Chapter 2562: Secret Chamber (8)

Translator : MoonWhisperer, TWIP, skyrise Editor : TWIP

Everyone racked their brains, thinking about it continuously.

Senior Brother Zhang Wang had already pulled out a handful of his hair, and his eyes had taken on the appearance of mosquito coils. However, he still couldn’t come up with even an outline of an answer. In that case, he might as well just not think about it.

He patted Su Luo’s shoulder: “Lass, you do it.”

Su Luo giggled at him but did not say a word.

At this moment, Li Luoming was totally flabbergasted. He had always been good at refining medicine, but when it came to this sort of problem, he really couldn’t figure it out.

Ouyang Xi’s finger kept pointing here and there at the door sheet while his eyes stared at the words. Although his eyes became totally bloodshot, he was still baffled by the problem.

Even Fairy Bingqing, who posed as someone above the common people, felt as though her head was going to explode. Her long, shapely eyebrows knitted together tightly as she stood motionlessly against the wall, very clearly in deep thought.

There was silence all around.

Suddenly, Li Luoming yelled, “What is that?”

Everyone followed Li Luoming’s line of sight and found a burning incense stick had, unbeknownst to them, appeared on top of the door. A spiral of white smoke rose up from the incense stick.

Everyone instinctively looked at the door sheet!

As they expected, right at the bottom of the door sheet was a line of words written in fine print that was as tiny as a mosquito’s leg and of practically the same color as the door: ‘This incense stick marks the time limit. If you can’t produce an answer before the time is up, you will never be able to enter here again!’

There was only an incense stick’s worth of time???

Everyone was initially still thinking about the problem unhurriedly, but they were all given a sharp shock!

Lord Bai Ze was really awful! He deliberately used words of the same color as the door sheet so that they wouldn’t be able to see the words, which almost caused them to miss the deadline.

However…

Everyone still hung their head dispiritedly.

Even if they were given more time… what they couldn’t figure out now, they still wouldn’t figure out later!

Weren’t they supposed to be tested on their medicine-refining skills and cultivation ability? Why was the final test on some nonsensical problem? The unspoken criticisms everyone had of Lord Bai Ze reached a boiling point, reprimanding him for not fulfilling his duties.

That incense stick wasn’t long, only about the length of an infant’s arm. It was thick, but it would still burn out very quickly.

Before long, two-thirds of that incense stick had already been burned.

Everyone became anxious!

“Hey, have any of you figured it out? Just where exactly did those two taels go?” Li Luoming stomped about in anxiety.

If they could not produce the answer within the set time, all of their hard work in the previous tests would all be for naught, failing to reach success through the lack of a final effort.

Moreover, after they were sent out, they would not be able to enter here again in the future. This penalty was unspeakably serious.

“That incense stick has almost completely burned out. Hurry up and think of the answer!!” Li Luoming got so anxious that he paced back and forth with extreme urgency.

Actually, everyone was anxious.

Senior Brother Zhang Wang’s gaze shot blades at Li Luoming: “This is testing the technical ability of apothecaries. Instead of thinking about the problem, you’re pacing to and fro here. Are you seeking death?!”

Li Luoming felt he was greatly wronged: “How is this a problem for apothecaries??”

Senior Brother Zhang Wang shot him a harsh look and said self-righteously, “Don’t you apothecaries spend your time and energy in areas of logic, calculations, and reasoning? Since this is the case, this problem should have been presented especially for apothecaries. If you don’t answer it, who will? If you can’t answer it, all of the blame is on you!”

Who told this noisy Li Luoming to talk so much along the way and discredit Luoluo, Senior Brother Zhang Wang’s junior sister. Senior Brother Zhang Wang was doing this deliberately to get revenge for his junior sister.

Li Luoming was so stunned that he almost choked. However, he still managed to react very quickly: “But Su Luo is also an apothecary. She’s an apothecary of an even higher level than me!”

“Oh, so you finally admit that my junior sister’s technical abilities in refining medicine are of a higher level than yours? You, the only one who came in with the identity of apothecary, are finally admitting Su Luo’s medicine-refining skills are better than yours?” Senior Brother Zhang Wang sneered.

Li Luoming looked as if he had been slapped ruthlessly.