Feng Yin secretly congratulated himself on his brilliant decision. The timid starved, while the bold feasted.
Perhaps he would make an unexpected discovery this time. Feng Yin didn't let success go to his head. Instead, he concealed himself to the utmost, hiding in the void.
He was confident that even if someone walked right past him, they wouldn't be able to detect him in this state.
"My lord, things are a little chaotic right now. Grand Scholar Gong Lei has gone missing, and the Teleportation Formation was destroyed. The academy's higher-ups are furious, and both Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars, Shuijing and Xin Huo, have gone out in person. It feels like this matter is going to blow up. I'm afraid our side won't escape being implicated."
A personal guard stood before the Water Engineer Scholar. He was clearly a trusted aide of no ordinary standing.
The Water Engineer Scholar sat at his desk, with several personal guards standing before him. They seemed to be the kind of trusted aides who attended him closely, and so their words must have carried considerably more weight than those of ordinary guards.
Another guard chimed in. "I agree. Grand Scholar Gong Lei's mysterious disappearance is bound to implicate those of us below, one way or another. Even if we had a hundred mouths, we wouldn't be able to argue our way out of it."
"And Gong Lei's people are insisting that our side sent a messenger to report something about a Spirit Vein. My lord, this is a case of trumped-up charges—if someone wants to frame us, they'll find an excuse. I'm afraid someone will use this incident to make a bigger fuss and target us. To be blunt, my lord, you've risen too quickly over the past few years, and you're not