Zhu Yanyi looked at Elder Dan and shook her head helplessly. "Since there are so few people, how will you hold the welcome event?"
"Simple. We just eat, drink, and chat," Elder Dan said with zero responsibility.
So eating and chatting was the welcome event. Zhu Yanyi found this acceptable, so she did not object.
One day after Zhu Yanyi successfully refined fifty portions of Spirit-Nourishing Pills and handed them to Elder Dan, new students arrived. There were two of them. As current students, Zhu Yanyi and the others did not need to pick them up; the Dean and others handled that.
Rumor had it the two came from the same place. They were a brother and sister, who would become the sixteenth and seventeenth students.
Zhu Yanyi met this brother-sister pair for the first time at the welcome dinner Elder Dan mentioned. It was more like a welcome "eating party."
At this welcome "eating" party, Zhu Yanyi finally met all her senior and junior siblings.
"You are Number Fifteen, right?" Jian Feiyan walked over with a sword on her back and stopped in front of Zhu Yanyi.
"Hello, Second Senior Sister," Zhu Yanyi greeted with a smile.
Jian Feiyan looked heroic and handsome. She patted Zhu Yanyi’s shoulder directly. "You are great. You found the spies hiding in our academy. From now on, I will protect you."
"Second Senior Sister, Number Fifteen belongs to the Alchemy Department," Ouyang Tianyun reminded her. "If anyone protects her, it should be me."
"With your weak hands, how can you protect anyone? Will you use a spatula? Let’s compete," Jian Feiyan said. She clearly loved fighting.
Zhu Yanyi was surprised. A medical student could be so combative. She had never seen this before.
Ouyang Tianyun sighed. "Second Senior Sister, you will scare people. How can you practice medicine outside if you act like this?"
"Nonsense. Outside, I look kind and gentle. Do you really think I act like this with everyone?" Jian Feiyan shot back.
Zhu Yanyi said, "Thank you, Second Senior Sister. If I have trouble, I will ask for your help. I will not be polite with you then."
"That is right. We are sisters. Sisters should not keep things apart," Jian Feiyan said seriously.
"What does 'not keeping things apart' mean? How do you divide a nose? Is it a serious illness?" Niu Wulang asked. He looked honest and simple, making it hard to bully him.
"Number Thirteen, you are in the Medical Department. Don’t you know the idiom 'not keeping things apart'?" Jian Feiyan looked at Niu Wulang.
Niu Wulang scratched his head honestly. "I haven’t studied much. I don’t know many idioms. The Learning Elder is teaching me to read now."
"How did you pass the exam then?" Jian Feiyan asked curiously.
"We passed down medicine by word of mouth in my place. The exam was an accident. A patient got sick, so I grabbed some herbs and cured him. The exam elder asked me a few questions, then decided to bring me to school," Niu Wulang said with a smile.
Zhu Yanyi smiled lightly. "I always thought my luck was very good. I see Number Thirteen Senior Brother has good luck too."
Getting into the Sage Academy was hard for many. Niu Wulang got in easily.
Luck was important sometimes. Niu Wulang looked simple, but heaven sometimes favored simple people.
Gu Jun joined the fun. "Number Thirteen, you really have simple man’s luck. Do you know how hard our exams were? Ask Number Fifteen if you don’t believe me."
Zhu Yanyi glanced at Gu Jun. "Didn’t you suggest my exam? Now that I hear Number Thirteen’s exam, I think you just wanted to make things hard for me. I need to think about how to settle the score with you."
"What questions did Fourth Brother give?" Eldest Senior Brother Yi Yunfei spoke rarely.
Yi Yunfei was steady as the eldest brother. He had been gathering herbs recently and returned yesterday, just in time for the welcome eating party.
Gu Jun coughed. "Those who are able do more work, right? Number Fifteen."
"I think Fourth Senior Brother’s suggestion was good. Use the same method to test me in the future," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile. She was sure Gu Jun had created her test.
"What was the test?" Jian Feiyan asked curiously. "Number Fifteen, tell us quickly."
"I competed against twenty doctors from my dimension. They included poison doctors and various specialists. I had to defeat them all to pass the entrance exam," Zhu Yanyi said slowly.
"I didn’t ask for much. I only asked you to beat fifteen. Who knew you were so strong? You beat all twenty," Gu Jun said slowly.
Yi Yunfei looked at Gu Jun with a half-smile. "It is rare for Fourth Brother to be so strict. Now I know he is the most serious among us. Since that is so, we should treat Fourth Brother seriously from now on."
Gu Jun’s mouth opened wide. He looked at Yi Yunfei in disbelief. "Eldest Senior Brother, you can’t do this. People will talk."
"If they dare to talk, they must beat me first," Yi Yunfei said. He was both a doctor and a martial cultivator.
Gu Jun was speechless. He was no match for Yi Yunfei. He sighed. It seemed he could not escape this fate.
"Number Fifteen, you are so strong. You faced twenty doctors," Niu Wulang said with admiration. "I wish I had your skills."
"I was forced. If you were forced like me, maybe you could beat even more," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
"By the way, Number Fifteen, are you in the Alchemy Department now?" Lei Danfeng asked.
"Yes. I am in the Alchemy Department, learning to refine pills recently," Zhu Yanyi nodded with a smile.
Ouyang Tianyun spoke again. "Do not underestimate Number Fifteen’s alchemy skills. Elder Dan requires her to start with top-grade pills."
"Third Senior Brother, please don’t spread this news. I feel I dug my own grave. Now I can only secretly give away many high-grade pills. They don’t count as completed tasks," Zhu Yanyi said helplessly, looking at Ouyang Tianyun.
"Top-grade?" All the senior and junior siblings shouted in unison. They all looked at Zhu Yanyi.
Zhu Yanyi looked aggrieved. "How did I know top-grade was hard for others? If I had known, I wouldn’t have refined top-grade pills."