Supreme Emptiness

Su Qiuning stared wide-eyed.

She looked unblinkingly at the young boy, who was clearly two years younger than herself.

Stammering, she said, "Are you... a novice? Haven’t you taken a master yet?"

"How is this possible?"

Jiang Fan harvested high-grade herbs with such skill that it couldn’t have been cultivated without the guidance of a top-level master, could it?

Also, the technique used in refining the Black Soul Bone Healing Ointment earlier was complex and mysterious.

There were many steps she couldn’t understand the principle behind.

Could he do this without the guidance of a renowned master?

If he said he was a secret apprentice of the Medicine Peak Master, she would have believed it.

But Jiang Fan claimed he was a novice!

A novice who had not yet taken a master!

Frankly speaking, novices brought back by the elders and then left in the plaza were all discarded disciples.

Ninety-nine percent of them would be Outer Sect disciples in the future.

How could someone as excellent as Jiang Fan end up like this?

She really wanted to get to the bottom of it.

But the deacon’s reminder came, "Su Qiuning, your time is up."

Helplessly, she had to leave.

Jiang Fan also left with many medicinal materials.

After Su Qiuning explained, the deacon could only enviously agree to Jiang Fan taking away nine pounds of high-grade medicinal materials.

High-grade medicinal materials, even the deacons guarding the Medicine Garden, might not get nine pounds in a year.

Su Qiuning bade farewell to Jiang Fan and hurried back to the Medicine Peak.

"You’re the last one!" The Medicine Peak Master, Wen Hongyao, a seventy-something old woman with a rigid personality and a stern demeanor, said.

In front of her, a group of female disciples was already kneeling.

Their assessments had all failed without exception.

Seeing Su Qiuning return last, Wen Hongyao huffed lightly, "Always dawdling!"

"And all of you fail the assessment in the end!"

"How can I take in such idiots as disciples?"

She unleashed a tirade, making Su Qiuning tear up with grievance, lowering her head pitifully without saying a word.

The surrounding female disciples also looked bitter.

It wasn’t that they were stupid, but that their master’s requirements were too strict.

Every time, the test would exceed their knowledge, leaving them with a deep sense of frustration.

Before coming to the Green Cloud Sect, they were all exceptionally talented in refining medicine locally, but under her, they seemed like useless individuals.

Wen Hongyao had no sympathy, instead becoming stricter, "Why are you crying?"

"You’ve failed nine assessments consecutively!"

"If you fail this time too, it will be the tenth, and according to my rules, you must be in seclusion for a year!"

"Show me your assessment results!"

Su Qiuning immediately became tense with fear.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally took out a lump of the unusually dark Black Soul Bone Healing Ointment.

The female disciples sighed at the sight.

"Is this a refining failure? It should normally be dark blue."

"It’s over, Junior Sister is going to be in seclusion for a year, she is so young, how can she endure it?"

Wen Hongyao looked at it with a grim face.

But upon seeing it, she was taken aback and walked over with thunderous steps.

She grabbed the Bone Healing Ointment and looked at it closely in her palm.

In her dim eyes, a trace of shock gradually appeared. She took a deep breath:

"Such skill, to be able to refine such a high-grade Bone Healing Ointment."

Huh?

This is the Bone Healing Ointment?

The female disciples were puzzled.

Su Qiuning was also taken aback, then immediately overjoyed.

If that’s the case, did she pass the assessment?

But to her surprise, Wen Hongyao suddenly scolded harshly, "Insolent disciple! Kneel down to me now!"

The sudden outburst scared Su Qiuning, and she knelt down immediately.

Wen Hongyao’s anger grew as she yelled, "You have such ability!"

"Could you have invited such an influential person to personally refine a top-grade Black Soul Bone Healing Ointment for you?"

"Even I may not be able to get them to do it!"

What?

Top-grade Black Soul Bone Healing Ointment?

Su Qiuning was stunned and said, "Master, you misunderstand, I did not invite any influential person!"

Wen Hongyao was even angrier, "Still lying!"

"Top-grade Black Soul Bone Healing Ointment is the unique formula of the Undying Doctor, refining even a low-grade one is difficult, let alone a top-grade one?"

"Isn’t this the work of a master?"

"You treacherous disciple, not only did you cheat, but you also dare to lie and deny it, I will expel you from the Sect now!"

Su Qiuning was terrified.

She never expected that asking a Junior Brother for help in refining medicine would bring such a disaster.

She hurriedly explained, "Master, I’m not lying!"

"I did not invite any influential person, but asked a Junior Brother for help."

A Junior Brother?

Wen Hongyao stared at Su Qiuning’s about-to-cry look, which didn’t seem like a lie, and her face was full of doubt.

"Are you sure it’s a Junior Brother? When did our Green Cloud Sect have such a talented medicine refiner?"

"Which peak does he belong to, and who is his master?"

"I want to confront him in person."

She couldn’t believe it.

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As the Medicine Peak Master, could she be worse at refining medicine than a disciple from another peak?

If this got out, how could she continue to be the Medicine Peak Master?

Might as well give the position to him.

But Su Qiuning quickly replied, "No, Master, you misunderstood again."

"He does not belong to any peak and has not yet taken a master."

What?

Such a talented medicine refiner has not even taken a master?

This was beyond ridiculous!

If any other female disciple had said such absurd words, she would have slapped them away.

But because she knew Su Qiuning wouldn’t dare lie to her, Wen Hongyao was stunned.

"A medicine-refining genius abandoned by a short-sighted elder and left in the plaza?"

"Could Heaven be giving our Medicine Peak a chance to rise?"

"With such a talented disciple, why would our Medicine Peak worry about surpassing other peaks?" @@novelbin@@

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became.

She showed an affectionate smile and helped Su Qiuning up herself.

"Qiuning, what’s that Junior Brother’s name? Do you remember his appearance?"

Su Qiuning, surprised and delighted, nodded repeatedly.

Wen Hongyao’s eyes gleamed so brightly, "Good, good, good. Tomorrow you will accompany me to select disciples."

"No matter the cost, I must secure him."

Meanwhile, Jiang Fan.

Completely unaware that he had already been targeted by the Sect Master Peak and Medicine Peak, he was still worried about tomorrow’s elder disciple selection.

If he couldn’t enter the Inner Sect, it would be hard to get another chance to gather medicinal materials from the Medicine Garden like today.

When he used up the materials and crystal stones he had, he could do nothing but stare.

So, tomorrow would decide his fate.

Just as he was preparing to meditate until dawn.

Suddenly, there were exclamations from the crowd.

"So beautiful!"

"Which peak’s female disciple is this, an absolute beauty!"

"And both of them are stunning!"

"Keep your voice down. Those uniforms are from Heavenly Sword Peak, they are not to be messed with."

In their amazed gazes.

The two girls searched the plaza, and finally, they saw Jiang Fan sitting cross-legged under a stone monument.

"Fan!" Xu Youran in a cyan long gown, with a slender and graceful figure and a face of stunning beauty, called out.

"Jiang Fan." Chen Silin, in white like snow, untainted by dust, her clear and ethereal face like a summer lotus, followed.

Their eyes gleamed as they ran to Jiang Fan.

"What brings you here?" Jiang Fan asked in surprise.

Xu Youran dashed into his arms.

Although they had only parted for a day, she acted like it had been ages, softly saying, "Siling and I will stay with you."

Chen Silin shyly came to Jiang Fan’s side. As Xu Youran occupied his broad chest, she could only gently hold his arm and leaned in:

"No matter tomorrow’s result, Silin will always be yours."

Jiang Fan was moved and embraced her as well.

The scene shattered the minds of the disciples present.

They were so jealous their molars cracked.

It also made Ding Wanping, the third senior brother from Heavenly Sword Peak assigned to protect them, frown deeply.

He finally found some stunning female disciples from Heavenly Sword Peak, and before he could make a move, they were taken by a worthless nobody?

"Who are you? How dare you flirt with the female disciples of Heavenly Sword Peak?"