Black Bellied Belle: Demon Lord, Bite the Bait Please Chapter 104 : A Guest Comes to Visi

“Sixth Young Miss, you have a guest.”

Qing Yu had just come back from outside and the guard at the door immediately came forward to report in a soft voice.

“My guest?” Qing Yu raised up an eyebrow. [She doesn't seem to have any close friends here in the Capital City though…..]

At that moment in the guest hall, Yan Su was entertaining a lady with a tall and slim figure, who was dressed in a light green dress. The lady had a pretty countenance, her bright eyes beautiful and absorbing, that looked highly intelligent. She commanded a noble and aloof air, that made people often overlook her countenance, but they would then quickly become attracted to that unique elegant air she exuded.

“Lai Lai!” Qing Yu's eyes lit up, and she called out rather delightfully.

Mu Lai heard the voice and subconsciously stood up to walk a few steps forward before she found herself wrapped within a big hug by the approaching young lady. The coldly pretty face then reddened unnoticeably and she raised a hand up to return the hug.

Yan Su seldom saw the young lady looking so delighted and he was rather taken aback by surprise.

“Qing Yu, you are acquainted with Young Miss Mu?”

When the servants had come to announce that a Miss Mu had come to visit, he had initially been rather puzzled. There was only one family clan surnamed Mu in the Capital City and they were a relatively small family clan who were not very well known, so it was thought that they would not call on the manor for a visit so abruptly.

But the servant had then said that it was the Young Mistress of the Mu Family that was the topmost Elixir Cultivator Family throughout the lands.

Although this Mu Family kept a low profile in a remote region at the common border shared among a few countries, but their reputation as the topmost Elixir Cultivator Family far precedes them, known far and wide. Especially the current Young Mistress of the Mu Family, whom was though still a very young lady, was already known to be a rare genius skilled in both Medicine and martial arts, the most outstanding talent among Mu Family's younger generation.

She was afterall a young lady who had just turned eighteen, but the steady and stalwart flair she exuded often made people forget her young age.

Qing Yu held the young woman's hand and then said to Yan Su with a smile: “Father, this is my good friend, I'll entertain her. If you are busy, just go ahead with your own tasks!”

Seeing that, Yan Su nodded his head. “Alright, you ladies will find it easier to talk. Take good care of Young Miss Mu.”

Upon saying that, he then nodded at Mu Lai and he then left.

Mu Lai watched Yan Su's figure walk far away and then turned her gaze back. “The relationship between the two of you….. doesn't seem that good?”

Although Mu Lai herself was not really all that close to her father as well, but her situation was still at least at the level where her father was benevolent and she the daughter filial.

But the interaction between Qing Yu and Yan Su was a little more queer. One would not really see anything wrong on the surface, but the highly distant manner of speech and actions between them could not be concealed. Or it should be said….. that it's Qing Yu who did not seem to be that warm towards her father.

That one point, would naturally not escape her who had always been sensitive in thought.

Hearing that, Qing Yu's brow lifted up and she said seemingly unconcerned: “I wouldn't say it's not good, but just not really all that bad!”

As that was their family affair, Mu Lai did not go on to probe any further.

“That's right. Why have you suddenly come to the Imperial Capital to look for me?” Qing Yu asked in puzzlement.

“I came here purely just to see the place you live in.” Mu Lai said, her gaze gentle as she continued: “Because we saved the Assassination Temple's Chief, they delivered a whole lot of things to the Mu Family the very next day. I think they were unable to find you and they then just sent the gifts to me instead. I'll have someone bring it here for you next time.”

“Huh?” Qing Yu was taken aback a moment before she waved her hands in front of her. “Don't. You just keep those things. There are so many people in your family clan and cultivating elixirs calls for the use of many precious herbs. Moreover, the price of herbs are currently so high in the market, so just keep the things with you and use them to procure more elixirs and medicines. Consider them as blessings to the people.”

Chapter 104.2 : A Guest Comes to Visit

The Mu Family's repute had always been very good out there and they had even opened a pharmacy just for the poor and destitute, giving away medicine for free. The pharmacy had been opened for about five to six years.

Hearing Qing Yu's words, Mu Lai's beautiful eyes shone and sparkled. “You will truly become the one who silently spread blessings onto the people.”

[Does this girl even know how much precious and priceless things the Assassination Temple sent?]

[It is enough to buy up several busy and flourishing streets! And here she is giving it all away so nonchalantly.]

[And back when she had killed that sixth level spirit beast in its lair, Qing Yu had also gifted her the core crystal with a blink of an eye. It must be known that if a sixth level spirit beast's core crystal were to be put up for auction, it would at least fetch several good millions.]

[But she had just casually said: “You need it more than I do.”]

Indeed, she had bet with those people in her family clan back then that if she was unable to bring back a sixth level spirit beast's core crystal, she would give up on her position as the clan's Young Chief.

So, how could she afford to lose? She most definitely cannot lose.

Hence, even if she fought to her last breath, she must kill that spirit beast. She had been incredibly proud from birth and she would never bow down before anyone except towards Qing Yu.

Mu Lai then suddenly remembered something rather belatedly and she then opened her mouth to ask: “That Yan Ning Luo seems to be a member of the Faint Mist Sect and she seems to hold a rather high position in there. You will not be able to come back for the next two to three years at least when you join the sect, wouldn't you be seeing her very often in there?”

Ever since she came to know Qing Yu's identity, Mu Lai had come to understand quite a good amount of things about her. She knew that Yan Ning Luo had always disliked Qing Yu and seeing they those two people would be seeing each other quite frequently, what would happen if Yan Ning Luo comes to make things difficult for Qing Yu?

Qing Yu raised an eyebrow. “That probably won't happen. She is an inner circle disciple and I will surely just be one among so many regular disciples when I get accepted. With such a great disparity in position, we will definitely not see each other even once every few months.”

She was going in there not because she wanted to learn anything, but as there were just too many secrets in this body she was inhabiting, she wanted to find some clear answers. And as for the reason why she was going to the Faint Mist Sect, that was because there seemed to be a voice that was telling her to go there.

Mu Lai felt that those words sounded rather logical as well and she then nodded before she said: “I will be staying here in the Imperial Capital for a period so we can meet with each other anytime whenever there's a need.”

“What? You have business to take care of here in the Imperial Capital?”

Although Mu Lai had said that she came here to see her, but Qing Yu could see that something was not right with her demeanor. Even though Mu Lai had hidden it well, but she had still picked up a few clues.

“What happened?”

Mu Lai was taken aback a moment before she then shook her head lightly. “There's nothing. It's just that I have never come to the Green Wave Kingdom's Imperial Capital and I wanted to come see the scenery here.”

“You are lying.” Qing Yu said as she looked at her with her brows knitted together. “As the Young Chief of such a large family clan, there are so many clan affairs you have to deal with on a daily basis, how can you possibly have the time for something so frivolous like sightseeing? Tell me. What happened?”

In her past life, she didn't even need to talk about how many things big and small she had had to attend to after she took on the position of Family Head, but just the period when she had been picked as the heir alone already gave her so much pressure that was just impossible to describe.

And there were so many branches in the Mu Family watching her every move, the slightest misstep from her and her position as the Young Chief of the family clan would be snatched from her. Moreover, having to stand firm against the dogma of having a female assume the position of Young Chief, she would have to overcome many obstacles. Everyone might be highly respectful on the surface, no one knew what kind of vicious plot people might be hatching to have her dead.

Such filthy nauseating things that went on inside large family clans were not new to Qing Yu in the slightest.

Seeing Mu Lai looking like that, Qing Yu faintly felt an ill premonition rise up within.

Chapter 104.3 : A Guest Comes to Visit

Seeing the young lady's worried look on her face, Mu Lai's heart sank slightly deep inside and she picked up the cup of tea on the table to pour it down her throat in one gulp, seemingly seeking to alleviate the emotion she had suppressed inside her heart for the past few days. “My Father….. might not have long to live.”

Her tone of voice was extremely calm, so calm that one could almost not detect any emotion at all.

But her words had caused Qing Yu to be greatly startled. [How…..]

The Mu Family Head Mu Qing Tian was merely only about forty years of age and was a amiable and kind person. He was also a highly respected gold grade Elixir Cultivator. How did he come to have something bad happen to him so suddenly?

Qing Yu did not want to think that things was really that bad but when she saw the usually steady and haughty woman show such a helpless look on her face, she could not help but ask in a gentle probing manner: “It was done by your own people?”

Mu Lai's gaze grew sharp and her long slender fingers made crackling sounds as they clenched up. Her lips then parted slightly to say: “If my father had not been too soft hearted back then, he would not have to suffer this unexpected calamity now. He was ambushed when he was advancing in level and suffered violent backlash. Not only his vitality had been severely damaged, his cultivation had fallen from the gold grade third level to the silver grade eight level in just a few days, a good five levels, which turned half his hair white.”

This was how an Elixir Cultivator misused the practice. They were able to employ Elixir Cultivation techniques to make their body constitution become stronger than normal people, causing them to look much younger. But when their vitals are damaged, their cultivation levels would continuously drop, speeding up their ageing as their health declined. When their cultivation levels drop to the very bottom, their lives would then be snuffed out.

Hearing her words, Qing Yu felt a wave of emotion. She had not thought that such a big incident would happen in the period that she went to the Hades' Canyon for rigorous training.

“Lai Lai, just let me know if there is anything I can do to help.” Qing Yu said seriously as she held Mu Lai's hand.

She had probably come such a long way here to the Imperial Capital because she wanted Qing Yu to offer her some spiritual support and mental comfort. She was afterall just a young girl in her teens and to have something so severe happen to her father which led to her having to hold up such a large family clan with hungry wolves eyeing covetously at the sides, the immense pressure she must be facing could very well be imagined.

The fact that she had not collapsed under that kind of pressure already showed how strong she was.

In the past, she would only be able to hide things like this in her heart. But now, she has a friend that she could share her heartfelt thoughts with, and she would not have to hide it till it felt like she could not breathe.

“Qing Yu, I want to save my father.” Mu Lai suddenly lowered her eyes and said softly. “But when he came to know the method that would be used to save him, he told me he would rather die than to accept my help, and I had a big fight with him about it.”

Qing Yu's face looked hesitant for a moment. Hearing her words, the method Mu Lai wanted to use to save her father did not sound like a good idea, or the Mu Family Head would not get so worked up over it.

“I searched through the texts in the library. My father's condition is cultivation energy dispersion. One will only need to take a measure of spirit essence from his closest kin and feed it to a little ghost capable of gathering cultivation energy. Wait for forty nine days, gather back the energy essence that the little ghost would be losing and let my father absorb it to cure him…..”

“Have you gone mad! ?” Without waiting for her to finish, Qing Yu interrupted her sharply. “Do you know how venomous that method really is and how much it tears at one's cultivation? If you do that, living with an incomplete soul will not only rob you of your affinity with being an Elixir Cultivator, you could very possibly be reduced into becoming a puppet for an exorcist!”

“But I cannot just watch my father die like this.” Mu Lai clenched her fists tightly. “The Mu Family cannot do without him.”

“Then it can do without you?” Qing Yu retorted with a glare. “I will not allow you to so something like that.”

Mu Lai's brows furrowed together. “But…..”

“No buts. Since you came to me, I will help you solve it no matter what.” Qing Yu said coldly. “Who asked you to have such a nasty temper that made you just one friend here? Who will help you if I don't?”

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