Chapter 727: Tianji Pavilion

Listening to the conversations in the tavern, it turned out that most of the talk was about Ye Feng wiping out the Shangguan family. Compared to that, other news seemed unimportant.
“Have you heard? A few days ago, some guy named Ye Feng wiped out the entire Shangguan family!”
“Which Shangguan family? The one from the Ten Great Families? Weren’t they said to have powerful backers in the higher realms?”
“Who knows? But I haven’t heard anything about that Ye Feng these past few days. Maybe he’s already been killed.”
When Jin Wen heard this, he was about to stand up, but Ye Feng held him back. “It’s fine. Let them talk.”
Jin Wen frowned slightly and sat back down reluctantly. Luo Yan also frowned, showing displeasure.
Xue Hai finally figured out something. “Master, was it really you who did that?”
“Mm,” Ye Feng nodded and turned to look at Jin Wen and Luo Yan. He knew they didn’t want to hear such unfavorable talk about themselves. “Ignore these people. They’re just ordinary folks gossiping. There’s no need to get upset.”
After eating their fill, Ye Feng called the waiter to settle the bill and tossed him an extra crystal stone.
The waiter’s eyes lit up at the extra crystal stone, and he forced a smile.
“Waiter, with so many strong people in Lake City, there must be people dealing in information, right?” Ye Feng didn’t rush to stand up. Instead, he took a sip of tea and spoke slowly.
“Sir, you must be visiting Lake City for the first time, right?” the waiter smiled. “There are indeed businesses in the city that deal in information, and there are several of them. But the biggest one is called Tianji Pavilion. Its headquarters is right here in our city, and it has over eighty branches across the entire True Realm. They specialize in information trading. It’s said that the owner of Tianji Pavilion is a powerful figure from the higher realms, with the ability to predict the future.”
“Where is Tianji Pavilion?” Ye Feng became interested, unsure whether it was because of that future-seeing powerful figure or the information he was about to obtain.
“It’s in the east of the city, there’s a tall wooden pavilion-like building…” Before the waiter could finish speaking, Ye Feng and the others had already disappeared.
“Thank you!” A voice suddenly came from the air, waking the dazed waiter.
The waiter’s description was indeed accurate. That tall wooden pavilion was very noticeable. Almost as soon as Ye Feng’s soul power detected it, he knew it was the place. Ye Feng and his group immediately teleported there.

In fact, major cities like Lake City are surrounded by powerful restrictions and formations. Even those who have reached the peak of the Truth-Shattering realm cannot teleport in such places. But for Ye Feng and the others, it wasn’t a problem. This was also why the shop attendant was stunned after seeing them teleport away. Having lived in Lake City for many years, the attendant naturally knew he had just encountered someone beyond the Truth-Shattering realm—such strong individuals were rare even in a place like Lake City, where strong fighters often appeared.

Ye Feng stood below the attic, watching the endless stream of people coming in and out, and couldn’t help but marvel at how booming the business here was. When the four of them stepped in, they were instantly shocked—this crowded place hardly resembled an information exchange site. It was more like a peak winter travel rush, Ye Feng couldn’t help but sigh.

The receptionist at the entrance reached out through the crowd and handed over four iron plates. Ye Feng and his group took the plates and immediately poured their soul power into them. As soon as they did, they understood how to use them. The first few lines of red text that appeared made it clear: one only needed to mark the information they wanted to know using soul power and then return it to the receptionist.

Ye Feng glanced through the categorized questions and chose one category: “Major Events That Have Occurred Recently.” Delving deeper, this category listed various major events that had happened over the past hundred years, totaling more than eight thousand different titles. Ye Feng scanned them all with his soul power and found two titles related to himself—the Shangguan family’s extermination and the disappearance in the Bloodly Red Sky Secret Realm. Shaking his head, he then looked at the other titles.

A suddenly appearing title quickly caught Ye Feng’s interest. Since all events here were updated in real time, this phenomenon occurred. But what interested him wasn’t the sudden appearance of the message itself, but its content—“Unknown Person Offers a High Reward for Ye Feng’s Assassination.” “Is this a rumor or true?” Ye Feng raised his eyebrows slightly. He wasn’t bothered at all by someone offering to leave him a ‘trophy,’ but he doubted the authenticity of this message.

After reviewing all the titles, Ye Feng left a soul mark only under this one, as he wanted to know the details of this information.

Returning to the first-level category, Ye Feng opened “Upcoming Major Events” again. There were less than twenty titles in total, and one of them was about him—“A Powerful Being from a Higher Realm Will Arrive to Capture Ye Feng.” Upon seeing this message, Ye Feng blinked several times to confirm he wasn’t mistaken. “Is this some kind of prophecy? I wonder if it will turn out to be accurate.” Finding nothing useful, Ye Feng returned to the first-level category and found the “Characters” section. There were numerous subcategories under this, tens of thousands in total. Scanning with his spiritual power, Ye Feng saw only two familiar names—one related to himself and the other to Shangguan Ming. The article about himself was titled “Uncovering Ye Feng’s Background,” while the one about Shangguan Ming was titled “Shangguan Ming and the Shangguan Family.” Ye Feng marked these two entries and returned to the first-level category once more. He then checked out the “Dangerous Places” section, the “Powerful Individuals” section, and the “Factions” section, marking a few entries before returning the metal plate to the attendant. After reading the titles of these entries, Ye Feng was confident that his name was widely known in the Real World. However, it seemed that not many people knew what he looked like. This was also why, during the destruction of the Shangguan family, onlookers stayed at a distance out of fear of being implicated, so no combat videos were recorded. After Luo Yan and the others selected the desired information, the four of them quickly received a response from the attendant. The attendant listed the costs and confirmed that all the information was what Ye Feng and his group needed. After paying the fees, Ye Feng and his companions finally obtained the information they wanted. Just as they were about to leave the Tianji Pavilion, the attendant stopped them, saying, “Please wait, the owner of Tianji Pavilion would like to see you…”