"Interesting..." He stroked a cat on his lap as he stared upon a glove.
In the middle of the city, atop the large palace sat this room, a huge expanse of marble and jade. Stop a huge golden throne, he sat.
The man looked young and handsome. His name was Fang Xia and he was a part of a great sect. He held a glove which showed the entire city as a small projection, and right then he saw something which caused him to become curious.
"I've never seen that cultivator before but he's weak. I can tell he comes from Nine Clouds Sovereign Sect."
He looked at the face of Hamar, the extremely handsome reformed face, "I don't recognise him though..."
He twisted his hand and the time in the small projection seemed to reverse. He looked back at home Hamar fought and how he could get past his restrictions.
He focused on that glowing energy and it's properties. His smirk grew and he rapped his fingers against his throne.
"Interesting..." He swiped and caused to projection to fall, "Elder Xian!"
The globe spin around and a new projection formed. It spoke, "Report."
"I have a clue on the finding of Nine Clouds Purple Miasma Mo Huai. I believe I've found the reason for his disappearing..."
As he explained what he found to this Elder Xian, Hamar found himself in the information brokers.
***
Sweeping at some beads hanging from the ceiling he entered the room, "Hello?"
A fragrant smell of lavender came over Hamar as he stepped foot into the 'Lavender Room' as Su Ban called it.
"Come, come in" a young woman's voice tempted him I wards. And as he saw her, he paused. She was the most beautiful person he had seen barring only one exception of an Elder from his sect.
She had pure white jade skin and her eyes were emerald green with a seductive gaze. She wore loose clothing that distracted from her alluring figure.
She gestures for him to speak and Hamar coughed. He started, "I have some poison laws...do you think you could track them, I need this."
She hummed for a moment then held out her delicate hand. "Don't be shy now, let us try"
Hamar gently touched her smooth hand and then passed over some of the laws from the connection he had to Hou's body.
He only wanted to give a few but due to his aura destroying laws as they came out, he had to use a lot of poison laws.
But he did not mind this as, as soon as they were removed more were absorbed. Hou was clearly in a heavily poisonous scenery.
She jumped and squealed for a moment, "Thats enough..."
She stopped talking and began investigating the laws she were given. Laws had quite a few details that could be used by investigative experts.
She first looked at the exact composition of the poison laws. While to Hamar it was simple poison, to someone familiar with laws they could deduce more subtle laws.
Finding little she turned to the residual mental energy. She felt Hou's and Hamar's and another figures. After a moment she concluded the residual energy test.
Then she dug deeper and looked into the essence of the laws. Essence was not a physical thing but merely the sum of all that those laws represent.
It could show past experiences and owners but they were often easy to dispel and extremely fragile. She tried to look into the essence but after passing through Hou's body and the connection to Hamar and the destruction of aura...all essence was destroyed.
She shook her head, "I see nothing. If you leave us more of these laws we can ask poison experts and higher ups though. You've already paid with one mid grade spirit stone but this is much harder than initially thought."
Hamar swallowed his saliva waiting for her to continue. She thought for just a moment before continuing, "At least ten high quality stones."
Hamar looked weary and asked, "Do you deal in laws? Or...exotic material?"
She smirked, "Exotic materials?"
Hamar took out a different crystal. He had made this earlier when he first got his first spirit stone. The spirit stone reminded him of something he had learned to make from Hou.
Using delicate techniques he would turn his aura into a concentrated stone. Before handing it over, Hamar thought about what his master told him.
"Your aura is unknown to the world, this is unprecedented. Don't rashly give out secrets to it, the sect will be experimenting with aura and figuring it out. Do your best to keep it hidden."
Hamar closed his eyes and passed it over, 'Sorry master, but I'm sure you would accept it since it is to find brother Hou.'
The beautiful information brokers held the aura stone in her hands. She tried to inject some laws and use a technique to investigate what it was but instead it destroyed her laws and caused her a headache.
The more she held it, the more she became confused. Her smile wore off and she asked. "What is it?"
Hamar leaned forward, "That'll cost you. If you don't know what it is, then that's an issue for an information brokers."
"Okay..."
A few hours later Hamar walked out of the room and met back up with Su Ban.
"Why do you look so happy? Found what you needed?"
Hamar shook his head, "No but I did make a deal with the information brokers guild now."
Su Ban looked shocked but decided to let it off. He held out his hand and Hamar took it. The two shook hands a d parted ways.
Hamar walked to the edge of the city and thought about his deal, "To think I got a deal that they would help however they can just for handing them aura stones. But I shouldn't give them any information what it is or how to use it, that'll be a step too far"
He wasn't leaving just yet, after making his deal he asked another thing from the brokers. That was the location of this warehouse.
Inside were hundreds of cultivators of varying levels. They were suppressed by being unable to use most techniques and were prey to being hinted for their spirit stone (souls).
Hamar snook in and used his aura to instantly decapitate the few guards. He spat on their bodies and then went around cutting open the cages with aura.
Any techniques were easily stopped using aura. The techniques used to lock them up focused on delicate precise formations rather than pure strength.
This caused them to be susceptible to Hamar's aura destruction. He freed the cultivators and warned them to leave as soon as they could.
***
Fang Xia watched what Hamar was doing from his projection of the city on his globe. He fist was shaking but contradictorily his smile was growing.
"Daring to free my spirit stones...I like it. He has morals but he does not understand the way of the world quite yet...where did the Nine Clouds sect get this peculiar guy."
He pointed this finger and a light shot out the palace. It shot into the sky and recalled around the city and turned invisible as it hit Hamar's body.
Fang Xia tried to ensure the marker worked but as he did, he saw that it was instantly broke. He fingers dug into the throne he was on.
He shot out a thousand different lights. Each one destroyed itself after attaching onto Hamar's body.
"Is this the effect of his energy?"
He thought for a moment and sent out a final light. It stuck to Hamar and shook for a moment. Just as he thought it would shatter it stopped and settled.
It seemed to disappear but in actuality in was settling in a separate dimension the aura was not naturally entering. and Fang Xia chuckled, "It's not impenetrable it seems..."