Qu Jianlei did not avoid True Immortal San Shi's question, but he had no intention of saying much. "I have a way to travel quickly between the two provinces."
He went straight to the point. "There is something I'd like to trouble the friends of the Five Friends Alliance with. Please put up a bounty..."
"We want to know how Red Leaf Ridge offended the Art Academy, and who specifically at the Art Academy is handling this matter."
"The Art Academy..." True Immortal San Shi was visibly a little confused. He blinked before understanding. "You bought a stone?"
Qu Jianlei was somewhat taken aback by his reaction. "Has this news spread that widely?"
"No." True Immortal San Shi shook his head and spoke seriously. "Recently, a friend mentioned that the Art Academy had put out a bounty for a group of people who bought a stone..."
The Art Academy was one of the Four Sages Mountain and generally did not deal with ordinary cultivators.
All Four Sages Mountain factions had their own independent systems, but the Art Academy was especially so. It could be said to be the most reclusive of the Four Sages Mountain.
Even the Book Pavilion was considered rather reclusive, but it at least followed the saying: read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles.
But the people of the Art Academy were all research fanatics. Once they buried themselves in their own worlds of arts and techniques, they never emerged.
Thus, it was very rare for the Art Academy to issue a bounty, and the Five Friends Alliance had received word of it as well.
Normally, when the lofty Art Academy issued a bounty, most factions would rush to respond, taking the opportunity to curry favor with them.
However, the Five Friends Alliance had now