Days passed by like a spring stream and Lin Mu entered seclusion.
He felt the need to get strong as soon as possible and felt the urge to do so even more now that his workload had been reduced. With the alliances working better than ever before and tasks split up, Lin Mu had less stress.
Jing Luo was going to train the elders that were proficient in formations how to assemble the teleportation gates and also manufacture enough of them so that they could be sent to the places they had chosen.
Teaching all the elders would take him nearly a week, while making the sets of teleportation gate components would take him at least five days for each. With the assistance of the many elders, it was way faster than before, but Jing Luo still needed to work for the main parts.
They would send out each set as soon as it was complete and the elder would set them on the place that was decided. The first location was none other than the Fenlong Kingdom and the teleportation gate there was set up fifteen days after the last meeting Lin Mu had with everyone.
Since Lin Mu spent his time in the Kong Plane cultivating, activating those gates didn't take him much effort. Once the gate at the Fenlong kingdom was complete, Lin Mu got a visitor who brought him a report.
He was currently sitting in a forest in the Kong plane and reading the long report that was given to him.
"Jingming Shang certainly did his due diligence." Lin Mu muttered as he started to read.
Lin Mu learned that the network Jingming Shang had made has been expanding decently. Every week more and more people joined them and there were already rumors in the kingdoms that there was a secret power recruiting people.
It gave them something to talk about and got them interested in it. They were lured in with the promise of profits and resources, which Jingming Shang could reasonably give them due to the revenue they were making from the expanded network.
While Lin Mu might have preferred to stay hidden a bit more, Jingming Shang took a different route. However, he didn't implicate the alliance either. Only the high ranking members of his group knew of the true alliance and Jingming Shang simply manipulated the rest of them.
He could see the benefit in doing all this and felt like Jingming Shang was very smart in doing business.
'Man can quite possibly own an entire kingdom one day if he keeps this up.' Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu kept reading more and took about an hour to finish the report. By the end of it, he was throughly impressed by Jingming Shang's intellect.
"Seems like we certainly made a good choice with him." Xukong who had been silent for a while spoke.
"Indeed, senior. If things really progress as planned, our effort won't go wasted. Plus, with more and more merchants joining Jingming Shang, he is getting closer to tracking down Gu Yao.
They already managed to find a couple of shipments that were suspected to be sent by Gu Yao. They were heading to the Zither Wind sect and the West ocean sect." Lin Mu replied.
"Hmm... let things proceed, then. You have been far too involved in those matters and haven't been able to focus on cultivating as well. Now that you have the time, it's best to focus on it." Xukong stated.
"Mmm... once Jing Luo is done with his work, and the gates are set, we will be able to take the next step. I still have to meet up with Wu Hei and explain everything to him. He will also be our biggest link to Gu Yao and where he actually is.
Same with the Northern Tribes. Ku Waowen's intel is proving to be good too as well. They did manage to find a couple of spies that were hidden in the three sects as well." Lin Mu replied.
"That's good. You should have a while till Jing Luo will be free, so we'll make the best of it." Xukong said as he thought of some things he would be teaching Lin Mu.
Lin Mu put away the reports and got ready.