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Chapter 646 - Pulling In The Mu Clan
Mu Tao and Mu Niu could very well see the anger in Lin Mu’s eyes and knew that it was true. Emotions such as those could not be faked and they would know the best, since they had once felt the same.
"How will you help us, senior? We have nothing to compensate you with." Mu Tao said respectfully.
Now that it was established that Lin Mu was not here to harm them and only wanted to help them, he wondered at what cost help like that came. Even if Lin Mu had said that they had the same enemies, it did not mean help like thee could be free.
"Rather than just helping, I would say this would be an alliance. The person targeting you is far more powerful than you think. In fact, the one that previously attacked you was merely just a subordinate of that man.
Right now, I’ll help you stabilize the Mu clan and exterminate the enemies that are close. Once that is done, we will be able to progress further." Lin Mu replied, before explaining the entire situation to them.
Having learned that such machinations were happening in the world, the trio were shocked, to say the least. They were even more surprised when they learned that Lin Mu was ’the Lin Mu’ who all the sects were searching for.
"So that’s why they targeted us..." Mu Bing muttered.
"I’m sorry that all this happened to your clan. Perhaps if I had chosen some other name at that time, your family may have still been safe." Lin Mu replied.
Upon hearing his words, Mu Tao and Mu Niu shook their heads.
"No senior. Regardless of you using our name, they would have still attacked us." Mu Tao said.
"Why’s that so?" Lin Mu questioned, wanting to know the entire situation.
Lin Mu narrowed his eyes upon hearing this from Mu Tao.
"So you’re saying that only the people who have the direct bloodline of the family can open it right?" Lin Mu asked.
"Yes senior." Mu Tao replied.
"Then why has the vault closed, and you needed so many people to open it? That too needing them to sacrifice their lives?" Lin Mu questioned.
"That... the truth is senior... our bloodline has gotten thinner over the generations and thus the vault does not recognize us easily. Those that are from the branch of uncle Niu aren’t even considered to be from the same family as us by the vault." Mu Tao said.
"Indeed. If it were possible, I would have already sacrificed myself to open that vault." Mu Niu said.
"I see... no matter what, we need to open that vault if we are to make you stronger. Your current strength is far from enough to go against them right now." Lin Mu said without sugar coating it.
"We know, senior... but how will we open the vault? In our records, it was mentioned that even a Dao Treading realm cultivator would be unable to open it and neither would their attacks would do anything to it.
And if someone forcefully tried to manipulate the formations, the vault would just self destruct, destroying all the contents." Mu Tao replied.
"Don’t worry, we’ll figure it out. But before that, we need to take care of the other council members." Lin Mu said, before telling them about the plan they had made.
Lin Mu also told them about the Fen clan and taking them in as potential allies.
"Miss Fen... she has indeed been genial to the Mu clan till now. We’ve had some good deals before and I think she is the only council member that has been cooperative with our clan even now." Mu Niu spoke.
Lin Mu nodded his head and thought that if even the Mu clan had this kind of an impression of the Fen clan and in turn Miss Fen, she might really be a worthy ally to recruit to their cause.