A-Wu sat on the bed and circulated spiritual energy around her neck once. The pain immediately disappeared, and her skin returned to its smooth, pale state.
She had originally planned to spend the next day or so resting and enjoying herself. Successfully reaching the second level of Qi Refining had made her a little too confident. But after encountering that perverted fugitive, she was instantly brought back to reality.
She finally understood that even an interstellar society could be extremely dangerous. To powerful people, interstellar laws were almost meaningless. Her life had never been truly safe.
She had to become stronger!
After setting an alarm, A-Wu returned to cultivation and focused entirely on increasing her cultivation level. She only stopped when the alarm rang. After packing her things, she prepared to leave the ship.
Although there had been some trouble along the way, the spaceship still arrived at Capital Planet right on time.
A-Wu left directly through the private passage for economy-class passengers, perfectly avoiding Huai Yu, who was still stubbornly searching for her.
He had originally thought there would be plenty of chances for them to meet again. He never expected that after that day, he would not see her even once.
Unable to find her, Huai Yu became even more eager to see her again.
Ever since he was young, whenever he wanted something, someone would immediately place it in front of him. There were very few things he had ever wanted but could not get.
Huai Yu knew that his current situation was not quite right. But whenever he tried to find another woman, he could not help comparing her with A-Wu.
And then…
This one’s skin isn’t good enough.
That one’s natural charm isn’t strong enough.
This one talks too artificially.
That one’s perfume is so strong it could kill someone…
If he weren’t completely uninterested in men, he would have wondered if he had suddenly changed his sexual orientation!
This continued for quite some time.
Even Huai Jin eventually noticed that something was wrong with his younger brother.
Huai Yu had always been a notorious playboy who could hardly go a single day without a female companion. Yet now, he was actually staying at home every day, doing absolutely nothing!
This was far too strange.
As a concerned older brother, Huai Jin secretly had someone investigate Huai Yu’s recent activities. As the head of the family, he easily discovered that his younger brother had been searching for someone.
And that someone was a woman.
Once he found out, he immediately called off the investigation.
He felt relieved and happily sighed.
This guy had finally found true love!
Maybe he would finally settle down this time.
A-Wu had already forgotten all about these people.
After following the map to the hotel she had booked in advance, she rested for one night before going straight to the examination.
The examination was held at the Medical Bureau.
A-Wu arrived half an hour early and discovered that there were not many people taking the examination. Everyone had arrived ahead of time, and some were even making a last-minute effort to study by watching pharmaceutical videos made by famous Federation pharmacists.
To avoid attracting too much attention, A-Wu had deliberately worn a hat and face mask when she left that morning.
She quietly stood in a corner. With everyone feeling nervous about the examination, hardly anyone paid attention to her.
Soon, the examination began.
A-Wu entered the examination room together with the other candidates after checking the room number displayed on her smart ring.
Each candidate had a separate room. Inside, all the equipment needed for pharmaceutical production had already been prepared, along with the medicinal plants included in the examination syllabus.
As soon as A-Wu entered her examination room, the door behind her closed.
It would not open again until the examination ended, unless she submitted her test early.
Everything was exactly as described in the Star Network guides.
A-Wu sat in the only chair in front of the desk.
When she heard the announcement that the examination had begun, she pressed the green button on the desk.
One second later, a light screen appeared above the desk.
Her written examination paper was displayed on it, along with a one-hour countdown timer at the top.
While A-Wu was examining the screen, the timer had already changed to 59:30.
She stopped wasting time and picked up the electronic pen beside her, quickly answering the questions.
There were quite a lot of questions, and she only barely finished within the hour.
Fortunately, she had her spiritual sense as a cheat.
She remembered every piece of knowledge firmly. These were all basic questions, and she knew how to answer every one of them.
There was no chance she would fail.
After submitting the written test, candidates had half an hour to rest.
They could also apply to immediately take the next part—the practical pharmaceutical examination.
A-Wu did not rush.
She carefully examined all the pharmaceutical equipment on the laboratory table and confirmed that she knew how to use everything.
Then she went through all the medicinal plants on the shelves.
After roughly figuring out what kinds of questions might appear, she finally pressed the button to begin the practical test.
When she saw the questions she had drawn, A-Wu raised an eyebrow.
There were two questions.
Both were extremely basic pharmaceutical formulas, but their properties were completely opposite.
The first was a basic water-type healing potion specifically used to treat injuries caused by low-level fire-type abilities.
The second was a basic fire-type explosive potion.
After taking it, a fire-type ability user could experience a burst of power for one hour, forcibly increasing their ability level by one major rank.
For example, it could raise a D-rank ability user to C-rank.
It was practically a life-saving potion in an emergency.
However, it had no effect on ability users above C-rank.
Because this was only a basic pharmacist examination, the complete operating steps were provided along with the questions.
The only restriction was that each question allowed the candidate to take a maximum of three sets of materials.
Even this requirement was quite generous.
All A-Wu needed to do was follow the instructions and produce the potions.
She simply had to avoid working too quickly or too slowly.
Having always been thrifty, A-Wu had no intention of deliberately wasting medicinal materials.
Step by step, she calmly followed the instructions, purifying and combining the medicinal plants.
In the end, she produced a perfect potion.
Purifying medicinal plants required mental power, which was why pharmacists were all mental-type ability users.
The higher the pharmacist’s level, the stronger their mental power.
This allowed them to purify medicinal plants to a higher degree. With fewer impurities remaining, the resulting potions naturally had higher quality and higher levels.
A-Wu had no idea about this.
It was not something taught in basic pharmacist textbooks.
She also had no idea just how astonishing her spiritual sense was in an interstellar world where there was no cultivation technique for training spiritual sense.
She followed the procedure and successfully produced both potions.
Without realizing it, however, she instinctively improved each potion by one level.
Then she deliberately took her time for a while before submitting her work at what she thought was a reasonably early time.
In reality, it was extremely early.
When A-Wu walked out of the examination room, there was no one outside.
She assumed most of the candidates had already left, so she calmly returned to the hotel and waited for the notification that she had passed.
The examiners had received her two potions much earlier.
After looking at the questions she had drawn, they were somewhat surprised and placed the potions into the testing machine.
The machine was not as precise as the equipment at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute.
Its final results only showed two things:
Pass or fail.
Basic, intermediate, or advanced.
As expected, both of A-Wu’s potions passed.
The water-type potion was rated advanced.
The fire-type potion was rated intermediate because the medicinal plants used to make it were of relatively poor quality.
After receiving the results, the examiners sent A-Wu her notification.
At the same time, her basic pharmacist certificate was sent directly to her smart ring.
The chief examiner this time was a Level 7 pharmacist.
Looking at the two potions in his hands, he could not help sighing inwardly.
A genius…
He was the only examiner who noticed the purity of the two potions.
The other examiners were of lower levels and could only rely on the testing machine.
As a Level 7 pharmacist, his mental power had also reached Level 7. He could directly use his mental power to examine the purity of a potion.
The impurities he sensed in these two potions were almost nonexistent.
This meant that as this pharmacist’s ability level gradually increased, she would have an extremely smooth path to becoming a Level 8 or even Level 9 pharmacist.
The chief examiner, who had been stuck at Level 7 and unable to advance, felt depressed.
He had been born into an ordinary family.
He had managed to reach his current level through his own hard work, and he lacked neither intelligence nor determination.
Even so, he could not help feeling a little jealous.
Whether this pharmacist came from a powerful family or was an exceptionally talented commoner, as long as she did not die young, she would eventually reach the very top.
But because his mental power could no longer advance, he would be stuck at Level 7 for the rest of his life.
How unfair was heaven?
It took him a long time to shake off those negative emotions.
The pharmacist master, who was famous for being approachable and easygoing, then openly placed both potions into his spatial device.
They were only two low-level potions, after all.
No one else paid much attention to them.
Instead, everyone was extremely envious of the person who had made them.
This was a Level 7 pharmacist master!
If he happened to take a liking to her and accepted her as a student, it would be like winning a prize from heaven!
Meanwhile, A-Wu, who had unknowingly been hit by that “prize,” had absolutely no idea what was happening.
The pharmacist examination only required a citizen identification number.
It would not reveal her real identity to others, nor would it expose her address.
So she had no concerns at all.
As soon as she received her certificate, she packed her things and prepared to return home.
The credits in her account were almost gone, and she had completely sold out of Enchanting Fragrance.
She needed to carefully think about what kind of pills she should sell next.
She also needed to research some new medicines.
Only then could she keep earning credits continuously.
With credits, she could buy energy stones.
With energy stones, she could cultivate!
A-Wu could already imagine how busy she would be in the coming days.
There were no energy stones left for her to use during the return journey.
To save some credits, A-Wu simply booked an ordinary-class seat and slept all the way back to Azure Star.
With the credits she had saved, A-Wu bought a tube of high-quality orange-scented maintenance oil.
She planned to give it to Dandan.
Until she earned enough credits to buy him an artificial body, she could at least take good care of his current body.
After leaving the spaceship, A-Wu hurried home.
The moment she saw Dandan, she took out the gift.
Dandan accepted it.
His chip began processing information at an incredible speed.
A-Wu felt as if he were almost overheating.
Worried, she gently touched the top of his head.
“Dandan, are you okay? Don’t get too excited~”
Dandan carefully placed the bottle of maintenance oil into the tiny storage compartment inside his body.
After making sure it was safely stored, he happily replied,
“I’m fine, Master! Welcome home! I clean the rooms every day and keep everything spotless while waiting for you to come home. You should go rest for a while! Would you like to drink a tube of nutrient solution first?”
After confirming that he really was fine, A-Wu immediately rushed into the bathroom to wash up.
Even though she had used a cleansing spell on herself, the feeling of not having taken a proper bath for a whole week was absolutely terrible!
After bathing, she changed into a comfortable dress.
It had a white background embroidered with elegant flowers and formation patterns, giving it a simple and graceful appearance.
She collapsed onto the sofa and began checking the pills stored in her storage artifact.
Aside from various small batches of pills, the one she had the most of was Jade Body Pills.
The name came from the idea of a flawless jade-like body.
Taking them could improve the skin.
They could not only whiten the skin but also remove various imperfections such as wrinkles, scars, dark spots, and acne.
Women would go crazy for them!
A-Wu had personally tested them, so she knew this very well.
There was no woman who could refuse perfectly flawless skin.
It wasn’t that your skin wasn’t good enough.
It was simply that you hadn’t taken enough pills!
If one pill wasn’t enough, take another.
Even an eighty-year-old woman could be turned into an eighteen-year-old girl.
Of course, the older the person, the shorter the effect would last.
If the person were truly an elderly woman, she might have to eat Jade Body Pills like candy every day.
However, taking large amounts of pills would also cause another problem—the accumulation of medicinal toxins in the body.
So when A-Wu put the pills up for sale, she decided to add a restriction:
Only one pill per day.
If you abuse the medicine, you are responsible for the consequences!