Great Raid (I)

Northern Lands Plague Extermination Heroes Memorial Hall.

Alchemy Convention.

Second Round.

The various alchemists and pharmacists who had passed the preliminary round had gathered here, one hundred in total.

Over the past five days, these Plague Extermination talents had received recruitment offers from every major faction.

In an era where jobs were hard to find, the demand for these Plague Exterminators was staggering.

Every faction understood that a Plague Extermination force did not merely need top-tier Plague Exterminators; building up its lower ranks was equally important.

These mid-level Plague Exterminators were the cornerstone of any faction's development.

Among them, the genius Plague Exterminators known as Thirty-Two and Hua Yi had drawn immense attention.

Xu Huanjun, the second-in-command of Northern Biopharmaceutical and the Xu Clan's Dragon Among Men in dermatology, had personally moved to recruit them, ending the competition outright.

Quite a few people cursed Xu Huanjun behind his back for being shameless.

For a Medical Dragon-level Plague Exterminator to personally step in and recruit people could be called valuing talent and lowering oneself—or, less charitably, monopolization.

Now, the two geniuses had joined the Xu Clan, along with an extra addition: Tang Yu, the Children of Pharmacology genius who had mastered Hymn.

"How impressive."

"Clan Head Xu."

Xue Mantang's clouded eyes shifted. At her side, Fang Mi, the Ten Thousand Limbs Sect's Human Dragon, stood half a step behind her.

"No... I should say congratulations. With pharmaceutical talents like these, the Xu Clan is truly unmatched in prestige."

Xu Huanjun remained expressionless.

People outside said he was riding high on success, but only he knew the truth. What recruitment?

He had been subdued!

After returning to Northland Pharmaceuticals, Xu Huanjun had begun searching for a way to remove Hua Qianqiu's control. That thousand-year-old monster's methods were unfathomably sinister. He could only