Chapter 146: Blood Ulcer

"Knock, knock," someone knocked on the door. A Nuo opened her eyes from her cultivation and poked her head out the door in confusion. In front of her was a group of examiners. "Grandpa, are we not allowed to eat in the room? We won't eat anymore..."

"Well, first of all, when it's time for meals, someone will bring them to you. Don't eat in here from now on. Your oil paper wrapper is honestly a bit inappropriate..." Meng Li coughed twice and handed over another sealed test paper. "Secondly, this is the paper we prepared for the book boy. We forgot to give it to you earlier. Do it yourself, don't let your Master give you any hints."

A Nuo was just feeling bored, so she was happy. "Okay, okay. Anyway, my Master is in meditation."

The examiners exchanged glances and left the room. A Nuo opened the paper and started scratching her head at the first thing she saw.

What's this big name written here... Lu Nuo Mi Tuan Zi?

A Nuo bit the tip of her pen and thought for a long time, recalling what she had said to Sheng Yuan Yao that day. Then, stroke by stroke, she wrote "Lu Nuo Nuo."

In the main examination room, a group of people gathered around the big screen, watching the little girl write quickly on the paper. She was just as fast as her Master. The only place she paused to think was unexpectedly her name...

Gu Zhan Ting couldn't help but ask, "You didn't take the same set of questions, did you?"

The examiners looked at each other. "Your Majesty, really not."

Of course, it wasn't the same set. This kind of exam, to prepare for unexpected situations, always had two sets of questions. This was the spare set. It just didn't have the targeted questions that the Emperor himself had created. The overall difficulty of the two sets of papers was similar.

How old is this little girl? Even if she started learning in the womb, she shouldn't be this good!

Come to think of it, even if it was the same paper, if this little girl could fully memorize her Master's answers after seeing them, she would still be a genius, right?

After a long silence, Meng Li finally smoothed things over awkwardly. "The child doesn't understand much. She just writes quickly because she saw the answers. Maybe it's just scribbling. It will be clear when we grade the papers. It's not all nonsense."

The crowd could only temporarily accept this answer, and there was a moment of silence.

When collecting the papers, the names were also sealed, but this set had no meaning for A Nuo. Her paper was different from everyone else's; you could tell at a glance.

A group of examiners, along with the Emperor himself, didn't go back to rest in the evening and directly worked overtime grading the papers. Everyone wanted to snatch A Nuo's paper to look at first, but unfortunately, no one could snatch it from the Emperor. Gu Zhan Ting leisurely took the paper, leaned back in his chair to look, and his expression changed as he looked.

He himself didn't originally practice alchemy, but after years of chronic illness, he had become quite skilled in medicine. He could tell at a glance that A Nuo's answers were systematic and definitely not a child's random scribbling.

Well... if you talk about scribbling, perhaps the unbearably ugly handwriting could count?

Even if it's systematic, it still counts. After all, she's Lu Xing Zhou's disciple, inheriting in an orderly manner. But how can this be when everything seems correct? How old is this child?

"Qin Yuan Zheng, you come and look." Gu Zhan Ting began to doubt his own judgment and handed the paper to the Principal of the Dan Academy, Da Qian's famous top alchemist, Qin Zhi Yu.

Qin Zhi Yu took the paper and, as he looked at it, subconsciously stood up. "This..."

"How is it?"

"All, all correct!"

The examiners were in an uproar and flocked around. "Qin Yuan Zheng, don't be lenient just because it's a child. It's not good even if it's half-guessed and half-right."

Qin Zhi Yu was so angry that his beard curled up. "See for yourselves! Not only are they all correct, but some of the ideas in them should already be at the upper three grades level!"

As soon as these words came out, Meng Li didn't speak, and Gu Zhan Ting also nodded slightly.

Earlier, when Lu Xing Zhou answered the paper at Meng Li's house, Meng Li felt that some of the ideas in it were in the first grade category, that kind of looking down from a high position. At that time, the National Teacher might still have been there, and they thought it was because Meng Li only knew the first grade... meaning Lu Xing Zhou's ideas had super-grade meaning, at least his inheritance was super-grade.

A Nuo is Lu Xing Zhou's disciple. The so-called master-disciple relationship is very likely not about martial arts. Gu Zhan Ting could feel that A Nuo's strength seemed to be inverse Tiangang, even higher than Lu Xing Zhou's... then the so-called master-disciple relationship is just about alchemy techniques, right? Then this answer paper makes sense.

But this is still shocking. This child is said to be only seven years old!

"This exam session is interesting." Gu Zhan Ting stood up in a good mood. "I hope the treatment exam tomorrow can give me more surprises."

Meng Li then said, "Does Your Majesty mean to let this... uh... this child also formally participate in the exam?"

Gu Zhan Ting smiled. "Isn't she already formally participating in the exam? And how many people are stronger than her? As for her full name, just open the seal and look. It's a separate paper, why hide it? It's all just a formality."

Meng Li carefully opened the seal and glanced at it: Lu Nuo Nuo.

Qin Zhi Yu immediately added the name to the exam list. The Emperor and the empire's highest alchemy academy tacitly opened a backdoor for this solemn exam, and everyone was openly accepting it.

In this exam at the highest academy, a seven-year-old got a perfect score... which rule-bound idiot would shut a genius out?

Early the next morning, the door knocked again. A Nuo rubbed her eyes and went to open the door. Again, a group of examiners appeared, bringing an emaciated patient with them.

A Nuo's little chubby face finally showed confusion. "Grandpa, do you all come to every room with so many people like this, all grandly together? Will three days be enough for you?"

The crowd was a little embarrassed. How could they say that the time for the second day's exam hadn't arrived yet, and a group of people had come early, actually just to watch her arrive?

Even the Emperor was hiding in the main examination room early in the morning, watching the big screen.

"Cough." Meng Li coughed. "You don't need to worry about this. Is your Master here?"

Lu Xing Zhou's voice came from inside the room. "Please come in, everyone."

The crowd brought the patient into the room. Lu Xing Zhou reached out to feel the pulse and smiled slightly after a moment.

This patient had blood cancer.

This symptom was very similar to the Emperor's injury. The "demon power" in the Emperor's body couldn't be completely eliminated and always interfered with the blood, not only being very similar to cancer but also causing the cancer cells to only be suppressed, not eradicated.

Just as he was about to speak, Qin Zhi Yu suddenly stopped him. "Why don't you let this little girl also come and see the patient?"

Lu Xing Zhou's smile grew wider. Yesterday, they gave A Nuo questions. He seemed to be in meditation, but how could he not know? He thought it was quite fun for the master and disciple to become classmates, so he didn't say anything.

A Nuo's medical knowledge was indeed all learned from him, and she had been his assistant in all his treatments and alchemy. After so many years, her level was almost a one-to-one copy. After getting the Maha notes, the gap only widened a little because he couldn't fully understand the new knowledge himself, so he naturally had less grasp of what he could teach.

But to cope with this exam, A Nuo was more than enough.

A Nuo, however, only thought that a group of old men were playing around with a child, so she also went forward to feel the pulse, opened the patient's eyes to look for a while, and then exchanged a glance with Lu Xing Zhou.

The master and disciple grinned in perfect synchronization and said together, "Blood ulcer."

Qin Zhi Yu said, "Generally called blood disease. Why do you two call it an ulcer?"

A Nuo said, "It's just like there's an ulcer in the blood. Saying blood disease is too general."

Qin Zhi Yu nodded and asked again, "Since you know the symptom, do you have a solution?"

Cancer is very difficult to solve in modern times, but in this cultivation world, there are many amazing pills that can solve it. However, this doesn't belong to this level of exam questions. In fact, correctly diagnosing the disease counts as passing. Qin Zhi Yu and the others didn't expect Lu Xing Zhou's master and disciple to directly give a solution. They just asked casually with some expectation, after all, the Emperor wanted to hear it.

A Nuo said, "There are several pills that can solve it... Um, but I can't refine them. If not relying on alchemy, there is a kind of heavenly material and earthly treasure called Qianfang Xuezhi. It seems to be able to solve it if taken directly."

Qin Zhi Yu nodded. These solutions were fine for this blood disease, but unfortunately, they were still not suitable for the Emperor's disease and couldn't solve the damage from the demon power.

After all, it was just similar, not the same disease.

Yet, they heard Lu Xing Zhou say, "Considering only this patient's situation, changing the marrow can solve it. However, the ingredients are difficult to find and not very reliable. I answered this matter in the test paper. People with sufficient conditions can try to use treasures to change the marrow."

Qin Zhi Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, and Gu Zhan Ting in the main examination room suddenly stood up.

Meng Li hurriedly said, "This cannot be said casually. Are you sure you can do it?"

Lu Xing Zhou said, "Considering only this patient's situation, it is indeed possible. You are all top figures and should have your own inferences and can verify it. But you should also be clear that this patient can, which does not mean others can."

Gu Zhan Ting in the main examination room silently sat back, thought for a long time, and said in a low voice to those around him, "Qin Yuan Zheng also once mentioned a similar proposal, and Lu Xing Zhou also said so... Let Qin Yuan Zheng start verifying how the marrow-changing treasure needs to be refined. He should have an idea."

"Yes."

Gu Zhan Ting's gaze fell on the "big screen" again, with an expression that was difficult to describe.

The diagnosis exam didn't just diagnose one patient. Throughout the day, Lu Xing Zhou and his disciple diagnosed at least twenty or thirty different difficult illnesses. Some needed on-site treatment, some needed prescriptions, and another part needed special pills, which was tomorrow's exam project, alchemy.

Speaking of the people in the capital city, those selected to be examined also belonged to the lucky ones. The level of candidates here might be a hundred times stronger than ordinary free clinics.

A Nuo was busy all day and wiped her sweat speechlessly. "Master, is something wrong? I'm just a child, why do they want me to cure people?"

Lu Xing Zhou smiled slightly. "You should also try practical operations. Being an assistant is no good. One day you will graduate and be independent."

A Nuo's expression changed. "No! Not that day!"

"Okay, okay, okay, not that day." Lu Xing Zhou rubbed her head. "But you also need practical operations. In the future, if Master needs to see many patients, like today, and can't handle it himself, you must also help, right?"

A Nuo breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "How can there be an occasion for Master to cure so many people at once? Could Master still open a clinic later?"

"You never know. When Master finishes what he needs to do, he'll go back to the county town and open a clinic in disguise, being a medical immortal in the city and slapping some faces. What do you think?"

"You're just fooling yourself, Master. You're so restless, and still in disguise..." A Nuo complained, "The Capital Dan Academy should first pray that you don't turn things upside down in there, and then thank heaven and earth."

"Look at you, we're not even sure if we can pass the exam."

"But Master, out of thirty people, we've already cured twenty-eight... only two need extra pills to be refined, and that pill, I think it's really easy..."

Lu Xing Zhou sighed. "Alchemy is not the same as these two days. Tomorrow is not an exam, it's a competition."