The Queen Of The Dark
TQOTD Chapter C [Pharmacist Certificate III]

The blue flame still enveloped the furnace with steady heat, the moving blue glint bouncing across the beautiful net of small red roses. A slender hand picked up a porcelain bottle when the furnace had a mild vibration, the white pill immediately entered the bottle at a speed that was difficult to capture by the eyes of a normal person.

As soon as he averted his gaze, Yue Liang Zhi caught a sharp look from the people around him. He understood the meaning of those gazes, they were angry after losing concentration and ended up having a nervousness in refining pills. His face gave an indifferent look, he was deaf and did not care about their mistakes as if they were the result of his actions.

Even if it was indeed Yue Liang Zhi's deed, he would still choose to be an innocent person with porcupine spines all over his body.

There are only three depictions of beauty, poisonous and too fierce!

Jun Yunxue began to assess the pill that the Alchemist had successfully purified. Naturally, the Alchemists who failed while refining pills would not count. About two people had passed the assessment, while another pill with purity below 60% without further ado was instantly eliminated by it. “Next...,” call him to another examinee to bring the pill before him.

Master Xiu Jieru stood beside the appraiser, he followed closely by every pill that had passed the test. Meanwhile, his disciple was now in the corner of the room still watching over Yue Liang Zhi's movements.

A female Alchemist over the age of about two heads advanced forward, Jun Yunxue reached out to grab the bottle from her palm.

After a few minutes of observing, Jun Yunxue spoke again, “failed, continued the next participant.” He then looked forward with the tail of his eyes that followed the movement of the red beauty.

Whether it was conscious or not, as Yue Liang Zhi breezed forward, every step that retraced would definitely let out a soul-stirring momentum. His steps then stopped as his white hands gave porcelain bottles, his fingers looked slender like old twigs to make anyone want to protect the owner sculptured beauty.

The two pairs of old man's eyes had a flash of warmth, once the bottle opened, Jun Yunxue's narrowed eyes turned enlarged and Jin Quon's nose felt like it wanted to leak. The five level two shangku pills with 100% purity made both of them mute, Jun Yunxue's hands trembled as he re-inserted the pills into the bottle. While Jin Quon, the man had thrown his face away trying to hold back the warm melt in the nose that was starting to descend slowly.

The participants of the examination were curious about the strange expressions of the two apothecaries, there were only two possibilities that the pill that Yue Liang Zhi had made was too horrendous and the pill that was made was above expectations.

“Guild, miss will soon get a certificate of Alchemist level two with the number of five pills and purity 100%.” Jun Yunxue was being sweet to the younger generation before him.

Xiu Jieru's heart and mind were possessed, he wanted to immediately run over to tear apart the heavenly carvings. Even if he had cut it into pieces, his emotions would probably not recede even after he drank the blood of the red figure to the point of drying out.

Five pills? Damnit damnit! That's the amount that makes anyone jealous. A normal Alchemist was only able to purify a maximum of three pills.

100%? Well, that has never happened in the Huo Empire. Even if it had now happened, could it have come from an older Alchemist?

Yue Liang Zhi retreated, she walked towards another Alchemist who had also been declared to pass the examination.

“I heard some of you want to take the exam to be pharmacists, you will do the exam now or tomorrow?” Jun Yunxue asked approaching the three new juniors.

“This junior wants to do the exam right now,” Yue Liang Zhi clenched her cupped right hand with her left hand, she bent her body slightly.

Two other Alchemist: “We will also do now.”

Jin Quon nodded in satisfaction with the spirit of the youngster's soul, “that's good... You guys are lucky, today the arrival hall of an important guest who will be the exam appraiser becomes a pharmacist.”

Jun Yunxue smiled, Xiu Jieru and the two Alchemists felt thumping. Yue Liang Zhi's expression was still the same, even though the snow outside was starting to melt, but they all felt that they were now living on the ice block. There was a constant cold stream of red beauties too pressing!

Without waiting for long, they arrived at another room. This room was not as spacious as the examination room for the Alchemist, but this room had more complete and accommodating facilities. A man sitting with his legs crossed, he looked to have the older lifespan of two apothecaries in addition to the three new juniors, he also gave off an imposing aura.

Jun Yunxue's steps became fast, he then approached the man who was sitting lazily. “Ck, Wu Jingmi. You still seem as lazy as ever, I wonder how can a prang like you have the ability to be capable in refining pills? Just makes me envious!”

Wu Jingmi silently felt that all the sentences from her old comrade were unimportant, yet she became interested when she saw Yue Liang Zhi and felt the cultivation level of that red-haired little fellow, “who is this junior?”

“Hahaha... Very interesting, right.”

Five other people quietly gave space for two old friends to greet each other who meet for some time. One person gave a hostile look at Yue Liang Zhi, who else if not Xiu Jieru. He seemed to be tearing the child's body apart with his gaze, but the one he stared at gave a provoking smile.

Xiu Jieru gave another wound on his palm, his nails firmly planted without giving off any pain. She hated the beauty and ability of Yue Liang Zhi, she was fed up with the good destiny of this rival of hers.

How not sick? Having graduated to being an Alchemist in the first trial, it had even now attracted the attention of Wu Jingmi the famous apothecary but was hard to find his whereabouts. Xiu Jieru really wanted to directly stab Yue Liang Zhi with a sharp dagger!

Jun Yunxue's discordant laughter subsided, “three juniors will take the exam to become apothecaries. Now you have to follow me as a supervisor, believe me, you won't regret.”

The corner of Wu Jingmi's eyes glanced at Yue Liang Zhi's head, she calculated the young age of qualified talent with normal child's body size, “I will follow what you want.”

Before the test, Xiu Jieru had whined to ask his master to take the exam to become an apothecary. She let out tears as if she was crying in a jolt, looking like a helpless and pitiful flower with a strong desire that was hindered by helplessness.