The Queen Of The Dark
TQOTD Chapter XCIX [Pharmacist Certificate II]

Two of the hall's doorkeepers saw Xiu Jieru's group coming, both of them smiling respectfully as they spoke a few words like a warm welcome.

Yue Liang Zhi stood a distance of one meter, making sure Xiu Jieru had stepped in, she immediately approached towards the door with an indifferent look.

“Stop,” guard stop step foot red beauty.

Yue Liang Zhi's small legs stopped, she looked up at the two people. A pair of black netra shone in the sunlight, it was like a bronze mirror that showed the reflection of any object in front of it.

Another guard said politely, “little children are prohibited from entering the apothecary hall.”

“Go! Here is not a place to play, find your mother and invite her to play outside.” Said the guard using a tone of arrogance, perhaps, every day all the sentences that came out of his lips were vices and vices.

The two guards had opposite natures! To the guard with a polite look, Yue Liang Zhi just had a good impression of him. And for the other guards who brought up the mother, she did not know how to treat the person because she herself did not know who and how the real mother of the original body owner looked like.

The right guard of the door patted the back of his friend, “hei, there is no need to be too rough on him.”

Xiu Jieru laughed sneeringly, This “nona came with me, you guys don't need to hold it back. I'll see the teacher soon, so don't waste my time.”

The guard's prideful face began to fade, he laughed full of expressions of awkwardness. “Ah, apparently came with miss Jieru. Forgive this guard who has been rude.”.

Coldness that has no base etched on the face of Yue Liang Zhi, “no, I do not know him.”

It was a slap too fast for Xiu Jieru!

Xiu Jieru's chest went up and down, he did not accept being humiliated without being given the slightest face.

“I want to do pill refining testing and testing to be a pharmacist, no need to let me in with your false courtesy, I don't need!” Continued the red figure, all those sentences were too piercing. Everyone looked at her who was saying cruel words with the most innocent, pure eyes and the most beautiful face. However, he himself felt that there was nothing wrong with that sentence.

“Nona can queue at that place, they are all in line to register themselves to take the exam at this hall,” guards on the right door still display politeness, he said, he secretly agreed with the sharpness of the tongue belonging to the little red.

Head Yue Liang Zhi nodded lightly, “good and thank you.” Three short words full of friendship hit the hearing, the tone is like a vibration on the cello strings, very soft and pleasant to hear.

Still with an expression full of coldness, Yue Liang Zhi was now walking closer to where the queue was. He ignored Xiu Jieru's ugly face, both of his arms were engrossed in flicking the strands of his black mane backwards. Her refined look melted the heart, her eyelashes twitching like butterfly wings. The queue continues to decrease, he is getting closer to the table and of course still the center of attention.

Everyone around remained silent on the moment that felt he was stopping moving.

The dozen-year-old woman smilingly looked at Yue Liang Zhi, she did not have a haughty expression like one of the apothecary's palm door guards. According to him, every person both old and young who register for testing should be treated equally. “Name and what will be tested?”

“Yue Liang Zhi, Pill second grade and taking the examination of being a pharmacist,” his face was flat but exuded an indisputable aura of emphasis.

“Mmmm....,” Yue Liang Zhi muttered without opening her mouth, her body then turned and walked with a pair of small legs entering the door with two examinees.

The room was very spacious, the smell of herbs pungent to fill the chest cavity. Dozens of tables had one wait on it, this was a heavenly beauty to the Alchemists. An old man stood in the middle, everyone was convinced that the man was none other than Jun Yunxue, the supervisor of the pill refining examination.

A first-rate Alchemist would get the left-most row, the second-most row would be left and so on. The pill to be purified is the shangku pill, the assessment is done according to the purity level of the pill above 60% and according to the level as well as the number of pills, the purification is done within two hours. For testing as a pharmacist, it would be done in a different room.

Everyone gathered the form and immediately took the table.

A white hand as smooth as jade took out a few plants then put them into the furnace, the blue fire spirit burned the outer part of the furnace. The small red movement looked very relaxed, no trace of mental pressure was painted on its delicate features. His black net was focused on the furnace with the domineering reflection of the blue flames, he was well aware of several pairs of eyes observing towards him, yet he behaved indifferently.

Jun Yunxue observed the movements of the participants, his eyes fixedly staring at the entire small movement of Yue Liang Zhi.

From the side door, Jin Quon came with Xiu Jieru. A pair of teachers and disciples stared confusedly at Jun Yunxue's face which consisted of various colors, both of them then looked at the direction of the old man's gaze.

Xiu Jieru gasped, his heart pounding at the bet he had made. If Yue Liang Zhi managed to become an apothecary, then later on he would be completely humiliated. His hands clenched firmly with nails that stuck into the flesh, he even let out a drop of sweat at the end of his temple. He glanced at Jin Quon who was fascinated by the calmness of one of the Qinglong sect disciples, damn it!

The red devil is too dazzling!

Dominate and... Too pressing!

Xiu Jieru's neck was suffocated with hatred, he was envious of Yue Liang Zhi who attracted everyone's attention on the first day of taking the test. Frustration filled the chest cavity until it went up to the throat, his hands itching to tear apart the calmness of the child.

An hour later, Yue Liang Zhi put in the last ingredient and then closed the furnace back. The surrounding alchemists glanced slightly at him, the next second, those who had been tempted to stare at him had lost their concentration and had failed in refining pills. There was even a furnace that exploded with the remaining smoke billowing out of sight, the next second again, about five Alchemists had also failed to purify the pill.

The red beauty looked like a thorny wild rose with the aura of sharp datasmen all around.

“I heard you brought the boy here, tell me, where did you find such great talent?” Jun Yunxue asked his fellow disciple.

Both of Jin Quon's eyebrows are knitted, “you know him?” He looked at his disciple in shock.

“Yes, this disciple knew the boy,” Xiu Jieru bowed respectfully.

Jin Quon's right hand rubbed his chin slowly, “good... You learn from him, his concentration level has even exceeded that of a decades-old Alchemist.”

Xiu Jieru again choked even tighter, his breath having choked as he tried to calm the seething emotions. “Murid will obey the teacher's orders,” he again bowed by holding the blood that will come out of his throat. He hates, he hates!