5029-5033 Taking the Elite Imperial Level Apothecary Test

Entry 5035 Chapter 5029 神秘人7

Backstory: SL is trying to heal NL’s little brother, Nangong Liuxing. Nangong Jiayin is Liuxing’s twin sister who’s a Master level Apothecary. While SL was gone for a year with NL to on a school field trip to Ashura World to acquire some pearls necessary for Liuxing’s treatment, Jiayin came back home to try and cure Liuxing herself, having recently promoted as an Apothecary. She had just enough skill and knowledge to thoroughly mess up SL’s work. Now SL must pass the Elite version of the Imperial level Apothecary examination so she can earn the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles. She fails repeatedly. Each failure saps a large amount of her spirit energy, making each subsequent attempt more and more difficult. The test is to cure a city plagued by a zombie causing disease. There’s a powerful mysterious man in black who appears at the end of most of her attempts to make things harder. This is the end of her final attempt, when she’s about to fail because of the man in black again.

5029 Because a man in white, as holy as an immortal has descended from the wall and engages in battle with the mysterious man in black. It’s not much of a battle, the man in white clearly has the upper hand. The man in black waves his hand and a group of mercenaries swarm. The man in white waves his hand and the mercenaries are instantly all defeated. SL is dumbfounded at his strength and wonders if he’s the Lord of the Continent. SL can’t see his face clearly from this distance but she finds him somehow familiar. The man in white tidies up the man in black who caused SL so much despair in just two moves, then he indifferently beckons in a familiar way to SL. SL is now almost certain of who he is and her heart nearly bursts. SL takes two steps, then accelerates faster, still not fast enough, then starts teleporting over to him.
A peerless face, an aloof temperament, as holy as an immortal, warm and refined. His dark, deep, and beautiful eyes stare at SL.
“Master!” SL straight up clings to him and starts bawling. Like a child long away from home, when she feels the familiar sense of security provided by an elder, SL is so excited she loses her self-control. It really is Grand Master Rong Yun. They haven’t met since Blue Sky Continent. Grand Master Rong Yun is extraordinarily indifferent to others, but at this moment, he’s slightly moved. He pats her head, silently comforting her. SL has her arms wrapped around his waist and keeps on saying, “Master…Master…Master…” This makes him laugh and he grumpily pats her head, “Are you still little? You still cry when you see Master?”
“I haven’t seen Master in so long. I feel wronged…” SL looks teary eyed at him, “This time Master has come, so you won’t leave right?”
“What do you think?” Rong Yun grumpily asks his stupid disciple.
“Uh…” SL realizes she’s asked a stupid question, “What about the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles?”
She doesn’t really know what to do at this point. Technically, it was Master who killed the mysterious man in black, will it count towards her?
Rong Yun doesn’t realize his own lips are curving slightly. He puts his hands behind his back and leisurely asks, “You really want the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles?”
SL: “Of course, I’ve been waiting to use the Divine Needles to save people.”
SL starts talking and shaking Rong Yun’s sleeve like a spoiled little girl while asking about the needles. In front of Master, there’s no need to be proud, cold, or indifferent, she should simply be spoiled. Ignore how cold and indifferent Master seems.

5030 Sure enough, Grand Master Rong Yun gives a little cough and pats her hand, “Alright, alright. Since you like it, then you can first take it to use. But, once your strength recovers, you have to come back and take the test again.”
“Wah! Master live 10,000 years!” SL hugs Rong Yun’s neck and smiles very happily.
Rong Yun grumpily pats her head, “If your Master wanted to live 10,000 years, he would die an early death.”
“Oh!” SL laughs after a moment.
Rong Yun can do nothing about her. Despite his somber face, he wants to drown her with pampering. He wants to present all of the world’s best before this little girl. SL starts complaining about how much spirit energy the test took and how she would have to lie in bed for a long time to recover. She says all this while swinging his sleeve back and forth. Has he ever met a little girl that sought to be spoiled so much? Rong Yun can only helplessly say, “Forget it, you can take the test again at a later date.”
The people outside are stupefied. This is the legendarily cold and indifferent Grand Master Rong Yun, but whatever SL says, she gets. They had heard SL’s master was Rong Yun, but hearing and seeing are two different things. They’re so glad they decided to accept SL into the Association back then. They knew Rong Yun treated SL well, but to spoil her to this degree…it’s like they’re dreaming. Isn’t he supposed to be a cold indifferent god? Why is it that SL can wave his sleeve in a spoiled manner and whatever she says, she gets? This is too much. If someone were to say that is not Grand Master Rong Yun, they would laugh at that person. He defeated the mysterious black man in two moves, he can only be Grand Master Rong Yun. When Grand Master Rong Yun made his first appearance, that was the same time the Apothecary Association came into being. What does this represent? Something terrifying. Having such a powerful master really will make others hatefully envious.
You want the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles but you’re not strong enough? What should you do? No problem, have Master come out, a wave of his hand and the BOSS is dead. Another wave of the hand and you receive the reward and are told you can come back to take the test later when you’re stronger. What is this? This isn’t fair right? How can a Master spoil their disciple to this degree? But this is the incredibly cold Grand Master Rong Yun. Who would dare say half a word against Grand Master Rong Yun’s lovingly spoiled disciple. Can’t die fast enough? Although Grand Master Rong Yun has been gone for many tens of thousands of years, his prestigious reputation still glows. No one can afford to offend him. The four Imperial level Apothecaries are shocked but were a bit prepared, this is within their tolerance level. But for Nangong Jiayin, SL has truly terrified her future sister in law. Jiayin is standing motionless, as if struck by lightning. Her body is still, and her mind has become a block of wood.

5031 Rong Yun’s incredible status circles over and over again in Jiayin’s head. And now the SL that she despises is the incredibly pampered disciple of this divine immortal. This is too great a blow, Jiayin cannot bear it.
SL doesn’t know everyone is watching and listening, she only knows to seize this opportunity to ask, “Master, my mother?”
Outside, everyone’s heads sprouts question marks, SL’s mother? Who’s that? Grand Master Rong Yun waves his sleeve and the image on the monitor breaks into white snowflakes, then fades to black. Everyone looks at each other, Grand Master Rong Yun knows everything, so scary!
SL is still unaware, she only sees her master waving his sleeve. She continues to tug on his sleeve, “Master, Master, my mother, my mother?” Rong Yun looks helplessly upon his little disciple’s small curious face. He wanted to leave earlier, but SL did not let go of his sleeve and even dragged him into sitting down. The two of them are sitting from the tallest building, legs hanging free. Below them, the zombies from the disease continue to cause havoc, the two of them are completely unconcerned.
“What do you want to know?” Rong Yun grumpily. In this virtual city of disaster, it’s not easy for Heaven to discover them.
“Master, just what is going on? I’m really quite confused right now.” SL remembers what Grandpa Sea Emperor said, “My Father is the Heaven Rebelling High Emperor?” Rong Yun’s expression and eyes narrows, his eyes burst forth with a sense of coldness. SL is creeped out by this sense of cold. At first she thinks she’s imaging things, but then she sees that the zombies down below have turned into icicles, that’s when she realizes the cold is not directed at her. SL pitifully looks at her Master, she takes his hand and gently, in a trembling voice, “Master…”
Rong Yun snaps at her while slapping her hand aside, “Every household would teach their little ladies how to sit properly, how to properly follow the rules of etiquette.”
Learn etiquette? How to salute? SL’s about to fall over, she quickly changes the topic. “Master, tell, tell, that year, what exactly happened?” She says she can’t make heads or tails of what happened.
Rong Yun looks at the sky. “It’s getting late. Although this is a virtual world, it’s hard to protect against him finding out. Just remember…”

5032 “160,000 years ago, your teacher, your City Lord foster father, and your mother…in order to avoid that person, we left the Spirit World and were reborn with our memories[离开灵界带着记忆重生转世]. And now, your mother and father require that you save them. Do you now understand just how heavy the burden you carry?” Rong Yun earnestly looks at SL.
“Confront…” SL points her index finger at the sky.
Rong Yun nods his head, “Do you still dare not to practice?”
SL lowers her little head, “Don’t dare.”
“Do you still dare to be lazy?”
“…Don’t dare.”
“Do you still dare to act spoiled?”
SL lifts her little head, her eyes sparkling, “Dare!”
Rong Yun grumpily pats her head, “Alright. Your Master for now cannot appear by your side. In addition to avoiding that person’s attention, there’s another reason, do you know why?”
SL weakly moves her hands, “…..I know.”
Rong Yun murmurs, “Tell me.”
“…If Master protects me, I’ll never grow, so…”
Rong Yun hums, “So you do know.”
SL in an unconvinced manner, “But my progress isn’t small. I’ve gone from Profound Transformation to 3 Star Grand Completion, Master~~~”
Rong Yun seriously looks at SL and says with an unprecedented sense of gravity, “Yes, your progress is very fast. Your rapid rate of progression, from the beginning of the Spirit World until the present would rank you 2nd. But your mother and the others do not have much time left to wait for you to grow up. So girl, you have to work hard.”
“Master, what do you…mean?” What does he mean your mother and the others do not have much time left to wait for you. Has something unfortunate happened?
Rong Yun shakes his head, “Right now if you know too much, it would have an adverse effect. What you need to do now is increase your strength and medical skills. The hour is late, time to go.”
Rong Yun rubs SL’s little head right when she’s still confused, when she next opens her eyes, she’s already in the Medicine King Valley. Where’s Master? SL anxiously looks around but doesn’t see Master’s figure. She had so many more things to ask him, such as Black and White Masters’ matter. SL in a depressed manner holds her head, she’ll just have to accept it. Whatever the outcome, she saw Master, learned some secrets, and got the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles, this is already a great fortune. Her mood improves. She takes the needles and leaves the Medicine King Valley. When she exits, she finds the four Imperial level Apothecaries and Nangong Jiayin are looking at her with strange complicated expressions which makes SL uncomfortable.
SL is still depressed from parting with Master so she pretends to be relaxed while she pats the hand holding the needle, “I got the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles, quick, come over and congratulate me!” Everyone is silent. SL suspiciously looks at them, “What’s wrong with you all? I got the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles. Isn’t that something to be happy about?”
Jiayin with a complicated expression, “We already saw you acquire the Wonderful Divine Shadow Needles.”
SL’s heart jumps. “You could see?” How about when Master and I talked about Mother? SL feels like someone’s grabbed her heart and she has this sinking sensation. Matters concerning Mother and Father are secrets of the highest confidentiality!

5033 Jiayin explains, after hearing SL’s question, that they could hear and see everything until SL asked Rong Yun about her mother. Then the screen went black.
“Right, Su Luo, just who is your mother?” This was all done in a very mysterious manner.
SL breaths a sigh of relief hearing her answer and changes the subject to bringing the needles back. Both SL and Jiayin have gained a great deal coming here. Jiayin had always been proud of her own Master, but after learning who SL’s Master is, she’s decided to stop struggling against her.
SL and Jiayin say good bye to the four Apothecaries and go back to the Longfeng Estate. Jiayin’s attitude has taken a 180 degree turn. Now that she knows Grand Master Rong Yun’s little disciple is in front of her, she will not waste this opportunity and starts asking many, many gossipy questions of Rong Yun. SL stops her by asking if she wants Rong Yun’s autograph. Jiayin fangirls over the idea.
SL takes out the divine needles and waves them, “I was even able to get these. A signature….~~is a small matter between friends~~.” Jiayin completes her 180 turn and excitedly tells SL to quickly marry her brother. She’s now afraid someone else will steal SL. SL is speechless, this lady’s ability to change is too fast. It doesn’t suit her.