LoserQueen

Chapter 98 Great Minds Think Alike

Dugu Ziteng's question attracted the other people's attention and reminded them of the situation just now, and they all turned to look at Dugu Muyou from observing Blood Fox.

"Boss, you, you... We have only not seen you for such a short time, and how come you have advanced again? I..."

Dugu Xiao stammered over the words. However, Dugu Muyou didn't know how to answer his question. She took out the invocation seals that Nangong Xun gave her and distributed them to everyone, and then, she roughly told the group of people the plan of the next few days. From then on, these several people began to train hard with the incentive of Dugu Muyou's advancement and Blood Fox's inexplicably being gigantic.

While Dugu Muyou and others were in the Land of Illusion, several significant incidents happened in the Dugus.

This day was no different from other days until someone hurried back to the house of the Dugu Family to report something to Dugu Zhong. Since then, bad news came one after another, and everyone in the Dugu Family felt a tense atmosphere.

Dugu Zhong sat on the throne of the Master, listening to his subordinate's report with a gloomy expression.

"Master, our herb garden has been attacked. Some of the herbs have been taken away, and some have been burned. It has been verified that this incident was the joint work of the Zhu Family and the Hua Family."

"Master, our mine has been attacked, and the miners have suffered heavy casualties. Our men have failed in guarding the mine..."

The Dugu Family had herb gardens in various areas of Jinnan, where many herbs were planted and collected to supply the family's needs. As one of the four great families in Jinnan, the Dugu Family had a massive herb consumption, and hence purchases alone were inadequate to meet the requirements. Besides, not to mention the high cost, it was dangerous to let others control entirely such a vital resource.

The same was true for mines. Four great families all had their own mines independently exploited based on non-interference in each other's affairs. They rarely had conflicts unless a new vein was discovered and led to disputes over distribution.

People came to report bad news one after another, and Dugu Zhong was almost numb at it.

"The Zhu Family and the Hua Family even daring to strike our important resources, it seems they are ready to shed all pretenses of peace." Dugu Zhong said with a solemn look.

Dugu Jin stepped forward and said, "Master, please allow me to lead people to protect and guard our properties."

"You have not to go in person. Deploy more people to guard our herb gardens and mines on alert and report to me immediately if there is any trouble, especially near the properties that the two families have occupied. I am afraid these places will be their next targets."

"Yes, Master." Dugu replied, "How to deal with the occupied properties?"

"Send a team to each place. Their people cannot stay in one place for a long time. They will probably immediately start to attack the next target after they achieve their goals. We'd better give them a fatal blow before they leave!"

Herb gardens and mines were essential resources. If the two families destroyed the Dugu Family's herb gardens and mines, it would fundamentally affect the supply of herbs and minerals, significantly weakening the Dugu Family! Therefore, Dugu Zhong had to send many people to protect the two critical resources.

After Dugu Zhong gave his instructions, the members of the Dugu Family immediately took action. A large number of people set off and marched toward their destination.

At the same time, Dugu Zhong sent someone to inform the royal family of the incident. Since the Zhu Family and the Hua Family had joined forces, the Dugu Family and the royal family should respond as soon as possible. It was a pity that their combined team had not yet completed group training.

Three days later, the Zhu Family and the Hua Family's attack on the herb garden got controlled temporarily. However, the bad news for the Dugu Family was not over yet.

A spiritual animal wagon quietly drove into the gate of the Dugu Family's house. A stretcher covered with brocade was lifted from it, and there seemed to be a person under the brocade.

Dugu Zhong sat at the head in the house hall, gripping the arms of his chair with his knuckles going white. In the center of the hall placed the stretcher lifted from the spiritual animal wagon. Two young men were trembling on their knees next to it.

Dugu Zhong stroked the place between his eyebrows and asked tiredly, "How did he die? Tell me the details."

"Yes, Master. When Childe and we were drinking in the wine shop, suddenly, a person, who had disguised himself with a spiritual weapon, broke in and attacked Childe as soon as he entered. The person was so powerful that we could not match him at all. Not long, Childe..."

Dugu Zhong slapped heavily on the arm of his chair with a scowl, "Why were you in the wine shop? You should be participating in the group training at that time, shouldn't you?"

"It, it was because Childe was in a bad mood and wanted to drink..."

Dugu Xiao rushed in from the outside and shouted, "I think it was you who induced Herong to go out! Or you conspired with others and betrayed him!"

Dugu Xiao kicked the two kneeling on the ground so hard that the two vomited blood immediately and fell on the floor with a crisp sound of the fracture. Still, they did not dare to cry out for pain but repeatedly asked for mercy, "It was Childe himself that wanted to go out. We did not do anything..."

Dugu Xiao pulled the brocade with his trembling hand. Dugu Herong, his son, was still alive not long ago and now became a dead body lying here. Dugu Xiao stared at the corpse for a long time. Dugu Herong was his son after all though he had blamed Dugu Herong for letting him down.

"Second Brother," Dugu Xiao spun around, "you are the Master. Herong has been murdered, and how will you deal with the case?"

Dugu Zhong closed his eyes for a moment. Then he opened his eyes and said, "Even if Herong wanted to horse around, how come you two just let him do that? Neither of you can escape the punishment before this matter is cleared. Guards! Take them..."

"Master! Master, bad news!"

A man rushed into the hall in a panic, shouting repeatedly.

Dugu Zhong scolded, "How rude you are! What's the hurry!"

The man stopped shouting after hearing Dugu Zhong's scold, and when he caught a glimpse of Dugu Herong covered by brocade, his face instantly turned paler.

"Hurry up if you have anything to say!"

"Yes, Master. The young ladies participating in the group training have encountered an assassination. The assassins' attacks were fierce and lethal, and Miss Qinglan resisted hard and finally survived."

"How are they now?" Dugu Zhong asked eagerly with his eyes widely glaring.

"Miss Qinglan and Miss Piaopiao are all fine now. The assassins only targeted the two young ladies, and they immediately wanted to retreat after seeing that their assassination would fail. We caught one of them and found that he was from the Hua Family."

"The assassin from the Hua Family."

When Dugu Zhong heard that his daughters were fine, his expression turned a bit better. However, his face darkened again in a blink.

"The Zhu Family and the Hua Family attacked our herb gardens and mines first and then targeted our younger generations. It seems that they want to eradicate our Dugu Family. Dugu Jin, you immediately lead a team to the group training place to pick up our people back."

Dugu Jin hesitated for a moment and said, "I will do it right away, but... we have sent a lot of people out to protect our herb gardens and mines. We're a bit short-handed in the house now."

Dugu Zhong got stunned, "Can't we send out even a team?"

"Well, we can. But I am worried that it may cause the insufficiency of the house's defensive power."

Dugu Zhong leaned back on his chair with a headache. Since the joint attack by the Zhu Family and the Hua Family, the Dugu Family suffered successive misfortunes and were going through a difficult phase now. As for the royal family, the Dugu Family had passed the news to them a long time ago, but the royal family paid less attention to it, let alone sending people over to help the Dugu Family.

"The people in the group training are the future of our Dugus. In any case, we should bring them back safely since now our family is suffering, and the situation is unclear."

"Yes, Master. I will do it right away."

When the Dugu Family was in a mess, Dugu Muyou and others in the Land of Illusion didn't know anything about it. They managed to seize the opportunity to cultivate every day.

The Land of Illusion was worthy of being a treasure. Even if they did nothing while cultivating here, they advanced twice faster than being outside. In addition, there were countless magical treasures, and Dugu Muyou had found some rare herbs to make pills, which supplemented the lack of their resources.

She already had the strength of Ten-color. If she encountered any powerful spiritual animal in the Land of Illusion, she could escape even if she could not beat it. Besides, Blood Fox was with her. Its strength significantly increased after it swallowed half of the fruit. Now no spiritual animal dared to fight it, so Dugu Muyou and others became safer. Although the combat could make rapid progress, gentler training was also of great benefit.

By the time the Land of Illusion was closed, Dugu Muyou had already advanced to the second stage of the Divinity Stage. It was a leap for her that she was finally a step closer to her goal. If Dugu Muyou reached the peak stage of the Stage of Divinity, she would gain the ability to tear through the space, and then she would possibly have the chance to return to the world where she came from and take vengeance on those two person.

In addition to Dugu Muyou, the others had also made breakthroughs. Dugu Ziteng advanced to the colored gold stage. Dugu Qi also progressed very fast that she quickly reached the golden stage of the Heaven rank, and the remaining few people were at the silver stage.

Generally speaking, cultivators would find their advancement speed become significantly slowed down when they entered the stage of Heaven rank. In this case, the advancement speed of Dugu Ziteng and others was extremely fast with the support of countless treasured pills. After all, they freely enjoyed a supply of the Pill of Remediation, which ordinary people even had almost no chance to meet. How could other cultivators have such a good condition? Dugu Ziteng and others could manage with their present strength even after they returned to the Dugu Family.

Dugu Muyou held an invocation seal in her hand and said, "The results of our cultivation are gratifying, and it's almost time to leave."

The group of people looked around, feeling a little bit reluctant to leave here. Although they met a lot of trouble when they arrived at the Land of Illusion the first time, the benefits became more evident as they stayed here longer. If possible, they hoped that they could come back here at any time.

"Stop being drippy. We are just going back home. Why do you all show a look of reluctance?" A handsome man in red said contemptuously, "Since you are so useless, albeit reluctantly, I will lead the way and set the tone for you."

The man in red was the incarnate Blood Fox. Soon after eating half of the fruit, Blood Fox absorbed the Magical Essence of the Jiuqi Demon it had obtained earlier.

Jiuqi Demon was just a piece of cake for Dugu Muyou now, and its Magical Essence was useless for her. However, it could help Blood Fox in incarnation. Jiuqi Demon was said to have a trace of blood from the ancient magical beast by birth, and although it was only a tiny trace of blood, it had a unique effect.

Dugu Muyou felt it hard to be accustomed to the current Blood Fox. It was fine when Blood Fox was still in the shape of a fox. Although it grew bigger, its appearance remained the same. But now, it became difficult for her to regard the man as the fox in the past.

Dugu Muyou had believed that Blood Fox would incarnate into a child. Who knew he incarnated into an adult finally! Looking back to the past, Dugu Muyou thought Blood Fox indeed should be ashamed of himself.

The actions and words of Blood Fox were still the same as before though he looked to be an adult now. It seemed strange and stuck out like a sore thumb, but Blood Fox had no idea about it himself.

"It's a waste of his handsome face." Dugu Qi muttered.

Dugu Muyou got stunned for a moment and felt an irresistible urge to laugh, thinking that great minds indeed thought alike.