267 Legend (2/2)

Hei Gou was also deep in thought when he heard this. What made him most confused was the lack of fighting. One thing was that they vanished all over the continent, but the fact that they vanished without a trace was truly difficult to accomplish.

Lin Xiao and Hei Gou both found this information quite useful, so they gave a pill to the person who had shared it.

Lin Xiao and Hei Gou glanced at one another. They felt that their heads were almost exploding with information and were unsure of what exactly they should do now.

They wanted to find Xue Wei right away and tell him about what they had heard, but the truth was that Xue Wei had entered the Soul Tower not long ago, and it was likely that he would stay there for a long time.

”Let us record what we gained today on a few jade slips,” Hei Gou said, ”in case we get a lot more information and forget something later, or mix it up. We really do not know how long it will take before they come back from the Soul Tower.”

Lin Xiao nodded his head slightly. Although they were cultivators meaning they could expand their memories beyond normal and would rarely forget anything they wished to remember, they were not willing to even risk it. This was far too important.

They had already heard an outstanding amount of gossip that day, but they did not rush back to the courtyard to record the useful information before they had finished listening to everyone.

The rest of the people had mostly rumors and hearsay to share; their information was not very informative, nor as useful. Still, they generously gave out the pills and rushed back to the courtyard as soon as they were done.

Like this, the days went by. Rumors about the two strangers exchanging pills for other rumors and stories quickly spread throughout the entire academy, and Hei Gou and Lin Xiao both kept trading pills as their knowledge grew. They soon stretched the information requested from being only about the Garden of Shadows to everything within the capital.

They got rumors about the palace, about the different factions within the royal court, the strong families within the city and everything that was happening to them.

When they no longer had any students left who were interested in the pills that could help them break into the Ordinary Knight rank, Lin Xiao suddenly pulled out something else that made another big stir. He had pulled out some Flameward Formations.

Flameward Formations were plain and simple for Xue Wei to create, and he had spent a long time practicing them and made plenty of them in the hope of exchanging them for resources back in Chang'an when he was using the alias of Ye Xiao.

Unfortunately, circumstances had given him no more chances to exchange the formations and instead he'd had to flee. Now, however, was most likely the perfect time to bring them forth.

Although formations within Yan Dalu were much more widespread than within Chang'an, they were still considered rare. It was not that they did not have the spiritual energy needed to create formations but because the teachers guarded their methods with their lives. Formation masters had always been noble people, and back before Bai Tianyi had split the continents, the majority of the formation masters and their secrets were gathered within the City of Formations. After the world was split, many formations and their knowledge were lost throughout the continents, leaving only a select few even in Yan Dalu.

Seeing that Lin Xiao had shown a formation, everyone was once more filled with excitement and disbelief. How could these two people gather so many treasures and even gift them to others in exchange for information?

Still, Lin Xiao was more selective about the news he gained from formations. He had many pills, but not as many formations, and thus everyone did everything in their power to find information that was worthy of being exchanged for a formation.

These Formations were not for their own use, many wanted them to sell them to the more prominent families or the royal family within the capital, or to send it back to their own families—depending on the family's individual power.

Like this, Lin Xiao and Hei Gou managed to acquire their desired information quite easily. They also managed to build a good reputation so that no one wished to insult them. Everyone wanted to be friendly with them and find out where they had obtained all these treasures.

Although many people sent invitations to Lin Xiao and Hei Gou, the two friends did not accept any of them, they just declined them under the excuse that their partners were both inside the Soul Tower and that they could not make any decisions on their own.

Hearing this response, the smarter people started to understand what was happening. To be this kind of alchemist and to make such formations, one needed powerful spiritual energy, so for these two Qi cultivators who had such weak spiritual ranks, to have these meant there was definitely someone else behind them.

Hearing that they would not accept invitations before their partners from within the Soul Tower emerged, they could understand that the man or woman behind them was also a student at the academy.

Although many wished to become friendly with Lin Xiao and Hei Gou, their aim was to know who was behind them as they wanted to learn the art of inscription and the many pill formulas that they had in their hands, rather than their distributors.

Human greed was the same all over, although Xue Wei was now in Yan Dalu, the many wonderful treasures he had displayed had caused greed to appear in the eyes of many, but they dared not act on it.

Xue Wei was protected by the Garden of Shadows. No one within Yan Dalu dared to make an enemy out of this academy as it was the base of the entire continent.

Not to mention that the King was not likely to allow these famous families to act on their own. If they were making too many problems throughout the capital, then she would definitely step in.