The news about Elder Liqiang being trapped spread quickly among Lin Mu's allies and they all prepared for the journey that Lin Mu was going to embark on.
"Senior Lin Mu, will it really be fine for you to go there alone?" Hua Wu asked.
"I'm not going alone, Jing Luo and Little Shrubby are coming." Lin Mu replied.
"They are? ~phew~ that will be good then." Hua Wu took a breath of relief.
Since even Elder Liqiang who was at the Dao Shell realm had been trapped at the ruins, no one was now thinking that a cultivation base like that was enough to be safe. Thus they did not want Lin Mu to leave alone.
"I've contacted Master and the elders in the sect, they will be joining you at the ruins as well. Many other sects have already sent out their disciples or are sending them out to explore the ruins.
You can join them to mix in." Hua San informed.
"Hmm… that will be a decent disguise." Lin Mu spoke.
The others including King Hong and adviser Liu also said some things before they were finally ready to go. The one person they were waiting for was none other than Jing Luo. He had some things he needed to get ready, just in case they needed them in the mission.
~Creak~
The door of the hall opened and Jing Luo appeared. He was wearing a different style of robes now that looked a lot more compact. It looked like something that was made for long travels and also had leather armor on top of it.
"You ready?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Of course. Let's get Elder Liqiang!" Jing Luo answered.
"Very well…" Lin Mu said and sent a message to Little Shrubby through his link.
By the time they appeared in the sky above the Little Shrubby was already waiting for them there.
"Did you find out anything?" Lin Mu asked.
"There are a lot more cultivators out of the kingdom. Many at the Nascent soul realm too," Little Shrubby informed.
Lin Mu had gotten Little Shrubby to scout out the situation for them while they got ready. With his speed, it was a simple task to do and saved them time and effort.
"If there are Nascent soul realm cultivators then we should be able to blend in too." Lin Mu spoke.
"They won't discover you anyway. I don't think they will be able to tell what realm you are in any way. Though being at the core condensation realm will suit you." Jing Luo replied.
"I'll reduce my spirit Qi fluctuation to that level then." Lin Mu said and closed his eyes for a few seconds.
The Brown armor of the Mortal Strengthening scripture appeared on his body and glowed for a bit before the spirit Qi waves coming from his body fell. Soon they were only a fraction of what they were before.
"This should be enough." Lin Mu said as he opened his eyes.
The others that saw there were shocked.
'How can he… doesn't that take a strong technique to hide one's cultivation?' Hua San and Hua Wu were surprised.
The two of them were knowledgeable about techniques that allowed one to hide one's cultivation base. They had seen these in their sect and there were many grades of them. They themselves knew one as well and had used it while they were entering the Hong Lin capital.
But Lin Mu's was on a completely different level than the one they had. For them, the technique could only lower it by a single level or hide the cultivation base entirely, but doing the second option only leads to being viewed with suspicion.
And using the technique also took some time and was slower than what Lin Mu had just done.
But what they did not know was that Lin Mu wasn't even using a technique that hid his cultivation base primarily. The Mortal Strengthening scripture's armor mainly served to isolate his body from the outside.
While it did let some things like spirit Qi pass through it, Lin Mu could decrease its permeability to let the spirit Qi pass through and reverse it as well. Using that Lin Mu now appeared to be at the Core Condensation realm.
It was a lot more believable for him to be at the Core Condensation realm than the Nascent soul realm or the Dao Shell realm considering his young appearance. Lin Mu was currently twenty-one years old and was close to being twenty-two in a month.
No one would believe him to be at those cultivation bases, but with his appearance, he could still pass off for someone that was in his thirties or forties since cultivators aged slowly as well.
This way the chances of suspicion would be less. Though if things really went south, Lin Mu had no fear and was ready to take them on directly. He already managed to kill a strong beast like the Troll when he was at the Adolescent Soul stage, he was more than confident of taking down anyone as long as they weren't at the Dao Treading realm.
Lin Mu asked a few more details from Little Shrubby about what he saw and then finally decided to leave.
"Take care senior Lin Mu." Adviser Liu and King Hong wished.
"Don't put yourself in any unnecessary trouble senior Lin Mu. It isn't your responsibility to save an elder of our sect. Master will act himself as soon as he is freed from the Long Cloud sect." Hua San said with concern.
"No… if I can't help my allies when they are in distress, there would be no meaning to this alliance." Lin Mu stated with determination.
"That's right." Jing Luo chimed in.
Hua San and Hua Wu looked on feeling touched and saw Lin Mu fly away with Little Shrubby and Jing Luo.
The spirit boat came in handy again and they were soon flying at a great speed.
"I should have done this from the very start, people suffer when I don't act on my own…"
