255 Arriving at the Capital (2/2)

The many students of the Garden of Shadows were wearing their uniforms. The uniforms were dark green robes, bordering on black with a small, sprouting seed embroidered on the chest.

Elder Sun, who was an elder from the Garden of Shadows, had four seeds instead of just one on his. Everyone who saw them was filled with reverence as they knew who these people were, but with them were a group of two-eyed experts, and these experts were not wearing the uniform, yet they could still walk ahead of the others.

What kind of concept was this? This was simply unimaginable. All the members of the Garden of Shadow were arrogant and the cream of the crop. To accept that a two-eyed expert walked in front of them, were they Primordial Beasts?

A path was being opened on the road. Everyone who noticed the entourage from the Garden of Shadows would instinctively move to the side and look at them with a fervor while waiting for them to pass by.

Many girls would blush if the young men looked at them. Even if they only had two eyes. If they were lucky and their appearance drew attention from a three-eyed expert, then they might end up becoming his concubine. Although they could never be the main wife, a concubine to a cultivator was much better than the life of a mortal.

Xue Wei looked around but saw that the only interest he and his friends gained was curiosity. They had assumed that Xue Wei and his friends were Primordial Beasts, and as it was impossible to breed between races, the girls quickly threw them out of their hearts. No matter how handsome they were, it was impossible.

A snicker appeared on Xue Wei's face, but he did not mind. Truth was that he was indeed somewhat of a beast, and so was Hei Gou. Lin Xiao was without a doubt human, but Bai Tianyi could not be considered human, he was some sort of aberration.

Also, the only one who was in Xue Wei's heart was Wang Xiaoyun. Although she had left him for the time being, he did not mind it and knew that his heart would beat for her only.

As they walked through town, they saw more and more magnificent sights in front of them. The architecture became more and more lavish, the wood carved in exquisite shapes.

The buildings stretched into the sky above. Some were even up to seven stories tall, but none of them looked shabby. They seemed as if they were painted regularly and all in all well maintained.

Xue Wei understood that they had entered the area that belonged to the three-eyed cultivators and the richer two-eyed cultivators. Although they were looked down upon, some of them were capable merchants or had businesses that did well and thus they were able to live a much more luxurious life.

”We will need to settle in an inn for the night. It will take us a full three days to walk through the capital and reach the Garden of Shadows, which is on the other side of the city,” Elder Sun explained patiently.

Xue Wei nodded his head. He had somewhat expected that it would take them a long time to get through the city. It was far from small, at the size of a small country, so it was natural that even getting somewhere inside it would take some time.

During their travel through the city, they did not only find residential areas, they also came across streets filled with shops, many stalls, and even entire marketplaces that were littered with stalls that were sat up in the morning.

Some of the marketplaces were filled with temporary stalls of people who came to sell from either outside of the city or someone who came from inside the city to peddle their own items but did not need a longstanding stall, while other marketplaces had more store-like stalls that seemed as if they could no longer be moved away from their position.

But no one from the academy stopped to look at any of the various things up for sale. All of them had stoic and dignified expressions on their faces as they held their heads high.

Although these commoners were unaware of what exactly this group of students had done, they themselves knew and their hearts were swelling with pride at having protected innocent lives and at so little cost.

At the same time, all of them felt an indescribable excitement because they had risen to the Ordinary Knight rank.

They were stronger than the majority. They would never have to hold their heads down in the future. Many of the three-eyed experts could not help but feel that they had narrowed the gap between them and the four-eyed experts that were left at the academy.

This rise in Qi level was enough to protect them in their time of needs. All of them were ecstatic, and all their eyes shone with an unbreaking will. Sometimes, they would gaze at Xue Wei with great gratitude, or towards Da Jia and Lin Xiao with curiosity.

Together they walked through one road after another. They walked down lanes, up slopes and eventually they reached an inn called The Black Lion. This inn seemed very big compared to most of the inns around and Elder Sun did not waste his time as he entered.

Xue Wei and the others followed inside. When they reached the counter, a polite servant greeted them before he accepted ten gold pieces from each and every student, including Xue Wei who paid for himself and his friends, and then led them all up the stairs to their many rooms.

”We have the upper three floors prepared for your academy's students,” the servant said, as if he had been aware that they would be coming.

Elder Sun nodded his head. ”Thank you,” he said politely, neither humble nor arrogant in his response.