
"Finally, it can be too! After suffering for these 3 days," Xiaohan said pretending to wipe away the tears.
"But I'm very curious why we never managed to catch up to the lady" Du Luhan said.
In the highest sky, Mu Lian stood in the middle of a magical gondola while observing the passing gondolas.
The white-colored hairy thing that was on top of his head did not diminish the charisma Mu Lian had emitted back then.
"Duh, Senior is still curious? Better not to. When Zhou ge combined training alone, we saw with our own eyes how Lian jie made Zhou ge die of fleas, haha, pity.
Even Grandpa Yi could never catch Lian jie. It looks like Grandpa Yi almost managed to catch him but it didn't," Xiaohan said with a long sigh.
If Du Luhan had not experienced for himself how difficult it was to pursue Mu Lian, surely Du Luhan considered what Xiaohan said to be just a child's lie.
But since Du Luhan had experienced it, Du Luhan could calmly let Mu Lian take part in their secret operation later.
"All right, everybody, thanks for the hard work today. Zhi ge seemed to have returned from the outside," Mu Lian said. Mu Lian used her chi to harden her voice.
All of them stopped at their respective places and followed Mu Lian landing at the dock of the Northern Herb Garden.
Meng Zhi was standing looking at them. In Luhan and Xu Tian went down first and approached Meng Zhi.
"Senior Meng, how are things out there?"
"It seems worse than we thought," Meng Zhi said then recounted what she heard from Master Yi.
Some were spreading rumors of the discovery of the core of the True Cave. The person who spread the tumor was a group that came from a sect that was quite prominent in the Zhongjian world so the credibility of the person was quite high.
It is different if the person's origin cannot be ascertained. Moreover, people who claimed that he heard the rumor from his senior, brought 'evidence' in the form of objects that are often seen near the core of a cave.
There are those who immediately believe but not a few who do not want to immediately take action. People who wanted to see the condition first, were actually considering the dwindling supply of their pills.
"And out of nowhere, I couldn't see his face, that person suddenly voiced out what was in the minds of all who were there," meng Zhi said that there were those who provoked various parties so that there was a split.
After 3 days of following these groups Master Yi was able to identify who joined whom and what their goals were.
Based on Master Yi's observation, there were even those who made contact with groups that were very far from here.
"Another piece of news is not wearing that we should beware of. Missing some people lately. At first Ah Yi and I thought that they were preyed upon by spirit beasts.
But Ah Yi said that there was a fairly dense abyssal material at the site of the disappearance of these people. We suspect that the cult of heretics is taking advantage of the current chaos" Meng Zhi said.
Du Luhan and Xu Tian were silent. But the two decided to keep the news to their close colleagues in the meeting tonight.
"Senior-senior, I can only say that you remain cautious. Safety is number 1. And looking at your progress so far, I think we can carry out our plan in 2 days or even tomorrow can," said Mu Lian.
However, circumstances did not seem possible so Meng Zhi and the others decided to carry out the plan along with the exploration to be held in 5 days.
The meeting tonight and the following nights, will discuss the exploration.
In addition to a large-scale joint exploration, exploration can also be held secretly as did one of the groups who managed to make contact with other groups located far from here.
The plans that Mu Lian and the others were to undertake were included in secret explorations like those of the group.
While waiting for the day of departure, Mu Lian with Mu Haocun locked herself inside the control room.
Mu Lian was like creating a duplicate key so that Mu Haocun could activate all the features that originally only Mu Lian could activate.
...
Finally, after 5 days of careful exploration planning, the various parties began to prepare for departure.
The main reason that made everyone agree to leave was Meng Zhi's participation. In addition Meng Zhi brought several bottles of pills as 'bait' for the plan to run smoothly.
"Good morning Senior Meng," greeted one of the groups.
Flowers numbering 5 petals are predominantly white and there is a tinge of yellow color near the pistil, has just bloomed. Signifying the new sunrise*.
But there were already many waiting at the location, waiting for everything to arrive. Before long, all those participating in the exploration gathered as well and set off for their intended location.
Initially the exploration went solemnly. But halfway into the new territory, some important figures like Du Luhan, the Xu brothers and others disappeared one after another. The more faces that disappeared, the more aware the other groups were.
Rumors of missing people resurfaced and chaos ensued from both Du Luhan's own group and another group.
Though, Du Luhan, the Xu brothers and the others were picked up by Mu Lian and Master Yi secretly.
Mu Lian and Master Yi drove Du Luhan, the Xu brothers and the others back near the wagon because by then the children were already on standby with their magical gondolas.
"What's going on? Where is Senior Du?!"
"Hey, are the rumors about people who disappeared suddenly true?"
A man with the face of the sangar observed the atmosphere around him with an increasingly sad face, the man frowned and dislike was clearly plastered on his face.
"Ck, try checking Senior Meng's state," said the man in a slightly restrained voice. I don't know why she feels bad.
Sure enough, no more than five minutes, his partner returned with a slightly pale face. Meng Zhi is missing.
Neither from Du Luhan's group nor from the Xu brothers' group saw him, Meng Zhi simply disappeared.
And the news of Meng Zhi spread for no less than a minute. Everyone began to worry whether they should continue this exploration or not.
While the groups that Meng Zhi left behind were in a dilemma, some of the members that the groups left behind were drooling at the sight before them.
Especially if it wasn't Xiaoleng and the others who were waiting for their partners. Even the spies of the foreign group had already lurked from behind the trees and were ready to pounce.
But what makes all that lurks from behind the trees is the appearance of Mu Lian, Master Yi, Meng Zhi and some people who are familiar to them.
Du Luhan, the Xu brothers and the others soon joined the designated partners. Then they scattered in various directions, making all the spies panic and confused about which one to follow.
And in the midst of the panic, Mu Haocun used to activate the mimicry mode. The sudden disappearance of the wagon became a severe slap for the spy.
They had not had time to choose who they would follow, their main target just disappeared.
Yet they had no hope that they could easily master the wagon. At least one of the children must have been captured as a hostage.
"Pursue them!"
"Pursue that one!"
"Come on!"
Mu Lian observed everything that happened from her magical gondola. With Xiaobai's help, Mu Lian became invisible and could keep an eye on their enemies.
Du Luhan's colleagues, the Xu brothers and Mu Lian's old clients clashed, defending the Magic Wagon and giving children a chance to escape.
"HIYAA!"
Fighting happens everywhere. Du Luhan's colleagues and the Xu brothers took care of each other along with some of Mu Lian's old clients.
They had to fight very carefully because their enemies, if combined, already exceeded the amount they had from their side.
And it seems like they were only intending to get in the way, after which they backed off in an organized manner.
Mu Lian felt an unusual chi turmoil from the direction of one group. Xiaobai who from just now quietly processed the information in front of him was finally speaking for the first time.
"Lian jie, those guys are about to do something bad,"
Ever since he continued to be beside Mu Lian, Xiaobai trained his body to be more sensitive to chi and then learned to detect it, just like what Mu Lian did.
The difference is that Mu Lian does not require more effort to detect the chi around him. And know how chi moves. You could say Mu Lian had the most terrifying cheat in this world.
"Yes. We should intervene before they launch the action," said Mu Lian began to focus his attention on what he believed was the right location to intervene in the movement of chi around the group.
Mu Lian made a very small flow of chi, just like a capillary vein. He applied the same to what he did to his spiritual energy at the manipulation of high spiritual energy.
Those chi streams were proceeding very quickly but accurately landed where Mu Lian wanted to.
Although very small, its strength is not inferior to the pool of chi that the group managed to gather.
"!"
The people in the group looked at each other with confused gazes. What the hell's going on? Why did their moves not get expelled?
After making sure Du Luhan's comrades, the Xu brothers as well as his other clients managed to leave from there, Mu Lian calmly floated in one direction.
"Oh, this...towards that unlucky kid, right?" Xiaobai.
"Don't do that, Xiaohan is just more.special," said Mu Lian trying to deny Xiaobai but still chose to go check on Xiaohan above the others.
"..." - ".(Xiaobai)
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Note:
*because they were in the belly of a giant creature, they all decided to use the blooms of certain flowers to know when the sun rose and sank.
Flowers described in the story can tell at least when the sun rises until noon.
Then everyone will see a flower that blooms when the sun sinks. There are also flowers that rise at midnight.