Chapter 368 - Open Visit
Lin Mu walked out of the manor and saw a carriage waiting for him.
"Lord Mu Lin, please," The carriage driver opened the door.
"Well, I guess I can think on the way back..." Lin Mu muttered to himself before climbing into the carriage.
~Haa~
Lin Mu let out a relaxed moan as he lounged on the comfy seat. He couldn’t help but think of everything that had happened in the past year. He who was once a poor orphan was now having the Aristocrats interacting with him, that too with respect.
Lin Mu couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of pride in himself, but at the same time, it felt wrong to himself. It was as if he thought he was unworthy of it.
Was it really him that accomplished all this or was it just luck?
Lin Mu asked himself this question. But no matter how much he pondered on it, no conclusion could be reached.
"Careful there!" Xukong suddenly spoke.
Lin Mu broke out of his stupor upon hearing Senior Xukong’s voice.
"You said something senior?" Lin Mu asked.
"You are having a bad train of thought. Know this that self-doubt can be your biggest enemy if not controlled well. And by an enemy I mean one literally, if you let it grow for long, it will turn into a heart demon." Xukong warned.
Lin Mu put the bloodline crystal away and left the carriage. A few minutes later, Lin Mu had changed out of the gaudy aristocrat clothes and was now sitting on the bed cross legged. He needed to recover the spirit qi that he had used up today.
Lin Mu spent the night cultivating and did not feel like sleeping. The next morning he was interrupted by the servant calling for him.
"Lord Lin Mu, a letter had come for you," The servant said.
Lin Mu took the letter from him and saw that it was from Wu Hei.
"Looks like he was fast..." Lin Mu muttered after reading the letter.
"He figured out a way to get rid of the guards?" Xukong questioned.
"Even better... we would be going in through the front door openly. The aristocrats and sect officials that would be coming today are going to go to the temple. Wu Hei was able to get me a place in the entourage as well." Lin Mu said feeling happy.
Lin Mu was honestly a bit tired with all the sneaking around he had to do. It was stressful on his mind too and being alert all the time took a toll on him. This method would be much more easy for him and he wouldn’t have to be on his toes all the time.
"So when do we leave?" Xukong questioned.
"Right away, actually," Lin Mu said as he changed into something more presentable.
While these were no aristocrat’s clothes, they were still of a good quality and he didn’t think the people would mind it with his identity as a cultivator.
He swiftly left the courtyard and headed towards the Ancestral temple, reaching there in fifteen minutes. The streets were populated with a lot of carriages, which meant that the people had started coming for the wedding.
This made him slow down as he would have bumped into a lot of people otherwise.
At the ancestral temple, he could see around twenty carriages parked and a group of people standing near the entrance.
"Let’s see what the truth is..."