Editor: Atlas Studios Returning to her own Bright Moon Garden, Mu Qianyue began her secluded cultivation.
Now that she was a Fifth Rank True Martial Artist, she would need to achieve the strength of a First Rank Spirit Martial Artist to clinch first place in the competition!
Improving by five ranks within two months was difficult, but not impossible.
After cultivating for a night, Mu Qianyue opened her eyes, feeling that the True Essence Power within her body had become a bit more substantial.
Leaving the Heaven-Reaching Tower space, Mu Qianyue headed towards the direction of the pharmacy.
As soon as she reached the door, she was driven out by an old man in pharmacist attire.
“This is my territory; who allowed you to come here?” The old man’s voice was arrogant and overbearing, looking at Mu Qianyue with disdain and contempt.
“Your territory?” Mu Qianyue’s eyes narrowed slightly, a hint of danger flashing in them, “This is the Duke Zhen’s mansion.
You are just a pharmacist we hired.
When did it become your domain?
Are you also surnamed Mu?”
This old man was none other than the alchemist her grandfather had invited, named Huang Dagang.
He abused his position as a Second Grade Alchemist, monopolizing the resources in the pharmacy, wasting no small amount of herbs, and even privately embezzling them.
“Since you know I was hired by your Duke Zhen’s mansion, show some respect!
Also, if you know what’s good for you, leave quickly, don’t dirty my pharmacy, or else I will stop making pills for you.” Huang Dagang said proudly.
“Bang!” Mu Qianyue unceremoniously raised a fist and smashed it directly into his face, instantly turning Huang Dagang’s eyes into panda eyes.
“You… you dare hit me?” Huang Dagang clamored incredulously,
“So what if I hit you?
I am the master here, mind your identity!
You’re just a dog kept by our Duke Zhen’s mansion!” Through these few days of observation, Mu Qianyue found that he wasn’t a simple alchemist, but a spy planted by Nalan Zheng in the Duke Zhen’s mansion, monitoring their every move and reporting to Nalan Zheng.
Eating from the Duke Zhen’s mansion, taking from the Duke Zhen’s mansion, and yet betraying the Duke Zhen’s mansion.
Huang Dagang was so angry his face turned blue.
Did she dare to call him a dog?
It had been a long time since anyone dared to disrespect him like that!
He said menacingly, “I am a Second Grade Alchemist after all!
I demand you kneel and apologize to me at once!
Or I will immediately leave the Duke Zhen’s mansion!”
“Is being a small Second Grade Alchemist that impressive?” Mu Qianyue sneered disdainfully.
Not to mention that her concocted elixirs were equivalent to Second Grade Pills, the title of being Dongfang Ao’s Inner Chamber Disciple alone was enough to frighten a large group.
“You, you…” The girl’s contemptuous tone, disdainful gaze, made Huang Dagang’s face turn blue with anger and his whole body trembled.
He retorted with a cold smile, “Fine, fine, fine!
In the future, don’t regret begging me to come back!”
With that said, he waved his sleeve, about to turn and leave.
“Wait!” Mu Qianyue called.
Huang Dagang halted his steps, a cold smile forming at the corner of his mouth, “What?
Regretting it now?
I’ll tell you; it’s too late!
Even if you kneel before me now, it’s useless!
This grandmaster won’t stay anymore!”
“Who said I would kneel and beg you?” Mu Qianyue coldly snickered, this person was too arrogant, a cold light flashing in her eyes, “Return all the herbs you embezzled and wasted over the years.
Once you’ve returned them all, you can leave.”
Huang Dagang’s face showed a hint of surprise, but quickly returned to its usual expression, humphing disdainfully, “Even high-level Alchemists can’t guarantee success every time; wasting herbs is inevitable.
Besides, I’ve contributed so much to the Duke Zhen’s mansion over the years, it’s only fair to take some recompense.”
Seeing the justified look on Huang Dagang’s face, Mu Qianyue smiled, her beautiful and delicate face bearing a faint smile that made people shiver with cold.
“Recompense?
Heh… It seems our Duke Zhen’s mansion has been too good to you.” With a movement, the girl who was originally standing at the pharmacy door suddenly disappeared, as fast as a swift wind, appearing in front of Huang Dagang.
Flicking her fingers, she plunged a gleaming silver needle into an acupoint on Huang Dagang’s waist.
“One last chance for you, will you return the herbs you embezzled and wasted or not?” Mu Qianyue grinned, revealing a chilling, cold smile.
Huang Dagang immediately felt he couldn’t move, shouting with shock and fear, “Mu Qianyue, you little bitch, let me go if you know what’s best for you, or else, your whole family will be in trouble!”
Mu Qianyue’s eyes flashed with cold light.
She hated people threatening her with her family the most, and, of course, she would nip all threats in the bud.
Raising a foot, she struck toward his dantian, with a muffled ‘bang,’ and Huang Dagang’s dantian was utterly destroyed, leaving him a cripple.
Not stopping there, Mu Qianyue directly dismantled his arms, his legs, and every joint in his body.
Outside the pharmacy came sounds of bones shattering, ‘crackling and popping,’ and Huang Dagang’s exceedingly miserable cries.
“Aaaaah!!!”
In the distance, seeing this scene, Butler Ding Hao couldn’t help but shiver.
Having all one’s bones dismantled, how painful must that be!
Although the young lady looked gentle and weak, who would have thought she would be so ruthless!
“I’ve long wanted to punish that Huang Dagang, and it’s just as well he’s crippled now.” Mu Hong squinted, saying.
“How will we explain if Nalan Zheng inquires about this?” Ding Hao asked.
“Yue’er has done plenty of outrageous things since she was young, one more won’t make a difference.” Mu Hong grinned, showing a rare sly smile.
Ding Hao speechlessly twitched his mouth, yet again the young lady would be the scapegoat.
Looking at the barely breathing Huang Dagang on the ground, Mu Qianyue disdainfully clapped her hands, her gaze swiftly falling on the ring on his finger, pulling it off without a second thought.
She connected her mind to it, and indeed it was a Space Ring, filled with a pile of glittering gold coins, totaling several million!
And a pile of herbs, most of which were valuable as well as several vials and jars that likely contained some pills he concocted.
Being so wealthy for just a Second Grade Alchemist, how rich must a high-level Alchemist be?
Mu Qianyue seemed to see a pile of money waving at her!
“These things rightfully belong to my Duke Zhen’s mansion, so I will keep them.” Grandfather had hired him at a high price to make pills for the Duke Zhen’s mansion, yet the pills he produced all year were very few, claiming that failures were common, when in fact he hoarded them all.
“You… you…” Huang Dagang was furious to the point of vomiting blood.
He hadn’t expected Mu Qianyue to be so ruthless once she got angry!
Two words of disagreement, and she had done away with him so thoroughly!
He looked at Mu Qianyue with a sinister and venomous gaze, “I’m with the Emperor!
Treat me like this, and the Emperor won’t spare you!
Then your entire Duke Zhen’s household will die!”