Chapter 7 Magical Breakthrough

"Qingyue..." Hua Qingshui called out disapprovingly. The ninth lady of the Dugus, known as the muggle, was quite notoriously known to people in Lingyuan Continent. However, saying that to her face to face ruthlessly was a bit harsh, and no one could take it well.

Against his expectations, Dugu Muyou did not express any hint of embarrassment. Instead, she nodded, "That's right. I am the muggle, the ninth lady of the Dugus."

Hua Qingyue did not anticipate her response and became clueless about what to say next. It was said that the ninth lady of the Dugus was born with the inability to gather spiritual qi. In a world where the level of respect people earned was based on the strength of spiritual qi, her existence was a disgrace to the family, and she became a laughing stock. Nonetheless, Hua Qingyue wondered why she showed up in the Den of Monsters and risked her life to fight desperately. Was she left here by her family to sink or swim? Or did she sneak out of her family to here?

Hua Qingyue quickly dismissed the second assumption. If she had looked for death, she would not have rushed up fiercely and confronted the monsters. Thus, there was only one explanation left, which was the Dugus' abandonment of her.

Hua Qingyue frowned discontentedly. After all, she was just a girl. Even though the Dugus gave up on training her because of her inability to master Qi, the Dugus was a prominent family and could easily afford to keep a muggle. Why would they leave her in a place like that?

His pity for her was written all over Hua Qingyue's heart. He patted his chest and promised, "As long as Qingshui and I are here, you will never be an encumbrance. Two of us will keep you safe today regardless of the reasons."

Hua Qingshui was a man of few words and only nodded towards Dugu Muyou, and nothing more could be said.

Dugu Muyou felt a stream of warm current flowing through her cold heart. She used to think that two persons were all she had in the world and nothing would ever touch her heart in this lifetime. Nonetheless, these two people, standing in front of her, whom she never met and whose names she did not even know, were ready to protect her regardless of the dangers.

Dugu Muyou was only moved transiently. In the twinkling of an eye, she resumed her usual coldness and indifference.

"Thanks."

That was the highest appreciation she could utter. Turning around, she seemed to be full of energy and stabbed the nearest Banjing Tiger brutally with the dagger.

Maybe because it was the power of Lieyan or she simply hit the beast too hard, the dagger handle was so deep in the flesh. The Banjing Tiger growled in pain and swatted Dugu Muyou frenziedly.

Dugu Muyou's expression remained unchanged. She pulled the dagger and stabbed it again.

The process was repeated over and over again, and each time a stream of blood burst out from where the dagger was stabbing. Dugu Muyou did not know how many times she stabbed the Banjing Tiger and how many times she got swatted by it.

Even Hua Qingshui, the solemn one in the brothers, could not bear to look at her wounds. By the time he pulled out the sword and was ready to defend her, Dugu Muyou stabbed Banjing Tiger right on the head with the dagger.

"Go to hell!"

The voice was uttered from her dark red lips, summoning Death.

Screeching one last time in the Den of Monsters, Banjing Tiger, however unwillingly, fell down with its eyes wide opened. Dugu Muyou pulled out the dagger, skillfully reached out along the wound, and inserted her hand into the skull of the Banjing Tiger.

When she pulled her hand back from its skull, blood covered her upper arm. Dugu Muyou let out a grim laugh. Inside the Yuehua Diamond, the red stone unlike the previous earthy yellow one could no longer be called a stone. It was melting quickly at an amazing speed, and then it disappeared completely.

Her fatigue was swept away, and her whole body was filled with energy. Dugu Muyou knew that was spiritual qi. The stuff dropped out of the monster's head could be absorbed by Yuehua Diamond and turned into her spiritual qi.

Somehow Hua Qingshui came next to the Banjing Tiger and frowned afterward, saying, "Where was the Magical Essence?"

Hua Qingyue threw a questioning look at Dugu Muyou and asked, "How come it has no Magical Essence? Qingshui, did you have a clear look?"

The Banjing Tiger usually had Magical Essence with fire in nature, unless this one was a fake.

"I absorbed it." Dugu Muyou did not hide the truth from them and she wanted to explain no more.

But her words puzzled the brothers from the Hua Family all the more. They wondered how could someone with no experience of Qi practices absorb Magical Essence?

Hua Qingyue could not hold his curiosity, and he was about to ask Dugu Muyou. Suddenly, her body emitted yellow light which gradually became deep yellow and lasted for ten seconds. Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, like the sound of glass shattering, coming out from her body. Immediately, the light surrounding her body turned into light orange color.

She managed to break through!