Chapter 271 – Romance in Prince Jin’s Manor (7)
Nangong Liuyun saw Su Luo looking at him, lifting his eyebrows, he devilishly charmingly smirked at her.
He lazily said: “Want the woman to take the lead?
Okay, this king will give you a chance, come.”
Shameless!
A man without boundaries!
Would not taking advantage of her when speaking kill him?
Su Luo fiercely glared at him, but the Nangong Liuyun right now suddenly blinked his eyes, his forehead was coated in a layer sweat.
“Nangong, Are you——”Su Luo felt that something was fishy, she unrolled the quilt and shifted towards where Nangong Liuyun was.
Nangong Liuyun waved his hand, and his smile widened.
He downplayed everything, saying: “It’s nothing, just a little old illness.
Once it’s here, it will be sore for a short while.”
Old illness?
Making Nangong Liuyun call it an old illness, what kind of old wound would it be?
When the time comes it would hurt for a while.
When the time comes, don’t tell me, after a period of time, it would start hurting, something that comes chronically?
A touch of doting feeling flashed through Su Luo’s heart.
She could not imagine the kind of pain that could change Nangong Liuyun’s complexion, how painful must it be…Momentarily, she was at a complete loss, she wasn’t sure what she should do that would be good.
Nangong Liuyun was on his side, being supported on one hand.
He smilingly watched her.
However, Su Luo could clearly see the cold sweat on his forehead rushing out to form droplets.
His chest and back were both soaked through with cold sweat.
He smiled just like in the past, but the smile felt kind of lifeless.
“You——” Su Luo wanted to ask him if he had painkiller drugs or something similar, but on second thought, even with Nangong Liuyun’s strength, if he was still unable to restrain the pain, then what was the use of painkillers?
Nangong Liuyun suddenly shut his eyes, he turned around and pulled the quilt to cover himself, “Enough, it’s getting late.
If you don’t want to sleep here, then go out and look for Ling Feng.
He will arrange everything well for you.”
His tone sounded somewhat rushed, as if enduring something silently.
He used the quilt to cover his entire person, so his voice sounded muffled.
Su Luo was unable to see his expression clearly, but seeing his curled up body, with his back arched and the quilt appearing to be shaking, it seemed as if it was very painful.
Su Luo had a distracted and amazed expression, her heart had a fit of unrest.
In the end, what was wrong with Nangong Liuyun?
Such a strong, overbearing and insufferably arrogant man, how could he suffer so much pain until he was like this?
Moreover, seeing him like this, it was as if this old illness had always caused him complications, flaring up periodically.
Su Luo hadn’t left since the beginning, she sat up with both hands linked together, holding her knees.
Her face was slanted and was watching Nangong Liuyun all along.
Nangong Liuyun sank into a deep sleep, the quilt that covered his face slid to the side.
It revealed that handsome, sweat-covered, pale face.
Outside, the gale storm erupted, in this kind of weather, if the sweat was not wiped dry, it was very easy to catch a cold.
Su Luo thought about it, climbed down the bed, and walked out quietly on tiptoe.
Outside the door, there was always servants standing there, waiting.
Under Su Luo’s instructions, a basin of hot water was very quickly fetched, in addition to a folded, snow-white, embroidered towel.
“It will be fine, I will go in by myself.
You people continue to keep watch here.” With one short sentence, Su Luo dismissed the servants.
She personally carried the basin of hot water into the room.
Nangong Liuyun, this kind of strong-minded man, certainly wouldn’t want others to see this weak side of himself.
Su Luo set the jade basin on top of the table, wrung the towel dry, and gently wiped clean Nangong Liuyun’s face that was covered in sweat.
Nangong Liuyun brows were pinched tightly, and his complexion was terrifyingly pale.
Even though before, she was itching to swat him dead, now seeing him like this, a trace of care and concern streaked across Su Luo’s heart.
Her finger involuntarily stroked his face, gently sliding towards the space between his eyebrows.
He seemed to have relaxed a little.
Doing something within her abilities for him, Su Luo felt very happy.
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However, there wasn’t enough time for her to be happy before her hands were grabbed by the him who was sleeping.
He pulled her to him.
Even though he was still in pain and still fast asleep, his strength was as astonishingly great as before.
Su Luo simply had no time to react, before her entire body had already fallen into his embrace.
She was heavily pressed on top of his body.
Nangong Liuyun gave a muffled groan as she knocked into him, but he once again firmly hugged her to him.
He then turned over and went back into a deep sleep.
This time, Nangong Liuyun merely hugged her, holding her close, and didn’t make any other movements.
His arms were strong and powerful, as hard as iron clamps.
Several times, Su Luo wanted to pry open his fingers but her efforts were to no avail.
She was completely unable to move him even the slightest bit.
Nangong Liuyun seemed to be submerged in a deep sleep.
His breathing was long and continuous, only his eyebrows were still slightly pinched.
Su Luo stopped struggling, a trace of a tender sentiment that she herself wasn’t aware of flashed through the gaze she used to look at him.
This man, suffering so much pain like this and still being able to sleep, was very rare.
How could she have the heart to startle him awake with noise?
Su Luo pulled up the quilt and wrapped it around him completely.
Afterwards, in his embrace, she found a comfortable position and raised her head to look at his face.
Long, thick eyelashes, handsome straight nose, thin red lips, and his facial features were exquisite.
He was like a masterpiece sculpture delicately carved by a grandmaster-level sculptor.
He was so handsome, it was beyond compare.
Even though he was asleep as before, it was peaceful one now.
His forehead successfully knotted into the Chinese character for river.
Recalling his incomparable strength; eminence, and unapproachable identity and status, the place nearest to Su Luo’s heart would flash with a trace of cherishing affection.
Suddenly, a divine light flashed through Su Luo’s mind.
She suddenly remembered that she had forgotten a very important thing.
Still remember that time when the little divine dragon looked at her, not wanting to let go, and was innocently deceived by her to be by her side?
That’s right, the Celestial Spirit Water.
Since the Celestial Spirit Water had such a huge attractiveness for the little divine dragon, then it was sufficient to illustrate that top-of-the-line treasure.
Only, she didn’t know if it would be helpful in treating Nangong Liuyun’s pain.
However, his situation couldn’t be worse than what it was right now.
Su Luo took out a very small cup of Celestial Spirit Water from her space.
She held it very carefully, then she whispered in a very, very soft voice: “Nangong, wake up.”
“Ah.” Nangong Liuyun hugged her tightly, sleepily letting out a sound of agreement.
Su Luo, once again, very, very carefully pushed him: “Come, drink a little water.
Maybe it will make you a little more comfortable.”
Nangong Liuyun, in a state of half asleep and half awake, cutely and obediently opened his mouth.
Su Luo carefully fed him half of the little cup of Celestial Spirit water for him to drink.
Su Luo didn’t dare to give him too much at once.
She was afraid something would go wrong.
After drinking all the water, Nangong Liuyun once again went back into deep sleep.
Only, he was still hugging Su Luo as before, not letting go.
Su Luo used her sleeves to gently wipe away the water stain at the corner of his mouth a few times.
Again, she carefully observed his complexion.
Didn’t know how much time had passed, but his pinched eyebrows finally started to smooth out.
Suddenly, his expression didn’t seem to be in that much pain anymore.
Seeing this, Su Luo was very happy.
She single-handedly supported her chin and was all smiles as she looked at him.
Outside, the rain came down increasingly heavier.
The thunder rumbled continuously.
In this man’s embrace, Su Luo unconsciously fell into a deep sleep.
This sleep, Su Luo slept very heavily.
By the time she woke up, it was already late morning.
Opening her eyes, she calmly looked at the ceiling.
Last night’s memories rose like the tide and rushed out.
Nangong’s teasing, Nangong’s fury, Nangong’s pain…One scene after another came thick and fast, stuffing her sober head full almost to the point of bursting.
The last memory was of his smoothed out handsome face.
Su Luo suddenly sat up, when she turned her head to look, the bed already didn’t have that man’s silhouette.
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This man was born into high status, and his martial arts cultivation was unparalleled.
His power almost overflowed into the heavens, while his entire body was an enigma.
This made people puzzled and also gave birth to a sense of curiosity in their hearts.
Su Luo stretched lazily.
She dilly-dallied for a good while before getting up to leave the bed.
She asked a servant, and found out Nangong Liuyun had indeed left very early this morning.
He had only made it clear that she should obediently stay inside the manor.
He had left first thing in the morning?
Don’t know if his body was still in pain or not…Su Luo thought while eating breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Ling Feng automatically appeared in front of her.
Ling Feng saw Su Luo, his mouth lifted a little.
He shot her a glance that was neither cold nor hot.
He held his sword and silently stood at the side.
Ling Feng never expected that the boy servant from yesterday, after washing clean, was actually Su Luo.
Now, he was somewhat speechlessly looking at the sky.
He was just saying that that secretive little boy servant was giving him an odd feeling.
So, as it turned out, his gut feeling wasn’t mistaken.
“Where did Nangong go?
When will he return?” Su Luo turned sideways while walking to ask Ling Feng.
“His Highness’s whereabouts have always been kept secret.
It’s better that Miss Su doesn’t ask.” Even asking was a waste of time, the normally indifferent Ling Feng added this sentence in his heart.
Su Luo was just about to roll her eyes when Ling Feng once again added another sentence in a timely manner, “His Highness said, if the fourth Miss Su woke up in the morning and missed him urgently, might as well take her to the Western Grove courtyard to sit around a while.
That courtyard has His Highness’s portraits.”
A breath was stifled in Su Luo’s throat.
This Nangong Liuyun!
Who missed him?
She was merely asking casually without thinking about it!
Su Luo unhappily glared at Ling Feng: “Such a conceited and arrogant guy.
He really think he is a peacock, spreading his tail, bewitching everyone.
And also to miss him urgently, I truly have nothing to say to that, not going.”
Ling Feng’s mouth rose a little, in the end he did not respond.
Able to assess his home’s Highness this way without endangering their life, there was only this person in front of his eyes, that didn’t even know or appreciated it, the fourth Miss Su.
Ling Feng’s expression remained unperturbed: “Since Miss Su won’t go to the study, then you should deal with these account books.”
Ling Feng waved his hand, immediately, a row of servants approached in a line.
Every one of them had both hands holding very thick accounting books that were piled up so high, it was blocking their line of sight.
Their footsteps were shaky and swaying, it looked as if it was very dangerous.
Su Luo looked at those account books, then lifted her eyes to look at Ling Feng with suspicion, opened her mouth and stammered: “What do you mean deal with these account books?
Speak human language.”
Both of Ling Feng’s hand was holding onto his sword, his indifferent face was calm as he deemphasized what he said: “His Highness made clear, these things are all matters his future princess must do.
Since you now have nothing to do, then just deal with all of this.”
Su Luo smiled a smile that was not quite a smile, and while casting him a glance, she unhurriedly said: “You also said that this things are matters the future princess must handle.
Why should this Miss look after it?
I’m not going to meddle in affairs that are not part of my position.”
Ling Feng’s face that always seemed to be have nerve paralysis was now hooked into a rare, faint smile.
Towards the servants holding the accounts books swaying left and right, he coldly snorted, saying: “Before His Highness left, what he instructed, do you still remember?”
A row of six servants all said in unison: “We remember His Highness said that Miss Su is already His Highness’s woman.
She is the future Princess Jin, her position is guaranteed and should get sincere treatment in this house!”
Ling Feng satisfiedly nodded his head.
His gaze landed on Su Luo’s face, light as a feather.
He merely raised an eyebrow and did not speak.
A breath seemed to be stifled in Su Luo’s chest.
That guy who ruined her reputation!
Why say she was already his woman?
Clearly they hadn’t done anything okay?!
Fancy that last night, she was still worried about his illness, so extremely worried that even in the middle of the night, she still couldn’t sleep.
Later, she even took out Celestial Spirit Water for him to drink.
Was this how he repaid her?
Chapter 274 – Romance in Prince Jin’s Manor (10)
“Princess, these account books…” There were many account books, it was very heavy, and the six servants carrying them were panting.
Their hands and foot swung to and fro, but without Su Luo’s orders, they simply wouldn’t dare to put down these account books.
Su Luo snorted heavily: “What princess?
Don’t just shout out something erroneously.
Don’t you know it will ruin a person’s innocence?”
“Yes, without His Highness’s command, we wouldn’t dare to call out inappropriate names.” The six servants replied in unison, “However…imperial concubine princess, these account books…”
Su Luo simply had nothing more to say.
They had just agreed to not shout out titles erroneously.
What did these mouths call her again?
“Move all of these account books out, who likes to look at them, then let them look at it.
In any case, I won’t look at them.” Su Luo impatiently waved her hand, it was not like she was Princess Jin.
Why should she become a stand-in and help him take care of the miscellaneous stuff in the manor?
The six servants’ gaze simultaneously looked at Ling Feng.
Ling Feng waved his hand, indicating that they should leave.
The six servants uniformly bowed and said to Su Luo in unison: “We solemnly comply with Princess’s orders.
Us servants ask to be excused.”
Su Luo was about to scowl at them.
Without waiting for her to flare-up, the six servants, carrying the account books which were half a person in height, quickly slipped away.
Where was that trembling and swaying that they had before, a feeling as if they were frail and about to fall over any second?
Su Luo inevitably was dumbfounded.
This Prince Jin’s Royal Manor, every single one of the servants all had practiced the martial arts move Ling Bo Wei Bu, right?
How could their kung fu skill at running for their life be this powerful?
“Princess…” Ling Feng said one sentence and was interrupted by Su Luo’s wave of a hand.
Su Luo snappily glared at him: “What?
Even you have come to make fun of me?”
“Wouldn’t dare.” Even though Ling Feng claimed that he wouldn’t dare, his indifferent expression still didn’t have a trace of humility that a bodyguard ought to have.
Su Luo’s eyebrow rose slightly, she smiled faintly while casting Ling Feng a quick glance.
She calmly said with a slight anticipation: “That’s right, Ling Feng, do you still remember the last time we made a bet?”
She did not believe that even this wouldn’t scare Ling Feng into leaving.
Sure enough, Ling Feng’s expression immediately changed.
He anxiously looked at Su Luo, saying: “The fourth Miss Su should play nicely in this manor.
All of a sudden, I remembered before His Highness left, he had instructed me to handle a few things that were urgent.
Thus, I ask to be excused first.”
“Hey, the last time’s bet was about——” Su Luo hadn’t finished speaking before Ling Feng’s figure had already disappeared from inside the room.
His speed was as fast as lightning, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Seeing Ling Feng’s scared and anxious rear view fleeing, Su Luo let out a “pffft’ sound of laughter.
Last time, because they had urgently needed green-colored crystal stones to save Nangong Liuyun, in a moment of desperation, Ling Feng had made a bet with Su Luo.
If she could collect all fifty or equivalent green-colored crystal stones, then Ling Feng would go and become her personal bodyguard.
The result was that she naturally won the bet, however Ling Feng, this asshole, seemed as if he had completely forgotten about this bet.
His face was as taut as before and continued to ignore paying this bet, coming and going freely.
The people inside the room had all fled, leaving only Su Luo behind, by herself.
Here was the inside of Nangong Liuyun’s study, normally, other people were not allowed to enter.
Only Su Luo was not subjected to this restriction.
On top of the bookshelf were rows and rows of books.
Su Luo, who was deeply bored, picked up a book in passing.
She swept a glance at the cover and it was actually «Elementary Apothecary Book».
In a split second, Su Luo’s eyes suddenly shone brightly.
She still remembered that before, inside Elder Zi Huo’s cave dwelling, she obtained that book that all the Apothecaries in the world dreamed of finding, the «Obscure Pill Recipes».
That «Obscure Pill Recipes» was Elder Zi Huo’s personal work.
It recorded his lifetime’s knowledge and experience in refining pills from recipes.
Inside, it also contained an appendix with Primeval Pill Recipes that had already been lost in this era.
It was a pity that although «Obscure Pill Recipes» was great, yet, it ended up in Su Luo’s hands.
During that time, Elder Zi Huo was the continent’s only Grandmaster level Apothecary.
His level was so high that people could only look up with admiration, worship and deep reverence, making it hard for people to forget this predecessor.
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The «Obscure Pill Recipes»left by Elder Zi Huo included his lifetime worth of studies, but because he was too great, it was to the extent that the book he left behind was very abstruse.
At the very least, she needed to be an Intermediate Apothecary to be able to understand a little of what was written.
Not to mention, Su Luo was a novice who hadn’t even set foot into the threshold of an Apothecary.
The her right now possessed a mountain of treasures, but no matter what, she couldn’t find the key to enter it.
This kind of taste like that of a castle in the air was really difficult to bear.
However, now this «Elementary Apothecary Book» right in front of her just so happened to be able to resolve the predicament that Su Luo was faced with.
Recalling Nangong Liuyun suffering from that kind of pain last night, Su Luo’s heart suddenly had a notion.
If she could raise her Apothecary level, maybe she could cure Nangong Liuyun’s old illness.
Having thought of things up to here, Su Luo, with single-minded devotion, started to thumb through that «Elementary Apothecary Book».
This type of basic book paid more attention to explaining the theory and analyzing the Apothecary system.
Su Luo had always been smart with practically a photographic memory, and adding her single-minded devotion on top of that, time passed in a flash while she was studying.
When Su Luo rubbed her tired and dry eyes while standing up to stretch, she discovered a man was standing at the doorway.
Today’s Nangong Liuyun was dressed in a black brocade robe, his figure was tall and lean.
His phoenix eyes were narrowed slightly, dark as ink and deep as a bottomless pool.
It was domineering, and at the same time, full of a noble aura.
His thin lips were dark red, moist and hooked into a demonically charming smile like a scarlet cluster of amaryllis, so alluring and enticing.
He stood unmoving at the doorway, the sunlight shone onto his whole body, making it radiate a faint halo.
Even though he was just silently watching her, part of his inherent arrogance, nobility and domineering aura basically made it impossible for people to ignore his existence.
He merely watched Su Luo with an amiable manner that was light as clouds and gentle as the wind.
However, he still gave off a kind of indiscernible oppressive feeling.
Encountering that pair of charming,beautiful eyes that hypnotized all living things, Su Luo found that her own heart was throbbing uncontrollably.
Evildoer, he indeed deserved to be called an evildoer!
Just by appearing, he would capture all the brilliance from the surroundings, as if all the splendor would gather on his body at this time.
Nangong Liuyun, dressed in an elegant, black-colored brocade robe, slowly walked towards Su Luo.
Finally, his tall body stopped in front of Su Luo.
A devilish radiance started to float to the surface of his beautiful pair of eyes.
With a dazzlingly beautiful and devilishly charming manner, he unmovingly stared at Su Luo.
From the beginning, the corner of his mouth had a wicked smile, “Looking until you are struck dumb?
You like the king this much?”
Su Luo suddenly returned to her senses and irritatedly rolled her eyes: “What rubbish are you saying?
Who likes you?”
Would this guy die if he didn’t make fun of her?
Every time, it was the same trick.
Nangong Liuyun smiled shallowly, his gaze cast a look at the book in her hand, “Elementary Apothecary book?
That’s right, our family’s Luo girl indeed has the figure of a gifted Apothecary.
Not cultivating it would be a pity.”
Speaking of this, Su Luo’s heart suddenly moved, she quietly stared at Nangong Liuyun, then with a clear and cold voice, said: “What’s the matter with you last night?
Old illness….is it very serious?”
Nangong Liuyun’s long arm, in one move, encircled Su Luo to his chest.
He lowered his head and smilingly looked at her.
“Is this king’s little Luo Luo concerned?
Am I right?”
Su Luo turned her face away and muttered: “Who’s concerned?
It was only because previously, I didn’t know and was suddenly scared by your illness.
Why don’t you tell me what’s it all about in the end?
Aren’t you Prince Jin?
Couldn’t you find an Apothecary to treat you?”
Nangong Liuyun’s lips were pursed while he smilingly looked at Su Luo.
Strands of bright and beautiful sunlight landed on his bright eyes, like the light and shadows now flowing smoothly.
It was resplendent and gorgeous.
“Speak ,ah, what are you looking at.” Su Luo annoyedly pushed at his strong-as-iron body.
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Nangong Liuyun smiled until sound came out: “Hard-mouthed girl, still saying you don’t care about this king.
Look at you being so anxious, you just said a bunch of words, and normally, when this king wants to talk to you, it’s difficult.”
Su Luo also realized that she was actually anxious on his behalf.
A blush from shame flashed across her face.
She feigned calmness and slanted her head away, pretending as if she hadn’t heard a thing.
Nangong Liuyun loved this kind of bashfulness of hers to death.
His expression was like the cherry blossoms in March, splendid and bright, as he deeply and charmingly looked at her.
The corner of his mouth contained a light smiling expression.
His Luo girl was just this stubborn and cute, truly, he liked her more and more.
Both figures were nestled up against each other, standing quietly, and time seemed to have stood still.
Time was good and still, life was peaceful.
This kind of ambiguous scene, it appeared as if between them, there was really some kind of relationship.
A frenetic feeling flashed through Su Luo’s heart, she unconsciously pushed away Nangong Liuyun.
Her gaze landed on the «Elementary Apothecary Book» on the ground.
Her eyes moved slightly and decided to divert Nangong Liuyun’s attention.
“Nangong Liuyun, your illness really can’t be treated?” Su Luo softly asked.
Nangong Liuyun looked at her deeply and charmingly, understatedly saying: “ It’s not something that can’t be treated, only these charlatans are too useless.
My family’s little Luo Luo, on the other hand, is determined to treat the old illness of this king’s?”
“Stop rambling on incoherently, what level of Apothecary is needed to cure you?” Su Luo knew he usually wasn’t serious, even when talking about an old illness.
He was still smiling like before, light as a cloud and gentle as wind.
“This, hum…should be at least a Grandmaster’s level?” Nangong Liuyun said somewhat uncertainly.
“Grand, grandmaster level?” Su Luo suddenly had a feeling of looking up at a high mountain.
It was important to know that Apothecary levels were divided into Elementary Apothecary, Intermediate Apothecary, Advanced Apothecary, Elite Apothecary, Master Apothecary and then after, was finally Grandmaster Apothecary (1).
Apothecary levels were very strict, every promotion to the next grade was extremely difficult.
Now, she still hadn’t even felt her way to the doorway of an Apothecary.
Wanting her to rise to the Grandmaster level Apothecary, oh heavens, in contrast being hacked by lightning seemed simpler.
Nangong Liuyun also clearly didn’t seem to place his hope on Su Luo’s body.
However, he merely wrapped himself around her and resolutely handed over the responsibility to her: “Yes, Grandmaster Apothecary, this king’s Luo girl must strive very hard.
You must strive to cure this king’s illness earlier.
Speaking of which, every month, it flares up once to torture me.
This king is quite impatient.”
Su Luo was simply speechless: “It’s better that your hope is not placed on me.
The me in this lifetime might not be able to reach that height.”
You must know, on this entire continent, during that time, there was only Elder Zi Huo who was promoted to the Grandmaster level of Apothecary.
Even though she obtained this renowned Elder’s legacy, yet how far she could walk on this path, she really didn’t know.
“That won’t do, you must cure this king.” Nangong Liuyun nevertheless pig-headedly insisted on relying on Su Luo no matter what, “Besides you, this king will not allow anyone else to treat it.
I will just wait for you.
Luo girl, for the purpose of curing this king, you must try very hard to raise your level as an Apothecary.”
How could there be this kind of headstrong person, though granted, even if he was picky about the doctor when seeking medical help, it was okay.
But he had actually picked her who was now still a zero level damn rookie.
He really, indeed, did add a huge pressure on her.
“You are not allowed to be this unruly!” Su Luo unhappily glared at him.
This man, in front of others, was powerful and unparalleled.
However in front of her, he was like an unruly child that made trouble without reason, making her feel even more speechless.
Nangong Liuyun’s red lips were grumbling.
His bright and intelligent, large eyes pitifully and accusingly watched her….
Su Luo was simply about to be defeated by Nangong Liuyun being like this.
1) Note: the author changed the order of the Apothecary rankings, before, the Grandmaster level was before the Master.
To make it less confusing, I am going to go back and change Apothecary’s level according to today’s rankings and that would make him Grandmaster Apothecary Zi Huo.
So if you see me calling Apothecary Zi Huo as Master level, please let me know so I can change it to Grandmaster.
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“Okay, okay, okay.
I promise you I will study hard to be an Apothecary.
However, you should also promise me, if in the future you come across a Grandmaster Apothecary, you are not allowed to refuse treatment from them.” Su Luo had no choice but to agree to his demand.
Nangong Liuyun wickedly and unscrupulously blinked his eyes, mumbling a sentence to himself: If this king was to walk in a roundabout route, then how could I run into one?
“What did you say?” His voice was very soft, Su Luo couldn’t hear it clearly.
“Luo Luo’s thoughts are for the sake of this king.
This king’s heart is very comforted.
You should rest assured that this king will certainly marry you and take you as wife.
I will save the position of main wife, Princess Jin, for you.” Nangong Liuyun said in high spirits.
Once he said this, Su Luo at once recalled the manor’s servants actions earlier today.
If it weren’t for the evildoer in front of her secretly issuing commands, then how could those servants dare to address her with that title?
“The position of Princess Jin, humph, you should keep it, this young lady is not interested.”
“But this king wants only you to take that position.” Nangong Liuyun’s eyes showed dense tender feelings, he grabbed hold of and pulled Su Luo, who was turning and just about to leave, to a stop.
His face that charmed all living things, had an unprecedentedly serious, earnest stare, “The position of Princess Jin, apart from you, will eternally not be filled by another person!”
Then, what about the Jade Lake’s fairy?
This sentence was almost blurted out by Su Luo.
However, in the end, she stiffly restrained herself.
The Jade Lake’s fairy…This was an eternal taboo between them that would not let her be at peace and even-tempered.
Often, when she was touched by his dedication to her, that incomparably beautiful face would always emerge in her head.
That extraordinary and refined fairy who was above the common populace.
This was a thorn in her heart, it normally didn’t hurt nor itch until at a critical time, then it would make the heart sore.
Su Luo quietly and unmovingly gazed at Nangong Liuyun.
Finally, she turned her head away.
That name, she never wanted to say it again.
If one day in the future, she didn’t need to say it and Nangong Liuyun would automatically stand by her side defending her, protecting her, in that case, maybe she really would give her heart to him and together with him, build the river of love.
Together in this different world, hand in hand, they would conquer a slice of bright heaven for themselves.
Now, she must not give him any promises, because she was afraid of being hurt again.
In her previous life, being stupid once was enough.
In this world, she must live for herself and to live marvelously well!
Nangong Liuyun was very intelligent, how could he not understand what Su Luo wanted to say, but once again didn’t say?
However, the him right now could not say anything…He silently looked out the window, slowly releasing a deep breath.
An understanding but lonely smile flashed on Su Luo’s face.
The atmosphere inside the room was now somewhat heavy and dense.
Nangong Liuyun suddenly let out a sigh and heavily rubbed Su Luo’s head: “Doesn’t Luo girl want to practice to become an Apothecary?
Come, this king will take you for a stroll around the medicine garden.
If there are medicinal herbs that you need, we will pick it from there.”
“Medicine garden?” Su Luo curiously looked at him, “You actually have a medicine garden?”
Nangong Liuyun non-committally smiled with a should-be-expected manner as he led Su Luo by hand and walked out.
Along the way, they came across the manor’s servants.
Each and every one of them had seen His Highness Prince Jin from a distance away, so they had already moved to the curbside, bowing while waiting.
Yesterday, those that had waited upon them in the dining room were merely a small number of people.
As a result, today they actually saw with their own eyes their family’s Asura-like, deeply cold Highness unexpectedly acting like a child.
He was in an exuberant mood while leading along a young lady, holding her hand.
For a moment, there were people dropping plates, walking and twisting their ankles, spraining their necks, and the greatest number of people, were the ones whose chins dropped to the ground…
Su Luo was somewhat embarrassed, and she wanted to shake off Nangong Liuyun.
However, Nangong Liuyun’s hand, which seemed as if it was lightly holding hers, his wrist was in fact as hard as an iron clamp.
No matter what Su Luo did, she was unable to throw him off.
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Nangong Liuyun acted as if nobody else was present, ignoring all kinds of people.
In high spirits, he led Su Luo along, and on the way, showed her off as he passed.
Su Luo plaintively complained in her heart: She was done for!
If this was to spread out, did she still have a reputation to keep?
Prince Jin’s Royal Manor was very large, the courtyards were arranged irregularly, resulting in a charming effect.
Didn’t know how long they walked for, eventually, Nangong Liuyun brought Su Luo to a garden that was overflowing with the aroma of medicinal herbs.
When Su Luo went inside this medicine garden and saw the scenery in front of her, it immediately made her eyes shine brightly.
Su Luo identified everything one by one and found that the medicinal herbs in this medicine garden was complete.
All the medicinal herbs mentioned in that«Elementary Apothecary Book»were practically all here.
In this case, it was easier to manage.
It also helped her avoid going everywhere to search for these medicinal herbs.
However, for her first time refining medicine, what kind of medicinal pill would be good to refine?
Su Luo’s fingers was on her chin in a pondering position, her brain was rapidly thinking about this question.
After thinking for a while, Su Luo finally decided to refine an elementary level Spirit Restoration Pill.
Spirit Restoration Pill, as the name implied, was a pill that replenished a person’s spirit power.
A person’s spirit power was limited, after a battle, it would be used up.
However, if a person swallowed a Spirit Restoration Pill on the spot, then it was possible to restore their spirit power.
Elementary Spirit Restoration Pills could only restore a person’s spirit strength by ten percent.
Intermediate Spirit Restoration Pills could restore a person’s spirit strength by twenty percent, and so on.
However, on this continent, there were very few Apothecaries, moreover, the success rate for refining Spirit Restoration Pills was not very high.
Therefore, the market price for Elementary Spirit Restoration Pill was still not very low.
The common market price for one pill was one hundred gold coins.
Because Su Luo’s body contained the wood element system, she naturally had a familiar feeling with regards to medicinal herbs.
She closed her eyes and was able to clearly feel the distinction between the similar types of medicinal herbs.
Which stalk of herb was most active and strong, and which stalk of herb was withered and listless.
Su Luo, without the slightest hesitation, naturally picked all the vital and active herbal ingredients.
In the medical garden, she harvested more than ten types of herbal ingredients, which she needed to refine the Spirit Restoration Pill.
Su Luo threw all of the herbal ingredients into her space at once.
Nangong Liuyun had already guessed that Su Luo was able to unlock her space.
Now seeing this, as expected, she really did unlock it.
Since she was able to use her space in front of him, it was sufficient to prove her trust in him.
Thinking up to here, a smiling expression appeared at the corner of Nangong Liuyun’s mouth.
“Luo girl, you couldn’t have also already prepared the medicinal cauldron?”
“Of course, and also, to tell you the truth, my medicinal cauldron is difficult to purchase with even ten thousand gold coins.
You absolutely cannot imagine how great it is.” Su Luo, with a lofty and strutting manner, cast him a glance.
Her medicinal cauldron was called Zi Huo medicinal cauldron, which was actually the one used by Elder Zi Huo back then.
The success rate for refining pills was fully doubled.
This was not something that those other medicinal cauldrons outside could compare to.
“Then this king will look forward to it, however, for the first time refining pills, it is hard to avoid failure.
If so, then Luo girl must not cry and snivel.” Nangong Liuyun spoilingly and indulgently looked at her.
As long as she was happy, no matter what she was doing, he would keep her company in the same place.
He was merely afraid that she would be disappointed when she failed, therefore Nangong Liuyun warned her in advance.
Cry and snivel?
What kind of person did he take her for?
Su Luo exasperatedly rolled her eyes at him.
She will make him open his eyes wide to have a good look.
She, Su Luo, not only could cultivate martial arts at an astonishing speed, but also in the way of refining, she absolutely would not lose to others.
After she chased Nangong Liuyun out, Su Luo closed the door and her spirit entered her space in a flash.
Su Luo did it step by step according to the procedure in «Elementary Apothecary Book».
First of all, step one required that the more than ten types of medicinal herbs be soaked in spring water.
Su Luo, in her space, also did not need to collect other types of water.
What she had the most of in her space was Celestial Spirit Water.
Also, the Celestial Spirit Water’s usefulness had already passed one person and one divine dragon’s verification, it was absolutely great.
Su Luo retrieved some Celestial Spirit Water and soaked the medicinal herbs one by one.
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She didn’t know that precisely because of this lazy action, this gave her an unexpected result.
Moreover, this brought about a huge impact to her future refining career.
In the process of soaking the medicinal herbs, Su Luo, with interest, sized up the Zi Huo medicinal cauldron in front of her.
The Zi Huo medicinal cauldron was a full half a meter high, the whole cauldron appeared to be reddish-purple in color.
On the medicinal cauldron were carved four dragon heads with their mouths wide open.
The dragon heads seemed malevolent with mouths wide open, as if the flames that reached the sky were gushing out of the dragons’ mouth.
The four dragon tails were coiled together, taking the shape of an unusual-looking cauldron lid.
Lifting open the cauldron lid, it was a washbasin-sized, first-rate iron pot.
This was where the medicinal herbs were to be placed, and on top of the iron pot, was a piece of smooth, flat divider where the medicinal pills would appear on top of it.
The Zi Huo medicinal cauldron could not only amplify the flame, but would also double the success rate during the refining process, because of the rare metals mixed in when creating the cauldron.
Su Luo placed the pre-soaked medicinal herbs one by one into the iron pot, and used the copper lid to cover the cauldron tightly.
She lightly patted the mechanism underneath the cauldron.
A flame….Su Luo was indeed a fire system mage, moreover, she could already condense out a small ball of flame by now.
However, she always felt that she lacked a little something.
Su Luo’s round eyes cleverly turned around as she pondered.
All of a sudden, Su Luo clapped her hands, she finally remembered!
Got it!
How could she have forgotten that treasure!
The little divine dragon, ah!
The true fire he sprayed out of his mouth was much stronger compared to her own small ball of fire.
The strength of his fire was stronger than hers by innumerable fold.
Su Luo fished up the little divine dragon that was lying on his back on top of the source stone, with his little belly rising and falling in the midst of a deep sleep.
The little divine dragon moved his little mouth and rubbed against Su Luo’s chest.
Both of his little paws were tightly clenching her lapel, and he once again sunk into deep slumber.
He also let out a little snore.
Su Luo suddenly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
However, because it was important to her cultivation, she nevertheless had to borrow a little bit of the little divine dragon’s flame.
Su Luo pinched the little divine dragon’s nose.
For a short while, it was tolerable, but after a period of several breaths, the little divine dragon started to slowly wake up.
His sleepy eyes were drowsy, looking at Su Luo with a bewildered and innocent expression.
“Be good, don’t sleep yet.
First, spray out a little fire for your master.” Su Luo held the little divine dragon and aimed his little mouth at one of the opened dragon mouths on top of the medicinal cauldron’s lid.
Su Luo impatiently wanted the little divine dragon to assist with the source of the fire, but wasn’t aware that now, the posture of her holding two of the little divine dragon’s legs looked like she was holding a peeing little kid.
Fortunately, when the little divine dragon saw the carved large dragon design on top, his sleepy and drowsy eyes become mostly awake.
In fact, Su Luo was still a little worried, because the little divine dragon, this child, in the recent past, was a card that would come out and do things outside of expectations.
Recalling before, in order to eliminate that pursuer following her, she took the risk and let him undertake the task.
The result was that he first sprayed out water, which almost led to a huge accident.
Fortunately, the second time, he accidently sprayed out lightning, that directly roasted the guy chasing her to kill her into charcoal.
. Su Luo warned him over and over again: “Remember, you must spray out fire.
Don’t spray out water nor lightning.
By all means, you must not spray out water…”
If water was to go in, then this whole thing would be ruined.
Maybe it was because the Gods were standing on Su Luo’s side, her luck could be considered good.
What the muddle-headed little divine dragon sprayed out was fire, genuine fire.
After borrowing the fire source, Su Luo allowed the little divine dragon to lie down and continue sleeping.
She started to refine the pill.
The true fire in Su Luo’s palm, under her control, entered the wide open dragon mouth.
The temperature at the top of the medicinal cauldron gradually rose little by little.
The more time passed, the more focused Su Luo’s powerful mind became.
This was the first time she refined a pill, moreover, the pill being refined was also not a high level one.
However, she inevitably would have a kind of obsessive feeling.
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Having added Celestial Spirit Water, along with the help of the little divine dragon’s true fire, then drawing support from Zi Huo medicinal cauldron, if she still failed to refine the pill, even she wouldn’t forgive herself.
Therefore, no matter what, she didn’t want failure to occur in this situation.
Su Luo slightly narrowed her eyes, the spiritual force in her body started to circulate slowly.
The flame in the center of her palm, under her spiritual power, blaze after blaze coiled into the medicinal cauldron.
The flame inside the medicinal cauldron continuously rolled around and burned.
Su Luo squinted her eyes, she very carefully and cautiously controlled the unruly flame in the Zi Huo medicinal cauldron.
She appeased the flame as if pacifying a naughty, unruly, little fire baby.
Under her placating, those flames that were scattered in all directions and doing as they pleased, meekly gave in.
They obediently and neatly arranged into one flame.
She really could control the flame now?
Su Luo, with a pleasantly surprised expression, looked at the center of her palm.
The corner of her mouth rose and her mood became pretty good.
According to the teachings in the «Elementary Apothecary Book», people that haven’t entered the doorstep of Apothecary, through countless practices to shape their refining skills, that allowed them to feel the process, would gain understanding after many failures.
Finally, they would be able to casually control the flame as they wished.
In addition, the ability to control flames was a basic skill that an Elementary Apothecary needed to achieve.
Yet, unexpectedly, just a moment ago during her first experiment, she actually was able to learn how to control the flame.
This would mean that she had now already felt her way to the doorstep of an Elementary Apothecary.
Su Luo was secretly delighted in her heart.
However, she strictly told herself to calm down, because this was nothing more than a mere beginning.
Later, there were still things that were even more difficult waiting for her to do, so she must not relax in the slightest.
Slowly, Su Luo started to experience this Zi Huo medicinal cauldron’s merit.
This Zi Huo medicinal cauldron seemed as if it was very familiar with her spirit power.
After her spirit power entered the cauldron, it caused an extremely small hindrance, and almost seemed not to hinder the flow.
Su Luo concentrated her attention completely on controlling the flame’s temperature and extracting the active ingredients from the herbs.
Under Su Luo’s sensing of the medicinal herbs in the Zi Huo medicinal cauldron, the Celestial Spring Water, as well as the true fire which was right in the middle of changing, this allowed a fantastical thing to occur.
All kinds of different activated medicinal herbs were shaped and refined by the flame, all sorts of changes were taking place in the absolute silence.
All categories of medicinal herbs’ active chemicals were pressed out one by one, and like this, were assembled together.
The herbs seemed to mutually exchange their essence when combining.
Su Luo continuously concentrated her attention completely on extrapolating the intrinsic order of the medicinal herbs.
Finally, Su Luo roughly calculated, that there was as many as one hundred ways to fuse these medicinal herbs.
This was merely an Elementary Spirit Restoration Pill, and it would actually have so many subtle combinations.
If it was later, only heaven would know how complicated it would be.
Grandmaster level Apothecary, it was indeed an existence that people hope for but could not reach.
Su Luo couldn’t even relax for a second, her pair of eyes were slightly closed.
She condensed all of her spirit power and poured it into the medicinal cauldron.
She was constantly observing the situation inside the medicinal cauldron.
All of a sudden, Su Luo sensed that something was not going well because she could sense the originally cooperative herb essences inside the medicinal cauldron, in a split second, seemed to have been startled.
Each and every one of them migrated in all directions in a very frightened manner, fleeing in disarray.
This simply made Su Luo wearily rush to and fro.
Su Luo made herself calm down, carefully felt about and carefully appeased.
She had a kind of feeling that the reason ought to be because the flame inside the medicinal cauldron was too weak.
She had always respected her own intuition.
Also, her intuition had never been wrong.
Just in this split second, Su Luo made her choice.
She reached out her hand and used all her might to slap the dragon mouth on the medicinal cauldron.
Concentrating all of her spirit power, the flame in the center of her palm rushed out.
The flame rapidly rushed into the middle of the medicinal cauldron.
The flame inside the entire medicinal cauldron rose in a flash and the temperature doubled.
Very quickly, Su Luo felt that the spirit power in her own body was almost exhausted.
Could it be, that the first time she refined a pill must end up in failure?
She refused to accept it!
Su Luo clenched her teeth and persisted.
