Chapter 1766: Successive Presidents

The Taishi Bureau.

Underground.

"Lord Brand."

"Lord Brand, what happened outside? Why has there been an earthquake?"

In the dim underground stone corridor, the Alchemy Association members who were ordered to guard the place saw Brand running over in a hurry and asked with concern while saluting.

Having guarded the underground for years, they knew nothing about the situation on the surface and naturally didn't know that the Taishi Bureau was facing a catastrophe. Brand was in no mood to explain to them, only saying with a pale face:

"It’s nothing..."

"You guard this place well. Later, no matter what... thing comes over, you must stop it, understand?"

The Alchemy Association members looked at each other, doubt flashing in their eyes. Before they could ask anything else, Brand’s figure had disappeared at the end of the stone corridor.

A moment later,

Whoosh—

The torches on both sides of the underground stone corridor were instantly stained with an eerie scarlet.

The many Alchemy Association members guarding the stone corridor were stunned. They looked toward the end of the stone corridor, where an eerie red was approaching.

The burning scarlet torchlight cast the shadow of that thing onto the ancient stone wall. The moment they saw it, everyone’s pupils contracted violently...

"What is..."

"...that thing??？！!"

A pair of scarlet eyes opened in the dim light, and dripping blood instantly splashed across the stone corridor.

Heads rolled onto the ground, and the stone corridor fell into deathly silence again. Countless red paper tentacles retracted under the fluttering sleeves. Chen Ling walked through the stone corridor expressionlessly, following the panicked Brand, and gradually walked toward the deepest part of the Taishi Bureau...

Just then, he seemed to have sensed something and glanced at the stone slab above... There, the boy in the vest had shaken the yolk, stomped on it hard, and was rushing here.

The corners of Chen Ling’s mouth rose slightly.

Chen Ling naturally discovered the bird egg created by alchemy. He didn't destroy it but threw it aside. On one hand, he wanted to see the character of Li Laide at this stage, and on the other, he wanted to give him a sense of participation.

Now it seems that the meticulousness and decisiveness shown by Li Laide indeed met his requirements.

From the top floor of the Taishi Bureau to the underground stone corridor, Chen Ling left no survivors wherever he went, slaughtering the entire Alchemy Association with his own hands... Finally, he stopped in front of a massive alchemy stone gate.

The last time he saw such a magnificent gate was in the Eternal Realm. Wuji Jun had an endless supply of materials, so it was understandable to build such a gate. But for the Taishi Bureau to build such a gate underground, even alchemy required a lot of expensive raw materials. He didn't know how much of the people’s blood and sweat had been extracted in the process.

This alchemy gate was quite heavy, and ordinary Divine Path practitioners couldn't open it at all. It seemed to have defenses against the soul, so even people like Bai Ye couldn't enter before... Brand must have used some kind of key to open the door and enter the space behind it.

However, no matter how strong this door was, it was meaningless to Chen Ling. He could easily enter by turning himself into two dimensions, but he didn't do that. He glanced at the stone corridor behind him and slowly placed his hands on the alchemy gate...

The electric light of [Reshape] spread rapidly. Within a few seconds, the alchemy gate opened automatically. For alchemy, which required cumbersome processes and raw materials, Wuji Jun’s ability to freely reshape matter was simply an unsolvable natural enemy!

Rumble—

A low roar sounded from the alchemy stone gate,

and the figure in the red-bottomed, black-patterned opera robe stepped out and disappeared without a trace.

……

As Brand’s figure shuttled through the underground space, rays of light full of mysterious aura gradually lit up on the ground according to a specific pattern.

Purple and blue brilliance intertwined, illuminating a corner of the pitch-black space.

In the haze, figures that seemed to be made of pure gold, like golden Buddha statues in a temple, stood majestically on the purple and blue alchemy array...

Some had Eastern faces, others Western faces, some tall, some short, some men, some women. The only commonality was that their appearances were very old, their eyelids drooping, as if their lives were coming to an end.

Brand’s figure hurried through the array. With every step he took, a golden body beside him was shrouded by the alchemy array.

The alchemy brilliance shone on Brand’s anxious face. He looked at the golden bodies from time to time and looked nervously at the alchemy gate behind him...

As the alchemy brilliance lit up, the golden bodies in the front began to tremble slightly, and golden dust fell from them, gradually revealing the human skin underneath.

For over three hundred years, these successive presidents and members of the Alchemy Association, sealed beneath the Taishi Bureau, began to revive!

As a hunched old woman opened her eyes in the dim light, a look of joy appeared on Brand’s face. Like a dying man walking alone in a desperate desert seeing a familiar figure, he rushed up regardless of everything!

"President Tessa!!"

"Little Brand?" The hunched old woman saw the figure in front of her and was slightly stunned. "You’ve grown so big... You woke me up, have you found the way to eternal life? Have you refined the Philosopher’s Stone?!"

In the expectant gaze of the old woman, Brand shook his head awkwardly:

"No, President Tessa... We haven't refined the Philosopher’s Stone yet. But we have found the way to eternal life! Refining the Philosopher’s Stone is only a matter of time!"

President Tessa’s face stiffened, and a mean green light flashed in her eyes. A sharp questioning voice followed:

"You haven't refined the Philosopher’s Stone! Why wake me up?! Don't you know I’m running out of lifespan!!"

"Pr... President Tessa, believe me, we really have found a way..." Under the pressure of President Tessa’s peak Eighth-Order strength, cold sweat broke out on Brand’s forehead. "But now we have encountered a tricky enemy... He wants to destroy the Alchemy Association completely. I really have no other way... I can only come to you for help."

"Where is Chong Zhiqiu? Can’t he handle it??"

"He was temporarily transferred elsewhere, I really have no other way..."

Looking at Brand, who knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, President Tessa’s eyes were still full of anger... But she still took a deep breath, suppressed her resentment, and glared fiercely in the direction of the alchemy gate.

No matter what, she was the previous president of the Alchemy Association, and Brand was raised by her own hands. Since the situation was so urgent, she couldn't sit idly by...

"I want to see who exactly has the guts to provoke our Alchemy Association??"

Creak—

Just as President Tessa finished speaking, a low roar came from the door.