I'm not a drama god

Li Shangfeng and the others left a short while later.

A figure wearing a brown coat slowly stopped in front of the charred factory.

The streets had returned to a deathly silence. The once-neat factory walls were now mottled and tattered, and pungent smoke rose slowly from the ashes, making it difficult to approach.

Even Lee Layde was stunned when he saw this.

"Fire?"

"No... there's a smell of gasoline in the air."

He twitched his nose slightly, instantly seeing through the truth behind it all. While surprised, he secretly glanced at Chen Ling's reaction beside him.

Li Laide had a fairly good impression of Li Shangfeng and his sister. Perhaps it was because of Chen Ling, or perhaps because the two of them were inherently kind-hearted, but the siblings didn't show any surprise at Li Laide's appearance or lifestyle; they even treated him to a nice lunch...

But Li Lai De was always curious about the relationship between Chen Ling and the brother and sister.

boss?

Li Leide wasn't stupid; he knew Chen Ling's strength. How could such a terrifying figure take a liking to this obscure factory? And even pay her while staying there for two days?

Regarding their relationship, Lee Ryder had already considered countless possibilities in his mind, some good, some bad...

This factory has been operating here perfectly for so long, how come it caught fire so soon after Chen Ling arrived?

Did he do it?

What is his purpose for doing this?

Are these siblings the children of his enemy? Do they possess a Dao Foundation Establishment treasure? Or... does he actually have his eye on Li Wanhua?

Li Lai De has never hesitated to use the darkest thoughts to speculate on people's hearts; it's his instinct. But upon closer inspection, it doesn't quite make sense. With Chen Ling's strength, if she wanted to harm these siblings, why would she need to go through all this trouble?

In short, Li Lai De was very curious about Chen Ling's reaction. Perhaps he could see what kind of person Chen Ling was from this incident... This was the only way he could understand Chen Ling at the moment.

Chen Ling's eyes were fixed on the charred ruins, her face revealing no emotion, only a chilling calm.

A moment later, he suddenly spoke to the void before him:

"What about others?"

Li Lai was taken aback. He looked around and, seeing no one, assumed Chen Ling was talking to him. He immediately shook his head innocently, "I don't know, I didn't do it..."

sizzle--

A series of electromagnetic disturbances rang out from Chen Ling's hands.

“Our member, take him to find Li Wanhua.” The voice of Square 10 came from it. “The other side sent a total of three people, one fourth-level and two third-level... But they did it very secretly. They didn’t use the people of the Imperial Observatory. They should be folk deities they secretly trained.”

“Three diviners abducted a girl who hadn’t yet embarked on the path of divinity… The Grand Historian is truly cautious.” Plum Blossom 10 sneered.

"The Imperial Observatory..."

Chen Ling narrowed her eyes slightly.

Although she didn't know why the Imperial Observatory had suddenly attacked Li Wanhua, Chen Ling felt that something was amiss...

In the previous world, Li Wanhua was forcibly abducted and died on the way because Li Shangfeng's negotiations with someone broke down. In this life, Chen Ling thought that the tragedy would not repeat itself, but unexpectedly, history is strikingly similar.

The Imperial Observatory is an organization that appeared in this world because of Ying Fu, so the people who kidnapped Li Wanhua in the previous life and the people who kidnapped her in this life should not be the same group of people... Even though their fates have already taken a different turn, how can the same plot still happen so coincidentally?

Just as Chen Ling was deep in thought, several ethereal figures drifted across the night and descended towards this place.

It was the people from the J and Q generations.

"So? Have you found anything?" Chen Ling asked.

Yesterday, Chen Ling dispersed the members of the Twilight Society, with the J and Q generations responsible for gathering relevant information from the Imperial Observatory. Now, more than a day has passed, and they should have made some progress.

“Hmm.” Bai also spoke up, “We’ve been trying to infiltrate the Taishi Division for some time now. However, the Taishi Division is, after all, the territory of the Witch God Path, and some of the arrangements inside are quite troublesome… Even in our current form, we can’t enter easily.”

"Later, we finally found a way in and sneaked into their archives from underground, where we saw a lot of dusty files."

"It is certain that the Alchemy Society was the one that detonated the nuclear weapon in the Mortal Realm back then... After that, Lord Mortal was furious, but was suppressed by Ying Fu and his men and forced into a deep sleep."

"During that period, Ying Fu also discovered the existence of the Alchemy Society and easily uprooted them... However, he did not kill them directly, but instead absorbed them into the Chengtian Realm and specially established the Taishi Division to clean up their secret underground witchcraft organization and bring them into the open."

Hearing this, the killing intent in Chen Ling's eyes resurfaced, and he spoke coldly:

"so……"

"Are the people in the Imperial Observatory remnants of the Alchemy Society?"

“The vast majority are,” Bai continued. “After the Alchemy Society was transformed into the Imperial Observatory, they kept a low profile for a while and did a lot of things for Ying Fu, but recently, they seem to have become active again…”

"They bypassed the supervision of the Chengtian Dynasty, discovered potential sorcerers in various prisons, and secretly recruited them into their own ranks, brainwashing and training them with the ultimate goal of achieving immortality using the Philosopher's Stone."

"If I'm not mistaken, Hongxin... no, Li Shangfeng is one of their targets."

Bai paused for a moment.

"And most importantly, we discovered that the core members of the Alchemy Society throughout the ages did not die completely, but were forcibly made into 'golden bodies' by alchemy before they died of old age and were stored in the underground of the Imperial Observatory."

"They are probably waiting until they successfully forge the Philosopher's Stone and master the method of immortality, then they will restore all the people in the 'golden bodies' and achieve immortality together."

"That is to say..."

Before Bai could finish speaking,

Chen Ling then coldly added the second half of the sentence:

"In other words, those who plotted against Lord Hongchen and detonated the Hongchen Realm back then are still alive... and they are hiding in the underground of the Imperial Observatory."

“That’s right.” Bai nodded. “We also know the most important person in charge of the Imperial Historian Bureau now… he is Brand, the former president of the World Wizardry Association.”

"There is a Lord Chong above him, who was the previous Alchemy Guild Master, but he has now semi-retired. After receiving an imperial edict this morning, he left the Chengtian Realm in a great hurry, and we don't know where he went."

Bai also finished reporting all the results of his investigation over this period of time. Everyone looked at Chen Ling quietly, waiting for his orders.

"What a Ying Fu... what a Grand Historian!" Chen Ling laughed in exasperation.

"This human cancer that nearly wiped out an entire realm has actually thrived to this day... and still dares to dream of resurrection and immortality?"

"Is there no justice in this world?"