Chapter 631 - Observing The City
Having learned quite a few things from the waiter, Lin Mu was given a lot to think about. The more he did, the more he felt like things were not right here. He gazed out of the gallery and saw the hustle and bustle of the port below.
’This place is way too prosperous for the cheap prices that they have.’ Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu could easily list over ten different sources of income that the city had and despite that, the people didn’t seem to be that rich. Even this tea shop, which was supposed to be for the richer people, wasn’t particularly expensive.
Even in Wu Lim city, Lin Mu had seen places more expensive than this. He was not feeling even more sure that there was something wrong with this place. The waiter took his leave after Lin Mu dismissed him and was tipped a few more silvers.
Lin Mu took another sip of the warm tea and closed his eyes. Low chanting that was inaudible to anyone in the room came out of Lin Mu’s voice as his spirit sense spread around.
While before Lin Mu had done a quick scan with his spirit sense, it was only to get a gauge of the area of the city. If he wanted to see what was actually going on, he would need to focus on particular parts to be able to do that.
Once Lin Mu’s eyes were closed, darkness descended in his vision. But as his spirit senses started to pick up things, that darkness started to be filled with things. At first, the building and people that were the closest to Lin Mu appeared in the darkness.
They were all in black, white and Grey in color now and if Lin Mu focused on any particular part, he could see its color as well. The more ’diffused’ his perception was, the lesser details there were for him to ’see’.
There were several rooms in the building and it was mostly empty, other than a few servants and clerks going about their data. Only when Lin Mu reached the inner most hall of the building did he meet some resistance.
’Hmm... this is a stronger barrier. My spirit sense won’t be able to enter at this range.’ Lin Mu thought to himself.
He opened his eyes and stood up from the table before leaving the tea house. Once he was out of the building, he directly went to the side alley that went from the left of the tea house and then entered an even smaller alley.
Lin Mu had already scanned the entire Jiao Long city and now knew it like the back of his hand. He knew exactly what would be the best locations to hide and the places that would be empty.
Lin Mu sank into the ground using phase and quickly made his way to the merchant council’s building. In less than ten seconds, he was already there. Lin Mu’s movement speed while underground had increased by quite a bit since he could now fly using just his cultivation base due to being at the Nascent Soul realm.
To him, the ground was pretty much the same as air when he used Phase, and thus he could just fly around in the ground that way. Thus reaching the merchant council’s building didn’t take him that long.
Once he was there though, he quickly found some flaws in the barrier and made an opening just big enough for him to pass. He easily reached the innermost hall where the ten council members were likely to meet.
While there, Lin Mu saw several servants gossiping.
"Did you hear, they are going to remove the Mu clan from the council?" One of the servants whispered to another one.
"Hasn’t that rumor been going around for a while now? Nothing strange there," the second servant replied with a whisper as well.