Chapter 508 - Sneaky Jiao Fang
Lin Mu saw that weird disciple who was in tattered clothes when he first met him, near the Treasure Pavilion. He seemed to be a bit tense and was alert. His head would swivel around to take a look every so often and he would ruffle his sleeves.
"What is he doing here?" Lin Mu wondered.
He kept on looking and saw that Jiao Fang was actually heading to the Treasure pavilion too. The man hid behind some trees when he got near the security so that they would not see him.The roots of this story extend from novell bìn origin.
"Is he even trying? They can very easily find him with spirit sense." Lin Mu said.
But then the opposite of what he thought happened. Lin Mu could tell that the spirit sense of the guards passed over the position of Jiao Fang but didn’t stop there.
"Huh? What?" Lin Mu felt strange.
Jiao Fang then took out a small pouch from his sleeves. The pouch was small, about the size of a poplar leaf. He carefully loosened the drawstrings of the pouch and poured out the contents of it into his hand.
There was now a translucent white powder in his hand.
"Wait a second, isn’t that... Memory confounding poison?" Lin Mu recognized.
"No... if it was normal memory confounding poison it would not work on these guards who are all at the Qi refining realm. This is a higher grade version of it." Xukong corrected.
Lin Mu silently listened to senior Xukong’s words and saw how Jiao Fang blew the powder towards the guards. He seemed to be using some kind of a Qi skill to spread the powder, as it would have affected him too if the natural wind blew it back towards him.
Though Lin Mu did not get to observe it for long as the formations unraveled rather quickly and within thirty seconds the doors of the Treasure pavilion were unlocked. Lin Mu couldn’t enter the building with Phase as the defensive barriers were still in place, thus he waited for Jiao Fang to go in before he used Blink to quickly enter through the doors.
After getting in, he hid behind one of the large pillars and observed Jiao Fang with his spirit sense. The man in question was completely unaware that there was now a second person in the building with him.
’Now let’s see what he is here for.’ Lin Mu thought.
Jiao Fang ran around the entire first floor in a circle, unable to find whatever it was that he wanted. He climbed the stairs and did the same on the second, third and fourth floors.
~Sigh~
"It better be on the fifth floor or I would have risked this all for naught." Jiao Fang muttered to himself, which was heard clearly by Lin Mu.
The man then climbed to the fifth floor and checked each bookshelf carefully until finally stopping at the sixth one. His eyes went wide as his hands trembled lightly. He extended his fingers and pulled out a thick book from the shelf.
Lin Mu raised his brows in interest and read the title that was written on the spine of the book.
’Yulong’s Mnemonics’
"Hmm... what is this?" Lin Mu wondered.
He had never heard of this book nor knew about its contents. Jiao Long though, looked really excited about it and flipped through the pages until stopping on a certain page.
~tear~
Then suddenly the man ripped out that page and carefully folded it before hiding it in his sleeve. He put the book back on the shelf before going downstairs and closing the door.
"What was in that page?" Lin Mu wondered as he didn’t get enough time to see it.