Beneath the Wooden Cabin.
Inside the first karst cave.
Listening to the rushing water and feeling the warm, moist air inside the cave, Chen Mu finally let out a sigh of relief.
"Did we escape?" Wu Ruo supported Shi Xian with her left hand and carried Ai Ji around the waist in her right, as if he were a chick.
"For now." Chen Mu still maintained Seven Souls Return to Origin.
He took out two Mustard Seed Talismans and quickly stored away the dried fish and cured meat kept in the cave.
Ever since opening up the Underground Yin River, he had been stockpiling food.
"Pack it. Take as much as you can," Chen Mu said to the Wushan Six Siblings.
They could no longer stay at Moon Embracing Mountain. Once they left, they would surely have to trek through the deep mountains and old forests for some time.
This food would come in handy.
The six exchanged glances and immediately got to work. Even Ai Ji and the other three, weak all over, forced themselves to help.
"Mr. Gongsun had planned to leave long ago?" Lu Ku looked doubtfully at the huge alcoves carved into the cave walls.
They were filled with jars, bottles, crates, and bundles.
"No." As Chen Mu spoke, he pulled two neatly folded beast-hide tents from one of the holes.
If not for this bizarre gale and snow, he would never have left.
If he endured for another decade or so, became an old disciple, became one of their own, he might have eventually gotten his hands on the Aperture Condensing Secret Technique.
Unlike now—once he fled, all the trust he had built up in Jilong Dao would be gone.
"Then this..." Lu Ku stared speechlessly at the little brown wooden box in his hands.