Chapter 414 - I’ll Return Soon...
Lin Mu’s command reached Little Shrubby through the link he had with him and the beast came rushing out of the house. During the time he was away from the northern town, Lin Mu had been checking up on little shrubby through the link and had found it to be fine.
There really wasn’t any trouble that happened during that time and Lin Mu did not sense any danger either. Lin Mu directly flew over to his house, ignoring the shocked gazes of the townsmen that looked at him. He was flying on a spirit sword so it was obvious that he would catch a lot of attention.
Lin Mu looked at Little Shrubby, who had clearly grown quite a bit by now. He was about thirty percent bigger than its original size, and his fur had also gotten thicker.
"There you are, we need to go quickly..." Lin Mu said to the beast.
"Okay!" Lin Mu heard the response in his head.
"Whoa! You can speak clearly now." Lin Mu said, feeling surprised.
Lin Mu observed him using his spirit sense and discovered that the beast was already at the peak stage of the qi refining realm.
"Me, can, yes," Little shrubby spoke again, in broken words.
"Huh, seems like you will need more practice... well for now we need to rush." Lin Mu said before entering his house.
He went to his backyard, where the graves of his parents were.
Lin Mu knew that Gu Yao could catch up with him if he slowed down even a bit. The Nascent soul realm cultivator could fly, and Gu Yao was even at the pseudo Dao shell realm. Lin Mu had seen how the supreme elder of the Tri cauldron Peony sect had reached the Wu Lim city in just a few hours by flying and knew the speed at which Gu Yao would be able to travel at.
Lin Mu had still not heard from Xukong and thus knew that he must still be holding up Gu Yao at the city. He didn’t know how he was doing it from so far apart, but just attributed it to him being Xukong.
Two hours passed like this, and Lin Mu had crossed over four hundred kilometers like this. But this did not come without a cost. His meridians were aching due to the constant use of large amount of spirit qi, and his store of spirit stones had also been reduced by about fifty.
Lin Mu landed on the ground and placed the short sword in the sheath.
"We’ll continue on foot from there..." Lin Mu said.
"Okay!" Little Shrubby replied in the same manner as before.
It didn’t seem like he had much of an opinion in what Lin Mu said and simply followed what he was saying. They started running and Lin Mu remembered how fast Little shrubby really was. His speed had increased even more now that he had reached the peak stage of the qi refining realm.
In fact, he was faster than what Lin Mu was when he was flying on the short sword.
’I guess there really wasn’t a need for me to carry him, huh? It could have easily outrun me if I left him to it...’ Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu looked around and scanned the area with his spirit sense. He was able to somewhat recognize the area and knew that he had traveled about one tenth of the distance to the cave where the Great Slumber bear was sleeping in.
~huu~
Lin Mu took a deep breath before opening his eyes that shined with determination.
"I’ll return soon..."