LoserQueen

Chapter 86 Fail

Blood Fox heard Muyou's words and became reluctant for it felt like dropping from heaven to hell. It tried to bargain with Muyou cheekily. Dugu Muyou listened calmly and punched on it as soon as it finished what it wanted to say. The scene repeated a few times and Blood Fox finally understood that its happiness had come to an end with her b****y punishment. Then it hid in a corner with great sadness.

"I heard that Muyou had finished keeping herself indoors?'

Dugu Muyou heard a surprised voice outside and saw Dugu Ziteng and others coming inside. Everyone in their community had arrived except Dugu Xiaotong and Dugu Deyuan.

"I was going to your place." Dugu Muyou said with a smile, "How is going with what I asked you to do?"

Dugu Ziteng felt sorry and said, "I failed to buy Ghost Weeping Orchid because I couldn't find it anywhere, whether in East Market or in the black market. I waited at the auction every day, but I still didn't see Ghost Weeping Orchid."

"I know."

Dugu Muyou was disappointed for she couldn't cultivate Pill of Remediation without Ghost Weeping Orchid. Besides, no other elixir could work the same as Pill of Remediation currently. However, if we really couldn't purchase it, there was nothing we could do about it since it really depended on our luck. If they couldn't find Ghost Weeping Orchid, she could only try to replace it with other similar materials. However, there were no two identical materials in the world. Even if she found some similar materials, Pill of Remediation wouldn't be as good as she wanted.

"It's not your fault. Where is Xiaotong and Deyuan?"

"They are still looking for Ghost Weeping Orchid. Recently they are contacting some cross-regional herb buyers to see if they have it."

Dugu Muyou nodded and said, "You did a lot of work these days and these are your rewards, including the ones for Xiaotong and Deyuan. You can arrange your time since I don't have other tasks for you recently."

Dugu Muyou took out some storage bags and handed the bags to them.

Dugu Ying looked inside and was completely shocked.

"You gave us so many pills. Ah..."

There were all kinds of elixirs in the storage bag and one person could have about two hundred pills in different boxes totally, including pills for accelerating cultivation, for healing, and for all other purposes. Most importantly, these pills were all with high level and top quality, enough for them to lavish for ten years."

They suddenly felt that the storage bags were so heavy and precious for all the total number of pills they used to get was not as much as the number in their bags. It was something impossible for them.

Dugu Ziteng had a very complicated feeling. These days, he helped Dugu Muyou to sell some pills to get money, which was the total amount of money that a medium-sized family could own. What Dugu Muyou gave them so casually was almost as much as the pills she asked him to sell.

Dugu Muyou didn't really care about distributing those pills to them actually, for she could cultivate much more pills than ordinary dan cultivators do. It was not a lot of pills for her.

"I need to go out to deal with some issues. You can start cultivating now since I don't have additional tasks for you these days."

Dugu Muyou went out after she finished her words. Even after that, Dugu Ziteng and others didn't calm down from the fact that they had suddenly become very rich.

Dugu Muyou went to the street and headed directly to Magical Treasures Lane because she wanted to get Root of Imperial Ganoderma from Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop as soon as possible. She went straight to the destination, Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop, as fast as she could.

She landed slowly in front of the shop. The shopping guide immediately went up to her and greeted her with a smile, "Welcome to Zhengnan Spiritual Material Shop. Please go inside and enjoy shopping here. We have a large amount and variety of materials for dan cultivation..."

Dugu Muyou waved her hand to stop the shopping guide from speaking his lines and said, "I need to visit your Grand Elder."

"Grand Elder is busy and he does not accept visits easily. Generally, he only meets those with visiting posts. If you need help, the dan cultivation apprentices in our shop will serve you."

The shopping guide could see that Dugu Muyou was well-dressed and she must come from an affluent family. But their Grand Elder was no ordinary people. He was one of the top dan cultivators in the city and he had reached Level Six. Sooner or later, he would reach Level Seven. Even people from the four great families have to be very polite if they wanted to visit him.

"I have made an appointment with your Grand Elder. You can just tell him my name, Dugu Muyou."

The shopping guide's eyes glistened when he heard "Dugu". But when he heard the following words "Muyou", he was completely shocked.

Dugu Muyou looked at the shopping guide and was puzzled. People all over the town knew her performance in the trial and some even saw it by themselves. Therefore, she was no longer the muggle that she used to be. However, why was the shopping guide behaving this way?

The shopping guide recovered from the shock, and suddenly gave a large smile, bright enough to dazzle her.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were Miss Muyou. Welcome inside. Our Grand Elder can meet you immediately!"

Dugu Muyou was even more puzzled, for a minute ago he said that she needed a visiting post to meet Grand Elder, but the next moment, he made the decision for Grand Elder and said that he was available. She guessed that Elder Guan had told the staff in the shop about her in advance.

The moment the shopping guide stopped his words, Dugu Muyou felt the odd sights from many people in the shop.

She walked inside the shop and couldn't tolerate their sights anymore. She glanced around and asked, "Are there golden notes on my face?"

Some people felt embarrassed after her words and stopped looking at her, but others were still peeping at her.

The shopping guide smiled and said, "It's all because you are so famous."

"What? Why am I famous?"

A stout man in the shop answered her before the shopping guide.

"Within several days, you bought herbs in every shop in Magical Treasures Lane, including the street stalls. I guess it should be the same situation in auctions. All the major shops ran out of materials and even start selling their backup goods, asking the branches in other regions to deliver materials to them. You made such a large-scale purchase. How can we not know?"

"That's right." said the shopping guide.

Only then did Dugu Muyou understand what happened. She chose several Pill Prescriptions to cultivate a large number of pills so that she could upgrade her level of cultivation. All the materials she used were those hundred herbs that were listed on the Pill Prescriptions, but the storage of material in the major shops was limited. The shops already had a balance of supply and demand, and the sudden large amount of purchase had made every major shop run out of stock.

"Only the Dugu family can lavish their money this way. Normal people like we are can never afford to waste so many materials. Miss Muyou, how is it going with your dan cultivation?"

The person was speaking sarcastically with words like "lavish" and "waste". He was just trying to niggle at her. She turned around and saw a young man in cotton clothes, about twenty-seven to twenty-eight years old.

Dugu Muyou replied coldly, "You are right. I was born in a well-off family, but you weren't, though you envy me for it. "

"You!"

The young man in cotton clothes flushed for he understood that Muyou was saying that he was just being jealous. He looked around and saw many people looking at him strangely. As the saying goes, "There was nothing about being poor, but it was nasty to be jealous because of one's poverty." And that was apparently how people thought of him.

"Since you have used up so many materials, you must have reached a high level of cultivation. Why not let us know and give our congratulations?"

Dugu Muyou didn't bother to reply to him. She asked the shopping guide, "Where is Grand Elder?"

"I'm here. "

The moment she finished her words, a man came down the stairs and he was Elder guan.

"Miss Muyou, why not go inside and talk?"

Dugu Muyou nodded and followed him to the second floor.

The young man went forward for a few steps when he saw Elder Guan on the first floor. It seemed that he had something to say but failed because Elder Guan went upstairs right after he showed up. The movement of the young man alerted the guard, so he had to step back again.

Dugu Muyou and Elder Guan went to the room where they stayed last time. A servant prepared tea for them and then left the room for them two.

Elder Guan gave a look to Dugu Muyou with complicated feelings and said, "Miss Muyou, you are really popular these days."

"I don't know whether I am popular these days. But I do know that I kept myself indoors to cultivate dans and as soon as I finished, I come to your place."

"So, how did you do?"

Dugu Muyou blinked at him and said, "You can give me Root of Imperial Ganoderma now."

Elder Guan stopped drinking tea and asked her eagerly, "Are you a Level-Seven cultivator already?"

Elder Guan also heard of how Dugu Muyou purchased herbs on a large scale. With what Dugu Muyou promised him last time, he somehow believed that he could have Pill of Remediation, though it was still very unbelievable to him.

"Yes, I can cultivate dans right here to prove that I am telling the truth."

Elder Guan stared at Dugu Muyou, who was very confident. He sighed in his heart and doubted if he was dreaming. How could such a young person become a Level-Seven dan cultivator? Even he himself was just at the peak stage of Level-Six and had stuck there for many years. But Dugu Muyou's words were so confident and convincing.

He let out his breath in a long sigh and said, "Follow me."

He got up from the chair and went out of the room. Then he turned around and went up to the third floor.

The decorations on the third floor were almost the same as the second floor. But when they opened the door, Dugu Muyou spotted the differences. Elder Guan took her directly to a dan cultivating room.

"You can use all the materials here. If you succeed, you can pay me by pills. But if you fail, I will charge you for the materials."

Dugu Muyou looked around the room and nodded. She lighted the stove and began cultivating dan while Elder Guan sat down on a cushion and rested with his eyes closed.

Although Elder Guan closed his eyes, he was still paying attention to what was happening in the room. He heard the fire burning, which was normal. But the problem was that there was more than one stove heated. He heard one, two, three, and perhaps even more stoves working at the same time. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Dugu Muyou in astonishment.

He could see three stoves heating and Dugu Muyou was sitting squarely in front of them, adding herbs, heating up, and lowering the heat for different stoves from time to time. What she was doing was controlling three stoves at the same time.

Elder Guan looked at her in amazement.

Normally, pills of higher levels would take more steps with the same material added to the stove several times and cultivating semi-finished pills many times while the pill would only be completed at the final step. All those steps were complicated and time-consuming which was why it took so much time to cultivate dan. Dugu Muyou indeed saved time by doing that, but she was too bold because all those expensive materials for high-level pills could be ruined by one false move.

Elder Guan shook his head and ranked Dugu Muyou as "fail" for she was so reckless in cultivating dan.