"..."
Huai Shi sucked in a breath of chilly air, clutching his throbbing forehead, feeling that something was off.
"Hey, you lot are alchemists, aren't you? Do you have no dignity at all?"
"What is dignity? I don't know!"
"Is that thing useful?"
"It's only a sex change. It's nothing important!"
"That's right. As long as it lets me delve deeper into the essence, I wouldn't mind even becoming a beast!"
"Exactly!"
The eyes of those old geezers, who had been pickled in Hell Sediment for who knew how many years, shone brightly. They practically wanted to drop to the ground and start banging their heads in kowtow.
Afraid that Tong Ji might not want them...
"Hey, what drug did you give them?" Huai Shi turned back and asked.
"Nothing much."
Tong Ji waved her hand calmly. "Wasn't there an assessment process to go through? I just made a few things, and then this happened. I only wanted to get a teaching position and become colleagues with my silly boy, but these people cried and begged for me to become dean..."
Why bother?
Wouldn't it be better to stay alive, friends?
Huai Shi looked at the alchemists scrambling to leap into the fire pit, his heart full of pity. "Isn't there another Grandmaster?"
"Uh, ahem..."
Ping Shidu's expression turned awkward. "Actually, we invited Mr. Mikhail many times before, but unfortunately, he... wasn't interested in this place."
Saying he wasn't interested was already putting it very tactfully.
Besides, unlike traditional Grandmasters such as Garland, Mikhail specialized in ultra-wide-area alchemy and composite construction, even Hell Pioneer work and research. They had no way to learn any of it, and none of those things... could be called safe.
Compared to that, what Taiyi Institute was doing now could practically be called harmless.
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