Blue Phoenix Chapter 9 - Searching

Cai Jie and Hui Yue, who were sitting in the small library they had come across, put one memory stone after another to their foreheads. Silvery-blue light constantly shone within the room while the two men would regularly write down anything important they came across.

Cai Jie found out quite a few interesting facts about the City Lord, and Hui Yue learned a great deal about all the many guests who took part in the City Lord’s dinner parties. He started with the guests who appeared at every dinner. The information they obtained from Gao Yan was quite detailed. It stated which faction the person was a member of, everything about their family, about their rank, about their most used attacks, their highest ranked attacks, and also things about which elemental affinities they had or were known to have. But what info Hui Yue could use the most that Gao Yan included was information about whether or not these families were loyal to the factions they were a part of. After sorting through four of the twelve memory stones, Hui Yue had already found one person who was not faithful to his faction.

All of them were official members of the City Lord’s faction, yet the person whom Hui Yue found was a nobleman called Dong Liang; the Patriarch of the Dong family. On the surface, he was a part of the City Lord’s faction, but truthfully he was a part of the first prince’s faction. Whether or not the City Lord was aware of this was a big question which Hui Yue was incapable of answering. The information was for sale by Gao Yan so accessing it was not hard.

Within the capital, there were six different factions. One of these was the City Lord’s faction. The second belonged to the first prince, and the third was the second prince. The fourth was the third prince. Apart from these four factions, there were two others. One was led by Zhan Weisheng, a merchant, and the final was the Royal faction led by the king and his supporters.

Within the capital, the majority of the merchants followed Zhan Weisheng, which made his faction one of the la

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