While Fu Xuan was telling Chu Mu the story, the Astral Express Crew had already entered the white smoke elsewhere and begun fighting the remnants of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.
Sure enough, the white smoke had no effect on them.
With Welt there, the remnants blocking their path posed little threat.
The group reached the Alchemy Furnace without trouble.
Three Alchemy Furnaces were spewing white smoke, and each had to be shut down manually.
Chu Mu's double followed behind the Astral Express Crew. He still had not made a move, continuing to observe everything.
Their progress had been far too smooth.
Perhaps, if he had not captured Dan Shu in the Exalting Sanctum, the Chief of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus would have joined these remnants in defending the Alchemy Commission to the death.
In that case, the Astral Express Crew would have fought their decisive battle against Dan Shu here.
In Silver Wolf's words, she would have been the stage boss.
But since Chu Mu had removed that enemy, he had effectively lowered the difficulty of the stage for the Astral Express Crew.
To Chu Mu, the destruction of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus was a foregone conclusion now that they had lost their Chief.
But even without Chu Mu's intervention, the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus would have been destroyed all the same!
Chu Mu understood Dan Shu's combat strength. Although the Chief supposedly possessed a celestial body, which sounded like something of an exalted standing, her actual strength fell far short of an Emanator's.
Welt alone could crush her!
Therefore, if that Lord Ravager wanted to overthrow the Xianzhou through the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, it was nothing but wishful thinking.
So, apart from these insignificant pawns, what was she truly relying on?
Chu Mu thought of