Chapter 12 (2/2)

He had been an unremarkable student, yet he reached such a high level in body polishing. Even she found it incredible.

“Alright, get it over with and come back to class! It’s Mr. Xin Qi’s class. He is always strict. You know the consequences if you’re late!”

She reminded them and left.

It was a fair competition. While Lu Zihan was terribly beaten up, Shen Zhe’s friends were not any better. They could call it even. It was no longer Ling Xueru’s business.

The arena fell quiet.

Lu Zihan almost wanted to kill himself after the girl he liked witnessed his embarrassment.

He might have had chances to win her favor before, but there was no hope after that.

Reduced to such a state by a lousy student… How could he live on if other people knew about it?

The top students had their integrity.

“I give up, and I will fulfill your requirements. However… Can I give you twice or three times more herbs instead of apologizing in public?” asked Lu Zihan, gritting his teeth.

After resting for a while, although his tongue was still numb, he was finally able to talk.

“Well…”

Shen Zhe frowned and looked at his friends.

He agreed to the duel exactly to avenge them.

“Shen Zhe, it was you who won the match. You can decide on your own. Don’t worry about us!”

“We have no reputation anyway. Apologies don’t matter to us!”

…

Knowing his intention, Zhao Chen and the rest of them spoke in a hurry.

Seeing that, Shen Zhe stopped hesitating and said, “Alright, apologies are not necessary. Here are the herbs I need. You will give me three… no, five pieces of each, or we will tell everyone what happened today. I’m always here if you want to ask for more trouble!”

Zhao Chen was quite right. They were bad students anyway. Nobody would believe it even though they claimed that they had beaten Lu Zihan up.

They might even think that those bad students had used dirty methods.

It was better to demand concrete compensations instead of apologies.

“No problem…”

Lu Zihan nodded in a hurry.

The Lu family had been involved in the herb business. While he had no access to the precious herbs, it wasn’t a problem for him to fetch a few body polishing herbs.

As long as the news weren’t leaked, he would still be the talented and gracious gentleman of the Lu family.

“I’ll have the herbs prepared and sent to you in the afternoon…”

“Alright!”

Shen Zhe nodded and said, “It’s over now. Let’s go back to class. We’re running late…”

Without any hesitation, he rushed to the classroom.

He had heard a lot about Mr. Xin Qi in the past four days.

The man was the only Druggist in the Abyssal Ocean Kingdom. Rigorous and bad-tempered, he punished students severely when they made a mistake during the experiments.

Shen Zhe didn’t want to be punished for being late.

“Drugs include both pills and the herb liquids made of chemical substances… So, it’s a profession related to chemistry!”

On his way back, he recalled the information about Druggists.

They were different from the Pill Makers in some of the novels he read.

Rather, they created medical liquids and pills through all kinds of chemical reactions. The knowledge involved was similar to the chemistry he knew.

Mages were mathematicians, Martial Artists were physicians, Body Practitioners were sportsmen, and Druggists were chemists!

Shen Zhe wondered if there were other disciplines.

Before Shen Zhe reached the classroom, the bell had already rung, marking the start of the class.

Xin Qi looked around from the rostrum and frowned.

The day before, Feng Gan, the director of the refining rooms, spent all night investigating but did not find out who the refiner was. He only found an eyewitness who saw a blackened guy running out in the school uniform.

The age and look of the guy were unknown.

Since he was in school uniform, he had to be a student. So, Xin Qi was hoping to find out whether or not the refining master could be in his class.

“We’re having a test today!”

Looking around expressionlessly, Xin Qi said, “You will melt the Masculine Sun Grass and the Purification White Lotus without any herbal catalysts!”

“Well…”

The classroom fell quiet, and everyone’s faces changed.

They all knew the nature of the two herbs and the difficulty to melt them.

“Write down the method to melt them and the tools you need. I’ll collect your answers half an hour later!” said Xin Qi casually.

“May I come in?”

Right then, Shen Zhe had finally made it to the classroom.

Seeing that someone was late for his class, and it was none other than the infamous student, Xin Qi squinted.