019 - Thriller

"A little brother?", {But Aunt Xue doesn't have any brothers from what I know}

Seemingly aware of what she was thinking, she laughed and said, "Today at the Inscriptionist Association came a new Inscriptionist Apprentice. He wanted to buy some blank inscription scrolls and some bottles of bronze rank blood. As he seemed really honest, I decided to pay for him, and to thank me he gave me a cultivation technique"

As he was listening to her, Xiao Yan was speechless, {I'm "really honest" just because I called you "big sister"?}

She sighed, "When he was gone, I read the technique and understood that it was much more powerful than even the one you are using, which is the strongest of the family. After just a few minutes I already made a breakthrough. As you already know I was stuck at the peak of the Gold Rank for five years now. I was so shocked that I thought I was daydreaming.

I was woken up by an alchemist who wanted to buy all the Purple Haze Grass that I had. I found it weird so I told him that I didn't have any. A second one came for the same reason and only after the sixth one came did I learn that it's because the Alchemist Association discovered sixty new uses for that herb. I tried the second use which was mixing it with five other herbs to make a soul nourishing bath, which happened to also have a beautifying effect.

Thankfully I didn't sell the few hundreds pounds that the Inscriptionist Association had, because when I came back I learned that the price was now at 300 DSC per pound, more than a thousand time more expensive than before. The Alchemist Association already bought all of the available stock of Glory City and even if I don't really need money, selling something a thousand time cheaper than the real price would still hurt me a little"

"What an adventure…", She couldn't help feeling a little jealous of such an eventful day.

"Right?", Xue Yin then took out six packages from her storage ring and gave it to her, "Here are ten pounds of each of the six herbs required to make the soul nourishing bath, it'll be useful to your cultivation Young Miss. You should take one each day, as there's enough to last you around three months"

"Thank you", She took it in her ring.

"So, why was the Young Miss calling for me?"

She pointed at the paper, "Aunt Xue, what do you think of this inscription?"

Xue Yin looked at it a few seconds and replied, "Seems like "Icy Wind, Sudden Snow" but much stronger. These well-proportioned lines… I don't know which Inscriptionist Master it was, but I must admit defeat. Could it be that the young miss met that Inscriptionist Master?"

She wryly smiled, "No, it was drawn by a classmate, he also told me that this is the true "Icy Wind, Sudden Snow" from the Snow Wind Empire Era and that he saw it in this untranslated book", she pointed at an opened book.

Xue Yin looked at the book, there was indeed the same inscription pattern as the one drawn on the paper, but she couldn't understand anything else.

"Was it luck or is he able to read that language? Wait, the person who drew this inscription", She said as she pointed the paper drawn by paper, "is definitely a genius Inscriptionist Master, are you sure he is the one who drew it?"

"Yes, he drew it in front of me, and he only took around thirty breaths to do so", She replied as only now did she realize how fast he was.

{So he's already an Inscriptionist Master, yet he stayed low-key and didn't flaunt his knowledge…} Right now she was filled with admiration for Xiao Yan.

"Thirty breaths? Even I would need much more time to draw it with a pen! Genius, he's a pure genius, what's his name? Young Miss, could you tell him to drop by the Inscriptionist Association so that I can meet him?", She was getting really excited.

"It's Xiao Yan, he's from the Winged Dragon Family"

"Xiao Yan? Wait, is he really handsome, with…", She started to describe him.

"Yes that's him, Aunt Xue already know him?"

"Hehe, he's the little brother I told you about!", {So it happened that he is a genius inscriptionist already better than me. But why did he buy only bronze rank blood? With what he drew on this paper I can tell that he can definitely make some Gold Ranks or even Black Gold Ranks inscription scrolls}

Ye Ziyun thought of something, took out an Inscription Scroll from her storage ring and said, "Aunt Xue, a few days ago I bought this from the Secret Treasure Pavilion, I wanted to witness "Icy Wind, Sharp Knives" by myself but it couldn't be activated. I asked various teachers and even the Vice Principal what was wrong but none of them could find the root of the problem. It was only this morning that Xiao Yan told me what was wrong with a single glance"

"Wrong blood, right?", She asked with a smile, she also figured out what was wrong with the scroll.

"Yes, and he told me that even the one who drew it might be unaware and that I should report it to an Inscriptionist Master of the Family to check the shop since there still might be others"

Xue Yin carefully looked at the Inscription Scroll and said, "I don't think it's that simple…", then she added, "The one who drew it is definitely from the Dark Guild"

Ye Ziyun felt quite puzzled, how could Aunt Xue tell something like that just by looking at an inscription? And why would they make some faulty inscription scrolls? They wouldn't earn that much money by switching the required blood, right?

Xiao Yan felt like he was watching a thriller, {Hurry up! Quickly tell us how it suddenly came to the Dark Guild! Don't act mysterious, just tell us straight without making any cliffhangers!}