Chapter 333 - Sneaking In
It didn’t take Lin Mu more than a few seconds to calm down as he could not afford to take any longer time. He was in a sensitive situation and needed to act quickly. He spread his spirit sense around again to check for anyone else that could be in the area and found there to be no one in the twenty meter radius.
Having confirmed this, he switched to a single tendril of spirit qi and scanned a wider area of a hundred meters. This time a few people appeared in his range. Lin Mu had been careful while using his spirit sense, as he did not want to alert them by letting it touch them.
Lin Mu had used a different method and had sensed the faint fluctuations of spirit qi coming off their bodies instead. While this allowed him to see that there was a person there, he couldn’t tell their appearance as he wasn’t actually touching them.
While this would allow him to also get a rough estimate of their cultivation as well, but if someone was deliberately hiding them, it would make it hard for Lin Mu to know. Still, this was the best he could do right now and he was fine with it.
Lin Mu had sensed five people in the range. Three of them were people with very faint spirit qi fluctuations being at the early stage and were similar to the servant that he had accidentally killed. Seeing that he was in the servant quarters, it was obvious that they were servants.
The other two though were at the mid stage of the qi refining realm and the spirit qi fluctuations coming from them were more rhythmic.
"Those should be the disciples of the Tri cauldron peony sect." Lin Mu muttered.
From what Lin Mu had heard from Hei Wen and the Lord Wu Hei before, there were originally ten disciples of the Tri cauldron peony sect here. But it had increased to twenty five in the recent days and would be increasing even more, apparently.
Now Lin Mu was completely out of their sights. But he scanned ahead using his spirit sense and found three more disciples sitting around. This area was the garden area and a few stone tables and chairs were set up here. Two disciples were playing chess, and the third one was observing.
The area in front of Lin Mu was wide open, and there wasn’t anything he could hide behind. The only things were some stones that were placed on the ground, but they were not that big, being a size larger than his head.
Lin Mu remembered his earlier excursion of the caves and used phase to enter the ground only to meet resistance after two feet.
"Dammit, the formations extend into the ground as well." Lin Mu coursed.
"This should be an encapsulating type barrier formation. This one prevents enemies from digging through the ground and attacking the residents." Xukong explained.
Lin Mu had no choice but to improvise and enter the ground. After having sunk down for two feet, Lin Mu crouched and moved that way. He went to the closest stone and hid his head inside it.
"This is quite difficult..." Lin Mu internally muttered.
"Impressive move, brother Pei Lao." One of the disciples praised.
"Ah, this is nothing Senior. I merely learned some skills from watching the elders playing the other day." The disciple named Pei Lao replied.
"Perhaps you should take part in the chess tournament in the coming days. Sister Ye Zi Jin’s wedding was delayed, so they added that as well in the pre-wedding entertainment. I’m sure the elders will appreciate it too." The third disciple that was observing commented.