Erudite Adept
“Where are they?”
Mu Yu lost track of the trio when he got out of the city – which did not take long at all. He zipped to a knoll, where he sensed erratic qi moments ago; however, search even under ground, there was nothing to be found. Upon checking the soil, he stated, “Domain energy.” Domain energy meant that the elder had to be an Apotheosis Realm Elder.
Mu Yu rose up. “Elder, this one is Mu Yu. Please accept his apology for the disrespect yesterday. Might you grant him an audience?”
Xiaoshuai wagged his claws in the air to test it. “The energy is gone. He’s left.”
Persistent, Mu Yu waited for an hour and then did a lap fruitlessly.
“Let’s go back to check on Zhuge Xiaosheng,” advised Xiaoshuai.
***
“Shifu, you’ve been standing on my feet for an hour already. Can you please get off now,” complained Chu Xiachi.
“Shut up!”
“He looks so cool… I want to have a son with him…” Chu Xiaoqing squirmed as a fangirl would.
“You’re fifteen years old for crying out loud.”
“What rule forbids marriage at fifteen years old?”
“I made the rule. I’m the rule!” replied Daoist Chu Buqu.
With Chu Xiachi pressed up against the wall, Daoist Chu Buqu stepped on the latter’s feet as he retreated. Chu Xiaoqing constantly tried to break out of their huddle to run to Mu Yu, much to her shifu’s chagrin.
“Why can’t we just show ourselves? You won’t die if you speak to him,” griped Chu Xiachi.
“I’m an erudite adept. Do emperors just grant you audiences when you feel like it? I have to remain mysterious as an erudite adept who has comprehended dao.”
“An Ascension Realm adept nearly detected you. You’re just embarrassed, aren’t you?”
Daoist Chu Buqu stomped on Chu Xiachi’s feet.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You are an esteemed, venerated, respected adept. Please get off my foot!”
“He didn’t notice us sleeping in the room under his yesterday. His cultivation must’ve progressed again; that’d explain how he noticed us. Gifted people are so cool.”
“Cool, my foot! That’s because I set it up beforehand last night. He won’t know anything when I erased the traces of my domain. He beat me to it before. Speaking of which, he has keen senses. Ah, whatever, let’s go to Gambling City already.”
***
Since teleportation formations required two people and are fixed in one location, Zhuge Xiaosheng’s other job was to set up one in pill City and another at Pill Cauldron Sect as per recommendation. As such, he needed to select ideal locations. Meanwhile, Daoist Yuan De cleared out the centre of the city so that a formation with a teleportation capacity of two hundred people at once was possible to install.
Daoist Yuan De politely conveyed, “Let us go to Pill Cauldron Sect to find a location there. We also happen to need a favour from you.”
“This one will do this best to fulfil his duty,” replied Zhuge Xiaosheng.
As the two left, cultivators began their plans to migrate closer to Pill Cauldron Sect so that they could reach the teleportation formation at Pill Cauldron Sect fastest since it was the one that could teleport them out of the city. Landlords, of course, immediately hiked up the rent of their places. Either way, everyone felt a lot safer after witnessing Zhuge Xiaosheng at work.
***
Mu Yu covertly followed after Zhuge Xiaosheng and company, crossing through the forest separating Pill Cauldron Sect from Pill City. Mu Yu intended to explain himself on the three mountains located between the forest and Pill Cauldron Sect.
“If only he could stay a little longer so that I could ask him about Reverend Ni Lei’s whereabouts,” Mu Yu bemoaned.
“Maybe he is Reverend Ni Lie?” Xiaoshuai, who was now in his beast form, proposed.
“They’re different people. I would never forget Reverend Ni Lei’s silhouette from the back when I saw him using Dragon Searching Formation.”
“Could he be Zhan Henxi or whatever?”
“They’re not the only Ascension Realm human cultivators. Dad was one, but we never knew.”
As Mu Yu slipped from tree to tree in the forest, he suddenly picked up a dangerous signal, therefore halting.
“What’s the matter?” Xiaoshuai questioned.
“I sense an overpowering qi signal encroaching.” Mu Yu connected his hand to a tree, linking his sight to every tree around. “Where is it?”
Once Zhuge Xiaosheng and Daoist Yuan De exited the forest, Mu Yu noticed qi unnerving qi from the trees up ahead thanks to the energy sitting deep inside him.
“Crap!” Mu Yu looked over his shoulder, the direction of the encroaching signal. “Third Heaven Palace!”
“Did the old man mean that Third Heaven Palace has taken control of Zhuge Xiaosheng?!” Xiaoshuai supposed. “Is he conspiring with Third Heaven Palace to harm Daoist Yuan De or Pill Cauldron Sect?”
“Either way, we need to stop whoever is coming first.”
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