Supreme Swordsman of the Nine Heavens

Alchemist Yao Goes Missing

Mu Yu’s conversation with Mu Zhexing helped the former identify his goal to live up to his own standards. If he could do that, he could sleep at night. As such, he did not let his shifu down. Unfortunately, there was no telling how Village Chief Bu or Mu Hao would evaluate him. The only way he was going to be able to resolve the knots was to confess to them.

Tian Ran’s situation was one Mu Yu did not know how to tackle. For as long as he had wanted to see her again, he was also afraid she would not forgive him. In addition, he wanted to know how she was doing.

“You’re going to go see the old fibbing village chief, Tian Ran and your dull brother?” Xiaoshuai asked.

“Yeah.”

“What about taking responsibility for me?! You make me your lab rat and still take issue with me. Am I not important to you? Am I so insignificant that I don’t give you any emotional blocks? That hurts. How cruel can you be?”

“Stop. I’ll buy you candied haws and roast duck.”

“That’s more like it. You can have a pass.”

Mu Yu paid Daoist Yundan a visit to inform the latter he would be leaving.

“When will you be back?” Daoist Yun Dan inquired, worried Pill Cauldron Sect might come under attack again and not survive without Mu Yu.

“In three days,” Mu Yu answered. “Continue producing spiral pills. Based on my calculations, you will need hundreds of them due to the size of the formation. Don’t worry about Third Heaven Palace. As I told you, Revealing Cauldron Sect will protect the sect, and it is currently active.”

“I have also sealed our sect. Any disciple coming back has to personally check in with Uncle Yuanhua.”

“Patriarch! Mu Yu! My shifu is missing!” Cai Lie came sprinting over.

“Were you not taking care of Junior Brother Yao?”

“I’ve been producing spiral pills over the last three days with everyone else whenever he didn’t need me since I don’t want to dump everything on everyone. By the time I came back today, he was gone. Mu Yu, please help me find him.”

“Hang on. Let me check.” Mu Yu headed to Revealing Cauldron to search the entire sect’s grounds. “He’s left the sect grounds.”

“Why?!”

“I suppose he doesn’t want to see you.”

“What?”

“When you told him you’d sever ties with him, you chose to be a man, while he chose to yield to fear to live in public. When he was out, he told me he was proud of you. Because he’s afraid you’d look down on him, he doesn’t want to see you. Perhaps I should say, he doesn’t dare to face you.”

“But I’m the one who misunderstood him. I’m the ignorant fool. I should be the one who can’t face him,” Cai Lie reeled off, slapping himself after each sentence. “I must find him. I have to tell him he’s not a coward and admit my mistakes. Damn it!”

“Cai Lie, come back. Do you even know where he has gone?” Daoist Yundan called.

Silver trails coursing down his cheeks, Cai Lie quavered. “I do not know. Regardless of where he is, I must find him to apologise. I cannot let him be the one to shy away when he is the noblest man in the world. I am the one who should be running away in guilt, not him… Not him…”

“Calm down. We have stringent guard systems in place now, and we only have one main door that Uncle Yuanhua is guarding. Let’s consult him,” advised Daoist Yundan, leading them to the door.

“What? No, I didn’t notice him. I’ve only being paying attention to those entering. I didn’t see anyone leave,” stated Daoist Yuanhua.

“Is it that hard to guard one door, you runt?” castigated Helian Kong.

“I beg your pardon, Ancestor.”

“Don’t just apologise. Send out a search team.”

“Yes, right away.”

“Cai Lie, where does your shifu usually go? We are short on manpower, while the world is an enormous place. We need to narrow down our search radius,” prompted Daoist Yudan.

“That is a pointless question. If Alchemist Yao does not want to see Cai Lie, he will not go somewhere Cai Lie would expect him to go,” opined Mu Yu.

“What do we do, then?” queried Helian Kong.

“Mu Yu, please help me. You must have an idea, right?” pleaded Cai Lie.

“Grab Shi Dengtian.”

“Shi Dengtian?”

“What for?” asked Cai Lie.

“You don’t want to give Alchemist Yao the opportunity to avenge himself?”

“You sound like you know where my shifu is.” Cai Lie’s spirits rose.

“I just so happen to.”

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