Chapter 541: The Nurturing Heart Sutra (1/2)

The moment he said 'master' the eyes of Mudan similarly glowed in a red light too. Shaoyan Qianyu though looked at them with a cold face. Internally she felt strange about this all. She had heard about this 'master' that the supreme elder and the patriarch had met before.

This master was willing to become the backing of their sect and was said to be an expert. They were even sending a lot of resources to this master. In fact, a lot of the resources that they were supposed to send the master were included in the vaults that were robbed.

'No way… could it be?' Shaoyan Qianyu remembered Wu Lian's words.

She decided to excuse herself from the meeting as the patriarch and Yi Deng went alone to someplace. Shaoyan Qianyu didn't like what had happened with the sect's condition, but the actions of Mudan and Yi Deng unnerved her too.

”Oh Ancestors… what is this beast? And who is that man? Why has our sect suffered such tragedy?” She muttered to herself.

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The culprit behind this was currently unconscious and lying in a cave somewhere. He was laid against a wall and had a still face. A large beast laid at his side but it seemed to be extremely tired. Its fur had lost its shine and its aura seemed to be weak too.

This was of course none other than Lin Mu. He had passed out after he got onto Little Shrubby's back and when the beast ran away at great speed. Little Shrubby had run for a day and night, only after which did he stop.

He knew he was being chased by Mudan and thus didn't stop, even if the distance between them was quite large. Little Shrubby could smell the man and that was how he could tell he was being followed.

Only after the scent got very faint did he pick a good enough place to hide. It had found a random cave at the side of a mountain and entered it before putting down Lin Mu. By this time all the flames on his body had already been extinguished and his size had returned to normal as well.

Unknown to both the man and beast, a change was happening between them. Little Shrubby's aura flickered like a flame in a storm and Lin Mu's was similar, both of their auras intermixed before becoming synchronous. Then suddenly the mysterious ring on Lin Mu's hand started to hum.

Lin Mu who had been unconscious the entire time, woke up but found himself in front of the ethereal altar at the center of the ring.

”Huh? Why am I here?” Lin Mu wondered as he looked around.

”Senior? Senior Xukong!” Lin Mu called out, but received no response.

He then tried to contact him using his link, but found it to be blocked. He could tell that the link still existed but was unable to do anything to it.

”What is happening?” Lin Mu questioned as he tried to remember.

He recalled being paralyzed from the tribulation lightning and then being chased by the elders and patriarch of the Tri Cauldron peony sect. Finally, little Shrubby had come to rescue him and he had fallen unconscious after that.