed. Lin Chen could feel the aura of the girl beside him becoming increasingly chaotic. Because the Calamity Poison Body within Yao Linger had been suppressed for too long, it was now frantically backlashing in this confined space.

She curled up in pain, her delicate body trembling violently, fine sweat soaking through the thick green robe.

"Uh... Master... leave quickly... the Poison Core is about to explode..."

Yao Linger moaned in a low voice. Strange emerald-purple patterns emerged on her originally fair skin, and the robe began to turn into dust under the erosion of the poison, revealing the fragile yet astonishingly beautiful curves of the girl underneath, like white porcelain.

Lin Chen snorted coldly, waving his large hand, and a golden barrier completely sealed the ten-meter radius, making it impossible for the outside world to detect the movements inside.

He pulled Yao Linger, who was almost turning into a furnace and then as cold as black ice, into his arms.

"Since you are suffering, leave it to me."

Lin Chen did not hesitate, directly tearing apart the tattered green robe.

The moonlight was faint, but enough for Lin Chen to clearly see this peerless beauty that had been hidden for so long. Unlike Su Mei's flirtatiousness and Liu Ruyan's voluptuousness, Yao Linger's body possessed an extreme slenderness and a morbid sense of beauty. Every inch of her skin emitted a cold, faint fragrance—that was the "Sacred Scent of Poison" condensed from ten thousand toxins.

Her pair of slender legs kicked helplessly in pain, only to be domineeringly pressed into his arms by Lin Chen.

"Master... don't look... it will dirty your eyes..." Yao Linger murmured in a daze.

Lin Chen lowered his head, sealing those red lips that exhaled like orchids.

Yin and Yang Great Bandit: Poison Conversion Mode activated!

At that moment, Lin Chen felt as if he were not touching flesh and blood, but a lump of extremely cold gunpowder that could detonate at any time. But his Human Emperor Sacred Body instantly exerted its power, and that boiling Yang Qi rushed into Yao Linger's nearly shattered Meridians like an angry dragon.

"Ah—!"

Yao Linger let out a high-pitched, hoarse moan. Her whole body was struck by lightning; her delicate frame stiffened violently, then collapsed limply into Lin Chen's arms.

That was the taste of redemption.

Lin Chen guided those toxins, which were enough to poison a Mahayana stage expert to death, to flow frantically at the point where their bodies connected. Yao Linger had never imagined that the pain that had tormented her for over a decade would, under the man's conquest, turn into an extreme pleasure that made her very Soul tremble.

Her eyes, which had been somewhat unfocused due to the poison, finally regained clarity, even tinged with a layer of confused lust. She actively climbed onto Lin Chen's neck, her pair of breasts—still somewhat immature yet firm like jade—constantly rubbing and changing shape against Lin Chen's broad chest.

"Master... Linger... Linger is yours... Please... fill me... completely..."

In this quiet and dark corner, inside the Ark where thousands of Cultivators were completely unaware, a fusion of life regarding "poison" and "fire" was playing out crazily.

The toxins were dissipating, and the cultivation was skyrocketing.

Lin Chen could feel his Peak Bottleneck of the Dao Integration stage, under the impact of this pure poison essence, faintly moving toward the Mahayana stage! And Yao Linger, in this conquest of spring breeze and rain, truly controlled her own life for the first time.

On the eve of dawn, Yao Linger snuggled into Lin Chen's arms like a cat, her originally pale, pretty face flushed until it was almost dripping blood. She looked at Lin Chen, her eyes no longer holding any desire for death, only an unmelting, thick affection and submission.

"Master, from now on... Linger is your life-bound medicine cauldron."

Lin Chen held this reborn delicate body, looking at the outline of the Central Divine Continent that was already faintly visible in the distance, his eyes growing deeper.

New map, new prey, I, Lin Chen, have arrived.