She slightly frowned before relaxing her eyebrows again, seemingly disinterested in this change. In her thoughts, the top place on the stele for the first volume of herbs was achieved when she had just become an outer disciple; she hadn’t given her all for this spot back then, not to mention that right now, she was completely different from years ago.
“Good, it seems that a talented disciple has emerged from our sect.” she said lightly in a condescending voice as her body suddenly flashed, darting towards the stele for the first volume of herbs.
She thought that she had just barely been surpassed, and all she need to do to regain that position was simply put in a little more effort.
Once she moved, all of the surrounding outer sect disciples grew excited. They turned around and fixed their eyes on her. When they saw that Zhou Xinqi walk into the cabin under the stele for the first volume of herbs, their eyes were instantly filled with anticipation.
“Sister Zhou is going to take her first place back. The young Brother who has drawn the turtle is good, but, it’s such a shame that he can only hold the first place for the time it takes a stick of incense to burn.
“That’s true. This young Brother can definitely be considered as genius in herbs, but he just had to encounter Sister Zhou. It can only be considered his bad luck.”
Hearing the words of the surrounding disciples, Bai Xiaochun became nervous. On one hand, he didn’t have enough time to match all the pieces together. On the other hand, Zhou Xinqi was so famous, that even he himself, felt that he belonged in second place.
“It’s fine, I’ll just take the second place. Men shouldn’t fight against women.” Bai Xiaochun consoled himself and thought about leaving. However, he was unwilling to leave like this, so he stood still, anxiously waiting for what was about to happen next.
Soon, the time it took to burn a stick of incense had passed, but the ranking on the stele didn’t change. Bai Xiaochun’s turtle was still on top. Zhou Xinqi walked out of the cabin with an indifferent face. She was hundred percent confident about taking the first place back. This time, she had used eighty percent of her abilities and completed a whole four thousand herbs amongst the ten thousand.
In her eyes, this was more than enough to surpass that unknown talented disciple.
However, when she walked out of the cabin, she didn’t hear a thing. When she looked at the crowd, she found that they had strange expressions on their faces, and quite a lot of them were staring in disbelief.
Zhou Xinqi stopped, abruptly raised her head, and looked at the stele. She saw that her Aquarius symbol was still beneath the turtle, which looked uglier the more she stared at it.
The entire area was dead silent and every disciple, including Bai Xiaochun was stunned. Soon after, Bai Xiaochun looked at Zhou Xinqi in surprise, then felt that this girl was not only pretty, but also…not as frightening as he thought.
Zhou Xinqi’s pupils shrank slightly, before quickly returning to normal.
“This person is indeed talented with herbs. I’m now a bit curious about him.” said Zhou Xinqi as she turned her body around in a flash and under everyone’s stares, unexpectedly walked into the cabin once again.
This time, Bai Xiaochun did not even consider leaving. He stood in the crowd eagerly awaiting the results. As for the other outer sect disciples, they had stopped talking loudly, instead, they had started discussing in hushed tones. Everyone who saw this unprecedented occurrence could not believe their eyes.
As they looked at the turtle, they began to feel that it was mysterious. After the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, this sense of mystery intensified as they saw Zhou Xinqi walk out of the cabin again.
The turtle…was still on the top!