"After him! Don't let him get away!"
"Don't let that side off either. Send men over to investigate."
"Right, stay alert. Be careful—that kid has some Ghost Gate tricks. One careless move and you'll fall into his trap."
Chaotic footsteps echoed all through the grass, accompanied by barked reprimands and shouted orders.
This was on the outskirts of a small town, not far from Samua Royal City. The men searching through the grassland and sparse woods all wore the uniforms of the royal city's guards. Not a single villager from the surrounding settlements dared approach them to strike up a conversation.
The target of their search was none other than Yuan Muxi, who not long ago had still been an honored guest of Samua Royal City.
Over a month earlier, Yuan Muxi had arrived at Samua Royal City and received a grand welcome. The king himself had gone beyond the city gates to greet him, giving him every possible honor. He had even broken with tradition, and afterward many monks and those who had been granted godhood had criticized him for it.
Yet none of those words had any effect, because the one truly driving this matter was an expert before whom even a god would retreat. That man had used the King of Samua to summon Yuan Muxi.
For Yuan Muxi, the days that followed had truly been like life in an immortal realm. Not only had the king shown him the treasures stored in the royal treasury, including no shortage of texts from the East, all of which Yuan Muxi was free to peruse.
In that brief span of time, the knowledge and principles Yuan Muxi gleaned from those treasury texts surpassed everything he had accumulated from birth until then.
Not to mention that the king truly