Chapter 33: Murky Town

'what's going on. Which expert has appear here?' the armored man look around anxiously scanning with his devine sense.

'is this some kind of assassins skill?' He completely forgotten about the poison in his body as he scan his surrounding.

The disciples from the RedMoon clan stop moving and having their back at each other looking around cautiously.

"calm down and look out at each other. This is definitely assassins skill" the old man warned everyone and increase his vigilance.

"this much be some ancient technique." the old women wipe the sweat on her forehead. "which expert that has come here? May this junior have the privilege of knowing you?"

Swoosh.

The wind blow gently and no answer can be heard, not even movement.

"maybe he's gone." the middle age in red glance at the old women behind him.

"maybe he's just passing through and playing around at us." the old man stand up slowly after the blood behind his back stop bleeding.

Suddenly the sword in the old women hand disappeared without any hint of energy fraction. Everyone jump back from the old women frightened.

'what sort of sorcery is this?' the old women face is pale devoid of blood. She never seen or heard anything like this before. Even his clan head can't do something like this.

"consider yourself lucky." the old women look at the armored man under the tree.

"let's go!" she take out a round disk from his bag and throw it in front of her.

The disk slowly growing bigger and lay flat a meter above ground. Similarly, the other take out different item in front of them and one by one stand on top of these magic item. Only the young men that stand on the old women disk. Soon they flew away in a hurry.

"damn, having a gang member is cool too." Lucis look at the fleeing group in red with admiration.

"if I have a group of people that can fly like that... Let's go gang!" Lucis imagine the scene and act the way by himself inside the control room.

The armored man confused by the sight and look around anxiously.

Slowly Lucis appear behind him and cough light.

It's like he never injured in the first place. He jump 10 meter away and look at Lucis standing near the tree casually.

He look at Lucis and sizing him up and down carefully but he didn't feel any fluctuations of energy, it feels like he's ordinary man. His clothes is patched up badly even his jacket look ugly with the variety of color mixed on it.

"are you... " the armored man hesitated but before he can finish his sentence, Lucis nod with a smile.

"thank you for you help senior." he put his hand on his chest and bow respectfully at Lucis. 'he must be some legendary cultivator that manager to retain their youth after achievement higher realm.'

"don't worry, I was just passing by. We, as a rough cultivator should help each other when bullied by a big clan like that. Besides, they're bad people" Lucis wave his hand casually.

"it's.. It's as you say senior." he stuttered as he said it feeling really nervous.

"I'm not senior. I just finish my foundation couple months ago." Lucis release the Vesta flower effect and his cultivation appeared in front of the armored man.

When he see the amount of energy Lucis have, he almost choked on the spot. It's almost 4 times more than what he have even though there no magic core aura on him. How old is he? If he can cultivate that amount of energy, why didn't he use that time to speed up his magic core process instead?

Magic core takes a lot of energy and time to form and some even die before their core fully formed.

"maybe you should treat the poison in your body first." Lucis realize that the man before him is in a daze and quickly remind him of the risk.

"ah.. Thank you brother. My name is Muzin. Rough cultivator from Mount Zigurate." he quickly snap out back.

"I'm Lucis. At ease. Treat your injury first brother." Lucis calmly sit down and look somewhere else to ease Muzin anxiety against him.

After an hour, Muzin open his eyes and the injury he sustained no longer bleeding. The poison is contained in his body and his breathing has calm down again.

"brother, may I ask where are you headed?" Muzin look at the casual Lucis. His appearance doesn't match with his face. A noble looking man and a farmer clothes.

"I'm actually in my way to murky town. Are you headed to the same way?" Lucis examining Muzin body and nod. He's been in a worse state than him during the 4 months chase. he'll live.

"actually, I'm going the same direction. How about we go together. With more people, out safely is ensure."

"my thoughts also.. "

With that, they flew on their own magic item slowly heading towards the murky town while chatting.

Lucis trying to figure out what's the current situation and what's the surrounding force are.

Lucis didn't get much information because the town already in front of them even though they flew slowly.

They landed nearby and enter the town on foot.

"brother, how did you do it?" Muzin look at Lucis with surprise. Lucis aura completely hidden and he's no different from ordinary mortal man.

Lucis look at Muzin, smile and look away giving Muzin the hint of "I don't want to talk about it."

"let's go look for a room first, I can't go around with this injury." Muzin quickly change the topic and lead the way when he see that Lucis refuse to answer him.

Murky town is not really big. It have population around 10,000 people and the market is not that bustling either but there's a cultivator presence around and they have their own shop in this town.

The town is build between two mountain and it's quite messy without proper planning. some build directly on the cliff, the other build on a slope hill and all their architecture almost making it look like a refugee temporary home than a proper town.

There's a lot of cultivator that doesn't seems to belong to any clan. There's also some that belong to a clan walking in a group exude the aura "dont get close to us you lowlife", they're specially avoided by people around them.

From one careful observation, one can see that this scene is rare here. Apparently, cultivator is rarely appear in this town too and the resident look terrified by this situation.

Lucis and Muzin arrive at the inn called "cool breeze inn" and proceed to check in taking the medium size room on the second floor.

Muzin is in a hurry to get in his room that he didn't even bother to say his farewell to Lucis.

Lucis sit in his room and examine the whole inn with his devine sense. Some people look at his direction when they're touched by his devine sense frightened Lucis.

'there's a lot of cultivator staying in this inn currently. I should be extra careful'

Soon, a lot of devine sense come to his room and landed on his body further frightening him. It's the people he scan earlier sending their devine sense back at him.

'I didn't know other people can sense someone else devine sense, Damnit, I'm too reckless.' his worry is soon disappear, the sense just tap his body and retreat as quickly. It's either cultivator way of saying don't that again or they sense him as ordinary mortal and lose interest.

'I can use the eye of green start instead.' Lucis close his eyes and the eye began to move slowly from one room to another until he reached the counter.

'all the people in this inn is cultivator except the staff. Good thing there's only 4 people including me that have foundation realm.' Lucis move the eyes again leaving the inn.