Chapter 997 - Hiding Right In Front Of One's Eyes
Seeing the message from Little Shrubby sent a wave of excitement through Lin Mu's body and he couldn't wait to meet him.
"Do you want to wait here?" Jing Luo asked.
"No, we'll continue onwards. Little Shrubby will catch up with us before we even finish half our journey to the capital." Lin Mu replied.
"Very well. It doesn't matter since we can't match his speed anyway. Haha." Jing Luo chuckled.
The two of them started flying again while Lin Mu kept on checking up on Little Shrubby. He could feel the link between them strengthen by the minute, just a little. But that little amount was still enough to make him feel happy.
'It means he's getting closer.' Lin Mu thought to himself.
It also made him wonder about another thing, just how large little shrubby was now.
"Oh yeah, you were the last one who saw little shrubby, right? How big is he now?" Lin Mu questioned. "Was he bigger than the time I was still awake?"
"Yeah, he did grow a bit after you entered seclusion." Jing Luo replied.
"Ah, I see." Lin Mu nodded his head.
Though despite hearing this, Lin Mu had a hunch that he might be in for a surprise soon.
But there was another thing that happened which Lin Mu had not expected, even after half a day had passed, Little Shrubby had yet to reach him. Jing Luo felt the same and was a bit concerned.
"This is strange. With his speed, he should have reached us in this time from the frontier." Jing Luo spoke. "Did he get caught up somewhere?" He wondered.
"Hiding the phenomenon... it hasn't been done before. Though I guess that was because there was no reason to hide something like that... but I reckon with enough preparation, study and resources, a formation array could be set up that could restrain all this.
Perhaps even completely isolate the region where the cultivator is having a breakthrough." Jing Luo explained.
"Seems like that's it then... it was right in front of us too..." Lin Mu muttered, finding it ironic.
~Sigh~
"Seems like we were fooled... this entire time." Jing Luo spoke.
"What can I say? It was the obvious thing to think of... But I guess the Northern Tribes really did outplay us. No one would expect them to do something like this." Lin Mu agreed.
"Though... doing something like this won't be easy. The level of skill needed to make a formation array like that. I can only estimate it would need someone on my level." Jing Luo replied.
"The Northern Tribes have done far greater things in the past with their knowledge of formations. Perhaps they even got some knowledge from the higher worlds on how to set up better ones that could be made by weaker cultivators.
Though despite all that, the Northern Tribes certainly did have talent with formations." Lin Mu stated.
"Hmmm... We'll need to inform this to the alliance. Can you send me to the Kong plane?" Jing Luo asked.
"Sure." Lin Mu replied.
~shua~
The runes shone on his back and took both of them to the Kong plane where Jing Luo quickly sent a quick message to the alliance and both of them returned.
But when they did, they found a shadow towering over their location.
"Huh?"