By the window, it was as though the scene had replayed itself.
Only, before, he had come to receive the three of them.
Now, he was seeing the three of them off.
The Lord of Divine Mechanism City, the commanding general of the Divine Mechanism Battalion, and the commanding general of Thousand Left Camp.
The three had arrived together. After a brief conversation, only the time it took to drink a cup of tea had passed.
"Probably not..."
Watching the three depart, Chu Mu's eyes shifted slightly, and the conversation from moments ago resurfaced in his mind.
Though three Dharma Appearance Realm cultivators had come together, he had detected no hostility.
What there had been, more than anything, was curiosity toward someone of unknown identity like him.
After all, as the rulers of the Thousand Left Mountain region, an unidentified Dharma Appearance Realm cultivator like him could clearly be regarded as an unstable factor beyond the order.
After some superficial conversation, the three had merely probed around the edges. Once they had roughly confirmed his identity, they departed.
It was foreseeable that a deeper investigation into his identity would inevitably follow.
Perhaps even a higher-level probing of the Heavenly Mechanism.
Only...
Recalling that exchange of false cordialities, Chu Mu could not help but frown deeply.
He had thought that even if that fleeting probe into the Heavenly Mechanism had failed to uncover his deeply buried past, it should at least have perceived some information regarding his fate.
Yet judging from their conversation just now, those three Dharma Appearance Great Experts seemed to know... nothing about him? Or rather, that fleeting glimpse into the Heavenly Mechanism had failed to uncover any information about his fate? Had they deliberately acted that way, or was that truly the case?
Chu Mu pondered. There