Chapter 324: Lockdown?

Lin Mu then tried to remember but could not find any memory related to his maternal grandparents. He realized that he had never asked his parents about his maternal grandparents either.

"I think… my mother was an orphan? My father met her at the town when she was working in the orchards." Lin Mu spoke.

"So you don't know anything about your maternal grandparents?" Xukong asked for confirmation.

"Yes, I have no idea who they are." Lin Mu replied.

This put Xukong in a deep thought and wondered if he should investigate it more. 

'The boy's fate is incredibly complex, and his links to karma are not visible to me either. I don't know if it is because of the ring or something else, but perhaps there is a link to his family.' Xukong thought.

Xukong closed his eyes and a wave of spirit qi started emanating from his body. It spread in the ring and made all the spatial energy streaks in the sky twirl around him. Five seconds later everything settled and went to normal, except that the aura that Xukong had fallen by twenty percent.

~Sigh~

'Let's hope that I get some results…' Xukong thought to himself.

Lin Mu was unaware that senior Xukong had done something right now and was calmly walking away from the ancestral temple. He was now heading towards the manor of the city mayor. He wanted to take a look at the place where the tournament would be held soon.

The city mayor's manor was located in the southern part of the city and was thus quite far from the location that Lin Mu was in right now. Because he could not run there due to the number of people on the roads. There was a high chance that he would collide with someone and then the guards would get involved.

It took him about an hour to reach the manor and finally saw its true size. From far it seemed to be big, but from close it was massive. Lin Mu guessed that the land of the manor took up the area of an entire district, perhaps.

'How much money would have taken to build something like this?' Lin Mu wondered to himself.

He circled around the manor and saw a lot of servants preparing for the events before the marriage ceremony. From what Lin Mu had heard it would start with a martial tournament then there would be poetry, dance, music and art.

A variety of programs were held for the enjoyment of all the guests that were invited. Then at the very end was the marriage ceremony set up.

"Move aside, move aside!" Suddenly a group of guards appeared from the entrance of the manor and shouted.

The people walking around heard it and became alert before following the orders. Lin Mu was already on the other side of the street thus didn't really have to move, but his attention was attracted. He looked towards the Manor and saw a carriage being brought out of the manor.

"Who is that? Isn't the mayor in the Shuang Qian city undergoing interrogation?" Lin Mu wondered.

"That should be the wife of the city mayor." A random person answered.

Lin Mu could not see who was inside the carriage as it was too far. He pushed the people and walked closer to use his spirit sense to take a look. His spirit sense easily penetrated the carriage walls and then he saw a middle aged woman sitting in the carriage.

Her face was calm, but a sense of dignity could be felt from it. But the moment Lin Mu's spirit sense touched her, she felt it and became alert.

'She's a cultivator too. A peak stage qi refining realm cultivator.' Lin Mu thought and immediately pulled his spirit sense back.

But before it could leave the carriage the mayor's wife intercepted it with her own spirit sense trying to find its source. She kept on following it, but soon realized that it had gone beyond her range. Her face became even more alarmed after this.

Meanwhile, Lin Mu walked away from the area, unaware that he had just scared the woman.

"Guards!" The mayor's wife shouted.

The carriage stopped moving and a group of guards surrounded it. One of them who seemed to be the leader waked closer and cupped his hands.

"Do you have any problems, madam?" The leader of the guards asked respectfully.

"I sensed a cultivator spying on me…" The woman spoke.

Now it was the turn of the guards to become shocked.

"But madam, we were alert and didn't sense anyone approaching." The guard spoke.

"I know but the cultivator's spirit sense came from quite far." The woman spoke.

"Madam, you mean…" The guard leader gulped at that sentence.

"There is a core condensation realm cultivator in the town. Someone sneaked in…" The woman spoke.

"But madam, why would they do that? Any core condensation realm cultivator would be an honored guest that would get the utmost respect. If they wanted to meet you, they would have to merely mention it. Even the mayor would not reject it." The guard replied.

"You think I don't know that?" The woman scolded. "What other reason is left? What do you think, you imbecile?" 

"A spy?" The guard muttered as he realized.

"GO! I WANT THIS DISTRICT UNDER LOCKDOWN! Entry and the exit to the city will be stopped until further notice! I want a list of each and every person that entered the city in the past three days." The Guard leader ordered the others.

"YES LEADER!" The guards replied and went to do their tasks.

The carriage was turned around and went back into the manor while all the people around were gossiping about what had just occurred.

Lin Mu though, had gone quite far from the spot and didn't know that his casual probe had alerted all of the guards of the city now. He was now visiting all the shops that he found interesting and buying stuff from there.