Zhou Ling Shan wakes up

Chapter 15: Zhou Ling Shan wakes up

Feng Ming Xiu sat down at the table and poured herself a cup of tea.

Zhou Ling Shan got off the bed and sat down at the table.

"I am not one to thank someone but I Hou Jin thank you for saving me from the forest."Zhou Ling Shan cupped his fist and thanked Feng Min Xiu.

"Hou Jin?" Feng Ming Xiu felt that she heard that name before.

"Oh! So you're Hou Jin?"

"Excuse me?"

"Someone came before and asked Doctor Long Bai if she could cure cold poison. She said she could only cure cold poisons that are up to one hundred years old."

"You know?" A gloomy aura surrounded Zhou Ling Shan when she said that and a dagger appeared in his hand. Zhou Ling Shan rushed toward Feng Ming Xiu and put the dagger to her throat.

"Who are you? How do you know this?"

Feng Ming Xiu smiled and stroked his mask. "Of course because Doctor Long Bai is my master." Feng Ming Xiu had no intention of revealing to him that she was Doctor Long Bai.

Zhou Ling Shan obviously didn't believe that. "How can I know if you're telling the truth?"

"Have you ever seen or spoken to Doctor Long Bai personally?" Feng Ming Xiu asked.

"No." Zhou Ling Shan shook his head. 'I've never spoken to her personally before, but I've gotten my people to get portraits of her. I know that she always wears a purple dress and always hides her face beneath a veil. I also happened to see her from a distance as well. It wasn't a large distance so I could sense a dangerous feeling coming from her.' Zhou Ling Shan removed Feng Ming Xiu's hand from his mask and made the dagger go a bit deeper into her neck.

Feng Ming Xiu looked at his hand and sighed. She looked up at him and spoke. "I'll make a deal with you. I happen to know that Master will be heading to the Tao Family Clan in Yongrui city in the Yuanjun Kingdom."

"..." Zhou Ling Shan stared at Feng Ming Xiu, still keeping the dagger at her neck.

"Mister. I suggest you move away from me. We are in quite an awkward position right now."

Zhou Ling Shan looked at her and moved back. He sat in the chair in front of Feng Ming Xiu. Feng Ming Xiu touched her neck which had blood flowing out. She closed her eyes and smiled. Feng Ming Xiu opened her eyes again and looked straight at Zhou Ling Shan. "How about we make a deal?"

"I'm listening." Zhou Ling Shan was interested in what kind of deal Feng Ming Xiu wanted to make with him.

"I happen to know that Master will be headed to the Tao Family Clan which is in Yuanjun city in the Yongrui Kingdom. She will be going there to treat a patient in their family."

"Who will she be treating?"

"Master only told me that she would be going to the Tao Family clan in four days to treat someone. She never told me who she would be treating."

"Oh. Okay. Then, how did Doctor Long Bai become your master?"

Feng Ming Xiu looked at Zhou Ling Shan. 'He seems intent on finding out how I'm related to 'Doctor Long Bai' which is me. But he doesn't know that and he doesn't need to know that.'

Feng Ming Xiu smiled. "I was in thousand Beast Forest with my maids once and I saw a woman on the ground bleeding. I was worried so I saved her and took her back to my mansion and tended to her injuries. When she awoke, she tried to kill me immediately but when she found out I saved her and tended to her injuries, she thanked me and left."

"A few days later, she came back and tested me in alchemy. Since it was my first time refining pills in a pill furnace, of course, I failed. But even though I failed, she told me to try again and after trying till noon, I finally refined a pill. It wasn't a perfect pill but master's eyes were practically shining when I refined the pill. She begged me to become her disciple which I accepted. So now master visits me secretly once every week to teach me alchemy as well as point out my mistakes."

Zhou Ling Shan looked at Feng Ming Xiu in surprise.'She was able to refine a pill on the same day she started alchemy? Even on the other continents, no one has ever managed to refine a pill on the same day they started alchemy. Even my master, who is the strongest alchemist on the continent, (he's not referring to this continent which is known as Dorendel Continent) only managed to refine a pill in two weeks. That alone is incredible; I managed to refine my first pill in one week. That's one week earlier than master.'

'If any of those old alchemists on the continent were to know this, they would fight to make her their disciple. So it would make sense that Doctor Long Bai made Feng Ming Xiu her disciple.'

'I can more or less guess what he's thinking. Refining a pill on the same day that I started alchemy? That's an amazing feat considering how hard it is to become an alchemist.'

Zhou Ling Shan looked at Feng Ming Xiu and asked, "How old were you when you saved your master?"

"How old was I? I think I was about nine years old."

'That story isn't real but, I really did save someone in the forest when I was nine years old, although not master. I wonder how she's doing right now.'