Chapter 1766: Successive Presidents

Taishi Division.

Underground.

"Lord Brand."

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

In the dim underground stone corridor, the Alchemist Association members ordered to guard here saw Brand running over hastily. While bowing, they asked worriedly.

Stationed underground year-round, they knew nothing about the situation on the surface, and naturally didn't know that the Taishi Division was currently facing a disaster of complete destruction. Brand was in no mood to explain to them right now, only opening his mouth with a pale face:

"It's nothing..."

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

The various Alchemist Association members looked at each other, a touch of doubt flashing through their eyes. Before they could ask anything else, Brand's figure had already disappeared at the end of the stone corridor.

Whoosh——

The torches on both sides of the underground stone corridor were all dyed a bizarre scarlet in an instant.

The numerous Alchemist Association members guarding the stone corridor froze simultaneously. They looked toward the end of the stone corridor. A mass of bizarre red color was approaching here.

The burning scarlet Torchlight cast that thing's shadow on the ancient stone walls. The instant they saw it, everyone's pupils constricted violently...

"That is..."

"What thing???!!"

A pair of scarlet eyes opened in the dimness, and dripping fresh blood instantly sprinkled all over the stone corridor.

Heads rolled to the ground with a grunt. The stone corridor plunged into a deathly silence again. Countless Red Paper tentacles retracted under the fluttering sleeves of the Theatrical Robe. Chen Ling passed through the stone corridor expressionlessly, trailing behind the panicked Brand, gradually walking toward the deepest part of the Taishi Division...

Right at this moment, he seemed to have sensed something and glanced at the stone slab above... Up there, a youth wearing a vest shook the yolk apart, viciously stomped on it twice, and then hurried over here.

The corners of Chen Ling's mouth curled up slightly.

Chen Ling naturally discovered that bird egg created by alchemy. He didn't destroy it, but casually threw it to the side. Firstly, he wanted to see what Li Laide's temperament was like at this stage, and secondly, he also wanted to give him a little sense of participation.

Looking at it now, the meticulousness and decisiveness Li Laide displayed indeed somewhat satisfied his requirements.

From the top floor of the Taishi Division down to the current underground stone corridor, Chen Ling didn't leave any survivors wherever he passed. From top to bottom, the Alchemist Association was slaughtered by his own hands... Finally, he stopped his footsteps in front of a massive alchemy stone door.

The last time he saw such a magnificent door was in the Eternal Domain. The Lord of Wuji had an endless supply of materials, so it was understandable to create such a door. But for the Taishi Division to create such a door underground, even with alchemy, it required a massive amount of expensive raw materials. Not knowing how much of the people's wealth and fat was extracted in this process.

This alchemy door was quite thick and heavy. Ordinary Divine Path Wielders fundamentally couldn't open it, and there seemed to be defenses targeting the soul as well. Therefore, even Bai Ye and the others from before couldn't enter... Brand should have used some kind of key to open the door and enter the space behind this.

However, no matter how sturdy this door was, it was meaningless to Chen Ling. He only needed to transform himself into two dimensions to easily enter. However, he didn't do so. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the stone corridor behind him, and slowly placed his hands on the alchemy massive door...

The electric light of [Reshape] spread extremely fast. Within just a few seconds, this alchemy massive door opened automatically. To alchemy, which required tedious procedures and raw material support, the Lord of Wuji's ability to freely reshape matter was simply an unsolvable natural enemy!

Rumble——

A low roar sounded from between the alchemy stone doors.

The figure draped in the Theatrical Robe with a red background and black patterns took a step forward, instantly vanishing without a trace.

...

As Brand's figure shuttled through the underground space, streaks of light filled with mysterious aura gradually lit up on the ground according to some specific markings.

The brilliance of purple and blue intertwined with each other, illuminating a corner of the pitch-black space.

In the haziness, figures seemingly forged from pure gold stood imposingly on the purple and blue alchemy arrays like Golden Body Buddha statues in a temple...

Some of them had Eastern faces, while others had Western faces. There were tall and short, male and female. The only commonality lay in that their appearances were all very old, their eyelids drooping, as if their lives had reached the end.

Brand's figure hurriedly passed through the arrays. With every step he took, a Golden Body beside him was enveloped by the alchemy array.

The alchemy brilliance reflected on Brand's anxious face. Sometimes he looked at those Golden Bodies, and sometimes he looked nervously at the alchemy massive door behind him...

As the alchemy brilliance lit up, the few Golden Bodies at the front section trembled slightly. Rustling gold dust fell from them, gradually revealing the human skin beneath.

For over three hundred years, these successive generations of Alchemist Association presidents and members sealed underground in the Taishi Division began to revive!

As a stooped old woman opened her eyes in the dimness, a look of joy surfaced on Brand's face. Like a dying person walking alone in a desert of despair seeing a familiar figure, he immediately pounced forward regardless of everything!

"President Tessa!!"

"Little Brand?" The stooped old woman saw the figure before her clearly and froze slightly. "You've grown so big... You woke me up, have you found a method to immortality? Have you all synthesized the Philosopher's Stone?!"

Under the old woman's expectant gaze, Brand shook his head awkwardly:

"No, President Tessa... We haven't synthesized the Philosopher's Stone yet. But, we have already found a method to immortality! Synthesizing the Philosopher's Stone is also just a matter of time!"

President Tessa's expression stiffened. Harsh green light rippled in her eyes, and a sharp questioning voice followed:

"Haven't synthesized the Philosopher's Stone! What did you wake me up for?! Don't you know I'm almost out of lifespan!!"

"Pre... President Tessa, believe me, we really have found a method..." Under the Oppressive Aura of President Tessa's peak 8th-rank, bursts of cold sweat broke out on Brand's forehead. "But right now we have encountered a troublesome enemy... He wants to completely destroy the Alchemist Association. I really have no methods left... I can only come to find you for help."

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

"He was temporarily transferred to another place, I really have no other way..."

Watching Brand who dropped to his knees with a plop and begged bitterly, President Tessa's eyes were still filled with anger... But she still took a deep breath, suppressing her resentment at the bottom of her heart, and looked viciously toward the direction of the alchemy massive door.

No matter what, she was also the previous generation's Alchemist Association president, and Brand was also brought up by her own hands. Since the situation was so urgent, she couldn't just sit by and watch...

"I'd like to see, exactly who has such big guts to dare provoke our Alchemist Association??"

Creak——

Just as President Tessa's words fell, a low roar came from the doorway.