Tie Niu too stared at Lin Mu, wondering who this man was as well. So far, Tie Niu had no idea at all. The battle earlier had happened far too quickly, and even the one outside was fast.
He neither had the time to ask others about it, and neither did he have enough time to check up on any other records he may have had. To him, Lin Mu was an enigma that there was no information about.
'With the power he has shown, he has to be some well known expert... but I don't think I've ever heard of him.' Tie Niu thought. 'It is the same as that time with Daoist Yulong. Both of them being strong, yet unknown.'
Time passed and now Lin Mu had been silent for about ten minutes. Tie Niu was getting uncomfortable even though the pain had been somewhat numbed for him. Since Lin Mu hadn't actually crippled his cultivation base, his body had started the healing, and the pain had reduced.
But that didn't mean that Tie Niu was in any shape or form to resist right now or even in the coming few days. Even with the help of some strong healing pills, it would take him at least an hour to recover to his normal state.
Tie Niu did have a lot of such healing pills and had even tried to use them before, but as a massive surprise to him, the spatial storage ring that he had didn't respond to him. Or more like the communication between him and the ring had been blocked off.
He could tell that it was not cut, or he would have felt it; it was simply 'blocked'. It was like the things he stored inside were behind a glass wall. He could see them, but not get them.
And if he wanted to break that 'glass wall', he needed to be strong enough to attack it, which he had no strength to do.
Of course, Tie Niu didn't know that Lin Mu had blocked off his access to the spatial storage ring the moment Lin Mu had crippled him. It was an easy task for Lin Mu, especially when Tie Niu's spirit sense was so weak.
The name of it being rather simple: 'Spatial Block'.
This could be considered being one of the first active Spatial elemental skills Lin Mu had learned on his own and was not given by the ring.
"What happens to me now?" Tie Niu questioned, seeing that Lin Mu had not spoken even after an hour and was now just sitting on the side.
Lin Mu broke out of his thoughts and looked at the man.
"Your fate is decided, but the flow of it may change depending on what you can provide me with." Lin Mu spoke.
"What do you want? I already told you all that I know." Tie Niu replied.
"I want the location of Gu Yao... or anything related to him, his people, his plans, anything you know." Lin Mu said.
He knew that while Tie Niu had spoken a lot of things and had explained to him about the situation of empire in the past two years, the recent events were yet to be covered.
"I... I don't know the location of Gu Yao. He's never appeared in person and nor have I gone to meet him." Tie Niu said, but shivered upon seeing Lin Mu's cold face. "But I do know where some of his subordinates are! They are the ones who take the cultivators we capture!"
Hearing this, Lin Mu felt a bit pleased, but no change was seen on his face.