Chapter 308 - Politics
~Shing~
~Slick~
~Thud~
A large beast’s head rolled on the ground as blood splattered to the sides. Lin Mu gestured with his fingers, and his short sword returned to his scabbard.
~Sigh~
A sigh escaped Lin Mu’s lips as he witnessed another failure. About four days had passed since Lin Mu set the formation array and bade farewell to Jing Wei and Duan Ke. The two of them had left the town the very night when Lin Mu had met them.The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.
He had not seen them leave but could sense it due to the communication jade that he had. Jing Wei had told Lin Mu had as long as they were within the distance of about a thousand kilometers the communication jade would work. But last night it had finally stopped working and the connection it had was broken.
It was evident from this that they had long left the town or even the kingdom itself, depending on the direction they went.
The day of the competition was getting closer and Lin Mu was still not able to complete one of his smaller goals, which was to practice refining a bloodline to prepare it for assimilation. He had hunted nearly about seventy beasts and was still unable to find a beast with an awakened bloodline.
Still, he was not totally disappointed as another one of his smaller goals had been fulfilled yesterday as well. Yesterday was the day when the large shipment containing the beast meat had arrived for Lin Mu. Hei Wen had sent him a message and had asked him to meet somewhere outside the town.
The subconscious thinking that chained Lin Mu to his previous lowly identity of a peasant was slowly being broken down.
Another thing that Lin Mu had heard was that even if the wedding was delayed for the time being, the other ceremonies associated with it were not fully stopped. The ones such as the competition would still take place, albeit at a slightly later time.
When Lin Mu has asked Hei Wen till when it could be expected, she told him that he should consider ten days as the minimum time period. She told him to be ready, as there were likely to be even more people at the competition due to the investigations that the mayor was undergoing.
This was because the nearby Powers wanted to put the mayor and all the people related to him under a close scrutiny and what better way was there than to examine them during a marital competition where they would be giving the demonstration of their strengths.
The additional people that were now coming were not coming uninvited, but rather they were just changing their previous decision to not attend the wedding. Due to how the politics worked in the aristocratic circle, mayor Wu Xun had to send invitations to each and every power that he knew of, including the ones that he had a bad relationship with.
Even if the powers declined it, that was fine. But if he were to never send an invitation, they would take this as a sign of disrespect and would then try to stir up trouble for him. Such was the world of the aristocrats and nobles which Lin Mu was now starting to clearly dislike.
Hearing Jing Wei’s story had made him dislike the hypocrisy of the cultivation sects, and now hearing Hei Wen’s report had made him dislike the bureaucracy and facades of the so-called nobles.
~Sigh~
Another sigh escaped Lin Mu’s lips as he reminisced over the events of yesterday. He tried to not think over them but for some reason the harder he tried the harder it was to do that.
"Hahaha! Seems like you are in a dilemma, huh." Xukong said with a chuckle.
"I am indeed Senior. What is this strange conflict in my mind, which seems to be even more mysterious than cultivation?" Lin Mu replied.
"That my child is another truth of the universe. Wherever there are sentient beings, their schemes will appear too. Trust me when I say this, no being in the universe whether a mortal or an immortal had escaped this and all they can do is to learn the game and get better at it."