Walker Of The Worlds

The Veiled woman named Hei Wan gestured Lin Mu to take a seat.

"Please be at ease, we'll just talk casually." Hei Wan spoke.

Lin Mu nodded and pulled a chair from the side to sit on. Hei Bao too slid a chair forward for Hei Wan to sit on, while he himself stood at the side. Lin Mu saw this and looked at Hei Bao, but he just shook his head. Understanding his intention, Lin Mu didn't question it.

Hei Wan had many questions that she wanted to ask, but knew that she had to show some restraint and keep to herself, lest she ends up offending the cultivator in front of her. In her first non-verbal interaction with Lin Mu, she had already grasped a part of Lin Mu's personality and understood that he was rather mild and reserved. Compared to the other young and talented cultivators who were often arrogant and upturned, he was much more reasonable.

Hei Wan could not help but think of the upbringing he must have received for him to be this humble. She had investigated and learned about the situation with Lin Mu's parents and knew that he was an orphan. She could only attribute Lin Mu's current standing to a hidden master.

At this point, Hei Wan could only hope that whatever background Lin Mu had was either amicable or at the very least neutral with theirs. Hei Wan was already extremely wary when she heard that the boy in front of her knew about Old man Jing. She could still remember when she and her lord had their first run-in with Old man Jing a few years ago.

*****

A few years ago, in Wu Lim city.

A thin man who had a scholarly aura was sitting on a luxurious-looking chair and was listening to a person speak. He was sitting in a room that looked like a study and was illuminated by softly glowing lights. There were five more people in the room and all of them were dressed in dark blue robes. Of the five people, only one person was not wearing a mask and was instead wearing a veil.

This person was none other than the leader of the Hei corps, Hei Wan and the scholarly man sitting on the luxurious chair was the 'Lord' that the Hei corps followed. If one could sense it, then they would find out that the four men who were wearing masks were all Core condensation realm cultivators. Such a lineup wasn't something that could be seen every day.

Currently, one of the masked Core condensation realm experts was speaking.

"We have completed our initial reconnaissance of the Black dawn kingdom and the Easter Ming dynasty. Most of what we discovered was the same as before, but there were still some abnormalities that we detected." Said the man who was standing in front of the Lord.

"We think that someone has been manipulating and hiding their involvement. The recent conflict between the royal family of the Black dawn kingdom also seems to be their doing." Another masked man that was standing to the right spoke.

The Lord stroked his beard a couple of times before replying,

"That's fine. It is indeed as I expected. We will just need to continue monitoring it further then. For now, just assign a few of the lower members to keep an eye on the situation and if it gets more complicated only then, will we interfere."

Lord then looked at the masked men and scanned

"Anything else of importance?"

men seemed to be hesitating, and this was hidden behind the mask, yet the Lord detected

something to say?" The Lord asked

do, but I don't want to waste

Lord then waved his

on ahead, we still have some

masked man then cupped his hands

Northern town and took a halt for a brief amount of time. There I sensed something different. I

to investigate this, I went forward towards the area, which was an unassuming and abandoned alley. The first strange thing I found out was that there was no

was blocked when I tried to probe the alley. It was as if there was a barrier set up there that was

felt as if I saw someone in the sky, but they then disappeared in the next second. And along with this, the formation that was covering the area also disappeared.

the Lord's face was getting sharper

alley?" The lord asked with

little shocked by the masked man's words, thus did not detect the faint

a confused expression on his face after hearing his

in his thoughts for

I… I don't know how? I can't remember when I left it either." The masked man uttered

An aura that was stronger than the aura's of all of

all this while and you did

woman who was standing to the

on it. What if you've been followed all this while?"

the Hei corps realized the seriousness of their situation. Suddenly, as if to justify their fears, an imposing aura

Lord shouted as he struggled to bear the weight of the

onto their knees. Then,

were an old man that looked ancient and had a long beard, along with a young woman that was wearing a green-colored Daoist robe and had a wooden hairpin in her hair that was in the

grandfather and granddaughter, Jing Wei and Duan Ke. The pair looked at the people in the room and

group of measly Core Condensation