Chapter 86: Experiment Failed

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Experiment Failed

"Will it succeed this time?"

Quint, who had been gravely injured, was now here, full of life. He stared, unblinking, at the equipment being used for the experiment.

"It will definitely succeed!"

Selena tilted her head back, revealing her lovely neck and puffing out her chest like a swan.

She was very confident in the outcome of this experiment. After all, she had collected these two drops of blood with her own hands, without anyone else’s help.

"I hope nothing goes wrong."

Jesse watched the busy Alchemists, a flicker of worry on his face.

Ferguson, next to him, was very calm. He was almost certain the Divine Blood was in Andre. As long as the blood Selena had collected was added to the Potion, everything would be revealed.

After a while, a Demon Potion shimmering with a silver-white light was successfully concocted by Xinlu, the Master Alchemist of the Five Great Clans.

"Selena, give me the blood!"

Xinlu nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the Potion in his hand.

He held out his hand, looking at Selena.

Selena nodded, taking the Witchcraft Tools from her Storage Ring and handing them to Xinlu.

Xinlu took them and infused his Magic Power, reversing the Witchcraft on the tools. A faint light appeared.

Two drops of blood materialized in Xinlu’s hand. Xinlu held a test tube in one hand and the Potion in the other. He carefully dripped the blood into the test tube, mixing it with the Potion.

At first, when the blood entered the Potion, there was no reaction. It simply sank quietly to the bottom of the test tube.

But as Xinlu continuously shook the test tube and simultaneously cast Witchcraft to accelerate the reaction between the Potion and the blood...

Soon, rays of Golden Light began to bloom from within the Potion.

"Did it work?" Ferguson, Jesse, and the others watched the rays of Golden Light, their faces lit with excitement.

For the sake of this Secret Realm, their clans’ Morning Star Great Wizards had been thrown into other worlds by the Cross-Dimensional Teleportation Array fixed upon the realm.

As a result, their only hope of opening the Secret Realm now rested on the Potion before them.

At that moment, the Golden Light was growing steadily more intense.

Seeing the Golden Light intensify, Xinlu showed a hint of a smile. He immediately continued casting his Witchcraft, accelerating the reaction between the blood and the Potion.

And as one cast of Witchcraft followed another, the Golden Light inside the Potion grew ever stronger.

Finally, the test tube suddenly exploded, but the Potion did not disperse. Instead, it transformed into a ball of Golden Light that projected a series of images.

"Success! It’s a success!"

Rite shouted excitedly as he watched the golden images appear.

But Xinlu, the Master Alchemist, looked surprised for a moment before his expression instantly turned cold.

"Did it fail?" Selena watched Xinlu’s reaction and suddenly felt that something bad was about to happen.

Soon, the Golden Light gradually faded, and the projected images slowly dissipated.

Xinlu’s face darkened completely as the images vanished.

"It failed!" Xinlu waited until the last trace of Golden Light disappeared and then let out a deep sigh.

"Failed? How is that possible? Didn’t the images appear?"

Quint couldn’t believe what he was hearing and loudly questioned Xinlu.

"What do you know?"

Xinlu shot Quint a disdainful look. Of all the people the Five Great Clans had sent to find the Divine Blood, Quint was the one Xinlu looked down on the most.

When Secret Realm No. 1 first opened, the five of them—Selena, Jesse, Rite, Ferguson, and Quint—had entered it together to search for the Divine Blood.

Andre was the only one who entered to find resources in preparation for the expedition nine years later.

But unexpectedly, after that guy Quint entered the Secret Realm, he was first attacked by a Magical Beast. Fortunately, he wasn’t seriously harmed, so it didn’t hinder the plan to find the Divine Blood.

But what happened next was shocking.

Quint did something, it’s not clear what, that caused him to be corrupted by the residual aura of Divine Power in the Secret Realm. As a result, his Bloodline was damaged, and he was gravely injured.

If he hadn’t stepped in, prepared a Purification Potion, and forced Quint to drink it, Quint would have died in his bed long ago.

"Your younger generation doesn’t know, but we of the older generation do."

Just then, a middle-aged man stepped forward. With a somewhat worried expression, he looked at the angry Rite and the others and began to speak.

"Back then, after the twilight of the gods, the Divine Blood shed by the All Gods during their battles fell upon every corner of the Senbai World—the earth, the rivers, the oceans, the deserts. Traces of this Divine Blood were everywhere."

"It is precisely for this reason that the bloodline of the gods entered every living creature in the Senbai World."

"Later, as time went on, the native humans of the Senbai World developed, farmed, reclaimed land, and hunted beasts. Through their food and water, the divine blood within them grew more and more concentrated, eventually becoming hereditary and forming the Bloodline of the Gods."

"The golden images that just appeared from the Potion were the Bloodline of the Gods that Andre possesses."

"You just saw that it wasn’t a single golden image, but many—a dozen or more. This means the Divine Blood in Andre’s body is extremely mixed. He clearly did not obtain the drop of Divine Blood that Angelson left behind in Secret Realm No. 1."

"The reason I say this is that if Andre had obtained that drop of Divine Blood, the Potion would have projected only a single image—and that image would have been of Angelson."

The middle-aged man looked at Jesse, Selena, Rite, and the rest of the younger generation as he spoke, fully explaining the failure and its cause.

Hearing this outcome, Selena, Jesse, and the others were deeply disappointed. This meant that their mission to find the Divine Blood had failed yet again. Including their previous attempts, they had now failed six times.

"Our only choice is to go back to the books and search for other Divine Blood, or wait for our ancestors to return from the Star Realm and figure something out then."

Xinlu said at this moment.

When Xinlu said this, the expressions on the faces of Jesse, Selena, and the others grew even more dejected.

The Morning Star Great Wizards from their several clans had all been thrown into other World Groups by that Cross-Dimensional Teleportation Array.

Crossing the Star Realm to return was not something that could be done in a short amount of time.

"Let’s continue the search. If that doesn’t work, we’ll contact the ancestral land and buy Angelson’s Bloodline from those three Great Wizards."

At this, a man who looked a lot like Krell stood up and spoke.

"Lalita, contacting the ancestral land requires a great deal of resources! Besides, it’s uncertain whether those three Great Wizards would even sell the Bloodline to us!"

Someone stood up to object to Lalita’s suggestion.

"Those three Great Wizards are hardly benevolent characters. Getting something from them means we would have to pay an equivalent price, or perhaps an even higher one, to obtain what we want."

Felt said with a worried expression.

And this was precisely why the Five Great Clans sent people to all sorts of places in search of Divine Blood.

The disparity in power meant that in the presence of the three Red Sun Great Wizards, the Five Great Clans could only bow their heads in submission and follow orders.

Under these circumstances, the three Red Sun Great Wizards might even learn about the Secret Realm from the Five Great Clans themselves.

At that point, all the efforts of the Five Great Clans would have been for someone else’s benefit.

No matter how hard they tried to hide their objective, suddenly trying to buy the Divine Blood left by Angeles from the three Red Sun Great Wizards after 3,000 years would inevitably arouse suspicion.

"We’ll figure something else out," Xinlu said with a wave of his hand, then had the members of the Five Great Clans carry his experimental equipment back.

This equipment all came from his own laboratory. Now that the experiment had failed, it was only natural to move it back to where it belonged.

And with Xinlu’s departure, the clansmen of the Five Great Clans also began to leave one by one.