Lin Mu's appearance and abilities along had shown the supervisor that he was not someone to mess with. Not to mention, the way he had just taken out the spirit apples and the gold was enough for him to realize the man didn't even consider them significant.

'There were at least five thousand coins in the bag…' The supervisor guessed using the weight of the bag.

The look on Lin Mu's face also sent chills down his spine, and no thought of failing the given task would ever arise in his heart.

Lin Mu gazed at the man for a coupled of seconds before looking away.

"Good, do it well and you might just be rewarded." Lin Mu said before turning to a certain man.

Yuan Tu was still in shock and couldn't understand how all this was possible. Lin Mu's capabilities had come one after the other, like a downbeat. He felt a shadow over him and looked up to see that it was Lin Mu standing in front of him. His tall figure was like a great tower, unscalable and unyielding.

"The past shall remain in past and the future shall be unrelated. I've decided to let go of the karma of my old life and we shall have nothing to do from now on." Lin Mu stated plainly.

"What…" Yuan Tu could understand Lin Mu's words but didn't grasp the meaning behind them.

In any case, the words Lin Mu had spoken weren't truly for Yuan Tu but rather for himself. He had learned about the karma that would accompany a cultivator throughout their life and knew how big of a weight it could be.

Whether it be good karma or bad karma, both of them had effects that could lead one on either path. It was up to the cultivator to decide how they would go along with it. And here Lin Mu had chosen to neither take revenge nor be benevolent to the man.

He had simply chosen to sever the karma and let bygones be bygones.

'Now that I think of it… if he never forced me to carry that barrow of spirit apples, I might not have been forced out and neither would I have found the ring. Without the ring, perhaps I would have still been in the same position.

all for me. It was what sent

felt like his mind

Lin Mu said

people could only watch on for

to them, Lin Mu had actually not left the town. But rather he had gone

~Sigh~

as Lin

this happen?" Lin Mu wondered as his eyes wandered over the place where his house used

was just an empty plot of land, with some rubble lying around and weeds growing. Lin Mu looked around and

either…" Lin Mu saw

something like this was unusual, as even if a house was confiscated, one wouldn't just destroy them. Rather, they would just sell it off or rent it to others. There would always be someone to buy

someone?" Lin Mu heard a

Turning around, Lin Mu saw

you lost, sir?" the man's tone changed upon seeing Lin Mu's face and

Lin Mu was wearing relatively simple robes,

you know what happened to the houses that used

man furrowed his brows and saw

destroyed by the officials years ago." The man replied. "But why are you

here." Lin Mu plainly spoke. "Why were these houses destroyed? Do you know?" he asked while taking

of gold, and a flattering smile

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