The next day, as the sun rose, the biological clock promptly woke Chen Mu.
After washing up, he felt refreshed.
“How good it would have been to have this spirit in my previous life.”
Back then, he would surely wake up groggy in the morning, his brain not working before ten o’clock.
Having finished breakfast, Chen Mu didn’t go to the Yellow Bud Rice Fields.
Sitting inside a pavilion below a wooden shed, he sipped tea while flipping through a Medicine Book called “Pharmaceutical Strategy”.
The twenty-acre Yellow Bud Rice had already been harvested, with branches and leaves crushed and backfilled, and the ground also cleared of weeds and loosened. This gave Chen Mu an hour of free time.
“The United Heart Curse seems to have gained some new abilities.”
He thought of the Dharma Curse that had been unexpectedly cultivated.
“The Wu Mountain brothers seem to have been quite well-behaved lately,” Chen Mu wondered.
He always obtained various news from Old Hao and Shang Huan about the Lower Courtyard.
In recent months, they had hardly stirred up any trouble, nor had he heard of them setting up a trap for anyone.
“Scared by Mo Wuzhou?” Chen Mu guessed.
“Lin Su must have completely cooled down by now,” he suddenly recalled.
The connections of the Wu Mountain brothers in the Inspection Courtyard seemed to be with Prefect Lin Su.
Initially, he had let the six go for fear of investigation by the Inspection Courtyard.
“Now…” Chen Mu narrowed his eyes.
After a while, Chen Mu shook his head and sighed, “Well, I’ll keep this gift for now.”
With the six being so well-behaved, Chen Mu found no reason to pay them a visit.
Thinking thus, Chen Mu silently activated the United Heart Curse.
A strange perspective abruptly emerged in his mind.
“Shared senses? Similar to Ghosts and the Five Ghosts?” Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.
Paired with the United Heart Gu’s ability to snatch lives at any moment…
Cannon fodder for scouting, meat shields for disaster, and thanks to the United Heart Gu’s ability, quickly transferring to cultivate brand new Taoist soldiers.
“Expendables?” Chen Mu couldn’t help but lament, “Such cold-hearted cruelty, tsk tsk…”
“Worthy of the Thousand Mountains Sutra!”
The Dharma always carried a hint of wickedness.
“Discussing the difficulties of cultivation?” Chen Mu’s attention shifted to Lu Ku.
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Apart from Lu Ku, the other five were cultivating Perceptive Spirit Light, preparing for the Jade Seed transformation.
Having cultivated the Spiritual Light himself, Chen Mu found their issues simple upon reflection.
After listening for a while, he lost interest and voluntarily cut off the connection.
…
In Lu Ku’s residence.
As Chen Mu severed the connection, Lu Ku subtly gestured with his hand.
“Gone?” Ai Mountain quickly asked.
“Gone,” Lu Ku nodded and summed up, “Preliminary judgment, when the United Heart Rope is used to achieve shared senses, we can detect it.”
“It’s somewhat inconvenient, but we can still cope.”
“But we are ultimately at someone’s mercy, and future actions must be restrained, not as unrestrained and rash as before.”
“We cannot touch the other party’s bottom line.”
“What should we do then?” Ai Mountain scratched his head in confusion.
Lu Ku narrowed his eyes, “From my observations, this Mr. Gongsun acts cautiously and ruthlessly, yet there’s a hint of a so-called moral bottom line.”
“Things like plundering and exploitation, he finds distasteful.”
“Yet he has not troubled us over it either.”
“So, as soon as we realize he is sensing, we must stop whatever we’re doing.”
“After he leaves…” Lu Ku looked at the others with a smile.
“Understood!” Ai Mountain laughed with a ‘heh heh’.
…
Lu Ku nodded in satisfaction, “Another point is that this Mr. Gongsun seeks stability and avoids trouble.”
“If we trigger Mr. Gongsun’s stress response, that would really spell big trouble.”
The faces of the few were solemn. Their own lives were firmly in the grasp of the other party.
“So we must be cautious in our actions, to avoid attracting trouble?” Ai Mountain asked with a troubled expression. This was not an easy balance to strike.
“Indeed, we must be careful,” Lu Ku said earnestly, looking at the others with a solemn admonition, “If we can avoid leaving any survivors, we definitely should not leave any!”
“Once a person is down, we must be sure to stab and decapitate them.”
“What if they aren’t completely dead?”
Yu Lin nodded in agreement, thought for a moment, then said, “We also need to deal with the surrounding environment. It’s best not to leave any bloodstains behind.”
Xu Rao’s eyes narrowed, “We need a more reliable method of disposing of bodies.”
“How about raising a few flesh-eating Exotic Beasts?”
The group buzzed with discussions, swiftly refining their process.
Lu Ku’s lips curved upwards slightly, his nod full of confidence.
If all troubles are strangled, then there will be no troubles.
Even if that Mr. Gongsun comes to know of our deeds, he surely would be very satisfied!
…
At the bottom of Tongtian River, the riverbed was covered with oddly shaped rocks.
A colossal half-elliptical object was overturned upon it.
It was like a mountain lying across the bottom of the river, unaffected by the raging currents.
Lin Su stood in front of the transparent screen wall, looking at the Heavenly River Water Mansion before him.
“No matter how many times you see it, it’s always awe-inspiring,” Lin Su sighed.
The gigantic Ling Boat appeared, before this massive structure, as tiny as a horse carriage in front of a mountain.
The Ling Boat made a turn, flying through an entrance that emitted a soft, white glow.
Once the Ling Boat came to a stable halt, Lin Su dodged the vendors hawking their wares and quickly left the ferry dock.
Gazing out, the Water Mansion was dotted with grey-white buildings tens of meters high, flanked by wide, crisscrossed paths, resembling a well-planned, enormous city.
Lin Su glanced once, then immediately identified the direction and hastened away.
…
“So you are Lin Su,” boomed a tall man over two and a half meters, with a big belly, grinning from ear to ear.
Four sharp fangs gleamed coldly from between his lips.
Seeing this physique and set of teeth, clearly not of an ordinary person, Lin Su’s scalp tightened, and he quickly bowed his hands in greeting, “I pay my respects to Elder Yang.”
Those who cultivated the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique were said to have bad tempers.
Before obtaining the Condensing Aperture Technique, it was wise to be cautious and respectful.
“This is the distribution of the Forbidden Node of the Lower Court; it also records the cyclical changes,” Lin Su said, producing a Bright Yellow Scroll from his bosom and handing it to Elder Yang Huan.
“Very good,” Yang Huan nodded, pleased.
“You have made the right choice.”
“This is beneficial for both you and me.”
“Being a Rebel isn’t so bad; you shouldn’t take it too much to heart.”
“How can you get the Condensing Aperture Technique if you don’t turn your coat?”
“Without your inside help, we would have no assurance of taking down Jilong Road.”
“Having just joined Zhongshan Path, it’s natural that some might gossip. Don’t be afraid or take it to heart,” Yang Huan spoke with deep meaning, “They are just jealous of you.”
“If those others were offering more, I would have become a Rebel long ago!”
Lin Su’s mouth twitched.
He knew Yang Huan was trying to persuade him.
But hearing ‘turncoat’ here and ‘mole’ there, it was a bit too much to stomach.
“What do you think is the best time to attack the Lower Courtyard?” Yang Huan abruptly changed the subject.
“The timing will be perfect in two months,” Lin Su replied seriously, composing himself.
“The disciples of the Lower Court will be returning from the Dao Field, and the typically occupied Dao Fields will have vacancies.
“The inspectors and the Scripture Transmission Institute will use the opportunity to proceed to the Upper Court Dao Fields.”
“At that time, the Lower Court will have the weakest defensive forces.”
After pondering, Lin Su hesitantly said, “While it’s possible that Song Wujie has run into trouble,”
“He’s still a Condensing Aperture expert. If he resists desperately…”
Yang Huan’s eyes flashed a crimson red and he grinned, “Don’t worry, just leave him to me.”