Enchantress Amongst Alchemists: Ghost King's Wife

Chapter 14

Mu Ru Yue took out the withered medicinal ingredients in her embrace as she narrowed her eyes in deep thought. In the cultivation realm, there was a method that could use energy to grow medicinal plants, enabling these dying medicine leaves to become reinvigorated.

'Even though ancient martial skills and cultivation are different, there are still some similar areas. It is still unknown whether the cultivation realm's method of using energy to grow medicinal plants will work in this world.'

Thinking about that, she gently placed her palm above the medicinal plant. Traces of energy flowed from her palm and into the medicinal ingredient beneath her hand....

Actually, Mu Ru Yue was just testing her idea out as she currently hadn't officially become a cultivator. She still hadn't even entered the First Martial Stage. Thus, there was only a slight possibility that it would work. She taught this method to Yan Jin because with his powers, it should work easily.

But the outcome stunned Mu Ru Yue....

Under her warm energy, the previously withered medicinal plant had actually regained its life, bit by bit. The yellowed leaves now gave off an aura filled with vitality.

Yan Jin was stupefied as, even with his immense knowledge, he didn't know such a nature-defying method existed. Moreover, he felt that the medicine leaf was much larger compared to before.

"What's going on?"

Mu Ru Yue withdrew her hands as she looked at the several-fold larger medicine leaf before her. She blinked with amazement. Shouldn't this method not allow further growth of the medicinal ingredient and simply help it regain its life? Why had the energy assisted in the medicinal plant's growth?

This was already outside her knowledge.

A glimmer flashed in her eyes. Mu Ru Yue had an idea. Could this have been due to her establishing a contract with the Book of Alchemy. What other reasons were there to explain this unnatural phenomenon?

She currently needed to get stronger as soon as possible. Along the way, all of her doubts would naturally be resolved.

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The next morning

When the light of sunrise landed on Mu Ru Yue's face, she finally left her meditative state. Even though the previous owner of her body was trash, she'd read a lot of cultivation books so she was able to quickly enter the meditative state.

There wouldn't be too great of a leap in power after just a single night, but she had already become a First Martial Stage practitioner. She was no longer trash that would be despised and bullied.

Bang!

The door was kicked open. A ferocious old wet nurse walked in and disdainfully glanced at the simple and unadorned room before coldly shifting her gaze to the young girl.

"Eldest young mistress, the master has requested your presence."

Upon saying that, she viciously glared at Mu Ru Yue before turning around, leaving the room.

Yan Jin narrowed his eyes. Even though she was his owner against his own will, she still had the title of being Yan Jin's master. If others knew that his master had been bullied by an old lady, it would be so shameful.

Swish! Yan Jin turned into a black ray and ruthlessly struck at the old wet nurse.

Peng!

The soft body collided against the old wet nurse's back. She wasn't prepared for that, resulting in her falling down a flight of stairs, becoming a sorry figure after she made a couple of rolls.

Those rolls had nearly broken her old bones.

"Aiyo! Aiyo!" The old wet nurse painfully cried out as she lay on the floor. She was in so much pain that she couldn't stand up. Cold sweat flowed down her face.

"Wet nurse Wang, what's wrong? What happened?"

The maids quickly dropped what they were doing to go and support the old wet nurse after hearing the commotion.

"It's the eldest young mistress! She'd pushed me. I'm so pitiful. I had always done my best, working my old bones to serve the Mu family. Furthermore, I had woken up early to wake the young mistress, yet she treated me like this."

Wet nurse Wang cried out, making it seem as though she had really been bullied by Mu Ru Yue.

She hadn't realised that after she said that, the crowd's expression became weird.

Curiously turning around to see what the crowd was looking at, she found a girl with a cold gaze sitting on her bed, smiling at her.

But her smile was so icy that it gave people chills.

It was a short period of a few breaths when the wet nurse Wang had fallen. If it was really done by the eldest young mistress, then she shouldn't have been able to return to her bed so quickly. Wet nurse Wang was also clueless as to what had happened.

Mu Ru Yue got out of her bed and put on her shoes. When she stepped up to wet nurse Wang's side, she paused slightly and, with lips curled back to a smile, said with an icy gaze, "Don't offend me. Otherwise, you'll receive a pay back like just now!"

Mu Ru Yue looked so dazzling at this moment, like a pearl that emitted brilliant light.

For a moment, the maids were stunned. Was this young girl with a ice-cold gaze really the good-for-nothing eldest young mistress, Mu Ru Yue? It seemed as though her entire personality had changed.

Mu Ru Yue raised her head and puffed out her chest, ignoring the crowd's gazes as she headed towards to the Mu family's lounge.

Since all gazes were on Mu Ru Yue, nobody noticed that when she left, a small black beast in her embrace raised his head. Its gaze carried a domineering and ruthless light.