Chapter 23

After returning to the Brightmoon Courtyard, Mu Qianyue started to cultivate in seclusion. She was now a fifth-stage True Cultivator and if she wished to get first place in the competition, she’d at least be at the level of a first-stage Spirit Cultivator!

Although it was a little difficult to rise up by five stages in two months, it wasn’t impossible.

After cultivating for one night, Mu Qianyue opened her eyes and felt that the True Essence Energy in her body was a little stronger than before.

Once she had left the Heaven Connecting Tower, Mu Qianyue headed in the direction of the medicine storage. She had just arrived at the door when an old man wearing an Apothecary uniform chased her out.

“This is my territory. Who allowed you to come here?” The old man’s voice sounded arrogant as he looked at Mu Qianyue in contempt.

“Your territory?” Mu Qianyue’s eyes narrowed slightly and a hint of danger flashed past in her eyes. “This is the Defender Marquis Manor and you’re just an Apothecary we hired. When has this place become your territory? Is your surname Mu as well?”

This old man was no one other than the Pill Apothecary her grandfather had hired. His name was Huang Dagang. He hogged the resources in the medicine storage just because of his status as a second-grade Pill Apothecary, wasting quite a lot of medicinal herbs and also misappropriating them.

“Since you know that I’m an Apothecary invited by the Defender Marquis Manor, then you should show more courtesy toward me! And if you know what’s good for you, leave quickly and don’t you dare dirty my medicine storage with those grimy hands. Otherwise, I’ll stop refining pills for you,” Huang Dagang said arrogantly.

“Bang!” Mu Qianyue didn’t hold back and smashed her fist into his face. Huang Dagang’s eyes instantly turned into panda eyes.

“You… You dare hit me?” Huang Dagang cried out in disbelief.

“So what if I hit you? Did you forget who is the owner here? Keep your own status in mind! You’re just a lackey that we keep in the Defender Marquis Manor!” After a few days of observation, Mu Qianyue realized that he wasn’t just a simple Pill Apothecary, but was a spy that Nalan Zheng had placed in the Defender Marquis Manor. His job was to keep an eye on everything in the Defender Marquis Manor and then report it back to Nalan Zheng.

This scoundrel was eating and taking from the Defender Marquis Manor, but had no qualms in betraying the Defender Marquis Manor!

Hearing that, Huang Dagang’s countenance turned grim. How dare she scold him and call him a lackey! It had been very long since anyone dared to be so disrespectful toward him! His gaze turned grim and he said, “I’m a second-grade Pill Apothecary! You had better kneel down immediately and apologize to me! Otherwise, I’ll leave the Defender Marquis Manor right away!”

“Tsch. Is a mere second-grade Pill Apothecary a big deal?” Mu Qianyue snorted in disdain. Putting aside the fact that the medicinal liquid she refined was comparable to second-grade pills, just her status as Dongfang Ao’s disciple was enough to scare people to death!

“You, you…” The young lady’s contemptuous tone and disdainful gaze infuriated Huang Dagang so much that his face turned green and his body started trembling. He smiled coldly and said, “Good, good, good! Don’t regret this in the future and come begging to me!”

After saying this, he swung his sleeve and turned to leave.

“Hold on!” Mu Qianyue called out.

Huang Dagang stopped in his footsteps, his lips curling up into a cold smile. “Why? Are you regretting it now? I’m telling you, it’s too late! It’s useless even if you were to kneel down in front of me now! I won’t stay in this deplorable place!”

“Who said that I’m going to kneel down to beg you?” A frosty smile played on Mu Qianyue’s lips, accompanied by a flash of coldness in her eyes. This scoundrel was too conceited. “Return all the medicinal herbs from the Defender Marquis that you’ve misappropriated and wasted over the years. You can leave when you finish paying for them.”

Shock flared up in Huang Dagang’s gaze, but he immediately regained his original expression, letting out a snort in disdain. “Even a high-grade Pill Apothecary can’t succeed in refining medicine in one go. Wasting medicinal herbs is something inevitable. Moreover, I’ve put in so much for the Defender Marquis Manor over the years, so I ought to be given some recompense instead.”

Mu Qianyue smiled after seeing Huang Dagang’s expression as if this was a matter-of-fact. Her small, beautiful, and exquisite face wore a faint smile, but it gave one the shivers.

“Recompense? Heh… It seems that the Defender Marquis Manor has treated you too well.” With a swift movement, the young lady, who had been standing at the door to the medicine storage suddenly disappeared. She darted in front of Huang Dagang like a quick gust of wind, waving her fingers, and a silver needle pierced into an acupoint on his waist.

“I’m giving you one last chance. Return all or the medicinal herbs that you’ve misappropriated and wasted. Are you going to do it or not?” Mu Qianyue gave him a wicked grin, revealing a faintly eerie smile.

Huang Dagang immediately felt that he was unable to move. He shouted, both in surprise and fear, “Mu Qianyue, you b*tch! If you know what’s good for you, release me! Otherwise, your entire family will be in trouble!”

A glint of steel flashed past the depths of Mu Qianyue’s eyes. She hated people using her family to threaten her the most. Of course, she would also eradicate all threats before they rooted.

Raising her leg, she flew toward his dantian. A stifled ‘bang’ rang out and Huang Dagang’s dantian was completely destroyed. Within seconds, he had turned into a cripple.

This wasn’t enough. A few taps later, Mu Qianyue broke off his arms and legs, as well as all the joints on his body. Cracking sounds of bones shattering rang out outside the medicine storage, as well as Huang Dagang’s extremely anguished cries.

“Arghhhhh!!!”

Butler Ding Hao, who was watching the morbid scene from afar with Mu Hong, couldn’t help but shudder. How painful must it be to have all the bones on one’s body broken like that? Although the Eldest Young Miss looked weak and fragile, he didn’t expect her to be so brutal!

“I’ve wanted to teach this Huang Dagang a lesson for a long time. It’s good that he’s crippled now,” Mu Hong narrowed his eyes as he said.

“How are we going to explain things when Nalan Zheng asks about him?”

“Yue’er has done quite a lot of atrocious things since young. What is one more?” Mu Hong grinned, revealing a rare and crafty smile.

Ding Hao’s lips twitched. Eldest Young Miss was going to be made the scapegoat again.

Looking at Huang Dagang, who was on the verge of death as he lay sprawled on the ground, Mu Qianyue dusted her hands in disgust. Her gaze landed on a ring on his finger and she took it off. After some speculation, she realized that it was an interspatial ring! There was a large mound of shimmering gold coins inside, at least several millions worth!

Inside was also a bunch of medicinal herbs, with most of them being those which were precious and extremely difficult to find. There were also many bottles that should be the pills that he had refined.

He was so rich despite being a second-grade Pill Apothecary. What would things be like for a higher grade Pill Apothecary?

Mu Qianyue seemed to be seeing a lot of money beckoning at her!

“These things belong to our Defender Marquis Manor, to begin with, so I’ll be confiscating them.” Her grandfather had hired him on a high salary to refine pills for the Defender Marquis Manor, but he refined a very small amount of pills each year, claiming that it was common for pill refining to fail. So he had actually kept these pills to himself in secret.

“You… You…” Huang Dagang was so enraged that he almost spurted blood. He didn’t expect Mu Qianyue to be so ruthless! Not only did she raise her hands against him when the negotiations fell through, she even crippled him! His gaze turned dark and he looked toward her viciously. “I serve His Majesty! His Majesty won’t let you off for treating me like this! Everyone in the Defender Marquis Manor will die a thousand deaths!”