Give you two days

Even though Lin Yue felt sad, she didn't show it on her face as she started searching the treasury instead. She was neither in the mood for cultivating nor practice, even though she was smiling, the sadder she was inside, no matter how hard she tried to ignore the prickling feeling in her chest, she was always forced to remember her father's irresponsible face and her master's lazy expression.

It all seems like yesterday, well, the saying was really true, you wouldn't understand someone's worth until you lose them. In fact, what no one know, even her mother was the immensity of her hatred for the empire, she hate it so much, and swearing upon her life, she wouldn't rest until she push the emperor into despair, shred him of any hope, beheaded him, and crush his soul, making him to never exist again.

Of course, what Lin Yue didn't know was that the emperor was also planning to do an even worst thing to her and her mother.

In the throne room sat the emperor.

His fist was clenched tightly until his knuckles turned white as he placed his hand on the table. Then picking up the teacup, he hurled it at the young man kneeling in front of him.

The young man shivered as he even lowered his head more, letting the cup land on his head and blood dripping down his forehead.

"What the damn hell did I ask you to do? I ask you to take away the sword of those traitors, but you're here telling me that you can't find them. Are you planning on betraying this empire too?!"

The young man seems to recover from shock as he slammed his head hard against the cold floor without caring about his injury.

"Your Majesty! Luo will never side with a traitor."

Emperor Wu sneered. "Then why is the woman not brought to me yet?!"

"Your Majesty, thanks to the hunter jade, these servants were able to locate their scents but suddenly, their scent disappeared, as if they no more existed."

Emperor Wu smirked. "They vanished into thin air? You should have come up with a better excuse."

His smile disappeared as his gaze turn eviler.

"I give you two days! By next tomorrow, I must see their heads or you're going to see your family's heads."

The man broke out in cold sweat as he kowtowed again. "I will surely find them this time around, even if they were stuck in a black hole!"

"Better." Emperor Wu said, and bowing one last time, the man left.

Lin Yue on the other hand ransacked through the treasury and she found herself with another two skills.

The two skills she found herself this time around were fire skills, Fire Root and Dazzling Fire.

Fire Root allows her to concentrate all her spiritual power into the ground, and then turned it into a volcano while Dazzling Fire allows her to surround people in a heap of flame.

Her consciousness drifted back to earth as she opens her eyes and jumped off the tree branch, she felt like doing something but she was in no mood.

Just as she entered the living room, she saw her mother sitting in front of the table, concentrating on writing something she didn't understand.

"Oh, you're done." Her mother turned back slightly before her gaze returned to the rune she was drawing.

"Yeah, but Mother, I don't see anything like hunter jade in the treasury or master's ring. How are we going to make the pill for resolving it then?" Lin Yue sat down at the other end of the chair, face scrunching up in confusion and frustration.

"Just practice for now, your inability to find it means that your master, a level three alchemist has never practiced it, and also, there is a high chance that he has never heard of it, or the herbs it requires are rare, or maybe, it is only something of higher level. So..." Xie Mingzhu placed the brush in her hand and raise her head.

"You must practice hard, or we're going to be stuck here."

Lin Yue sighed silently before nodding with a smile.

"I understand." Then she walked back to her room and started cultivating.

Five days later.

It was morning and the warm sunlight escaped into the room through the window.

Sitting on the bed was Lin Yue, her eyes were red with large eye bags, she yawned once in a while as she looks at the pill in the furnace.

There were three pills in total, one of them is burnt, another one is half-burnt and only one of them look normal.

Lin Yue look at them carefully, another yawn escaping her lips as she muttered.

"This is my fifth time trying to make this 'Bone Cleansing Pill' The first four times all turned into ashes for a reason or the other, and this one time that I finally made it, two turned to ashes and the only one was only a little bit normal."

Pouting, she cleaned the furnace and was about to start remaking another one when the door to her room was knocked.