Cultivation Pet Shop

The next morning, as soon as Lin Fan woke up, he went out of his courtyard and started walking around the Alchemy King Hall.

There were still two days before their plan was put into action, so he had two days to walk around the Alchemy King Hall and gather as much information as he could.

Though it was like this, the ones that would be gathering the information would be Brainy’s puppets. He would just be walking around releasing those puppets and putting stealth laws on them to keep them hidden.

The Alchemy King Hall headquarters was surprisingly big.

It wasn’t in a city like the Hunters Organization headquarters was, but rather it was built in a valley on its own.

This entire area was just for the Alchemy King Hall. There were no civilians or people from other forces that lived in this place.

It was almost accurate to describe this place as an alchemy sect rather than an organization made for alchemists.

There were many different Alchemy Towers that were found all over this valley, so there was a lot of ground that Lin Fan had to cover.

Not to mention that each of these Alchemy Towers belonged to an elder and all the elders were Nascent Soul Realm Experts. So unless he personally came to apply the stealth laws, it would be very unlikely that the puppets would be able to sneak in.

However, with Lin Fan’s stronger laws, it was easy for these puppets to sneak right in.

Of course, there were still places that couldn’t be accessed by the puppets. These places were important places to each of the elders, such as their private rooms or their storage rooms that had important herbs stored.

These were rooms that had special barriers around them that prevented anyone from going in.

Still, even if he couldn’t go into these rooms, there were still plenty of other rooms for Lin Fan to search through.

Such as the rooms of the elders’ disciples.

There was quite a bit of information that could be gathered from these disciples since they were just as sloppy as their masters. Most of them put sensitive information out in the open in their rooms as if they didn’t care who saw it.

Of course, that was only because they trusted the barriers that were around each of the Alchemy Towers.

These were barriers that could even keep out Nascent Soul Realm Experts, so there was no need for them to worry if they kept their things out in the open.

While he was moving through the Alchemy King Hall headquarters, he was also able to meet many different people.

These people all knew about Lin Fan because of the banquet last night and because of their own factions. Everyone knew about his talent and they all wanted to pull him to their faction, so there were many people who approached Lin Fan to talk to him.

Lin Fan naturally didn’t turn them away because he knew that the more people he talked to, the more information that he could obtain.

So he started talking about some of the simple things, but then he slowly brought the topic to Song Shu, or rather who were the top candidates to marry her.

The regular disciple that he was talking to had to think for a bit before saying, “The Alchemy Master’s disciple? Hmm, are you interested in her, brother Lin?”

Lin Fan just casually said with a smile, “I’m not personally interested, but you should know how important her marriage is. Especially the person who marries her.”

The regular disciple gave a nod in response to this as he understood what Lin Fan was implying.

That was right, even if Lin Fan wasn’t interested himself, he would still have to care about this matter. After all, the person that would be marrying Song Shu would become someone with a very high position in the Alchemy King Hall.

He would become someone that even Lin Fan who was considered one of the top talents of the Alchemy King Hall wouldn’t be able to ignore, so naturally he would want to know who had the greatest chances of marrying Song Shu.

That way, he could at least decide how to treat these people in the future.

After thinking for a bit, the regular disciple started telling Lin Fan about the main candidates who had the greatest chance of becoming Song Shu’s fiance.

The regular disciple first looked around before coming closer to Lin Fan to say, “The first person and the one with the greatest chance is the disciple of the first elder. Not only is he the strongest out of all the choices, but he also has the greatest attainments in alchemy. It’s said that he’s already an Alchemy Master even though he’s less than forty years old.”

Lin Fan couldn’t help asking, “Less than forty? Just how old is he?”

The regular disciple thought about it for a bit before saying, “If I recall correctly, he should be in his mid thirties…” Then after a pause he asked, “Is there something wrong?”

Lin Fan shook his head and said, “I just couldn’t believe that he’s so young.”

The regular disciple gave a nod and said, “That’s right, he truly is talented.” But then after realizing something, he quickly said, “But young master Lin, he’s not as talented as you.”

Lin Fan just calmly waved his hand to stop the flattering and for him to continue.

However, even if Lin Fan looked calm on the surface, he couldn’t help feeling angry deep down.

A man in his mid thirties wanted to marry little Song Shu?

It had to be known that Song Shu was only thirteen to fourteen years old and there was a man in his mid thirties that wanted to marry her?

Lin Fan definitely wouldn’t allow it!

In fact, he was looking forward to crushing this pedo bear…

The regular disciple of course didn’t notice any of this since he had been hiding it under his calm look, so the regular disciple continued by saying, “Then there are the other two top candidates, the disciples of the second and sixth elders. There are also some other candidates that are disciples of the other elders, but those three are the main candidates that everyone has their eyes on.”

But then after thinking about it, the regular disciple suddenly added, “Well, there’s one dark horse that everyone has their eyes on as well…”𝒐𝒱𝐞𝑳xt.𝗇𝓔t

But after he said this, he didn’t keep explaining what he meant by this.

So Lin Fan asked, “Dark horse? What do you mean by dark horse?”

The regular disciple suddenly became very nervous when Lin Fan asked this and he looked around again before coming closer to Lin Fan to say in a lower voice, “The youngest disciple of the sixteenth disciple, he’s the one that’s the closest to the Alchemy Master’s disciple according to the rumours.”

Lin Fan knitted his brows and asked, “What rumours?”

The regular disciple slowly explained, “Well, the youngest disciple of the sixteenth elder is the one that’s the closest to age to the Alchemy Master’s disciple, so he’s the one who has spent the most time with her and is the one that’s the closest to her.” Then after a pause, he added, “But that’s not the main reason why he’s the dark horse.”

Lin Fan was about to ask again what the reason for this was, but this time, the regular disciple didn’t keep him waiting in suspense.

The regular disciples slowly said, “This is a story that goes back several years. It’s a story about when the sixteenth elder’s youngest disciple arrived at the Alchemy King Hall.”

The story went as follows.

In the year before the sixteenth elder came back with his youngest disciple, he had left the Alchemy King Hall headquarters to wander around.

Then a year after he went wandering, he came back with a newborn child who was his youngest disciple.

This wasn’t the strange part since things like this were common.

The strange part was who the child’s mother was.

The sixteenth elder never told anyone, but there was an incident that revealed one thing about the child to everyone.

When the sixteenth elder’s youngest disciple was only five years old, he got into a fight with a city lord’s son while visiting another city with the sixteenth elder.

Because he was injured during that fight, the city had been wiped out in a single night and no one knew who did it. However, it was clear that the cause of it was the sixteenth elder’s youngest disciple’s injuries.

That was made clear by the fact that the city lord and his entire family were strung up on poles to be made an example for everyone.

The strangest thing was that the twelve great factions never pursued this matter and chose to drop this matter. They didn’t even bother hiding it, they just didn’t take any action at all.

This made it clear that the backing that the sixteenth elder’s youngest disciple’s mother came from wasn’t a small one, it was something that could even put pressure on the twelve great factions.

The regular disciple then said, “The sixteenth elder’s youngest disciple has already made his feelings towards the Alchemy Master’s disciple clear, so if the force behind him were to take action…”

He left his words there because it was clear what he meant by them.

Lin Fan deeply knitted his brows when he heard this.

As he was about to ask something else, there was a voice that suddenly cut him off.

“Who do you think you are?!”