Perhaps in the entire crowd, only Wu Hei was the one who had expected something like this and was not shocked that the supreme leader showed his interest in taking Lin Mu as his disciple.
'Perhaps even that boy has no idea what kind of master he has. He hasn't experienced the life in a sect and neither has he seen the true circles of the high society. If he had, then I can't imagine what kind of a monster he would be right now.' Wu Hei thought to himself.
"I am flattered supreme elder, but perhaps we should talk about this at a later time." Lin Mu said in a humble tone.
"Ah yes, the situation is more important right now. Well then, can you show us what you meant?" The supreme elder replied.
"Of course, but I believe we should make a plan first." Lin Mu said before turning his head. Lord Wu Hei, would you please explain to them?" He asked.
"Sure," Wu Hei said, "Would the supreme elder mind if we get some privacy?" he added.
The supreme elder didn't even respond before waving his hand and instantly setting up an isolating formation. One could tell from this how proficient he must be at formations and also his experience in them. The people that were meant to hear the plan were only the Tri cauldron peony sect disciples, the Wu family, Qing Yuan Tiu and Lin Mu.
Wu Hei nodded his head in approbate before speaking. Finally, after fifteen minutes a plan was made such that only the stronger people that were willing would be going to the tunnels beneath. The candidates that were chosen were Quan Hong, Fa Lao, Qing Yuan Tiu, Wu Hei, Wu Teng, Lin Mu, and the two elders of the Tri cauldron peony sect.
They reckoned that this many people would be better to stay on the side of caution. They did not want to take too many weak people and risk them succumbing to danger if it so occurred. While the elders may be able to protect them in the face of open danger, it was not the same here.
If the culprit could take a core condensation realm cultivator right from under their noses, then they would be sitting ducks even with the elders there. Thus even the weaker cultivators like Quan Hong and Lin Mu were asked twice if they really wanted to come, as they only wanted core condensation realm cultivators at the minimum.
But Lin Mu insisted, and thus they allowed him to come. As for Wu Hei, he was the one that was going to guide them and thus there wasn't much they could do there.
"Well then, now that we have this done, let's go ahead." Wu Hei said.
"Yes, we should be as quick as possible." The supreme elder agreed.
"I can't wait to get my hands on those pieces of trash, I want to stare them in their eyes as I break their necks." Wu Teng said with rage in his eyes.
The peak master Yi Deng also seemed to be angry, but he was suppressing it for the time being knowing that this was not the right time to show it. The supreme elder was calm on the outside, but internally a lot of thoughts were going through his mind.
Unlike the rest of them, he wasn't as worried about the blood sacrifice as he was about the spatial disturbance. It had been a year since the sky precepts sect had sent out a warning and told the other sects to keep an eye on any spatial disturbances.
They had disappeared a while ago, but now they seemed to have reappeared somehow. And that combining with the blood sacrifice gave him a bad feeling.
"Please follow me," Wu Hei said before taking out a spirit sword and flying out.
The others followed him on their respective spirit swords, except for the supreme elder who just flew on his own. Lin Mu was following behind closely and wondered where Wu Hei was taking them all to. The closest entrance to the tunnels was close to them being the well in the manor's yard.
'Hmm, perhaps he doesn't want to abruptly throw the suspicion towards his family. While his father is involved, it wouldn't be fair to involve his mother and brother in this.' Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu's guess turned out to be true as Wu Hei took them to another one of the city wells. This well was much larger than the other ones, as it was located in the main residential area of the city. Multiple people could draw water from it at once, which made it sensible to be this large.
The well had a diameter of about five meters and had a wall of one and a half meters surrounding it. There were multiple beams set up above it, attached to which were pulleys. In total, there were about twenty pulleys, which meant that twenty people could draw water at once.
All of them descended into the well one by one with Wu Hei talking the lead. There was darkness everywhere, which was soon dispelled by the people. Some used illumination techniques, some lit up fire on their hands while some like Wu Hei took out spirit tools.
Lin Mu looked below and saw the large body of water. He looked at its two ends and saw the river that flowed into it. There was apparently a depression in the ground here which accumulated the water from the river, and once it reached a certain level, it would flow out and continue from the other end.
"This way," Wu Hei spoke and took them to land near the edge of the water. One could see the tunnels that extend from there and all the faded runes that were carved on the walls.
"This…" Fa Lao muttered in surprise, seeing the runes.
"Supreme elder, you don't think they…" Yi Deng said.
"Yes… they are from that time."
