Soon the Shirong realized that they had reached the point where they had killed their companions. The traces of remains were already cleaned and the signs of the fight were still there.

“Young master, should we change the scene a bit?” Bei Wen asked.

“Yes, make it seem like a beast attack,” Shirong said after thinking for a bit.

“A beast attack? But young master, we have not seen even a single beast here.” Ye Dai said feeling a bit confused.

“Exactly, so they can’t track a beast either. Also from what I gathered before, the most likely cause behind the death of the cultivators from the Ling Kingdom’s royal court was none other than a beast or rather multiple beasts.” Shirong said.

“If you say so, young master.” Bei Wen replied before getting started on the task.

Ye Dai and Bei Wen spent about twenty minutes changing the area to make it seem like there had been a beast attack. While they were doing it, it didn’t seem like it was something new to them either. In fact, they even had beast parts such as claws, and fangs in their spatial storage treasures.

From this, one could tell that they had been always prepared. If one looked at the scene now, they would see claw marks everywhere and ravaged ground. There were even foot prints that looked like they belonged to a rather large beast. The two men even spread around a strange brown powder that had a pungent stench.

“Damn, these guys are a bunch of professional schemers!” Lin Wu said, feeling shocked.

Lin Wu had been observing the entire process from the start to the end and was impressed by what they had done. To him, the area looked completely different and he was sure that it was enough to throw off the investigators.

The ring had established the connection which allowed Lin Wu to see what Shirong’s spirit sense was observing. Previously he would have been unable to do this and would have been found out, but because Shirong had poured in a large amount of his spirit qi into him, the system had replicated its qi signature.

This qi signature allowed him to disguise the transmissions that were taking place through the connection. But Lin Wu could still not use his own spirit qi as that would lead to Shirong finding him out. 

In fact, back when he moved from Shirong’s hand after absorbing their spirit qi, he had not done it by using spirit qi. Rather he had to use an ingenious method that he was only able to think of after consulting the system. Even the system itself had not considered something like this.

What Lin Wu had done to make it seem like he was moving was to actually just shift his body weight. Right now, even if Lin Wu was in the form of a spear, his weight was still the same and his weight was comparable to that of an elephant.

But Lin Wu realized that even if he had shrunk, the weight of different body parts much has been different and his guess was correct. The only reason it was so balanced before was because the system had distributed his weight equally throughout his body when he changed to this form.

So all Lin Wu needed to do was to actually change the point where the weight was concentrated. Back then to escape Shirong’s hand, he shifted a majority of his weight to his head, which was nothing but the spear blade. This lead to it tilting abruptly to the side and twisting Shirong’s wrist.

After this was done, Shirong flinched and let go of him. Once he was out of the range of their spirit sense, it was easy for him to move by using spirit qi as they could not detect him anymore. Thus Lin Wu guided the three men towards a random point in the bottom of the lake and then simply withdrew the beast carapace fragment from his inventory.

Lin Wu’s plan was to make them think that the beast carapace fragment was a treasure. This would make them interested in it and make them think of its value. Lin Wu knew that except for being hard, the beast carapace fragment was inherently useless.

But the people of Shirong’s clan or he himself would not think so and would want to know more about it. Thus this could possibly lead them to find more about the beast which had killed that nascent soul realm elder of the Ling Kingdom’s royal court.

This was Lin Wu’s plan to use the resources and connections of Shirong’s clan to find the beast which he needed to kill in order to complete his quest.

Shirong took one last look at the scene before speaking, “let’s leave.”

The three men then hopped back on to their spirit swords and flew out of the border of the forbidden area. 

“Ooh! Let’s see what the area outside this looks like.” Lin Wu muttered with excitement.

He could see the ground below them rapidly change. It turned from the previous black to brown and then finally to a grassy green. They had finally reached the point where the millennium forest was at.

“We should be reaching the first guard post soon, is there anything we need to do before that young master?” Ye Dai asked.

Shirong held his chin and rubbed it slightly before speaking.

“Just follow my lead when I talk with them.” Shirong said.

The two men nodded in understanding and they continued onward. About two minutes later, they finally reached the guard outpost.

“HALT! Show us your identities!” A person suddenly shouted.

The three of them then saw a core condensation flying up to them from the ground.

As soon as Shirong spotted the man, his expression changed and his posture did too.

“HELP! HELP US! W-we were attacked!” Shirong suddenly cried in a scared tone.

The other two men Ye Dai and Bei Wen joined him too and cried out.

“Booohuuu! They’re dead… they’re all dead.”