Walker Of The Worlds

Zhu Zhu almost fell when he heard the voice behind him.

"DON'T KILL ME ELDERS!!!!" Zhu Zhu cried out on instinct.

Lin Mu observed the startled man, who seemed to be hiding his head in his knees. He simply stood there and waited for the man to come to his senses. Thankfully, it didn't take long and Zhu Zhu felt something was wrong when he didn't get the wind knocked out of him in five seconds.

Lifting the fingers off his head, he tilted it and sneaked a look at the person standing in front of him. At first, he only saw the legs and they were draped in robes that were not recognizable to him.

'That doesn't seem like any elder's robes…' Zhu Zhu thought.

Finally, building up a little courage, he wholly lifted his head and looked at the young handsome man standing there. There were spirit Qi fluctuation coming from him that were no weaker than most elders.

But poor Zhu Zhu didn't know that this was only because Lin Mu was holding them in. He didn't want to alert the sect and make things more tiresome for himself. At least not when there was a chance that there was something sinister happening here.

"W-who… Who are you?" Zhu Zhu questioned.

"That does not matter… what matters is what I can offer you." Lin Mu stated plainly.

Tens of thoughts ran through Zhu Zhu's mind as he tried to wrap it around this situation. He couldn't understand how someone could appear here in the room he had made in the ground.

Especially since it was closed off entirely and even he would need to dig his way out. There were only some small openings that would bring in air and some sound from the outside.

there are no openings…' Zhu Zhu looked around at the small room, seeing no place

guessed what the man was thinking, but

to leave the Ripple Mist sect?"

to leave… the sect elders have gone crazy." Zhu Zhu

tell me more?" Lin

they force us to enter seclusion but don't give any resources that they are supposed to. Then there is the fact that

supposed to be like that. No contact, so that one could fully focus on cultivation." Lin Mu

in this… the biggest one that made us suspicious being… the death of a few that was hidden from us."

of deaths?" Lin

only those that were secluding themselves at the end of their lifespan would die like that. Or rarely those that made mistakes during cultivation and died from Qi

These were… unexplained deaths.

of them for a while but when one of our companion died and we asked the elders, we were reprimanded about questioning them and challenging

all so sure of your companion's death?" Lin

had promised to become Dao companions with. He had left a life wick with her. She broke down when she saw the life wick

seclusion. And there was very little chance of him dying in there as he was only in the mid stage of the Qi refining realm, not in

the soul light pearls and other such treasure that were used to tell if the owner had died or not. Many people used these to keep track

the person who had lit them went too far

seeing as the man's life wick went out when both were within the sect itself, it didn't make sense that