Dugu Muyou talked about her advancement, and immediately, the expressions of the six changed.
Xiaotong stammered, "So, each of us has already owned more than... more than..."
Pills that could help in advancement were priceless. Many people kept waiting for an opportunity to advance for a lifetime and finally did not make it. If someone brought the pill to the auction, no one knew how many people would grapple desperately for it! But now, each of them had three such pills!
Xiaotong even had the desire to sell the Pill of Remediation. He spoke it out unknowingly while thinking about it.
Dugu Muyou felt speechless.
"The Pill of Remediation I gave you is not for making money but for you to use. What's the use of money? To buy cultivation resources. Since now I provide you with all the resources, what you need to do is only to concentrate on cultivation."
Hearing her words, Xiaotong blushed, and the other people also looked abashed. They seemed to have had the same ideas as Xiaotong.
"I, I got it. I have put the cart before the horse."
Dugu Muyou nodded, "For the next days, you should do nothing but cultivate."
After finishing her words, Dugu Muyou returned to her residence. Blood Fox, who was losing weight these days, lay on its small cushion as if on its last. Seeing Dugu Muyou coming in, it turned its head and was unwilling to have a look at her.
Dugu Muyou ignored it and started cultivation on her own. Since there were still herbs being planted in Yuehua Diamond, she could refine a new batch at any time after running out of the Pill of Remediation.
The entire Youshui Garden began to be isolated from the outside under the order of Dugu Muyou. Except for the maid occasionally, no one came in and out of Youshui Garden. In the eyes of others, Dugu Muyou seemingly was mad about something again after her craze about dan cultivation.
The news that Dugu Muyou had refined the pill of Level Seven in Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop spread like wildfire, and naturally, Dugu Zhong also heard it.
After Dugu Zhong listened to his subordinate's report, he showed an incredible look. The Dugu Family had been committed to cultivating excellent dan cultivators, but the effort had not achieved significant results. Cultivator Chen, the only one they produced finally, was not named Dugu.
"Are you sure it is Muyou?" asked Dugu Zhong incredulously.
"Yes. I have confirmed many times that it is indeed Miss Muyou. The news was from Elder Guan of Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop, and there should be nothing wrong. The fourth childe of the Zhu Family was also present at that time."
Dugu Zhong blankly stared at the ground in front of him and kept silent for a while.
"Go and invite Miss Muyou now."
"Yes, Master!"
Dugu Zhong was lost in thought. He had not produced any high-level dan cultivator yet, even with so much effort. However, Dugu Muyou had become an excellent dan cultivator through self-taught learning now. No one knew about it among the entire Dugu Family, and he even learned the news from someone else.
Soon after, the one sent to invite Dugu Muyou returned.
"Where is she?"
Dugu Zhong's face darkened. Could it be that Dugu Muyou refused to come over?
"The people of Youshui Garden said that Miss Muyou has been closing herself in the door for cultivation and has ordered not to disturb her."
Dugu Zhong's expression changed a few times, and finally, he said, "Fine. Don't bother her now. Watch her and let her come to me when she comes out."
In Zhu Family of Jinnan, a gorgeous spiritual animal wagon pulled by eight spiritual animals drove into the gate.
"Is my Eldest Brother back?" Zhu Jingshan, the fourth childe of the Zhu Family, frowned and asked one of the servants.
"Yes. Master came back just..."
Before the servant had finished speaking, Zhu Jingshan rushed out at a surprisingly fast speed.
As soon as Zhu Jingxian got off the spiritual animal wagon, he saw Zhu Jingshan hurriedly came over. Zhu Jingxian wore a smile on his rugged face, "Fourth Brother, you came out so enthusiastically to welcome me today. Is it because that you have lost your bet and cannot pay back the money?"
Zhu Jingshan smiled helplessly, but in the next moment, his smile disappeared. He solemnly said, "Eldest Brother, I have an urgent matter to tell you."
Zhu Jingxian nodded and said in a low voice, "Go inside first."
Zhu Jingshan straightforwardly said after they entered the house, "I met Miss Muyou of the Dugu Family at Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop today."
"Oh, it turns out to be about Miss Muyou." Zhu Jingxian was puzzled, "What happened to her?"
With no emotion in his eyes, Zhu Jingshan said in a cold voice, "She is a dan cultivator of Level Seven."
"What did you say?"
Zhu Jingxian was always calm, but now he lost his cool.
"This is the Black Spirit Pill she refined." Zhu Jingshan took out the bottle of pills he bought and handed it to Zhu Jingxian.
After checking the pills, Zhu Jingxian pondered for a while and then said, "It seems that our plan must hurry up. Contact the Hua Family immediately."
It was in a secret royal training place in Jinnan. In the starry night sky, a spiritual swift eagle hovered in the air, and then with a crisp scream, it swooped and landed on a person's shoulder.
Ji Chengyu, the Fifth Prince, untied a small bamboo tube hanging on the spiritual swift eagle's claw and murmured, "They should use the spiritual swift eagle. I wonder what the news will be."
With the use of his spiritual qi, Ji Chengyu opened the bamboo tube and took out a piece of paper from it. After that, the spiritual swift eagle spread its wings and flew away. Ji Chengyu unfolded the note and read it.
"Miss Muyou of the Dugus has refined the Level Seven pill. It is confirmed that she has advanced to be a Level Seven dan cultivator."
Ji Chengyu read it word by word, and the next moment, the note disappeared into nothing in his hand.
"Dugu Muyou..." He repeated the name softly.
"Your Highness?" A female voice suddenly broke the silence of the night.
"Piaopiao?" A smile appeared on the Fifth Prince's face, "Why haven't you slept? It is so late, and there will be heavy training tasks tomorrow."
Listening to Ji Chengyu's gentle voice, Dugu Piaopiao cast aside the doubts she had just now, "I could not fall asleep and hence came out to hang around. What a coincidence to meet you here!"
"It is indeed a coincidence." Ji Chengyu glanced at the sky, "It's time to rest. Piaopiao, you'd better go back soon, too."
After the words, Ji Chengyu turned around and walked towards his room. Dugu Piaopiao gazed after him in bitter disappointment until he was entirely out of her sight. Sudden loneliness hit her.
She heard it clearly that Ji Chengyu had called that woman's name just now.
A gust of wind passed away, and Dugu Piaopiao felt a chill.
"Dugu Muyou!" Her eyes flashed cold light in the night.
It was in the Bishui Palace of the Venerable Space.
Nangong Xun sat on the throne. With his straight black hair hanging down, he crooked his right arm and rested his head in the hand, listening to his subordinate's report.
"Did you find out what it is?" asked Nangong Xun.
"Not yet. I only know that the spiritual qi is changing there. No one has noticed it yet."
"Keep observing, and report to me at any time."
Nangong Xun stood up from the throne and said to himself, "Maybe we will meet soon."
Three days later, in the Youshui Garden of the Dugu Family, a spiritual qi went straight to the sky. The white clouds rolled and gathered above Youshui Garden, and colored lights faintly flashed among the clouds. The graceful spiritual birds hovered in the air and danced joyously around that spiritual qi.
Everyone in the capital had discovered the strange scene and kept looking up to the sky one by one, admiring the rare spectacle.
A child fingered at the sky and pulled the sleeves of the elderly man beside him, asking crisply, "Grandpa, what is it?"
"It is that someone has advanced to be the Heaven rank cultivator." The elderly man replied.
"What is the Heaven rank cultivator?"
"Well, the Heaven rank cultivator is... It refers to the person extremely mighty."
In Youshui Garden, Dugu Muyou opened her eyes at this time. She was floating in the air and bathed in radiant light. Feeling very comfortable, she found it easier to commune with the spiritual qi between heaven and earth. The world seemed to have lifted a corner of the veil, showing her a tip of its secret.
It was a pity that the mysterious feeling was fleeting. Everything backed to its original appearance just after a while. The clouds disappeared, and the spiritual birds returned to their nests. With regret in her eyes, Dugu Muyou felt the feeling just now had been so fabulous that she had almost immersed in it and been unable to help herself.
Dugu Muyou took a Pill of Remediation an hour ago, and finally, she broke through the black rank peak stage and entered the bronze stage of Heaven rank. The spiritual qi in her whole body began to flow in a completely different way. She felt that she had established a closer connection with the world.
Dugu Muyou stretched out her hand and beckoned, and a ball of bronze light emerged out of the void. The shape of the light ball kept changing, which seemed that it hadn't decided what shape it would become. Seeing it, Dugu Muyou was stunned for a second and remembered Dugu Xiao's colorful spiritual snake. As soon as she thought of it, the light ball twisted into a long strip and gradually became a bronze snake.
This bronze snake had two small spots-liked eyes and a thin-slit-liked mouth on its head. Without Dugu Muyou's motion at all, it actively came to her and sprinted around her.
Dugu Muyou suddenly realized that this spiritual qi looked alive and could act spontaneously to a certain extent.
"Open your mouth." ordered Dugu Muyou.
The snake opened its mouth as expected, revealing the fangs inside.
"Um... change a shape? For example, a fox?"
The little snake showed a dazed expression and swam beside Dugu Muyou, seemingly unable to understand her words. With Dugu Muyou's idea in her mind, the snake gradually dispersed and then returned to be a ball of light. Then the ball's shape changed, and a fox appeared in front of Dugu Muyou. It raised its head to assume a haughty posture.
Dugu Muyou seemed to have found an amusing toy. Feeling very curious about its ability to change, she poked it with her finger and said to herself, "Could it be that foxes all look like this?"
A red shadow suddenly rushed over. It turned to be Blood Fox. It slapped at the pseudo bronze fox, which looked similar in size and shape to its past image, but the little bronze fox swiftly dodged its attack. Blood Fox hence lost its balance and could not help shouting while its heavy body was going to fall straight down. Dugu Muyou caught Blood Fox in the air and carried it in her hand.
"I have told you not to eat so much!" Dugu Muyou said sulkily.
With a few sounds of footsteps outside the door, several people gathered towards Dugu Muyou's residence.
"Boss, have you advanced? I have seen the spectacle in the sky." Xiaotong walked in hurriedly together with others and said in surprise.
Dugu Muyou glanced at them and asked, "Why don't you keep cultivating but run over for such a trivial thing?"
They looked at each other.
"We should celebrate since you have advanced, we think..."
"Celebrate? It won't be too late to celebrate when you are all advanced!" Dugu Muyou said in a chilly voice.
After hearing her words, the group of people had to go back in disappointment.
Many people gathered outside Youshui Garden at the Dugu Mansion, tentatively trying to extract more information, but the door of Youshui Garden never opened.
A month later, a shadow appeared out of the void in Dugu Muyou's room. It gradually solidified and turned to be Nangong Xun.
Dugu Muyou stopped cultivation and asked with a smile, "What brings you here?"
Nangong Xun took a few steps closer. With his black eyes looking into Muyou's eyes, he said, "Pack up and get ready to set off at once."