Chapter 272: Challenge

Within any organization, power struggles are inevitable. The Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Alchemist Guild is no exception.

The disagreement between the president Cui Heling and the vice president Xue Gongyuan is an open secret within the guild, and Xue Gongyuan has always wanted to replace him, and I don't know how many times the open and secret battles between the two have happened.

For example, the last time, Xue Gongyuan and his student Song Qiuhan coveted Song Li's fire in the parliament, in the final analysis, it was an extension of the power struggle. Although Xue Gongyuan won a lot of victories in the struggle, but that time he met Song Li, so he was more embarrassed, his eyebrows, beard and hair were burned, and he was more completely embarrassed.

After that, he recuperated for a period of time, but the main reason was that he was afraid of losing face, after all, he was so miserable by Song Li in public, and he was embarrassed to see people in a short time. During the period of his recuperation, no one sang against President Cui, and the Alchemist Guild really stopped a lot.

But people like him will never stop forever.

This time, he finally seized a great opportunity. Xue Gongyuan believes that this time Cui Heling must have no reason to occupy the chairman's position again.

Every elder of the Alchemist Guild has a group of disciples under his name, and Xue Gongyuan and President Cui are no exception.

There is an extremely important provision in the constitution of the Alchemist Guild, that is, during the president's tenure, if he cannot train an alchemy master within ten years, then he will step down unconditionally and be replaced by an elder who has cultivated an alchemy master.

The original intention of this rule was to urge the president not to neglect the teaching of his disciples in order to be busy with official duties. Within the specified time, if you can't train an alchemy master, either because you don't dedicate yourself to counseling, or because you have a problem with your vision for selecting disciples, in short, no matter what the reason, you are not qualified to serve as the president again.

The ten-year period is coming soon, and no one among the disciples under President Cui's name has been promoted to alchemy master, but among the disciples under Xue Gongyuan's name, there is a middle-aged Dan master with good talent who officially broke through to the master realm a few days ago!

The moment he learned the news, Xue Gongyuan looked up to the sky and howled three times, and was suppressed by Chairman Cui for decades, and finally ushered in a God-given opportunity to be ashamed!

The constitution of the Alchemist Guild is an ironclad rule, and even the president must not override the charter. This time, Xue Gongyuan was confident that he would remove his old rival from the throne of the president!

So in recent days, Vice President Xue, who had not appeared for a long time, frequently appeared on various occasions in the guild, and after that disciple passed the test of the alchemy master, he first held a grand ceremony for him, officially awarded the badge and uniform of the alchemy master, changed to a larger laboratory, and also nominated him to be absorbed into the elder.

Among the more than 300 alchemists in the entire guild, there are only nine alchemy masters, and the number is so scarce, which shows how difficult it is to cross the threshold of masters. So it is not difficult to imagine the high-spirited appearance of their master and apprentice.

After the official registration, Xue Gongyuan submitted a meeting to the Council of Elders, and the theme of the meeting was to discuss the abdication of President Choi and the resignation of Xian.

His proposal was completely in line with the procedure, and among the nine elders, only Xue Gongyuan had cultivated an alchemy master within the specified time, so after President Cui abdicated, he should take over the position of president, and even President Cui himself had nothing to say about it.

Xue Gongyuan's disciple is named Zhong Cheng, in fact, when he first entered the guild, everyone knew that he was very talented. Originally, the Council of Elders decided that President Cui would lead the teaching, but Xue Gongyuan begged with a dead face that Zhong Cheng must be taken under his name. For this reason, he did not hesitate to publicly spill that the Presbyterian Church favored the president. In the end, Chairman Cui took the initiative to give Zhong Cheng to him, and this was the end of the matter.

Now that ten years have passed, Zhong Cheng has lived up to expectations and finally become the tenth alchemy master of the Alchemist Guild. Although his success has little to do with Xue Gongyuan, it completely depends on his own talent and hard work. But it is a fact that Zhong Cheng is a nominal disciple of Xue Gongyuan, so according to the provisions of the charter, Xue Gongyuan will replace Cui Heling on the throne of the president, which is also ironclad.

Today is the last day of the 10-year period, and the Council of Elders is meeting today. This meeting was also the resignation ceremony of Chairman Cui and the inauguration ceremony of Xue Gongyuan.

It was a small conference room, with only ten people in attendance, nine elders, plus the newly promoted alchemy master Zhong Cheng.

Chairman Choi sat on the rostrum, although he was a little disappointed in his heart, he still smiled very gracefully, and said: "This meeting is of special significance, and after today, I will step down as president, of course, I am still a little lost in my heart." ”

"But more than that, I was happy. Because the Alchemist Guild is not a guild of any one person, but a big family of all our Danshi. As the head of this family, I hope that the whole family will always maintain a vigorous vitality and that new talents will continue to emerge. ”

"Zhong Cheng is good, his talent and hard work have determined his achievements today. Being able to cross the first threshold that is the most difficult to cross in Danshi's life is an achievement that deserves everyone's applause. Zhong Cheng, on behalf of all the members of this family, I congratulate you!"

He was the first to applaud, and the rest of the elders followed suit.

Zhong Cheng was about forty-seven or eighteen years old, his face was pale, and he looked like he had not seen the sun all year round. As the so-called one who is close to Zhu is red, and one who is close to ink is black, with Xue Gongyuan's influence, he is more or less hostile to President Cui, so he just nodded slightly, and did not give President Cui too warm a response. This is to make it clear that there is no face.

Xue Gongyuan was secretly happy in his heart, he had been suppressed by Chairman Cui for too long, so once he gained power, he wanted to vent all the anger he had been in for decades. Seeing that Chairman Choi was deflated by Zhong Cheng, not to mention how happy he was.

Among the elders present, they were naturally divided into two factions, and there were four who supported President Choi, accounting for the majority. When they saw that Zhong Cheng actually embarrassed Chairman Cui in person, they were all indignant. An alchemy master who has just been promoted is arrogant like this, it is really uneducated. Xue Gongyuan's small-bellied chicken intestines don't seem to be able to bring out any good students.

They felt extremely sorry for Chairman Choi's resignation, because Chairman Choi was indeed a good leader with both ability and integrity. Whether it is character or ability, he is much stronger than Xue Gongyuan. If he hadn't given Zhong Cheng to Xue Gongyuan at the beginning, where would it be the turn of this old boy to come here to show off his might? I don't know how to be grateful, but it is really despicable to do such an evil thing of repaying virtue with resentment.

But they just can't do anything, the guild's constitution is an ironclad program, everything must be done according to the rules, and there is no room for negotiation. can only sigh secretly that creation makes people, and the villain has gained power.

The three elders who supported Xue Gongyuan were very excited about this. After all, during the period when President Cui was in power, they were destined to be unwelcome. The opportunity to change the dynasty is about to come, and they have finally survived to the beginning of their lives. So they all watched from the sidelines how Chairman Choi had a desolate curtain call.

Chairman Choi took in all the people in the small conference room, smiled slightly, and didn't say anything. No one can guarantee that everyone will like him, as the president of the Alchemist Guild, he asks himself to make any decisions based on the interests of the guild, and has never affected the development of the guild because of his own selfish desires, although he has been forced to step down today, but he has a clear conscience. If there is a little regret, it is that in the past ten years, there has not been an alchemy master trained under his hands.

Zhong Cheng had just embarrassed him in front of everyone, and Chairman Choi laughed. The reason why Zhong Cheng was given to Xue Gongyuan at the beginning was not to show his generosity, the main reason was that he didn't like Zhong Cheng's character very much.

Although he has not had much contact with Zhong Cheng, Chairman Cui has a pair of discerning eyes that are good at recognizing people, and from Zhong Cheng's face, expression, words and actions, he has already seen that this person is cold, selfish, and basically has no moral cultivation at all. Such a person, even if he became an alchemy master, or even an alchemy master, what could he do? In comparison, he liked his newly recruited student Song Li even more.

Although this little guy is smiling most of the time and seems a little cynical, Chairman Choi can see that he is a person with the utmost affection. Maybe Song Li is not a good person in the traditional sense, but he is by no means a selfish person with no moral bottom line. As long as you treat him well, he will pay you back ten points sooner or later.

Chairman Cui believes that Song Li's future achievements are much stronger than Zhong Chenglai's. The road of life is long, although Zhong Cheng has broken through to the master realm, Song Li will soon be able to surpass him.

With such a disciple, even if he loses the position of the president, what does it matter? President Cui is not the kind of person who is greedy for power, the reason why he is unhappy is because he feels too uneasy to hand over the Alchemy Master Guild to Xue Gongyuan, this person's quality is too poor, narrow-minded and selfish, such a person ascending the throne of the president is probably not a blessing for the guild.

It's just that since the matter has come to this, there is nothing to think about for the time being, unless he has a disciple who can break through to the realm of alchemy master before sunset, nothing can be changed. Chairman Cui felt that among all his students, Song Li was the one who was most likely to break through, and this little guy's talent for fire control was really amazing!

Fire control ability is the core ability of alchemists, and the most difficult thing for most people is to improve fire control ability. But Song Li is extremely talented, and the most difficult thing for others is the easiest for him, so his entry is destined to be much faster than ordinary people!

But after all, Song Li has been immersed in the Dan Dao for a short time, and his age is too young, if he also buries himself in penance for ten years like Zhong Cheng, let alone an alchemy master, I'm afraid it is not impossible for an alchemy master!

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