While Lin Mu could feel several hostile presences around him, he didn't know why they were hostile.
'Is this just normal due to the kind of region it is?' Lin Mu wondered.
He reckoned it might be like that and decided to monitor it for now. He couldn't just go and question them right away when they hadn't done anything yet, after all. Before he did that, he decided they needed to establish a temporary base here.
For that, he quickly found a place.
"This will be our first stop," Lin Mu said. "We'll gather supplies, information, and ask about any strange movements in the past year or so. If the missing elders passed through, someone might've seen something."
Meng Bai looked around with visible excitement, while Daoist Chu's expression remained calm and cautious. They slowed down as they reached one of the larger inns—The Ember-Hollow Hall, its sign carved in charcoal-black wood with molten letters pulsing gently in rhythm with the Earth Flame below.
