Patient Association Second Cohort (I)

Early spring of World Calendar Year 322 had already passed, yet the entire Northland still felt bitterly cold.

The frigid wind howled, though the sky itself was clear and pale.

Feng Huibin stared at the sky in a daze.

This alchemy conference had felt cramped and strange from start to finish.

The two genius Plague Exterminators from before, [Thirty-Two] and [Hua Yi], seemed to have vanished. There had been no news of them anywhere in the Northland.

And in the end, the top spot in the alchemy conference had gone to [Tang Yu] of the Children of Pharmacology.

Tang Yu was indeed an impressive pharmacist, but she had still been somewhat lacking when it came to truly taking first place.

But... neither the event organizers nor the many judges, not even Vice Dean Guo Chishao of the Imperial Medical Bureau, the chief adjudicator, had said anything. Naturally, Feng Huibin could only keep his thoughts to himself.

He had heard that Tang Yu had been treated poorly by her family before. Now that she had taken first place, even the elders of the Tang Clan of Northland Pharmaceuticals had come to visit her. However, this pharmacist had already joined the Chengyun Imperial Medical Bureau. It could be said that she had risen to the heavens in a single step, and would never again need to heed her family's wishes.

"Ah... she's really incredible."

Feng Huibin lowered his head. What little self-respect he had left had already been worn away in Chengyun.

He looked at Zhai Ning beside him.

During the month since the alchemy conference had ended, Zhai Ning seemed to have endless work to do. Feng Huibin found it strange. They were both students of the Cancer Subordinate Academy—was A-Ning really that busy?

He always felt that the gap between