The news about Wu Hei's action was certainly unexpected, and now Lin Mu and the rest were left to think about how to respond to it.
"Do we send a message to him?" Adviser Liu asked.
"No... doing so openly will be bad and doing it secretly won't be possible, either. If he has taken over the position of the minister, then it is likely that he will be closely observed by Gu Yao to ensure that everything is fine.
I reckon we will need to wait for a while before we can make contact. In fact, this might be what Wu Hei intended it to be like. He is telling us to stay away till he had established himself and his power well enough." Lin Mu replied.
"Very well, Senior Lin Mu. We'll do as you say." Adviser Liu stated.
"What about the others? How do we proceed with the alliance?" Jing Luo questioned.
"For now, I don't think we need to make any big changes to our plans. The only thing we add to it is keeping an open link for Wu Hei to send a message and also keep an eye on him.Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.
He may try to contact us at some point. I'm sure he knows I am somewhere in the south at this point. We also need to ask Jingming Shang to get his network to make contact with Wu Hei in a non direct manner.
It will be for matters unreleased to us or the alliance. This is just to make sure that he has a certain level of trust and neutrality with it. Once we are ready, we will use the same connection to make contact." Lin Mu answered.
"Senior Lin Mu, we will be arriving at the Hong Lin city in a week's time along with our elders." Hua San stated.
Lin Mu informed everyone that needed to know it, including Jing Luo, Adviser Liu, King Hong who was busy cultivating and Jingming Shang. Adviser Liu took care of the rest of the people in the palace and Lin Mu talked with King Hong about the matters of the alliance.
Since King Hong was the king of the Hong Lin kingdom, he would need to be there as per the etiquette. King Hong was fine with it and was also excited to meet the elders of the Noon Grass sect.
After all, even if they were ranked tenth, they were still part of the top ten sects and were as old as the Top three sects too. King Hong had only heard of their stories but had never met someone from them and from the message it was implied that the master of Hua San might be coming too.
This master was of course, none other than the Sect patriarch Hua. He was a man that stayed out of the public attention most of the time and very little was known about him or the other elders of the Noon Grass sect.
Only the other top sects knew about them somewhat and even among them, only the top three sects knew the details. That was the reason why when the Long cloud alliance and the Zither Wind Alliance tried to recruit them, their words fell on deaf ears.
They didn't know what the noon Grass sect would desire and thus they had no leads to go on. All they could do was put forth the reward that an average cultivation sect would like. Even then, the Noon Grass simply rejected all offers and stayed neutral.
Being able to withstand this temptation and pressure showed the hidden tenacity of the Noon grass sect, and thus it had become a complex factor for the alliances. Though the top three sects were secretly pleased that the Noon Grass Sect stayed neutral like them.
All the four sects that stayed neutral had existed for a long time and were very experienced. They had their own inheritance and foundation that was not easy to shake.. Even if the Noon Grass sect was pushed to the tenth rank, it had a stable foundation to stand on, which could not be denied.