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.

failure for you, either. There are other things you can accomplish here

in the Hong Lin kingdom, plus it didn't seem like Gu Yao had a

what else I can do here. At the very least, we'll get

free now and felt like

things here… might as well take the advantage of being here already.' Lin Mu thought before

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

over three thousand years ago by the first king of named Hong. He was an orphan as

the forest as his parents and thus naming himself 'Hong'. He alone managed to cultivate all the way to the peak of the Qi refining realm upon coming across a secret cultivator

the cultivation technique he found in it, his cultivation

area where the Hong Lin forest was located was still free. And since the nearby powers were still struggling in their own

the Hong Lin forest. These were the natives of the forest and lived in large circular houses, much like the royal place

time, the architecture style had changed and been influenced by the rest of the empire, but the Royal

first King, 'Hong' reached the Nascent soul realm and was said to be so talented that he was invited by many sects back then, even including several top sects. But he rejected all of them and instead chose to settle in the forest that had raised him

established the Hong Lin Kingdom and united the smaller clans, making them his citizens and subjects. He dispelled opposition with an iron fist and decimated

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

king. Becoming a king came with the duty of producing offspring and heirs, and thus he married several women. But the queen that he married never managed to truly win his heart, and he was often found cultivating in

years, 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 goals to gain more power

palace was almost always in some kind of

a single letter from which mentioned that he was reaching the end of his lifespan and would not deal with the matters of

would be the next

quest that he assigned to

even the repository, basically leaving the entire royal place helpless. He stated that the next king will be the one who finds the oldest Hong Lin tree in the