Chapter 348: The Prodigal Scarlet Bee Empress

Hearing Lou Mu Yan say that she wouldn’t accept missions anymore, the supervisor was stunned. Just as he was about to speak, he heard her question, and the corner of his lips couldn’t help but twitch.

What did she mean by one where you could earn a lot of Spiritual Stones…

If there was such a mission or work, he’d also like to do it!

“There are currently no missions or jobs that directly pay Spiritual Stones in the Sect.”

Lou Mu Yan furrowed her brows slightly, then asked after a change of mind: “Then is there any trading place in the Sect? One where you can trade with Spiritual Stones.”

“…” The Mission Maniac didn’t become stupid after doing all those missions right—this was what the people present thought.

In fact, one couldn’t blame Lou Mu Yan for not knowing. After all, ever since she first arrived at the Sect, she was either in Seclusion to advance to the Core Formation Stage, or she was continuously doing missions outside, so she wasn’t really familiar with the Sect.

“Cough cough…” The supervisor coughed dryly and said with a smile: “There is a commercial street in the Sect where you can trade with Spiritual Stones, and many pupils will go there to set up stalls. If you don’t need some things, you can try selling them on that commercial street.”

This little monster had done so many missions, so she probably had a lot of nice things on her. At least, there would be no shortage of corpses of high-level Demonic Beasts.

“I see. Then thank you, supervisor. I’ll check it out in a couple of days.” Lou Mu Yan smiled.

“No need. If you’re ready to accept missions, remember to come to me.” The supervisor’s attitude was very kind.

Since the appearance of Lou Mu Yan, many long-standing missions had been resolved, and he had also been rewarded with a lot of contribution points in the past half a year because of it.

Now that Lou Mu Yan wasn’t doing mission for the time being, it would be a lie if he said he wasn’t disappointed inwardly.

“No problem, I’ll go back first.”

Lou Mu Yan greeted the supervisor, then left the mission hall. She didn’t go to the commercial street immediately, but went back to her residence and slept well for two days.

She didn’t know that in those two days when she slept, her own affairs were spread far and wide in the Outer Sect and many people were looking forward to seeing what she would bring out to exchange for Spiritual Stones.

Three days later, Lou Mu Yan successfully entered the cultivation base of Middle-Phase Sword Sovereign. This was also the result of her constant suppression, otherwise she would’ve been able to break through two months ago.

After finishing, a red bee that wasn’t quite yet the size of a palm waved its transparent wings and rubbed against Lou Mu Yan to express its hunger.

The corner of Lou Mu Yan’s lips twitched. Hungry again? Such a small body, yet eats the total of all the other Spirit Pets. If this went on, she’d die from poverty.

“Owner, Chi Huang is hungry again…” Bing Ji watched the little scarlet bee buzz around Lou Mu Yan and couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

Lou Mu Yan held her forehead. Her only remaining Spiritual Stones were all eaten up by this little fellow. Whoever dared say she was a prodigal, she’d fight whoever. Now, there was obviously someone who was more of a prodigal than her.

Three months ago, after she completed a mission, she found that the Scarlet Bee Empress emerged from the pupa. Because of the blood essence contract, it was very close to her.

But after a while, she discovered a drawback. This little fellow could eat too well. Since tasting Spiritual Stones and pills, nothing else could match its taste.

In three months, not only did it eat all the thirty thousand Spiritual Stones she borrowed from Ling Fei Yang, but even most of her Grade 3 pills were eaten.

But it wasn’t like there weren’t any benefits eating maniacally like this. The Scarlet Bee Empress, from the moment of birth, was a Tier 4 Demonic Beast and it only took three months to advance to Tier 5. Aside from the resources she provided, excelling talent was also an important reason.

She tossed a Grade 3 pill to it. When she saw its thin small hands tightly hugging the pill and start to nibble, she instantly felt helpless.

No wonder in the Secret Classic that Ye Qing Han gave her, there was a piece of advice that said if one didn’t have enough Spiritual Stones, one best not raise a Scarlet Bee Empress. Now she finally understood why.

Lou Mu Yan didn’t name the Scarlet Bee Empress. She called it Chi Huang according to its wishes. This was the name of each generation of the Scarlet Bee Empress, and it had already accepted most of the inheritance memories.

The Scarlet Bee Empress bore wisdom late, only at Tier 5, but its intelligence wasn’t high. Only when it arrived at Tier 7 when it could start breeding Scarlet Bees would its intelligence be birthed, so the current consciousness of this little fellow was somewhat dull.

After cleaning up, Lou Mu Yan found that she wasn’t familiar with the Sect, and the so-called commercial street wasn’t in the Sect’s introduction jade slip either.

After thinking about it, she ran to the Smithing School to find Ling Fei Yang and the others.

As soon as Lou Mu Yan entered the Smithing School, she attracted the attention of many people, and those gazes were filled with curiosity and inquiry.

An old pupil of the Smithing School secretly rubbed his hands and walked up to Lou Mu Yan with a serious-looking smile and asked: “Is there something Junior Sister wants from the Smithing School?”

“I’m here to find Ling Fei Yang. Can I trouble Senior Brother to help call for him?” Lou Mu Yan nodded and smiled.

She was currently wearing a bright red dress with a beautiful figure, and her stunning face had grown a lot. Her beauty that could cause the downfall of a kingdom had long been prevalent. She wasn’t that kind of shy and delicate beauty, but was like a delicate rose with thorns.

The contradictory temperament of having some wildness in her elegance only made her even more prominent.

No matter what she wore, as long as she just stood there casually, gracefully, she would just always be that attractive.

“Junior Brother Ling went out to do a mission together with Junior Brother Mo of the Array School, so Junior Sister is probably here in vain today.” The young pupil smiled gently.

Lou Mu Yan thought a bit, then asked: “Then may I ask Senior Brother, is Yan Jun here?”

“Junior Brother Yan is in the smithing room. If Junior Sister wants to find him, I can take you there.”

“Then I’ll trouble Senior Brother.”

Seeing that Lou Mu Yan followed a supervising pupil of the Smithing School, the pupils of the Smithing School also began to discuss in a whisper.

“That little beauty is Lou Mu Yan, that Mission Maniac?”

“Yeah, otherwise why would Senior Brother Lu be so diligent?”

“Just which son of a bitch said that Lou Mu Yan, that Mission Maniac is big and tall and was even more of a man than a man? Such a beauty can definitely be ranked among the top five of the Sect. Those people are just talking nonsense with their eyes open.”

“Isn’t it all just jealousy. I heard that female pupil of the Array School that’s been making up rumours has been having a pretty hard time lately.”

“More than hard. I heard that after Elder Ao Rong returned to the Sect yesterday, he heard the rumours about the relatives situation and went to the Sect Leader to rage. The Headmaster of the Array School already demoted the Core Pupil who secretly spread the rumours to an Ordinary Pupil.”

“Serves her right! She’s not as strong as the others but still wants to gossip. This isn’t the secular world, but don’t tell me she wants to cause Sect intrigue1?”

“I heard that Lou Mu Yan was the champion of the Tian’ling Continental Tournament for Hegemony and Elder Ao Rong snatched her from the Elders of the other five Major Sects. Only those idiots would spread that kind of foolish rumour.”

“So there’s actually that. No wonder Lou Mu Yan can choose to live in a separate courtyard when she came to the Sect. In the past, we couldn’t snatch anything from the other five Major Sects, but this time, Elder Ao Rong actually snatched the first place, so it’s natural to pay more attention to her.”

“…”

The inside story that broke out among the pupils of the Array School also spread to the other Schools on purpose and even the Inner Sect began to hear the name Lou Mu Yan.

Yan Jun was currently refining a Low-Grade Saint Treasure. He had already failed several times before, and this time, he was also about to fail. Hearing the telepathic transmission from the supervising pupil, he had someone bring Lou Mu Yan in.

1a play on the term ‘palace intrigue’ or ‘harem intrigue’ or maybe even ‘palace/harem fight’, whichever you’ve heard. Basically that pupil’s making fun of all the drama that happens in palaces (which is usually in the ‘secular’ world where there are still mortals who can’t cultivate) and relating it to Lou Mu Yan’s situation lol.