Miss Loser is too enchanting

"Yes, Your Majesty." Little Douzi withdrew, and Zi Xiao returned to his room, lay down on his chaise longue, and closed his eyes to feign sleep.

Dugu Qianye was standing on a patch of bare ground, staring at a stone in a daze.

Entering the Domain of Attributes, she was not at all surprised. She had already known that bonding with a Spiritual Pearl enabled one to directly comprehend a Domain, but she was not pondering this issue right now; instead, she was thinking about how to stack and fuse all Domains together to form a new Domain.

She stood within the Domain, eyes closed in contemplation, as the surrounding Domains constantly shifted, the four Domains of fire, wood, water, and earth alternating around her, yet they just wouldn’t merge together. She tried for a long time but ultimately failed.

"Pfft..." Dugu Qianye opened her eyes and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, startling Zi Xiao, who had been feigning sleep, quite a bit.

"What’s wrong?" Zi Xiao asked, coming to the bedside.

Dugu Qianye took out an elixir and swallowed it, then rinsed her mouth before saying, "It’s nothing, just a bit of a reverse flow of Spiritual Power just now."

"Weren’t you in a Domain? How could a reverse flow of Spiritual Power occur?" Zi Xiao said.

"I wanted to try and see if I could fuse the Domains into one, to form a new all-encompassing Domain, so..." Dugu Qianye explained.

"Fusing the Domains together?" Zi Xiao, after hearing Dugu Qianye’s words, said, "That’s a good idea. Take it slowly, if you find a method, it can be successful."

Dugu Qianye nodded, understanding that she must find a method first.

"I plan to go into seclusion to study this and see if I can find a method," Dugu Qianye said. "Before that, I want to cure Little Douzi’s illness. Previously, I couldn’t control the flames, so it was impossible, but after the Fire Spiritual Pearl accepted me as its master, I’ve already been able to control it well."

"Alright. I’ll have someone call him," Zi Xiao said, then he went outside and instructed the guard to notify Little Douzi.

Before long, Little Douzi arrived, and upon seeing Zi Xiao and Dugu Qianye together, asked, "Your Majesty, what are your orders for me?"

"Little Yeye is planning to remove the ice crystals from your body tomorrow, so you should go back and prepare well. After that, she will start her seclusion," Zi Xiao explained.

"Really?" Little Douzi, excited upon hearing Zi Xiao’s words, said to Dugu Qianye, "Thank you, Mistress!"

"I’m only going to try, and I’m not entirely sure I can succeed. But at the very least, I can guarantee that you won’t be harmed. So don’t get your hopes up too high," Dugu Qianye injected a precautionary measure to avoid disappointment in case she could not succeed tomorrow.

"I understand!" Little Douzi said. "But Mistress, those guys previously asked me, when you remove the ice crystal, can they watch?"

"Hmm?" Dugu Qianye didn’t understand what Little Douzi meant.

"I mean the guards in the palace here. They know you found out the cause of my stunted growth and said they would like to witness your grace, so they asked if they could watch."

Dugu Qianye smiled and said, "That’s fine, but we can’t have too many people. Otherwise, it’ll be too noisy and could affect us."

"Great! I’ll go tell them now! Thank you, Mistress!" Little Douzi said and ran off.

Zi Xiao, looking at Dugu Qianye, said, "You don’t need to pay attention to those guys!"

"It’s fine as long as there aren’t too many people. They want to see me, but a big part of it is also because they care about Little Douzi!" Dugu Qianye said.

Zi Xiao nodded and said, "Little Douzi was an abandoned baby I picked up from the outside. It was they who raised him since he was little. They were so worried when he stopped growing at the age of 12."

"Right now, I am more curious about what that Bing Jing on Little Douzi’s Phantom Power Source actually is," Dugu Qianye said, thinking of the slumbering Bing Jing.

"Won’t we find out tomorrow?" Zi Xiao said.

"Yes, we’ll just wait for tomorrow."

The next day, Dugu Qianye chose to extract the Bing Jing from Little Douzi at the main hall of the Royal Palace. When she and Zi Xiao arrived, they saw that quite a few people were already there, including guards and others like Qie Yue, Hei Zi, Nian Hua, and Nian Sui, all of whom greeted them with bows.

Zi Xiao pulled Dugu Qianye to sit on the throne and looking down at everyone, said, "During the extraction of the thing from Little Douzi’s body by Little Yeye, no one is to make a sound. Those who can’t do that should leave now."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we won’t make any sound," the guards assured in unison.

"Qianye, are you confident?" Qie Yue asked. His bond with Little Douzi was arguably the strongest, and he deeply hoped that Dugu Qianye could heal Little Douzi, allowing him to live a normal life.

"I’ll do my best," Dugu Qianye said. Then she sat down with Little Douzi in the middle of the space and said, "Let’s begin. Use your Chaotic Power to protect your heart meridians."

Little Douzi nodded and stretched out his right hand.

Just like last time, Dugu Qianye summoned Liehuo first, then wrapped it with Chaotic Power, and finally encased it in a layer of something blue. After preparing everything, she slowly introduced Liehuo into Little Douzi’s body.

Having gone through the burning pain like a fiery blaze last time, Little Douzi was mentally prepared at the sight of Liehuo this time. However, contrary to the previous pain, when Liehuo entered his body this time, it felt slightly cold instead of painful.

This time, Dugu Qianye wrapped the Chaotic Power in a layer of blue matter, which she formed from the Water Spiritual Pearl into ripples of water, used to lower the temperature of the Liehuo to spare Little Douzi from too much discomfort.

After Liehuo entered Little Douzi’s body, it navigated effortlessly to his Dantian and stopped upon seeing the Bing Jing that was still pulsating on his Phantom Power Source.

As if noticing Liehuo, the Bing Jing squirmed a bit, ignoring it and continuing to sleep.

Seeing the Bing Jing’s reaction, Dugu Qianye found it amusing. It really didn’t have any sense of crisis!

She controlled Liehuo to slowly move closer to the Bing Jing, trying not to harm Little Douzi’s Phantom Power Source. It was only upon getting closer that she noticed the Bing Jing indeed had a pair of little eyes and a small mouth; the mouth opened and closed in rhythm, emitting cold air.

Dugu Qianye slightly increased the temperature of Liehuo. Feeling the heat, the Bing Jing opened its eyes, revealing transparent pupils, and stared at Dugu Qianye, full of confusion.

"What are you trying to do?" Bing Jing asked.

Dugu Qianye didn’t expect the Bing Jing to be able to speak; it had developed Spiritual Intelligence just like Liehuo had. She was surprised and had Liehuo relay, "We want to take you out."

"Why? I’m comfortable sleeping here. I don’t want to leave," Bing Jing replied.

"Your sleeping here is preventing my friend’s body from growing," Liehuo said.