269 The Gu Lady and the Yuan Young Master (1/2)

The group of four had been inside the house for around an hour talking about their experiences, the information they had gathered and just joked with one another before they finally emerged to greet the crowd once again.

Outside the courtyard were still a large number of experts waiting patiently for them, showing distinct curiosity towards the two apparent newcomers. Could they perhaps be the ones behind the pills and the formations?

As they exited, many glittering sets of eyes shone with excitement as they landed on Bai Tianyi.

Although Bai Tianyi had the appearance of a child, his spiritual energy was the strongest amongst the group. Many simply surmised that he had some sort of constitution that made aging difficult, and that he was actually older than the others, thus explaining why his strength was higher.

Sensing all these gazes being thrown at him, Bai Tianyi smiled wryly. Although he could make formations, it was not him that had made the formations being exchanged by Lin Xiao and Hei Gou, and he knew nothing about pill making at all—if he knew about it, then he would not have coerced Xue Wei into becoming an alchemist.

The one who was being overlooked the most was Xue Wei. His Qi levels were not the highest; his spiritual energy was surpassed as well. He still only had two eyes and he didn't even seem to be the tallest amongst them.

In every way that one looked at it, he just appeared average, and in fact, they felt he should be proud of even being a part of this group.

It was not before they noticed that he was walking in front of the three others that they frowned and became slightly confused.

What follower would walk in front of their masters? That made no sense whatsoever.

Some of the more intelligent ones present started to look at Xue Wei with another kind of gaze, one with a shining light.

Xue Wei noticed a few of the people starting to cast their gazes towards him, and he decided that these people, the ones who could figure out so much from such little information, were the ones he would be willing to work with.

Xue Wei preferred working with intelligent people. They knew how to behave while the less intelligent ones could cause problems or be blinded by their greed or the misguided way others tell them to behave, which end up with them sacrificing long-lasting benefits for the sake of a quick rise in power or favor with the wrong person.

From the crowd of slightly more astute people, Xue Wei took an interest in a woman dressed in purple as well as a young man dressed in blue not too far fromher. Both of them had four eyes each; their bearing was rather outstanding, their temperaments and aura pleasant and cool. Their appearances were also amongst the cream of the crop; they were definitely no ordinary people.

”Young Master, Young Miss, please, if you are interested, then we would like to welcome you inside,” Xue Wei said, looking directly at the two figures, and gesturing for them to enter inside.

Hearing Xue Wei's words, both of them were at first rather stunned, but they recomposed themselves and with a smile on their faces, accepted the invitation heartily.

”All of you stay outside,” both of them ordered the people who had come with them, while they themselves went inside.

Both of them were core students, so they were incredibly familiar with the residence that belonged to the core students. When they stepped inside, they quickly walked with Xue Wei towards the guest room, located on the first floor where one would welcome their guests.

Xue Wei began to brew some tea using his spiritual energy to form a flame that heated up the water, and some spiritual tea leaves he had gotten long ago while buying herbs.

This kind of spiritual tea was a luxury back in Chang'an, but Xue Wei had never had much of a use of it, he had just purchased it at random, but now he admired his past decisions as he had a perfect reason to use it.

A pleasant fragrance wafted throughout the room, the tea so fragrant that nobody could help but feel eager to try it out. Even Xue Wei, who was not usually into drinking tea very much, could feel how the spiritual energy within his body was starting to rotate at a faster speed than before.

After finding some teacups, Xue Wei poured a cup of tea for each of them and sat down. While he had been brewing tea, everyone had remained silent, all of them had instead been observing him, curious as to what his purpose for inviting them in was.

As he sat down he took a sip of the fragrant tea, he felt his spiritual energy being replenished, he even had a sense that it was being saturated and even to some extent, expanded. If he had known how good and useful the tea was earlier, then he would have purchased much more spiritual tea back when he had the chance.

Xue Wei saw how the others reacted as they also tasted the tea. Neither Lin Xiao nor Hei Gou cultivated their spiritual energy, but a big, relaxing smile spread across their face after drinking it—their souls were being nourished by the tea.

The quartet of eyes on both the woman and the man turned focused while they tasted their tea, displaying a small amount of shock as they felt the surprisingly strong changes it did to their bodies.

”I am Xue Wei,” Xue Wei introduced himself. ”These are my brothers, Bai Tianyi, Hei Gou, and Lin Xiao,” he continued, gesturing to each of them as he announced their names.