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Chapter 371 - Confirmation
"Now that... may be possible. Wait for a bit, I’ll try something." Wu Hei replied.
After everyone was done praying, Wu Hei went to one of the priests and spoke something in his ear. The priest shook his head for a bit but then Wu Hei said something again. This time the priest was a bit hesitant but then nodded.
Wu Hei walked back to Lin Mu and gestured for him to follow him.
They went to a separate hall away from the others with the priest. Lin Mu had seen this area with his spirit sense and knew that it was a scripture chamber.
"So he’s the one that wants it to be done?" The priest questioned.
"Yes, and he would like it to be done in private." Wu Hei answered much to Lin Mu’s confusion.
"Wait here then and do not leave the room, I’ll go call someone." The priest said before leaving the room.
After the priest left the room, Lin Mu immediately asked, "What did you tell him?"
"I told him that you would like to have your fortune read." Wu Hei replied.
"Huh? My fortune?" Lin Mu questioned.
"Yes, you see some aristocrats come here and ask the priests to divine their fortune with the help of the ancestral spirits. But they don’t do this that often and it is expensive to do. I was able to convince them and that priest just went to get his elder who can read fortunes.
We have three minutes at most before he returns, so do what you have to." Wu Hei explained.
Now the only question left was- Why here?
Lin Mu had already spent about a minute here, and wondered if he was late. He checked for the priest with his spirit sense and saw that he was going up the stairs with another older priest. This one had white hair and a beard, making him look old and wizened.
"I need to get back up fast." Lin Mu muttered to himself before blinking to the level above.
He blinked another time and then appeared back in the scripture hall. He extended his spirit sense and touched Wu Hei, who was standing outside, signaling him to come back inside.
"Did you find anything?" Wu Hei questioned, seeing that Lin Mu was standing at the same place he was before leaving.
"Yes, I did. There are there more levels below this and an entire cave system below that. I tried to go beyond that too, but finally met the spirit qi barrier there, the same one that we saw before. This confirms it..." Lin Mu answered.
~Sigh~
"At least we got this much, which is good." Wu Hei said.
~Creak~
The door of the scripture hall opened just as he said that and in walked two priests.
"This is the person who wants his fortune read, elder." The younger priest informed.
Lin Mu and Wu Hei looked at the elderly priest with interest. The priest came forward and stared into Lin Mu’s eyes before placing his hand on his head. Lin Mu would have almost reacted on an instinct and knocked the old priest away had it not been for Wu Hei’s nod.
The old priest closed his eyes and did something before furrowing his brows.
"This..." he muttered.