Men's Conversation

"Now you can't play with him even if you want to!" Wood sneered. "I heard someone ripped that thing right off him, and now he's half dead!"

"Hmph! Who cares!" Lily Xu said with a cold laugh.

"Forget about him! Come here, let me help you vent your fire..." Wood pressed her down onto the bed...

......

There were a lot of people taking the qualification exam.

All the Spiritual Alchemists in the Vermilion Kingdom came here to take the test.

The scope of the exam was also very broad.

From written tests and interviews to alchemy, pulse diagnosis, and more, it lasted a full three days.

If you didn't pass, you'd have to try again next year.

If you passed, your status and value would naturally rise.

......

After three whole days and nights of exams, Grace was exhausted like a dog, and finally came down from Spirit Alliance Mountain on the morning of the fourth day.

As soon as she got down, she found a crowd waiting at the foot of the mountain—family members of the exam candidates, all craning their necks in anticipation.

But among them, her parents were nowhere to be seen.

She hadn’t even told them about the exam, just said the Spirit Alliance had business and she’d be gone for a few days.

If she explained in detail, her medical skills would be doubted by her parents in a hundred different ways, and she wouldn’t be able to make it clear, so she simply kept quiet.

Still, even though her parents didn’t show up, someone else came to pick her up.

It was her master.

Grace got into Jun Lionhead’s carriage, and the two headed home together.

"How was it?" Jun Lionhead asked.

"Sigh!" Grace let out a breath. "The examiners probably think I'm too young. It felt like they were deliberately making things hard for me."

"How confident are you?"

Grace thought for a moment and said, "About eighty percent!"

"Then you should be fine."

"Thank you, Master!" Grace smiled. "I’m lucky you taught me so much these past few days."

Jun Lionhead looked at her and suddenly asked, "Did I really lose my memory?"

Grace blinked: "Yep, that’s right."

"Then when did I ever teach you?"

"Five years ago," Grace replied.

"I heard you got your spirit root only in the past year or two? So I took you as my apprentice five years ago?"

"...Yeah! I didn’t understand it at the time either, but now I think, maybe you predicted I’d end up like this?"

"Predicted?"

"When I came up the mountain to become your apprentice, didn’t you say you’d foreseen a disciple coming to you? You’re good at divination, right?"

Jun Lionhead: "...So how did I lose my memory?"

"No idea... You said you had to go on a long trip, and when you came back, you didn’t remember your disciple anymore."

Jun Lionhead frowned deeply.

Seeing how confused he looked, Grace felt even more guilty: "Master, don’t dwell on the past. You’re my master, I’m your disciple, and that will never change! I’ll always be good to you!"

Jun Lionhead looked at her sincere eyes and said nothing.

Loyalty Manor.

Evan Xiao asked Shannon, "You’re saying Loyalty Manor is a Dragon’s Nexus?"

Shannon smiled and nodded, "Sometimes good fortune just falls into your lap."

Evan Xiao nodded and looked at Leon Zane: "Now that we've found the Dragon’s Nexus, what do we do next?"

Leon Zane raised his eyebrows and said, "Shannon, step outside for a moment."

"What can’t I hear?" Shannon asked.

Leon Zane: "This is men’s business. Women can’t listen in."

Shannon rolled her eyes at him and left.

"She’s gone. Speak," Evan Xiao said.

Leon Zane showed a mysterious smile: "Does Your Highness really want to go through with this?"

"Do I look like I’m faking it?"