Chapter 498: The Vault at Herb Peak (1/2)

Lin Mu had to be extra careful as if the elders or heavens forbid the peak master ever scanned the ground with their spirit sense they would end up finding Lin Mu there. These people were either as strong as Lin Mu or even stronger than him, thus their range of spirit sense would be higher as well.

He finally reached a compound that had high walls. There was a large gate at the front which needed an identity badge to enter inside as well. Lin Mu tried to enter using phase, but the barriers surrounded it from everywhere making it difficult to pass.

”I'll just have to use fade, I guess.” Lin Mu said to himself before disappearing from the real world.

His proficiency with fade was getting better with time and now he could judge how much distance he had traveled just by estimating it with his eye. This was good for the short distances he needed to travel like these barriers.

He would have done the same with the formations on the warehouse but they were different. While he would be able to enter them using fade, an alarm would still ring as soon as he deactivated it and appeared in the real world.

The warehouses had active formations that prohibited one from staying in it for long times and also checked who was in it at all times. So to overcome this, Lin Mu would have to override the formations themselves.

As for the barrier in this compound, it only prevented one from entering but did not constantly check for the identity. Thus, once Lin Mu entered it, things were a bit easier. Lin Mu looked around and saw all the buildings that were locatedwithin it.

The biggest building was where the peak master stayed at. There were two more buildings in it that were smaller than it. These were the buildings where the elders and the core disciples of the peak lived in.

They were layered in an ascending manner, with the building where the core disciples lived first, then the elders' building and finally the peak master's building.

'According to the information I was given, the vault is located between the elder's building and the peak master's building.' Lin Mu recalled.

Lin Mu spread his spirit sense around and sensed the spirit Qi fluctuations in the area.

”So there are about seven core disciples in the building and they are all at the early stage of the core condensation realm.” Lin Mu discovered.

He didn't worry much about these disciples as they couldn't do much to him, even if they all attacked him at once. He then continued on ahead and reached the elder's building. Here the spirit Qi fluctuations were a bit stronger and Lin Mu was able to see that there were three elders in here.

”Oh? One of them is missing. Perhaps he's gone out…” Lin Mu guessed.

According to the information he was given, there were a total of four elders in the herb peak, two of which were at the late stage of the core condensation realm and two at the peak stage of the core condensation realm.