Romance of the Resurrected Crown Princess and the Cold-blooded Wolf King

Duanmu Xi saw four jade bottles were placed by the medicinal materials in order, next to which there was a sheet of paper.

Duanmu Xi picked up the paper and took a look at it. It wrote the refining method of Tranquil Dew.

The method was quite simple. Duanmu Xi summarized it into two aspects–extracting and integrating.

Having learned the extracting sequence, Duanmu Xi started medicine refining for the first time in her life.

Instead of rushing to proceed with the extracting step, Duanmu Xi checked the medicine tripod in front of her first.

The medicine tripod was not very big, which was copper-colored with two ears and three legs. There was also a square hole in the cover, which should be used to put in the medicinal materials.

The old man in grey saw the two men had started refining while Duanmu Xi was still checking the medicine tripod. He couldn’t refrain from nodding with appreciation.

The girl was so prudent at such a young age. She was potential for medicine refining indeed.

The top thing that should be avoided in terms of medicine refining was haste. The refining pharmacist must maintain calm.

After checking the medicine tripod, Duanmu Xi urged the fire spiritual power within her body to light up the flame in the medicine tripod.

After memorizing the flame intensity, Duanmu Xi fetched a light purple Thousand Purple Leaf and put it into the square hole.

Upon reaching the flame in the medicine tripod, the Thousand Purple Leaf was directly burned into ashes.

Duanmu Xi slightly frowned. It seemed that the flame was too strong.

Duanmu Xi immediately weakened the flame in the medicine tripod with mental strength and then threw another Thousand Purple Leaf inside.

It lasted a few seconds longer than last time but the Thousand Purple Leaf was still burned into ashes in the end.

Duanmu Xi kept weakening the flame in the medicine tripod. As she repeated this three or four times, she found that the Thousand Purple Leaf would still be burned into ashes no matter how she weakened the flame.

Duanmu Xi frowned and stopped to observe how the other two participants were doing.

Shortly, she found that likewise, they also repeated throwing the Thousand Purple Leaves into the medicine tripod. Obviously, they didn’t know the right way either.

Duanmu Xi picked up the method again and read it.

She didn’t omit anything. What on earth went wrong?

Duanmu Xi reflected on the two tests today.

Did it have anything to do with the wood spiritual power?

Since the wood and fire spiritual roots were the primary condition for becoming a refining pharmacist, the wood spiritual root must play a decisive role in the process of medicine refining.

She didn’t seem to add in her wood spiritual power just now.

Duanmu Xi thought it through and immediately started to testify her guess.

She put in the Thousand Purple Leaf again, except that she also injected some wood spiritual power this time. The purplish-red flame carried a wisp of green now.

Afterward, she adjusted the intensity of the flame repeatedly and finally extracted the light purple powder after wasting a dozen Thousand Purple Leaves.

Duanmu Xi hastened to put it into the jade bottle and placed it aside.

The old man in grey saw Duanmu Xi succeeded in extracting the essence of Thousand Purple Leaf, his eyes filled with appreciation.

This girl had not only powerful mental strength but also savvy.

After the test was over, he must take her as his disciple. He believed that the girl must be more accomplished than him in the future.

The other two men saw Duanmu Xi finished extracting the Thousand Purple Leaf and then stopped to stare at her extracting process, trying to find out the way to extract the powder successfully amidst her actions.

Due to her success in extracting the essence from the Thousand Purple Leaf, Duanmu Xi also managed to extract the essence of Rippling Illusion Fruit and Star Divinity Grass quickly.

Because every medicinal material required different intensities of flame, Duanmu Xi still wasted quite some medicinal materials.

Duanmu Xi gave a bitter smile and wiped the sweat off her forehead.

It was not easy to refine the medicine. No wonder it was required the mental strength should be powerful. Those whose mental strength was not that strong couldn’t hang on for that long. Besides, what she was refining was the medicine of the lowest level.

However, when she became proficient, it shouldn’t be that painstaking for her then.

Now, it was time for integrating, which would take more mental strength than extracting.

After figuring out the integrating sequence on the method, Duanmu Xi picked up the yellow fruit extracted from the Rippling Illusion Fruit and put it into the medicine tripod.

Duanmu Xi controlled the flame carefully. When the yellow fruit melted into yellow liquid slowly, she poured in the light purple powder and the blue liquid extracted from the Star Divinity Grass. The three things integrated fully and became dark purple liquid gradually.

After the integrating step was finished, Duanmu Xi put in the black spiritual core.

Upon meeting the red flame, the black spiritual core instantly turned into a black cinder while the black spiritual power was integrated into the dark purple liquid.

A special aroma of medicine permeated the whole medicine refining room.

She made it!

Happiness flashed across Duanmu Xi’s eyes. She immediately put the dark purple liquid into the jade bottle.

This should be Tranquil Dew. She didn’t expect the final integrating step to go so smoothly.

When Duanmu Xi made the Tranquil Dew successfully, the test was more or less over.

The old man in grey went forward to check the Tranquil Dew refined by Duanmu Xi and nodded with appreciation.

It was a low-grade product but she hadn’t learned about medicine refining before. It was good enough that she could succeed in refining the Tranquil Dew.

As to the two men, one only refined the essence of the Thousand Purple Leaf and the other one got nothing.

Actually, it was quite normal. No one had ever passed the third test before. The one with the highest score extracted the essence of the three medicinal materials only. After all, the girl was outstanding in every aspect. How many people could be as excellent as her on the Hantian Continent?

The old man in grey looked at Duanmu Xi with an amiable face.

“Girl, you’ve passed the third test too. Come with me to meet the president and the elders.”

Duanmu Xi nodded with a composed look.

As Duanmu Xi nodded, the old man in grey turned around and looked at the two men.

“You come with me too.”

The old man in grey’s voice became rigid as before.

Faced with the old man in grey’s distinctive treatment, the two men didn’t dare to show any disgruntlement. After all, the girl was exceptionally talented and the old man was an elder of the academy.

The three of them followed the old man in grey into a hall. Now, the hall was a sea of people.

Duanmu Xi took a glance and found those who took the test of mental strength with them among the crowd. Supposedly, they must have passed the tests of the academy.

“Here comes Elder Yuan.” Someone in the crowd recognized the old man in grey.

All the people looked at the entrance of the hall.

Duanmu Xi immediately lowered her head and followed the two men.

Attracting the gaze of people was the last thing she liked.

The old man in grey brought the three of them to Nalan Xi and saluted with a bow.

“President, these three participants passed the medicine refining test.”

Nalan Xi took a glance at Duanmu Xi and the two men and nodded with satisfaction.

Medicine refining was the hardest among all the tests. It was good enough that three people could pass the test.

“Since Elder Yuan is here too, you can see which one you would like to take as the inner disciple.”

Duanmu Xi raised her head and saw the hefty man, the woman in black and the old man in white who held the preliminary tests today among the several elders. Apart from them, she had never met the other elders.

As none of them spoke, Nalan Xi directly turned to the woman in black.

“Elder Mei, you pick first.”

The woman in black glanced over the crowd with her cold eyes, fixed her gaze on Duanmu Xi and then pointed at her.

“I pick her.”

The crowd saw who she was pointing at and started to murmur.

“Isn’t Elder Mei responsible for testing spiritual power? Why does she pick someone brought by Elder Yuan?”

“The girl should belong to the medicine refining department…”

Duanmu Xi jerked her head up in surprise and took a careful look at the woman in black. Then, she lowered her head and stood in situ quietly as if the people were not discussing her.

Duanmu Xi didn’t make any reply while the old man in grey was anxious. He didn’t want the disciple he preferred to be snatched by others.

The old man in grey took a step forward and bowed to Nalan Xi.

“She is here to participate in the medicine refining test. I shall take her as my inner disciple.”

What the old man in grey said caused another uproar among the crowd.

“Elder Yuan wants to take in a disciple?”

“Even Elder Yuan wants to take her as the disciple. Is there anything special with the girl?”

Nalan Xi finally looked at Duanmu Xi seriously and saw that she stood there with her head lowered. He couldn’t see through anything so he turned around and said to the woman in black with embarrassment, “Elder Mei, look…”

“Learning spiritual magic is not contradictory to learning medicine refining.”

Before Nalan Xi finished talking, he was interrupted by the woman in black coldly.

Her reply rendered Nalan Xi speechless. Indeed, one must have the wood and fire spiritual roots if he wanted to learn medicine refining. With the wood and fire spiritual roots, one could learn the spiritual magic then.

Yet, he didn’t understand why these two cold and arrogant people would insist on taking in the same disciple today.

“Elder Mei is right. It is not contradictory indeed. In this case, I also want her to be my inner disciple.”

Hearing the woman in black’s words, the old man in white also put in.

What was going on?

All the people were shocked and stared at Duanmu Xi with admiration and envy, seeming to find out what charm she had to let the three elders strive to make her the inner disciple.

Nalan Xi was completely stupefied in astonishment now.

What was going on?

The three elders wanted the same person to be the disciple. As the president, he came across such a situation for the first time.

Nalan Xi wanted to take a look at Duanmu Xi carefully again but she lowered her head all the time. No one could see her clearly. It could only tell that she was a young girl from her dress.

Since he couldn’t discover anything, Nalan Xi glimpsed the hefty man who stayed silent aside, seeming to ask him what was going on.

The hefty man was also dumbfounded. Meeting Nalan Xi’s gaze, he also shook his head with a confused facial expression.

He also wanted to know what was wrong with these people today. So many people passed the exam. Why did they have to ask for the same girl?

A few months later, the hefty man felt so regretful about not demanding to take the girl as his disciple today.

The old man in grey’s face turned red in fury.

Elder Xie was so annoying! Why did he also want to take the girl as the disciple?

Did these people have to fight against him?

It was so rare to meet such an excellent girl who was talented in every aspect. He even deliberately didn’t reveal the girl’s score in the third test just in case that others might also want to take the girl as the disciple.

However…

“Who dares to snatch my disciple?”

When the atmosphere in the hall was weird, a deep and sonorous voice came.