331 Old Fellows From the Old Era
The Beastmasters present had survived countless life-and-death situations. They immediately realized that the Alchemy Festival was not as ordinary as it seemed.

“Zhang Yan, what should we do now?” a Beastmaster asked.

Su Bai was not here, so the vice-captain was Lu Le.

“We listen to the captain and hide.” Lu Le followed the instructions and turned to Zhang Yan and the others, asking, “Zhang Yan, you guys…”

“Sorry, we still have to protect the group of youths from the Royal City.” Zhang Yan said. “You guys should hide according to Su Bai’s instructions. It seems I was really muddle-headed. A younger generation found out about their plots first.”

Lu Le nodded and left the scene with his group.

As for Zhang Yan and the rest of the team, they were no longer as relaxed as before. Instead, they focused on the movements around them.

They would not know if they did not look, but he was shocked when he saw it.

In the past Alchemy Festival, First City had indeed sent many dwarven guards to guard the tournament venue.

But this year’s momentum was definitely the greatest in history!

There were more than five thousand dwarven Beastmasters alone, and the rest of the guards added up to at least ten thousand!

Not long after, a female Beastmaster rushed back and reported to Zhang Yan, “Captain, we found a group of dwarves on the east side who have already summoned their Beasts. It looks like they’re about to make a move.”

“To who?” Zhang Yan asked.

“I’m not sure. I’m still investigating.” The female Beastmaster frowned and said softly. “However, according to my guess, they seem to want to make a move on the contestants.”

“Just tell me the reason.”

“The reason why First City made such a big move this time is to seize power. Captain, where do you think the lifeline of the dwarves lies?”

…

Hearing that, Zhang Yan’s eyes flickered.

These words made him realize that all the participants in the Alchemy Festival were the most outstanding young generation in the Dwarf Kingdom.

Most of them were related to the various dwarf families.

If a family wanted to usurp the throne, it was far from enough to just get rid of the current dwarven king. They had to control the lifeblood of dozens or even hundreds of families!
“Good job, Ye Ying. Looks like I made the right choice by bringing you here this time.” Zhang Yan sneered.

The female Beastmaster, Ye Ying, was wearing a black mask. She was great at surveying the location.

“Forget about the praise. Captain, how do we get out of this now?” asked Ye Ying.

“Yes, how to escape is the problem.” Zhang Yan said in a low tone. “I originally thought that no matter how anxious they were, they wouldn’t act on such an important day, but they just didn’t follow my wishes. How troublesome.”

It was no longer important whether they participated in the Alchemy Festival or not. How to get out of this vortex was the problem they needed to face.

They need to return to the surface. However, they could not return by the Heavenly Stairway because they had no way of controlling it.

“Tell Tigros to prepare his Digging Rat. If necessary, we’ll move out immediately,” said Zhang Yan.

Since they could not leave using normal methods, they would use unconventional methods.

“Understood!”

Ye Ying turned around and strode away. Zhang Yan fixed his eyes on the alchemy table and took a deep breath.

The square was still very lively.

The ordinary dwarves watched the live broadcast on the screen with great interest. Some of them were strong and some were weak in alchemy, and some were even children in their early teens.

Everyone could understand a thing or two. It was the innate alchemy talent of the dwarves.

“It’s finally done. Next is the most crucial step,” said Gao Zhilong.

In the alchemy furnace in front of Gao Zhilong, a sword hilt was refined. It was made of the most precious Golden Silk.

And what Gao Zhilong wanted to forge was a sword, a simple and unadorned sword.

Goa Zhilong had given up on the truth theme. He could not come up with an idea after thinking for a long time. He might as well try his best to forge his limits.

When it was time to grade, he would use his words to relate the sword to the truth.

After all, if Su Bai could fool them with a cannon, Gao Zhilong could do it too.

However, a commotion suddenly came from afar at that moment. Gao Zhilong looked up and was surprised to see a group of dwarven guards in uniform surrounding the entire square.

In the beginning, Gao Zhilong did not care about it.

After all, the importance of the Alchemy Festival made it reasonable for so many guards to be dispatched.

However, what happened next stunned Gao Zhilong.

“Why did you arrest me? I didn’t break the rules!” said a dwarf as he was being taken away.

While the others had yet to recover from their shock, even more participants were being controlled by the guards.

“What’s going on? Did they foul?!”

Gao Zhilong scratched his head in confusion. Just when he was still confused, Su Bai waved at him and threw him a ball.

Gao Zhilong caught it and took a closer look. It was Su Bai’s masterpiece, the Crimson Thunder!

…

Gao Zhilong was stunned for three seconds. His confused head was now even more confused.

At the same time, more and more participants were taken away. The entire Alchemy Festival was in chaos, including the head examiner on the stage.

“Nonsense, who allowed you to kidnap the participants!” the head examiner shouted loudly.

In just a moment, the dwarven guards did not waste any time with the head examiner. They directly aimed their Beast-core guns at him.

This unexpected scene caused an uproar, including the audience members outside.

They had originally thought that it was just large-scale cheating, but the scene in front of them told them that this was definitely not normal!

“What the hell is going on? Why did you capture them at the Alchemy Festival?”

“That’s right, who exactly is it that came to cause trouble!”

…

Amidst the commotion, an old man suddenly ascended the platform in the middle of the square under the escort of more than ten dwarf Beastmasters.

Gao Zhilong and the others might not recognize him, but the dwarves recognized him at a glance.

“Hey handsome, who’s that?” Gao Zhilong shouted in Hubala’s direction. “Could it be the dwarven king?”

However, Hubala’s face was ashen at that moment. He ignored Gao Zhilong’s question.

As the disciple of the governor of the Heavencraft City, he knew as much as the other two, maybe even more.

On the high platform, the head examiner, who was pointed at by the gun, clenched his fists angrily and shouted at the old man, “Elder Zacks, you better give me an explanation!”

“What explanation?”

The old man looked at the head examiner, and his originally kind face revealed a gloomy smile, “You old fellows from the old era should have been eliminated long ago. Can’t you tell?”

An old man actually called a middle-aged dwarf an old man from the old era.

Gao Zhilong and the others were dumbfounded. But Su Bai was not surprised.

The head examiner was clearly focused on the path of Beastmastering, and his level was at Platinum-level!

Therefore, they lived longer than ordinary dwarves.

Just like Anves. Although he had some achievements in the path of Beastmastering, his focus was on alchemy, so the situation was different.