Walker Of The Worlds

Lin Mu read the scroll and furrowed his brows.

"They caught over ten members of the Hei corps of the sixteen that they had detected were in the kingdom. The remaining six are still missing and have been put at a high level of importance.

The ones that were caught were then sent to the empire itself, as was requested of them according to the orders." Lin Mu muttered after reading the entire scroll.

He knew that it wasn't fully the Hong Lin kingdom's fault either in catching and sending the members of the Hei corps off. From all that he knew, the kingdoms needed to follow the orders of the empire, especially for highly wanted criminals like this.

Plus, it was not like they would listen if the members of the Hei corps protested. They were simply doing what they were asked to and anyone else would do the same if they didn't know that the sects and empires were being manipulated, no less.

~Sigh~

"This doesn't help us much. There is no more information about the six members that managed to escape either." Lin Mu said while shaking his head.

Comparing the dates, Lin Mu was sure that it would be close to impossible if he wanted to find the members of the Hei corps here. The outpost that was located in the Hong Lin kingdom could be said to be as good as gone now.

'Perhaps they have left the kingdom a long time ago as well…' Lin Mu thought.

With these thoughts in his mind, Lin Mu didn't know if completing their mission here was even possible anymore.

"Things won't always go according to your plans. This is one of the very important things you need to learn. Fate is a fickle mistress and often likes to play without much rhyme or reason." Xukong said in a sagely tone.

"I understand senior." Lin Mu replied.

you, either. There are other things you can accomplish here from what

could do in the Hong Lin kingdom, plus it didn't seem like Gu Yao had a very strong control here… at least not

I can do here. At the very least, we'll get the Hong Lin wood before we leave for the Long Cloud sect." Lin Mu

bit free now and felt like he could

at the other things here… might as well take the advantage of

through many records and documents that were stored in the repository and even learned of the history of the

kingdom was founded over three thousand years ago by the first king of named Hong. He was an orphan as well, who was abandoned in the

parents and thus naming himself 'Hong'. He alone managed to cultivate all the way to the peak of the Qi

he found in it, his cultivation continued to soar, and

then, while the unification of the entire continent was already done, the area where the Hong Lin forest was located was still free. And since the nearby powers were still struggling in their own troubles after the war, they didn't have the chance to expand

These were the natives of the forest and

rest of the empire, but the

then, even including several top sects. But he rejected all of them

clans, making them his citizens and subjects. He dispelled opposition with an iron

he loved dearly was the forest itself and the Hong Lin trees. He wrote countless poems and couplets about them, and praised them to no end. Many people said he was obsessed with

of producing offspring and heirs, and thus he married

this led to many conflicts among the heirs of the first king. Since he didn't pay much attention to his wives and the royal court, it

attention from their husband, the wives fought and quarreled amongst themselves, redirecting their

commoners lived in relative peace, the royal palace was almost always in some kind of

of this only stopped when the King suddenly disappeared one day. Upon his departure, he only left a single letter from which mentioned that he was reaching the end of his lifespan and would not deal with

who would

a quest that he

the next king will be the one who finds the oldest