Chapter 49 - Chapter 49: Chapter 39 - Change of Circumstances i (1/2)
Chapter 49: Chapter 39 – Change of Circumstances i
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“Why are there so many people?”
As Xu Mu walked out of the alley where the abandoned house was, he saw numerous cultivators, taking their families in the direction of Baihe Forest.
“1 don’t know!”
Three women all shook their heads.
It was like this when they just came out.
‘Could it be the Chi family that wants to take away all the people in the marketplace?’
Xu Mu thought to himself.
Just then, a familiar figure appeared in his sight, dressed in a whitish Daoist robe and with a goatee. Xu Mu quickly went up and greeted him.
“Master Zhang!”
“Hmm?”
Zhang Shouren, who was holding his grandson’s hand and following the crowd, turned his head when he heard the familiar call.
It turned out to be Xu Mu from the same alley.
He pulled his grandson out of the crowd and walked towards Xu Mu.
“Friends Xu and Lan, you’re safe! That’s great!”
A smile appeared on Zhang Shouren’s face.
After a fight took place in the alley last night, he and his grandson hid in the house until dawn before daring to go out to check.
Seeing that Xu Mu’s residence had been reduced to ruins, he thought something had happened to their family.
“It’s just a fluke! By the way, friend Zhang, what are you doing?”
“What else could we be doing! Of course, we are leaving the marketplace!” Zhang Shouren replied with a bitter smile.
The young boy following him was hiding behind him, with his two pigtails, clinging to his leg. He stuck out one of his big black eyes, cautiously observing the few people.
Upon seeing little Ling’er being held by Xu Mu, his eyes brightened up, and his little head could not help but stretch up from behind Zhang Shouren.
“You’re leaving?”
Xu Mu’s eyes flickered.
Could it be what he had guessed? The Chi Family wants to take everyone away?
But that doesn’t seem like Chi Feiyan’s style. She was the one who abandoned Su Qing after Su Qing had helped her.
“Why do you want to leave?” Xu Mu asked knowingly.
“You don’t know?”
Zhang Shouren was a bit surprised.
Even this normal old cultivator who stays at home with his grandson every day knows, but Xu Mu, a mid-stage Qi Cultivator with a bright future as an alchemist, doesn’t know.
“I’m not very clear!”
He really wasn’t clear. Without the help of a Foundation Establishment family, how could they leave here?
“The Clear River Sword Sect has been exterminated by the Soul Forging Sect, and the demon cultivators of the Soul Forging Sect will be sweeping through White Stone City soon. If we don’t leave now, it’ll be too late!”
Zhang Shouren’s reply matched Xu Mu’s guess.
“Are demon cultivators really that terrifying?”
“I’m not sure if they’re terrible, but my Zhang Family’s only hope is this young boy. 1 dare not risk leaving us at the mercy of the demon cultivators of the Soul Forging Sect!”
Zhang Shouren said while touching his grandson’s head.
“So how do you plan to leave?” Xu Mu asked.
Just then, little Ling’er, who was being held by him, suddenly stretched out her small hand to grab Zhang Shouren’s beard. Zhang Shouren blocked with a laugh, then opened his mouth and said:
“Of course, we are leaving with the group of cultivators from the Foundation Establishment families. Otherwise, with my old bones, 1 won’t be able to make the trip!”
Zhang Shouren reached into his pocket, took out a small monkey made of clay, and handed it to little Ling’er.
This was originally a toy he made for his grandson.
The boy reluctantly pulled at his grandfather’s clothes, but Zhang Shouren didn’t mind.
Little Ling’er rudely accepted the clay monkey, then tried to stuff it into her mouth, but was stopped by Ye Yingying. Then she took her from Xu Mu’s arms to avoid interrupting the two’s conversation.
“Are they willing to? I heard that if there are too many people, it’s easy to attract the attack of monster beasts!”
While speaking, Xu Mu took out a Fasting Pill and handed it to the grandson of Zhang Shouren.
“Eat!” Xu Mu smiled.
The boy looked at his grandfather.
Zhang Shouren recognized it as a Fasting Pill, nodded his head, and then the boy put it in his mouth.
The pill didn’t taste good, so the boy made a face as he swallowed it, which was amusing to watch.
“I don’t know! But everyone is following, and with so many people, they can’t kill them all, can they?”
Zhang Shouren stroked his white goatee and looked back. There were still an endless stream of people coming from all directions of the marketplace.
It was clear that these were all loose cultivators wanting to follow Foundation Establishment families to leave.
‘It seems it’s not that the Chi Family wants to take them away, but that someone leaked the news, and now everyone has come.’
Xu Mu pondered.
The news of the demise of the Clear River Sword Sect may have only spread among some cultivators, but after last night’s unrest, presumably, the entire marketplace is now aware.
Add to that last night’s incident, no major family would dare to act if the news wasn’t indisputable.
“Does Friend Zhang know which families are planning to leave?”
He prayed in his heart, the Luo Family better not be among them.
“I’m not sure about that!”
Zhang Shouren shook his head.