238 Rico Guli (1/2)

In the Alchemist Headquarters, Lagan Jianto was in the middle of concoction when suddenly, his communicator received a call.

'Hum? Didn't I tell them to not disturb me while I'm concocting?'

Lagan then connected the call while he kept making his pill.

\”It's better to be important, what is it?\”

Palo noticed the elder was busy and went directly to the main issue.

\”Hum? Someone dared to put a Divine Sense Mark on our alchemists?\”

Lagan then looked into Krune's information and frowned.

\”Wait, why would someone waste their time following a wisp?\”

Palo then explained.

\”Well, it goes like this.\”

Poff!

Suddenly, the elder lost control of his concoction, and the pill-making failed. But he couldn't care less about that since what he heard was way more important.

\”Come that again. Did you just say that Krune got over 95% purity while still at the Core Formation Realm? You are not kidding, are you?\”

Palo immediately shook his head.

\”I'm not. If the elder checks the alchemist network, the second phase video should be available for you to watch.\”

Lagan did as Palo mentioned and soon found the second-day competition video. He then played it so fast that a normal person wouldn't be able to make heads and tails. But with his cultivation, it was the same a turtle. When he finally arrived at the analysis part, he got surprised. After all, Krune didn't do just a single herb over 90%, but all four of them!

He then turned to Palo once more and said.

\”Wait a moment, I will be there in a second.\”

Lagan then finished the call and made a cutting motion with his hand in mid-air. Right after, a spatial gate appeared right in front of him. The elder didn't waste any time and entered it. As for the pill concoction that he failed, he had already forgotten that.

Back in the Junior Alchemist Competition site. Krune noticed that Palo finished his call and was just about to ask when suddenly, a Spatial Gate appeared right in front of him. From inside, a man with white hair stepped out, and the gate closed right behind him.

\”Hello there, Krune. I'm Lagan, one of the elders of the Alchemist Headquarters.\”

It turned out that Lagan was just in the Planet neighbor to the Riren Planet. With his Semi-Divinity Cultivation, it was an easy task to open a spatial gate directly into the room where Krune and Palo stayed. Of course, there was also the fact that he knew the location and had a free pass into this place. Otherwise, he would not be able to do it.

Krune immediately got up and greeted the elder.

\”Hi, I'm Krune.\”

Lagan nodded and then spread his Divine Sense around Krune's body. It only took him a second to find the Divine Sense Mark on Krune's back.

\”So there is really someone trying to break our secrecy rule, hehe.\”

On the other corner of the city, there was a man drinking some wine in a restaurant. He was acting quite leisurely as if nothing could bother him. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and got up from his chair.

\”Shit!\”

Just as he was about to flee, elder Lagan's spiritual pressure came from above and locked him in place. As mentioned before by Light Spirit, the owner of the Divine Sense Mark was probably in the Divine View Realm, which is an entire realm below elder Lagan.

Knowing that it would be useless to fight back, the man just sighed and waited in place.

Right after, a spatial gate appeared beside him, alerting all the customers in the restaurant. After all, a spatial gate isn't something that low-level cultivators and demon beasts see every day. From inside, elder Lagan, Palo Yiag, and Krune stepped out. When Lagan saw who it was, his mouth twitched.

\”So it is really you, Rico. I knew I had sensed that aura before somewhere.\”

Rico smiled bitterly and then said.

\”There was no need for elder Lagan to show himself, right? What about we just pretend that nothing happened? I swear I won't try it again.\”

Pow!

Elder Lagan smacked Rico's head after hearing that.

\”Do you think you can escape the punishment that easy? Just wait until I bring you to your father, I wonder if he will be as merciful as me.\”

Rico's face immediately went pale.

\”E-Elder Lagan, there is no need for us to go that far, right? Father is a busy man, why should we bother him with such a small problem like this? We can resolve this here, and everyone will be happy.\”

Krune couldn't help but ask Palo beside him with a Divine Sense message.